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Beat Stress at Work: How to Balance Your Ambition with Your Anxiety by Mark Simmonds 9781837963201
RRP: £12.99£8.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837963201Author Mark SimmondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Trigger PublishingPublisher Trigger Publishing -
Climate Change and Industry Structure in China: CO2 Emission Features by Chu Wei 9781138330771
RRP: £135.00£117.28As carbon dioxide is the most significant source of greenhouse gases today, its emission quantity has become a primary focus of governments, scholars and the general public. From the perspective of industrial structure, the book mainly explores the... -
The Transformation of Rural Africa by T. S. Jayne 9781138325494
RRP: £135.00£117.28Contemporary discussions of Africa's recent growth have largely interpreted such growth in terms of structural transformation, based mainly on national- and sectoral-level data. However, the micro-level processes driving this transformation are still... -
The Development Dictionary @25: Post-Development and its consequences by Aram Ziai 9781138323476
RRP: £135.00£117.68Few books in the history of Development Studies have had an impact like The Development Dictionary - A Guide to Knowledge as Power, which was edited by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Zed Books in 1992. The Development Dictionary was crucial in... -
The Political Economy of China's Great Transformation by Xingyuan Feng 9781138317031
RRP: £27.99£24.28The Political Economy of China's Great Transformation consists of three parts: first, covering the current political transformation, providing a general political background for the socio-economic, fiscal and urban and rural transformation. The... -
The Affordable Housing Market in India: Institutional Constraints, Informal Sector and Privatisation by Padmini Ram 9780367634223
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines the housing crisis in India and underlines the need for formal affordable housing markets. India is home to the world’s largest population of slum dwellers. The book examines actual causes of the problem, and the financial and... -
China’s Economic Reform and Development during the 13th Five-Year Plan Period by Debu Gao 9781138090057
RRP: £135.00£117.28"Five-Year Plans" have been a cornerstone of Chinese social and economic development initiatives since 1953. During the thirteenth of these periods between 2016 and 2020, the global economy has experienced instability after the financial crisis, as well... -
Development and Territorial Restructuring in an Era of Global Change: Theories, Approaches and Future Research Perspectives by Elisabeth Peyroux 9781786306531
RRP: £132.00£114.21Thinking about development and the environment simultaneously is one of the biggest scientific and societal challenges of the 21st century. Understanding the interactions between biophysical systems and human activities in an era of global change... -
Economic Nationalism And Development: Central And Eastern Europe Between The Two World Wars by Jan Kofman 9780367011956
RRP: £135.00£117.68In art era of ever-increasing national consciousness combined, paradoxically, with pressures for regional economic integration, this thought-provoking and exhaustively researched volume will challenge readers' assumptions about optimal paths to national... -
The Repugnant Conclusion: A Philosophical Inquiry by Christopher Cowie 9781032570457
RRP: £19.99£17.69The Repugnant Conclusion is a controversial theorem about population size. It states that a sufficiently large population of lives that are barely worth living is better than a smaller population of high quality lives. This is highly counter-intuitive... -
The Dual-Entity of Market Competition: Establishment and Development of Mezzoeconomics by Yunxian Chen 9781032155913
RRP: £39.99£35.06i) This title approaches the relationship between the government and the market from the perspective of mezzoeconomics in an effort to fill up some gaps in this regard by building a new economic model in theory and clarifying economic operation in... -
DIY Urbanism in Africa: Politics and Practice by Stephen Marr 9781786999016
RRP: £65.00£60.54Protracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present significant challenges for the majority of Africa's urban population. Limited state capacity and widespread infrastructure deficiencies common in cities across... -
The Dynamics of Human Development: A Partial Mobility Perspective by Atanu Sengupta 9780367673512
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book studies the dynamic aspects of the Human Development Index (HDI) through a partial mobility perspective. It offers a new axiomatic structure and a set of mobility indices to discuss partial trends and interrogate the human development status at... -
DIY Urbanism in Africa: Politics and Practice Stephen Marr (Malmoe University, Sweden) 9781786999023
RRP: £21.99£19.28Protracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present significant challenges for the majority of Africa's urban population. Limited state capacity and widespread infrastructure deficiencies common in cities across... -
Sex Work, Labour, and Empowerment: Lessons from the Informal Entertainment Sector in Nepal by Sutirtha Sahariah 9780367742546
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book presents an analysis of the concepts of female empowerment and resilience against violence in the informal entertainment and sex industries.Generally, the key debates on sex work have centred on arguments proposed by the oppressive and... -
The Political Economy of Bilateral Aid: Implications for Global Development by Peter Blunt 9781032256412
RRP: £125.00£107.86The social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and of extreme climate events have brought into sharp relief the serious deficiencies of our political economies. The dominant global ideology of neoliberalism and its architects and... -
Education, Innovations, and Agricultural Development: A Study of North India (1961-72) by D. P. Chaudhri 9781032172286
£93.60First published in 1979, Education, Innovations, and Agricultural Development investigates the effect of education on agricultural productivity and innovations that took place in the wake of the Green Revolution in North India, using a simultaneous... -
Transformation of Rural Spaces in Mozambique by Cecilia Navarra 9781786999252
£25.15Despite the persistence of poverty in Mozambique important investments have been made in rural areas, at the level of extractive industry or agribusiness, resulting in both transformation of these areas and a new set of tensions and conflicts related to... -
Beneficial Property Taxation for Emerging Market Countries: Financing Sustainable Development and Post-Pandemic Recovery by S. Ehtisham Ahmad 9783031086113
RRP: £39.99£35.21This book presents a new approach to recurrent property taxation based on occupancy, size, and location, that will strengthen local governments. Reflecting on the concept of "beneficial property taxation" first proposed by Alfred Marshall, the... -
Small Change, Big Deal - Money as if people mattered Jennifer Kavanagh 9781780993133
RRP: £11.99£10.15As we consider the plight of our consumer-driven economy, it is easy to forget that money is about relationship: between individuals and between communities. In our current financial mess, it is worth reminding ourselves of community-based alternatives,... -
Networks, Governance and Economic Development: Bridging Disciplinary Frontiers by Mari Jose Aranguren Querejeta 9781847202710
£110.61This compact and authoritative book brings together the topical themes of networks and governance to advance understanding of the determinants of local economic development in the context of increasingly global relationships. Analyzing the governance of... -
Financing our Future: Unveiling a Parallel Digital Currency System to Fund the SDGs and the Common Good by Stefan Brunnhuber
RRP: £29.99£24.56The monetary system is the indispensable missing link in the debate of sustainability, and whether the current financial system can handle these evolved needs. To date, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) primarily have been financed either... -
Japan in the 21st Century: Environment, Economy, and Society by Pradyumna P. Karan
£49.78The ancient civilization of Japan, with its Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, is also closely associated with all that is new and modern. Looking outward, Japan sees what it has become since Hiroshima: the world's second-largest economy, a source of... -
An Essay on Yugoslav Society by Branko Horvat
RRP: £135.00£117.28This title was first published in 1967Book InformationISBN 9781138037342Author Branko HorvatFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 522g -
Ideology and Social Change in Latin America by June C. Nash
RRP: £43.99£38.44First published in 1977, this reissue contains original articles by contemporary leading scholars in the field of Latin American politics on a range of topics including: working class organisation, populism and US labour imperialism. It will be of... -
The Political Economy of Underdevelopment and Poverty in Nepal by Sri Ram Poudyal
RRP: £125.00£107.86This book argues that mainstream economics cannot explain the underdevelopment and poverty of Nepal, neither can it be explained in terms of economics alone nor capital inadequacy even, as is conventionally believed. The author asserts that Nepal's... -
The Digitalization Conundrum in India: Applications, Access and Aberrations by Keshab Das
RRP: £69.99£67.48This book examines the nature, extent and implications of rapid strides digitalization has made in India since the turn of the millennium. These have been examined not merely in the sphere of information and communication technology (ICT) but its... -
Business and Politics in India by Stanley A. Kochanek
RRP: £42.00£33.04This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
The Affordable Housing Market in India: Institutional Constraints, Informal Sector and Privatisation by Padmini Ram
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book examines the housing crisis in India and underlines the need for formal affordable housing markets. India is home to the world’s largest population of slum dwellers. The book examines actual causes of the problem, and the financial and... -
The Nature of Japanese Governance and Seikai-Tensin in Postwar Japan by Nara Park
RRP: £45.99£40.13What shapes characteristics and types of state governance in a specific country? How do they change over time? More importantly, what will they look like in the near and far future? This book addresses these fundamental yet timely questions by... -
Assessing the Demographic Impact of Development Projects: Conceptual, methodological and policy issues by A. S. Oberai
RRP: £91.99£74.86First published in 1992, Assessing the Demographic Impact of Development Projects based on studies in developing countries focuses on conceptual, methodological and policy issues related to development projects. It considers whether demographic effects... -
China's Economic Development and Democratization by Yanlai Wang
RRP: £22.99£20.16China's Economic Development and Democratization examines China's transformation from an institutional perspective. It proposes an analytical framework comprising six macro institutional environments: international, ideological, political, economic,... -
The Rural World: Education and Development by Louis Malassis
RRP: £43.99£38.44First published in 1976, this book examines the issue of rural education, an all-important problem for the less developed countries in the world. Louis Malassis proposes that all citizens should be made aware of the role of agriculture in the economy and... -
The Development Dictionary @25: Post-Development and its consequences by Aram Ziai
RRP: £39.99£35.06Few books in the history of Development Studies have had an impact like The Development Dictionary – A Guide to Knowledge as Power, which was edited by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Zed Books in 1992. The Development Dictionary was crucial in... -
Transforming Food and Agricultural Policy: Post-exceptionalism in public policy by Carsten Daugbjerg
RRP: £39.99£35.06Western democratic welfare states often featured sectoral governance arrangements where governments negotiated policy with sectoral elites, based on shared ideas and exclusive institutional arrangements. Food and agriculture policy is widely considered... -
Philosophy of Digital Currencies: A Theory of Monetizing Time by Ugochukwu Chigoziem Ikpeazu
RRP: £125.00£107.86Current systems are failing the poor because these systems are unable to provide the financial inclusion needed for basic subsistence and commerce, which in turn would drive micro- and macro-economic growth. This book introduces the reader to a new way... -
Defense Spending And Economic Growth by James E. Payne
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines the effects of defense spending on economic growth and investigates how the changed world political climate is likely to alter the importance and pattern of defense spending both for developed and developing countries. .Book... -
Unpaid Work and the Economy: Gender, Time Use and Poverty in Developing Countries by Rania Antonopoulos
£93.33This book presents research findings from across the global South that substantively improves our understanding of time-use, poverty and gender equalities, to shed light on why unpaid work is indispensable to economic analysis and effective policy making... -
The New Economics Of The Less Developed Countries: Changing Perceptions In The Northsouth Dialogue by Nake Kamrany
RRP: £39.99£35.06After a quarter-century of experimentation with economic development in the poorer countries, the disarray, and in some cases the calamitous results, are so obvious that a fresh look at and reexamination of traditional assumptions, methodologies,... -
Rural Transformations and Agro-Food Systems: The BRICS and Agrarian Change in the Global South by Ben M. McKay
RRP: £39.99£35.06The economic and political rise of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and Middle-Income Countries (MICs) have important implications for global agrarian transformation.These emerging economies are undergoing profound changes as...