Category - Social Science
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War, Women and Post-Conflict Empowerment: Lessons from Sierra Leone
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Since the 1991-2002 civil conflict ended in Sierra Leone, the country has failed to translate the accomplishments of women's involvement in bringin...
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Hilton Cheong-Leen (Å1/4µæoe0/00è^^): First Chinese 'Mayor' of Hong Kong
HardcoverOriginal price $68.00 - Original price $68.00Original price $68.00$79.99$79.99 - $79.99Current price $79.99| /Hilton Cheong-Leen was a legend in Hong Kong's history. It is no coincidence that his 34 years of public service witnessed the city's historic tran...
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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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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Consistently entertaining and often downright funny." --The New Yorker "Wry and revelatory." --The New York Times"A romp, packed with tales of ang...
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Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist ...
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Greater Mekong Subregion Gender Strategy
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This strategy outlines a regional approach for advancing gender equality and women's empowerment in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS).The six GMS ...
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Just Transformations: Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00Original price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The climate crisis is the greatest existential threat humanity faces today. The need for a radical societal transformation in the interests of soci...
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On the Brink of Utopia: Reinventing Innovation to Solve the World's Largest Problems
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A new and coherent framework for fostering the breakthrough innovations that we urgently need to confront our collective future.We live in less i...
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Toward Sustainable Communities, Fifth Edition: Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99Original price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The go-to guide for sustainable community development, from the neighborhood to the regional level Fully revised and updated, Toward Sustainable Co...
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How to Save the City: A Guide for Emergency Action
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /A call to arms, How to Save the City invites the reader to engage with the challenges of living and working in cities at a time when several conf...
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The Remnants of Race Science: UNESCO and Economic Development in the Global South
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /After World War II, UNESCO launched an ambitious international campaign against race prejudice. Casting racism as a problem of ignorance, it soug...
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The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding for themselves.“A hopeful narrative about a c...
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The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age—when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen—an...
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Beyond Racial Capitalism: Co-Operatives in the African Diaspora
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Knowledge-making in the field of alternative economies has limited the inclusion of Black and racialized people's experience. In Beyond Racial Capi...
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Pyromania: Fire and Geopolitics in a Climate-Disrupted World
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /We are the only species that uses fire. It has determined how we have made our home on this planet and it has propelled us to the role of the dom...
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Tools for Conviviality
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Ivan Illich argues for individual personal control over life, the tools and energy we use. A work of seminal importance.The conviviality for whic...
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Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows ...
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