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The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa by Calestous Juma
RRP: €38.66Booksplease Price: €28.73African 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... -
Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies by Calestous Juma 9780190051600
RRP: €32.71Booksplease Price: €24.16It is a curious situation that technologies we now take for granted have, when first introduced, so often stoked public controversy and concern for public welfare. At the root of this tension is the... -
Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies by Calestous Juma 9780190467036
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €35.32The rise of artificial intelligence has rekindled a long-standing debate regarding the impact of technology on employment. This is just one of many areas where exponential advances in technology... -
The African Union: Addressing the challenges of peace, security, and governance by Samuel M. Makinda
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €53.30Fully revised and updated, the second edition of The African Union continues to offer the most comprehensive overview of the work of the African Union (AU), with special emphasis on its capacity to... -
Africa's Critical Choices: A Call for a Pan-African Roadmap by Dunod Editeur
Booksplease Price: €65.21This volume examines contemporary Africa, a vast continent which, while entering the era of globalization, is also confronted by a number of issues, including the environment and climate change,... -
A World Environment Organization: Solution or Threat for Effective International Environmental Governance? by Frank Biermann
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €57.33In recent years, the debate on the establishment of a new international agency on environmental protection - a 'World Environment Organization' - has gained substantial momentum. Several countries,... -
Eco-pragmatism: Making Sensible Environmental Decisions in an Uncertain World by Daniel A. Farber
Booksplease Price: €37.57Eco-pragmatism takes on the most critical controversies in environmental law today: how to weigh economic costs against environmental quality and human life, how to assess the long time horizons of... -
Intellectual Property Rights Trade and Biodiversity by Graham Dutfield 9781853839030
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €37.12This text examines the international agreements governing trade in genetic resources - crucial resources for world agriculture, food security and large industries such as pharmaceuticals... -
The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnology Innovation by David Castle 9781848447882
RRP: €65.39Booksplease Price: €60.89Intellectual property rights (IPRs), particularly patents, occupy a prominent position in innovation systems, but to what extent they support or hinder innovation is widely disputed. Through the lens... -
Forests to Fight Poverty: Creating National Strategies by Ralph Schmidt 9780300078459
Booksplease Price: €31.38As the potential global impact of forest destruction and degradation becomes better understood, the link between poverty and deforestation in developing countries is of increasing concern. In this... -
The Global Commercial Aviation Industry by Sören Eriksson 9780367668754
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.62This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the changes and development of the civil international aircraft/aviation industry. It offers a fully up-to-date account of the international... -
Knowledge and Innovation for Development: The Sisyphus Challenge of the 21st Century by Francisco Sagasti 9781845426248
RRP: €40.40Booksplease Price: €38.50This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the many different issues related to the Sisyphean task of building science and technology capabilities in developing countries. It attempts to... -
Knowledge and Innovation for Development: The Sisyphus Challenge of the 21st Century by Francisco Sagasti 9781843766537
Booksplease Price: €126.16This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the many different issues related to the Sisyphean task of building science and technology capabilities in developing countries. It attempts to... -
Governing Global Biodiversity: The Evolution and Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity Philippe G. Le Prestre 9781138258198
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.66Predictions about the success of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are pessimistic. It has now become commonplace to bemoan the scope, ambition, and deeply political nature of a convention... -
Technological Innovation and Prize Incentives: The Google Lunar X Prize and Other Aerospace Competitions by Kay Luciano 9781781006474
Booksplease Price: €131.00Inducement prizes - in which cash rewards are offered to motivate the attainment of specific targets - have long been used to stimulate scientific discovery and technology research and development... -
The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr 9781844074099
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €28.01Whether or not to embrace GM technologies is a fundamental and politically charged question facing humanity in the 21st century, particularly in light of rapidly growing populations and the unknown... -
The Future Control of Food: A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security Geoff Tansey 9781844074297
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23This book is the first wide-ranging guide to the key issues of intellectual property and ownership, genetics, biodiversity and food security. Proceeding from an introduction and overview of the... -
The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr 9781844074105
Booksplease Price: €55.68Whether or not to embrace GM technologies is a fundamental and politically charged question facing humanity in the 21st century, particularly in light of rapidly growing populations and the unknown... -
The Orderly Entrepreneur: Youth, Education, and Governance in Rwanda by Catherine A. Honeyman
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €99.54The first generation of children born after Rwanda's 1994 genocide is just now reaching maturity, setting aside their school uniforms to take up adult roles in Rwandan society and the economy. At the... -
The Orderly Entrepreneur: Youth, Education, and Governance in Rwanda by Catherine A. Honeyman 9780804799850
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.16The first generation of children born after Rwanda's 1994 genocide is just now reaching maturity, setting aside their school uniforms to take up adult roles in Rwandan society and the economy. At the... -
China's Path to Innovation by Xiaolan Fu 9781107625235
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €51.23Over the past three decades, China has experienced rapid economic growth and a fascinating transformation of its industry. However, much of this success is the result of industrial imitation, and... -
Africa and China: How Africans and Their Governments are Shaping Relations with China by Aleksandra W. Gadzala 9781786606563
Booksplease Price: €54.44The China-Africa relationship has so far largely been depicted as one in which the Chinese state and Chinese entrepreneurs control the agenda, with Africans and their governments as passive actors... -
The Next Factory of the World: How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa by Irene Yuan Sun
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.96A Best Business Book of 2017 -- The Financial TimesChina is now the biggest foreign player in Africa.It's Africa's largest trade partner, the largest infrastructure financier, and the fastest-growing... -
Agricultural Development in China and Africa: A Comparative Analysis by Li Xiaoyun 9781138097223
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.73Many African countries are increasingly interested in learning from China's experiences in achieving effective agricultural development. The Chinese government and academic community are also keen to... -
Social Innovation In Africa: A practical guide for scaling impact Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli 9781138182844
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Encouraged by the emergence and early impact of social innovators on the African Continent, but frustrated by the slow pace of large scale change, this book is focused on filling the knowledge gap... -
Hunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid by Jennifer Clapp
Booksplease Price: €27.62Food aid has become a contentious issue in recent decades, with sharp disagreements over genetically modified crops, agricultural subsidies, and ways of guaranteeing food security in the face of... -
Timor-Leste: The History and Development of Asia's Newest Nation by Takako Hamaguchi 9780739195277
Booksplease Price: €61.52Timor-Leste: The History and Development of Asia's Newest Nation is a study of how a small Asia-Pacific nation has emerged from protracted conflict and successfully navigated a path to durable peace... -
Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value by Daniel Isenberg 9781422186985
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €21.78Introducing the global mind-set changing the way we do business. In this fascinating book, global entrepreneurship expert Daniel Isenberg presents a completely novel way to approach business... -
Tapping Molecular Wilderness: Drugs from Chemistry-Biology--Biodiversity Interface by Yongyuth Yuthavong
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €41.16This book is for readers with some background in science, concerning the search for drugs, starting from molecular diversity in nature or molecular wilderness. Drug molecules may be used as such, or... -
Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker 9780415848602
RRP: €69.01Booksplease Price: €64.78When first published in 1997, Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use by renowned economic and engineering experts Ernst von Weizsacker, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, transformed how...