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Maiba: A Novel of Papua New GuineaRussell Soaba The only child of the last traditional chief of Makawana village, Maiba struggles to hold her people together in the face of the polarizing forces of convention and modernization. Soaba makes palpable the tensions that arise when rapid change confronts a society that has been stable for many centuries. We also follow his unlikely heroine’s journey as she overcomes the legacy of a neglected More > | ![]() |
Main Trends in Aesthetics and the Sciences of ArtMikel Dufrenne | ![]() |
Main Trends in HistoryGeoffrey Barraclough, expanded and updated by Michael Burns This work places present-day historical studies in a new and comprehensive perspective. Anyone who wishes to understand the past in the light of current knowledge and interpretations will profit from reading this book. It summarizes the developments associated with the explosion of new directions that young scholars have reached in re-interpreting old ideas. The author also examines the ferment More > | ![]() |
Mainstreaming Microfinance: How Lending to the Poor Began, Grew, and Came of Age in BoliviaElisabeth Rhyne Microcredit in Bolivia grew and became successful in only a decade, lifting an enormous segment of the country’s population into the financial mainstream in the process. The example of its high-achieving institutions charted a course for the development of the international microfinance field. In this gracefully written book, Elisabeth Rhyne brings the history of the microfinance movement to More > | ![]() |
Maize Seed Industries in Developing CountriesMichael L. Morris, editor Unless more effective ways can be found to deliver high-yielding seed to farmers in developing countries, the hoped-for “green revolution” in maize production will remain elusive. This comprehensive reference examines the spectrum of technical, economic, and institutional issues that will have to be resolved if maize seed industries are to succeed in reaching greater numbers of those More > | |
Major Powers at a Crossroads: Economic Interdependence and an Asia Pacific Security CommunityMing Zhang Is there a relationship between economic interdependence and the cohesion of an Asia Pacific security community? Ming Zhang addresses this controversial question, exploring the potential for the development of a partnership involving China, Japan, Russia, and the United States.
Zhang finds that, after international trade among these four powers started to boom around 1979, their perceptions of More > | |
Making a Life Building a Community: A History of the Jews of HartfordDavid G. Dalin and Jonathan Rosenbaum In the first analytical history of this important Jewish community, David G. Dalin and Jonathan Rosenbaum draw extensively on primary sources to place Hartford within the larger contexts of US social, urban, ethnic, and Jewish history. More > | ![]() |
Making a Life in Multiethnic Miami: Immigration and the Rise of a Global CityElizabeth M. Aranda, Sallie Hughes, and Elena Sabogal With more than a million immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean, Miami, Florida, boasts the highest proportion of foreign-born residents of any US city. Charting the rise of Miami as a global city, Elizabeth Aranda, Sallie Hughes, and Elena Sabogal provide a panoramic study of the changing dynamics of the immigration experience.
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Making China Policy: From Nixon to G.W. BushJean A. Garrison What explains the twists and turns in US-China relations since Richard Nixon initiated a policy of engagement in the early 1970s? Addressing this question, Jean Garrison examines the politics behind US China policy across six administrations from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush.
Garrison finds that a focus on the internal decisionmaking process is key to understanding both continuity and change More > | ![]() |
Making Decentralization Work: Democracy, Development, and SecurityEd Connerley, Kent Eaton, and Paul Smoke, editors It is increasingly difficult to find developing countries whose leaders have not debated or implemented some type of decentralization reform. But has decentralization worked? Does it actually help a country to deepen democratic governance, promote economic development, or enhance public security? Under what conditions does it justify the enthusiasm of those who have pushed so successfully for its More > | ![]() |