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From Conflict to Recovery in Africa (Studies in Development Economics.)
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0199261032 |
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Establishing peace and reconstructing Africa's war-damaged economies are urgent challenges. For Africa to recover, communities must reconstruct, private sectors must revitalize, and states must transform themselves. Thus, unless communities rebuild and strengthen their livelihoods, neither reconstruction nor growth can be poverty-reducing. But communities cannot prosper unless private investment recreates markets and generates more employment. And neither communities nor entrepreneurs can realise their potential without a development state-one that is democratically accountable and dedicated to poverty-reducing development. The international community can do much to assist-through more aid, debt relief, and peacekeeping-but ultimately the future lies in the hands of Africans themselves. This book examines these themes in a selection of African countries that have gone through intense and prolonged conflict, and its policy conclusions are important for understanding the prospects for peace and recovery not only in Africa, but also in other 'post-conflict' societies across the world. It also discusses the cross-cutting issues of how economic and political reform interact with conflict resolution and 'post-conflict' reconstruction. This interaction is often neglected by both governments and donors. However, reform and reconstruction cannot be kept separate if conflict is to be halted and poverty reduced. The book is one of the first to undertake a thorough examination of the economic dimensions of recovery from war. It places particular emphasis on designing a recovery in which the poor participate, so that the benefits of reconstruction from war do not just flow to a narrow elite. In highlighting the tensions and opportunities that exist in achieving recovery from war, it contributes not only to the debate on economic policy making in Africa, but also to the design of better reconstruction and reform programmes.
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Recovery from Armed Conflict in Developing Countries (Routledge Studies in Development Economics, 14)
Geoff Harris Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0415193796 |
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This work examines how developing countries achieve economic, political and social reconstruction after armed conflict. Case studies include Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Mozambique, South Africa and Sri Lanka.
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This book examines the ways in which developing countries can achieve economic, political and social reconstruction in the wake of armed conflict. It includes studies of Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, South Africa, Sri Lanka.
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Africa's Recovery from Conflict: Making Peace Work for the Poor (Wider Policy Brief)
Tony Addison Manufacturer: United Nations Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9291903981 |
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Introduction To Law, Law Study, And The Lawyer's Role
James E. Moliterno , and Fredric I. Lederer Manufacturer: Carolina Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1594600481 |
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In this volume, Moliterno and Lederer take a fresh and innovative look at the subject of law and what law study and the practice of law entail by combining a traditional academic viewpoint with elements of law practice and ethics as it continues to be widely used in orientation and introductory courses. A teacher's manual is available.
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An Introduction to Law, Law Study, and the Lawyer's Role
James E. Moliterno; Fredric I. Lederer Manufacturer: Carolina Academic Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000V6BGLU |
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Teachers' manual for An introduction to the lawyer's role in dispute resolution: Materials and case study on alternative means of resolving disputes : a supplement for civil procedure courses
Paul J Spiegelman Manufacturer: For the National Institute for Dispute Resolution ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00070RV6E |
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Aplicacion de Plaguicidas
de Andalucia Junta Manufacturer: Mundiprensa ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 8484761517 |
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Plaguicidas agricolas y su aplicacion (Coleccion monografias I.N.I.A. ; no. 6)
Agustin Alfaro Moreno ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 8450006562 |
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Nitric Oxide Part A: Sources and Detection of No; No Synthase (Methods in Enzymology)
Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0121821692 |
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Nitric oxide, recently named"Molecule of the Year"by the journal Science, impinges on a wide range of fields in biological research, particularly in the areas of biomedicine and cell and organismal biology, as well as in fundamental chemistry. This volume and its companion Volume 269 highlight the most current and up-to-date methods used to research the physiology and toxicity of nitric oxide in cellular and organismal systems. It will be a valuable resourcefor the experienced researcher as well as for those newly entering the field.Customer Reviews:
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Nitric Oxide Part A: Sources and Detection of No; No Synthase (Methods in Enzymology)
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General Chemistry: The Essential Concepts with Online ChemSkill Builder v.2 and Online Learning Center (OLC) Password Card
Raymond Chang Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0073016527 |
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The third edition of General Chemistry: The Essential Concepts continues the tradition of presenting only the material that is essential for a one-year general chemistry course. As before, the text includes all the core topics that are necessary for a solid foundation in general chemistry without sacrificing depth, clarity, or rigor. The third edition features new Spartan molecular models, animations correlated to the text, the addition of molecular orbital theory and more. General Chemistry: The Essential Concepts is 200 to 300 pages shorter than traditional two-semester textbooks and is much less expensive. Dr. Chang’s concise-but-thorough approach will appeal to efficiency-minded instructors and will please value-conscious students.
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Chemistry with OLC Password Card
Raymond Chang Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill College ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0072465336 |
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Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes
Walter Gratzer Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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The march of science has never proceeded smoothly. It has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, deserved and undeserved, and sometimes by human tragedy. It has seen deep intellectual friendships, as well as ferocious animosities, and once in a while acts of theft and malice, deceit, and even a hoax or two. Scientists come in all shapes: the obsessive and the dilettantish, the genial, the envious, the preternaturally brilliant and the slow-witted who sometimes see further in the end, the open-minded and the intolerant, recluses and arrivistes. From the death of Archimedes at the hands of an irritated Roman soldier to the concoction of a superconducting witches' brew at the very close of the twentieth century, the stories in Eurekas and Euphorias pour out, told with wit and relish by Walter Gratzer. Open this book at random and you may chance on the clumsy chemist who breaks a thermometer in a reaction vat and finds mercury to be the catalyst that starts the modern dyestuff industry; or a famous physicist dissolving his gold Nobel Prize medal in acid to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Nazis, recovering it when the war ends; mathematicians and physicists diverting themselves in prison cells, and even in a madhouse, by creating startling advances in their subject. We witness the careers, sometimes tragic, sometimes carefree, of the great women mathematicians, from Hypatia of Alexandria to Sophie Germain in France and Sonia Kovalevskaya in Russia and Sweden, and then Marie Curie's relentless battle with the French Academy. Here, then, a glorious parade unfolds to delight the reader, with stories to astonish, to instruct, and most especially, to entertain.Customer Reviews:
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The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: Volume V, 1865-1871 (Letters of William Cullen Bryant)
William Bryant , and Thomas Voss Manufacturer: Fordham University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0823209954 Release Date: 1993-01-01 |
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On April 26, 1865, as Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege paused in Union Square, New York, before being taken by rail to Springfield, Illinois, William Cullen Bryant listened as his own verse elegy for the slain president was read to a great concourse of mourners by the Reverend Samuel Osgood. Only five years earlier and a few blocks downtown, at Cooper Union, Bryant had introduced the prairie candidate to his first eastern audience. There his masterful appeal to the conscience of the nation prepared the way for his election to the presidency on the verge of the Civil War. Now, Bryant stood below Henry Kirke Brown's equestrian statue of George Washington, impressing Osgood as if he were "the 19tth Century itself thinking over the nation and the age in that presence." Bryant's staunch support of the Union cause throughout the war, and of Lincoln's war efforts, no less than his known influence with the president, led several prominent public figures to urge that he write Lincoln's biography. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote him, "No man combines the qualities for his biographer so completely as yourself and the finished task would be a noble crown to a noble literary life." But Bryant declined, declaring his inability to record impartially critical events in which he had taken so central a part. Furthermore, while preoccupied with the editorial direction of the New York Evening Post, he was just then repossessing and enlarging his family's homestead at Cummington, Massachusetts, where he hoped his ailing wife might, during long summers in mountain air, regain her health. But in July 1866, Frances died of recurrent rheumatic fever, and, Bryant confessed to Richard Dana, he felt as "one cast out of Paradise." After France's death Bryant traveled with his daughter Julia for nearly a year through Great Britain and the Continent, where he met British statesman and novelist Edward Bulwer Lytton and French literary critic Hyppolyte Taine, renewed his friendship with Spanish poet Carolina Coronado, Italian liberator Giuseppe Garibaldi, and British and American artists, and visited the family of the young French journalist Georges Clemenceau, as well as the graves of earlier acquaintances Francis Lord Jeffrey and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In his spare moments Bryant sought solace by beginning the translation of Homer, and Longfellow had found relief after his wife's tragic death by rendering into English Dante's Divine Comedy. Home again in New York, Bryant bought and settled in a house at 24 West 16th Street which would be his city home for the rest of his life. Here he completed major publications, including the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer and an exhaustive Library of Poetry and Song, and added to published tributes to earlier friends, such as Thomas Cole, Fenimore Cooper, and Washington Irving, memorial discourses on Fitz-Greene Halleck and Gulian Verplanck. In addition to his continued direction of the New York Homeopathic Medical college and the American Free Trade League, he was elected to the presidency of the Williams College Alumni Association, the International Copyright Association, and the Century Association, the club of artists and writers of which, twenty years earlier, he had been a principal founder and which he would direct for the last decade of his life.Books:
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