ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

Development Economics and Aid

Community Development in Action: Putting Freire into Practice, by Margaret Ledwith &

Nita Freire. Policy Press. $26.00pb

Migrating into Financial Markets: How Remittances Became a Development Tool, by

Matt Banker. University of California Press. $34.95pb

General Economics

The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth is Unattainable and the Global Economy

is in Peril, by Satyajit Das. Prometheus Books. $25.00pb

New Books – March 2016

The 165 titles listed below have been added to our selection in the past month. Stop in often, as new titles arrive every day!

Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting of the Olympics and the World

Cup, by Andrew Zimbalist. Brookings Institution Press. $22.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies, edited by Gerda

Roelvink, Kevin St. Martin, and J. K. Gibson-Graham. University of Minnesota Press.

$35.00pb

Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel, by Tom Wainwright. Public Affairs. $26.99hb

Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future, by Paul Mason. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $27.00hb

Rich People Poor Countries: The Rise of Emerging-Market Tycoons and Their Mega Firms,

by Caroline Freund. Peterson Institute for International Economics. $23.95pb

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, by

Douglas Rushkoff. Portfolio. $28.00hb

Agriculture and Rural Development

The Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America, by Liz

Carlisle. Avery. $16.00pb

Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard of the Fight Against GMOs

and Corporate Agriculture, edited by Vandana Shiva. North Atlantic Books. $21.95pb

Banking, Finance and Investment; Microfinance

The Money Problem: Rethinking Financial Regulation, by Morgan Ricks. The University of

Chicago Press. $45.00hb

Data and Statistics

The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom, by Stephen M. Stigler. Harvard University Press.

$22.95pb

Small Data: The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends, by Martin Lindstrom. St. Martin’s

Press. $25.99hb

Education and Training

The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere, by

Kevin Carey. Riverhead Books. $16.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Schools on Trial: How Freedom and creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice, by

Nikhil Goyal. Doubleday. $26.95hb

Energy, Industry and Mining

The Green and the Black: The Complete Story of the Shale Revolution, the Fight over

Fracking, and the Future of Energy, by Gary Sernovitz. St. Martin’s Press. $27.99hb

Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists

Wrong, by Robert Bryce. PublicAffairs. $18.99. NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Environment and Pollution Prevention

Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, by Edward O. Wilson. Liveright. $25.95hb 20% Off!

($20.76)

Gender

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation, by

Rebecca Traister. Simon and Schuster. $27.00hb

The Hidden Face of Eve, by Nawal El Saadawi. Zed. $18.95pb

What Works: Gender Equality by Design, by Iris Bohnet. Belknap Press. $26.95hb

Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, by Melvin Konner.

Norton. $16.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Governance, Civil Society and Participation

Collaborative Governance Regimes, by Kirk Emerson & Tina Nabatchi. Georgetown

University Press. $29.95pb

Democracy against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism, by Ellen Meiksins

Wood. Verso. $17.95pb

God in the Tumult of the Global Square: Religion in Global Civil Society, by Mark

Juergensmeyer, Griego, & Soboslai. University of California Press. $19.95pb

The Puzzle of Non-Western Democracy, by Richard Youngs. Carnegie Europe. $19.95pb

Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, by Sarah Chayes. Norton.

$16.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Health, Nutrition and Population

Nutrition for Developing Countries, by Felicity Savage King, Burgess, Quinn, & Osei.

Oxford University Press. $59.50pb

People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning from Our Body’s Most Terrifying Invaders, by

Dickson D. Despommier & Campbell. Columbia University Press. $23.00 NEW IN

PAPERBACK!

Infrastructure, Transportation and Urban Development

101 Rules of Thumb for Sustainable Buildings and Cities, by Huw Heywood. RIBA

Publishing. $35.95pb

The Road Taken: The History and Future of America’s Infrastructure, by Henry Petroski.

Bloomsbury. $ 28.00

Legal and Judicial Issues

Legal Pluralism and Development: Scholars and Practitioners in Dialogue, by Brian Z.

Tamanaha, Sage, & Woolcock. Cambridge University Press. $34.99pb

Regime Interaction in International Law: Facing Fragmentation, by Margaret A. Young.

Cambridge University Press. $ 35.99pb

Ruling the World: Constitutionalism, International Law, and Global Governance, by

Jeffrey L. Dunoff & Joel P. Trachtman. Cambridge University Press. $49.99pb

Poverty

Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals: A Critical Look Forward, edited by

Alberto D. Cimadamore, Gabriele Koehler, and Thomas Pogge. Zed. $39.95pb

Public Sector

Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism, by Jamie Peck

and Nik Theodore. University of Minnesota Press. $30.00pb

Public Value and Public Administration, by John M. Bryson, Crosby, & Bloomberg.

Georgetown University Press. $39.95pb

Social and Cultural Issues

Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World, by Adam B.

Seligman, Wasserfall, & Montgomery. University of California Press. $19.95hb

Technology and Telecommunications

In Our Own Image: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence,

by George Zarkadakis. Pegasus Books. $27.95hb

Mastering Digital Transformation: Towards a Smarter Society, Economy, City and Nation,

by Nagy K. Hanna. Emerald. $49.00pb

Trade, Commodities and Pricing

The China Triangle: Latin America’s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington

Consensus, by Kevin P. Gallagher. Oxford University Press. $27.95hb

The Regulation of International Trade, Volume1 GATT, by Petros C. Mavroidis. The MIT

Press. $86.00hb

Water Supply and Sanitation

The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos, by Karen Piper.

University of Minnesota Press. $26.95hb

World Bank/IMF

The Summit-Bretton Woods, 1944: J. M. Keynes and the Reshaping of the Global

Economy, by Ed Conway. Pegasus. $17.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

REGIONAL STUDIES

East Asia and the Pacific

China’s Twentieth Century, by Wang Hui. Verso. $29.95pb

In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China, by

Michael Meyer. Bloomsbury Press. $19.00pb

My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist, by Sadanand Dhume. Skyhorse

Publishing. $18.99pb

Europe and Central Asia

Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire, by Agnia Grigas. Yale University Press.

$40.00hb

In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and

Beyond, by Robert D. Kaplan. Random House. $28.00hb

Everything is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia, by Sigrid Rausing.

Grove Press. $16.00pb

The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism,

by Cihan Tugal. Verso. $29.95pb

Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe, by George Friedman. Anchor Books.

$16.00pb

Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent, by Matthew Carr. The New Press.

$17.95pb

The Struggle and the Triumph: An Autobiography, by Lech Walesa. Arcade Publishing.

$16.99pb

Latin America and the Caribbean

Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio, by Misha Glenny. Knopf. $27.95hb

The Mexican Revolution: A Very Short Introduction, by Alan Knight. Oxford University

Press. $11.95pb

The Tupac Amaru Rebellion, by Charles F. Walker. Belknap Press. $19.95pb

Middle East and North Africa

And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two decades in the Middle East, by Richard Engel. Simon

& Schuster. $27.00hb

Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-

Shami. Pluto Press. $24.00pb

Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran, by Laura Secor. Riverhead Books.

$30.00hb

The Ghost Warriors: Inside Israel’s Undercover War against Suicide Terrorism, by Samuel

M. Katz. Berkley Caliber. $27.00hb

Isis: The State of Terror, by Jessica Stern & J.M. Berger. Harper Collins Publishers. $15.99pb

Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate, by Abdel Bari Atwan. University of California Press.

$24.95hb

Islamism: What It Means for the Middle East and the World, by Tarek Osman. Yale

University Press. $35.00hb

Keepers of the Golden Shore: A History of the United Arab Emirates, by Michael Quentin

Morton. Reaktion Books. $39.00hb

Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic, by Michael Axworthy. Oxford

University Press. $21.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

South Asia

Dispatches from Pakistan, edited by Madiha R. Tahir, Qalandar Bux Memon and Vijay

Prashad. University of Minnesota Press. $22.95pb

The End of Karma: Hope and Fury among India’s Young, by Somini Sengupta. Norton.

$26.95hb

Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka, by John Gimlette. Knopf. $ 28.95hb

From Home to House: Writings of Kashmiri Pandits in Exile, by Arvind Gigoo, Singh, & Ajit.

HarperCollins. $15.99pb

India at the Global High Table: The Quest for Regional Primacy and Strategic Autonomy,

by Teresita C. Schaffer & Howard B. Schaffer

Sri Lanka: The New Country, by Padma Rao Sundary. HarperCollins. $ 19.99pb

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot( The Taliban Shuffle), by Kim Barker. $15.95pb

Sub-Saharan Africa

Africa’s Long Road since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent, by Keith

Somerville. Hurst. $34.95hb

African Leaders of the Twentieth Century: Biko, Selassie, Lumumba, Sankara. Ohio Short

Histories of Africa. Ohio University Press. $32.95pb

Made in Africa: Learning to Compete in Industry, by Carol Newman, John Page, John

Rand, Ababe Shimeles, , Mans Soderbom, and Finn Tarp. Brookings Institution Press.

$35.00pb

OTHER SUBJECTS

Art & Photography

The Tuareg or Kel Tamasheq: The People Who Speak Tamasheq and a History of the

Sahara, edited by Henrietta Butler. Unicorn Press. $45.00pb

Current Affairs

The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the

Coming Global Disorder, by Peter Zeihan. Twelve Books. $15.99 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Believer: My Forty Years in Politics, by David Axelrod. Penguin. $18.00 NEW IN

PAPERBACK!

The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America, by Michael

Eric Dyson. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $27.00hb

A Chinaman’s Chance: One Family’s Journey and the Chinese American Dream, by Eric

Liu. PublicAffairs. $14.99 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

The Coyote’s Bicycle: The Untold Story of Seven Thousands Bicycles and the Rise of a

Borderland Empire, by Kimball Taylor. $26.95hb

Crisis Point: Why We Must-and How We can-Overcome Our Broken Politics in

Washington and Across America, by Senator Trent Lott & Senator Tom Daschle.

Bloomsbury Press. $28.00hb

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, by Fred Kaplan. Simon and Schuster.

$28.00hb

Discontent and Its Civilizations: dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London, by

Mohsin Hamid. Riverhead Books. $16.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond. Crown.

$28.00hb

Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich: Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy,

by Mary Frances Berry. Beacon Press. $25.95hb

Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage, by Barney Frank.

Picador. $18.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

The Future We Want: Radical Ideas for the New Century, edited by Sarah Leonard and

Bhaskar Sunkara. Metropolitan Books. $17.00pb

Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Harper. $15.99 NEW IN

PAPERBACK!

Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy, by Wendell Potter & Nick

Penniman. Bloomsbury Press. $28.00pb

Open Letter: On Blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the True Enemies of Free Expression, by

Charb & Adam Gopnik. Little Brown. $16.00hb

People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy,

by Robert W. McChesney & John Nichols. Nation Books. $ 26.99hb

Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror, by Michael V. Hayden.

Penguin Press. $30.00hb

The Political Origins of Inequality: Why a More Equal World Is Better for Us All, by Simon

Reid-Henry. The University of Chicago Press. $25.00hb

The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s

Presidents from Kennedy to Obama, by David Priess & George H. W. Bush. PublicAffairs.

$29.99hb

Primary Politics: Everything You Need to Know About How America Nominates Its

Presidential Candidates, by Elaine C. Kamarck. Brookings Institution Press. $20.00pb

They Know Everything about You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping

Government Agencies are Destroying Democracy, by Robert Scheer. Nation Books.

$15.99pb

United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good, by

Cory Booker. Ballantine Books. $27.00hb

United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorism, by Peter Bergen.

Crown. $28.00hb

The War on Leakers: National Security and American Democracy, From Eugene V. Debs

to Edward Snowden, by Lloyd C. Gardner. The New Press. $26.95hb

General History

The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized

Wealth and Power, by Steve Fraser. Basic Books. $18.99 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Coal: A Human History, by Barbara Freese. Basic Books. $17.99 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship – Pauli Murray, Eleanor

Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice, by Patricia, Bell-Scott. Alfred A. Knopf.

$30.00hb

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, by Peter Frankopan. Knopf. $30hb

When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana, by James MacDonald.

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. $21.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Human Rights and Humanitarianism

Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World, by Baz

Dreisinger. Other Press. $27.95hb

A Passion for Society: How We Think About Human Suffering, by Iain Wilkinson & Arthur

Kleinman. University of California Press. $29.95pb

International Relations

Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism, by David Kilcullen. Oxford

University Press. $24.95hb

The Future of Extended Deterrence: The United States, NATO, and Beyond, by

StefanieVon Hlatky & Andreas Wenger. Georgetown University Press. $32.95pb

The Future of Foreign Intelligence: Privacy and Surveillance in a Digital Age, by Laura K.

Donohue. Oxford University Press. $24.95hb

The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the

Digital Age, by Adam Segal. Public Affairs. $26.99hb

Mission Failure: America and the World in a Post-Cold War Era, by Michael

Mandelbaum. Oxford University Press. $29.95hb

US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy: The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower, by

Derek S. Reveron, Gvosdev,& Owens. Georgetown University Press. $29.95pb

Business

Growing a Business: Strategies for Leaders and Entrepreneurs, by Rupert Merson. The

Economist. $17.99pb

Idiot’s Guides: Introductory Accounting, by David H. Ringstrom, Perry, & Bucki. Alpha.

$19.95pb

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, by Clayton

M. Christensen. Harvard Business Review Press. $25.00pb

The Innovator’s Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments are Worth More Than Good Ideas,

by Michael Schrage. The MIT Press. $19.95pb

Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism, by Elizabeth Becker. Simon

& Schuster. $17.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World, by Sally Denton. Simon and

Schuster. $30.00hb

Business Management

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the world, by Peter H. Diamandis &

Steven Kotler. Simon & Schuster. $17.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically with Society, by John

Brown, Nuttall, & Stadlen. PublicAffairs. $ 27.99hb

Difficult Conversations: 20 Minute Manager. Harvard Business Review. $12.95pb

HBR Guide to Negotiating, by Jeff Weiss. Harvard Business Review. $19.95pb

Behavioral Management

How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your

Working Life, by Caroline Webb. Crown Business. $26.00hb

It’s Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success, by Mary Spio.

Perigee. $ 16.00pb

Leadership

Be Bad First: Get Good at Things Fast to Stay Ready for the Future, by Erika Andersen.

Bibliomotion. $27.95hb

Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders master the Flow of Talent, by Sydney Finkelstein.

Portfolio Penguin. $28.00hb

Reference

Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasion, by Arvatu & Aberdein. Bloomsbury. $13.00hb

Social Media and Communication

Show and Tell: How Everyone Can Make Extraordinary Presentations, by Dan Roam.

Portfolio. $18.00pb

The Storyteller’s Secret: From Ted Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch

on and Others Don’t, by Carmine Gallo. St. Martin’s Press. $27.99hb

Theoretics

Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe, by John Hands.

Overlook. $39.95hb

Does Altruism Exists?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others, by David Sloan Wilson.

Yale Templeton Press. $18.00pb

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, by Adam Grant. Viking. $27.00hb

The Utopia of Rules: On technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy, by

David Graeber. Melville House Publishing. $16.95pb

Washington DC

Top 10 Washington DC 2016. DK Eyewitness Travel. $14.00pb

The Unofficial Guide to Washington, D.C. 13th Edition, by Eve Zibart, Sklarew & Testa. The

Unofficial Guide. $14.95pb

Washington’s Monument and the Fascinating History of the Obelisk, by John Steele

Gordon. Bloomsbury. $27.00hb

Children's Literature

Arroz con leche/Rice Pudding, by Jorge Argueta; Fernando Vilela, illus. Groundwood

Books. $8.95pb

Guacamole: Una poema para cocinar/ A Cooking Poem, by Jorge Argueta; Margarita

Sada, illus. Groundwood Books. $8.95pb

It’s Getting Hot in Here: The Past, Present, and Future of Climate Change, by Bridget

Heos. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $17.99hb

Malaika’s Costume, by Nadia L. Hohn & Irene Luxbacher. Groundwood Books. $

18.95hb

Fiction

Adios, Cowboy, by Olja Savicevic. McSweeney’s. $15.00pb

And After Many Days, by Jowhor Ile. Tim Duggan Books. $25.00hb 20% Off! ($20.00)

Blackass, by A. Igoni Barrett. Graywolf Press. $16.00pb

Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol, by Elias Khoury.Archipelago. $24.00pb

Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow, by Fabienne Josaphat. Unnamed Press. $15.00pb

Fixers, by Michael M. Thomas. Melville House Publishing. $ 26.95hb 20% Off! ($21.56)

The Four Books, by Yan Lianke. Grove Press. $16.00pb

God Loves Haiti, by Dimitry Elias Leger. Amistad. $15.99 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Green Island, by Shawna Yang Ryan. Knopf. $26.95hb 20% Off! ($21.56)

The Hairdresser of Harare, by Tendai Huchu. Ohio University Press. $16.95pb

The High Mountains of Portugal, by Yann Martel. Spiegel & Grau. $27.00hb 20% Off!

($21.60)

This House Is Not for Sale, by E. C. Osondu. Harper Perennial. $14.99 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

A Life Apart, by Neel Mukherjee. Norton. $ 16.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

The Life of Elves, by Muriel Barbery. Europa Editions. $17.00pb

Love Letter in Cuneiform, by Tomá Zmekal & Alex Zucker. Yale University Press. $20.00pb

The Man Who Snapped His Fingers, by Farida Hachtroudi. Europa editions. $15.00pb

Night Prayers, by Santiago Gamboa. Europa Editions. $18.00pb

The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, by Fatima Bhutto. Penguin. $16.00 NEW IN

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She Weeps Each Time You’re Born, by Quan Barry. Vintage. $16.00pb

Sudden Death, by Alvaro Enrigue. Riverhead Books. $27.00hb 20% Off! ($21.60)

The Tusk that Did the Damage, by Tania James. Vintage. $16.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

The Vegetarian, by Han Kang. Hogarth. $21.00hb 20% Off! ($16.80)

The Village, by Nikita Lalwani. Random House. $16.00pb