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Accelerating Catch-up: Tertiary Education for Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa.
$25.00pb
Attracting Investors to African Public-Private Partnerships: A Project
Preparation Guide. $15.00pb
Banking the Poor: Measuring Banking Access in 54 Economies. $29.95pb
Climate Resilient Cities: A Primer on Reducing Vulnerabilities to Disasters, by
Neeraj Prasad, Federica Ranghieri, Fatima Shah, Zoe Trohanis, Earl Kessler and
Ravi Sinha. $39.95pb w/CD-ROM
Does Private Sector Participation Improve Performance in Electricity and Water
Distribution?, by Katharina Gassner, Alexander Popov and Nataliya Pushak.
$25.00pb
Innovation for Development and the Role of Government: A Perspective from the
East Asia and Pacific Region, edited by Qimiao Fan, Kouqing Li, Douglas Zhihua
Zeng, Yang Dong and Runzhong Peng. $35.00pb
Pension Reform in Southeastern Europe: Linking Labor and Financial Market
Reforms, edited by Robert Holzmann, Landis MacKellar, and Jana Repansek.
$45.00pb
A Sourcebook of HIV/AIDS Programs, Volume 2: Education Sector - Wide Approaches,
edited by Michael Beasley, Alexandria Valerio and Donald A. P. Bundy. $45.00pb
Brief Histories of Almost Anything: 50 Savvy Slices of Our Global Past., edited
by Chris Brazier. New Internationalist. $16.95pb
Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir, by John McCain with Mark Salter.
HarperCollins. $7.99pb
Future Files: The 5 Trends That Will Shape the Next 50 Years, by Richard Watson.
Nicholas Brealey Publishing. $22.95pb
God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, by Walter
Russell Mead. Vintage. $16.95pb
Savage Century: Back to Barbarism., by Therese Delpech. Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace. $19.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!
Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism, by Umberto Eco. Harcourt.
$15.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!
Can NGOs Make a Difference? The Challenges of Development Alternatives, edited
by Anthony J. Bebbington, Samuel Hickey and Diana C. Mitlin. Zed Books.
$29.95pb.
Competition and Development: The Power of Competitive Markets, by Susan Joekes
and Phil Evans. IDRC. $20.00pb w/CD-ROM
Considering the Consequences: The development implications of initiatives on
taxation, anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism, by J.
C. Sharman and Percy S. Mistry. Commonwealth Secretariat. $38.95pb
Development with a Body: Sexuality, Human Rights and Development., edited by
Andrea Cornwall, Sonia Correa and Susie Jolly. Zed Books.. $35.95pb
Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy
by David A. Crocker
MDG Gap Task Force Report 2008: Delivering on the Global Partnership for
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals. United Nations. $15.00pb
The New Development Management:, edited by Sadhvi Dar and Bill Cooke. Zed Books.
$32.00pb
Revolutions in Development Inquiry, by Robert Chambers. Earthscan. $19.95pb
Small States in Transition: From Vulnerability to Competitiveness, by Ganesh
Wignaraja, Marlon Lezama and David Joiner. Commonwealth Secretariat. $22.50pb
Sustainable Development in Small Island Developing States: Issues and Challenges
, edited by Janet Strachan and Constance Vigilance. Commonwealth Secretariat.
$29.00pb
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2008., edited by Douglas W.
Elmendorf, N. Gregory Mankiw, and Lawrence H. Summers. Brookings Institution
Press. $35.00pb
By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey, by Janos
Kornai. MIT Press. $22.95pb
Computational Macroeconomics for the Open Economy, by G. C. Lim and Paul D.
McNelis. MIT Press. $45.00hb
Designing Economic Mechanisms, by Leonid Hurwicz and Stanley Reiter. Cambridge
University Press. $34.99pb.
The Economics of Inaction: Stochastic Control Models with Fixed Costs, by Nancy
L. Stokey. Princeton University Press. $49.50hb
Essays on the Great Depression, by Ben S. Bernanke. Princeton University Press.
$29.95pb
Foundations of Macroeconomics: Its Theory and Policy, by Frederick S. Brooman
and Henry D. Jacoby. Transaction Publishers. $49.95pb
How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor, by Erik S.
Reinert. PublicAffairs. $17.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!
Human Capital and Economic Growth, by Andreas Savvides and Thanasis Stengos.
Stanford University Press. $50.00hb
Index Numbers in Economic Theory and Practice, by R. G. D. Allen. Transaction
Publishers. $34.95pb
Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography, by Francis Wheen. Grove Press. $13.00 NEW IN
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The Nature of Demography, by Herve Le Bras. Princeton University Press. $39.50pb
New Institutional Economics: A Guidebook, edited by Eric Brousseau and
Jean-Michel Glachant. Cambridge University Press. $59.00pb
Non-Observed Economy in National Accounts: Survey of Country Practices. United
Nations Economic Commission for Europe. $45.00pb
Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World, by Matthew Bishop and
Michael Green. Bloomsbury Press. $27.00hb
Practical Idealists: Changing the World and Getting Paid, by Alissa S. Wilson,
Ann Barham, and John Hammock. Harvard University Press. $15.00pb
Soin-Free Economics: A No-Nonsense, Nonpartisan Guide to Today's Global Economic
Debates, by Nariman Behravesh. McGraw-Hill. $27.95hb
Frontier Encounters: Indigenous Communities and Settlers in Asia and Latin
America, edited by Danilo Geiger. IWGIA. $49.95pb
The Other, by Ryszard Kapuscinski. Verso. $16.95hb
World Social Forum: Challenging Empires, 2/e, edited by Jai Sen and Peter
Waterman. Black Rose Books. $24.99pb
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century, by
James Orbinski, M.D. Walker. $27.00hb
The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War, by Conor Foley. Verso.
$26.95hb
Globalization: Essential Managers, by Sarah Powell and Pervez Ghauri. DK
Publishing. $8.00pb
Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries: Who Really
Gets Hurt?, by Nita Rudra. Cambridge University Press. $29.99pb
Globalization, Economic Development and Inequality: An Alternative Perspective,
Edited by Erik S. Reinert. Edward Elgar. $55.00pb
Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalizationby Akbar Ahmed. Brookings
Institution Press. $19.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!
Making Globalization Work for the Least Developed Countries. United Nations
Development Programme. $35.00pb
Advances in Credit Risk Modelling and Corporate Bankruptcy Predicition, edited
by Stewart Jones and David A. Hensher. Cambridge University Press. $48.00pb
Asset Pricing for Dynamic Economies, by Sumru Altug and Pamela Labadie.
Cambridge University Press. $65.00pb
Banking on Basel: The Future of International Financial Regulation. by Daniel K.
Tarullo. Peterson Institute for International Economics. $26.95pb.
Enhanced Indexing Strategies: Utilizing Futures and Options to Achieve Higher
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Enough. True Measures of Money, Business, and Life, by John C. Bogle. Wiley.
$24.95hb
Financial Darwinism: Create Value or Self-Destruct in a World of Risk, by Leo M.
Tilman. Wiley. $29.95hb
Fixing Global Finance, by Matin Wolf. Johns Hopkins University Press. $24.95
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Frontiers in Quantitative Finance: Volatility and Credit Risk Modeling, edited
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The Handbook of Credit Portfolio Management, edited by Greg N. Gregoriou and
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International Accounting and Reporting Issues: 2007 Review. United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development. $75.00pb.
International Financial Statement Analysis, by Thomas R. Robinson, Hennie van
Greuning, Elaine Henry and Michael A. Broihahn. Wiley. $95.00hb
The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs,, by Charles D. Ellis. The Penguin
Press. $37.95hb
reWealth! Stake Your Claim in the $2 Trillion reDevelopment Trend That's
Renewing the World, by storm cunningham. Mcgraw-Hill. $29.95hb
Security Analysis, 6/e, by Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd. McGraw-Hill.
$75.00hb
World Investment Report 2008: Transnational Corporations and the Infrastructure
Challenge, UNCTAD. United Nations. $95.00pb, w/CD-ROM
Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions, by Zachary Shore. Bloomsbury
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The Handbook of Project-Based Management: Leading Strategic Change in
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Launching a Leadership Revolution: Mastering the Five Levels of Influence, by
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Women's Rights, by Nikki van der Gaag. New
Internationalist. $13.95pb.
Global Corruption Report 2008: Corruption in the Water Sector, by Transparency
International. Cambridge University Press. $39.99pb
Participatory Governance and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Department
of Economic and Social Affairs. United Nations. $35.00pb
The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction, by Jussi M. Hanhimaki. Oxford
University Press. $11.95pb
The United Nations Today. Department of Public Information. United Nations.
$15.00pb
What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It, by Thomas G. Weiss.
Polity. $19.95pb
The Principles and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration
by Margaret L. Moses
Price and Quantity Index Numbers: Models for Measuring Aggregate Change and
Difference, by Bert M. Balk. Cambridge University Press. $85.00hb
The Tase of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice, by
Michael Krondl. Ballantine. $16.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!
Fuel, edited by John Knechtel. MIT Press. $15.95hb
Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage (with new commentary by the
Author), by Kenneth S. Deffeyes. Princeton University Press. $16.95pb
Making Choices about Hydrogen: Transport Issues for Developing Countries, edited
by Lynn K. Mytelka and Grant Boyle. United Nations University Press/IDRC.
$36.00pb
Power to Save the World: The Truth about Nuclear Energy, by Gwyneth Cravens.
Vintage. 16.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!
Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry, by
Travis Bradford. MIT Press. $14.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!
The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry - and What We Must Do to
Stop It, by Antonia Juhasz. Morrow. $26.95hb
Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future, by Iain Carson and Vijay V.
Vaitheeswaran. Twelve. $14.99 NEW IN PAPERBACK!
Climate Change and Tourism: Responding to Global Challenges. World Tourism
Organization/United Nations Environment Programme. $60.00pb
A Contract with the Earth: Ten Commitments You Can Make to Protect the
Environment Now, by Newt Gingrich and Terry L. Maple. Plume. $14.00pb
Green Business: Essential Managers, by Bibi van der Zee. DK Publishing. $8.00pb
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, by
Van Jones. HarperOne. $25.95hb
The Handbook of Environmental Policy Evaluationby Ann Crabbe and Pieter Leroy.
Earthscan. $97.50hb
Kick the Habit: A UN Guide to Climate Neutrality, by Alex Kirby. United Nations
Environment Programme. $20.00pb
Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction: Landscapes, People and Power, by
Robert Fisher, Stewart Maginnis, William Jackson, Edmund Barrow and Sally
Jeanrenaud. Earthscan. $38.95pb.
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis, by Vandana
Shiva. South End Press. $15.00pb
The Sustainability Mirage: Illusion and Reality in the Coming War on Climate
Change, by John Foster. Earthscan. $38.95pb
Yasuni Green Gold: The Amazon Fight to Keep Oil Underground, by Gines Haro
Pastor and Georgina Donati, with Troth Wells. New Internationalist. $29.95pb
AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India, edited by Negar Akhavi. Anchor Books.
$13.95pb
Global Health Watch 2: An Alternative World Health Report. People's Health
Movement/ Medact/Global Equity Gauge Alliance. Zed Books. $34.00pb
Seasons of Hunger: Fighting Cycles of Quiet Starvation Among the World's Rural
Poor, by Stephen Devereaux, Bapu Vaitla and Samuel Hauenstein Swan. Pluto
Press/Hunger Watch. $17.95pb
Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design: Approaches to
Time-People-Place Responsive Urban Spaces, edited by Kevin Thwaites, Sergio
Porta, Ombretta Romice and Mark Greaves. Routledge. $34.95pb
Corporate Governance: Promises Kept, Promises Broken, by Jonathan R. Macey.
Princeton University Press. $35.00hb
Corporate Governance Lessons from Transition Economy Reforms, edited by Merritt
B. Fox and Michael A. Heller. Princeton University Press. $29.95 NEW IN
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Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go Beyond
Making a Profit to Making a Difference, by Tim Sanders. Doubleday. $23.95hb
Strategic Communication for Business Environment Reforms: A Guide to Stakeholder
Engagement and Reform Promotion. Small and Medium Enterprise Department. IFC.
$25.00
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters, by
Rose George. Metropolitan Books. $26.00hb
The Proceedings of the 1st Asia-Pacific Water Summit, edited by Secretariat of
the 1st Asia Pacific Water Summit. World Scientific Publishers. $54.00pb
Africa Rising: How 900 Million African Consumers Offer More than You Think, by
Vijay Mahajan. Wharton School Publishing. $29.99hb
China into Africa: Trade, Aid, and Influence, edited by Robert I. Rotberg.
Brookings Institution Press. $29.95pb
Darfur: A 21st Century Genocide, 3/e, by Gerard Prunier. Cornell University
Press. $17.95pb
Darfur and the Crime of Genocide, by John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond.
Cambridge University Press. $24.99pb
Diamonds, Gold and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa,
by Martin Meredith. PublicAffairs. $17.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!
Face of Courage: Morgan Tsvangirai, by Sarah Hudleston. Double Storey. $29.95pb
A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present, by Richard J. Reid.
Wiley-Blackwell. $34.95pb
Kenya: A Country in the Making 1880-1940, by Nigel Pavitt. W. W. Norton & Co.
$50.00hb
Living Africa, by Steve Bloom. Thames & Hudson. $75.00hb 30% OFF!
Peace and Conflict in Africa, edited by David J. Francis. Zed Books. $34.00pb
The Scramble for Africa: Darfur - Intervention and the USA, by Steven Fake and
Kevin Funk. Black Rose Books. $19.99pb
Smart Aid for African Development, edited by Richard Joseph and Alexandra
Gillies. Lynne Rienner Publishers. $24.50pb
Trading Up: Building Cooperation Between Farmers and Traders in Africa. Royal
Tropical Institute/International Institute of Rural Reconstruction. $39.95pb
Understanding and Reducing Persistent Poverty in Africa, edited by Christopher
B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter, and Peter D. Little. Routledge. $39.95pb
Understanding Somalia and Somaliland, by Ioan Lewis. Columbia University Press.
$45.00hb
What Happens After Mugabe? Can Zimbabwe Rise from the Ashes?, by Geoff Hill.
Zebra. $19.00pb
Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America, 3/e, edited by Jorge I.
Dominguez and Michael Shifter. Johns Hopkins University Press. $25.00pb
Cuba in Revolution: A History since the Fifties, by Antoni Kapcia. Reaktion
Books. $24.95pb
The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution, by
Daniel P. Erikson. Bloomsbury Press. $28.00hb
Latin America and Global Capitalism: A Critical Globalization Perspective, by
William I. Robinson. Johns Hopkins University Press. $55.00hb
Latin America's Struggle for Democracy, edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F.
Plattner and Diego Abente Brun. Johns Hopkins University Press. $19.95pb
A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages Its Migration, by David Fitzgerald.
University of California Press. $21.95pb
Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith, and Dreams of a Mexican President, by
Vicente Fox and Rob Allyn. Plume. $16.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!
The Throes of Democracy: Brazil since 1989., by Bryann McCann. Zed Books.
$25.95pb
The Balkans in World History, by Andrew Baruch Wachtel. Oxford University Press.
$19.95pb
Eurasia's New Frontiers: Young States, Old Societies, Open Futures, by Thomas W.
Simons, Jr. Cornell University Press. $25.00hb
The Future of Europe: Reform or Decline, by Alberto Alesina and Francesco
Giavazzi. MIT Press. $14.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!
In Pursuit of Liberalism: International Institutions in Postcommunist Europe, by
Rachel A. Epstein. Johns Hopkins University Press. $55.00hb
Ireland and the European Union, by Brigid Laffan and Jane O'Mahony. Palgrave
Macmillan. $35.95pb
Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies, by
Peter W. Galbraith. Simon & Schuster. $23.00hb
Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East, by Gilles Kepel.
Harvard University Press. $27.95hb
Iran's Political, Demographic, and Economic Vulnerabilities, by Keith Crane,
Rollie Lal, and Jeffrey Martini. RAND. $29.00pb
Kingdom without Borders: Saudi Arabia's Political, Religious, and Media
Frontiers, edited by Madawi Al-Rasheed. Columbia University Press. $40.00hb
Maghreb Regional and Global Integration: A Dream to Be Fulfilled, edited by Gary
Clyde Hufbauer and Claire Brunel. Peterson Institute for International
Economics. $23.95pb
Moqtada al-Sadr and the Battle for the Future of Iraq, by Patrick Cockburn.
Scribner. $15.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!
Transnational Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf, by
Laurence Louer. Columbia University Press. $34.50hb
Treacherous Alliance: The secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the U. S., by
Trita Parsi. Yale University Press. $17.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture
Edited by Kam Louie. Cambridge University Press. $29.99pb
China Rises: How China's Astonishing Growth Will Change the World, by John
Farndon. Virgin Books. $12.95pb
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, by Leslie T. Chang.
Spiegel & Grau. $26.00hb
A History of Modern Indonesia since c.1200, 4/e, by M. C. Ricklefs. Stanford
University Press. $27.95pb
Supertrends of Future China: Billion Dollar Business Opportunities for China's
Olympic Decade, by James K. Yuann and Jason Inch. World Scientific Publishers.
$27.95hb
Wealth into Power: The Communist Party's Embrace of China's Private Sector
by Bruce J. Dickson. Cambridge University Press. $24.99pb
Afghanistan: The Mirage of Peace, Updated Edition, by Chris Johnson and Jolyon
Leslie. Zed Books. $26.95pb
Afghanistan: Transition Under Threat., edited by Geoffrey Hayes and Mark Sedra.
Wilfred Laurier University Press. $29.95pb
The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future, by Martha
C. Nussbaum. Harvard University Press. $18.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!
Doing Business in India: Essential Managers, byDean Nelson. DK Publishing.
$8.00pb
The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging
21st-Century Power, by Shashi Tharoor. Arcade. $17.99 NEW IN PAPERBACK!
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan, by Yasmin Khan. Yale
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India Booms: The Breathtaking Development and Influence of Modern India, by John
Farndon. Virgin Books. $12.95pb
Spring, Heat, Rains: A South Indian Diary, by David Shulman. University of
Chicago Press. $25.00hb
The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live., by Daniel Dorling, Mark
Newman and Anna Barford. Thames & Hudson. $50.00hb 30% OFF!
The CIA World Factbook 2009. Central Intelligence Agency. Skyhorse Publishing.
$12.95pb
Complete Flags of the World, 5/e. Smithsonian Handbooks/DK Publishing. $20.00fl
Oxford Atlas of the World, 15/e. Oxford University Press. $80.00hb 30%OFF!
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Afghan Dreams: Young Voices of Afghanistan., by Tony O'Brien and Mike Sullivan.
Bloomsbury. $18.99hb
K Is for Korea, by Hyechong Cheung and Prodeepta Das. Frances Lincoln. $16.95hb
The Secret Legacy, by Rigoberta Menchu w/Dante Liano; pictures by Domi.
Groundwood Books. $19.95hb
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa, by Jeanette Winter.
Harcourt. $17.00hb
We Are All Born Free: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures.
Frances Lincoln in association with Amnest International. $19.95hb
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