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1	Don't Be Afraid, Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart: The Story of Elvia Alvarado more books like this by Medea Benjamin (Editor), Elvia Alvarado add to wishlist Trained by the Catholic Church to organize women's groups to combat malnutrition, Alvarado, a woman with a second-grade education, began to question the wretched conditions she saw around her. She became one of her country's leading political activists. 14 pages of halftones. PBS documentary scheduled for May. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants more books like this by Guidi Chen add to wishlist This is an expose of the inequality and injustice experienced by 900 million Chinese peasants, as told through a series of dramatic personal narratives that describe the arbitrary violence and powerlessness in the face of colossal corruption and grinding poverty. The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Rural Development: Putting the Last First more books like this by Robert Chambers add to wishlist Rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders. Dr Chambers contends that researchers, scientists, administrators and fieldworkers rarely appreciate the richness and validity of rural people's knowledge or the hidden nature of rural poverty. This is a challenging book for all concerned with rural development, as practitioners, ... see all copies from $3.88! new only from $17.42! \| first editions
4	Whose Reality Counts?: Putting the First Last more books like this by Robert Chambers (Preface by) add to wishlist This volume explores the boundaries of participatory rural appraisal (PRA). With PRA now widely adopted, with varying degress of success, the author examines the next steps as "the methodological revolution continues". The work presents an analysis of the relationship between professionals and the poor, The realities of development professionals, ... see all copies from $14.53! new only from $22.31! \| first editions
5	The Globalizers: Development Workers in Action more books like this by Jeffrey T Jackson add to wishlist Using Honduras as a case study, Jeffrey T. Jackson illuminates the processes by which wealthy western countries target countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for political economic construction, or nation building. In the process, he draws a provocative connection between the efforts of international development workers and ... see all copies from $22.50! new only from $32.72! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Science of Sustainable Development: Local Livelihoods and the Global Environment more books like this by Jeffrey Sayer, Bruce Campbell add to wishlist Science faces major challenges in tackling the inter-linked problems of poverty and environmental sustainability. This book reviews how practical science can be applied to real-life conservation and development problems, and aims to demystify the sometimes obscure science of natural resources management, interpreting it for the benefit of those ... see all copies from $38.70! new only from $47.15! \| SVS
7	Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice more books like this by David Mosse add to wishlist Today there is a preoccupation among development agencies and researchers with getting policy right; with exerting influence over policy, linking research to policy and with implementing policy around the world. But what if development practice is not driven by policy at all? Suppose that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy which ... see all copies from $16.20! new only from $16.20! \| SVS
8	In One's Own Shadow more books like this by Xin Liu add to wishlist China underwent a dramatic social transformation in the last decade of the 20th century. This ethnographic study of one community focuses on the logic of everyday practice in post-reform rural China. Enriched with many vivid anecdotes describing life in the village of Zhaojiahe in north-western China. This book analyses the changes and ... see all copies from $2.63! new only from $13.53! \| first editions
9	Brave New West: Morphing Moab at the Speed of Greed more books like this by Jim Stiles add to wishlist When Jim Stiles moved west from Kentucky in the 1970s to make Moab, Utah, his home, that corner of the rural West had already endured decades of obscurity, a uranium boom and then a bust, and was facing an identity crisis. What kind of economy would prevent Moab from becoming yet another ghost town? For more than two decades, environmentalists in ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $8.89! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village more books like this by Dongping Han add to wishlist The Unknown Cultural Revolution challenges the established narrative of Chinaas Cultural Revolution, which assumes that this period of great social upheaval led to economic disaster, the persecution of intellectuals, and senseless violence. Dongping Han offers a powerful account of the dramatic improvements in the living conditions, infrastructure ... see all copies from $11.26! new only from $14.18! \| SVS
11 view cover	Rural Guatemala, 1760-1940 more books like this by David J McCreery add to wishlist This comprehensive study of rural development in Guatemala extends from the late colonial period through to the transformation of the economy by the introduction of larger-scale coffee production. see all copies from $10.75! new only from $22.00!
12 view cover	People First: A Guide to Self-Reliant Participatory Rural Development more books like this by Stan Burkey add to wishlist Conscious of the frequent co-option of the idea of participation by official development agencies, and of the other pitfalls that participatory development can run into, the author provides a hardheaded and practical education about the role of change agents; their recruitment, training and support; how to get started; working with groups; ... see all copies from $8.45! new only from $26.93! \| SVS
13 view cover	The Iraqw of Tanzania: Negotiating Rural Development more books like this by Katherine A Snyder add to wishlist Based on the fieldwork of author, Katherine Snyder, this book considers the rural development of the Iraqw of Tanzania - a little-studied group of mixed pastoralist-agriculturalists Snyder focuses on how the Iraqw perceive, respond to, and affect development in Tanzania. She explores how the ideology of development affects people's actions - from ... see all copies from $17.52! new only from $33.12! \| SVS
14 view cover	Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge more books like this by Professor James C Scott, Nina Bhatt (Editor) add to wishlist This book presents an account of an intellectual breakthrough in the study of rural society and agriculture. Its ten chapters, selected for their originality and synthesis from the colloquia of the Programme in Agrarian Studies at Yale University, encompass various disciplines, diverse historical periods, and several regions of the world. The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America more books like this by David J Walbert add to wishlist Each year, millions of tourists are drawn to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to experience first-hand the quintessential pastoral-both as an escape from urban life and as a rare opportunity to become immersed in history. The area has attracted visitors eager to catch a glimpse of the distinctive religious community of the Old Order Amish, to ... see all copies from $5.44! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Putting People First: Sociological Variables in Rural Development more books like this by Michael M Cernea (Editor) add to wishlist Incorporating information about projects assisted by the World Bank, this book includes studies of the social organization of productive systems, the typology of development projects, and stages in the project cycle. see all copies from $10.00! signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Working Hard & Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America more books like this by Margaret K Nelson, Joan Smith add to wishlist The economic recovery of the 1990s brought with it a surge of new jobs, but the prospects for most working Americans improved little. Family income rose only slightly and the period witnessed a significant degradation of the quality of work as well as in what people could expect from their waged employment. This book takes a look inside the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India more books like this by Professor Ashutosh Varshney add to wishlist Several scholars have written about how authoritarian or democratic political systems affect industrialization in the developing countries. There is no literature, however, on whether democracy makes a difference to the power and well-being of the countryside. Using India as a case where the longest-surviving democracy of the developing world ... see all copies from $6.78! new only from $22.77! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Peasants Versus City-Dwellers: Taxation and the Burden of Economic Development more books like this by Raaj K Sah, Joseph E Stiglitz add to wishlist In this book Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and co-author Raaj Sah address one of development's major issues. During the early phases of economic development, there are often serious conflicts between the interests of town and country. The Corn Law Debate in England, the economic conflicts between the North and the South prior to the US Civil War, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	From Heaven to Earth: Images and Experiences of Development in China more books like this by Elisabeth Croll add to wishlist Much has been written on China's peasant revolution, less has been written of the peasant experience of reform. Since 1979(?), when the first major reforms were introduced into China's villages, there have been many shifts and changes in the translation and practice of reform policies so that many of the initial assumptions and judgements made by ... see all copies from $4.18! new only from $48.17! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	When Elephants Fly: One Woman's Journey from Wall Street to Zululand more books like this by Carol Batrus add to wishlist After graduating from MIT and working in the health care field, Carol Batrus changed directions and got her MBA at Columbia and went to work for a prestigious New York investment bank. Still unsatisfied, she eventually gave it all up, cut the tether to her safe existence, and journey to a primitive Zulu village. In this remote and timeless place, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22	Seeds of Famine: Ecological Destruction and the Development Dilemma in the West African Sahel more books like this by Richard Franke, Barbara Chasin add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! first editions
23 view cover	Development Economics on Trial: The Anthropological Case for a Prosecution more books like this by Polly Hill add to wishlist Polly Hill's provocative new book examines the disastrous gulf that currently separates development economics from its sister discipline, economic anthropology. Working with material from the rural tropical world, much of it collected at first hand in West Africa and South India, Dr Hill demonstrates in the first, polemical part of her book how ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Globalizing Rural Development: Competing Paradigms and Emerging Realities more books like this by M C Behera (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of 17 papers examines the impact of the changing paradigm of rural development on poverty alleviation, equity, gender, food security, employment and sustainability. The volume's major concern is the goal of rural development being achieved in a globalized world. Specifically, it examines how endogenous and participatory approaches ... see all copies from $15.14! new only from $19.29! \| first editions
25 view cover	Peasant Power in China: The Era of Rural Reform, 1979-1989 more books like this by Professor Daniel Kelliher add to wishlist "This is a carefully wrought, intelligent, well-written, and original analysis of central issues in Chinese peasant politics. It is, moreover, cast in the larger framework of issues of considerable moment in social sciences."-Mark Selden, coauthor of Chinese Village, Socialist State "This brilliant, original, and formidably researched book ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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