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Brutal War: Jungle Fighting in Papua New Guinea, 1942James Jay Carafano In 1942, US and Australian forces waged a brutal war against the Japanese in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. Plunged into a primitive, hostile world in which their modes of battle seemed out of place and time, they fought, suffered, hated, starved, and killed in muck and mud.
James Carafano's vivid history brings this all to life. Ranging from detailed descriptions of specific battles to More > | |
Buddhism at Work: Community Development, Social Empowerment and the Sarvodaya MovementGeorge D. Bond In Buddhism at Work, George Bond explores the vision and evolution of Sri Lanka's Sarvodaya Shramadana movement—now an international movement and NGO—whose individual and group members promote Gandhian and Buddhist ideals as they seek to bring about political and economic change through grassroots cooperative work.
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Budgeting for Women's Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAWDiane Elson, editor | |
Building a Better International NGO: Greater than the Sum of the Parts?James Crowley and Morgana Ryan In the wake of tremendous growth in the size and scope of their activities, as well as the increased complexity of their programs, how can large international NGOs work effectively—so that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts? James Crowley and Morgana Ryan address this question, drawing on their extensive hands-on experience to offer a practical and even provocative guide.
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Building an Inclusive Development Community: A Manual on Including People with Disabilities in International Development ProgramsKaren Heinicke-Motsch and Susan Sygall, editors Complete book information to come. More > | |
Building Democracy in Latin America, 3rd editionJohn Peeler The third edition of this historically and theoretically grounded analysis of the democratic experience in Latin America reflects important developments both in the region and in the comparative politics literature.
Placing the subject in a normative context, John Peeler gives significant attention to the adequacy of a purely electoral concept of democracy. He also addresses the problems that More > | |
Building Democracy in South Asia: India, Nepal, PakistanMaya Chadda This original analysis of South Asia's political experience with democracy in the 1990s assumes that, if democratic norms are to be universalized, they must first absorb the interpretations and experiences of the non-Western countries.
Chadda contends that any discussion of democratization must be founded on mapping its course amid the constraints of state consolidation, national integration, More > | |
Building Democratic Institutions: Governance Reform in Developing CountriesG. Shabbir Cheema Bridging the gap between theory and practice, Shabbir Cheema draws on a wealth of case studies from around the world to clarify the links among governance, democracy, and human development and to identify the conditions that make democracy work.
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Building Peace in HaitiChetan Kumar Though its national life often has been characterized by violence, Haiti has not been victim of a full-fledged internal conflict, or civil war. Why, then, is the international community conducting "postconflict peacebuilding" operations there? Addressing that question, Chetan Kumar examines the course of international involvement in Haiti through the prism of the country's unique More > | |
Building Peace: Practical Reflections from the FieldCraig Zelizer and Robert A. Rubinstein, editors A project of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, this book presents 13 stories of innovative—and effective—peacebuilding practices from around the world.
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