Wednesday, September 3, 2008

What's New at the InfoShop, August 2008

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Come and visit the InfoShop. There is always something new. The titles below
have just been added to our collection.


World Bank Staff receive 30% discount on World Bank titles, and 10% discount on
externally published titles.


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Beating the Odds: Sustaining Inclusion in Mozambique's Growing Economy
by World Bank


Macro Federalism and Local Finance
Edited by Anwar Shah


Le système éducatif Centrafricain: Contraintes et marges de man?uvre pour la
reconstruction du système éducatif dans la perspective de la réduction de la
pauvreté
by World Bank


Assurance Qualité de l'enseignement supérieur en Afrique subsaharienne: Etat de
la question, défis, opportunités et pratiques positives
by Peter Nicolas Materu


Girl's Education in the 21st Century: Gender Equality, Empowerment and Growth
Edited by Mercy Miyang Tembon , Lucia Fort


Data Against Natural Disasters: Establishing Effective Systems for Relief,
Recovery, and Reconstruction
Edited by Samia Amin , Markus Goldstein


Decentralization in Client Countries: An Evaluation of the World Bank Support:
1990-2007
by World Bank

Global Powers in the 21st Century: Strategies and Relations
Edited by Alexander T. J. Lennon , Alexandra Kozlowski


American Power and the Prospects for International Order
by Simon Bromley


The World Crisis: The Way Forward after Iraq
Edited by Robert Harvey


The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
by Ron Suskind


The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama


The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Terrorism
by Jonathan Barker

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done
About It
by Paul Collier   NEW IN PAPERBACK!


The Politics of Aid Selectivity: Good Governance Criteria in World Bank, US and
Dutch Development Assistance
by Wil Hout


Development Macroeconomics, 3/e
by Pierre-Richard Agenor , Peter J. Montiel


The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and How America Helped Rebuild
Europe
by Greg Behrman


Global Development 2.0: Can Philanthropists, the Public, and the Poor Make
Poverty History?
Edited by Lael Brainard , Derek Chollet


International Development: Issues and Challenges
by Damien Kingsbury , John McKay , Janet Hunt , Mark McGillivray , Matthew
Clarke


Least Developed Countries Report 2008: Growth, Poverty and the Terms of
Development Partnership
by UNCTAD


The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U. S.
President
Edited by Nancy Birdsall

World Economic and Social Survey 2008: Overcoming Economic Insecurity
by Department of Economic and Social Affairs


The Great Contraction, 1929-1933
by Milton Friedman , Anna Jacobson Schwartz


Reflections of a Political Economist: Selected Articles on Government Policies
and Political Processes
by William A. Niskanen


Statistical Rules of Thumb, 2/e
by Gerald van Belle


Social and Economic Networks
by Matthew O. Jackson


Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
by Ian Ayres  NEW IN PAPERBACK & 30% OFF!!

Writing Skills: Essential Managers

The Muslim Next Door: The Qu'ran, the Media, and that Veil Thing
by Sumbul Ali-Karamali


Privatizing Pensions: The Transnational Campaign for Social Security Reform
by Mitchell A. Orenstein


Indigenous World 2008
Edited by Kathrin Wessendorf

The Right to Decent Work of Persons with Disabilities
by Arthur O'Reilly


Slavery Today: A Groundwork Guide
by Kevin Bales , Becky Cornell


Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global
Capitalism
by John Bowe  NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
by Gary J. Bass:


Humanitarianism Under Fire: The US and UN Intervention in Somalia
by Kenneth R. Rutherford

Dangerous Business: The Risks of Globalization for America
by Pat Choate

Dictionary of Financial Formulas and Ratios
by L. M. Magoon


Trading ETFs: Gaining an Edge with Technical Analysis
by Deron Wagner


Fibonacci Analysis
by Constance Brown


The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to
Do about It
by Robert J. Shiller:


Dictionary of Banking and Finance, 4/e
by John Smullen , Brian Butler , David Butler , Alan Isaacs?


New Dimensions of Economic Globalization: Surge of Outward Foreign Direct
Investment from Asia
Edited by Ramkishen S. Rajan , Rajiv Kumar , Nicola Virgill


A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold
by Peter L. Bernstein


The Price of Prosperity: A Realistic Appraisal of the Future of Our National
Economy
by Peter L. Bernstein


Economist on Wall Street: Notes of the Sanctity of Gold, the Value of Money, the
Security of Investments, and Other Delusions
by Peter L. Bernstein


International Financial Services
by Gary Collyer , Paul Cowdell , Peter McGregor

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
by Ori Brafman , Rod A. Beckstrom NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Managing Teams: Essential Managers
by Robert Heller


Managing Meetings: Essential Managers
by Tim Hindle


Managing Budgets: Essential Managers
by Stephen Brookson


The Effective Public Manager: Achieving Success in a Changing Government, 4/e
by Steven Cohen , William Eimeke , Tanya Heikkila


The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms,
Schools, and Societies
by Scott E. Page


Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at
the Bargaining Table and Beyond
by Deepak Malhotra , Max H. Bazerman  NEW IN PAPERBACK!

HIV and AIDS.
Edited by Alice Welbourn , Joanna Hoare


Hollow Bodies: Institutional Responses to Sex Trafficking in Armenia, Bosnia,
and India
by Susan Dewey

Partnerships for Empowerment: Participatory Research For Community-based Natural
Resource Management
Edited by Carl Wilmsen , William Elmendorf , Larry Fisher , Jacqueline Ross ,
Brinda Sarathy , Gail Wells


Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of
Government
by Michael Mandelbaum NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Driving Democracy: Do Power-Sharing Institutions Work?
by Pippa Norris


Global Democracy: The Case for a World Government
by Torbjorn Tannsjo


All Politics Is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes
by Daniel W. Drezner  NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Creating Credibility: Legitimacy and Accountability for Transnational Civil
Society
by L. David Brown

The Power and Purpose of International Law: Insights from the Theory and
Practice of Enforcement
by Mary Ellen O'Connell


Making the Law Work for Everyone, Volume II: Working Group Reports
by Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor

Poverty Reduction that Works: Experience of Scaling Up Development Success
Edited by Paul Steele , Neil Fernando , Maneka Weddikkara

Horticultural Chain Management for Eastern and Southern Africa: A Theoretical
Manual
by Lise Korsten , Dharini Sivakumar , Rosa Rolle , Divine Njie , Hester Vermulen


Horrticultural Chain Management for Eastern and Southern Africa: A Practical
Manual
by Lise Korsten , Ameliat Lombard , Dharini Sivakumar , Rosa Rolle , Hester
Vermulen

Developing Countries and the WTO: Policy Approaches
Edited by Gary P. Sampson , W. Bradnee Chambers


New Frontiers in Free Trade: Globalization's Future and Asia's Rising Role
by Razeen Sally

The New Invisible College: Science for Development
by Caroline S. Wagner

Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from
Wall Street to Dubai
by Ben Mezrich  NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty - A Guidebook on
Peak Oil and Global Warming for Local Governments
by Daniel Lerch

World Resources 2008: Roots of Resilience - Growing the Wealth of the Poor


The Power of Sustainable Thinking: How to Create a Positive Future for the
Climate, the Planet, Your Organization and Your Life
by Bob Doppelt


CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge
by Tyler Volk


Dictionary of Environment and Conservation
by Chris Park  NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
by Alan Weisman


Leveling the Carbon Playing Field: International Competition and US Climate
Policy Design
by Trevor Houser , Rob Bradley , Britt Childs , Jacob Werksman , Robert Heilmayr


Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
by Bjorn Lomborg  NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Ecotourism and Sustainable Development: Who Owns Paradise?, 2/e
by Martha Honey


Beyond Bali: Strategic Issues for the post-2012 Climate Change Regime
Edited by Christian Egenhofer


Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer
Culture
by John R. Ehrenfeld


The New Science of Sustainability: Building a Foundation for Great Change
by Sally J. Goerner , Robert G. Dyck , Dorothy Lagerroos


Crude Reflections/Cruda Realidad: Oil, Ruin and Resistance in the Amazon
Rainforest/Petroleo, Devastacion y Resistancia en la Amazonia
by Lou Dematteis , Kayana Szymczak

Fixing Health Systems, w/CD-ROM, 2/e
by Don de Sevigny , Harun Kasale , Conrad Mbuya , Graham Reid


Demographic Forecasting
by Federico Girosi , Gary King


Cultural Competence in Health Education and Health Promotion?
by Miguel A. Perez , Raffy R. Luquis


The Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where, and Why
by Erik Millstone , Tim Lang


The Politics of Prevention: A Global Crisis in AIDS and Education
by Tania Boler , David Archer


Hunger Watch Report 2007-08: The Justice of Eating - The Struggle for Food and
Dignity in Recent Humanitarian Crises
Edited by Samuel Hauenstein Swan , Bapu Vaitla


The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food
by Wayne Roberts

Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators, 2/e
by Charles Landry


Managing Cities in Developing Countries: The Theory and Practice of Urban
Management
by Meine Pieter van Dijk  NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases
Edited by Eduardo Rojas , Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura , Jose Miguel Fernandez Guell


World Cities and Urban Form: Fragmented, Polycentric, Sustainable?
Edited by Mike Jenks , Daniel Kozak , Pattaranan Takkanon

The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets
by Tito Boeri , Jan van Ours

Innovation in Public Sector Services: Entrepreneurship, Creativity and
Management
Edited by Paul Windrum , Per Koch


Growth and Success through e-Governance: Best Practice from Cyprus and Malta
Edited by Devindra Ramnarine , RoseMarie-Rita Endeley


Guidebook on Promoting Good Governance in Public-Private Partnerships
by Economic Commission for Europe

India and China: An Advanced Technology Race and How the United States Should
Respond
by Ernest H. Preeg

Cooperating Rivals: The Riparian Politics of the Jordan River Basin
by Jeffrey K. Sosland


Water, Place, and Equity
Edited by Helen Ingram , John M. Whiteley , Richard Warren Perry

Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment
by United Nations Environment Programme


The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
by Scott Straus NEW IN PAPERBACK!,


The Jive Talker: An Artist's Genesis
by Samson Kambalu


A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah  NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Playing the Enemy: Nelson Madela and the Game That Made a Nation
by John Carlin


Courageous Journey: Walking the Lost Boys' Path from Sudan to America
by Ayuel Leek Deng , Benny Ngor Chol , Barbara Youree


Women Writing Africa, Volume 2: West Africa and the Sahel
Edited by Esi Sutherland-Addy , Aminata Diaw


Women Writing Africa, Volume 3: The Eastern Region
Edited by Amandina Lihamba , Fulata L. Moyo , M. M. Mulokozi , Naomi L.
Shitemi , Saida Yahya-Othman

Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2007
by Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean


Taxation and Latin American Integration
Edited by Vito Tanzi , Alberto Barreix , Luis Villela


Until Death Do Us Part: My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia
by Ingrid Betancourt   NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Haiti in the Balance: Why Foreign Aid Has Failed and What We Can Do About It
by Terry F. Buss

The Temptations of Tyranny in Central Asia
by David Lewis


European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World, 2/e
by Karen E. Smith

A History of Modern Iran
by Ervand Abrahamian


A New Muslim Order: The Shia and the Middle East Sectarian Crisis
by Nicolas Pelham:


King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life
by Nigel Ashton


The State of the Middle East: An Atlas of Conflict and Resolution, Revised and
Updated
by Dan Smith


Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East

by Jared Cohen  NEW IN PAPERBACK!

The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
by Paul Theroux


Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
by Robert J. Samuels  NEW IN PAPERBACK!


China: Fragile Superpower
by Susan L. Shirk NEW IN PAPERBACK!


A New East Asia: Toward a Regional Community
Edited by Kazuko Mori , Kenichiro Hirano


Law, Institutions and Malaysian Economic Development
Edited by Jomo K. S. , Wong Sau Ngan


Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet,
and the World
by Robert Thurman


Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia
by Joe Studwell  NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Catch-Up Industrialization: The Trajectory and Promise of East Asian Economies
by Akira Suehiro


China's Ascent: Power, Security, and the Future of international Politics
Edited by Robert S. Ross , Zhu Feng


Descending the Dragon: My Journey Down the Coast of Vietnam
by Jon Bowermaster

Think India: The Rise of the World's Next Superpower and What It Means for Every
American
by Vinay Rai , William L. Simon NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Government and Politics in South Asia, 6/e
by Yogendra K. Malik , Charles H. Kennedy , Robert C. Oberst , Ashok Kapur ,
Mahendra Lawoti , Syedur Rahman


New Business in India: The 21st Century Opportunity
by Paul Davies


Shadow of the Silk Road
by Colin Thubron  NEW IN PAPERBACK!

China: A Traveler's Literary Companion
Edited by Kirk A. Denton


The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity
by Russell Roberts


The Age of the Conglomerates


by Thomas Nevins

Oloyou


by Teresa Cardenas, Margarita Sada


A Fistful of Pearls, and Other Tales from Iran


by Elizabeth Laird


Gervelie's Journey: A Refugee Diary
by Anthony Robinson , Annemarie Young


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