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Backstabbing for Beginners
Nation Books 2008; US$ 16.99A riveting, first-person account of the backstabbing and hypocrisy that led to the U.N.?s Oil-for-Food Program becoming the most corrupt enterprise ever overseen by the international community. more...
Zeitoun
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.95National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book An O, The Oprah Magazine Terrific Read of the Year A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year A New Yorker Favorite Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year A Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year An... more...
Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows to Aid Recipients 2001/2005
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2007; US$ 126.00This publication provides comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of aid and other resource flows to around 150 developing countries. The data show each country's intake of Official Development Assistance and well as other official and private funds from members of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD, multilateral agencies... more...
Knowledge for Development?
Zed Books 2004; US$ 34.95In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be the knowledge bank. A new discourse of knowledge-based aid has since spread rapidly across the development field. This book is the first detailed attempt to analyse this new discourse and practice. Through an examination of four agencies... more...
The Greater Good
Henry Holt and Co. 2013; US$ 17.99A persuasive re-examination of American prosperity and the generosity that has built our nation For over a century, the United States has stood as a beacon of prosperity and democracy, proof that big business and big dreams could flourish side by side. Yet few Americans realize the crucial role that generosity plays in keeping that fragile balance.... more...
I Want to Make a Difference
Cyan Books 2006; US$ 17.95The desire to ?make a difference? in our lives is stronger than ever ? this book provides inspiration and advice on how to achieve this. Disasters and poverty abroad, war and death, corruption and scandal ? people today are moved to contribute and make a difference to the world. A modern-day self-help book, that captures exactly what people are feeling... more...
Famine that Kills
Oxford University Press, USA 2005; US$ 18.99In 2004, Darfur, Sudan was described as the "world's greatest humanitarian crisis." Twenty years previously, Darfur was also the site of a disastrous famine. Famine that Kills is a seminal account of that famine, and a social history of the region. In a new preface prepared for this revised edition, Alex de Waal analyzes the roots of... more...
The State of Giving Research in Europe
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 19.95An overview of current philanthropic research in Europe with much-anticipated insights into the study of philanthropy. more...
Aid and Other Dirty Business
Ebury Publishing 2008; US$ 12.00Do you know why Africa is so poor? What really happens to your charity money? Why do trade rules fail African countries and yet cost you too? We've heard it all before: the corrupt leaders, heartless global corporations, the wicked World Bank. But the answers are much closer to home... and so are the solutions When Giles Bolton began working... more...
Dog Heroes of September 11th
i5 Publishing 2011; US$ 29.95The 2nd Edition of Dog Heroes of September 11th will be released on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Since 2006, the first edition has sold over 63,000 copies. The new edition will revisit the owners of the rescue dogs that participated in the 9/11 disaster. Along with their memories of their rescue dogs and the 9/11 attacks, it will also follow the... more...









