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  • Brazil Inside Out eBook

    People, politics and culture

    de Jan Rocha, Francis McDonagh ...
    Seen as a successful ‘emerging economy’, Brazil walks tall on the world stage and its voice is growing louder. Its success, celebrated in the 2014 Football World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, is attracting millions of foreign tourists. Yet Brazil also faces huge challenges: to combine economic growth with measures to reduce the huge social inequality inherited from its slave-owning past, to ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • International Migration: A Very Short Introduction

    de Khalid Koser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern? How closely linked are migrants with terrorist organizations? What factors lie behind the dramatic increase in the number of women migrating? This Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international human migration -- both legal and illegal -- to reveal that migration actually presents ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Passions and the Interests

    Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

    de Albert O. Hirschman, Jeremy Adelman ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

  • Hunger in the Balance

    The New Politics of International Food Aid

    de Jennifer Clapp ...
    Food aid has become a contentious issue in recent decades, with sharp disagreements over genetically modified crops, agricultural subsidies, and ways of guaranteeing food security in the face of successive global food crises. In Hunger in the Balance, Jennifer Clapp provides a timely and comprehensive account of the contemporary politics of food aid, explaining the origins and outcomes of recent ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Why States Recover

    Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

    de Greg Mills ...
    State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. The country's prolonged civil war led to the collapse of central authority, with state control devolving to warlord-led factions that competed for the spoils of local commerce, political power, and international aid. Malawi, on the other hand, is at the other end of the scale. During President Bingu's second term in office, the country's ... Leer más

    $20.89 USD

  • Planning Families in Nepal

    Global and Local Projects of Reproduction

    de Jan Brunson ...
    Based on almost a decade of research in the Kathmandu Valley, Planning Families in Nepal offers a compelling account of Hindu Nepali women as they face conflicting global and local ideals regarding family planning.Promoting a two-child norm, global family planning programs have disseminated the slogan, “A small family is a happy family,” throughout the global South. Jan Brunson examines how two ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The Case Against the Global Economy

    And for a Turn Towards Localization

    Edición de Jerry Mander ...
    The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-being and cultural diversity, and its impact on the natural world that sustains us. Its effects will be profound and irreversible, but globalization itself is not inevitable. In The Case Against the Global Economy, 24 leading economic, agricultural, ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Living through Crises: How the Food, Fuel, and Financial Shocks Affect the Poor

    de Rasmus Heltberg, Naomi Hossain, Anna Reva ...
    What did the global food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008-11 mean to people living in the developing world? How did people cope with the crisis and how effective were they at averting major impacts? These are the questions addressed by this book, which emerged out of qualitative crisis monitoring initiatives carried out by IDS and the World Bank. As such, this is not a book about the causes of ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Children and Young People's Participation and Its Transformative Potential

    Learning from across Countries

    Edición de E.K.M. Tisdall, Andressa M. Gadda, Udi Mandel Butler ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative. ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • Biofuels and Rural Poverty

    de Joy Clancy ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Bioenergy
    Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes an original contribution to the current controversial global debate on biofuels, in particular the consequences that large-scale production of transport fuel substitutes can have on rural areas, principally in developing countries but also in some poor rural areas of developed countries.Three key concerns are examined from a North-South perspective: ecological ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Out of the Mainstream

    Water Rights, Politics and Identity

    Edición de Rutgerd Boelens, David Getches, Armando Guevara-Gil ...
    Water is not only a source of life and culture. It is also a source of power, conflicting interests and identity battles. Rights to materially access, culturally organize and politically control water resources are poorly understood by mainstream scientific approaches and hardly addressed by current normative frameworks. These issues become even more challenging when law and policy-makers and ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • The Ebola Pandemic in Sierra Leone

    Representations, Actors, Interventions and the Path to Recovery

    de John Idriss Lahai ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a timely examination of the Ebola pandemic in Sierra Leone from four different standpoints: 1) a social standpoint that focuses on the way in which the vulnerable Sierra Leonian population viewed the pandemic in light of their cultural beliefs, memories of past wars and narratives and actions of the government; 2) a good governance standpoint that exposes lapses in health ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD