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We Are Not Starving: The Struggle for Food Sovereignty in Ghana by Joeva Sean Rock
RRP: $90.20$73.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611864328Author Joeva Sean RockFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Michigan State University PressPublisher Michigan State University Press -
Salt and the Colombian State: Local Society and Regional Monopoly in Boyaca, 1821-1900 by Joshua M. Rosenthal
RRP: $86.10$71.36In republican Colombia, salt became an important source of revenue not just to individuals, but to the state, which levied taxes on it and in some cases controlled and profited from its production. Focusing his study on the town of La Salina, Joshua M... -
Forest Policy: International Case Studies by Bill Wilson
RRP: $247.80$232.39Forest policy involves a complex balance of governmental, social and industrial objectives in an environment where the forests and the institutions are also constantly changing. Across the various forestry jurisdictions there is a wide variety of policy... -
Tourism Development: Growth, Myths and Inequalities by Jeroen Nawijn
RRP: $230.27$216.20A collection of essays from specialist scholars evaluating tourism as a means of simulating economic growth and fighting economic inequalities in poor countries: As a tool for poverty reduction in economically underdeveloped regions, tourism has been at... -
The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities by Jennifer Clapp
$89.48The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities captures the debate about how to go forward and examines the implications of the crisis for food... -
Yali's Question: Sugar, Culture, and History by Frederick Errington
$207.75Yali's Question is the story of a remarkable physical and social creation—Ramu Sugar Limited (RSL), a sugar plantation created in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. As an embodiment of imported industrial production, RSL's smoke-belching, steam-shrieking... -
When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
RRP: $90.20$73.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700633555Author Pamela Riney-KehrbergFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of Kansas -
Policy Reform in American Agriculture: Analysis and Prognosis by David Orden
$142.38Despite substantial transformations in American agriculture, farm programme spending remains a closely guarded prerogative of United States agricultural policy. This work examines both the history of farm subsidies and the contemporary relevance of... -
Who Should Pay for Medicare? by Daniel Shaviro
$79.17Good news first? The good news is that Americans today are living longer, in part because of continual advances in healthcare. But the bad news is that though our aging population is larger than ever before, nothing is being done to ensure that we can... -
Central and Eastern European Agriculture in an Expanding European Union by Stefan Tangermann
RRP: $202.86$190.07The problems caused by the proposed enlargement of the EU to include the associated Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) are discussed. The two main agricultural issues raised by this are the relative competitiveness of CEEC agriculture and its... -
The Japanese Television Cartel: A Study Based on Matsushita v. Zenith by David Schwartzman
RRP: $161.70$132.05A timely and controversial study of the tactics and impact of Japanese competition on a major American industryBook InformationISBN 9780472104543Author David SchwartzmanFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The... -
The Steel Industry of China: Its Present Status and Future Potential by William T. Hogan
$206.96China currently produces more crude steel than any other country in the world. This book, by an internationally acknowledged expert on the world steel industry, covers all aspects of the steel industry in China. It begins with an outline of the existing... -
The Common Agricultural Policy and Romanian Agriculture by Jean Vasile Andrei
RRP: $172.94$162.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789242201Author Jean Vasile AndreiFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint CABIPublisher CABIWeight(grams) 451g -
Founding Farms: Portraits of Five Massachusetts Family Farms by Michael E. Gery
$57.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870237911Author Michael E. GeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts... -
Through The Light Hole by Patrick Farrell
RRP: $41.98$40.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780925168559Author Patrick FarrellFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint North Country BooksPublisher North Country BooksWeight(grams) 612g -
Yali's Question: Sugar, Culture and History by F. Errington
$84.97"Yali's Question" is the story of a remarkable physical and social creation Ramu Sugar Limited (RSL), a sugar plantation created in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. As an embodiment of imported industrial production, RSL's smoke-belching,... -
The Problem that Won't Go Away: Reforming U.S. Health Care Financing by Henry Aaron
RRP: $41.98$38.07Why did President Clinton's efforts to reform the financing of American health care fail? For years to come, politicians and scholars of public policy will revisit the debate over Clinton's health care plan. What did planners do right? And what did... -
Yardstick Competition among Governments: Accountability and Policymaking when Citizens Look Across Borders by Pierre Salmon
RRP: $142.80$128.54Measuring government effectiveness is essential to ensuring accountability, as is an informed public that is willing and able to hold elected officials and policy-makers accountable. There are various forms of measurement, including against prior... -
The Technology Pork Barrel by Jeffrey S. Banks
RRP: $41.98$38.91American public policy has had a long history of technological optimism. The success of the United States in research and development contributes to this optimism and leads many to assume that there is a technological fix for significant national... -
Global Business by Mahesh Joshi
RRP: $58.78$49.58In the wake of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, globalization has found itself increasingly under the microscope. An active international discussion is underway, and the ideological viewpoint that the reversal of globalization and a... -
Wealth Creation and Wealth Sharing by Margaret Blair
RRP: $31.48$29.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815709497Author Margaret M. BlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
Arms and Innovation: Entrepreneurship and Alliances in the Twenty-First Century Defense Industry by James Hasik
$102.23With many of the most important new military systems of the past decade produced by small firms that won competitive government contracts, defense-industry consultant James Hasik argues in "Arms and Innovation" that small firms have a number of... -
The Global Factory: Foreign Assembly in International Trade by Joseph Grunwald
RRP: $39.88$36.29Since the early 1960s exports of manufactures from developing countries have grown rapidly. Widening gaps between the wages of rich and poor countries, coupled with dramatic declines in transportation costs and increased technological capabilities, led... -
Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets: How to Fix America's Trillion-dollar Construction Industry by Barry B. LePatner
RRP: $35.70$35.03Across the nation, construction projects large and small - from hospitals to schools to simple home improvements - are spiraling out of control. Delays and cost overruns have come to seem normal, even as they drain our wallets and send our blood pressure... -
Economics of Australian Health Policy by Gavin Mooney
RRP: $62.98$55.94A century ago, health services absorbed few resources and provided little benefit. Since then, advances in medical knowledge and techniques have escalated both the benefits and the costs. The affordability of health services is being questioned in even... -
Old Trails and New Directions: Papers of the Third North American Fur Trade Conference by Carol M Judd
RRP: $67.20$61.17Fur trade scholarship has changed considerably in recent years. The tempo of research has quickened and the field has become more multidisciplinary, bringing together scholars in archaeology, economics, ethnohistory, geography, history, and anthropology... -
Oil Security: Retrospect and Prospect by Edward R. Fried
RRP: $29.38$27.26Oil stands alone among primary commodities in its potential for sending economic shock waves across the world. The value of oil production is one and a half times the world's total production of food grains; demand is unresponsive to price in the short... -
Aircraft Valuation in Volatile Market Conditions: Guiding Toward Profitability and Prosperity by Bijan Vasigh 9783030824525
RRP: $115.48$104.50This book provides indispensable knowledge for practitioners in aircraft financing. It presents an innovative framework that treats valuation analysis as a systematic effort in problem-solving directed at rational financial decision-making. It... -
International Petroleum Fiscal Systems and Production Sharing Contracts by Daniel Johnston 9780878144266
RRP: $247.80$201.73The practical examples and step-by-step calculations in the book, partnered with illustrations and diagrams, make the text easy to read and understand. Johnston does an excellent job clarifying international oilfield taxation and regulation in the same... -
The South Staffordshire Coalfield by Barbara Chapman 9780752431024
RRP: $27.28$19.68The story of mining in South Staffordshire started a few hundred years ago and reached its peak about a century ago. Alongside the expanding canal and railway network there were a series of coal and ironstone mines fuelling the heavy industry of the area... -
Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar by Harriet de Onis
RRP: $54.58$46.28First published in 1940 and long out of print, Fernando Ortiz's classic work, Cuban Counterpoint is recognized as one of the most important books of Latin American and Caribbean intellectual history. Ortiz's examination of the impact of sugar and tobacco... -
Industrial Nation: Work, Culture and Society in Scotland, 1800-Present by William Knox
RRP: $65.10$54.71This is a social and cultural history of Scotland's industrial rise and relative decline, concerned above all with the leaders and workers (industrial, political, manufacturing, mining and engineering, as well as religious, union, educational and moral)... -
Project Management in Construction by Dennis Lock
RRP: $123.88$107.27The one thing that all well-run, profitable construction projects have in common is that they benefit from good project managers. People who have the skills to plan the project, manage it and keep it on track whenever tight timescales, costs, people or... -
Once Aboard a Cornish Lugger by Paul Greenwood 9780955364815
RRP: $16.70$11.11Former Cornish fisherman Paul Greenwood vividly describes life as a young crewman aboard the Looe lugger Iris in the 1960s. His frank account of the hardships he encountered at sea in "Once Aboard a Cornish Lugger", overcoming sea-sickness, fatigue, cold... -
Co-op Transport by Bill Aldridge
RRP: $16.70$12.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908347107Author Bill AldridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Nostalgia Road Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Peaceful Conquest: The Industrialization of Europe 1760-1970 by Sidney Pollard 9780198770954
RRP: $81.88$75.50Peaceful Conquest The Industrialization of Europe 1760-1970Book InformationISBN 9780198770954Author Sidney PollardFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 154mm *... -
The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa by Calestous Juma
RRP: $59.83$55.17African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa can feed itself in a generation and help contribute to global food security. To achieve... -
Sustainable Aviation: A Management Perspective by Judith L. Walls 9783030908973
RRP: $104.98$94.44This book analyses from a management perspective how the aviation industry can achieve a sustainability transformation in order to reach the Paris climate targets for 2050 and provides various strategic and operational recommendations in this regard. It... -
Innovation Commons: The Origin of Economic Growth by Jason Potts 9780190937508
RRP: $59.83$55.17Innovation is among the most important topics in understanding economic sustained economic growth. Jason Potts argues that the initial stages of innovation require cooperation under uncertainty and draws from insights on the solving of commons problems... -
Making Global Value Chains Work for Development by Daria Taglioni 9781464801570
$73.86Economic, technological, and political shifts as well as changing business strategies have driven firms to unbundle production processes and disperse them across countries. Thanks to these changes, developing countries can now increase...