Tuesday, April 14, 2009

What's New at the InfoShop, April 2009

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Africa Development Indicators 2008/09: Youth and Employment in Africa: The
Potential, the Problem, the Promise . $120.00pb w/CD-ROM


Africa Development Indicators 2008/09 Multi-User CD-ROM. $200.00


Aging Population, Pension Funds, and Financial Markets: Regional Perspectives
and Global Challenges for Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe, edited by
Robert Holzmann. $25.00pb


An Assessment of the Investment Climate in Kenya, by Giuseppi Iarossi. $15.00pb


Breaking Into New Markets: Emerging Lessons for Export Diversification, edited
by Richard Newfarmer, William Shaw and Peter Walkenhorst. $35.00pb


The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities, by Jamil Salmi. $22.00pb


Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa, edited by Kym Anderson and
William A. Masters. $39.95pb


Improving Transparency, Integrity, and Accountability in Water Supply and
Sanitation, by Maria Gonzalez de Asis, Donal O'Leary, Per Ljung and John
Butterworth. $30.00pb


Moving Out of Poverty, Volume 2: Success from the Bottom Up , by Deepa Narayan,
Lant Pritchett and Soumya Kapoor. $40.00pb


Organization and Performance of Cotton Sectors in Africa: Learning from Reform
Experience, edited by David Tschirley, Colin Poulton, and Patrick Labaste.
$24.95pb


The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education, by Harry
Anthony Patrinos, Felipe Barrera-Osorio and Juliana Guaqueta. $35.00pb


Youth Employment in Sierra Leone: Sustainable Livelihood Opportunities in a
Post-Conflict Setting, by Pia Peeters, Wendy Cunninham, Gayatri Acharya and
Arvil Van Adams. $25.00pb

Emerging States: The Wellspring of a New World Order, edited by Christophe
Jaffrelot. Columbia University Press. $39.50hb


The Godfather Doctrine: A Foreign Policy Parable, by John C. Hulsman and A. Wess
Mitchell. Princeton University Press. $9.95hb


The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Moderen States, and the
Quest for a Global Nation (with a new conclusion: Yes, We Must), by Strobe
Talbott. Simon & Schuster. $18.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Megacommunities: How Leaders of Government, Business and Non-Profits Can Tackle
Today's Global Challenges Together, by Mark Gerencser, Reginald Van Lee,
Fernando Napolitano, and Christopher Kelly. Palgrave Macmillan. $16.95 NEW IN
PAPERBACK!


Michelle Obama in Her Own Words, edited by Lisa Rogak. PublicAffairs. $12.95pb


Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space, by Cees Nooteboom. Mariner. $13.95pb


Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative
Presidency, by Robert Kuttner. Chelsea Green. $14.95pb


Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making, by David
Rothkopf. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $16.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!


The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, by William Appleman Williams. Norton.
$17.95pb

Coping with Facts: A Skeptic's Guide to the Problem of Development, by Adam
Fforde. Kumarian. $25.95pb


Economic Development and Transition: Thought, Strategy, and Viability, by Justin
Yifu Lin. Cambridge University Press. $25.99pb


One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth,
by Dani Rodrik. Princeton University Press. $18.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Reclaiming Value in International Development: The Moral Dimensions of
Development Policy and Practice in Poor Countries, by Chloe Schwenke. Praeger.
$29.95pb


Successes of the International Monetqary Fund: Untold Stories of Cooperation at
Work, edited by Eduard Brau and Ian McDonald. Palgrave Macmillan. $34.95pb


Vault Career Guide to International Development: The Inside Scoop on Jobs in
International Development, by Christopher Miller and the Staff at Vault. Vault.
$29.95pb

The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences
, by Herbert Gintis. Princeton University Press. $35.00hb


Connections: An Introduction to the Economics of Networks, by Sanjeev Goyal.
Princeton University Press. $24.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Economic Modeling and Inference, by Bent Jesper Christensen and Nicholas M.
Kiefer. Princeton University Press. $49.50hb


The Euro: The Politics of the New Global Currency, by David Marsh. Yale
University Press. $35.00hb


A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Econommic History of the World, by Gregory Clark.
Princeton University Press. $18.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Game Theory Evolving: A Problem-Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic
Interaction, 2/e, by Herbert Gintis. Princeton University Press. $35.00pb


Greed: Gut Feelings, Growth, and History, by A. F. Robertson. Polity. $24.95pb


An Introduction to Mathematical Analysis for Economic Theory and Econometrics,
by Dean Corbae, Maxwell B. Stinchcombe, and Juraj Zeman. Princeton University
Press. $75.00hb


Modern Microeconomics, by Brajesh Kumar. Global Professional Publishing.
$49.95pb


The Myth of the Free Market: The Role of the State in a Capitalist Economy, by
Mark A. Martinez. Kumarian Press. $24.95pb


Rational Decisions, by Ken Binmore. Princeton University Press. $40.00hb


Theory of Decision under Uncertainty, by Itzhak Gilboa. Cambridge University
Press. $29.99pb


Tocqueville's Political Economy, by Richard Swedberg. Princeton University
Press. $35.00hb


The Value of Money, by Prabhat Patnaik. Princeton University Press. $37.50hb

Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism, by Michael Burleigh.
HarperCollins. $29.99hb


The Crisis of Islamic Civilization, by Ali A. Allawi. Yale University Press.
$27.50hb


Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims Marched with Christians across Europe's
Battlegrounds., by Ian Almond. Harvard University Press. $29.95hb


Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West, by Anthony Pagden.
Random House. $17.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery, by E. Benjamin
Skinner. Free Press. $16.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Forced to be Good: Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights, by Emilie M.
Hafner-Burton. Cornell University Press. $39.95hb


Global Good Samaritans: Human Rights as Foreign Policy., by Alison Brysk. Oxford
University Press. $27.95pb


Human Rights Watch World Report 2009. Sevent Stories Press. $25.00pb


The Rights of Spring: A Memooir of Innocence Abroad, by David Kennedy. Princeton
University Press. $15.95pb

Asset Pricing Theory, by Costis Skiadas. Princeton University Press. $49.50hb


Contagion: The Financial Epidemic That Is Sweeping the Global Economy...and How
to Protect Yourself From It, by John R. Talbott. Wiley. $24.95pb


The Crash of 2008 and What It Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, by
George Soros. PublicAffairs. $14.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!.


Emerging Banking Systems, edited by Paola Bongini, Stefano Chiarlone and
Giovanni Ferri. Palgrave Macmillan. $85.00hb


Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged,
and Worsened the Financial Crisis, by John B. Taylor. Hoover Press. $14.95hb


Globalization and Systemic Risk, edited by Douglas D. Evanoff, David S.
Hoelscher and George G. Kaufman. World Scientific Publishers. $118.00hb


The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences, by John Bellamy Foster and
Fred Magdoff. Monthly Review Press. $12.95pb


House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, by William
D. Cohan. Doubleday. $27.95hb


Indifference Pricing: Theory and Applications, edited by Rene Carmona. Princeton
University Press. $75.00hb


International Finance: Theory into Practice, by Piet Sercu. Princeton University
Press. $85.00hb


The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall
Street Scandals, by Frank Partnoy. PublicAffairs. $26.95hb


The Origin and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions: From the
Seventeenth Century to the Present, edited by Jeremy Atack and Larry Neal.
Cambridge University Press. $115.00hb


The Pledge: ASA, Peasant Politics, and Microfinance in the Development of
Bangladesh, by Stuart Rutherford. Oxford University Press. $49.95hb

Achieving High Performance: Essential Managers, by Mike Bourne and Pippa Bourne.
DK Publishing. $8.00pb


Getting Started in Consulting, 3/e, by Alan Weiss. Wiley. $19.95pb


Giving Great Presentations: Prepare, Stay Calm and Deliver in Style, by Drew
Provan. In Easy Steps. $14.99pb


Organized Uncertainty: Designing a World of Risk Management, by Michael Power.
Oxford University Press. $39.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Project Management for Effective Business Change., by John Carroll. In Easy
Steps. $14.99pb


Thinking in Systems: A Primer, by Donella H. Meadows. Chelsea Green. $19.95pb.

Gender, Rights and Development: A Global Sourcebook, edited by Maitrayee
Mukhopadhyay and Shamim Meer. KIT Publishers. $38.95pb


The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran, by Arzoo Osanloo. Princeton University
Press. $22.95pb

Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the
Arab World, by Amaney A. Jamal. Princeton University Press. $37.50hb


Going Local: Decentralization, Democratization, and the Promise of Good
Governance, by Merilee S. Grindle. Princeton University Press. $19.95pb


Governing Sustainability, edited by W. Neil Adger and Andrew Jordan. Cambridge
University Press. $32.99pb


The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, edited by Thomas G. Weiss and Sam
Daws. Oxford University Press. $49.95pb


The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations, edited by Douglas
Howland and Luise White. Indiana University Press. $24.95pb

Basic Documents in International Law, edited by Ian Brownlie. Oxford University
Press. $65.00pb


The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality, by Ayelet Shachar.
Harvard University Press. $39.95hb


General Jurisprudence: Understanding Law from a Global Perspective, by William
Twining. Cambridge University Press. $70.00pb


Prosecuting Heads of State, edited by Ellen L. Lutz and Caitlin Reiger.
Cambridge University Press. $29.99pb

Growing Unequal: Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries. Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development. $108.00pb


Poverty Dynamics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Tony Addison, David
Hulme and Ravi Kanbur. Oxford University Press. $39.95pb

Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of
Global Trade, by Rachel Louise Snyder. Norton. $16.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Multilateralizing Regionalism: Challenges for the Global Trading System, edited
by Richard Baldwin and Patrick Low. Cambridge University Press/World Trade
Organization. $55.00pb

Education for All Monitoring Report 2009: Overcoming Inequality: Why Governance
Matters. UNESCO Publishing/Oxford University Press. $35.00pb

China, India and the United States: Competition for Energy Resources. Emirates
Center for Strategic Studies and Research. $97.50hb; $49.50pb


Power Markets and Economics: Energy Costs, Trading, Emissions, by Barrie Murray.
Wiley. $120.00hb


Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy;, by Michael T.
Klare. Henry Holt. $16.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution, by Charles Weiss and William B.
Bonvillian. MIT Press. $24.00hb


Wind Energy Pocket Reference, by Peter H. Jensen, Niels L. Meyer, Niels R.
Mortensen, Flemming Oster. Earthscan. $19.95pb

Climate Change: Picturing the Science, by Gavin Schmidt and Joshua Wolfe.
Norton. $24.95pb


Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet,
by Edward Humes. Ecco Press. $25.99hb


The Environment and World History, edited by Edmund Burke III and Kenneth
Pomeranz. University of California Press. $24.95pb


Fixing Climate Change: What Past Climate Changes Reveal about the Current Threat
- and How to Counter It, by Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig. Hill & Wang.
$15.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Global Warming and the World Trading System, by Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Steve
Charnovitz and Jisun Kim. Peterson Institute for International Economics.
$23.95pb


Green Volunteers: The World Guide to Voluntary Work in Nature Conservation, 7/e,
edited by Fabio Ausenda. Green Volunteers. $16.95pb


Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World, by Sean
Esbjorn-Hargens and Michael E. Zimmerman. Integral Books. $45.00hb


Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity, edited by Eric
Chivian and Aaron Bernstein. Oxford University Press. $34.95hb


The Unnatural History of the Sea, by Callum Roberts. Island Press. $19.95pb


The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning, by James Lovelock. Basic Books.
$25.00hb

Birth Models That Work, edited by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, Leslie Barclay,
Betty-Anne Daviss and Jan Tritten. University of California Press. $27.50pb


Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to
AIDS, by Evan S. Lieberman. Princeton University Press. $24.95pb


Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries, Volume 1: Policies for
Health, Nutrition, Food Consumption, and Poverty, edited by Per
Pinstrup-Andersen and Fuzhi Cheng. Cornell University Press. $22.95pb


Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries, Volume 2: Domestic
Policies for Markets, Production, and Environment, edited by Per
Pinstrup-Andersen and Fuzhi Cheng. Cornell University Press. $22.95pb


Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries, Volume 3: Institutions and
International Trade Policies, edited by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Fuzhi Cheng.
Cornell University Press. $22.95pb


Challenging Health Economics, by Gavin Mooney. Oxford University Press. $74.00hb


Famine: A Short History, by Cormac O Grada. Princeton University Press. $27.95hb


A Line Drawn in the Sand: Responses to the AIDS Treatment Crisis in Africa,
edited by Phyllis J. Kanki and Richard G. Marlink. Harvard Center for Population
and Development Studies. $30.00pb


Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2008. UNAIDS. $40.00pb


World of Work Report 2008: Income Inequalities in the Age of Financial
Globalization. International Labour Office. $50.00pb


Corporate Governance: Principles, Policies, and Practices, by Bob Tricker.
Oxford University Press. $70.00pb


The UN and Transnational Corporations: From Code of Conduct to Global Compact,
by Tagi Sagafi-Nejad in collaboration with John H. Dunning. Indiana University
Press. $24.95pb

The Art of Public Strategy: Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good,
by Geoff Mulgan. Oxford University Press. $49.95hb

Digital Diasporas: Identity and Transnational Engagement, by Jennifer M.
Brinkerhoff. Cambridge University Press. $24.99pb


Internet Governance: Infrastructure and Institutions, edited by Lee A. Bygrave
and Jon Bing. Oxford University Press. $85.00hb


Knowledge Governance: Processes and Perspectives, edited by Nicolai J. Foss and
Snejina Michailova. Oxford University Press. $99.00hb


The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest
Encyclopedia., by Andrew Lih. Hyperion. $24.99hb

Climate Change Adaptation in the Water Sector, edited by Fulco Ludwig, Pavel
Kabat, Henk van Schaik and Michael van der Valk. Earthscan. 97.50hb


Managing Water Resources: Methods and Tools for a Systems Approach, by Slobodan
P. Simonovic. Earthscan. $77.95pb w/CD-ROM


Planet Water: Investing in the World's Most Valuable Resource, by Steve
Hoffmann. Wiley. $39.95hb


Policy and Strategic Behavior in Water Resource Management, edited by Ariel
Dinar and Jose Albiac. Earthscan. $117.00hb

Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling, by Patrick Chabal. Zed Books.
$29.95pb


Africa Now! Emerging Talents from a Continent on the Move. GSD Art Program.
$12.00pb


Africa's Private Sector: What's Wrong with the Business Environment and What to
Do about It, by Vijaya Ramachandran, Alan Gelb and Manju Kedia Shah. Center for
Global Development. $18.95pb.


Africa's Turn?, by Edward Miguel. MIT Press. $14.95hb


After the Party: Corruption, the ANC and South Africa's Uncertain Future, by
Andrew Feinstein. Verso. $26.95hb


The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide, by Jean Hatzfeld.
Farrar Straus & Giroux. $25.00hb


Bring Me My Machine Gun: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa from Mandela to
Zuma, by Alec Russell. PublicAffairs. $26.95hb


Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa, edited by Leo Zeilig. Haymarket Books.
$17.00pb


Guns and Governance in the Rift Valley: Pastoralist Conflict and Small Arms, by
Kennedy Agade Mkutu. Indiana University Press. $22.95pb


Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda, by Lee Ann Fujii. Cornell
University Press. $29.95hb


The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors, edited by
Lindsay Whitfield. Oxford University Press. $60.00hb


Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror, by Mahmood
Mamdani. Pantheon. $26.95hb

The Bitter Sea: Coming of Age in China Before Mao, by Charles N. Li.
HarperCollins. $14.99pb


China High: My Fast Times in the 010, a Beijing Memoir, by ZZ. St. Martin's
Press. $24.95hb


China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation, by David Shambaugh. Woodrow
Wilson Center Press/University of California Press. $21.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Dependent Communities: Aid and Politics in Cambodia and East Timor, by Caroline
Hughes. Cornell University Press. $23.95pb


Economic Transitions with Chinese Characteristics: Thirty Years of Reform and
Opening Up, edited by Arthur Sweetman and Jun Zhang. McGill-Queens University
Press. $39.95pb


Economic Transitions with Chinese Characteristics: Social Change During Thirty
Years of Reform, edited by Arthur Sweetman and Jun Zhang. McGill-Queens
University Press. $39.95pb


The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics, edited by Tineke Hellwig and
Eric Tagliacozzo. Duke University Press. $25.95pb


Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya: Negotiating Urban Space in Malaysia , by Ross King.
University of Hawai'i Press. $36.00pb


The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy, by Minqi Li.
Monthly Review Press. $16.95pb


The State in Myanmar, by Robert H. Taylor. University of Hawai'i Press. $28.00pb

Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918, by Grigoris
Balakian. Alfred A. Knopf. $35.00hb


The European Union Explained: Institutions, Actors, Global Impact, by Andreas
Staab. Indiana University Press. $19.95pb


The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for a Continent, by Walter Laqueur. Thomas
Dunne Books. $14.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Montenegro: A Modern History, by Kenneth Morrison. I. B. Tauris. $49.95hb


The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution., by
Maurice Walsh. I. B. Tauris. $49.95hb

Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul, by Michael Reid. Yale
University Press. $20.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!.


The Obama Administration and the Americas: Agenda for Change, edited by Abraham
F. Lowenthal, Theodore J. Piccone and Laurence Whitehead. Brookings Institution
Press. $28.95pb

Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence, by Aliza
Marcus. New York University Press. $22.00pb


The Confrontation: Winning the War Against Future Jihad, by Walid Phares.
Palgrave Macmillan. $16.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!.


Engaging Iran and Building Peace in the Persian Gulf Region, by Volker Perthes,
Ray Tanakh and Hitoshi Tanaka. The Trilateral Commission. $15.00pb


Engaging the Muslim World, by Juan Cole. Palgrave Macmillan. $26.95hb


Hezbollah: A Short History, by Augustus Richard Norton. Princeton University
Press. $12.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!


In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams, by Tahir Shah. Bantam Books.
$13.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Iraq: A Political History from Independence to Occupation, by Adeed Dawisha.
Princeton University Press. $29.95hb


Kurdistan: Crafting of National Selves, by Christopher Houston. Indiana
University Press. $27.95pb


The North African Military Balance: Force Developments in the Maghreb, by
Anthony H. Cordesman and Aram Nerguizian. CSIS. $22.95pb


The Persian Night: Iran Under the Khomeinist Revolution, by Amir Tehani.
Encounter Books. $25.95hb


We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work, by Jimmy Carter.
Simon & Schuster. $27.00hb

A History of Bangladesh, by Willem van Schendel. Cambridge University Press.
$24.99pb


A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire, by Sugata
Bose. Harvard University Press. $18.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation, by Nandan Nilekani. The Penguin
Press. $29.95hb


India's Global Powerhouses: How They Are Taking on the World, by Nirmalya Kumar
with Pradipta K. Mohapatra and Suj Chandrasekhar. Harvard Business Press.
$27.95hb

Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to
the Present, by Christopher I. Beckwith. Princeton University Press. $35.00hb

The American Heritage Dictionary of Business Terms, by David L. Scott. Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt. $15.95pb.


Washington Internships: How to Get Them and Use Them to Lauch Your Public Policy
Career, by Deirdre Martinez. University of Pennsylvania Press. $19.95pb

The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway. Riverhead Books. $15.00pb


Leaving Tangier, by Tahar Ben Jelloun. Penguin. $15.00pb


Morning and Evening Talk, by Naguib Mahfouz. Anchor Books. $13.95 NEW IN
PAPERBACK!


Wolf Totem, by Jiang Rong. Penguin. $15.00pb

M Is for Mexico., by Flor de Maria Cordero. Frances Lincoln. $16.95hb

Travel Wise: How to Be Safe, Savvy and Secure Abroad, by Ray S. Leki.
Intercultural Press. $22.95pb


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