Modernity and Malaysia: Settling the Menraq Forest Nomads
ISBN: 9780415422536 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together over thirty years of detailed ethnographic research on the Menraq of Malaysia, this fascinating book analyzes and documents the experience of development and modernization in tribal communities. Descendents of hunter-gatherers who have inhabited Southeast Asia for about 40,000 years, the Menraq (also known as Semang or Negritos) were nomadic foragers until they were resettled in a Malaysian government-mandated settlement in 1972. Modernity and Malaysia begins with the 'Jeli Incident' in which several Menraq were alleged to have killed three Malays, members of the... Bringing together over thirty years of detailed ethnographic research on the Menraq of Malaysia, this fascinating book analyzes and documents the e... |
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188,55 zł |
Watershed Development and Livelihoods: People's Action in India
ISBN: 9780415449045 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyses the empowerment process of the Bhil as a result of the implementation of the watershed project in Jhabua. This visionary project, planned and implemented by the Bhil community, has put in place an integrated strategy that has given them control over their livelihood. It is examined against the backdrop of a framework that links three important aspects-biophysical (resource management and ecological balance), socio-economic (productivity, agricultural growth and livelihood support) and institutional (sustainable resource use, equity and benefit-cost sharing); and... This book analyses the empowerment process of the Bhil as a result of the implementation of the watershed project in Jhabua. This visionary project... |
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433,21 zł |
The Human Cost of African Migrations
ISBN: 9780415958370 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political world order. This book contributes to the discourse on the beneficiaries, benefactors, and the casualties of African displacement. While the few existing studies have emphasized economic motivation as the primary factor triggering African migration, this volume treats a range of issues: economic, socio-political, pedagogical, developmental, and cultural. Organized with a multidisciplinary thrust in mind, this book argues that any discussion of... In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political w... |
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713,61 zł |
International Focus Group Research: A Handbook for the Health and Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780521607803 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A practical and authoritative guide to conducting focus group discussions in health and social science research, with particular emphasis on using focus groups in developing country settings. Monique M. Hennink describes the procedures and challenges of each stage of international focus group research. This book demonstrates how to balance scientific rigour with the challenges of the research context, and guides readers to make informed research decisions. It includes unique field perspectives and case study examples of research in practice. Topics covered include: planning international...
A practical and authoritative guide to conducting focus group discussions in health and social science research, with particular emphasis on using foc...
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168,16 zł |
International Focus Group Research: A Handbook for the Health and Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780521845618 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A practical and authoritative guide to conducting focus group discussions in health and social science research, with particular emphasis on using focus groups in developing country settings. Monique M. Hennink describes the procedures and challenges of each stage of international focus group research. This book demonstrates how to balance scientific rigour with the challenges of the research context, and guides readers to make informed research decisions. It includes unique field perspectives and case study examples of research in practice. Topics covered include: planning international...
A practical and authoritative guide to conducting focus group discussions in health and social science research, with particular emphasis on using foc...
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244,67 zł |
Latin America after the Washington Consensus: Re-assessing Policies and Priorities
ISBN: 9780595385850 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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46,91 zł |
Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education
ISBN: 9780688178116 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the sensational success of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead continued her brilliant work in Growing Up in New Guinea, detailing her study of the Manus, a New Guinea people still untouched by the outside world when she visited them in 1928. She lived in their noisy fishing village at a pivotal time -- after warfare had vanished but before missions and global commerce had begun to change their lives. She developed fascinating insights into their family lives, exploring their attitudes toward sex, marriage, the rearing of children, and the...
Following the sensational success of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead continued her brilliant work in Growing Up in...
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89,92 zł |
A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty: How Multinationals Can Help the Poor and Invigorate Their Own Legitimacy
ISBN: 9780691122298 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. World leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority. And yet it persists. Indeed, in many countries whose governments lack either the desire or the ability to act, poverty has worsened. This book, a joint venture of a Harvard professor and an economist with the International Finance Corporation, argues that the solution lies in the creation of a new institution, the World Development Corporation (WDC), a partnership of multinational corporations (MNCs), international development agencies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). In A Corporate Solution to... World leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority. And yet it persists. Indeed, in many countries whose governments lack either... |
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118,04 zł |
Embodied Working Lives: Manual Laboring in Maharashtra, India
ISBN: 9780739108765 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Embodied Working Lives explores the work-a-day of seasonal migrant laborers in India through a nexus of embodiment theories to enhance our understanding of what constitutes the intense, lived, and physical experience of such work. Echoing constructive explorations of labor science (Bernard Doray) but in the sentiment and with the intense rigor of contemporary phenomenology and labor studies, Louise Waite gives us unique and original ethnographic research to help enhance our understanding of laboring bodies and the policies that effect them.
Embodied Working Lives explores the work-a-day of seasonal migrant laborers in India through a nexus of embodiment theories to enhance our understandi...
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504,36 zł |
African Renaissance in the Millennium: The Political, Social, and Economic Discourses on the Way Forward
ISBN: 9780739122525 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book brings into sharp focus some of the major political, social, and economic issues that might impede Africa's development project in the 21st century. It debates and suggests ways that policy makers might tackle these issues in order to promote the vision of the continent's transformation in the millennium.
The book brings into sharp focus some of the major political, social, and economic issues that might impede Africa's development project in the 21st c...
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225,35 zł |
Cultivating Development: An Ethnography Of Aid Policy And Practice
ISBN: 9780745317991 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Development agencies and researchers are preoccupied with policy; 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? Suppose that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy that legitimises and mobilises political support - in reality make it impossible to implement? By focusing in detail on the unfolding activities of a development project in western India over more than ten years, as it falls under different policy regimes, this book takes a close look at the... Development agencies and researchers are preoccupied with policy; with exerting influence over policy, linking research to policy and with implementin...
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456,07 zł |
Caught Between Borders: Response Strategies of the Internally Displaced
ISBN: 9780745318189 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Internally displaced persons are those who have been forced to flee their homes and who do not cross an internationally recognized border. There are an astounding 28 million people around the world who currently qualify as IDPs. Unlike refugees, they have no organisation to deal with their plight. Very little is known about how people respond to the experience of displacement. In economic terms, the presence of the internally displaced is obvious. What are less obvious are the informal protection mechanisms that enable people to cope with the experience of displacement: the information...
Internally displaced persons are those who have been forced to flee their homes and who do not cross an internationally recognized border. There are a...
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160,91 zł |
Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis
ISBN: 9780745320755 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First paperback edition of this acclaimed title. 'This brave and moving book forces us to open our eyes to the full extent of the devastation that AIDS is causing in Africa.' Susan Sarandon
First paperback edition of this acclaimed title. 'This brave and moving book forces us to open our eyes to the full extent of the devastation that AID...
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134,09 zł |
Globalization, Development and the Mass Media
ISBN: 9780761961611 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book gives a comprehensive and critical account of the theoretical changes in communication studies from the early theories of development communication through to the contemporary critiques of globalization. It looks at the ways in which the media can be used to effect change and development, and traces the evolution of thinking from attempts to spread 'modernity' by way of using the media through to alternative perspectives based on encouraging participation in development communication. It explores the theory of media imperialism, the criticisms that it provoked, and its replacement...
This book gives a comprehensive and critical account of the theoretical changes in communication studies from the early theories of development commun...
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759,49 zł |
The Labors of Sisyphus: The Economic Development of Communist China
ISBN: 9780765806611 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost a half century has passed since the inception of the People's Republic cf China. In that time a charismatic leader has ruled and died, leaving a wake of .Destruction in his quest to transform China. In that time, too, the PRC's most powerful ally and mentor, the Soviet Union, has dismantled and announced that jcmmunism had failed. Today, China fluctuates between tradition and modernity, ideology and pragmatism, between an antiquated collectivist ethic and a new spirit rf individualism. It is a country precariously suspended between past and future. Maria Hsia Chang's... Almost a half century has passed since the inception of the People's Republic cf China. In that time a charismatic leader has ruled and die... |
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Making Development Work: Development Learning in a World of Poverty and Wealth
ISBN: 9780765809155 / Angielski / Miękka / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Worldwide, the number of poor people increased during the past decade, despite technological improvements, more open trade, and improved policy frameworks in developing countries. Regional conflicts, adverse shifts in terms of trade, and marginalization of poor countries in the new global economy explain this outcome. This highlights the need to reform development assistance and improve its effectiveness. Making Development Work examines the four key principles of the Comprehensive-Development Framework, a World Bank initiative currently being piloted in twelve developing...
Worldwide, the number of poor people increased during the past decade, despite technological improvements, more open trade, and improved policy framew...
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Fertility: Current South African Issues of Poverty, HIV/AIDS and Youth: Seminar Proceedings
ISBN: 9780796920355 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collaborative volume details fertility trends in post-apartheid South Africa.
This collaborative volume details fertility trends in post-apartheid South Africa.
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69,48 zł |
Arab Human Development Report 2004 : Towards Freedom in the Arab World
ISBN: 9780804751841 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Connection with the UNDP-RBAS Since 1990, the United Nations Development Program has been providing annual -Human Development Reports- that set out the basic social and economic indicators for the nations of the world. The Arab Human Development Report, which is focused exclusively on the twenty-two Arab states, provides a comprehensive and comparative examination of the region. Filled with charts, tables, and sidebars, the book provides analysis of the current situation, compares Arab performance with other world areas, and provides an agenda for action. Past AHDRs have focused on...
In Connection with the UNDP-RBAS Since 1990, the United Nations Development Program has been providing annual -Human Development Reports- that set out...
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122,28 zł |
Telecommunications Politics : Ownership and Control of the information Highway in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780805817522 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume addresses telecommunications policy in developing countries, ranging from low-income countries with overburdened, rural roads in south Asia and Africa, to digitalized fibre-optic super highways in middle-income countries such as Singapore.
This volume addresses telecommunications policy in developing countries, ranging from low-income countries with overburdened, rural roads in south Asi...
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458,70 zł |
Rethinking Freire : Globalization and the Environmental Crisis
ISBN: 9780805851144 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This landmark collection of essays by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and the ecological crisis.
One source of the activist-authors' criticisms of Freire's pedagogy is rooted in their attempts to combine consciousness raising with literacy programs in such diverse cultural settings as Bolivia, Peru, India, Southern Mexico, and Cambodia, where they discovered that Freire's pedagogy is based on western assumptions that... This landmark collection of essays by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and hi...
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662,64 zł |