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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
Easterly, William
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A professor of economics pens an informed and excoriating attack on the tragic waste, futility, and hubris of the West's efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world, and provides constructive suggestions on how to move forward.


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Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina
Galeano, Eduardo
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Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom
Zoya
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A gripping, personal true story that goes beyond the headlines, this searing memoir of a young woman's life under Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime is also an epic tale of fear and suffering, courage and hope.


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From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice
Murray, Anne Firth
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From sex-selective abortions to millions of girls who are "disappeared," from 90 million girls who do not go to school to HIV/AIDS spreading fastest among adolescent girls, women face unique health challenges, writes Anne Firth Murray. In this searing... [More...]


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Ancient Futures: Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World
Norberg-Hodge, Helena
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"Updated with a new afterword by the author."


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Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa
Bledsoe, Caroline H.
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ForewordAnthony T. CarterPreface1. Introduction2. Reproductive Tolls and Temporalities in Studies of Reproduction3. Setting, Data, and Methods4. Managing the Birth Interval: Child Spacing5. Disjunctures and Anomalies: Deconstructing Child Spacing6.... [More...]


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Framework for Industrialization in Africa
Taku, Thomas A.
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This practical, solutions-oriented approach to African development provides a detailed overview of the steps needed for industrialization. It includes lessons from the developed world as well as descriptions of key facets of Africa's current environment. It... [More...]


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Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World
Panel on Urban Population Dynamics
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Virtually all of the growth in the world's population for the foreseeable future will take place in the cities and towns of the developing world. Over the next twenty years, most developing countries will for the first time become more urban than rural. The... [More...]


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The Sociology of Post-Colonial Societies: Economic Disparity, Cultural Diversity and Development
Goldthorpe, J. E.
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This is the completely revised and updated version of the immensely successful Sociology of the Third World. It is about the division of the world into rich and poor countries, and the disparities between rich and poor people, especially in poor countries.


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Bharat Mata: As Humanity Unfolds in Mother India
Pillow, Tracy Sanford
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