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  • A Ciência ao Serviço do Desenvolvimento?
    Contributions discuss the experiences of the citizens of Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe. and suggest some answers to the challenges they face. Each of the authors presents studies that carefully examine the political, social and economic context. They suggest that the progress made in recent decades in women's rights and empowerment,...
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    58,28 €

  • Environment, Agriculture and Cross-border Migrations
    Emmanuel Yenshu Vubo
    This book brings together contributions on the challenges of the environment, agriculture and cross-border migrations in Africa; key areas that have become critical for the continent’s development. The central theme running through these contributions is that Africa’s development challenges can be attributed to its human and natural ecology. Contrasted with the Cold War epoch, ...
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    46,17 €

  • Somalis
    A Osman Farah
    Contemporary scholarship characterizes Somalia as a nation in search of statehood. The approach presupposes a homogenous cohesive nation and society- with considerable traditional democratic pastoralism. This book portrays a complex nation with multiple heterogeneous characteristics. This alternative approach reflects the socio-political and  the historical formations, inventio...
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    29,55 €

  • Handbook of Research on Transitional Justice and Peace Building in Turbulent Regions
    In the era of globalization, awareness surrounding issues of violence and human rights violations has reached an all-time high. In a world where billions of human beings have the potential to create endless destruction, these same individuals are capable of working cooperatively to create adequate solutions to current global problems. The Handbook of Research on Transitional Ju...
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    387,38 €

  • Saudi Arabia in Transition
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    110,10 €

  • Land in the Struggles for Citizenship in Africa
    The variety of land questions facing Africa and the divergent strategies proposed to resolve them continue to evoke debates. Increasingly, in response to the enduring problems of land tenure, there are land movements of all shapes and orientations, some reformist and others quite revolutionary in their agenda. However revolutionary, land movements have tended to ignore the land...
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    68,00 €

  • Inequality and Climate Change. Perspectives from the South
    Gian Carlo Delgado-Ramos
    Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of the twenty-first century. Anthropogenic activities, such as fossil fuel consumption and other activities focused on enhancing economic growth, have been identified as the main drivers of changes in the environment that defy planetary boundaries. The transgression of planetary boundaries has profound implications for pract...
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    46,02 €

  • Diverse but Not Broken
    Iyorwuese Hagher
    This stunning collection of essays, speeches, and addresses presents a portrait of Nigeria as seen by one of the country’s best public intellectual, scholar and diplomat, Ambassador Iyorwuese Hagher.The book captures in lucid prose and engaging erudition, a rich trove of information about Nigeria and its place in the new world order with brilliance, boldness, and provocation.Ha...
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    15,29 €

  • Escritura e imagen en Hispanoamérica
    Cécile Michaud
    'La relación entre la escritura y la imagen se ha dado de forma ininterrumpida en Hispanoamérica desde la época virreinal, tanto en el contexto de las primeras crónicas ilustradas y la pintura o emblemática colonial como en creaciones mucho más recientes, vinculadas a un proceso de formación de identidad y un trabajo de memoria desde las tablas de Sarhua hasta el manga peruano ...
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    16,43 €

  • African Institutions
    Ali A. Mazrui / Ali AMazrui / Francis Wiafe-Amoako
    Every political system, either developed or adopted, has an impact on the structure of society and the level of development. This book analyzes the evolution and nature of political institutions and their effect on Africa’s development. The challenges Africa face in developing viable institutions are not limited to the adoption of foreign institutions, but are also rooted in do...
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    127,93 €

  • African Institutions
    Ali A Mazrui / Ali A. Mazrui / Ali AMazrui / Francis Wiafe-Amoako
    Every political system, either developed or adopted, has an impact on the structure of society and the level of development. This book analyzes the evolution and nature of political institutions and their effect on Africa’s development. The challenges Africa face in developing viable institutions are not limited to the adoption of foreign institutions, but are also rooted in do...
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    55,96 €

  • Visao territorial e sustentável do desenvolvimiento.
    Autores Varios
    Estos dos volúmenes sistematizan los resultados obtenidos en los dos años que se ha realizado el Máster «Visión Territorial y Sostenible del Desarrollo». Con la elaboración del Trabajo Final de Máster, se analizan las dinámicas de desarrollo local de un territorio en concreto, así como el diseño de estrategias pendientes que permiten avanzar en la construcción de un territorio ...
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    25,00 €

  • Visao territorial e sustentável do desenvolvimiento.
    Autores Varios
    Estos dos volúmenes sistematizan los resultados obtenidos en los dos años que se ha realizado el Máster «Visión Territorial y Sostenible del Desarrollo». Con la elaboración del Trabajo Final de Máster, se analizan las dinámicas de desarrollo local de un territorio en concreto, así como el diseño de estrategias pendientes que permiten avanzar en la construcción de un territorio ...
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    25,00 €

  • Waking the Lion
    Roger L. Jennings
    Within each of us is the heart of a lion. Each of us can make a difference.  One man, a hunchback working for the YMCA, saved 1,250,000 people from death. Others who could have helped to save humanity instead were self-dealing. Most people of the world would cower and run. They are called refugees. Americans are different. This American from the Y risked his own and his son’s l...
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    14,55 €

  • Africa and the Millennium Development Goals
    This unique work by the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, tracks the progress Africa has made in achieving the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) since 2000. Thirteen analytical chapters written by scholars and practitioners with expertise in the various areas covered by the eight MDGs are organized around the larger themes of polit...
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    112,43 €

  • Development and the State in the 21st Century
    Andrea Kendall-Taylor / Erica Frantz / Natasha Ezrow
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    225,61 €

  • Democracy, Good Governance and Development in Africa
    Questions surrounding democracy, governance, and development especially in view of Africa have provoked acrimonious debates in the past few years. It remains a perennial question why some decades after political independence in Africa the continent continues experiencing bad governance, lagging behind socio-economically, and its democracy questionable. We admit that a plethora ...
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    67,81 €

  • Broken Promises of Globalization
    Shahidur Rahman
    Broken Promises of Globalization: The Case of the Bangladesh Garment Industry analyzes the consequences of the latest wave of globalization within the context of the Bangladesh garment industry’s integration into world markets and production chains. Shahidur Rahman has found that although globalization has created opportunities, the process of globalization has also triggered a...
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    79,54 €

  • Autocracy and Redistribution
    Michael Albertus
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    35,17 €

  • The Knowledge Plexus
    George Chorafakis
    This book is a collection of 5 essays on the economic geography of technological knowledge. Their common threads are: (i) the quest for a new paradigm in economic geography, termed ’systemic’, as an alternative to the neoclassical, based on the epistemological premise of emergence and the theories of evolution and complexity; and (ii) the intent to explain the process of techno...
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    65,82 €

  • The State of African Cities 2014
    United Nations Human Settlements Program
    The African continent is currently in the midst of simultaneously unfolding and highly significant demographic, economic, technological, environmental, urban and socio-political transitions. Africa's economic performance is promising, with booming cities supporting growing middle classes and creating sizable consumer markets. Despite significant overall growth, the continent co...
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    65,50 €

  • In the Absence of the Gift
    Anders Emil Rasmussen
    '. . . a very convincing case for the refiguring of our understanding of contemporary remittance motivations. Crucial to this is the focus on sharing, as opposed to formal transaction . . . Also original and exciting is the emphasis on the deployment of ’community’ as a crucial indigenous category of description and organization . . . I have not read a better or more convincing...
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    184,46 €

  • Where Are All Our Sheep?
    Boris Petric
    '...the best book to date on post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. It combines personal observations with careful, critical analysis. The style is at times humorous and conversational, creating the impression at first glance that it might be a somewhat superficial account of the region. In fact, however, it is an extraordinarily perceptive analysis of the process of transition and re-adjustm...
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    184,57 €

  • Empire, Global Coloniality & African Subjectivity
    Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni / Sabelo JNdlovu-Gatsheni
    '...Ndlovu-Gatsheni rejects modernist perspectives that present Africa as deficient [and],,, convincingly conveys the richness of African perspectives, arguing that problems are caused by how coloniality misappropriates Africa’s wealth. However, [the author] also demonstrates how some demagogical African governments, such as Zimbabwe’s ZANU-PF regime, are complicit in plunderin...
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    44,37 €

  • The Rebirth of African Civilization
    Chancellor Williams
    2015 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The book is an affirmation of education and an espousal of cooperative democracy as a way of life for the new Africa. It contains as well a report on social studies of African life. It also expounds on the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of Africa...
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    21,40 €

  • Socio-Economic Development
    Adam Szirmai
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    208,01 €

  • Socio-Economic Development
    Adam Szirmai
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    101,06 €

  • Information Economy Report 2015
    United Nations Conference on Trade and D
    Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is rapidly transforming the way in which enterprises are interacting among each other as well as with consumers and governments. Despite important potential benefits, businesses and consumers in developing countries were for a long time slow to exploit e-commerce. As a result of changes in the evolving landscape for information and communication...
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    77,60 €

  • SIHA Journal
    SIHA
    Women in Islam explores the complexities of gender relations in Muslim communities in the Horn of Africa and beyond, engaging critically with the social, political and cultural challenges associated with the intersection of Islam and gender. With an eclectic selection of essays, academic papers, opinion pieces and personal narratives punctuated with poetry and art, the journal ...
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    43,91 €

  • Africa
    Thandika Mkandawire
    Professor Thandika Mkandawire, the first to hold the Chair in African Development at the London School of Economics, delivered the thirty-second in the Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lecture series at the University of Ghana in 2013. In these lectures, combining with and imagination with down-to-earth political economy, he traces Africa's attempts at growth and developme...
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    38,66 €


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