BOOKS

Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda
Peter Uvin

Winner of the African Studies Association’s Herskovits Award! Aiding Violence expresses outrage at the contradiction of genocide in a country considered at the time by Western aid    More >

Unequal Freedoms: The Global Market as an Ethical System
John McMurtry

This is the intelligent citizen's complete guide to the theory and practice of the global market, with clear and direct applicability to everyday life-experiences and emerging    More >

Local Development: The Simularia Integrated Rural Development Case
Richard Vengroff

Richard Vengroff's useful simulation allows students to experience the processes and demands involved in the management of local development projects.    More >

Mediating Sustainability: Growing Policy from the Grassroots
Jutta Blauert and Simon Zadek, editors

Focusing on efforts in Latin America aimed at achieving sustainable agricultural and rural development, the authors describe successful initiatives that seek to distill and articulate    More >

With All Her Might: The Life and Times of Gertrude Harding Militant Suffragette
Gertrude Harding, with annotations by Gretchen Wilson

As she was growing up, Gertrude Harding lived comfortably and sheltered, first in a farm in New Brunswick, Canada, where she rode her horse and camped in the woods, and later in Honolulu,    More >

Players and Issues in International Aid
Paula Hoy

Paula Hoy provides a one-stop source of vital information on the politics, players, and issues surrounding international development assistance.    More >

Reasons for Success: Learning from Instructive Experiences in Rural Development
Norman Uphoff, Milton J. Esman, and Anirudh Krishna

From an outside perspective that contrasts the personal, firsthand views of the first text, Reasons for Hope, the authors impart critical, dynamic ideas for improving the lives of those in    More >

After Survival: One Man's Mission in the Cause of Memory [memoir]
Leon Zelman, with Armin Thurnher and translated by Meredith Schneeweiss

"How could you live in Vienna after the war?" foreign audiences frequently, accusingly ask Leon Zelman when he delivers lectures abroad, and in After Survival, Zelman painfully    More >

In the Tavern of Life and Other Stories
Tawfiq al-Hakim, translated by William Maynard Hutchins

This first collection of al-Hakim’s stories to be published in English includes 27 of the author’s best works written from 1927 to 1966. Some inspired by literature and others by    More >

Bab el-Oued [a novel]
Merzak Allouache, translated by Angela M. Brewer

Bored housewives, kept in seclusion, smuggling in Harlequin romances. Modish young men transformed into Islamic militants. A baker unwittingly caught in a web of intrigue, an imam whose    More >

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