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  • Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries
    The mobile technology field is expanding with innovative research and discoveries that expand to all walks of life. Mobile technology may have its greatest impact in the developing world, because it brings telecommunication to districts that had never been reached before. Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries: Effects and Implications re...
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    236,22 €

  • Technological Advancement in Developed and Developing Countries
    Advancements in technological innovation and adoption impact modern organizations on an increasingly global level. There is now a continual need for research on recent developments and future considerations that promote the successful management of knowledge, ideas, and practice among developed and developing nations. Technological Advancement in Developed and Developing Countr...
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    236,81 €

  • Global Perspectives on Trade Integration and Economies in Transition
    Vasily Erokhin
    In the era of globalization, foreign trade has an immense impact upon modern economies. To succeed in the global marketplace, sustainable development in trade practices is an imperative goal for countries to reach. Global Perspectives on Trade Integration and Economies in Transition is an authoritative reference source for the latest research on the dynamics of transitional eco...
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    275,80 €

  • Handbook of Research on Consumerism and Buying Behavior in Developing Nations
    Ayantunji Gbadamosi
    Having a grasp on what appeals to consumers and how consumers are making purchasing decisions is essential to the success of any organization that thrives by offering a product or service. Despite the importance of consumer knowledge and understanding, research-based insight into the buying patterns and consumption habits of individuals in emerging nations remains limited. The ...
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    309,00 €

  • From Idea to Action
    Andrea Johnson / Mahbooba Waizi / TBD
    This powerful and timely book delves into the pivotal role Afghan women have played-and continue to play-in shaping the country’s social and economic future. Mahbooba Waizi blends rigorous research with her own compelling personal story, to bring to life the voices and experiences of women who, against immense odds, continue to transform their families, communities, and the nat...
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    42,20 €

  • INTELIGENCIA HUMANITARIA
    Atahualpa Campos
    La Nueva Brecha no es Digital, es CognitivaDurante las últimas tres décadas, la comunidad internacional ha invertido miles de millones de dólares y un capital político incalculable en combatir un enemigo que ya ha mutado: la brecha digital. Nos obsesionamos con los cables, con la fibra óptica, con el hardware y con la idea romántica de poner una computadora portátil en el pupit...
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    11,60 €

  • An Introduction to the Sociology of Rural Development
    Norman Long
    All too often economic aspects of development have been stressed without due regard to the sociological dimension. In this book, originally published in 1977, Norman Long uses empirical studies by sociologists and social anthropologists as a focus for his discussions of general theoretical and methodological issues. ...
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    154,48 €

  • Football, Development and Peace
    Joel Rookwood
    This book critically examines the intersection of football, development and peacebuilding through diverse case studies across global contexts. Drawing on the author’s experience of research and practice in sport-for-development, the book explores the potential of football as a unifying force and a tool of positive social change. ...
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    267,88 €

  • Borderland Anxieties
    Matthew Wilkinson
    Borderland Anxieties explores the complex relationships between liberalization, gender and migration in Nagaland, a state in Northeast India that is emerging from decades of armed conflict. ...
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    83,14 €

  • Mapping the Digital Divide in Africa
    This collection seeks to analyze the problems and opportunities associated with the ubiquitous digital revolution, providing a cross-disciplinary examination of digital disparities inhibiting social, political and economic progress across Africa. ...
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    82,58 €

  • Family and Work in Rural Societies
    Norman Long
    Drawing on data from rural communities both within and outside Europe, the contributors to this volume, originally published in 1984, examine the character and significance of non-wage forms of labour - for example unpaid household agricultural and domestic work and inter-household or community-level labour exchanges. ...
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    154,48 €

  • Integrating Strangers
    Anaïs Ménard
    Drawing on an ethnography of Sherbro coastal communities in Sierra Leone, this book analyses the politics and practice of identity through the lens of the reciprocal relations that exist between socio-ethnic groups. Anaïs Ménard examines the implications of the social arrangement that binds landlords and strangers in a frontier region, the Freetown Peninsula, characterized by h...
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    26,25 €

  • Megaprojects in Central America
    Ewelina Biczyńska / Katarzyna Dembicz
    Embedded in Southern voices and epistemologies, this book explores how local communities in Central America understand development and the good life in the context of large-scale infrastructure projects. It will interest scholars of development and Latin American studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners working in the region. ...
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    268,26 €

  • Climate Mitigation in the Land Sector of the Global South
    Michael I. Brown
    This book challenges dominant, top-down approaches to climate mitigation in the land sector, arguing that without genuine negotiation, recognized land rights, and tailored capacity building for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs), most solutions will inevitably fail or do harm. ...
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    268,10 €

  • Thai Girl Naked
    Noi Thawattana
    Tourists see the fantasy. Noi Thawattana lived the reality.In the neon haze of Bangkok’s nightlife, the truth is rarely unspoken. Western men arrive with 'beer goggles' and cultural ignorance, seeing only what they want to see in the go-go bars and massage parlors. They write memoirs filled with male bravado, totally missing the actual story.Until now.Noi Thawattana is a former...
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    16,52 €

  • Theatre and Media for Social Change in Malawi
    Zindaba Chisiza
    Theatre and Media for Social Change in Malawi examines contemporary participatory theatre and media as instruments for social transformation across multiple domains, including education, prisoner rehabilitation, gender equality, mental health support, and climate action. ...
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    268,20 €

  • TIZITA
    Marian Dodds
    Traversing personal narrative and broader social themes, this memoir will resonate with anyone who’s ever felt compelled to do good in the world, whether in person or by donation. Vivid descriptions, historical context and personal insights offer an immersion into Ethiopian life and the triumphs and challenges of international work through the eyes of a Canadian volunteer. TIZI...
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    37,17 €

  • We’re Not Supposed to Tell You
    Noi Thawattana
    The neon lights hide a cage.To the tourist, Thailand’s red-light districts look like a party. The girls are smiling, the music is loud, and the alcohol flows freely. If you ask a bargirl if she is happy, she will tell you yes. If you ask if she is forced to work, she will say no.She is lying. She has to.In We’re Not Supposed To Tell You, former insider Noi Thawattana breaks the...
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    14,49 €

  • Embracing Change in Coastal Sri Lanka
    R. L. Stirrat
    Focused on social change in a coastal village in Sri Lanka, this book emphasizes processes over structures, based on the fundamental premise that society is defined by change rather than stasis. In the village, change emerged as a response to broader economic and political forces, yet the people were far from passive victims of these external influences. Instead, they actively ...
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    184,43 €

  • STRATEGIC SHIFT
    ABDULLAH MOHD FAIZ
    How is Malaysia positioning itself amid US-China rivalry, Indo-Pacific tensions and technological disruption? This insightful collection of essays explores Malaysia’s strategic response to a rapidly changing world order - where great power competition, shifting regional dynamics and emerging technologies redefine the global landscape. From navigating the future of ASEAN and adv...
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    102,17 €

  • Chinese Development in Late-Socialist Laos
    Phill Wilcox
    This book considers how the rapid arrival of China has brought visions of development which converge and contest what has gone before, and how these inform individual and collective aspirations on the ground in Laos. ...
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    268,35 €

  • Southernising Criminology
    This book introduces the ’southern criminology’ movement, explores its theoretical, methodological, and philosophical tools, offers analytical accounts on the development of criminological thoughts in marginalised regions, and showcases the cutting edge of criminological research from southern settings. ...
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    75,73 €

  • CRAFTING ECONOMIC SECURITY IN THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION
    HSEUH CHIEN-WU ALEX
    This book addresses the up-to-date development and changing features of Economic Security. It corroborates with the concepts, policies and dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region. This book argues that economic security is an important component of national security, albeit it shall go beyond the narrowly defined national security which mainly focuses on military security and natio...
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    160,48 €

  • Development Discourse and Global History
    Aram Ziai
    Development Discourse and Global History introduces readers to the shifting ways in which people have been talking and writing about ’development’ over time, and the rules governing the conversation. ...
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    267,69 €

  • Development Discourse and Global History
    Aram Ziai
    Development Discourse and Global History introduces readers to the shifting ways in which people have been talking and writing about ’development’ over time, and the rules governing the conversation. ...
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    76,96 €

  • Formulating development
    Lola Wilhelm
    In the 1970s, Nestlé became a lightning rod for criticism against the food industry’s negative impacts on humans and their environment, especially in the Global South. But what has so far eluded historical scrutiny is that the picture was more nuanced.This book tells the exclusive story of how the Swiss food giant, and more broadly corporate capitalism, have shaped the aid indu...
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    169,54 €

  • Climate Change and Threatened Communities
    Yancey Orr
    A groundbreaking follow-up to the 2012 Climate Change and Threatened Communities book, this collection revisits the 15 original case studies, offering fresh insights from the authors on their research sites as they examine parallel developments in their academic fields over the past 13 years.Through the study of human interactions in environments ranging from subarctic tundra t...
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    89,47 €

  • Activating Arts to Understand Disability in Africa
    While Disability Studies has become more diversified in recent years, contemporary debates still favour the Northern Hemisphere, ignoring the lived experience of disabled people in much of the global South. ...
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    268,25 €

  • Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work
    Dario Azzellini / Marcelo Vieta
    This book investigates the return of workers’ self-management in recent decades as responses to recurring neoliberal crises. This book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of development studies, labour studies, political economy, sociology of development, sociology of work, and political science. ...
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    267,65 €

  • Effective Development Co-operation
    This book considers how development cooperation principles and practices can be made more inclusive and impactful. Global development researchers and students will benefit from the book’s ingenious blending of sector-specific insights and broader discussions of the themes underpinning contemporary development cooperation debates. ...
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    267,92 €


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