Thursday, May 1, 2008

What's New at the InfoShop April, 2008

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World Bank Publications


Science, Technology, and Innovation: Capacity Building for Sustainable Growth
and Poverty Reduction, edited by Alfred Watkins and Michael Ehst. $30.00pb.


Youth in Africa's Labor Market, edited by Marito Garcia and Jean Fares. $20.00
pb.


Strategic Communication for Privatization, Public-Private Partnerships, and
Private Participation in Infrastructure Projects, by Daniele Calabrese. $15.00
pb.


Global Monitoring Report 2008: MGDs and the Environment: Agenda for Inclusive
and Sustainable Development. $26.00pb.


Africa at a Turning Point? Growth, Aid, and External Shocks, edited by Delfin S.
Go and John Page. $35.00pb.


World Development Indicators 2008. $75.00pb.


Financing Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises: An Independent Evaluation of
IFC's Experience with Financial Intermediaries in Frontier Countries. IEG.
$20.00pb.


Land in Transition: Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam, by Martin Ravallion and
Dominique van de Walle. $30.00pb.


Small States, Smart Solutions: Improving Connectivity and Increasing the
Effectiveness of Public Services, edited by Edgardo M. Favaro. $38.00pb.


Linking Education Policy to Labor Market Outcomes, by Tazeen Fasih. $19.95pb.


Toward a Better Future: Education and Training for Economic Development in
Singapore since 1965, edited by Lee Sing Kong, Goh Chor Boon, Birger Fredriksen,
and Tan Jee Peng. $35.00pb.


Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy,
Law, and Regulation, by Steve Buckley, Kreszentia Duer, Toby Mendel and Sean O
Siochru, with Monroe E. Price and Marc Raboy. $35.00hb.


Current Affairs


Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Free Press. 4/2008. $15.00. New in paperback


Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century, by Philip Bobbitt.
Alfred A. Knopf. 4/2008. $35.00hb.


Futurecast: How Superpowers, Populations, and Globalization Will Change the Way
You Live and Work, by Robert J. Shapiro. St. Martin's Press. 4/2008. $26.95hb.


U.S. Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: Gulliver's Travails, by J. Martin
Rochester. Westview Press. 1/2008. $30.00pb.


Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower, by
Zbigniew Brzezinski. Basic Books. 4/2008. $15.95. New in paperback


Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American
Capitalism, by Kevin Phillips. Viking. 4/2008. $25.95hb.


McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Underworld, by Mischa Glenny. Alfred A.
Knopf. 4/2008. $27.95hb.


Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our
Next Decade, by Bill Emmott. Harcourt. 4/2008. $26.00hb. 30% off!


Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of American Empire, by
Alex Abella. Harcourt. 4/2008. $27.00hb.


The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit
Crash, by Charles R. Morris. PublicAffairs. 4/2008. $22.95hb.


Democracy Inc.: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Totalitarianism, by Sheldon
S. Wolin. Princeton University Press. 4/2008. $29.95hb.


Development Economics


Nation Branding: Concepts, Issues, Practice, by Keith Dinnie.
Butterworth-Heinemann. 4/2008. $47.95pb.


The Challenge of Development: Theory and Practice in Human Resource Management,
edited by Richard J. Ward. Transaction Publishers. 4/2008. $49.95pb.


Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty: Lessons from Developing Countries,
edited by Shenggen Fan. Johns Hopkins University Press. 4/2008. $29.95pb.


Losing the Global Development War: A Contemporary Critique of the IMF, the World
Bank, and the WTO, by John W. Head. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. 4/2008. $65.00
pb.


The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization,
and World Health Organization Changed the World, 1945-1965, by Amy L. S.
Staples. Kent State University Press. 2006. $55.00hb.


General Economics


More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics, by Steven E.
Landsburg. Free Press. 4/2008. $14.00. New in paperback


The Origins of Capitalism and the "Rise of the West", by Eric H. Mielants.
Temple University Press. 4/2008. $25.95pb.


Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History, by Jurgen
Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll. University of Chicago Press. 4/2008. $29.00hb.


Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin, by
Lawrence Weinstein and John A. Adam. Princeton University Press. 4/2008. $19.95
pb.


The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters, by Diane
Coyle. Princeton University Press. 4/2008. 19.95. New in paperback


Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology, by Duncan K. Foley. Harvard
University Press. 4/2008. $17.95. New in paperback


The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas, by
Robert H. Frank. Basic Books. 4/2008. $14.95. New in paperback


The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What It Means for
Business and Society, by Eric D. Beinhocker. Harvard Business School Press.
2007. $16.00pb.


Future Directions for Heterodox Economics, edited by John T. Harvey and Robert
F. Garnett, Jr. University of Michigan Press. 4/2008. $29.95pb.


Rogue Economics, by Loretta Napoleoni. Seven Stories Press. 4/2008. $24.95hb.


The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs,
Justice, and Lives, by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey. University of
Michigan Press. 4/2008. $24.95pb.


Currency Boards in Retrospect and Prospect, by Holger C. Wolf, Atish R. Ghosh,
Helge Berger, and Anne-Marie Gulde. MIT Press. 4/2008. $40.00hb.


In Defense of Monopoly: How Market Power Fosters Creative Production, by Richard
B. McKenzie and Dwight R. Lee. University of Michigan Press. 4/2008. $40.00hb.


Social and Cultural Issues


Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think, by John L. Esposito
and Dalia Mogahed. Gallup Press. 4/2008. $22.95hb.


Human Rights


Inventing Human Rights: A History, by Lynn Hunt. Norton. 4/2008. $14.95. New in
paperback


The Future of Human Rights: U.S. Policy for a New Era, edited by William F.
Schulz. University of Pennsylvania Press. 4/2008. $45.00hb.


Human Rights in the Arab World: Independent Voices, edited by Anthony Chase and
Amr Hamzawy. University of Pennsylvania Press. 4/2008. $24.95pb.


Good Governance Practices for the Protection of Human Rights. Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. United Nations. 4/2008.
$19.00sb.


New Rights Advocacy: Changing Strategies of Development and Human Rights NGOs,
by Paul J. Nelson and Ellen Dorsey. Georgetown University Press. 4/2008. $26.95
pb.


No Easy Fix: Global Responses to Internal Wars and Crimes against Humanity, by
Patricia Marchak. McGill-Queens University Press. 4/2008. $29.95hb.


The Refugee in International Society: Between Sovereigns, by Emma Haddad.
Cambridge University Press. 4/2008. $29.99pb.


Globalization


Uncertain Identity: International Migration since 1945, by W. M. Spellman.
Reaktion Books. 4/2008. $24.95pb.


International Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues, by
Sheldon Anderson, Jeanne A. K. Hey, Mark Allen Peterson, Stanley W. Toops, and
Charles Stevens. Westview Press. 1/2008. $50.00pb.


Growling Tiger, Roaring Dragon: India, China and the New World Order, by David
Smith. Douglas & McIntyre. 4/2008. $27.95hb.


Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization, by David Singh Grewal. Yale
University Press. 4/208. $30.00hb.


The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy, by Sasha
Issenberg. Gotham Books. 4/2008. $15.00. New in paperback


Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped
Globalization, by Nayan Chanda. Yale University Press. 4/2008. $18.00. New in
paperback


Banking, Finance and Investment


Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Enterprise, edited by Steven
Brakman and Harry Garretsen. MIT Press. 4/2008. $35.00hb.


Financial Markets Volatility and Performance in Emerging Markets, edited by
Sebastian Edwards and Marcio G. P. Garcia. University of Chicago Press. 4/2008.
$75.00hb.


The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres and Co., by William D.
Cohan. Broadway Books. 4/2008. $16.95. New in paperback


Essentials of Banking, by Deborah K. Dilley. Wiley. 4/2008. $39.95pb.


FDI in Tourism: The Development Dimension. UNCTAD. United Nations. 4/2008.
$35.00pb.


Constitutionalizing Economic Globalization: Investment Rules and Democracy's
Promise, by David Schneiderman. Cambridge University Press. 4/2008. $45.00pb.


Econometric Modelling of Financial Time Series, 3/e, by Terence C. Mills and
Raphael N. Markellos. Cambridge University Press. 4/2008. $48.00pb.


Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story, by David
Einhorn. Wiley. 4/2008. $29.95hb.


Management and Leadership


The Milkshake Moment: Overcoming Stupid Systems, Pointless Policies, and Muddled
Management to Realize Real Growth, by Steven S. Little. Wiley. 4/2008. $19.95hb.


Learning from Work: Designing Organizations for Learning and Communication, by
Anne Beamish. Stanford University Press. 2007. $21.95pb.


Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration, by Keith Sawyer. Basic Books.
4/2008. $16.95. New in paperback


Crucibles of Leadership: How to Learn from Experience to Become a Great Leader,
by Robert J. Thomas. Harvard Business School Press. 4/2008. $29.95hb.


Becoming a Resonant Leader: Develop Your Emotional Inrelligence, Renew Your
Relationships, Sustain Your Effectiveness, by Annie McKee, Richard Boyatzis and
Frances Johnston. Harvard Business School Press. 4/2008. $24.95pb.


Handbook of Organizational Politics, edited by Eran Vigoda-Gadot and Amos Drory.
Edward Elgar. 4/2008. $65.00pb.


Measuring Organizational Performance: Metrics for Entrepreneurship and Strategic
Management Research, by Robert B. Carton and Charles W. Hofer. Edward Elgar.
4/2008. $45.00pb.


Competing Values Leadership: Creating Value in Organizations, by Kim S. Cameron,
Robert E. Quinn, Jeff DeGraff and Anjan V. Thakor. Edward Elgar. 2007. $35.00pb.


Leveraging the Impact of 360-Degree Feedback, by John W. Fleenor, Sylvester
Taylor and Craig Chappelow. Pfeiffer. 4/2008. $40.00pb.


Gender


The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam, by Ayaan
Hirsi Ali. Free Press. 4/2008. $14.00pb.


In Honor of Fadime: Murder and Shame, by Unni Wikan. University of Chicago
Press. 4/2008. $24.00hb.


War and Terror: Feminist Perspectives, edited by Karen Alexander and Mary E.
Hawkesworth. University of Chicago Press. 4/2008. $29.00pb.


Governance, Civil Society and Participation


Corruption and Reform: Lesson's from America's Economic History, edited by
Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin. University of Chicago Press. 4/2008.
$45.00pb.


From War to the Rule of Law: Peace Building after Violent Conflicts, by Joris
Voorhoeve. Amsterdam University Press. 4/2008. $35.00pb.


International Geneva Yearbook 2008: Activities of International Institutions in
Geneva. United Nations. 4/2008. $55.00pb.


Regulatory Governance in Developing Countries, edited by Martin Minogue and
Ledivina Carino. Edward Elgar. 4/2008. $65.00pb.


Governance and Nationbuilding: The Failure of International Intervention, by
Kate Jenkins and William Plowden. Edward Elgar. 4/2008. $35.00pb.


International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, edited by Susan
Rose-Ackerman. Edward Elgar. 2007. $60.00pb.


Critical Mass: The Emergence of Global Civil Society, edited by James W. St.G.
Walker and Andrew S. Thompson. Wilfred Laurier University Press. 2/2008. $36.95
pb.


Can the World Be Governed? Possibilities for Effective Multilateralism, edited
by Alan S. Alexandroff. Wilfred Laurier University Press. 2/2008. $39.95pb.


Preventive Diplomacy at the UN, by Bertrand G. Ramcharan. Indiana University
Press. 4/2008. $24.95pb.


World Bank


The World Bank: A Critical Primer, by Eric Toussaint. Pluto Press. 4/2008.
$26.95pb.


Poverty


Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, edited by Nanak
Kakwani and Jacques Silber. Palgrave Macmillan. 4/2008. $105.00hb.


The Many Dimensions of Poverty, edited by Nanak Kakwani and Jacques Silber.
Palgrave Macmillan. 4/2008. $95.00hb.


Commodities, Pricing and Trade


The New Global Trading Order: The Evolving State and the Future of Trade, by
Dennis Patterson and Ari Afilalo. Cambridge University Press. 4/2008. $32.99hb.


A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, by William J. Bernstein.
Atlantic Monthly Press. 4/2008. $30.00hb. 30% off!


Trade and Development Aspects of Insurance Services and Regulatory Frameworks.
UNCTAD. United Nations. 4/2008. $65.00pb.


Energy, Industry and Mining


Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence", by Robert
Bryce. PublicAffairs. 4/2008. $26.95hb.


Oil: A Groundwork Guide, by James Laxer. Groundwood Books. 4/2008. $10.00pb.


Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy, by Michael T.
Klare. Metropolitan Books. 4/2008. $26.00hb.


Environment and Pollution Prevention


Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace,
Justice, and Beauty to the World, by Paul Hawken. Penguin. 4/2008. $16.00. New
in paperback


Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change, by William H. Calvin. University of
Chicago Press. 4/2008. $22.50hb.


Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal about the Current Threat - and
How to Counter It, by Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig. Hill & Wang.
4/2008. $25.00hb.


Disappearing Destinations: 37 Places in Peril and What Can Be Done to Save Them,
by Kimberly Lisagor and Heather Hansen. Vintage. 4/2008. $15.95pb.


UNEP Yearbook 2008: An Overview of Our Changing Environment. United Nations
Environment Programme. 4/2008. $20.00pb.


Infrastructure, Transportation and Urban Development


Analyzing Urban Poverty: GIS for the Developing World, by Rosario C. Giutsi de
Perez and Ramon A. Perez. ESRI Press. 4/2008. $29.95pb.


Aviation Infrastructure Performance: A Study in Comparative Political Economy,
edited by Clifford Winston and Gines de Rus. Brookings Institution Press.
4/2008. $24.95pb.


Public Private Partnerships: The Worldwide Revolution in Infrastructure
Provision and Project Finance, by Darrin Grimsey and Marvyn K. Lewis. Edward
Elgar. 4/2008. $45.00pb.


Private Sector


Sustainable Value: How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well By Doing
Good, by Chris Laszlo. Stanford University Press. 4/2008. $35.00hb.


Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Future and
Yours, by Tarun Khanna. Harvard Business School Press. 2/2008. $29.95hb.


The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That
Change the World, by John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan. Harvard Business School
Press. 2/2008.  $27.50hb.


Guidance on Corporate Responsibility Indicators in Annual Reports. UNCTAD.
United Nations. 4/2008. $18.00pb.


Technology and Telecommunications


Handbook on the Knowledge Economy, edited by David Rooney, Greg Hearn, and
Abraham Ninan. Edward Elgar. 4/2008. $65.00pb.


New Frontiers in the Economics of Innovation and New Technology: Essays in Honor
of Paul A. David, edited by Cristiano Antonelli, Dominique Foray, Bronwyn H.
Hall and W. Edward Steinmueller. Edward Elgar. 2007. $65.00pb.


Knowledge Management in Developing Countries: A Cross-Cultural and Institutional
Approach, edited by Kate Hutchings and Kavoos Mohannak. Edward Elgar. 2007.
$110.00hb.


Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Expanded Edition, by Don
Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. Portfolio. 4/2008. $27.95hb.


Africa


When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa, by Peter Godwin. Back Bay
Books. 4/2008. $14.99pb.


Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood, by Robyn Scott.
The Penguin Press. 4/2008. $24.95hb.


The Roots of African Conflics: The Causes and Costs, edited by Alfred Nhema and
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. Ohio University Press. 2007. $24.95pb.


The Resolution of African Conflicts: The Management of Conflict Resolutions and
Post-Conflict Reconstruction, edited by Alfred Nhema and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza.
Ohio University Press. 2007. $24.95pb.


Cultivating Success in Uganda: Kigezi Farmers and Colonial Policies, by Grace
Carswell. Ohion University Press. 2007. $26.95pb.


Hanging By a Thread: Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa, edited by
William G. Moseley and Leslie C. Gray. Ohio University Press. 4/2008. $24.00pb.


Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone, by Larry Devlin.
PublicAffairs. 4/2008. $14.95. New in paperback


The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur, by Brian
Steidle and Gretchen Steidle Wallace. PublicAffairs. 4/2008. $14.95. New in
paperback


The Rebels' Hour, by Lieve Joris. Grove Press. 4/2008. $24.00hb. 30% off!


Africa Doesn't Matter: How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We
Can Do about It, by Giles Bolton. Arcade Publishing. 4/2008. $15.99pb.


Latin America and the Caribbean


Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans, Expanded Edition, by
David Stoll. Westview Press. 1/2008. $30.00pb.


Long after Midnight at the Nino Bien: A Yanqui's Missteps in Argentina, by Brian
Winter. PublicAffairs. 4/2008. $24.95hb.


Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. United Nations. 4/2008.
$20.00pb.


Governance in the Americas: Decentralization, Democracy, and Subnational
Government in Brazil, Mexico, and the USA, by Robert H. Wilson, Peter M. Ward,
Peter K. Spink, and Victoria E. Rodriguez, with Marta Ferreira Santos Farah,
Lawrence S. Graham, Pedro Jacobi, and Allison M. Rowland. University of Notre
Dame Press. 4/2008. $35.00pb.


Judicial Reform as Political Insurance: Argentina, Peru, and Mexico in the 1990s
, by Jodi S. Finkel. University of Notre Dame Press. 4/2008. $22.00pb.


Europe and Central Asia


Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared, by Christopher Robbins.
Atlas & Co. 4/2008. $24.00hb.


The European Union: Politics and Policies, 4/e, by John McCormick. Westview
Press. 1/2008. $39.00pb.


Turkey Decoded, by Ann Dismorr. Saqi Books. 4/2008. $19.95pb.


Out of the Red: Investment and Capitalism in Russia, by John T. Connor with
Lawrence P. Milford. Wiley. 4/2008. $29.95hb.


Middle East and North Africa


The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring
Israel Peace at Last, by Bernard Avishai. Harcourt. 4/2008. $26.00hb.


The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation, by Marwan Muasher. Yale University
Press. 4/2008. $30.00hb.


Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran's Radical Leader, by Kasra Naji.
University of California Press. 4/2008. $24.95hb.


Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the
Middle East, by Quil Lawrence. Walker & Co. 4/2008. $25.95hb.


The Egyptian Economy: Current Challenges and Future Prospects, edited by Hanaa
Kheir-El-Din. American University in Cairo Press. 4/2008. $27.50pb.


The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century, by Steve Coll. The
Penguin Press. 4/2008. $35.00hb.


The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East, by Olivier Roy. Columbia University
Press. 4/2008. $24.95hb.


Muqtada: Muqtada Al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq, by
Patrick Cockburn. Scribner. 4/2008. $24.00hb.


An Introduction to the Modern Middle East: History, Religion, Political Economy,
Politics, by David S. Sorenson. Westview Press. 1/2008. $46.00pb.


Morocco: Flying High, by Antonio Attini. White Star Publishing. 4/2008. $24.95
hb.


Atlas of the Middle East, 2/e. National Geographic Society. 4/2008. $21.95pb.


Libya: From Colony to Independence, by Ronald Bruce St. John. Oneworld. 4/2008.
$19.95pb.


No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent into Chaos, by Charles H. Ferguson.
PublicAffairs. 2/2008. $17.95pb.


Freedom's Unsteady March: America's Role in Building Arab Democracy, by Tamara
Cofman Wittes. Brookings Institution Press. 4/2008. $26.95hb.


Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, 2/e, by Susan Meiselas. University of
Chicago Press. 4/2008. $49.00pb.


Jerusalem: City of Longing, by Simon Goldhill. Harvard University Press. 4/2008.
$27.95hb.


Israel and the Clash of Civilizations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the
Middle East, by Jonathan Cook. Pluto Press. 4/2008. $24.95pb.


The Palestine-Israel Conflict: A Basic Introduction, 2/e, by Gregory Harms, w/
Todd M. Ferry. Pluto Press. 4/2008. $20.95pb.


Asia and the Pacific


"Socialism Is Great": A Worker's Memoir of the New China, by Lijia Zhang. Atlas
& Co. 4/2008. $24.00hb.


The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage, by Alexandra
Harney. The Penguin Press. 4/2008. $25.95hb.


The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History, by Paul Clark. Cambridge University
Press. 4/2008. $22.99pb.


The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up, by Liao Yiwu.
Pantheon. 4/2008. $25.00hb.


21st Century Japan, by Trevor W. Harrison. Black Rose Books. 4/2008. $19.99pb.


China's Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy, edited by Cheng
Li. Brookings Institution Press. 4/2008. $29.95pb.


Debating China's Exchange Rate Policy, edited by Morris Goldstein and Nicholas
R. Lardy. Peterson Institute for International Economics. 4/2008. $28.95pb.


Beijing Time, by Michael Dutton, Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo and Dong Dong Wu. Harvard
University Press. 4/2008. $26.95hb.


China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society, by
Daniel A. Bell. Princeton University Press. 4/2008. $26.95hb.


China's Great Economic Transformation, edited by Loren Brandt and Thomas G.
Rawski. Cambridge University Press. 4/2008. $75.00pb.


City Between Worlds: My Hong Kong, by Leo Ou-fan Lee. Harvard University Press.
4/2008. $29.95hb.


What Does China Think?, by Mark Leonard. PublicAffairs. 4/2008. $22.95hb.


Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose, by Kenneth B. Pyle.
PublicAffairs. 4/2008. $19.95. New in paperback


Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic City, by Lillian M. Li, Alison J.
Dray-Novey, and Haili Kong. Palgrave Macmillan. 4/2008. $18.95. New in paperback


The Voice of Hope: Nobel Peace Laureate and Leader of Burma's Struggle for
Democracy Aung San Suu Kyi, conversations with Alan Clements. Seven Stories
Press. 4/2008. $18.95pb.


Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World, by Joshua
Kurlantzick. Yale University Press. .4/2008. $17.00. New in paperback


South Asia


Sustaining India's Growth Miracle, edited by Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Charles W.
Calomiris. Columbia University Press. 4/2008. $27.95hb.


India: The Rise of an Asian Giant, by Dietmar Rothermund. Yale University Press.
4/2008. $35.00hb.


General Reference


Designed Maps: A Sourcebook for GIS Users, by Cynthia A. Brewer. ESRI Press.
4/2008. $39.95pb.


Fiction


The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid. Harcourt. 4/2008. $14.00. New in
paperback


The Camel Bookmobile, by Masha Hamilton. HarperCollins. 4/2008. $13.95. New in
paperback


The Pakistani Bride, by Bapsi Sidhwa. Milkweed Editions. 4/2008. $14.00pb.


Evening Is the Whole Day, by Preeta Samarasan. Houghton Mifflin. 4/2008. $24.00
hb.


The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga. Free Press. 4/2008. $24.00hb.


Children's Literature


Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai, by Claire A. Nivola.
Farrar Straus & Giroux. 4/2008. $16.95hb.


Sold, by Patricia McCormick. Hyperion Books. 4/2008. $8.99pb.


Sacred Leaf, by Deborah Ellis. Groundwood. 4/2008. $16.95hb.


M is for Mexico, by Flor de Maria Cordero. Frances Lincoln. 4/2008. $16.95hb.


The Prince Who Thought He Was a Rooster and Other Jewish Stories, by Ann
Jungman. Frances Lincoln. 4/2008. $7.95pb.


Ghaddar the Ghoul and Other Palestinian Stories, by Sonia Nimr. Frances Lincoln.
4/2008. $7.95pb.


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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

REMINDER - "Knowledge and Innovation for Competitiveness in Brazil" May 1, 2008 at 12:00

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| | by Alberto Rodriguez , Carl Dahlman , |
| | Jamil Salmi |
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| | Brazil is the world?s largest |
| | exporter of coffee, sugar, cane-based |
| | ethanol, orange juice, and iron ore. |
| | Yet over the past 10 years, its |
| | economy has grown an average of only |
| | 2.5 percent per year. The question |
| | increasingly being asked is, How can |
| | Brazil improve its competitiveness in |
| | the global economy? |
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| | Knowledge and Innovation for |
| | Competitiveness in Brazil makes a |
| | compelling argument that, in a global |
| | economy that is increasingly |
| | knowledge driven, human capital is |
| | key to growth. The book supports this |
| | argument by mapping the relationship |
| | between microeconomic inputs, such as |
| | education services, and macroeconomic |
| | outputs, such as growth. It then goes |
| | on to recommend specific steps that |
| | can be taken to foster innovation and |
| | competitiveness. |
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| | For more information about the book |
| | or to order it online, please click |
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
12:00 - 1:30 pm
World Bank J Building
Auditorium J1-050
701 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC


MODERATED BY
Bruno Laporte
Manager, WBI, World Bank

PRESENTED BY LEAD AUTHOR
Alberto Rodriguez
Lead Education Specialist, World Bank

DISCUSSED BY
Ariel Fiszbein
Chief Economist, Human Development Network

John Briscoe
Country Director, Brazil

Vinod Thomas
Director General, Independent Evaluation Group

Robin Horn
Education Sector Manager, Human Development Network
____________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

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Monday, April 28, 2008

President Colom at the George Washington University on April 29 at 11:30am

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Christopher Arterton
Dean, The Graduate School of Political Management
The George Washington University

Cordially invites you to an address by

His Excellency Álvaro Colom Caballeros
President of Guatemala

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
11:30 a.m.

Audience should be seated by 11:00 a.m.

The George Washington University
Jack Morton Auditorium
805 21st Street, NW
Washington, D.C.

R.S.V.P. to uevents@gwu.edu
Please include your name and daytime telephone number.


Álvaro Colom Caballeros took the oath of office as Guatemala?s 61st
president in January 2008. He is founder and leader of the Unidad
Nacional de la Esperanza, ?National Union of Hope?, the largest
political party in Guatemala?s history, with more than 75,000 members.
Colom earned notoriety as a peacemaker when he was named executive
director of the National Peace Foundation, FONAPAZ, in 1991. During his
tenure he focused his efforts on social reconciliation and development
in areas of Guatemala that were most affected by the armed conflict of
the 1980s. He contributed to the development of 159 municipalities in a
region known as the Zona de Paz (Peace Zone) and initiated more than
73,000 social development projects. He also facilitated the
repatriation of more than 30,000 Guatemalan refugee families who had
migrated to Mexico during the conflict.

President Colom was born in Guatemala City on June 15, 1951. He earned
a degree as an industrial engineer at the University of San Carlos and
worked in a variety of businesses with a specialty in textiles. A
strong proponent of public and higher education in Guatemala, he served
as vice dean of the faculty of economics at the Universidad Rafael
Landívar in Guatemala.

President Colom is married to Sandra Torres and has three children.

_______________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international development.
Our extensive events program consists of more than 250 events over the
past two years and has hosted many internationally recognized speakers
including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen,
Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop
functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles
published by the World Bank, international organizations, and other
publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop


Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Film Screening: "As We Forgive" on May 8, 2008, World Bank Preston Auditorium, 12:00pm

The World Bank InfoShop and Africa Region External Affairs Department

invite you to a film screening of

"As We Forgive" narrated by Mia Farrow

Journey into the lives of two Rwandan women as they come face-to-face with the
murderers of their families during the 1994 genocide, and their incredible
struggle to reconcile. Can mercy restore what genocide destroyed? For more
information about the film, visit www.asweforgivemovie.com

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When: Thursday, May 8, 2008
Time: 12:00 pm
Where: Preston Auditorium, World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H St NW, Washington DC
RSVP: For non Bank staff, RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

DISCUSSED BY FILMMAKER
Laura Waters Hinson
Ms. Hinson is the president of Image Bearer Pictures in Washington, DC. As We
Forgive, a finalist in the 2008 Student Academy Awards, began as her masters
thesis in filmmaking at American University where she graduated with a MFA in
2007. She has worked as Director of Creative Arts and Outreach at Church of the
Resurrection, as a development coordinator for the Discovery Health Channel, and
as a research assistant for MSNBC host Chris Matthews. Ms. Hinson also shoots
freelance photography and is currently forming a non-profit to promote
reconciliation projects in Rwanda.

WITH COMMENTS BY
Laura E. Bailey
Ms. Bailey is Senior Operations Specialist for the Fragile and Conflict-Affected
Countries Group of the World Bank. Her two decades of experience in development
is strongly grounded in field operations in Africa, Asia, and Central America,
including experience in a range of post-conflict and transition settings,
working on behalf of international agencies, bilateral technical assistance
projects, and national and international NGOs.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER "The World Bank: From reconstruction to development to equity" launched on Tuesday, April 29 at 12:00pm in J1-050

The World Bank Public Information Center/InfoShop and
Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics, Word Bank Human Development Network

invite you to the launch of a recent Routledge publication

The World Bank:
From reconstruction to development to equity
by Katherine Marshall

Today, the World Bank aspires to be the world?s premier development institution.
Its credo is captured by the bold phrase at the front of its headquarters: ?Our
dream is a world free of poverty.? In practice, the World Bank is involved in
virtually every facet of development, and is major actor in countries that seek
its support and partnership and in the development community at-large. As part
of a series on ?global institutions,? the book captures the institution?s
history and reflects the insights of an individual, Katherine Marshall, whose
experience at the Bank spans more than half of its lifetime.

For more information about the book or to order it online, please click here.

This book combines a thorough overview of where the Bank comes from, how it
works, its challenges, and its mission and vision. Written by someone who knows
the Bank deeply and intimately, it is honest, informative and insightful. It
offers both an interpretation of this complex institution and a map of where its
future lies.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director of WBG, and Former Minister of Finance
and Foreign Affairs of Nigeria

It is immensely readable, and infused with a lively appreciation of the World
Bank?s peculiar quirks and complexities. Often maligned and even more
frequently misunderstood, the Bank plays a critical role both in global
governance and global development policy. Katherine Marshall is an able and
authoritative guide to its many rules and roles.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs at Princeton University

Tuesday, April 29
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building
Auditorium J1-050
701 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC

*RSVP REQUIRED* Please send an email to infoshopevents.org

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Katherine Marshall
Ms. Marshall is a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University?s Berkley Center for
Religion, Peace and World Affairs and Visiting Professor in the Government
Department. She worked for 35 years at the World Bank in a wide range of
positions and regions, most recently as Director and Counselor to the President
in the Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics.

DISCUSSED BY
John Clark
Lead Social Development Specialist, EASSO, World Bank
Mr. Clark is currently Lead Social Development Specialist for East Asia in the
World Bank. He has focused particularly on governance, poverty and civil
society issues in Cambodia and Indonesia, and also spent 8 months in Aceh
working on tsunami reconstruction, especially regarding donor coordination.
Before that he took a four year absence from the Bank in which he worked in the
United Nations Secretary-General?s office (as project director for the
high-level panel on UN-civil society relations), was Visiting Fellow at the
London School of Economics, and served on a task force advising the British
Prime Minister about Africa.

Chad Dobson
Executive Director, Bank Information Center
Mr. Dobson joined the Bank Information Center (BIC) as Executive Director in
December, 2007. Mr. Dobson founded BIC in 1987 and was Executive Director until
1996. He then founded and directed the Consumers Choice Council to protect
labeling systems (organic, fair trade, Marine Stewardship Council, Forest
Stewardship Council) during the initial development of the World Trade
Organization. At Oxfam America, where he was Director of Policy since 2003, Mr.
Dobson was responsible for developing the organization?s Washington presence,
and his portfolio included the Fair Trade campaign, extractive industries work
and policy and advocacy activity associated with humanitarian relief. Mr. Dobson
is currently on the board of the International Relations Center, the Forest
People?s Programme/World Rainforest Movement, Green Seal, and the Herbert
Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship.

Werner Kiene
Chairperson, Inspection Panel, World Bank
Mr. Kiene was appointed to the Inspection Panel in November 2004 and became
Chairman of the Panel in 2007. He has held leadership positions with the Ford
Foundation and German Development Assistance. In 1994, Mr. Kiene became the
founding Director of the Office of Evaluation of the United Nations World Food
Programme (UN WFP). He was the World Food Programme Country Director for
Bangladesh from 1998 through 2000 and also served as UN Resident Coordinator
during that period. From 2000 to 2004 he was a Representative of the UN WFP in
Washington, D.C.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: "The World Bank: From reconstruction to development to equity" launched on Tuesday, April 29 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics

invite you to the launch of a recent Routledge publication
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| 29 | world?s premier development institution. |
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm | Its credo is captured by the bold phrase |
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| J1-050 | virtually every facet of development, and |
| 701 18th Street, | is major actor in countries that seek its |
| NW | support and partnership and in the |
| Washington, DC | development community at-large. As part |
| | of a series on ?global institutions,? the |
| | book captures the institution?s history |
| | and reflects the insights of an |
| | individual, Katherine Marshall, whose |
| | experience at the Bank spans more than |
| | half of its lifetime. |
| | |
| | For more information about the book or to |
| | order it online, please click here. |
| | |
| | This book combines a thorough overview of |
| | where the Bank comes from, how it works, |
| | its challenges, and its mission and |
| | vision. Written by someone who knows the |
| | Bank deeply and intimately, it is honest, |
| | informative and insightful. It offers |
| | both an interpretation of this complex |
| | institution and a map of where its future |
| | lies. |
| | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director of |
| | WBG, and Former Minister of Finance and |
| | Foreign Affairs of Nigeria |
| | |
| | It is immensely readable, and infused |
| | with a lively appreciation of the World |
| | Bank?s peculiar quirks and complexities. |
| | Often maligned and even more frequently |
| | misunderstood, the Bank plays a critical |
| | role both in global governance and global |
| | development policy. Katherine Marshall |
| | is an able and authoritative guide to its |
| | many rules and roles. |
| | Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow |
| | Wilson School of Public and International |
| | Affairs at Princeton University |
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PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Katherine Marshall
Ms. Marshall is a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University?s Berkley
Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs and Visiting Professor
in the Government Department. She worked for 35 years at the World
Bank in a wide range of positions and regions, most recently as
Director and Counselor to the President in the Development Dialogue
on Values and Ethics.

DISCUSSED BY
John Clark
Lead Social Development Specialist, EASSO, World Bank
Mr. Clark is currently Lead Social Development Specialist for East
Asia in the World Bank. He has focused particularly on governance,
poverty and civil society issues in Cambodia and Indonesia, and also
spent 8 months in Aceh working on tsunami reconstruction, especially
regarding donor coordination. Before that he took a four year
absence from the Bank in which he worked in the United Nations
Secretary-General?s office (as project director for the high-level
panel on UN-civil society relations), was Visiting Fellow at the
London School of Economics, and served on a task force advising the
British Prime Minister about Africa.

Chad Dobson
Executive Director, Bank Information Center
Mr. Dobson joined the Bank Information Center (BIC) as Executive
Director in December, 2007. Mr. Dobson founded BIC in 1987 and was
Executive Director until 1996. He then founded and directed the
Consumers Choice Council to protect labeling systems (organic, fair
trade, Marine Stewardship Council, Forest Stewardship Council)
during the initial development of the World Trade Organization. At
Oxfam America, where he was Director of Policy since 2003, Mr.
Dobson was responsible for developing the organization?s Washington
presence, and his portfolio included the Fair Trade campaign,
extractive industries work and policy and advocacy activity
associated with humanitarian relief. Mr. Dobson is currently on the
board of the International Relations Center, the Forest People?s
Programme/World Rainforest Movement, Green Seal, and the Herbert
Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship.

Werner Kiene
Chairperson, Inspection Panel, World Bank
Mr. Kiene was appointed to the Inspection Panel in November 2004 and
became Chairman of the Panel in 2007. He has held leadership
positions with the Ford Foundation and German Development
Assistance. In 1994, Mr. Kiene became the founding Director of the
Office of Evaluation of the United Nations World Food Programme (UN
WFP). He was the World Food Programme Country Director for
Bangladesh from 1998 through 2000 and also served as UN Resident
Coordinator during that period. From 2000 to 2004 he was a
Representative of the UN WFP in Washington, D.C.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0