Category - Social Science
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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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Conflict Minerals, Inc.: War, Profit and White Saviourism in Eastern Congo
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In the twenty-first century, the relationship between violent conflict and natural resources has become a matter of intense public and academic deb...
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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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African Institutions: Challenges to Political, Social, and Economic Foundations of Africa's Development
PaperbackOriginal price $49.00 - Original price $49.00Original price $49.00$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /Written by the leading scholar on Africa, this comprehensive text examines three key issue areas in Africa: politics, society, and economy. Featuri...
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Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An ambitious and shocking expos of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early ...
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Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the developing world" (Kirkus Reviews) with deep resonance in the present day In a book Pa...
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Heineken in Africa: A Multinational Unleashed
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /For Heineken, "rising Africa" is already a reality: the profits it extracts there are almost 50 per cent above the global average, and beer costs...
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The Power of Perceptions in the Middle East: A Study of Contradictory Political and Economic Interests
PaperbackOriginal price $109.99 - Original price $109.99Original price $109.99$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /This book analyzes conflicting political views and narratives held by different forces, both at the local and regional levels in the Middle East. B...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Clayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator’s Dilemma and the New York Times bestseller How Will You Measure Yo...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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