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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 $14.98! new only from $14.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Location of Culture more books like this by Homi K Bhabha, Homi K Bhadha add to wishlist This text sets out the conceptual imperative and political consistency of the post-colonial intellectual project. This series of essays explains why the post-colonial critique has altered forever the landscape of postmodern discourse. It examines, among other things, the displacement of the colonizer's legitimizing cultural authority and looks at ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $19.58! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World more books like this by Michelle Goldberg add to wishlist In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Kingdom Coming" exposes the global war on women's reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported consequences. see all copies from $2.04! new only from $2.04! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Urban World more books like this by J John Palen add to wishlist Long the leading text in urban sociology, "The Urban World" continues to provide a comprehensive, balanced, up-to-date, cross-cultural look at cities and suburbs around the world. Offering a 21st century view of the changing urban scene, the text covers evolving urban patterns and the changing nature of urban life. Combining expert scholarship ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.01! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity more books like this by Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Chandra Talpademohanty add to wishlist Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "Feminism without Borders" addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. Forging vital links between daily life and collective action and between theory and pedagogy, Mohanty has been at the vanguard of ... see all copies from $10.94! new only from $16.39! \| first editions \| SVS
6	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
7	The Challenge for Africa more books like this by Wangari Maathai add to wishlist The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement offers a refreshingly unique perspective on the challenge facing Africa, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves. see all copies from $14.92! new only from $14.92! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	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
9	Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach more books like this by Martha Craven Nussbaum add to wishlist In this major book Martha Nussbaum, one of the most innovative and influential philosophical voices of our time, proposes a new kind of feminism that is genuinely international, argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and public policy, and dramatically moves beyond the abstractions of economists and ... see all copies from $16.04! new only from $19.30! \| first editions \| SVS
10	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 $2.99! \| SVS
11 view cover	Ethnic Groups in Conflict more books like this by Donald L Horowitz add to wishlist Drawing material from dozens of divided societies, this text constructs a theory of ethnic conflict, relating ethnic affiliations to kinship and intergroup relations to the fear of domination. see all copies from $6.37! new only from $29.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The women, gender & development reader more books like this by Nalini Visvanathan add to wishlist This is a reader, for undergraduates and development practitioners, that presents the best of the body of literature that has grown up alongside the acknowledgement that women play a critical role in the development process. The book is divided into five parts which cover, respectively: a review of the history of the theoretical debates; the ... see all copies from $4.97! new only from $21.75!
13 view cover	Festival Elephants and the Myth of Global Poverty more books like this by Glynn Cochrane add to wishlist Part of the "Anthropology Works" series, this book offers a critical look at the compelling issue of global aid. Glynne Cochrane draws on his many years as a development anthropologist to show how the "Festival Elephants" of development aid are wasting time and money instead of helping to solve poverty. The author takes issue with the idea that ... see all copies from $11.75! new only from $11.75! \| SVS
14 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
15 view cover	The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change more books like this by J Timmons Roberts (Actor), Amy Bellone Hite (Editor) add to wishlist "The Globalization and Development Reader" builds on the success of "From Modernization to Globalization", published by the editors in 2000 and used around the world. It provides an up-to-date primer and key reference for students, scholars, and development practitioners wishing to get up to speed quickly on the issues surrounding social change ... see all copies from $31.85! new only from $38.08! \| SVS
16 view cover	Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism more books like this by Uma Narayan, Narayan Uma add to wishlist Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these misrepresentations since colonial times, Uma Narayan ... see all copies from $7.16! new only from $35.01!
17 view cover	Promises Not Kept: The Betrayal of Social Change in the Third World more books like this by John Isbister add to wishlist In the fifth edition of this broadly adopted text, author John Isbister brings the dilemmas of International poverty and the Third World into the 21st century. Besides including the most current information, data, and discussion of political change around the world, PROMISES NOT KEPT now highlights the divergent paths chosen by different ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.96! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Gender and Development more books like this by Janet Henshall Momsen add to wishlist Since the classic Women and Development in the Third World was published over a decade ago, a new awareness of the importance of gender roles in development has grown. Globalization, international migration, refugees and conditions of war have brought these issues of gender and development to the public attention. At the same time, gender ... see all copies from $19.00! new only from $41.37! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Globalization of Poverty more books like this by Michel Chossudovsky add to wishlist In this new and expanded edition of Chossudovsky's international best-seller, the author outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment, generates social apartheid, encourages racism and ethnic strife and undermines the rights of women. The result as his detailed examples from all ... see all copies from $16.00! new only from $31.98!
20 view cover	The True Cost of Low Prices: The Violence of Globaliztion more books like this by Vincent A Gallagher add to wishlist An expose of the results of Today's Global economy on the poor. Low prices that benefit first-world consumers often put the poor at even greater risk. As tansnational corporations try to increase profits by reducing costs, laborers in Latin America, Asia or Africa, or here in the U.S. work long hours but are still poor, hungry, and subject to ... see all copies from $6.37! new only from $11.31! \| SVS
21 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 $4.52! new only from $33.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants more books like this by David Bacon add to wishlist For two decades veteran photojournalist David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. In Illegal People Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people in Latin America and Asia, driving them to migrate. At the same time, U.S. immigration policy makes the labor ... see all copies from $9.50! new only from $10.96! \| SVS
23 view cover	World Regional Geography: A Development Approach more books like this by David L Clawson (Editor) add to wishlist This introduction to world geography explores our increasing interdependent world from a development perspective. This perspective provides a framework for understanding the increasing commercial, cultural, political, and economic intersection between cultures and regions, and helps students understand how these global intersections affect our ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World more books like this by Uma Narayan (Editor), Sandra Harding (Editor) add to wishlist A considerable amount of feminist thinking today works across borders in ways that unsettle familiar philosophical and political frameworks. It cuts across the borders of traditional disciplinary configurations, borrowing, incorporating, and transforming the methodological approaches as well as the concrete concerns of the disciplines. Moreover, ... see all copies from $9.33! new only from $25.14! \| SVS
25 view cover	Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media more books like this by Ella Shohat, Shohat Ella add to wishlist "Unthinking Eurocentrism" explores issues of Eurocentrism and multiculturalism in relation to popular culture, film and the mass media. The book "multiculturalizes" media studies by looking at Hollywood movie genres such as the western, the musical and the imperial film from multicultural perspectives, examining issues from the racial politics of ... see all copies from $9.24! new only from $22.95! \| first editions

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