Developing & Emerging Countries
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Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
$26.90 Add to cart“A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the
developing world” (Kirkus Reviews) with deep resonance in the present dayIn a book Paul Farmer called “a gem of a social history linking t
- Author: Mitman, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977966
- Language: English
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Capitalism: A Ghost Story
$15.95 Add to cartFrom the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who li
- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1608463850
- Language: English
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Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood
$21.95 Read moreSet in the author’s homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group.
Paula Delgado-Kling followed Leonor for nineteen years, fro
- Author: Delgado-Kling, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1682194477
- Language: English
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Korea: The Impossible Country: South Korea’s Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon
$16.99 Add to cart“Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story of Korea today.” –Martin Uden, Former British Amba… [more below]
- Author: Tudor, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0804846391
- Language: English
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The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
$19.99 Add to cartThe path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding for themselves.
“A hopeful narrative about a continent on the rise.” —New York Times Book ReviewDay… [more below]
- Author: Olopade, Dayo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0544483995
- Language: English
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Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
$22.00 Add to cartWinner, American Library Association Booklist’s Top of the List, 2019 Adult Nonfiction
Acclaimed writer Marie Arana delivers a cultural history of Latin America and the three driving forces that have- Author: Arana, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1501105019
- Language: English
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Brazil: A Biography
$30.99 Add to cartA sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the present
For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extrao- Author: Schwarcz, Lilia M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538484
- Language: English
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The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World
$28.32 Add to cartThe landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author
In this award-winning investigation into the over- Author: Prashad, Vijay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977621
- Language: English
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Change Your World Workbook: How Anyone, Anywhere Can Make a Difference
$19.99 Add to cartJohn Maxwell and Rob Hoskins have invested their lives as champions of change. Maxwell’s organizations EQUIP and the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation have transformed communities by training more th
- Author: Maxwell, John C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0310139988
- Language: English
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – NAMED ONE OF TIME‘S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE
“Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the mos- Author: Boo, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 08, 2014
- ISBN10: 081297932X
- Language: English
