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Victory Has a Thousand Fathers
RAND Corporation 2010; US$ 9.95Narratives on the 30 most recent resolved insurgencies, covering the period 1978 to 2008, and data on 76 factors hypothesized to be related to the success of counterinsurgency forces supplement analyses of historical and contemporary insurgencies. more...
Victory Has a Thousand Fathers
RAND Corporation 2010; US$ 9.95An examination of approaches to counterinsurgency from 30 recent resolved campaigns reveals that good COIN practices tend to "run in packs" and that the balance of selected good and bad practices perfectly predicts the outcome of a conflict. more...
The Troubled Heart of Africa
St. Martin's Press 2002; US$ 7.99Written over a century ago, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness continues to dominate our vision of the Congo, unlikely as it might seem that a late-Victorian novella could encapsulate a country roughly equal in size to the United States east of the Mississippi. Conrad's Congo is hell itself, a place where civilization won't take, where literal and... more...
Adventures in Aidland
Berghahn Books 2011; US$ 95.00Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging variety of professional fields. Among these the encounter with international development has perhaps been longer and more intimate than any of the others. Anthropologists have drawn critical attention to the... more...
Innovation Systems in Small Catching-Up Economies
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99In several parts of the world, countries are undergoing economic, social, and political transitions, enhanced and accelerated by the forces of globalization. These transition economies can serve as laboratories for understanding the innovation process. This volume features original theoretical and empirical research. It offers the first comprehensive... more...
Adaptation, Poverty and Development
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics and case studies from China, India, Ethiopia and South Africa. more...
A Critical Analysis of the Efficacy of Law as a Tool to Achieve Gender Equality
University Press of America 2012; US$ 54.99In this book, Natalie Persadie explains that, among developing countries, the achievement of legal advances for women?at either the international or national levels?is particularly difficult where practical measures are not subsequently implemented. She examines the need for financial and human resources to make such legal measures effective. ... more...
Churning the Earth
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableThe world stands so dazzled by India?s meteoric economic rise that we hesitate to acknowledge its consequences to the people and the environment. In Churning the Earth, Aseem Shrivastava and Ashish Kothari engage in a timely enquiry of this impressive growth story. They present incontrovertible evidence on how the nature of this recent growth has been... more...
mHealth in Practice
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 39.99There has recently been an explosion of interest around the application of mobile communication technologies to support health initiatives in developing countries (mHealth). As a result, there is a need to promote and share rigorous research for better informed policy, programming, and investment. There are, however, few platforms for the exchange... more...
Global Exchanges and Gender Perspectives in Africa
CODESRIA 2011; US$ 28.95The global perspectives adopted in this volume by the authors, from different academic disciplines and social experiences, ought not to be locked in sterile linearity which within process of globalisation would fail to perceive, the irreversible opening up of the worlds of the south. There is the need within the framework of the analyses presented... more...









