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Infrastructure Economics and Policy - International Perspectives by Jose A. Gomez-ibanez
RRP: €59.50€46.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558444188Author Jose A. Gomez-ibanezFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyPublisher Lincoln Institute of Land... -
The ISO 14001: 2015 Implementation Handbook: Using the Process Approach to Build an Environmental Management System by Milton P Dentch 9780873899291
€38.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873899291Author Milton P DentchFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint ASQ Quality PressPublisher ASQ Quality PressWeight(grams) 449g -
Community Energy: A Guide to Community-Based Renewable-Energy Projects by Gordon Cowtan
RRP: €27.36€21.09Packed with useful information, this is an essential resource for anyone thinking of setting up and running a community energy project. 'Community energy' is often seen as simply groups of people setting up wind turbines or hydroelectric schemes, yet... -
The Art of Economic Catch-Up: Barriers, Detours and Leapfrogging in Innovation Systems by Keun Lee 9781108460705
RRP: €32.12€27.13In his previous Schumpeter Prize-winning work, Lee analysed the 'middle-income trap', in which a developing country grows strongly only to plateau at a certain point. Yet certain developing countries, most significantly China, have managed to escape this... -
Peter Owen, Not a Nice Jewish Boy: Memoirs of a Maverick Publisher by Peter Owen 9781781558485
RRP: €29.75€21.30In this wry, candid and sometimes poignant memoir, Peter Owen recalls his lonely Jewish boyhood in Nazi Germany and migration to England where he survived the London Blitz, a teenage dalliance with aspiring actress Fenella Fielding, and working with a... -
Impact Evaluation in Practice by Paul J. Gertler 9780821385418
€47.14This book offers an accessible introduction to the topic of impact evaluation and its practice in development. While the book is geared principally towards development practitioners and policymakers designing prospective impact evaluations, we trust that... -
The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution by Daniel Raimi
RRP: €20.22€16.24Over roughly the past decade, oil and gas production in the United States has surged dramatically-thanks largely to technological advances such as high-volume hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as "fracking." This rapid increase has generated... -
Egypt's Economic Predicament: A Study in the Interaction of External Pressure, Political Folly and Social Tension in Egypt, 1960-1990 by Galal A. Amin
RRP: €164.22€60.55Egypt's Economic Predicament contains a succinct and lucid analysis of virtually all the major economic problems of Egypt: their origin, development and the prospect of solving them. It presents today's economic problems of Egypt in a wider historical... -
Low Carbon Development: Key Issues by Frauke Urban
RRP: €59.49€52.24Low Carbon Development: Key Issues is the first comprehensive textbook to address the interface between international development and climate change in a carbon constrained world. It discusses the key conceptual, empirical and policy-related issues of... -
Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa by Franklin Obeng-Odoom
RRP: €44.02€30.52In this book, Franklin Obeng-Odoom seeks to carefully explain, engage, and systematically question the existing explanations of inequalities within Africa, and between Africa and the rest of the world using insights from the emerging field of... -
The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off - Updated Edition by Justin Yifu Lin 9780691163567
RRP: €20.22€16.49How can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In The Quest for Prosperity, Justin Yifu Lin--the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the... -
Contemporary Perspectives on Ecofeminism Mary Phillips 9780815355557
RRP: €57.11€50.13Why is ecofeminism still needed to address the environmental emergencies and challenges of our times? Ecofeminism has a chequered history in terms of its popularity and its perceived value in conceptualizing the relationship between gender and nature as... -
Development Crises and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives Gita Sen 9781853830006
RRP: €44.02€39.01More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social... -
Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City by Dale Leorke 9780367618193
RRP: €45.21€39.72This book explores what games and play can tell us about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how the dynamics of gaming can help us understand the interurban competition that underpins the entrepreneurialism of the smart and creative city... -
The Top 10 Distinctions Between Winners and Whiners by Keith Cameron Smith
RRP: €14.27€11.23Be a winner in your personal and professional life with this pull-no-punches guide Let's face it: to become a winner in the face of unpredictable times requires hard work and a determined mindset. Winners choose to be winners. Whiners let others control... -
The Selfish Altruist: Relief Work in Famine and War Tony Vaux 9781853838798
RRP: €47.59€42.04Provides an analysis of some of the most traumatic situations involving famine and war of the last two decades, helping us to understand what it takes to be an aid worker and how important humanitarian action is today. Famine and war evoke strong... -
The Capability Approach: Concepts, Measures and Applications by Flavio Comim 9780521154529
RRP: €54.73€49.81The capability approach developed by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has become an important new paradigm in thinking about development. However, despite its theoretical and philosophical attractiveness, it has been less easy to measure or to translate into... -
Create Your Own Net Worth by Sunday Adelaja 9781908040305
RRP: €22.60€19.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908040305Author Sunday AdelajaFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Golden Pen LimitedPublisher Golden Pen LimitedWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
The Beautiful Business: An Actionable Manifesto to Create an Unignorable Business with Love at the Core by Steven Morris 9781950466283
RRP: €30.33€26.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950466283Author Steven MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint Conscious Capitalism PressPublisher Conscious Capitalism PressWeight(grams)... -
Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table by Carol Anne Hilton
RRP: €19.03€13.14Igniting the $100 billion Indigenous economy It is time. It is time to increase the visibility, role, and responsibility of the emerging modern Indigenous economy and the people involved. This is the foundation for economic reconciliation. This is... -
Education for Sustainability by Stephen Sterling
RRP: €49.97€44.08Now with new Introduction and additional new chapter.At a time when polls suggest that a majority of young British people believe that the future will offer a worse quality of life than the present, it is becoming imperative that children are introduced... -
Deindustrialization, Distribution, and Development: Structural Change in the Global South by Andy Sumner 9780198853008
RRP: €66.64€60.20The term rust belt has rarely been associated with developing countries. In fact, it is commonly used to discuss deindustrialization in advanced nations, particularly the US. However, this book argues that such a belt is now threatening the middle-income... -
Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation by Edward B. Barbier 9780521701655
RRP: €34.50€30.25Throughout much of history, a critical driving force behind global economic development has been the response of society to the scarcity of key natural resources. Increasing scarcity raises the cost of exploiting existing natural resources and creates... -
Energy, Environment and Development Jose Goldemberg 9781844077496
RRP: €47.59€42.52The relationship between energy and the environment has been the basis of many studies over the years, as has the relationship between energy and development, yet both of these approaches may produce distortions. In the first edition of this book,... -
Rethinking Capitalist Development: Primitive Accumulation, Governmentality and Post-Colonial Capitalism Kalyan Sanyal 9780415735469
RRP: €35.69€31.70In this book, Kalyan Sanyal reviews the traditional notion of capitalism and propounds an original theory of capitalist development in the post-colonial context.In order to substantiate his theory, concepts such as primitive accumulation, governmentality... -
Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo by Julia Elyachar 9780822335719
RRP: €26.17€23.19What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor... -
Economic Systems of Foraging, Agricultural, and Industrial Societies by Frederic L. Pryor 9780521613477
RRP: €39.26€34.78Drawing upon the disciplines of economics, anthropology, statistics, and history, and employing a new and unified analytic approach, Frederic L. Pryor reformulates in this book the entire field of comparative economic systems. He examines large samples... -
The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off by Justin Yifu Lin 9780691155890
RRP: €26.18€21.46How can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In The Quest for Prosperity, Justin Yifu Lin--the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the... -
Prosperity in The Age of Decline: How to Lead Your Business and Preserve Wealth Through the Coming Business Cycles Brian Beaulieu 9781118809891
RRP: €29.75€19.79A guide for protecting your wealth in an age of turbulent business cycles In Prosperity in the Age of Decline, Brian and Alan Beaulieu-the CEO and President of the Institute for Trend Research (R) (ITR)-offer an informed, meticulously-researched look at... -
Development Practitioners and Social Process: Artists of the Invisible by Allan Kaplan 9780745310183
RRP: €41.65€32.84This book explores the practice of organisation development and group change in a way that will appeal to anyone involved in working towards social transformation. Drawing on extensive experience gained through many years of process consultancy within... -
Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development by Jeffrey D. Sachs
RRP: €41.65€33.01The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, comprise an ambitious and sweeping agenda that unites economic, social, and environmental aims. What resources do the world's religious and secular traditions offer in support of... -
Non-stop Spider-man Vol. 1 by Joe Kelly 9781302927486
RRP: €19.03€13.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781302927486Author Joe KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Marvel ComicsPublisher Marvel Comics -
Sustainability: A Systems Approach Tony Clayton 9781853833199
RRP: €52.35€46.10The question of sustainability affects most areas of human activity. It is intrinsically complex and multi-disciplinary. Sustainable policies have to adapt to new knowledge and changing circumstances. Understanding sustainability and ways of achieving it... -
The Smart Business Exit by Geoff Green 9780987499400
RRP: €22.55€17.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987499400Author Geoff GreenFormat PaperbackImprint Michael Hanrahan PublishingPublisher Michael Hanrahan PublishingWeight(grams) 458g -
World Development: A Core Textbook Barry Baker 9781906523961
RRP: €19.03€13.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906523961Author Barry BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications... -
The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England by Taisu Zhang
RRP: €36.88€33.65Tying together cultural history, legal history, and institutional economics, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England offers a novel argument as to why Chinese and English preindustrial economic... -
Sources of International Comparative Advantage: Theory and Evidence by Edward E. Leamer 9780262620512
€33.47This is the first book to present a clear empirical picture of the international exchange of goods and of the resources that account for the exchanges that occur. It fully articulates the Heckscher-Ohlin theory of international comparative advantage, in... -
The Post-Growth Project: How the End of Economic Growth Could Bring a Fairer and Happier Society by John Blewitt 9781907994395
RRP: €15.46€14.43This book challenges the assumption that it is bad news when the economy doesn't grow.For decades, it has been widely recognised that there are ecological limits to continuing economic growth and that different ways of living, working and organising our... -
Who Owns Poverty? by Martin Burt
RRP: €16.65€14.46WHAT IF WE'VE BEEN ASKING ALL THE WRONG QUESTIONS ABOUT POVERTY? This is a story about a question we never thought to ask - who owns poverty? - and about an unexpected answer that challenges everything we thought we knew about what poverty is, and... -
Key Thinkers on Development David Simon (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9781138494329
RRP: €30.93€27.82Since its publication in 2006 as Fifty Key Thinkers on Development, this invaluable reference has established itself as the leading biographical handbook in its field, providing a concise and accessible introduction to the lives and key contributions of...