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Are You Being Served? New Tools for Measuring Service Delivery, edited by Samia
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Finland as a Knowledge Economy: Elements of Success and Lessons Learned, edited
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Transforming Government and Empowering Communities: The Sri Lankan Experience
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The Road Not Traveled: Education Reform in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Building Science, Technology, and Innovation Capacity in Rwanda: Developing
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Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge: Early Childhood Care and Development in
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Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and
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Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century, by Marc Sageman.
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The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the
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Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, by Chalmers Johnson. Henry
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Development Economics
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism,
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NGOs as Advocates for Development in a Globalising World, edited by Barbara
Rugendyke. Routledge. 11/2007. $44.95pb.
Global Migration and Development, edited by Ton van Naerssen, Ernst Spaan and
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Tourism and Responsibility: Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean,
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An Everyday Geography of the Global South, by Jonathan Rigg. Routledge. 6/2007.
$41.95pb.
General Economics
Milton Friedman on Economics: Selected Papers, by Milton Friedman. University of
Chicago Press. 1/2008. $15.00pb.
The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales
from Evolutionary Economics, by Michael Shermer. Times Books. 1/2008. $26.00hb.
The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism, by Matt
Mason. Free Press. 1/2008. $25.00hb.
The General Theory of Evolutionary Economics, by Kurt Dopfer and Jason Potts.
Routledge. 9/2007. $51.95pb.
Truth or Economics: On the Definition, Prediction, and Relevance of Economic
Efficiency, by Richard S. Markovits. Yale University Press. 1/2008. $65.00hb.
Global Monetary Governance, by Benjamin J. Cohen. Routledge. 12/2007. $39.95pb.
The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World, by Tim
Harford. Random House. 1/2008. $25.00hb. 30% off
Money Tales, by Alessandro Giraudo. Economica. 1/2008. $22.95pb.
World Economic Situation and Prospects 2008. United Nations. 1/2008. $30.00pb.
On the Wealth of Nations, by P. J. O'Rourke. Grove Press. 1/2008. $13.00. New in
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Social and Cultural Issues
Tourism and Indigenous Peoples: Issues and Implications, by Richard Butler and
Tom Hinch. Butterworth-Heinemann. 9/2007. $54.95pb.
The World's Business Cultures and How to Unlock Them, by Barry Tomalin and Mike
Nicks. Thorogood. 1/2008. $24.95pb.
Human Rights
Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal Justice, by Roger
Normand and Sarah Zaidi. Indiana University Press.1/2008. $29.95pb.
Atrocities and International Accountability: Beyond Transitional Justice, edited
by Edel Hughes, William A. Schabas and Ramesh Thakur. United Nations University
Press. 1/2008. $32.00pb.
Human Rights Watch World Report 2008. Human Rights Watch. Seven Stories
Press. 1/2008. $24.00pb.
Globalization
Globalization: North-South Perspectives, by John Glenn. Routledge. 11/2007.
$35.95pb.
The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest
for a Global Nation, by Strobe Talbott. Simon & Schuster. 1/2008. $30.00hb.
Globalization/Anti-Globalization: Beyond the Great Divide, 2/e, by David Held
and Anthony McGrew. Polity Press. 1/2008. $19.95pb.
The Next Great Globalization: How Disadvantaged Nations Can Harness Their
Financial Systems to Get Rich, by Frederic S. Mishkin. Princeton University
Press. 1/2008. $19.95. New in paperback
Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of
Globalization, by Jeremy Prestholdt. University of California Press. 1/2008.
$24.95pb.
Banking, Finance and Investment
Political Institutions and Financial Development, edited by Stephen Haber,
Douglass C. North, and Barry R. Weingast. Stanford University Press. 1/2008.
$29.95pb.
International Financial Instability: Global Banking and National Regulation,
edited by Douglas D. Evanoff, George G. Kaufman and John R. LaBrosse. World
Scientific Publishers. 1/2008. $98.00hb.
The Analytics of Risk Model Validation, by George Christodoulakis and Stephen
Satchell. Academic Press. 10/2007. $69.95hb.
Forecasting Expected Returns in the Financial Markets, by Stephen Satchell.
Academic Press. 7/2007. $89.95hb.
Public-Private Partnerships: Principles of Policy and Finance, by E. R.
Yescombe. Butterworth-Heinemann. 3/2007. $87.95hb.
Straight Through Processing for Financial Services: The Complete Guide, by
Ayesha Khanna. Academic Press. 1/2008. $69.95pb.
Project Finance in Theory and Practice: Designing, Structuring, and Financing
Private and Public Projects, by Stefano Gatti. Academic Press. 10/2007. $79.95
hb.
Risk Management Technology in Financial Services: Risk Control, Stress Testing,
Models, and IT Systems and Structures, by Dimitris N. Chorafas.
Butterworth-Heinemann. 6/2007. $69.95hb.
International Risk Management: Systems, Internal Control and Corporate
Governance, edited by Margaret Woods, Peter Kajuter and Philip Linsley.
Elsevier. 10/2007. $70.95pb.
Global Financial Warriors: The Untold Story of International Finance in the
Post-9/11 World, by John B. Taylor. Norton. 1/2008. $15.95. New in paperback
Financial Modeling, 3/e, by Simon Benninga. MIT Press. 1/2008. $85.00hb.
The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First
Banking Collapse, by Jane Kamensky. Viking. 1/2008. $29.95hb.
Understanding Islamic Finance, by Muhammad Ayub. Wiley. 1/2008. $55.00hb.
Theory and Reality in Financial Economics: Essays Toward a New Political Finance
, by George M. Frankfurter. World Scientific Publishers. 1/2008. $58.00hb.
Monetary and Exchange Rate Systems: A Global View of Financial Crises, edited by
Louis-Philippe Rochon and Sergio Rossi. Edward Elgar. 1/2008. $60.00pb.
Management and Leadership
Project Management Demystified, 3/e, by Geoff Reiss. Taylor & Francis. 6/2007.
$39.99pb.
Tribal Leadership: Levereaging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization,
by Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright. Collins. 1/2008. $26.95hb.
Governance, Civil Society and Participation
Building National Campaigns: Activists, Alliances, and How Change Happens, by
David Dalton and Mary Sue Smiaroski. Oxfam. 1/2008. $13.60pb.
Springs of Participation: Creating and Evolving Methods for Participatory
Development, edited by Karen Brock and Jethro Pettit. Practical Action. 1/2008.
$28.95pb.
Legal and Judicial Issues
International Trade and the Protection of the Environment, by Simon Baughen.
Routledge-Cavendish. 12/2007. $56.00pb.
Poverty
Poor People, by William T. Vollmann. HarperCollins. 1/2008. $16.95pb.
Agriculture and Rural Development
The Economics of Agricultural Development: World Food Systems and Resource Use,
by George W. Norton, Jaffrey Alwang and William A. Masters. Routledge. 8/2006.
$65.00pb.
The Wye Group Handbook: Rural Households' Livelihood and Well-Being - Statistics
on Rural Development and Agricultural Household Income. UNECE, eurostat, FAO,
OECD, The World Bank. United Nations. 1/2008. $115.00pb.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2007: Paying Farmers for Environmental
Services. Food and Agriculture Organization. 1/2008. $65.00pb.
Commodities, Pricing and Trade
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism, by
Ha-Joon Chang. Bloomsbury. 1/2008. $26.95hb. 30% off
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, by Dan Koeppel. Hudson
Street Press. 1/2008. $23.95hb.
World Trade Politics: Power, Principles, and Leadership, by David A. Deese.
Routledge. 10/2007. $39.95pb.
Fair Trade and a Global Commodity: Coffee in Costa Rica, by Peter Leutchford.
Pluto Press. 1/2008. $29.95pb.
Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World, by Peter Chapman.
Canongate. 1/2008. $24.00hb.
The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2006. Food and Agriculture
Organization. 1/2008. $28.00pb.
WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and Developing Countries, by Anwarul Hoda and
Ashok Gulati. Johns Hopkins University Press/IFPRI. 1/2008. $27.95pb.
Education and Training
Quantitative Data Analysis in Education: A Critical Introduction Using SPSS, by
Paul Connolly. Routledge. 7/2007. $35.95pb.
Educational Research and Policy-Making: Exploring the Border Country Between
Reearch and Policy, edited by Lesley Saunders. Routledge. 9/2007. $41.95pb.
e-Schooling: Global Messages from a Small Island, by Roger Austin and John
Anderson. Routledge. 8/2007. $33.95pb.
Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, 3/e, edited
by J. Michael Spector, M. David Merrill, Jeroen van Merrienboer and Marcy P.
Driscoll. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 12/2007. $99.95pb.
World Yearbook of Education 2008: Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power:
Framing the Future of Higher Education, edited by Debbie Epstein, Rebecca Boden,
Rosemary Deem, Fazal Rizvi and Susan Wright. Routledge. 1/2008. $150.00hb.
Achieving Education for All: Pakistan: Promising Practices in Universal Primary
Education, by Fareeha Zafar. Commonwealth Secretariat. 1/2008. $19.95pb.
Energy, Industry and Mining
The Handbook of Biomass Combustion and Co-firing, edited by Sjaak van Loo and
Jaap Koppejan. Earthscan. 1/2008. $85.50hb.
Overcoming Vulnerability to Rising Oil Prices: Options for Asia and the Pacific
- Fuel to Change Livelihoods Equity Empowerment. United Nations Development
Programme. 1/2008. $10.00pb.
Energy Efficiency Guide for Industry in Asia. United Nations Environment
Programme. 1/2008. $40.00pb.
Environment and Pollution Prevention
Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth
of Global Warming, by Mark Bowen. Dutton. 1/2008. $25.95hb.
Taking Stock of Environmental Assessment: Law, Policy and Practice, edited by
Jane Holder and Donald McGillivray. Routledge-Cavendish. 8/2007. $44.95pb.
Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Revised and Expanded, by Lester R.
Brown. W. W. Norton. 1/2008. $16.95pb.
Climate Change and Adaptation, edited by Neil Leary, James Adejuwon, Vicente
Barros, Ian Burton, Jyoti Kulkarni and Rodel Lasco. Earthscan. 1/2008. $146.00
hb.
Climate Change and Vulnerability, edited by Neil Leary, Cecilia Conde, Jyoti
Kulkarni, Anthony Nyong and Juan Pulhin. Earthscan. 1/2008. $146.00hb.
State of the World 2008: Innovations for a Sustainable Economy. The Worldwatch
Institute. 1/2008. $18.95pb.
Hell and High Water: The Global Warming Solution, by Joseph Romm. HarperCollins.
1/2008. $13.95pb.
Environmental Values, by John O'Neill, Alan Holland and Andrew Light. Routledge.
7/2007. $37.95pb.
Visions of Sustainability: Cities and Regions, by Hildebrand Frey and Paul
Yaneske. Routledge. 11/2007. $53.95pb.
Environment and Politics, 3/e, by Timothy Doyle and Doug McEachern. Routledge.
8/2007. $38.95pb.
Ecotourism, 3/e, by David Fennell. Routledge. /2007. $51.95pb.
Biodiversity Economics: Principles, Methods and Applications, edited by Andreas
Kontoleon, Unai Pascual and Timothy Swanson. Cambridge University Press. 1/2008.
$150.00hb.
Climate Action. Sustainable Development International, United Nations
Environment Programme. 1/2008. $40.00pb.
Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: An Environmental Review. United Nations Environment
Programme. 1/2008. $20.00pb.
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, by Mark Lynas. National Geographic
Society. 1/2008. $26.00hb.
Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto, edited by Ernesto Zedillo. Brookings
Institution Press. 1/2008. $26.95pb.
Health, Nutrition and Population
International Politics of HIV/AIDS: Global Diseases - Local Pain, by Hakan
Seckinelgin. Routledge. 7/2007. $33.00pb.
Health at a Glance 2007: OECD Indicators. Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development. 1/2008. $35.00pb.
Infrastructure, Transportation and Urban Development
Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices, by Peter Newman and
Isabella Jennings. Island Press. 1/2008. $35.00pb.
Transport Project Evaluation: Extending the Social Cost-Benefit Approach, edited
by Elvira Haezendonck. Edward Elgar. 1/2008. $115.00hb.
Labor and Income
Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution, by Edna Bonacich
and Jake B. Wilson. Cornell University Press. 1/2008. $23.95pb.
Blue-Collar Blues: Is Trade to Blame for Rising US Income Inequality?, by Robert
Z. Lawrence. Peterson Institute for International Economics. 1/2008. $19.95pb.
Private Sector
Competing in Emerging Markets: Cases and Readings, by Hemant Merchant.
Routledge. 10/2007. $59.95pb.
Public Sector
The Economic Analysis of Public Policy, by William K. Bellinger. Routledge.
7/2007. $53.95pb.
Technology and Telecommunications
Rethinking Information Systems in Organizations: Integrating Organizational
Problem Solving, by John Paul Kawalek. Routledge. 11/2007. $48.95pb.
Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering, edited by
Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski and Jonathan Zittrain. MIT Press.
2/2008. $20.00pb.
Water Supply and Sanitation
Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to
Water, by Maude Barlow. The New Press. 1/2008. $24.95hb.
Africa
Darfur/Darfur: Life/War, edited by Leslie Thomas. Melcher Media. 1/2008. $35.00
hb.
South Africa: The First Man, the Last Nation, by R. w. Johnson. Phoenix. 1/2008.
$15.95pb.
God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir, by John Bul Dau w/ Michael S. Sweeney. National
Geographic Society. 1/2008. $14.95. New in paperback
Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin American Economic Outlook 2008. Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development. 1/2008. $65.00pb.
Fair Growth: Economic Policies for Latin America's Poor and Middle-Income
Majority, by Nancy Birdsall, Augusto de la Torre, and Rachel Menezes. Center for
Global Development. 1/2008. $24.95pb.
Bush vs Chavez: Washington's War on Venezuela, by Eva Golinger. Monthly Review
Press. 2/2008. $15.95pb.
Europe and Central Asia
Global Ireland: Same Difference, by Tom Inglis. Routledge. 10/2007. $26.95pb.
The European Union: A Very Short Introduction, by John Pinder and Simon
Usherwood. Oxford University Press. 1/2008. $9.95pb.
A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change, 2/e, by Robert Bideleux and Ian
Jeffries. /2007. $41.95pb.
Towards a Romanian Silicon Valley? Local Developments in Post-Socialist Europe,
by Eniko Baga. Campus Verlag. 1/2008. $35.00pb.
Why Not Parties in Russia? Democracy, Federalism, and the State, by Henry E.
Hale. Cambridge University Press. 10/2007. $29.99pb.
The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus, by Charles King. Oxford
University Press. 1/2008. $29.95hb.
Putin: Russia's Choice, 2/e, by Richard Sakwa. Routledge. 9/2007. $41.95pb.
The New Turkey: The Quiet Revolution on the Edge of Europe, by Chris Morris.
Granta. 1/2008. $17.95pb.
Middle East and North Africa
Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945, 3/e, by Beverley Milton-Edwards and
Peter Hinchcliffe. Routledge. 9/2007. $26.95pb.
Iran in the 21st Century: Politics, Economics and Conflict, edited by Homa
Katouzian and Hossein Shahidi. Routledge. 10/2007. $41.95pb.
Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, by Jeffrey Goldberg. Vintage.
1/2008. $14.95. New in paperback
Palestine: History of a Lost Nation, by Karl Sabbagh. Grove Press. 1/2008.
$15.00pb.
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present, by
Michael B. Oren. Norton. 2/2008. $17.95. New in paperback
Asia and the Pacific
Japanese Economic Development: Theory and Practice, 2/e, by Penelope Francks.
Routledge. 1999. $48.95pb.
The Arc of Japan's Economic Development, by Arthur Alexander. Routledge.
11/2007. $44.95pb.
A Floating City of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China, by
Floris-Jan van Luyn. The New Press. 1/2008. $35.00hb.
Developing the Mekong: Regionalism and Regional Security in China-Southeast
Asian Relations, by Evelyn Goh. Routledge. 6/2007. $26.95pb.
The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma, by Thant Myint-U.
Farrar Straus and Giroux. 1/2008. $15.00pb.
Feather in a Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos, by Emily Wu and Larry Engelman.
Anchor Books. 1/2008. $14.95pb.
China: A Land of Age-Old Culture, by Alberto Zola. White Star. 1/2008. $9.95hb.
The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East, by
Kishore Mahbubani. PublicAffairs. 1/2008. $26.00hb.
The China Fantasy: Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China, by James
Mann. Penguin. 2/2008. $13.00. New in paperback
South Asia
The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan, edited by Robert D. Crews and Amin
Tarzi. Harvard University Press. 1/2008. $27.95hb.
Fiction
Implosion: A Novel Based on Facts, by Peter Koenig. iUniverse. 1/2008. $18.95pb.
The Bastard of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak. Penguin. 2/2008. $14.00pb.
Children's Literature
Mandela: The Rebel Who Led His Nation to Freedom, by Ann Kramer. National
Geographic. 1/2008. $6.95pb.
Tree of Life: The Incredible Biodiversity of Life on Earth, by Rochelle Strauss;
Margot Thompson, illus. Kids Can Press. 2004. $17.95hb.
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