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
PAPERBACK!
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