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Food and development
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E. M. Young |
"The relationship between food and development has always been controversial. Over the last 30 years, development in the north and south has failed to deliver people a decent diet. While some people… |
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Wine to water
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Doc Hendley |
" The captivating story of an ordinary bartender who's changing the world through clean water. Doc Hendley never set out to be a hero. In 2004, Hendley-a small- town bartender- launched a series of … |
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Because I am a girl
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Xiaolu Guo,Joanne Harris,Kathy Lette,Deborah Moggach,Tim Butcher,Marie Phillips,Irvine Welsh |
"Seven authors have visited seven different countries and spoken to young women and girls about their lives, struggles and hopes. The result is an extraordinary collection of writings about prejudice… |
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Atlas of gender and development
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Centre |
Illustrated with graphics and maps, this publication provides insight into the impact of social institutions - traditions, social norms and cultural practices - on gender equality in 124 non-OECD cou… |
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World mental health casebook
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Alex Cohen,Arthur Kleinman,Benedetto Saraceno |
"This book will interest mental health professionals, international public health workers, global program administrators, and clinicians and healthcare workers, all working with low-income areas."--B… |
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Families behind bars
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Kay Danes |
Explores the journeys of several families, from the UK, Australia, Canada and the US, who bear horrendous burdens having loved ones detained in foreign prisons. Includes interviews with some of the B… |
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After access
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Jonathan Donner |
Almost anyone with a $40 mobile phone and a nearby cell tower can get online with an ease unimaginable just twenty years ago. An optimistic narrative has proclaimed the mobile phone as the device tha… |
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Violent conflict and the transformation of social capital
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Michelle L. Cullen,Nat J. Colletta |
In an effort to better understand the interactions between violent conflict and social capital, the authors undertook an exploratory investigation f four conflict-affected countries-Cambodia, Rwanda,… |
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Promises not kept
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John Isbister |
"John Isbister brings the dilemmas of international poverty and the Third World into the twenty-first century in the fifth edition of this broadly-read text. Besides including the most current inform… |
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Designing Inclusion
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Edmund S. Phelps |
An inclusion failure has become highly visible in the advanced economies of the West. Too many able-bodied people are subject to chronic joblessness and, when employed, cannot earn a living remotely … |
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Encountering development
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Arturo Escobar |
"Evaluates development enterprise and development discourse from a critical theory perspective. This view of development policies and control mechanisms employs Colombian case studies of the Programa… |
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Militarization, internal repression, and social welfare in the Third World
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Miles D. Wolpin |
247 p. : 23 cm |
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Cultural politics in the Third World
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Mehran Kamrava |
Cultural Politics in the Third World examines the subtle and multi-faceted relationship between culture and politics in developing countries. The book cautions against both politically reductionist e… |
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Seek
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Denis Johnson |
"Part political disquisition, part travel journal, part self-exploration, Seek is a collection of essays and articles in which Denis Johnson essentially takes on the world. And not an obliging, easyg… |
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Diffusion Processes and Fertility Transition
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National Research Center |
xi, 271 p. : 23 cm |
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