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1	Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide more books like this by Nicholas D Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn add to wishlist Two Pulitzer Prize winners issue a call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. see all copies from $15.00! new only from $15.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time more books like this by Jeffrey D Sachs add to wishlist Economist Jeffrey Sachs brings a lifetime of scholarship and experience to the complex problem of the wealth and poverty of nations. He reviews two centuries of history, explaining the reasons behind the uneven dispersal of wealth, and provides a holistic way to assess a nation's resources. Sachs is no ivory-tower thinker; he has been to the ... see all copies from $2.94! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good more books like this by William Easterly add to wishlist A professor of economics pens an informed and excoriating attack on the tragic waste, futility, and hubris of the West's efforts to date to improve the lot of the so-called developing world, and provides constructive suggestions on how to move forward. see all copies from $6.47! new only from $7.49! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa more books like this by Dambisa Moyo, Niall Ferguson (Foreword by) add to wishlist Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries. see all copies from $17.45! new only from $17.45!
5	The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else more books like this by Hernando de Soto, Hernando de Soto add to wishlist The world-famous Peruvian economist examines why some countries succeed at capitalism while others fail. As evidenced in the development of the West, economic success, he argues, is less determined by cultural differences than by the legal structure of property and property rights. 25 charts & tables. see all copies from $4.48! new only from $6.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability more books like this by Amy Chua add to wishlist In WORLD ON FIRE, Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, grapples with the myth that free markets work to spread wealth, instead arguing that they serve only to define and bolster the monied classes. Examining economic and political conditions in Africa, Asia, and South America, Chua examines how this distribution of wealth inflames lines of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.56! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Other World: Issues & Politics of the Developing World more books like this by Joseph N. Weatherby add to wishlist This accessible text takes an interdisciplinary approach and explores the dimensions of contemporary global issues in the non-Western world. The Other World, Fifth Edition is designed to give students an overview of contemporary issues in the developing world. Using an engaging and informative interdisciplinary approach, it provides students with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.94! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places more books like this by Paul Collier add to wishlist The author of "The Bottom Billion" investigates the violence and poverty that plague the countries at the bottom of the world economy. Collier argues that the spread of elections and peace settlements in the world's most volatile countries may lead to a brave new democratic world. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $16.11! \| SVS
9	Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders more books like this by Dan Bortolotti add to wishlist Doctors Without Borders, also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres, delivers emergency aid around the world. This book tells its history and examines the lives of individual volunteers. Topics range from emergency surgery in war zones to witnessing atrocities. see all copies from $2.50! new only from $2.76! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World more books like this by Eduardo H Galeano add to wishlist This Third World perspective on the First World sees nothing but folly, lies, terror, and misuse of power. Galeano is one of Latin America's most respected historians, and his trenchant analysis of a world-turned-upside-down teaches as it entertains. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $12.02! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Free the Children: A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves That Children Can Change the World more books like this by Craig Kielburger, Kevin Major add to wishlist Craig Kielburger is an activist prodigy who, at 12, was talking to national leaders, lecturing in public forums, and following the burning passion that would not allow him to overlook cruel injustices thrust upon children around the world. Inspired by a newspaper article about a young boy's murder at the hands of his boss in Pakistan, Kielburger ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South more books like this by Professor Philip Jenkins add to wishlist Christianity is growing so rapidly in the global South that soon Africa may be home to the world's largest Christian population. But what sort of Christianity will that be? In Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Christians live in settings very close to the social, cultural, and intellectual milieu in which the New Testament itself was written. For ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $9.59! \| SVS
13 view cover	Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysis more books like this by Lyman Tower Sargent add to wishlist Intended for courses in ideology, found in political science departments. Also appropriate for courses titled Introduction to Political Science, Comparative Politics, or Political Theory/Thought. An introduction to the dominant (and some of the minor) political ideologies of the modern world. Emphasizes the link between recent world events and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.44! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Economics of Development more books like this by Dwight H Perkins, Steven Radelet, David L Lindauer add to wishlist Economics of Development is renowned for its accessibility and emphasis on the real-world perspectives of developing countries, using concrete empirical data and case studies to illustrate key concepts. see all copies from $24.95! new only from $60.46! \| SVS
15 view cover	State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery more books like this by Atul Kohli add to wishlist Why have some developing country states been more successful at facilitating industrialization than others? An answer to this question is developed by focusing both on patterns of state construction and intervention aimed at promoting industrialization. Four countries are analyzed in detail - South Korea, Brazil, India, and Nigeria - over the ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $22.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Developing World more books like this by Robert J Griffiths (Editor) add to wishlist This "Seventeenth Edition Of Annual Editions: Developing World" provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; a general introduction; brief overviews for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| SVS
17 view cover	Politics in the Developing World more books like this by Peter Burnell (Editor), Professor Vicky Randall (Editor) add to wishlist The past 10-15 years have seen a transformative change both in the politics of what has conventionally been referred to as the Third World (comprising much of Asia, Africa, Latin and Central America, the Caribbean and the Middle East) and in the way we think about it. "Politics in the Developing World" identifies and analyses these processes of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.89!
18 view cover	Pedagogy of Hope more books like this by Paulo Freire add to wishlist Chronicles the ongoing social struggles of Latin America and the Third World, revisiting the themes of Freire's seminal Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Freire's abiding concern for social justice and education in the developing world remains as timely and as inspiring as ever. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $21.95!
19 view cover	Unexpected News more books like this by Robert McAfee Brown add to wishlist This is a mind-changing book that seeks to transform attitudes in North American churches. A book on how and why to read the scriptures. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies more books like this by Ian Buruma, Avishai Margalit add to wishlist Misperceptions and stereotypes govern much of the way the West is viewed by the rest of the world. These pernicious, and often striking, ways of looking at and talking about the West encourage members of movements such as radical Islam, becoming are the soil in which hate grows. Ian Buruma identifies some of these views, traces their origins in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.24! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank more books like this by David Bornstein add to wishlist This is a paperback reprint of the paperback edition published by University of Chicago Press in 1997. It has sold approximately 4,000 copies. It was originally published in cloth by Simon & Schuster in 1996. "The Price of a Dream" recounts the compelling story of the Grameen Bank, one of the most successful development organizations in the world. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.84! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Environment, Scarcity, and Violence more books like this by Thomas F Homer-Dixon add to wishlist The Earth's human population is expected to pass eight billion by the year 2025, while rapid growth in the global economy will spur ever increasing demands for natural resources. The world will consequently face growing scarcities of such vital renewable resources as cropland, fresh water, and forests. Thomas Homer-Dixon argues in this sobering ... see all copies from $4.51! new only from $33.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Ending Hunger Now: A Challenge to Persons of Faith more books like this by George S McGovern, Bob Dole, Senator, Donald E Messer add to wishlist Writing for congregations and individuals of faith, McGovern, Dole, and Messer appeal to the biblical, theological, and ethical foundations of action against hunger. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| SVS
24 view cover	Martyr of the Amazon: The Life of Sister Dorothy Stang more books like this by Roseanne Murphy add to wishlist The murder in 2005 of an American nun, Sister Dorothy Stang, focused the world's attention on the plight of poor farmers in the Brazilian Amazon and their struggles against rapacious developers. From a conventional nun in the pre-Vatican II era, she had developed a keen social conscience and, increasingly, a deep, mystical commitment to the ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $13.12! \| signed copies \| SVS
25 view cover	Good Government in the Tropics more books like this by Professor Judith Tendler add to wishlist Accepting that the problems of governance and state capacity are keeping poor countries from growing and from increasing the living standards of their citizens, the author argues against widely prevailing views about why governments do so badly. She also explains why many of these same governments sometimes do quite well. Presenting a set of cases ... see all copies from $6.36! new only from $24.03! \| first editions \| SVS

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