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3D Ethicsby Attracta Lagan; Brian Moran
eContent Management Pty Ltd 2005; US$ 99.00Ethics is not just about morality; it is a complex dimension of personal and corporate life that can lead to higher performance by both business and society. Customers, employees and business partners seek predictable corporate behaviour that is aligned with stated personal, workplace and democratic values. more...
The Elgar Companion to Development Studiesby D.A. Clark
Edward Elgar Publishing 2006; US$ 60.00Covers development economics and development studies. This book discusses theoretical, ethical and practical issues relating to economic, social, cultural, institutional, political and human aspects of development in poor countries. It also includes a selection of intellectual biographies of leading development thinkers. more...
Development Theoryby Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Sage Publications Ltd. 2009; US$ 40.00This exciting book is a tour de force, spanning a broad range of approaches to development. It does not stop at critique, as so many previous books on these issues have done, but offers a unique perspective on future possibilities and the shape of things to come. It should be essential reading on all development studies courses' - Andrea Cornwall, Institute of Development Studies, University of SussexPraise for the previous edition:'This marvellous book should be read by every social scientist interested in development studies' - Keith Griffin, University of California, RiversideThis is the second edition of this successful book. Written by one of the leading authorities in the field, the book: Situates students in the expanding... more...
Governance and Knowledge Management for Public-Private Partnershipsby Herbert Robinson; Patricia Carrillo; Chimay J. Anumba; Manju Patel
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 118.99"The book not only gives a clear picture of the policy and strategic framework of PFI/PPP projects, the governance and knowledge management issues through different phases from planning, design development to operation and service delivery and the processes associated with each phase, but practical tools, methodologies and capabilities needed to deliver PFI/PPP projects in a range of sectors are also explained. It clearly demonstrates the key imperatives that are the hallmark of successful programmes and projects no matter what there method of funding or delivery. I have no doubt that, in undertaking the programmes and projects that I am responsible for delivering and in undertaking OGC Gateway Reviews, to support clients delivering their own... more...
Unified Growth Theoryby Oded Galor
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 59.50For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then, about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge from this epoch of economic stagnation, experiencing sustained economic growth that led to significant increases in standards of living and profoundly altered the level and distribution of wealth, population, education, and health across the globe. The question ever since has been--why? This is the first book to put forward a unified theory of economic growth that accounts for the entire growth process, from the dawn of civilization to today. Oded Galor, who founded the field of unified growth theory, identifies the historical and prehistorical forces behind the differential transition timing from... more...
Hackby Dmitry Samarov
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 18.00Cabdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. And, undoubtedly, taxi drivers have stories to tell—of farcical local politics, of colorful passengers, of changing neighborhoods and clandestine shortcuts. No one knows a city’s streets—and thus its heart—better than its cabdrivers. And from behind the wheel of his taxi, Dmitry Samarov has seen more of Chicago than most Chicagoans will hope to experience in a lifetime. An artist and painter trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Samarov began driving a cab in 1993 to make ends meet, and he’s... more...
Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainabilityby Paul Ekins
Routledge 1999; US$ 65.00Ekins breaks new ground in defining the conditions of compatibility between economic growth and environmental sustainabilty, and provides measures and criteria by which the environmental sustainabilty of economic growth can be judged. more...
Environmental Consequences of Growthby Douglas Booth
Routledge 1998; US$ 75.00This book presents a new perspective on the link between economic growth and environmental change. All the key issues in environmental economics are covered. more...
Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960by Joanna Bourke
Routledge 1993; US$ 42.95This textbook looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the home, the marketplace, the locality and the nation to assess how the subjective identity of the `working class' has been maintained. more...