BOOKS

Fields of Fig and Olive: Ameera and Other Stories of the Middle East
Kathryn K. Abdul-Baki

Abdul-Baki’s stories, set in Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, and Jerusalem, explore the themes of young women coming of age, the effects of civil war, and differences between East and West.    More >

Fieldwork in Developing Countries
Stephen Devereux and John Hoddinott, editors

Practical, realistic, and based on firsthand experiences, this sorely needed resource addresses theoretical concerns at the same time that it reflects the important fact that the context    More >

Fighting Back: Lithuanian Jewry's Armed Resistance to the Nazis, 1941–1945
Dov Levin, translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Kohn and Dina Cohen

Fighting Back chronicles the activities of the Lithuanian Jews who fought against the Nazis—in the Soviet army, in the forests, in the ghettos of Vilna, Kovno, Shavli, and Svencian,    More >

Fighting Corruption in Developing Countries: Strategies and Analysis
Bertram I. Spector, editor

In stark contrast to standard holistic studies of corruption, Fighting Corruption in Developing Countries argues that examining the issue through the lens of nine key development    More >

Fighting Poverty: The Development-Employment Link
Rizwanul Islam, editor

While it has become abundantly clear that neither overall economic growth nor targeted microlevel interventions inevitably reduce poverty in developing countries, much of the development    More >

Finally . . . Us: Contemporary Black Brazilian Women Writers
Miriam Alves, editor and translated by Carolyn Richardson Durham

This is the first time that the literary works of contemporary Afro-Brazilian women have been compiled presenting a comprehensive vision of what it means to be both black and female in    More >

Financial Promise for the Poor: How Groups Build Microsavings
Kim Wilson, Malcolm Harper, and Matthew Griffith, editors

Development scholars, policymakers, and practitioners have begun sorting through the hype of microfinance to identify where and how top-down loans might fit into broader development efforts.    More >

Finding a Way in International Development: Options for Ethical and Effective Work
Sarah Parkinson

Despite the labyrinthine bureaucracies, frustrating inefficiencies, and disorienting complexities of the "development business," many individuals and groups find their way through    More >

Fire:  Six Writers from Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde
Donald Burness

Because of, and at times in spite of, the distinct quality of Portuguese colonial policy, an original and vibrant lusophone literature exists today in Africa. Burness introduces the    More >

First Amendment, First Principles: Verbal Acts and Freedom of Speech, Revised Edition
John F. Wirenius

In First Amendment, First Principles, attorney John F. Wirenius explores challenges to freedom of speech and examines the evolution of how the First Amendment has come to the meaning it    More >

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