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The Social Economics of Poverty: On Identities, Communities, Groups And Networks (Priorities for Development Economics)
A unique analysis of the moral and social dimensions of microeconomic behaviour in developing countries, this book calls into question standard notions of rationality and many of the assumptions of neo-classical economics, and shows how these are inappropriate in communities with widespread disparit... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Overseas Research II: A Practical Guide
Researchers in developing countries often find that the particular country in which they work presents a range of unforeseen challenges. Indeed, their ability to carry out effective scholarship is often highly dependent on these factors. The great differences between working in countries as varied a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting its Role (Priorities for Development Economics)
This book analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years, assessing the current situation as well as future prospects. Issues such as political expediency, the impact of international trade and exchange rates are put under the microscope to provide the reader with a great... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
The Economics of Poverty Traps (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)
What circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations? The answer to this question carries especially important implications for the design and evaluation of policies and projects intended to reduce poverty. Yet a major challenge analysts and policymakers face... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Decentralization and the Social Economics of Development: Lessons from Kenya
Barrett (applied economics and management, Cornell U. , US), Mude (International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya), and Omiti (Kenya Institute of Public Policy Research and Analysis, Kenya) present research conducted under the auspices of the Strategies and Analysis for Growth and Access project,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Overseas Research: A Practical Guide
When conducting research in developing countries, an ability to negotiate a bewildering array of cultural and logistical obstacles is essential. Overseas Research: A Practical Guide distills essential lessons from scores of students and scholars who have collected data and done fieldwork abroad, inc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation (Sustainable Development Goals Series)
by Steven James • Christopher B. Barrett • Stephen Wood • Jessica Fanzo • Tim Benton • Roy Steiner • Shenggen Fan • Mario Herrero • Rebecca J. Nelson • Elizabeth Bageant • Edward Buckler • Karen Cooper • Isabella Culotta • Rikin Gandhi • Mark Kahn • Laté Lawson-Lartego • Jiali Liu • Quinn Marshall • Daniel Mason-D'Croz • Alexander Mathys • Cynthia Mathys • Veronica Mazariegos-Anastassiou • Alesha Miller • Kamakhya Misra • Andrew Mude • Jianbo Shen • Lindiwe Majele Sibanda • Claire Song • Philip ThorntonThis open access book is the result of an expert panel convened by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability. The panel tackled the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 head-on, with respect to the global systems that produce and distribute food. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Personality and Behavior
Psychologists offer an increasing variety of services to the public. Among these services, psychological assessment of personality and behavior continues to be a central activity. One main reason is that other mental health professionals often do not possess a high level of competence in this area. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Personality and Behavior
The fourth edition of this textbook offers a scientific and practical context within which to understand and conduct clinical assessments of children’s and adolescent’s personality and behavior. The new edition ensures that the content is relevant to diagnostic criteria for major forms of child and ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Violent States and Creative States (2 Volume Set): From the Global to the Individual
by James Gilligan • Gwen Adshead • Kate Rothwell • Grace Lee • Estela Welldon • Christopher Scanlon • John Adlam • Anna Motz • Alex Maguire • Julian Manley • Simon Hackett • David W. Jones • Matt Killingsworth • Thilo Kroll • Lucy Neal • Tilman Kluttig • Bandy Lee • John L Young • Annie Stopford • Gardnel Carter • Gina Donoso • Gloria Uwizeye • Efrat Even-Tzur • Ismail Karolia • Klaus Hoffmann • Barry Richards • Aileen Schloerb • Hayley Berman • Reinmar Du Bois • Maggie McAlister • Clinton Van der Walt • Zoe Berko • Sarita Bose • Martha Ferrito • Martina Mindang • Robyn Timoclea • Deborah J. Cohan • Claude Barbre • Jill Barbre • Tamsin Cottis • Andrew Ware • Gerrard Drennan • James S. VrettosThis is a provocative collection exploring the different types of violence and how they relate to one another, examined through the integration of several disciplines, including forensic psychotherapy, psychiatry, sociology, psychosocial studies and political science. By examining the 'violent state... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests
by Helen Harman • Jan H. Giliomee • Jocelyn A. Berry • Manuela Branco • Lyle Buss • Alejandro Caballero • Juang Horng Chong • Lucía E. Claps • C. De Klerk • Rodrigo Diaz • Imre Foldi • Antonio P. Garonna • Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin • Raymond J. Gill • Penny J. Gullan • Disna N. Gunawardana • Sunil Joshi • M. Bora Kaydan • Paris L. Lambdin • Yen-Po Lin • Christopher Malumphy • Zvi Mendel • Vitor Cezar Pacheco da Silva • Giuseppina Pellizzari • Ana Lúcia Peronti • Francesco Porcelli • Alex Protasov • Ting-Kui Qin • Andrea Amalia Ramos Portilla • Dewi Sartiami • Scott A. Schneider • U.G.A.I. Sirisena • Pompeo Suma • Éva Szita • Hirotaka TanakaScale insects feed on plant juices and can easily be transported to new countries on live plants. They sometimes become invasive pests, costing billions of dollars in damage to crops worldwide annually, and farmers try to control them with toxic pesticides, risking environmental damage. Fortunately,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
One Health: The Theory and Practice of Integrated Health Approaches
by Wiku Adisasmito • Cécile Aenishaenslin • Seid Mohamed Ali • Ian Allen • Silvia Alonso • Vilda Amir • Maurizio Aragrande • Sara Babo Martins • Zolzaya Baljinnyam • William Bazeyo • Andrea Beetz • Jeffrey Bender • Mónica Berger-González • Benjamin Blair • Barry Blakley • Michael Bresalier • Martin Bunch • Massimo Canali • Angela Cassidy • Nakul Chitnis • Guéladio Cissé • Michael Clarke • Paul Coleman • Kathryn C. Conlon • Susan Cork • Lisa Crump • Soledad Cuevas • Solveig Danielsen • Anna Dean • Paula Dominguez-Salas • Colleen Duncan • Kaylee Errecaborde • Patricia Farnese • Thomas Fries • Samuel Fuhrimann • Christa A. Gallagher • Iain J. Gordon • Ratna B. Gurung • Felix Hafner • Barbara Häsler • Jan Hattendorf • Karin Hediger • Barbara Jones • Joldoshbek Kasymbekov • Julia S. Lankton • Huong Le Thi • Henrik Lerner • Mahamat Bechir • Michael Mahero • Stephanie Mauti • Céline Mbilo • Hélène Meier • Mary Elizabeth Miranda • Hung Nguyen-Viet • Vi Nguyen-Viet • Brigit Obrist • Peter Odermatt • Anna Okello • Christopher A.L. Oura • Katharine Pelican • Kristina Pelikan • Phuc Pham-Duc • Sue Pollock • Sangay Rinchen • Karma Rinzin • Felix Roth • Johanne Saint-Charles • Esther Schelling • Alexandra Shaw • Jonathan M. Sleeman • Woutrina Smith • Keira Spinner • Katharina D. Stärk • Professor Craig Stephen • Arlette C. Szelecsenyi • Marcel Tanner • Tenzin Tenzin • Jimmy Tickel • Karin Tschanz-Cooke • Rea Tschopp • Dennis C Turner • Hoang Van Minh • Alain Vandermissen • Tu Vu-Van • Daniel P. Walsh • David Waltner-Toews • Sylvia Wanzala • Susan C Welburn • Lenke Wettlaufer • C. LeAnn White • Maxine Whittaker • Andreas F. Widmer • Abigail Woods • Hind Yahyaoui • Christian Zurbrügg • Michel de Garine-WichatitskyOne Health, the concept of combined veterinary and human health, has now expanded beyond emerging infectious diseases and zoonoses to incorporate a wider suite of health issues. Retaining its interdisciplinary focus which combines theory with practice, this new edition illustrates the contribution ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Fish Viruses and Bacteria: Pathobiology and Protection
by Associate Professor Arun Dhar • Andrew Orry • F C Allnutt • Scott LaPatra • Richard Whittington • Jo-Ann Leong • Gael Kurath • John S Lumsden • Paul Hick • Ellen Ariel • Mamoru Yoshimizu • Hisae Kasai • Yoshihiro Sakoda • Nanako Sano • Motohiko Sano • Knut Falk • Maria Aamelfot • Peter Dixon • David Stone • Lester H. Khoo • Rodman G. Getchell • Geoffrey H. Groocock • Keith Way • Anna Toffan • Yasuhiko Kawato • Kuttichantran Subramaniam • Kazuhiro Nakajima • Thomas Waltzek • Marius Karlsen • Renate Johansen • Bjarnheidur K. Gudmundsdottir • Bryndis Bjornsdottir • Larry A. Hanson • Matt J. Griffin • Terence Greenway • David J. Wise • Thomas P. Loch • Mohamed Faisal • Esteban M. Soto • David T. Gauthier • Martha W. Rhodes • John P. Hawke • Jerri Bartholomew • Kristen D. Arkush • Diane G. Elliott • Craig A. Shoemaker • De-Hai Xu • Alicia E. Toranzo • Beatriz Magariños • Ruben Avendaño-Herrera • Timothy J. Welch • David P. Marancik • Christopher M. Good • Michael Ormsby • Robert DaviesTaking a disease-based approach, Fish Viruses and Bacteria: Pathobiology and Protection focuses on the pathobiology of and protective strategies against the most common, major microbial pathogens of economically important marine and freshwater fish. The book covers well-studied, notifiable piscine... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Unwatchable
by Erika Balsom • Kenneth Berger • Susie Bright • Alex Bush • Alec Butler • Noel Carroll • Mel Chen • Jonathan Crary • Abigail De Kosnik • Samuel England • Mattias Frey • Peter Geimer • Michael Boyce Gillespie • Asbjørn Grønstad • Boris Groys • Frances Guerin • Jack Halberstam • Barbara Hammer • Julian Hanich • Stefano Harney • J. Hoberman • Lynne Joyrich • Alexandra Juhasz • E. Ann Kaplan • Katariina Kyrölä • Nathan Lee • Akira Lippit • Jennifer Malkowski • W.J.T. Mitchell • Brandy Monk-Payton • Fred Moten • Bill Nichols • Jan Olsson • Danielle Peers • Raul Perez • Mauro Resmini • B. Ruby Rich • Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi • Jonathan Rosenbaum • Rebecca Schneider • Jeffrey Sconce • Jared Sexton • Philipp Stiasny • Meghan Sutherland • Bennet Togler • Leshu Torchin • Alok Vaid-Menon • Christophe Wall-Romana • Meir Wigoder • Emily Wills • Federico Windhausen • Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa • Genevieve Yue • Alenka Zupancic • Poulomi Saha • Vivian SobchackWe all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019