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   Africa, Book of the Month, April 2012

   Africa: Diversity and Development is a refreshing interdisciplinary text that enhances understanding of Africa’s current position and clarifies possible future scenarios. The book contains illustrations throughout as well as detailed case studies and current data.

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   Profits, Populism, and Patriarchy: a Book Review Symposium on Ananya Roy’s Poverty Capital

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   Featured Book: Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe

   This book confronts an important contemporary policy issue: how best to ensure that an agricultural policy can contribute to regions' development.

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   Featured Book: Environment and Economics in Nigeria

   Contributors to this book examine such issues such as violence, health, sustainability, and conservation.

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   Featured Book: Can Emerging Technologies Make a Difference in Development?

   In Can Emerging Technologies Make a Difference in Development?, scientists and practitioners outline the opportunities for and the challenges of bringing new technology to poor communities in developing countries.

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6. Featured Book: Global Trends and Regional Development

   This edited collection is dedicated to the discussion of four global trends: upgrading the rationality of organizations, individualization, the spreading of instrumental activism, and universalization of value-normative systems.

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7. Featured Book: Landscape and Environment in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

   This volume explores the concepts of environment and landscape in colonial and Postcolonial discourse about Africa.

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8. Featured Book: China and Africa Development Relations

   Now in paperback!
   

   China and Africa Development Relations gives an overview of how the China–Africa relationship has evolved over the last few decades while investigating whether this relationship presents a new paradigm of "development relations" in the international system.

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   Featured Book: Sustainability and Security within Liberal Societies

   New in paperback!
   

   Sustainability and Security within Liberal Societies explores the implications for sustainability and security of a range of intellectual perspectives on liberalism, such as those of John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Frederick Hayek, Ronald Dworkin, Michael Oakeshott, Amartya Sen and Jürgen Habermas.

10. Featured Book: Tourism and Poverty

    Tourism and Poverty answers the question facing academics, governments, aid agencies, tourism organizations, and conservation bodies: Can tourism help overcome poverty?

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