Developing & Emerging Countries
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Find Me Unafraid
$19.99 Add to cart“Kennedy is living proof that individuals can lead themselves, and their communities, out of poverty.” -Salma Hayek Pinault, Time 100
Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon
- Author: Odede, Kennedy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062292862
- Language: English
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The Challenge for Africa
$22.00 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking work, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement offers a new perspective on the troubles facing Africa today. Too often these challenges are portrayed … [more below]
- Author: Maathai, Wangari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0307390284
- Language: English
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Violent Saviors: The West’s Conquest of the Rest
$34.00 Add to cartA celebrated economist argues that economic development is not really development unless everyone has the right to consent to their own progress
For centuries, the developed Western world has exploit- Author: Easterly, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541675754
- Language: English
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
$19.99 Add to cartIn this new edition of their classic work, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works, providing a “rich and humane” (Financial Times) exam… [more below]
- Author: Banerjee, Abhijit V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1541706188
- Language: English
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Change Your World: How Anyone, Anywhere Can Make a Difference
$23.32 Read moreTwo of today’s most respected world-changers, leadership expert John C. Maxwell and global development leader Rob Hoskins, share their real-world experiences helping to transform millions of lives, co… [more below]
- Author: Maxwell, John C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1400224926
- Language: English
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The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century
$30.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE – WINNER OF THE 2025 Z?CALO BOOK PRIZE
A humanitarian leader with more than two decades of experience working for the United Nations takes aim at the glo- Author: Bauer, Jean-Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0593321685
- Language: English
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We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance
$31.99 Read moreShortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize
A deeply reported work of journalism that explores the promises and perils of microfinance, told through the eyes of international lenders and women borrower- Author: Kardas-Nelson, Mara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1250817226
- Language: English
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Planet of Slums
$19.95 Read moreThe “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization–by the world’s leading urbanist (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize-winning autho… [more below]
- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1784786616
- Language: English
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The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
$32.50 Add to cartThe epic story of the past, present, and future of world order, offering a “timely” (Odd Arne Westad, coauthor of The Great Transformation) argument that the decline of the West may be a good thing fo… [more below]
- Author: Acharya, Amitav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604148
- Language: English
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The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi
$19.95 Add to cartArundhati Roy examines the persistent inequality in India through an extensive critique of Gandhi’s views on race, caste and imperialism.
- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 160846797X
- Language: English
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The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty
$32.50 Read moreClayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator’s Dilemma and the New York Times bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life, and co-authors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon re
- Author: Christensen, Clayton M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0062851829
- Language: English
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North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
$21.95 Add to cart**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist**
Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The countr- Author: Tudor, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0804844585
- Language: English
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I Miss the Rain in Africa: Peace Corps as a Third Act
$24.95 Add to cart- Winner – Nautilus Book Award 2022
- Winner – Moritz Thomsen Peace Corps Experience Award 2022
- A Top Ten Expat Book for 2021 from Expat Nest
At a time when her friends were planning cushy retirements, Nanc
- Author: Wesson, Nancy Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1615995749
- Language: English
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Arab Spring, Libyan Winter
$16.95 Add to cartThe Arab Spring captivated the planet. Mass action overthrew Tunisia’s Ben Ali and Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. The revolutionary wave spread to the far corners of the Arab world, from Morocco to Bahrain. I
- Author: Prashad, Vijay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1849351120
- Language: English
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Cambie Su Mundo: Todos Pueden Marcar Una Diferencia Sin Importar Dónde Estén
$18.99 Add to cartDos de los l?deres m?s respetados hoy en d?a y que han cambiado al mundo, el experto en liderazgo John C. Maxwell y el l?der de desarrollo global Rob Hoskins, comparten sus experiencias en el mundo re
- Author: Maxwell, John C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1400228786
- Language: Spanish
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Economic Theory and Community Development: Why putting community first is essential to our survival
$26.95 Add to cartThis book critiques not just neoliberal economics but also the fundamental separation among humans that all economic theories presuppose. Excessive reliance on economic assumptions and practices has c
- Author: Richards, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 458
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1952292085
- Language: English
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India in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
$16.95 Add to cartAccording to current projections, India will overtake China to become the most populous country on Earth by 2050. Its 1.6 billion people will live in the world’s second-largest economy, after China bu… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Kamdar, Mira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199973598
- Language: English
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Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny
$24.00 Add to cart*As heard on NPR’s All Things Considered*
“Utterly original.” —The New York Times Book Review “Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr. Szablowski teaches us with witty persistence that we- Author: Szablowski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0143129740
- Language: English
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Cambodia’s Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land
$21.99 Add to cartA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge. A generation after genocide, Cambodia seeme… [more below]
- Author: Brinkley, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1610391837
- Language: English
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The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South
$24.95 Add to cart- Author: Prashad, Vijay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1781681589
- Language: English
