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  • The Development of Aggression and Violence in Adolescence

    by Robert F. Marcus ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book highlights the developmental changes in aggression and violence during adolescence from a uniquely psychological perspective. Developmental changes and risk factors as direct causes for violence and psychopathy have started to receive increased recognition over the last few years, and in this volume Marcus charts these changes against criminological activity. A meta-theoretical model ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers

    New Partners or Old Patterns?

    by Adolfo Kloke-Lesch, Manmohan Agarwal, Ross Herbert, James Mackie, Enrique Saravia, Zhou Hong, Maximo Romero ...
    The current framework of development cooperation is dominated by the experiences of industrialized countries. But emerging economies have begun to accelerate their own development programmes, and attempts to bring them into existing aid models have been met with caution and reservation.This expert, topical volume explores the development policies of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Landscapes of Fear

    Understanding Impunity in India

    Edited by Patrick Hoenig, Navsharan Singh ...
    Drawing on the findings of a comparative research project, this volume tackles a set of intricate questions about the workings of impunity in India. How do victims of abuse and survivors of sexual violence end up being denied justice? What do those on the margins—those with the wrong sex, wrong identity markers, wrong political leanings— tell us about violence by state and non-state actors ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Mega-Urbanization in the Global South

    Fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state

    Edited by Ayona Datta, Abdul Shaban ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    The global south is entering an ‘Urban Age’ where, for the first time in history, more people will be living in cities than in the countryside. The logics of this prediction have a dominant framing - rapid urbanization, uncontrolled migration, resource depletion, severe fuel shortages and the breakdown of law and order. We are told that we must be prepared. The solution is simple, they say. Mega ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Human Rights-Based Change

    The Institutionalisation of Economic and Social Rights

    Edited by Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, Hans-Otto Sano ...
    This book provides different analytical perspectives into how human rights-based approaches to development (HRBADs) contribute to change. Based on the understanding that HRBADs are increasingly integrated into development and governance discourse and processes in many societies and organisations, it explores how the reinforcement of human rights principles and norms has impacted the practices and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies

    Change and Continuity

    Edited by Christian K. Højbjerg, Jacqueline Knörr, William P. Murphy ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the radical changes in social and political landscape of the Upper Guinea Coast region over the past 30 years as a result of civil wars, post-war interventions by international, humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping missions, as well as a regional public health crisis (Ebola epidemic). The emphasis on ‘crises’ in this book draws attention to the intense socio-transformations in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Ireland in the World Order

    A History of Uneven Development

    by Maurice Coakley ...
    This history examines Ireland’s development from the medieval to the modern era, comparing its unique trajectory with that of England, Scotland and Wales.Maurice Coakley focuses on key elements that contributed to Ireland’s development, examining its bloody and violent incorporation into the British state, its refusal to embrace the Protestant Reformation and failure to industrialise in the 19th ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Healthcare Reform in Turkey

    by Volkan Yilmaz ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores the transformation in the healthcare system in Turkey since 2003, which has been portrayed as a benchmark for building universal healthcare systems in emerging market economies. Focussing on healthcare politics in an under-researched developing country context, it fills a significant lacuna in existing scholarship. This study answers these questions: What were the political ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Recentering Africa in International Relations

    Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure

    Edited by Marta Iñiguez de Heredia, Zubairu Wai ...
    This innovative book responds to an existing demand for taking Africa out of a place of exception and marginality, and placing it at the center of international relations and world politics. Bringing together a number of scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds to stage a critical intervention into the problematic ways Africa is accounted for in the dominant discourses of international ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Policy, Politics and Poverty in South Africa

    by Jeremy Seekings, Nicoli Nattrass ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policies both mitigated and reproduced poverty, and explains how and why these policies were adopted. The analysis offers lessons for the study of poverty elsewhere in the world. ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Taming the Anarchy

    Groundwater Governance in South Asia

    by Tushaar Shah ...
    In 1947, British India-the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure. However, as vividly illustrated by Tushaar Shah, the orderly irrigation economy that saved millions of rural poor from droughts and famines is now a vast atomistic system of widely dispersed tube ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Women Water Professionals

    Inspiring Stories from South Asia

    Edited by Sumi Krishna, Arpita De ...
    Water management is not an engineering matter alone, it involves ecological, socio- political, administrative and legal concerns. Gender is a key factor but has been neglected both conventionally and in recent water reform policies and structures. Yet, a cross-section of South Asian women have challenged socio-cultural norms and crossed personal and professional boundaries to make a profound ... Read more

    $10.59 USD