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Price: $27.50
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Sale: $8.11
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Alice H. Amsden
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 337.7301724
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Publication Date: 2007-06-29
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: The American government has been both miracle worker and villain in the developing world. From the end of World War II until the 1980s poor countries, including many in Africa and the Middle East, enjoyed a modicum of economic growth. New industries mushroomed and skilled jobs multiplied, thanks in part to flexible American policies that showed an awareness of the diversity of Third World countries and an appreciation for their long-standing knowledge about how their own economies worked. Then during the Reagan era, American policy changed. The definition of laissez-faire shifted from "Do it your way" to an imperial "Do it our way." Growth in the developing world slowed, income inequalities skyrocketed, and financial crises raged. Only East Asian economies resisted the strict prescriptions of Washington and continued to boom. Why?
In Escape from Empire, Alice Amsden argues provocatively that the more freedom a developing country has to determine its own policies, the faster its economy will grow. America's recent inflexibility—as it has single-mindedly imposed the same rules, laws, and institutions on all developing economies under its influence—has been the backdrop to the rise of two new giants, China and India, who have built economic power in their own way.
Amsden describes the two eras in America's relationship with the developing world as "Heaven" and "Hell"—a beneficent and politically savvy empire followed by a dictatorial, ideology-driven one. What will the next American empire learn from the failure of the last? Amsden argues convincingly that the world—and the United States—will be far better off if new centers of power are met with sensible policies rather than hard-knuckled ideologies. But, she asks, can it be done?
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Price: $52.95
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Sale: $46.87
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Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael J. Bamberger::Jim Rugh::Linda Mabry
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Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 001.4
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Publication Date: 2006-02-13
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Reading Level: 504
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Description: "I was quite impressed with how this book balanced the technical aspects with practical advice for managing budget, time and political constraints. The use of case study examples and checklists/worksheets helped to make the book much more “grounded in practice” compared to other texts. I like to think of myself as an experienced, well-read evaluator, but I must confess that I learned quite a lot from this book!"
-Scott Bayley, Victorian Auditor-General's Office, Australia
"[The authors] have really broken new ground by providing the guidance on how to apply the theory to reality. I plan to recommend this book highly, and [the authors have] have given me some great ideas on how to improve our evaluation capacity building efforts (and that’s after reading just a few chapters!). Thanks for developing the RealWorld Evaluation approach to its full potential as a new way of thinking about and practicing evaluation."
-Paula Bilinsky, AED Senior Evaluation Analyst
"The breadth and depth of the authors’ experiences in international and national settings is apparent on every page."
-Donna M. Mertens, Gallaudet University
“Each page of this book contains nugget after nugget of useful, pragmatic, and practical advice.”
-Kent Glenzer, Director, Impact Measurement and Learning Team, CARE USA
RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints is the only textbook that provides specific guidance on how to conduct evaluations when working under resource and/or data constraints. Authors Michael Bamberger, Jim Rugh, and Linda Mabry illustrate options for addressing each constraint through practical examples from both developed and developing countries to show how adapting to different types of exigencies can lead to successful evaluations.
Key Features: - Provides practical guidance: Specific and well documented case studies are provided for addressing budget, time, and data constraints, and for dealing with political pressures. Guidelines are offered for protecting the validity of conclusions when measures must be taken to save costs and time.
- Uses a mixed-methods approach: Adapting a range of methods to real-world situations, this text draws on quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches. Design, methods, cultural sensitivity, validity, credibility, and reporting are among the many topics addressed. In addition, triangulation is encouraged for increasing the validity of findings.
- Incorporates a unique seven-step model: A systematic step-by-step approach that is logical and easy to follow is presented. Frameworks and checklists are provided for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of an evaluation and providing strategies to overcome the weaknesses and improve the design and validity.
Intended Audience:
Perfect supplementary text for any advanced undergraduate or graduate introductory program evaluation course across disciplines including Education, Public Administration, Management, Social Work, Public Health, and Nursing; in addition it will also appeal to researchers in government agencies, NGOs, evaluation consultants, and other evaluation practitioners.
Visit the authors' Web site at http://www.realworldevaluation.org/ (20061214)
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $16.95
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David Singh Grewal
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.482
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Publication Date: 2008-04-28
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: For all the attention globalization has received in recent years, little consensus has emerged concerning how best to understand it. For some, it is the happy product of free and rational choices; for others, it is the unfortunate outcome of impersonal forces beyond our control. It is in turn celebrated for the opportunities it affords and criticized for the inequalities in wealth and power it generates. David Singh Grewal’s remarkable and ambitious book draws on several centuries of political and social thought to show how globalization is best understood in terms of a power inherent in social relations, which he calls network power. Using this framework, he demonstrates how our standards of social coordination both gain in value the more they are used and undermine the viability of alternative forms of cooperation. A wide range of examples are discussed, from the spread of English and the gold standard to the success of Microsoft and the operation of the World Trade Organization, to illustrate how global standards arise and falter. The idea of network power supplies a coherent set of terms and concepts—applicable to individuals, businesses, and countries alike—through which we can describe the processes of globalization as both free and forced. The result is a sophisticated and novel account of how globalization, and politics, work. |
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.87
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.91091724
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Publication Date: 2007-04-01
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Reading Level: 136
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Description: With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a day, and with eight million dying each year because they are simply too poor to live, most would agree that the problem of global poverty is our greatest moral challenge. The large and pressing practical question is how best to address that challenge. Although millions of dollars flow to poor countries, the results are often disappointing.
In Making Aid Work, Abhijit Banerjee—an "aid optimist"—argues that aid has much to contribute, but the lack of analysis about which programs really work causes considerable waste and inefficiency, which in turn fuels unwarranted pessimism about the role of aid in fostering economic development.
Banerjee challenges aid donors to do better. Building on the model used to evaluate new drugs before they come on the market, he argues that donors should assess programs with field experiments using randomized trials. In fact, he writes, given the number of such experiments already undertaken, current levels of development assistance could focus entirely on programs with proven records of success in experimental conditions.
Responding to his challenge, leaders in the field—including Nicholas Stern, Raymond Offenheiser, Alice Amsden, Ruth Levine, Angus Deaton, and others—question whether randomized trials are the most appropriate way to evaluate success for all programs. They raise broader questions as well, about the importance of aid for economic development and about the kinds of interventions (micro or macro, political or economic) that will lead to real improvements in the lives of poor people around the world. With one in every six people now living in extreme poverty, getting it right is crucial.
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Price: $33.95
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Sale: $29.15
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Frank J. Lechner::John Boli
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306
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Publication Date: 2005-06-24
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Reading Level: 280
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Description: This book explores the development, content, and impact of world culture. Combining several of the most fruitful theoretical perspectives on world culture, including the world polity approach and globalization theory, the book gives a historical treatment of the development of world culture and assesses the complex impact of world culture on people, organizations, and societies. This is a provocative, synthetic, and grounded interpretation of world culture that is essential for any student or scholar of globalization and world affairs.
Traces world culture back from the mid-19th century to the present day
Includes numerous illustrations of key issues and empirical research
Written in lively, accessible language for the student and general scholar
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $32.23
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John L. Seitz
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.9
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Publication Date: 2007-09-10
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Reading Level: 328
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Description: Global Issues, Third Edition is an introduction to many of the most important environmental, economic, social, and political concerns of modern life.
* Offers a unified perspective on a complex range of global issues in a variety of societies, both developed and developing
* Includes new sections on foreign aid and development assistance, terrorism, the relationship between geography and wealth and poverty, food and the overweight, and the Millennium Development Goals
* Features an updated and expanded section on climate change, as well as a new glossary
* Illustrates key topics and issues with diagrams and photographs
* Provides guides to further reading, media, and internet resources, and suggestions for discussing and studying the material
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $12.28
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mark M. Smith
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 152.109
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Publication Date: 2008-02-04
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Do we rely on different senses now than the ones we relied on in the past? How have our senses affected history? How have the senses themselves changed? What role have the senses played in the ways we discriminate? Exploring illuminating examples from antiquity to the twenty-first century, this lively, concise introduction to the essential, emerging field of sensory history presents a new way of looking at the past that takes the everyday, the average, and the banal as seriously as it takes the history of elites, the intellect, and the exceptional. Considering each of the five senses, Mark M. Smith explores diverse subjects: visual culture in Victorian Britain and South America, sound in nineteenth-century Australia and France, gender politics and touch in early modern Europe and in native America, "race" and olfaction in the United States and scent in ancient Christianity, and the role of taste in shaping national identity in modern China and early America.
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $18.24
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Manufacturer: Dollars & Sense
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Binding: Perfect Paperback
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Author: Betsy Rakocy::Alejandro Reuss::Chris Sturr
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Publisher: Dollars & Sense
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Edition: 9th
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Publication Date: 2007-01-22
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: Real World Globalization is an essential guide to rapidly changing trends in global trade, investment, labor relations, and economic development. Its 74 articles provide jargon-free introductions to trade and financial institutions, work in the global economy, international debt, and global environmental, health, and resource issues. An extensive chapter on economic development critically analyzes neoliberal strategies in coutries from Mexico to China, and features a debate on the significance of rich nations' agricultural subsidies. The ninth edition is thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded - with over 40 new articles. It includes chapters on the political economy of war and imperialism, and on alternatives to neoliberalism. A new tenth chapter compiles Nick Thorkelson's "Comic Strips of Neoliberalism."
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $14.90
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Manufacturer: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jonathon Porritt
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Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.122
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Publication Date: 2007-09
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: When first published in 2005, Capitalism as if the World Matters, by one of the leading eco-warriors of our time, shocked both a generation of environmentalists and a generation of business people by brushing aside their petty squabbles and artificial battle lines with a powerful argument that the only way to save the world from fuel shortages, climate change and environmental catastrophe is to embrace a new type of capitalism, and to do it quickly.
In this substantially revised and updated edition, Porritt extends his powerful and controversial argument and answers his critics by providing fresh evidence and suggests new actions in a tightly argued and highly accessible book. New material includes in-depth coverage of the United States and the politics of climate change, the state of environmental debate and the massive upsurge in religious engagement with climate and the environment. Fresh case studies include the role of huge US corporations such as Walmart and General Electric in our sustainable capitalist future. Porritt also looks in-depth at China and the global impact this economic giant may have as it grows into the most environmentally damaging—or perhaps the first sustainable—superpower of the 21st century.
This is a must read for all readers with a stake in the future of the world from business executives to environmental activists and community leaders to students to the very politicians with their hands on the levers of power.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $3.32
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Manufacturer: Collins Business
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Noreena Hertz
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Publisher: Collins Business
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Dewey Decimal Number: 337
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Publication Date: 2003-09-01
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Of the world's 100 largest economies, 51 are now corporations, only 49 are nation-states. The sales of General Motors and Ford are greater than the gross domestic product of the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, and Wal-Mart now has a turnover higher than the revenues of most of the states of Eastern Europe. Yet few of us understand fully the growing dominance of big business. Widely acclaimed economist Noreena Hertz brilliantly reveals how corporations across the world manipulate and pressure governments by means both legal and illegal; how protest is becoming a more effective political weapon than the ballot-box; and how corporations are taking over from the state responsibility for everything from providing technology for schools to healthcare for the community. The Silent Takeover asks us to recognize the growing contradictions of a world divided between haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable wealth. In the face of these unacceptable extremes, Noreena Hertz outlines a new agenda to revitalize politics and renew democracy.
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