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  • Stepping Stones with Children eBook

    A transformative training for children affected by HIV and their caregivers

    by Gill Gordon ...
    Acquiring HIV may no longer be a death sentence, but its effects are still profound. Many people living with HIV face rejection and are unsure about their futures, and these anxieties may be felt all the more keenly by children and young people. Stepping Stones with Children equips organizations and individuals with materials with which they can engage children affected by HIV and their caregivers ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Passions and the Interests

    Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

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

    $26.39 CAD

  • Development Projects Observed

    by Albert O. Hirschman, Michele Alacevich ...
    Series series A Brookings Classic
    Originally published in 1967, the modest and plainly descriptive title of Development Projects Observed is deceptive. Today, it is recognized as the ultimate volume of Hirschman's groundbreaking trilogy on development, and as the bridge to the broader social science themes of his subsequent writings. Though among his lesser-known works, this unassuming tome is one of his most influential.It is in ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Sending Them Home

    Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference; Quarterly Essay 13

    by Robert Manne ...
    Series Book 13 - Quarterly Essay
    In Sending Them Home, Robert Manne tells the stories of individual asylum seekers and finds in their experience the seeds of a devastating critique. Balancing sorrow and pity with a controlled anger, Manne develops a sustained argument about what could, and should, be done for the nine thousand refugees who remain in limbo on temporary protection visas.Sending Them Home also contains a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Spaces of Aid

    How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

    by Lisa Smirl ...
    Aid workers commonly bemoan that the experience of working in the field sits uneasily with the goals they've signed up to: visiting project sites in air-conditioned Land Cruisers while the intended beneficiaries walk barefoot through the heat, or checking emails from within gated compounds while surrounding communities have no running water.Spaces of Aid provides the first book-length analysis of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Capitalism in the Age of Globalization

    The Management of Contemporary Society

    by Samir Amin ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    Samir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capitalism. In this highly prescient book, originally published in 1997, he provides a powerful analysis of the new unilateral capitalist era following the collapse of the Soviet model, and the apparent triumph of the market and globalization.Amin's ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Tourism in China

    Destinations, Planning and Experiences

    Edited by Prof. Chris Ryan, Songshan (Sam) Huang ...
    Series Book 59 - Aspects of Tourism
    This book offers an in-depth understanding of tourism development and destination planning in China's transitional economy. It is a unique collaboration between editors and contributors to present issues in current Chinese tourism research to Western colleagues. The influences informing the book range from pragmatic concerns about destination planning in China, to senses of injustice about how ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Quito Papers and the New Urban Agenda

    by Un-Habitat ...
    The future is urban. Indeed, the battle for sustainable development will be won or lost in cities. Not a moment too soon, then, that urbanization is suddenly at the centre of global policy making. In 2015 the governments of the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in 2016 they adopted the New Urban Agenda. However, the question of how these Agendas will be pursued concretely ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Regional Ecological Challenges for Peace in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia Pacific

    Edited by Úrsula Oswald Spring, Hans Günter Brauch, Juliet Bennett, Serrena Eréndira Serrano Oswald ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents peer-reviewed texts from the International Peace Research Association’s Ecology and Peace Commission: M.I. Abazie-Humphrey (Nigeria) reviews “Nigeria’s Home-Grown DDR Programme”; C. Christian and H. Speight (USA) analyse “Water, Cooperation, and Peace in the Palestinian West Bank”; T. Galaviz (Mexico) discusses “The Peace Process Mediation Network between the Colombian ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Transnational Civil Society and the World Bank

    Investigating Civil Society’s Potential to Democratize Global Governance

    by C. Pallas ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Transnational civil society is often seen as an important contributor to the democratization of global governance. In their engagement with the World Bank, however, transnational civil society organizations prioritize pre-existing mission over responsiveness to claimed stakeholders and undercut the authority of developing country governments. ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • African Transnational Diasporas

    Fractured Communities and Plural Identities of Zimbabweans in Britain

    by D. Pasura ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas. The book explores the origin, formation and performance of the Zimbabwean transnational diaspora in Britain and examines how the diaspora is constituted in the hostland and how it maintains connections with the homeland. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Alternative Discourses on Modernization and Development

    East Asian Perspectives

    by Kim Kyong-Dong ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This cutting edge work offers an alternative perspective on existing paradigms of modernization and development that originated in the West from the vantage point of non-western, late-modernizing societies. It considers how East Asian philosophical ideas enrich the reformulation of the concept of development or societal development, and how influential principles of traditional culture such as yin ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD