Social Science - Developing & Emerging Countries

India's journey has been distinctively precocious among its peers. It opted for democracy before development and social change, promoted high-skilled services before and over low-skilled manufacturing, and chose a globalization that favored the export of talented people and short-changed the poor. Its socialist state...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY - A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY...

A sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the present For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil occupies a vivid place...

For the next generation of changemakers who care too much to settle for just good intentions.The system of "saving the world" is broken-and it's time to call bullshit. After seeing good intentions lead to bad outcomes in 30 countries, international development veteran Susan M....

With anger and compassion, Roy exposes the sordid underbelly and dark inhumanity of capitalism in India and around the globe.Author: Arundhati RoyPublisher: Haymarket BooksPublished: 05/06/2014Pages: 136Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 7.40h x 5.20w x 0.40dISBN: 9781608463855Review Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2014Booklist 04/15/2014 pg. 4Publishers Weekly 04/28/2014About...

*As heard on NPR's All Things Considered* "Utterly original." --The New York Times Book Review "Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr. Szablowski teaches us with witty persistence that we must desire freedom rather than simply expect it." --Timothy Snyder, New York Times bestselling...

Author: Pierre JaleePublisher: Siglo XXI EdicionesPublished: 12/01/1976Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.16h x 5.98w x 0.56dISBN: 9789682301797Language: SpanishThis title is not returnable

Eduardo Galeano political critism of exploitation of Latin America. Refered as required reading in many universities. 26th editionAuthor: Eduardo GaleanoPublisher: Siglo XXI EdicionesPublished: 07/16/2009Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.85dISBN: 9789682325571Language: SpanishThis title is not returnable

Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease that mainly affects the skin and peripheral nerves. Left untreated, it can cause progressive and permanent disability. But a diagnosis of leprosy can have consequences that go far beyond the disease's physical manifestations. The age-old stigma associated with...

The "profound . . . brilliant" account of the rise of the world's slums and the failures of modern urbanization--by the world's leading urbanist (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize-winning author) According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in...

In this new edition of their classic work, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works, providing a "rich and humane" (Financial Times) examination of how poor people actually live Why do the poor borrow...

Winner, American Library Association Booklist's Top of the List, 2019 Adult Nonfiction Acclaimed writer Marie Arana delivers a cultural history of Latin America and the three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). "Meticulously...

The path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding for themselves."A hopeful narrative about a continent on the rise." --New York Times Book Review Dayo Olopade knew from personal experience that Western news reports on conflict, disease,...

In this groundbreaking work, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement offers a new perspective on the troubles facing Africa today. Too often these challenges are portrayed by the media in extreme terms connoting poverty, dependence, and desperation. Wangari Maathai,...

The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author In this award-winning investigation into the overlooked history of the Third World--with a new preface by the author for...

Arundhati Roy examines the persistent inequality in India through an extensive critique of Gandhi's views on race, caste and imperialism.Author: Arundhati RoyPublisher: Haymarket BooksPublished: 05/16/2017Pages: 184Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70dISBN: 9781608467976About the AuthorArundhati Roy studied architecture in New Delhi, where...

This book offers a compelling account of the two-pronged fight against both leprosy and the discrimination that comes with it. Leprosy is generally weak against the immune system, yet it persists in populations with inadequate nutrition and weak resistance, due to poverty or lack...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - WINNER OF THE 2025 ZÓCALO BOOK PRIZE - A humanitarian leader with more than two decades of experience working for the United Nations takes aim at the global food crisis--revealing how hunger anywhere affects lives...

The epic story of the past, present, and future of world order that "brilliantly" (Kishore Mahbubani, author of Living the Asian Century) argues why the decline of the West may be a good thing for the world Since the dawn of the twenty-first century,...

A celebrated economist argues that economic development is not really development unless everyone has the right to consent to their own progress "An innovative and exhilarating read."--Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics For centuries, the developed Western world has exploited the...