Development economics Books

Book SynopsisThe Remnants of Race Science traces the influence of ideas from the Global South on UNESCO’s race campaign, illuminating its relationship to notions of modernization and economic development.Trade ReviewBrilliantly and provocatively, The Remnants of Race Science reveals that the so-called decline of racial thought in human biology was really just a substitution of other more flexible ideas of human difference—mostly from the Global South—for the rigid racist typologies of the Global North. This more inclusive refiguring of racial difference would make possible the economic ‘development’ of people once excluded from modernity—which meant in practice their neocolonial incorporation into the netherworlds of global capitalism. In this paradigm-shifting book, Gil-Riaño thus offers us a new ‘southern’ vocabulary to talk about racism and antiracism. -- Warwick Anderson, author of Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the PhilippinesStarting with scientific research from the Southern Hemisphere, this important book overturns the common story of antiracist science as simplistically rooted in rejecting fixed biological kinds. Drawing from a transnational archive, Gil-Riaño shows how so-called anti-racist science was caught up in projects of improvement that rested on a multitude of other racisms. -- M. Murphy, author of The Economization of LifeLatin Americanists have long maintained that race and biology are shaped by culture, social organization, and economic conditions. In this deeply researched study, Gil-Riaño shows how Latin American racial ideas shaped the post–World War II human sciences and UNESCO projects. The human sciences did not renounce racial explanation—as so many believe—but folded them into global ideas about economic development. -- Karin Rosemblatt, author of The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950Offers useful historical context to current debates about how to successfully build solidarity in science and society. * Science *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Remnants of Race SciencePart I: Confronting Racism in the Southern Hemisphere, 1890–19511. Substituting Race: Arthur Ramos, Bahia, and the “Nina Rodrigues School”2. Relocating Race Science After World War II: Situating the 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race in the Southern Hemisphere3. Vikings of the Sunrise: Alfred Metraux, Te Rangi Hīroa, and Polynesian Racial ResiliencePart II: Race in the Tropics and Highlands and the Quest for Economic Development, 1945–19624. A Tropical Laboratory: Race, Evolution, and the Demise of UNESCO’s Hylean Amazon Project5. “Peasants Without Land”: Race and Indigeneity in the ILO’s Puno-Tambopata ProjectPart III: Engineering Racial Harmony and Decolonization, 1952–19616. A Brazilian Racial Dilemma: Modernization and UNESCO’s Race Relations Studies in Brazil7. A White World Perspective and the Collapse of Global Race Relations InquiryConclusion: “Racism Continues to Haunt the World”NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book explains why emerging economies have come to dominate global environmental politics and examines the implications for international cooperation. Johannes Urpelainen argues that although they continue to prioritize economic growth, innovative bargaining and institutional design offer a way forward.Trade ReviewUrpelainen provides a masterful primer for the challenges of the new global environmental governance. As developing countries get wealthier, their capacity to destroy the environment increases, but compared to advanced industrialized countries they have weaker environmental preferences and less state capacity to address environmental problems. These developments complicate how global challenges like climate change can be addressed. -- Joshua Busby, University of Texas at AustinEmerging economies are critically important to the future of the planet’s health. Their economic success and growing energy and resource consumption have turned them into pivotal players in international environmental negotiations. Johannes Urpelainen’s excellent new book provides an essential guide to this new reality of environmental diplomacy. -- Robert Falkner, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. International Political Economy and Global Environmental Politics2. Global Environmental Politics in the American Century3. Global Environmental Politics for a New Century4. The Evolution of Three Global Environmental Regimes5. China and India in Global Environmental Politics6. The Rise of the RestConclusion: Bringing It All TogetherNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book explains why emerging economies have come to dominate global environmental politics and examines the implications for international cooperation. Johannes Urpelainen argues that although they continue to prioritize economic growth, innovative bargaining and institutional design offer a way forward.Trade ReviewUrpelainen provides a masterful primer for the challenges of the new global environmental governance. As developing countries get wealthier, their capacity to destroy the environment increases, but compared to advanced industrialized countries they have weaker environmental preferences and less state capacity to address environmental problems. These developments complicate how global challenges like climate change can be addressed. -- Joshua Busby, University of Texas at AustinEmerging economies are critically important to the future of the planet’s health. Their economic success and growing energy and resource consumption have turned them into pivotal players in international environmental negotiations. Johannes Urpelainen’s excellent new book provides an essential guide to this new reality of environmental diplomacy. -- Robert Falkner, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. International Political Economy and Global Environmental Politics2. Global Environmental Politics in the American Century3. Global Environmental Politics for a New Century4. The Evolution of Three Global Environmental Regimes5. China and India in Global Environmental Politics6. The Rise of the RestConclusion: Bringing It All TogetherNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHoracio Ortiz provides a critical analysis of the social institutions and practices that produce and regulate stock pricing and valuation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among financial professionals in New York and Paris, this book shows how the political imaginaries that underpin financial markets legitimize global inequalities.Trade ReviewIt is a cause for celebration that this gem of a book is finally coming out in English and in an updated version. A real gift to the reader, The Everyday Practice of Valuation and Investment offers both a thick ethnographic description of the moral worlds of the people who inhabit the financial industry and a rich conceptual apparatus to develop a rigorous 'political anthropology' of global finance. -- Marion Fourcade, author of Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990sSince fieldwork two decades ago, Ortiz has studied and taught in schools of finance. He now researches and teaches the anthropology of finance in China. His empirical observations are fresh and sharp, but his philosophical clarity is outstanding. Market prices do not measure the truth of finance, and its workers’ imaginaries miss out most of humanity. Consequently, global distributive justice is ignored, and the financial crisis is permanent. -- Keith Hart, author of Self in the World: Connecting Life's ExtremesThis book displays Ortiz’s distinctive combination of hugely skilled fieldwork and theoretical sophistication. Here, for the first time, the insights of this subtle thinker are laid out in full for Anglophone readers. Ortiz’s politically inflected anthropology of finance throws vital new light on everyday practices that profoundly shape today’s world. -- Donald MacKenzie, author of Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial MarketsThis book still has something important to teach us. Personal, ethical and political imaginaries are at the core of how finance works – we need to take them seriously to understand, critique and influence the financial system. * LSE Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Organizational Space of Financial Value2. Valuation as a Personal Opinion3. The Truth of Value as the Result of Efficient Markets4. Financial Value as Political AssemblageConclusionBibliographyNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book calls for a new global approach to education to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Contributors emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.Trade ReviewIn an age of ever mounting challenges, it is essential to reimagine and transform our approach to education to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, values, and behaviors necessary for sustainable development. The Global Compact for Education calls on all of us to prioritize inclusive and transformative education for a sustainable tomorrow. -- Ban Ki-moon, eighth secretary-general of the United Nations and cochair of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global CitizensImagine: education for all would employ the languages of the head, heart, and hands. It would give us purpose in life. It would infuse us with the motivation to pursue truth, goodness and creativity, while working to mend the fabric of human relationships. This book makes me want to make that vision reality. -- Yo-Yo MaPope Francis’s urgent call for a new compact on education is timely and should serve as a wake-up call. While many heads of state play their power games, hundreds of millions of children suffer and miss what they so obviously need: a solid education. This authoritative book sketches out what should be done and shows how. Clear-eyed about contemporary crises of pandemic, climate change, and heartbreaking migration, the authors offer an impressive range of educational insight and reform. -- Jerry Brown, former governor of CaliforniaThis volume brings together some of the very best minds from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, as they respond to Pope Francis' visionary “summons to solidarity” for a new global compact on education. The chapters, carefully crafted and curated for the volume, address the need for education practices and policies to promote healthy, flourishing and engaged children. The authors coalesce in defining critical issues in education today: early childhood education as a foundation for learning, education and social inequality, the needs of children from more vulnerable populations, education as a moral responsibility, and much more. This is a book for our times, as we strive to educate children across the world for purposeful lives. -- Kathleen McCartney, president of Smith CollegeIn this timely, engaging, and compelling book, the authors describe how education can be reformed so that students in nations around the world can attain the knowledge, skills, and values needed to function effectively in a highly technological, diverse, complex, and changing world. Once again, editors Marcelo and Carola Suárez-Orozco have assembled a group of eminent scholars who enrich this book with original and trenchant insights. This innovative and informative book deserves a wide and influential audience. -- James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus, University of Washington, SeattleHow can education address the social, moral and environmental crises of our time? This important and unique volume combines rigorous cutting-edge research and a strong ethical foundation to address issues in education across the globe. Foregrounding the well-being and flourishing of children, the scholars assembled here provide cogent accounts of inequalities and injustices, as well as hopeful calls to action to improve and provide access to quality education for all. This volume deserves a wide readership across academia and among policy makers. It is both a clear eyes assessment of the present state of education, and a clarion call to work towards a better future. -- Mary C. Waters, PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and John Loeb Professor of Sociology, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsForeword. Education: The Global Compact, by the Holy Father Pope FrancisAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Compact on Education, by Marcelo Suárez-OrozcoPart I. Addressing Our Most Vulnerable1. Education and Inequality, by Jeffrey D. Sachs2. Education, Health, and Demography, by David E. Bloom and Maddalena Ferranna,3. Child Poverty and Cognition: Developmental and Educational Implications, by Sebastián Lipina4. Education for Refugee and Displaced Children, by Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Dana Burde and J. Lawrence Aber5. The Consequences of Emergency and Humanitarian Relief Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey and Lebanon, by Maha Shuayb, Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie6. Countering Cascading Xenophobia: Educational Settings at the Frontline, by Carola Suárez-OrozcoPart II. Ethical and Civic Considerations7. Education as a Moral Responsibility, by Stefano Zamagni8. On Educating the Three Virtues: A Hegelian Approach, by Howard Gardner9. Ethics in Education and Education of Ethics, by Vittorio Hosle10. Education for a Purposeful Life, by William Damon and Anne Colby11. Educating for Democracy in Contentious Times, by John RogersPart III. Educating for a Sustainable Future12. Climate Change Education for All: Bending the Curve Education Project, by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Fonna Forman, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Alan Roper, Scott Friese, Karen Flammer,, Hahrie Han, Adam Millard-Ball, Paula Ezcurra, and Astrid Hsu13. Education for Sustainable Development, by Radhika Iyengar, Haein Shin, and Tara Stafford OcanseyPart IV. The Foundations of Education14. Early Childhood Education in Reggio Emilia and the World, by Carla Rinaldi15. Addressing our Global Developmental Emergency: Early Intervention and the Think Equal Early Years Program, by Leslee Udwin16. The Future of Literacy in a Digital Culture: Promise and Perils, by Maryanne Wolf17. The Feeling of Reading in a Changing World: From Neurons to Narratives, by Tami KatzirPart V. The Futures of Education18. Global Learning Ecologies: Leveraging Technologies for Equity, by Brigid Barron19. Improvement Science: The Social Glue that Helps Helpers Help?, by Louis M. Gomez, Manuelito Biag, and David G. Imig20. UNESCO and the Futures of Education, by Stefania GianniniAfterword: Universal Education: An Essential Pillar for All Sustainable Development Goals, by Jennifer Gross, Peter Stengaard, and Vanessa Fajans-TurnerList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book calls for a new global approach to education to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Contributors emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.Trade ReviewIn an age of ever mounting challenges, it is essential to reimagine and transform our approach to education to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, values, and behaviors necessary for sustainable development. The Global Compact for Education calls on all of us to prioritize inclusive and transformative education for a sustainable tomorrow. -- Ban Ki-moon, eighth secretary-general of the United Nations and cochair of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global CitizensImagine: education for all would employ the languages of the head, heart, and hands. It would give us purpose in life. It would infuse us with the motivation to pursue truth, goodness and creativity, while working to mend the fabric of human relationships. This book makes me want to make that vision reality. -- Yo-Yo MaPope Francis’s urgent call for a new compact on education is timely and should serve as a wake-up call. While many heads of state play their power games, hundreds of millions of children suffer and miss what they so obviously need: a solid education. This authoritative book sketches out what should be done and shows how. Clear-eyed about contemporary crises of pandemic, climate change, and heartbreaking migration, the authors offer an impressive range of educational insight and reform. -- Jerry Brown, former governor of CaliforniaThis volume brings together some of the very best minds from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, as they respond to Pope Francis' visionary “summons to solidarity” for a new global compact on education. The chapters, carefully crafted and curated for the volume, address the need for education practices and policies to promote healthy, flourishing and engaged children. The authors coalesce in defining critical issues in education today: early childhood education as a foundation for learning, education and social inequality, the needs of children from more vulnerable populations, education as a moral responsibility, and much more. This is a book for our times, as we strive to educate children across the world for purposeful lives. -- Kathleen McCartney, president of Smith CollegeIn this timely, engaging, and compelling book, the authors describe how education can be reformed so that students in nations around the world can attain the knowledge, skills, and values needed to function effectively in a highly technological, diverse, complex, and changing world. Once again, editors Marcelo and Carola Suárez-Orozco have assembled a group of eminent scholars who enrich this book with original and trenchant insights. This innovative and informative book deserves a wide and influential audience. -- James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus, University of Washington, SeattleHow can education address the social, moral and environmental crises of our time? This important and unique volume combines rigorous cutting-edge research and a strong ethical foundation to address issues in education across the globe. Foregrounding the well-being and flourishing of children, the scholars assembled here provide cogent accounts of inequalities and injustices, as well as hopeful calls to action to improve and provide access to quality education for all. This volume deserves a wide readership across academia and among policy makers. It is both a clear eyes assessment of the present state of education, and a clarion call to work towards a better future. -- Mary C. Waters, PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and John Loeb Professor of Sociology, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsForeword. Education: The Global Compact, by the Holy Father Pope FrancisAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Compact on Education, by Marcelo Suárez-OrozcoPart I. Addressing Our Most Vulnerable1. Education and Inequality, by Jeffrey D. Sachs2. Education, Health, and Demography, by David E. Bloom and Maddalena Ferranna,3. Child Poverty and Cognition: Developmental and Educational Implications, by Sebastián Lipina4. Education for Refugee and Displaced Children, by Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Dana Burde and J. Lawrence Aber5. The Consequences of Emergency and Humanitarian Relief Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey and Lebanon, by Maha Shuayb, Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie6. Countering Cascading Xenophobia: Educational Settings at the Frontline, by Carola Suárez-OrozcoPart II. Ethical and Civic Considerations7. Education as a Moral Responsibility, by Stefano Zamagni8. On Educating the Three Virtues: A Hegelian Approach, by Howard Gardner9. Ethics in Education and Education of Ethics, by Vittorio Hosle10. Education for a Purposeful Life, by William Damon and Anne Colby11. Educating for Democracy in Contentious Times, by John RogersPart III. Educating for a Sustainable Future12. Climate Change Education for All: Bending the Curve Education Project, by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Fonna Forman, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Alan Roper, Scott Friese, Karen Flammer,, Hahrie Han, Adam Millard-Ball, Paula Ezcurra, and Astrid Hsu13. Education for Sustainable Development, by Radhika Iyengar, Haein Shin, and Tara Stafford OcanseyPart IV. The Foundations of Education14. Early Childhood Education in Reggio Emilia and the World, by Carla Rinaldi15. Addressing our Global Developmental Emergency: Early Intervention and the Think Equal Early Years Program, by Leslee Udwin16. The Future of Literacy in a Digital Culture: Promise and Perils, by Maryanne Wolf17. The Feeling of Reading in a Changing World: From Neurons to Narratives, by Tami KatzirPart V. The Futures of Education18. Global Learning Ecologies: Leveraging Technologies for Equity, by Brigid Barron19. Improvement Science: The Social Glue that Helps Helpers Help?, by Louis M. Gomez, Manuelito Biag, and David G. Imig20. UNESCO and the Futures of Education, by Stefania GianniniAfterword: Universal Education: An Essential Pillar for All Sustainable Development Goals, by Jennifer Gross, Peter Stengaard, and Vanessa Fajans-TurnerList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisDickson D. Despommier proposes a visionary yet achievable plan for creating a new, self-sustaining urban landscape.Trade ReviewDickson D. Despommier paints a picture of the future city, where carbon sequestered in buildings, vertical farms, recycled water from the air, circular economies for waste, and renewable energy provide urban dwellers with their needs and wants. His argument that our species can only persist by refashioning cities around the realities of nature rings true in today’s perilous world. -- Ruth DeFries, Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development, Columbia University, and author of What Would Nature Do?Despommier conjures a future of totally sustainable ‘off-grid’ cities. A high degree of self-sufficiency in energy, water, and food will ensure quality of life for the urban population (more than two-thirds of the planet by the 2040s) while taking a great deal of pressure off the nonurban environment, providing a path to surviving climate change. The narrative depends on ambitious technical and policy assumptions, but Despommier has credibility as a visionary, given his broad ecologist’s perspective and his successful record of defining the emerging urban-agriculture and vertical-farming sectors. This is a profoundly optimistic vision of cities inspired by and synchronized with nature. -- Gregory Kiss, Kiss + Cathcart, ArchitectsHow can we reconsider infrastructure to better serve our urban centers? Climate resiliency isn’t just an environmental issue; it’s a social justice issue, a public health issue, and an economic resiliency issue. We need solutions that address all four. Despommier’s timely book helps us answer this question holistically, addressing the fact that sustainable communities are indeed successful ones. But most importantly, Despommier’s work reminds us of the necessity of action. -- Nona Yehia, cofounder and CEO, Vertical HarvestThe science of bad climate news is ever present, but in this wondrous work by Dickson D. Despommier, we see that the good news for the future might well be found in the rethinking and redesign of our cities. -- Robert Fullilove, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia UniversityEach change in the evolution of human history begins with a voice that sees the world differently—not the way it is, but the way it could be. Despommier is one of these people, and he has spent much of his career advocating for a sustainable ecology based on human health and a sensible approach to food production. -- Scott Erdy, design principal, Erdy McHenry Architecture, and visiting lecturer, University of PennsylvaniaDickson Despommier has done it again, and this time he goes higher toward the goal of feeding our growing global urban population with innovation, examples, and leadership. Farming inside cities is a critical part of feeding billions of people, and thanks to this new book we have a renewed vision of how to get there. -- Josh Tickell, author of Kiss the GroundI eat, sleep, and breathe sustainability and have read widely on the subject. Yet I learned something new in each chapter. Moreover, Despommier’s excitement for this topic is almost palpable. I wish more authors shared such enthusiasm in their books. * The Green Dispatch *A really interesting and important book. * Andrew Keen, Keen On podcast *Despommier inherits from generations of ecological scientists — ranging from Charles Darwin to Rachel Carson and James Lovelock — a commitment to ecological balance, to the notion of human communities as webs of dependencies that anthropogenic climate change and biosphere disruption have shredded. * Peter Schwartz, Wikidworld “Reimagining Western Civilization” substack *This elegantly packaged book offers some compelling ideas and solutions for those seeking more sustainable cities. A provocative read for those at all levels of scholarship and engagement who want to think outside the box about the problems cities face worldwide. Highly recommended. * Choice Reviews, American Library Association (ALA) *Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesForeword, by Mitchell JoachimPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Pillar One: Carbon Storage2. Pillar Two: Urban Agriculture3. Pillar Three: Harvesting Water from the Air4. Pillar Four: Renewable Energy5. The New City ImaginedAppendixNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisCan transnationalism be separated from capitalist globalization? Can an artist create cultural space and rethink the nation state simultaneously? This title explores such questions to invigorate the analysis of cultural transnationalism.

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Book SynopsisExplores Africa's hostility toward modernity and how that hostility has impeded economic development and social and political transformation. This book insists that Africa can renew itself only by fully engaging with democracy and capitalism and by mining its untapped intellectual resources.Trade ReviewWhoever thinks he knows the problem of Africa had better read this book. Whoever feels there is no known solution that can apply should read this book first; but whoever wishes to remain unperturbed about the African predicament had better not read this book. This book almost certainly will challenge any mind. The author has evidently written down thoughts that cost him his sleep for many years now. * African Studies Quarterly *Táiwò's firm and fierce argument is timely because it unapologetically prompts questions. . .45.4 Winter 2014 * Research in AFRICAN LITERATURES *This book is a brave and boisterous attempt to challenge Africa to follow a clear-cut development trajectory in the face of its disappointing performance in the development arena in the post-colonial period. Taiwo provides an interesting analysis of modernity as the key to attaining Africa's development. The author's bold declarations on Africa's development trajectory make the book exceedingly readable, and place Taiwo amongst the ranks of other African development trajectory scholars like Sabelo Ndlovu and Moeletsi Mbeki. * African Affairs *Africa Must Be Modern is an important statement that should be debated in both the academy that Táíwò critiques and the African public sphere he hopes to engage. * Journal of West African History *Table of ContentsPreface to the U.S. EditionAcknowledgements Introduction1. Why Africa Must Get on Board the Modernity Express2. The Sticky Problem of Individualism3. The Knowledge Society and Its Rewards4. Count, Measure, and Count Again5. Process, not Outcome: Why Trusting Your Leader, Godfather, Ethnic Group or Chief May Not Best Secure Your Advantage6. Against the Philosophy of Limits: Installing a Culture of HopeIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores Africa's hostility toward modernity and how that hostility has impeded economic development and social and political transformation.Trade ReviewWhoever thinks he knows the problem of Africa had better read this book. Whoever feels there is no known solution that can apply should read this book first; but whoever wishes to remain unperturbed about the African predicament had better not read this book. This book almost certainly will challenge any mind. The author has evidently written down thoughts that cost him his sleep for many years now. * African Studies Quarterly *Táiwò's firm and fierce argument is timely because it unapologetically prompts questions. . .45.4 Winter 2014 * Research in AFRICAN LITERATURES *This book is a brave and boisterous attempt to challenge Africa to follow a clear-cut development trajectory in the face of its disappointing performance in the development arena in the post-colonial period. Taiwo provides an interesting analysis of modernity as the key to attaining Africa's development. The author's bold declarations on Africa's development trajectory make the book exceedingly readable, and place Taiwo amongst the ranks of other African development trajectory scholars like Sabelo Ndlovu and Moeletsi Mbeki. * African Affairs *Africa Must Be Modern is an important statement that should be debated in both the academy that Táíwò critiques and the African public sphere he hopes to engage. * Journal of West African History *Table of ContentsPreface to the U.S. EditionAcknowledgements Introduction1. Why Africa Must Get on Board the Modernity Express2. The Sticky Problem of Individualism3. The Knowledge Society and Its Rewards4. Count, Measure, and Count Again5. Process, not Outcome: Why Trusting Your Leader, Godfather, Ethnic Group or Chief May Not Best Secure Your Advantage6. Against the Philosophy of Limits: Installing a Culture of HopeIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review Life in the Time of Oil is important, providing rich empirical insight organized in an accessible and focused analysis that interrogates the continued promotion of resource-based capitalist development in Africa today. * Africa *Overall, Leonard advances a convincing and credible argument that the failure of the oil project has not only happened at the macro level, but has also done lasting damage to communities in the local and everyday sphere. * Journal of Development Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. An Experiment in Development2. Dead Letters3. Becoming 'Eligible'4. Ties that Bind5. In the Midst of Things6. FootprintsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisLife in the Time of Oil examines the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Projecta partnership between global oil companies, the World Bank, and the Chadian government that was an ambitious scheme to reduce poverty in one of the poorest countries on the African continent. Key to the project was the development of a marginal set of oilfields that had only recently attracted the interest of global oil companies who were pressed to expand operations in the context of declining reserves. Drawing on more than a decade of work in Chad, Lori Leonard shows how environmental standards, grievance mechanisms, community consultation sessions, and other model policies smoothed the way for oil production, but ultimately contributed to the unraveling of the project. Leonard offers a nuanced account of the effects of the project on everyday life and the local ecology of the oilfield region as she explores the resulting tangle of ethics, expectations, and effects of oil as development.Trade Review Life in the Time of Oil is important, providing rich empirical insight organized in an accessible and focused analysis that interrogates the continued promotion of resource-based capitalist development in Africa today. * Africa *Overall, Leonard advances a convincing and credible argument that the failure of the oil project has not only happened at the macro level, but has also done lasting damage to communities in the local and everyday sphere. * Journal of Development Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. An Experiment in Development2. Dead Letters3. Becoming 'Eligible'4. Ties that Bind5. In the Midst of Things6. FootprintsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn addressing both the theoretical and the practical, Selling Local achieves a vision for the future of local food, while managing to simultaneously provide guidance for actors within the food system interested in amplifying the success of this movement. The book is a refreshing reminder of both the rapid success of the local food movement and the challenges it faces in today's sociopolitical and environmental context. * Agriculture and Human Values *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Why Local and Why Now?2. Understanding Farmers' Markets3. Understanding Community Supported Agriculture4. What's Next in Local Food?5. Growing Capacity 6. A Systems Approach to Local FoodConclusionBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the history of UN engagement with TNCs, including the creation of the UN Commission and Centre on Transnational Corporations in 1974, and the failed efforts of these bodies to craft a code of conduct to temper the revealed abuses of TNCs.Trade Review. . . a careful, thorough work with unique content . . . This new volume is a must for graduate libraries. . . . Highly recommended.June 2009 * Choice *[This book] helps unravel the complexity and deepens understanding of the role the United Nations played in promoting an understanding of TNCs (transnational corporations) and FDI (foreign direct investment). This is a unique book . . . . Simply put, the book is well written and makes for interesting reading. No scholar devoted to the global economy should be without it.Vol. LIV.2 Fall 2009 -- Edward Nissan * The University of Southern Mississippi *Table of ContentsList of Boxes, Figures, and TablesSeries Editors' Foreword Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. WeissPreface & AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Ideas and Institutions Relevant to Foreign Investment and TNCs Prior to World War II2. The Early Post-World War II Era: From the Golden Years of FDI to the Incipient Rise of Economic Nationalism3. The 1970s: Gathering Storm4. The Group of Eminent Persons: The Eye of the Hurricane5. The Commission and the Centre, New York Years, 1974-19926. New York to Geneva: The UNCTAD Years7. World Investment Report Series: 1991-20058. Other Members of the UN Galaxy: The Constellation9. The Legacy and FutureNotesAppendix 1: Organizational Diagram of UNCTC at its Inception, 1974Appendix 2: From New York (UNCTC) to Geneva (DITE): LeadershipIndexAbout the AuthorsAbout the United Nations Intellectual History Project

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Book SynopsisThe social dynamics of global polio eradicationTrade ReviewThe Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria is a detailed examination of efforts being made to eradicate polio in an area in which polio is endemic and that in 2006 had the largest number of naturally occurring (wild) polio cases in the world. The author painstakingly examines the failure to eradicate the disease after more than a decade of trying. The book traces the influence of the country's social and historical contexts on the politics affecting polio vaccination. The book is interesting and shows insight into the effects of the country's culture on the slow acceptance of polio vaccine. Chapter 1, 'Introduction: Protesting Polio,' begins with a story about a father, his child with polio, and how a bias against Western medicine (in favor of a traditional healer) affects the child's disease. Although the chapter discusses the epidemiology of polio, it also stresses the importance of religion in determining attitudes toward the polio vaccine. The population of Northern Nigeria is divided between Muslim and Christian groups. Among the Muslims, there is distrust of the vaccine, often manifesting as fear of contamination with human immunodeficiency virus or other diseases. I was puzzled by the title of this chapter until the end, when the author explains that the religious affiliations of many Nigerians cause them to 'protest' the polio vaccine by not allowing their children to take it. In chapter 2, the author compares the course of smallpox eradication in Northern Nigeria with that of polio. The smallpox program succeeded in 3 years, apparently because smallpox was 'widely recognized as a dangerous disease,' while relatively few individuals have had experience with paralytic polio, experiencing it most commonly as a cold or fever. Chapter 3 chronicles the course of the Polio Eradication Initiative. Chapter 4 delves deeper into the philosophy of many Northern Nigerian Muslim parents toward immunization. For some who do not want to expose their healthy infants to the vaccine, prayer is enough. Apparently in this context, Kariya Allah, which translates into 'natural immunity,' can be interpreted as the natural protection provided by Allah, rather than the response of the immune system after being exposed to a virus. It is not surprising that the next logical step is for each political party (Muslim or Christian) to try to sway interpretation of what a vaccine is. I found chapter 5 to be the most interesting, because it discusses cultural mores and begins to dissect the social roles of persons with polio. It details the perception and treatment of those who have been paralyzed by polio in Northern Nigeria, with attitudes toward physical disability largely affected by ethnic context. According to the author, among the Yoruba society (Christians), disabled persons are kept at home because of fear for the family's reputation. Among those from the Hausa society (Muslims), disability is thought given by God and not socially stigmatizing. In fact, because good fortune is also given by God, people are encouraged to share their good fortune with those unable to work because of disability. Alms giving during Ramadan (zakkat) is one of the 5 primary obligations of Islam. As a result, begging has apparently been considered a vocation, with expectations that paralyzed boys would earn a living through begging, returning home to sleep at night. With improvements in the education system, however, begging is coming to be considered shameful, and educated persons with polio now look for other ways to support themselves. New international initiatives concerned with the rights of disabled persons to receive training and assistance are also affecting change. Chapter 6 compares the attempts to eradicate polio in Northern Nigeria with that in Northeastern Ghana, where Muslims actively participated in the eradication effort. Chapter 7, 'The Ethics of Eradication,' examines the cases for individual as well as public health viewpoints concerning vaccination choices. This chapter seems self-evident in light of the previous chapters. It would have benefited from some quantitative information regarding polio in Northern Nigeria and some speculation about appropriate future steps. Overall, The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria takes an interesting look at a public health issue from a sociological and cultural aspect. It contains important insight into the Northern Nigerian culture. However, it requires some determination to finish; the prose is dry and reads like a dissertation. The book is peppered throughout with individual cases, which makes it a little more colorful, and the photographs in the middle are visually engaging. Author Information 1. Author Affiliation: Dr Chang is Contributing Editor, JAMA (tina.chang@jama-archives.org). -- Dr Chang * JAMA JRNL AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSN *[P]rovides an insightful analysis and a detailed historical background of the controversial campaign to eradicate polio in northern Nigeria. . . . Recommended. * Choice *[T]his book provides a strong, comprehensive analysis of opposition to polio vaccination in northern Nigeria and provides fodder for the continuing debates about vertical, directed programs, eradication, and 'broad-based health projects' . . . worldwide. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Protesting Polio2. Smallpox and Polio Histories3. Politics and Polio in Nigeria4. Islam and Immunization in Northern Nigeria5. Polio, Disability, and Begging6. Polio in Northern Nigeria and Northeastern Ghana7. The Ethics of EradicationEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIntimacy and AIDS in South AfricaTrade ReviewIn this timely and important book, Hunter interrogates misperceptions about AIDS, sexuality, human rights, and gender injustices that perpetuate harmful constructions of African sexuality. Challenging the assumption that Africa is 'loveless,' an emancipatory concept typically reserved for those living in modern Western democracies . . . Hunter restores questions of love, tenderness, and intimacy in this rich ethnography of gender and sexuality in South Africa. * American Journal of Sociology *Mark Hunter's Love in the Time of AIDS is one of the most important books on AIDS in Africa that has been published so far. . . . Among its many virtues, Mark Hunter's book does well in reminding us that, though often difficult, even in the hardest conditions love is possible. * African Studies Review *This is a sobering and complex book, and the powerful ethnographic excavation of the multiple factors transforming everyday intimacy in contemporary South Africa is a testament to Hunter's skills as a researcher and author. * Gender, Place & Culture *Mark Hunter's work is an important contribution to the historical and anthropological literature on the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic and should be considered required reading for scholars and graduate students interested in the social, cultural, and economic dynamics of post-apartheid South Africa. * Journal of African History *The book is rich in ethnographic detail, especially life stories, and very convincing in its analysis.Hunter avoids economism through demonstrating the real emotions of love and intimacy among women and men linked in a devastating HIV epidemic. His study is a 21st century classic. * writingrights.nu.org.za *Love in the Time of AIDS is an exceptional book. . . . [It] challenges dominant assumptions about the spread of AIDS and foregrounds the real everyday lives of people in contexts of deep poverty and violence. . . . This book is a must read for all those who recognise AIDS beyond epidemiology. * Global Public Health *Hunter writes skilfully, building on important topics to explain the many layers of influence on the everyday worlds of people affected by HIV/AIDS. This powerful and complex book would appeal to anthropologists interested in historical ethnographies or HIV/AIDS and also to those in public health with an interest in understanding sexual behaviours that can contribute to HIV/AIDS. * sti.bmj.com *Love in the Time of AIDS shows that detailed ethnographic works are no longer the preserve of anthropologists. The monograph is written in an accessible style, makes excellent use of case material, and shows the importance of taking local isiZulu concepts seriously. * Transformation *Hunter's book deserves the widest possible audience—for its superb methodology and handling of its sources and materials as much as for its powerful and moving account of one of the worst public health disasters of modern times. * Progress in Development Studies *C]ontribute[s] a stirring history of the present of South Africa, and of the unequal world of which it has been and remains a materially and ideologically formative part. * South African Historical Journal *Many books continue to be written on the phenomenon of AIDS. Most of these limit themselves to particular facets of this multifaceted disease. Love in the time of AIDS attempts, and achieves, a remarkable comprehensiveness. * English Academy Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Racial TermsList of Acronyms 1. Gender and AIDS in an Unequal World 2. Mandeni: "The AIDS Capital of KwaZulu-Natal"Part 1. Revisiting Intimacy and Apartheid 3. Providing Love: Male Migration and Building a Rural Home 4. Urban Respectability: Sundumbili Township, 1964–94 5. Shacks in the Cracks of Apartheid: Industrial Women and the Changing Political Economy and Geography of IntimacyPart 2. Intimacy after Democracy, 1994– 6. Postcolonial Geographies: Being "Left Behind" in the New South Africa 7. Independent Women: Rights amid Wrongs, and Men's Broken Promises 8. Failing Men: Modern Masculinities amid Unemployment 9. All You Need Is Love? The Materiality of Everyday Sex and LovePart 3. Interventions 10. The Politics of Gender, Intimacy, and AIDSGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe construction and impact of a railway project in AfricaTrade Review[Africa's Freedom Railway] becomes the definitive multidisciplinary account. . . . [This book] is a model of transport historical geography. . . . [Monson] tells human stories about a massive transport project: its proponents, practitioners and petitioners take centre stage.18.4 July 2010 * Journal of Transport Geography *Africa's Freedom Railway is a valuable addition to the social history of postcolonial Tanzania. . . . This book provides and excellent example to follow.Vol. 50 2009 -- Emma Hunter * Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge *An important contribution to the expanding field of Sino-African Studies. Vol. 200 * The China Quarterly *An interesting account of a remarkable chapter in the chequered history of Tanzania's development.# 94 Sept.-Dec. 2009 -- John Sankey * Tanzanian Affairs *The depth of material and analysis makes this essential for development studies and especially Chinese-African relations as the People's Republic expands involvement in the continent.Feb. 2010 * Choice *This insightful account of transnational infrastructure cooperation will no doubt be welcome reading not only for academics and students, but most importantly for African leaders who have to make critical development choices for the benefit of their own people.Vol. 115 Feb. 2010 -- Peter A. Dumbuya * Fort Valley State University *Africa's Freedom Railway is an insightful and well-informed book that bears testament to the experience of those Tanzanians and Chinese who worked on TAZARA railway as well as those whose lives have benefitted from its presence. By documenting the experience of those people affected by TAZARA, Monson effectively illustrates how the railway benefitted the majority of Tanzanians. Similarly, the book's wealth of sources enables Monson to write about contemporary Tanzania in a historical context, as TAZARA has shaped the present.Vol. 11.2-3 Spring 2010 -- Nicholas T. Smith * University of California *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. IntroductionPart 1. Freedom Railway2. Railway Visions3. Building the People's Railway4. Living along the RailwayPart 2. Ordinary Train5. The Ordinary Train6. Landscape Visions7. ConclusionAppendix 1. Eight Principles Governing China's Economic and Technical Aid to Other CountriesAppendix 2. Parcel Shipments to and from Selected Rail StationsAppendix 3. Land Cover Change, Kilombero Valley Study AreaNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a good book, with a masterful balance of common sense and sophisticated social analysis that does not let relevance be defined by academic discourse only.May 2008 -- Judit Bodnar * American Journal of Sociology *Gille's book is a fascinating analysis of environmental policies and the politics of waste, as well a study of socialism through its relationships with what is usually considered as a byproduct of production and/or consumption. Year XV.2 2009 -- Barbara Potrata * Leeds Institute of Health Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Was State Socialism Wasteful?2. Toward a Social Theory of WastePart 1. Discipline and Recycle (1948–1974)3. Metallic Socialism4. The Primitive Accumulation of Waste in Metallic SocialismPart 2. Reform and Reduce (1975–1984)5. The Efficiency Model6. The Limits of EfficiencyPart 3. Privatize and Incinerate (1985–present)7. The Chemical Model8. "Building a Castle out of Shit": The Wastelands of the New Europe9. ConclusionNotesSources and ReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIntimacy and AIDS in South AfricaTrade ReviewIn this timely and important book, Hunter interrogates misperceptions about AIDS, sexuality, human rights, and gender injustices that perpetuate harmful constructions of African sexuality. Challenging the assumption that Africa is 'loveless,' an emancipatory concept typically reserved for those living in modern Western democracies . . . Hunter restores questions of love, tenderness, and intimacy in this rich ethnography of gender and sexuality in South Africa. * American Journal of Sociology *Mark Hunter's Love in the Time of AIDS is one of the most important books on AIDS in Africa that has been published so far. . . . Among its many virtues, Mark Hunter's book does well in reminding us that, though often difficult, even in the hardest conditions love is possible. * African Studies Review *This is a sobering and complex book, and the powerful ethnographic excavation of the multiple factors transforming everyday intimacy in contemporary South Africa is a testament to Hunter's skills as a researcher and author. * Gender, Place & Culture *Mark Hunter's work is an important contribution to the historical and anthropological literature on the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic and should be considered required reading for scholars and graduate students interested in the social, cultural, and economic dynamics of post-apartheid South Africa. * Journal of African History *The book is rich in ethnographic detail, especially life stories, and very convincing in its analysis.Hunter avoids economism through demonstrating the real emotions of love and intimacy among women and men linked in a devastating HIV epidemic. His study is a 21st century classic. * writingrights.nu.org.za *Love in the Time of AIDS is an exceptional book. . . . [It] challenges dominant assumptions about the spread of AIDS and foregrounds the real everyday lives of people in contexts of deep poverty and violence. . . . This book is a must read for all those who recognise AIDS beyond epidemiology. * Global Public Health *Hunter writes skilfully, building on important topics to explain the many layers of influence on the everyday worlds of people affected by HIV/AIDS. This powerful and complex book would appeal to anthropologists interested in historical ethnographies or HIV/AIDS and also to those in public health with an interest in understanding sexual behaviours that can contribute to HIV/AIDS. * sti.bmj.com *Love in the Time of AIDS shows that detailed ethnographic works are no longer the preserve of anthropologists. The monograph is written in an accessible style, makes excellent use of case material, and shows the importance of taking local isiZulu concepts seriously. * Transformation *Hunter's book deserves the widest possible audience—for its superb methodology and handling of its sources and materials as much as for its powerful and moving account of one of the worst public health disasters of modern times. * Progress in Development Studies *C]ontribute[s] a stirring history of the present of South Africa, and of the unequal world of which it has been and remains a materially and ideologically formative part. * South African Historical Journal *Many books continue to be written on the phenomenon of AIDS. Most of these limit themselves to particular facets of this multifaceted disease. Love in the time of AIDS attempts, and achieves, a remarkable comprehensiveness. * English Academy Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Racial TermsList of Acronyms 1. Gender and AIDS in an Unequal World 2. Mandeni: "The AIDS Capital of KwaZulu-Natal"Part 1. Revisiting Intimacy and Apartheid 3. Providing Love: Male Migration and Building a Rural Home 4. Urban Respectability: Sundumbili Township, 1964–94 5. Shacks in the Cracks of Apartheid: Industrial Women and the Changing Political Economy and Geography of IntimacyPart 2. Intimacy after Democracy, 1994– 6. Postcolonial Geographies: Being "Left Behind" in the New South Africa 7. Independent Women: Rights amid Wrongs, and Men's Broken Promises 8. Failing Men: Modern Masculinities amid Unemployment 9. All You Need Is Love? The Materiality of Everyday Sex and LovePart 3. Interventions 10. The Politics of Gender, Intimacy, and AIDSGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisCement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories examines the ways in which religion and community development are closely intertwined in a rural part of contemporary Latin America. Using historical, documentary, and ethnographic data collected over more than a decade as an aid worker and as a researcher in central Ecuador, Jill DeTemple examines the forces that have led to this entanglement of religion and development and the ways in which rural Ecuadorians, as well as development and religious personnel, negotiate these complicated relationships. Technical innovations have been connected to religious change since the time of the Inca conquest, and Ecuadorians have created defensive strategies for managing such connections. Although most analyses of development either tend to ignore the genuinely religious roots of development or conflate development with religion itself, these strategies are part of a larger negotiation of progress and its meaning in twenty-first-century EcuTrade Review"Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories: Religion and Community Development in Rural Ecuador examines the relationship between development and religion and the ongoing negotiation of this relationship in Ecuador. Jill DeTemple argues for an important revision to previous work that portrays contemporary religious movements as resistant to modernity, showing instead that what is happening is an ongoing negotiation and reformation of what modernity and development mean." —Barry Lyons, Wayne State University"In this book, Jill DeTemple explores the religious origins of modern ideologies of progress and development and the deep, continuous interplay between religion concepts, practices, and communities and development activities in contemporary Ecuador. Only by focusing on this interplay can we understanding of the concrete dynamics of development, and at the same time DeTemple's innovative and nuanced work richly illuminates the broader cultural vitality and mobility of contemporary religion." —Randall Styers, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"Jill DeTemple examines the ways in which people negotiate religious and development discourses, using ethnography as well as historical, religious, political, and economic analyses. She explores how ‘lived religion’ and local conceptions of development combine in ways that challenge both the hegemony of western development discourses as well as the view that modernity is marked by increasing secularization. This book is a timely and valuable contribution to the growing field of studies in religions and development, and will be of interest to scholars and students as well as development practitioners." —Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds“Eschatology, the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind, clearly belongs to the Western realm of ‘religion.’ In this well-written book, Jill DeTemple illustrates how, historically and in terms of her ethnography of a community in Central Andean Ecuador, it applies to Western notions of development.” —The Americas“DeTemple’s work focuses more on the ways that religious and development goals get intertwined in specific places and contexts, and the lack of distinct boundaries between the two. But in telling the stories of communities, she shows that many times the goals and assumptions of development workers and ‘those being developed’ are not the same. The ends of development are re-imagined.” —Contesting the Good News“A result of the book’s focus is that Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories is more useful for development practitioners, both of a secular and religious nature, than those concerned with the politics of development work. For those practitioners, it provides useful reflections on how the negotiation of religious and development discourse becomes constructed in specific and concrete spaces such as kitchens and bedrooms. DeTemple contends that how these discourses are negotiated will have lasting consequences for both development and religious work in Latin America.” —Journal of Latin American Studies“Jill DeTemple’s excellent book explores the interrelationship of religion, development, and modernity in Latin America, focusing on San Marcos, Ecuador. It discusses ‘things both good and bad’ and negotiates desire, community, religion, and progress in Latin America contexts.”—Journal of Economic Literature.

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Book SynopsisRoots of Brazil explores the multiple cultural influences that forged twentieth-century Brazil. This classic work is essential to understanding Brazilian history, society, and culture.Trade Review"This translation is a major event. This is an essential work for the understanding of Brazil and even more so to the comprehension of Brazilian society and values by a generation of Brazilians. It tells much of the relationships between Brazil and Portugal and it is basic to grasp the position of Brazil within the so called Latin American countries and societies." —Roberto DaMatta, Professor of Anthropology at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and Professor Emeritus at University of Notre Dame"Roots of Brazil, first published in 1936 and substantially revised in subsequent editions, is one of those works that shapes its readers' imagination, a book that in a certain sense 'invents' its country, serving as a mirror in which, while seeking their own image, Brazilian readers have also found their own attitudes and inclinations. On the other hand, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's book functions not only as a fixed portrait that preserves a scene from the past but also as a bright surface that can reflect each new historical moment." —from the foreword by Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University“Roots of Brazil is one of the essential books to understand how modern Brazil emerged. Raizes do Brasil was written by Sergio Buarque de Holanda. . . . Considered one of the country’s main intellectuals of the twentieth century, he ‘focuses on the multiple cultural influences that forged twentieth-century Brazil. . . . Roots of Brazil set the parameters of Brazilian historiography for a generation and continues to offer keys to understanding the complex history of Brazil.’” —Deep Brazil: The Magazine of Brazilian Life and Culture“Considered by most historians to be one of three foundational books in Brazilian historiography, this first English translation of Raizes do Brasil will be important to the study of Brazilian history. . . . The author examined Brazil’s colonial formation and identified foundational features and characteristics that made Brazil different from other countries.” —Choice“This excellent edition includes not only a lively translation of the original, but also the author’s prefaces to both the second and third editions of 1948 and 1956, literary scholar Antonio Candido’s limpid introduction to the 1967 edition and his postscript to the 1987 edition, and Pedro Meira Monteiro’s new foreword. The result is a rich, layered work of commentary and annotation. Reading this edition is itself an exercise in intellectual history.” —The Americas

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Book SynopsisFor business to flourish, society must flourish. In today''s global economy, business serves the common good not only by producing goods and services but also by reaching out to the many who are not even in the market because they lack marketable skills and the resources to acquire them. Sustainable Development: The UN Millennium Development Goals, the UN Global Compact, and the Common Good contains twenty-two essays that document the work of Western companies, working through the UN Global Compact and its Principles of Responsible Investment and the Principles for Responsible Management Education, to shape more peaceful and just societies. Seven case studies by leading businesses and private-public partnershipsincluding Microsoft, Merck, Sumitomo Chemical, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Novartis, and Levi Straussoutline their projects, especially those advancing the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) designed to alleviate dire poverty. Twelve chapters reflect on some of the conceptual issues Trade Review"This book offers critical insight into the role businesses must play in cooperation with governments, the United Nations, and civil society to develop more sustainable and healthy societies. Sustainable Development eloquently captures the unmistakable correlation between the private sector and the common good: where equality, human rights and ethics thrive, so too does business." —Georg Kell, Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact “Against a sombre picture of global challenges painted by Bishop Kevin Dowling, Fr. Oliver Williams has assembled an outstanding collection of contributions demonstrating how six diverse multinationals have addressed these challenges both in their core businesses, through their supply chains, and where they have voluntarily taken on projects to advance human rights in the wider society. Papers from academia and civil society then frankly analyse what such corporate efforts really mean in terms of delivering benefits to both shareholders and society, as well as discussing criticisms.” —Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Hermes Equity Ownership Services and the United Nations Global Compact Foundation "The United Nations Global Compact is a major initiative in the worldwide effort to ensure the fair distribution of the enormous wealth generated by the globalization of corporate capitalism, an initiative of interest to all nations, corporations public and private, and the present and future citizens of the world. These papers are the state of the art in the scholarly examination of the international efforts on the part of private enterprise to assist in economic development and forging peace." —Lisa H. Newton, Fairfield University“The book contains twenty-two essays, seven case studies, and reflections regarding the work of Western companies working through the U.N. Global Compact to shape more peaceful and just societies and alleviate dire poverty.” —Notre Dame Magazine Online“The contributors include representatives from academic institutions, corporations as well as the public sector. Parham (in Chapter 11) presents case studies to illustrate the role of partnerships between governments, the private sector and the civil society in achieving [Millennium Development Goals]. . . This book’s main contribution is in bringing to the reader a diverse range of perspectives on sustainable development.” —Journal for Peace and Justice Studies

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a rich data set of interviews with over 600 women maquila workers, this pathfinding book offers the first rigorous economic and sociological analysis of the impact of NAFTA and its implications for free trade around the world.Trade ReviewThis meticulous study is an indictment not only of outsourcing and maquiladoras as sweatshops, but of the entire premise of free trade as a win-win proposition for all concerned. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through research collections. * Choice *Table of Contents List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. American Factories in Mexico Chapter 2. The Border City of Nogales Chapter 3. House to House: The Method of Analysis Chapter 4. The History of the Maquila Industry Chapter 5. Are the Maquilas Sweatshops? Chapter 6. Liberation or Exploitation of Women Workers? Chapter 7. Fancy Factories and Dilapidated Dwellings Appendix 1. Maquilas in Nogales in 2004 Appendix 2. Survey of Maquila Workers Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe author's thesis declares that the obstacles to African agrarian development never stay the same. She explores the complex way in which African economy and society are tied to issues of land and labour, and offers comparative studies of agrarian change in four sub-Saharan areas.

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Book SynopsisThis study examines agricultural restructuring and its effect upon various African societies. It documents how contract production links farmers, agribusiness and the state; and reveals that contract farming represents a distinctive form in which African growers join in national and world markets.

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Book SynopsisIn less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure Gulf emirate into a global centre for business, tourism, and luxury living. It is a case study in light-speed urban development, hyperconsumerism, massive immigration, and vertiginous inequality. This work analyzes how and at what cost Dubai has achieved such success.Trade Review"At last, a comprehensive expose of the economic and sexual exploitation that erected this utopia of greed. Syed Ali has seen the future in Dubai and it doesn't work." - Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums -- Mike DavisClick here to visit the author's website. * http://myweb.brooklyn.liu.edu/sfali/Book.html *

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Book SynopsisA revelatory study of how climate change will affect individual economic decisions, and the broad impact of those choicesTrade Review“This is a timely, valuable and accessible contribution to the climate change debate by a US-based economics professor. After the frustrations and hyperbole at COP26 it offers a welcome reminder that mitigation is only one of the ways in which we can cope with the challenges ahead: adaptation may prove just important, perhaps more so.”—Kevin Gardiner, Reading Room for the Society of Professional Economists“Are you looking for an approach that recognizes the costs of climate change, and approaches the entire question with an economic and political sanity? Matthew E. Kahn’s new book Adapting to Climate Change is then essential reading.”—Tyler Cowen, George Mason University“The COVID-19 crisis dramatically changed the way the world lives and works; but climate change poses an even greater challenge. Matt Kahn argues the best way to meet that challenge lies less in top-down government programs and more in using policy to nudge corporations and millions of people to make better individual decisions. A must read for everyone concerned with humanity’s future.”—Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class“A balanced, eye-opening analysis of how individual choices and markets can lead to better outcomes in our struggle to arrest climate change. This book will give you a measure of optimism about our ability to survive without paying a high price in standards of living.”—Mauro Guillen, author of the bestselling 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything

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Book SynopsisAn examination of how Western visions of endless future growth have contributed to the global environmental crisisTrade Review“Rawson illustrates brilliantly how discussions of climate change are wedded to past visions of unlimited growth in which scarcity (peak soil, peak population, peak coal, peak oil) would be only a temporary obstacle to overcome.”—Kate Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology“This book does something that is worth doing and that no other scholarly book I know of comes close to doing: tracing the history of imagined environmental futures in the Western world.”—William Meyer, Colgate University

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“The book provides excellent ideas.”—Financial Times, selected as a Best Book of the Year in Economics, 2019Axiom Award silver medal winner in the Philanthropy/Nonprofit/Sustainability category, sponsored by Axiom Business Book Awards“Sustainability represents the overarching challenge of our day, which must be met with a commitment to a spirit of progress across the global community. A Better Planet offers an array of ideas for helping to deliver the ecological transition that is now an imperative.”—Emmanuel Macron, President of France“A Better Planet offers new approaches to the world’s most pressing environmental problems. It’s a timely and urgently needed volume.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History“Pressing the reset button, this book brings together refreshingly new and profoundly compelling approaches to environmental policy and action in the USA and beyond.”—Christiana Figueres, executive secretary, UN Climate Change Convention, 2010–16“A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future creates 40 opportunities to start accelerating the transition to a better planet today. The direction is clear; now we need to work together, at scale.”—Peter Bakker, president and CEO, World Business Council for Sustainable Development“No one can criticize Dan Esty and his talented colleagues for not thinking big: there are ideas in this book that will appeal to anyone—and maybe a couple that will raise your hackles. It’s the kind of spirited, discipline-crossing, deep-dive that will help reorient a sometimes-stale environmental debate!”—Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

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Book SynopsisA compelling look at the B Corp movement and why socially and environmentally responsible companies are vital for everyone’s futureTrade Review“Better Business is a valuable guide to an important force”—The Financial Times “Marquis explains well what he sees as the problem with the traditional "shareholder primacy" model and provides a comprehensive history of how the movement for change started, including the struggle to give the B corporation model legal backing.”—Money Week“Marquis weaves a compelling argument that ‘socially and environmentally responsible companies are vital for everyone’s future’. A prescient book when capitalism in its current form is coming under question.”—Arun Kakar, Spear’s Magazine“Marquis’s access to the movement and ability to write organisational history make this book a fantastic read.”—Dr Johannes Lenhard, LSE Review of BooksLonglisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards, sponsored by the Porchlight Book CompanyWinner of the 2021 Axiom Gold Medal, Business Ethics category, sponsored by the Axiom Business Book Awards"Better Business is a compelling demonstration of how redefining the corporate purpose can have impact at scale. The B Corp movement is leading the way to a more resilient economy and society."—Emmanuel Faber, Chairman and CEO, Danone “Christopher Marquis is one of the world’s leading experts on the dynamics of business and social innovation. Drawing on extensive evidence and vivid case studies, he busts myths about shareholder primacy and reveals how it’s possible for companies to integrate social good into their missions.”—Adam M. Grant, author of Originals and Give and Take and host of the TED podcast Worklife "Better Business is the book to read if you want to put values and purpose at the center of your company. It’s an inspiring book with great insights to share."—Jerry Greenfield, co-founder, Ben & Jerry’s "Chris Marquis’ book shows us why the leadership of B Corps and tools like the SDG Action Manager might be our best bet to drive meaningful business action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030."—Lise Kingo, CEO & Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact "Better Business is an important blueprint for how businesses can and should be both successful and a force for good."—Rose Marcario, President and CEO, Patagonia “American capitalism is self-defeating over the long term and in trouble right now. Better Business offers sage and practical advice on how business leaders and policy makers can do better while doing well.” – Deval Patrick, former Governor of Massachusetts “Marquis convincingly shows how businesses like B Corps cannot only do good, but also do well by doing good. Every business leader that wants to create a resilient, sustainable and high performing company should read this book.”—Paul Polman, Former CEO of Unilever and co-founder of IMAGINE “Better Business presents a compelling account of how the B Corp movement is beginning to transform businesses around the world into something more idealistic and truly productive.”—Robert Shiller, Nobel Laureate in Economics “Better Business is an engaging and thoroughgoing guide to the B Corp movement and provides an essential strategic and moral framework for conducting business in the 21st century.”—Vincent Stanley, co-author of The Responsible Company “By highlighting that a starting point to reform our economy is putting legal power behind the idea that corporations should have to treat all their stakeholders, and particularly their workers, with respect, Better Business convincingly outlines how capitalism can be reshaped to be more fair and equitable for all.”—Leo E. Strine Jr., former Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court "A fascinating and nuanced account of one of the most important business movements of our time."—András Tilcsik, coauthor of Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It

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Book Synopsis* Based on six principles that have shown success,Collaborative Solutions is a practical book that addressescontemporary social problems by bringing people of diversecircumstances and backgrounds together in working to solvecommunity challenges.Table of ContentsWeb Contents ix Foreword xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xxi The Author xxiii Chapter 1: Why Collaborative Solutions? How Our Helping Systems Are Failing Us 1 Community Solutions Demand a New, Collaborative Approach 3 How Our Traditional Community Problem-Solving Methods Fail 4 What Does This Tell Us, and What Do We Do Next? 21 Chapter 2: Building Healthy Communities Through Collaborative Solutions: An Overview of Six Key Principles 25 1. Encourage True Collaboration as the Form of Exchange 26 2. Engage the Full Diversity of the Community, Especially Those Most Directly Affected 27 3. Practice Democracy and Promote Active Citizenship and Empowerment 28 4. Employ an Ecological Approach That Builds on Community Strengths 29 5. Take Action by Addressing Issues of Social Change and Power on the Basis of a Common Vision 31 6. Engage Spirituality as Your Compass for Social Change 32 Community Story: The Cleghorn Neighborhood Center 33 Chapter 3: Encouraging True Collaboration 43 Networking 44 Coordination 45 Cooperation 46 Collaboration 48 Learning to Collaborate: Risks, Resources, Rewards, and Responsibilities 50 What If . . . 51 Community Story: The North Quabbin Community Coalition 53 Chapter 4: Engaging the Full Diversity of the Community 67 Mini-Grants 72 Leadership Development 73 Community Outreach Workers 75 Community Organizers 76 Experiment with Simple Options to Engage Community Members 77 Community Story: The Mayor’s Task Force on Deinstitutionalization 83 Chapter 5: Practicing Democracy 95 How Much Participation Do We Want? 98 How Do We Encourage Democratic Participation? 102 More Ways to Support the Practice of Democracy 105 Community Story: Valuing Our Children 109 Chapter 6: Employing an Ecological Approach That Builds on Community Strengths 123 Assets and Deficits 126 Setting the Stage to Move from Assets to Action 128 Healthy Communities: A Model Ecological Approach 131 Healthy Communities in Action 135 Community Stories: The Northern Berkshire Community Coalition and The Lower/Outer Cape Community Coalition 138 Community Story: The Institute for Community Peace and The Santa Barbara Pro-Youth Coalition 147 Chapter 7: Taking Action and Working for Social Change 155 Key Factors for Coalitions in Successfully Creating Community Change 156 Creating a Common Vision 157 Community Action to Create Community Change 157 Addressing Issues of Social Change and Power 164 Addressing Issues of Social Change in Collaborative Efforts 168 Power-Based Versus Relationship-Based Social Change 179 Barack Obama’s Election and the Future of Collaborative Solutions 181 Community Story: Health Access Networks 186 Chapter 8: Engaging Spirituality as Your Compass for Social Change 197 What Really Works? 198 The Current Helping System: How It Is Stuck and How We Can Free It 201 Overcoming the Limitations with the Help of Spiritual Principles 204 It’s Profound, It’s Not Easy . . . but It’s Within Our Reach 226 Community Story: Bringing It All Back to Earth: The Spiritual Essence of a Regular Meeting of the North Quabbin Community Coalition 229 Conclusion 235 Appendix: Evaluation: Assessing Our Progress and Celebrating Our Success 239 Questions an Evaluation Can Help Answer 240 Community Participation in Evaluation 241 Frameworks for Evaluating Coalitions 242 Documentation and Evaluation in Action: Community Stories 247 Conclusion 264 References 265 Index 279

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Book SynopsisAgricultural economics students require the right blend of tools and knowledge to become future farm managers. Olson''s Economics of Farm Management in a Global Setting focuses on running a farm as a business. This text prepares students in strategic and operational business planning while covering all essential topics from long-term financing to biofuels. In today's world where successful farms are subject to ever changing urban, rural, labor, demographics, and technological factors, Olson's text provides a clear focus and methodology for undergraduate Farm Management students.Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. Chapter 1 Managing the Farm in an Integrated World Economy. Chapter 2 Management. Chapter 3 Business Plans. Chapter 4 Lessons from Microeconomics. Chapter 5 Lessons from Macroeconomics. Chapter 6 Government Policies Affecting Farming around the World. Chapter 7 Strategic Management: Planning. Chapter 8 Strategic Management: External and Internal Analysis. Chapter 9 Crafting Strategy. Chapter 10 Strategy Execution and Control. Chapter 11 Marketing Basics. Chapter 12 Financial Statements. Chapter 13 Financial Analysis. Chapter 14 Financial Management. Chapter 15 Enterprise Budgets: Uses and Development. Chapter 16 Partial Budgets. Chapter 17 Whole-Farm Planning. Chapter 18 Operations Management for the Farm. Chapter 19 Quality Management and Control. Chapter 20 Investment Analysis. Chapter 21 Land Ownership and Use. Chapter 22 Risk Management. Chapter 23 Production Contract Evaluation. Chapter 24 Human Resource Management. Chapter 25 Business Organization. Chapter 26 Farm Transfer and Succession Planning. Chapter 27 Farming in the Future. Appendices. Glossary. Index.

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Book SynopsisTourism has been identified as one of the few potential growth sectors in mature economics. This third edition of a highly successful textbook provides a systematic overview of theoretical issues of the structure of European tourism and of tourism policies.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Tourism and Uneven Economic Development (A. Williams & G. Shaw). Western European Tourism in Perspective (G. Shaw & A. Williams). Spain: From the Phenomenon of Mass Tourism to the Search for a More Diversified Model (M. Valenzuela). Italy: Diversified Tourism (R. King & A. Montanari). Greece: Hesitant Policy and Uneven Tourism Development in the 1990s (L. Leontidou). Portugal: Market Segmentation and Economic Development (J. Lewis & A. Williams). Switzerland: Structural Change within Stability (A. Gilg). Austria: Contrasting Tourist Seasons and Contrasting Regions (F. Zimmermann). The United Kingdom: Market Trends and Policy Responses (G. Shaw, et al.). Republic of Ireland: An Expanding Tourism Sector (D. Gillmor). France: Tourism Comes of Age (J. Tuppen). Germany: Still a Growing International Deficit?(P. Schnell). Tourism in The Netherlands: Resource Development, Regional Impacts and Issues (D. Pinder). Scandinavia: Challenging Nature (T. Andersson & M. Huse). Central and Eastern Europe: Tourism, Development and Transformation (D. Hall). Tourism Policies in a Changing Economic Environment (A. Williams & G. Shaw). Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook covers both environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment. It relates to low and middle income countries in areas including Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.Trade Review"On the whole, it is a valuable volume, not only for academics and students but also for practitioners such as planners, decision makers, development bank officers, non-governmental organizations and others." (Jnl of Environmental Planning & Management, Vol.44, No.6, 2001)Table of ContentsIntroduction (N. Lee & C. George). EA PRINCIPLES, PROCESSES AND PRACTICE. Environmental Assessment in its Developmental and Regulatory Context (N. Lee). Comparative Review of Environmental Assessment Procedures and Practice (C. George). Screening and Scoping (C. Wood). Environmental Impact Prediction and Evaluation (C. George). Economic Valuation of Environmental Impacts (C. Kirkpatrick). Social Impact Assessment (F. Vanclay). Reviewing the Quality of Environmental Assessments (N. Lee). Methods of Consultation and Public Participation (R. Bisset). Integrating Appraisals and Decision-making (N. Lee). Environmental Monitoring, Management and Auditing (C. George). COUNTRY AND INSTITUTIONAL STUDIES OF EA PROCEDURES AND PRACTICE. Country Studies of EA in Chile, Indonesia and the Russian Federation (L. Contreras, et al.). Country Studies of EA in Nepal, Jordan and Zimbabwe (R. Khadka, et al.). Environmental Assessment in Development Banks and Aid Agencies (C. Rees, et al.). Strengthening Future Environmental Assessment Practice: An International Perspective (H. Abaza). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis study analyzes policy-making in a non-democratic authoritarian country, explaining the history of Chinese market reforms from 1979 to the present. Drawing on interviews with high-level Chinese officials, it pieces together detailed histories of economic reform policy decisions.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Formal Authority Relations Among Central Communist Party and Government Institutions in the People's Republic of China PART 1. INTRODUCTION 1. The Political Logic of Economic Reform 2. The Prereform Chinese Economy and the Decision to Initiate Market Reforms PART 2. CHINESE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS 3. Authority Relations: The Communist Party and the Government 4. Leadership Incentives:- Political Succession and Reciprocal Accountability 5. Bargaining Arena: The Government Bureaucracy 6. Who Is Enfranchised in the Policy-making Process? 7. Decision Rules: Delegation by Consensus 8. Chinese Political Institutions and the Path of Economic Reforms PART 3· ECONOMIC REFORM POLICY-MAKING 9. Playing to the Provinces: Fiscal Decentralization and the Politics of Reform 10. Creating Vested Interests in Reform: Industrial Reform Takeoff, 1978-81 11. Leadership Succession and Policy Conflict: The Choice Between Profit Contracting and Substituting Tax-for-Profit, 1982-83 221 12. Building Bureaucratic Consensus: Formulating the Tax-for-Profit Policy, 1983-84 13. The Power of Particularism: Abortive Price Reform and the Revival of Profit Contracting, 1985-88 PART 4· CONCLUSION 14. The Political Lessons of Economic Reform in China Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available throughLuminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. Unjust Conditions follows the lives and labors of poor mothers in rural Peru, richly documenting the ordeals they face to participate in mainstream poverty alleviation programs. Championed by behavioral economists and the World Bank, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are praised as efficient mechanisms for changing poor people's behavior. While rooted in good intentions and dripping with the rhetoric of social inclusion, CCT programs' successes ring hollow, based solely on metrics for children's attendance at school and health appointments. Looking beyond these statistics reveals a host of hidden costs for the mothers who meet the conditions. With a poignant voice and keen focus on ethnographic research, Tara PatriciaCooksonturns the reader's gaze to women's care work in landscapes of grossly inadequate state investment, cleverly drawing out the tensions between social inclusion and conditionality.Trade Review"[Cookson] is able to present her informants in a perceptive and nuanced way which shows careful reflection of wider debates around ‘development’ and representation . . . this is a ‘must read’ for all those with an interest in the gendered and racialised nature of poverty." * Gender & Development *"A nuanced analysis of a widely implemented and evaluated approach to poverty reduction . . . Unjust Conditions is a must-read for those interested in the political-economic drivers of poverty, as well as researchers, students and practitioners of development, gender and labour, and governance and social policy who wish to understand CCT from a critical perspective." * Anthropologica *"Anyone interested in women’s care work, critical development studies, institutional ethnography, and/or the rural Peruvian Andes will want to read this text. Cookson’s ethnography is extensive, historical, and dynamic. She has rendered her time spent in Peru in vivid geographic detail." * Gender, Place & Culture *"Cookson poignantly unpacks the underpinnings of [conditional cash transfer programs] within mainstream economic theory in terms of rational decision making and cost –benefit analysis." * Politics & Gender *"[T]he unsettling evidence presented in Unjust Conditions provides a compelling reason for exploring these 'hidden costs' across the many other contexts in which [CCT] programs are implemented." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Map of Peru 1 Introduction: Making Aid Conditional 2 Setting the Conditions 3 The Ironic Conditions of Clinics and Schools 4 Rural Women Walking and Waiting 5 Paid and Unpaid Labor on the Frontline State 6 Shadow Conditions and the Immeasurable Burden of Improvement 7 Conclusion: Toward a Caring Society Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWritten to provide students with the critical tools and approaches used by development economists, Essentials of Development Economics represents an alternative approach to traditional textbooks on the subject. Compact and less expensive than other textbooks for undergraduate development economics courses, Essentials of Development Economics offers a broad overview of key topics and methods in the field. Its fourteen easy-to-read chapters introduce cutting-edge research and present best practices and state-of-the-art methods. By mastering the material in this time-tested book, students will have the conceptual grounding needed to move on to more advanced development economics courses. This new edition includes: updated references to international development policy process and goalssubstantial updates to several chapters with new and revised material to make the text bothcurrent and policy relevantreplacement of several special features with new ones featuringwidely cited studiesTable of ContentsList of Sidebars List of Figures and Tables 1. What Development Economics Is All About 2. What Works and What Doesn’t? 3. Income 4. Poverty 5. Inequality 6. Human Development 7. Growth 8. Institutions 9. Agriculture 10. Structural Transformation 11. Information and Markets 12. Finance 13. International Trade and Globalization Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is packed with rich material. Each of the four case studies could be its own monograph. This book is most important for two audiences (with fortunate overlap), those in tourism studies of any region and those dedicated to following scholarship of Mexico and/or Yucatan or Maya studies. This book would be excellent for use in Anthropology, Latin American Studies, or Global Studies classes." * The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *"Stuck with Tourism is an engaging read that brings into focus concerns about tourism that go beyond the headlines." * Journal of Latin American Geography *"Matilde Córdoba Azcárate’s Stuck with Tourism powerfully details the predatory nature of tourism industry development." * Anthropology Book Forum *"Stuck with Tourism is both timely and salient. . . .[its] theoretically informed but empirically supported and widely accessible thesis also makes it ideal reading for undergraduates and the general public." * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Azcárate’s writing is powerful, grabbing the reader from the first few sentences of the introduction. This book is a wonderful addition to the growing body of scholarship that brings the tensions of tourism to the surface." * New Mexico Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Predatory and Sticky Tourism Geographies 1 • Beach Enclosures: Manufacturing a Caribbean Paradise 2 • Wild Hotspots: Contested Natures on the Maya Coast 3 • Colonial Enclaves: Site-Specific Indigeneity for Luxury Tourism 4 • City-Village: Domestic Maquila in the Tourist Offstage Conclusion: Tourism Fixation and Disciplinary Retoolings Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressâs mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

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Book SynopsisThe only text not to focus exclusively on the Third World. Second edition of a clasic text, completely revised and updated since first publication in 1985. The clearest and most up-to-date account of the supply of and demand for the world's food. The only text not to focus exclusively on the Third World.Trade ReviewAbout the first edition: "Ought to become a classic textbook and undoubtedly is a monument of scholarly synthesis." Geographical Magazine "The book promotes its own eminent claims to be on an accessible shelf of every senior school and university library." Geography "An excellent addition to the literature ... The book is easy to read and would be a useful textbook for courses on hunger and poverty, third-world development, and agricultural geography." Geographical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Figures viii List of tables x Acknowledgments xv 1 Introduction 1 2 The extent of hunger 5 3 A short history of hunger 30 4 Population and poverty 55 5 The growth of world food output 73 6 The expansion of the world’s arable land 90 7 Agricultural development in the developed countries since 1945 115 8 Tropical Africa 132 9 Latin America 170 10 Asia 200 11 Trade and aid 236 12 Conclusions 256 Noted 267 Index 299

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Book SynopsisDavis shows that the developed and developing world must now pursue ''sustainable development'' requiring high levels of directed innovation. Industrial and commercial businesses of all kinds must bring about what amounts to a second industrial revolution.Trade Review"Needs to be urgently read by managers at all levels." Long Range Planning "Offers an excellent introduction to the most important topic for business..." Executive Development "The scale, the courage, the demanding vision of this book makes it an exceptional read for any manager. There are all signs of the future in this book ... I commend this work for its breadth, foresightedness and its meticulous, and practical relevance to our human condition." Sir Peter Parker Table of ContentsPreface. Foreword: Ronnie Lessem. 1. What does Sustainable Development mean?. 2. Vision and Values. 3. Horses for Courses - the Size Factor. 4. The Numbers Game. 5. Good Work: Different Arrangements. 6. Conducting the Orchestra. 7. Pulling Together: Alternative Ownership. 8. Quality, Codes and Standards. 9. New Rules for the Business Game. 10. New Age Opportunities: Sustainable Technologies. 11. Postscript: The World's Search for New Systems. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this invaluable introduction to the major post-Second World War theories of Third World development, Peter Preston takes as his focus the strategies used to analyze change in the Third World and examines the ways in which different conceptions of the nature of change have led to different lines of policy advice. In doing so, the author demonstrates how the various contemporary approaches to development draw upon strategies of enquiry which are lodged deep within the intellectual traditions of the modern world. The author''s approach is based on the premise that the reader can only fully grasp the live issues and debates surrounding development through an understanding of the linkages with the broader frameworks of social theory. The volume is organized into four major sections: An introduction to the nature of social scientific analysis; A review of the work of the major social scientific figures of the nineteenth century and their impTrade Review"The author's approach is scholarly and informative, and his book deserves a place in the teaching resources of most departments ..." David Drakakis-Smith, University of Liverpool "A readable, illuminating account ..." Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague Table of ContentsList of Figures. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: The Nature of Social Theorising:. 1. Arguments and Actions in Social Theorising. Part II: Classical Social Theory:. 2. The Rise of a Social Science of Humankind. 3. Adam Smith and the Spontaneous Order of the Marketplace. 4. Karl Marx and the Dialectics of Historical Change. 5. Emile Durkheim and the Evolution of the Division of Labour. 6. The Transitional Work of Max Weber. 7. The Divisions of Intellectual Labour of the Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991. Part III: Contemporary Theories of Development:. 8. The Legacies of the Colonial Era: Structures, Institutions and Images. 9. Decolonization, Cold War and the Construction of Modernization Theory. 10. The Development Experience of Latin America: Structuralism and Dependency Theory. 11. The Pursuit of Effective Nationstatehood: The Work of the Institutionalist Development Theorists. 12. The Critical Work of Marxist Development Theory. 13. The Assertion of Third World Solidarity: Global Development Approaches. 14. The Affirmation of the Role of the Market: Metropolitan Neo Liberalism in the 1980s. Part IV: New Analyses of Complex Change:. 15. Global System Interdependence: The New Structural Analyses of the Dynamics of Industrial-Capitalism. 16. Agent Centered Analyses and the Acknowledgment of the Diversity of Forms-of-life. 17. The Formal Character of a New General Approach to Development. 18. A New Substantive Focus: From Theorising the Development of the Third World to Elucidating the Dynamics of Complex Change in the Tripolar Global Industrial-Capitalist system. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines novel and emerging patterns of U.S. giving to Mexico and their impact on equitable development. in 2005, Mexican migrants living in the U.S. sent billions of dollars to relatives living in Mexico. This bilingual volume asks: What are these new patterns of diaspora giving, and how do they affect equitable development in Mexico?

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