BOOKS

The Self-Determination of Peoples: Community, Nation, and State in an Interdependent World
Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, editor

With contentious issues of sovereignty and self-determination a focus of current world affairs, this comprehensive analysis is especially timely. The authors explore the conceptual,    More >

Understanding Today’s Police, 4th edition
Mark L. Dantzker

Clearly introducing the complexities of policing today, Mark Dantzker—a former police officer himself—outlines key professional duties in the context of the changing nature of    More >

Housing Microfinance: A Guide to Practice
Franck Daphnis and Bruce Ferguson, editors

Housing Microfinance, a comprehensive overview of housing microfinance worldwide, provides solid guidance for both international and domestic microfinance institutions that are considering    More >

Samora Machel: Leader and Liberator in Southern Africa
Colin Darch and Devid Hedges, editors

The life story of Samora Machel (1933–1986) reads like a compelling novel: humble beginnings, a rise through the ranks of the Frelimo anticolonial liberation movement, successes and    More >

Disability and Identity: Negotiating Self in a Changing Society
Rosalyn Benjamin Darling

Choice Outstanding Academic Book! Rosalyn Darling offers a sweeping examination of disability and identity, parsing the shifting forces that have shaped individual and societal    More >

 Regulating for Rivalry in Africa: The Development of Competition Regimes
Reena das Nair, Jonathan Klaaren, and Simon Roberts, editors

Ranging from the impact of high corporate concentration to the role of digitalization and buyer power, leading scholars and practitioners delve into the development of competition regimes in    More >

Introducing Social Stratification: The Causes and Consequences of Inequality
Kasturi DasGupta

Does everyone in the US have an equal chance to "make it"?  What explains the enduring power of racism and sexism? How does our sociopolitical system generate inequality?    More >

Dele's Child [a novel]
O.R. Dathorne

Guyana-born poet-novelist Dathorne’s powerful work, set against the background of a revolution, both political and spiritual, is a compelling account of the search for ancestry and    More >

Women in Developing Countries: Assessing Strategies for Empowerment
Rekha Datta and Judith Kornberg, editors

For decades, researchers and policymakers have examined the impact of development programs on women—and evidence of sustained gender discrimination has inspired local, national, and    More >

Orphan Care: A Comparative View
Jo Daugherty Bailey, editor

It is estimated that there are some 140 million orphans worldwide, most of them in transition countries such as Russia and Brazil or poorer regions of the developing world. In Orphan Care,    More >

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