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The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2019 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020 “An urgent book.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times During a centur...
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The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Arundhati Roy examines the persistent inequality in India through an extensive critique of Gandhi's views on race, caste and imperialism. Product...
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Korea: The Impossible Country: South Korea's Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full st...
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Capitalism: A Ghost Story
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punis...
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North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /What is life in North Korea really like?This fascinating book by celebrated journalists Daniel Tudor and James Pearson explores that very questio...
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Caribbean Regional Integration: A Critical Development Approach
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of regional integration in the contemporary Caribbean, challenging the value of the neoliberal ...
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Humanitarian Fictions: Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /This book argues that the novel can enrich the critique of white saviorism while also imagining alternatives.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781531505486 ...
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The Economic Statecraft of the Gulf Arab States: Deploying Aid, Investment and Development Across the MENAP
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /This book is a study of a shift in the politics and finance of development from one centered in the institutions and ideas of the post-World War II...
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Imperialism and the Development Myth: How Rich Countries Dominate in the Twenty-First Century
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /China and Third World societies cannot 'catch up'. Much of the world's work has moved to the poor countries, yet - through dominating critical aspe...
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Great Transition in India: Issues and Debates
HardcoverOriginal price $88.00 - Original price $88.00Original price $88.00$100.99$100.99 - $100.99Current price $100.99| /India has been experiencing a significant transition as the new generation born after the economic reforms in 1991 has emerged as a main player in ...
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Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World: Colonial and Neoliberal Origins: Ecological and Collective Alternatives
HardcoverOriginal price $98.99 - Original price $98.99Original price $98.99$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka's on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and ne...
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Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World: Colonial and Neoliberal Origins: Ecological and Collective Alternatives
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka's on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and ne...
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Aid and the Help: International Development and the Transnational Extraction of Care
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle. Whether working for the United Nations, governmental aid agencies, or...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainable Peace and Security in Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $199.99 - Original price $199.99Original price $199.99$216.99$216.99 - $216.99Current price $216.99| /This handbook takes stock of the African Union's Vision 2020 to rid the African continent of wars, civil conflicts, human rights violations, and hu...
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Trade and Investment in East Africa: Prospects, Challenges and Pathways to Sustainability
PaperbackOriginal price $169.99 - Original price $169.99Original price $169.99$185.99$185.99 - $185.99Current price $185.99| /This book provides a thorough understanding of the key policy debates on international trade and investment for development with a focus on the Eas...
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Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Winner, American Library Association Booklist’s Top of the List, 2019 Adult Nonfiction Acclaimed writer Marie Arana delivers a cultural history o...
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I Miss the Rain in Africa: Peace Corps as a Third Act
HardcoverOriginal price $37.95Original price $37.95 - Original price $37.95Original price $37.95Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Winner - Nautilus Book Award 2022 Winner - Moritz Thomsen Peace Corps Experience Award 2022 A Top Ten Expat Book for 2021 from Expat Nest At a ti...
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I Miss the Rain in Africa: Peace Corps as a Third Act
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Winner - Nautilus Book Award 2022 Winner - Moritz Thomsen Peace Corps Experience Award 2022 A Top Ten Expat Book for 2021 from Expat Nest At a ti...
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Vietnam, Full Circle: A Combat Veteran Returns
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"The immigration officer at the airport in Saigon slid my passport over the scanner at his desk. After consulting his monitor, he remarked in Engli...
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE“Inspiring . . . extraordinar...
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Development in Latin America: Toward a New Future
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In Development in Latin America, Maristella Svampa explores the contemporary development and resistance dynamics of capitalist development -- the w...
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The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A sweeping look at the war over the Amazon—as activists,locals, and indigenous tribes struggle to save it from the threat of loggers, drug lords,...
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Arab Spring, Libyan Winter
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The Arab Spring captivated the planet. Mass action overthrew Tunisia's Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. The revolutionary wave spread to the far ...
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At the Center of the World in Ethiopia
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /At the Center of the World in Ethiopia by S. W. Omamo As the world lurches seemingly non-stop from one major humanitarian crisis to another, and as...
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