Politics of Development A Survey


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2014 | 373 Pages | ISBN: 1857435001 | EPUB | 1 MB
The Politics of Development: A Survey provides an overview of the intrinsically political relations of development. It brings together essays written by experts in the politics of development and covers a range of significant and topical concerns: gender, race, indigenous development, social movements, religion, security, environmental concerns, colonialism and its legacies, migration, the political economy of development, trajectories in urbanization, and the agrarian question. It introduces and examines key concepts and approaches which have underpinned development, as well as the struggles it has engendered historically, and in contemporary contexts. This volume provides critical insights into the global politics of development and offers alternative analytical frameworks for understanding the relationships around development and inequalities. The Politics of Development: A Survey is organized in an accessible manner, catering to a wide audience (ranging from undergraduates at University level to practitioners and Non-Governmental Organizations [NGOs] engaged in advocacy as well as practical political aspects), and provides introductions to key issues and themes around contemporary challenges and opportunities in development. The title also includes an A-Z Glossary, covering key terms, organizations, concepts and actors in the politics of development.
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Policing White Supremacy The Enemy Within


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English | January 7, 2025 | ISBN: 1620977060 | 336 pages | PDF | 10 Mb
A former FBI agent's urgent call for law enforcement to prioritize far-right violence and end tolerance for police racism
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Polars Cookbook Over 60 practical recipes to transform, manipulate, and analyze your data using Python Polars 1.x


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English | 2024 | ASIN: B0CLRS4B8T | 594 pages | EPUB (True) | 31.60 MB
Leverage Polars, a lightning-fast DataFrame library, to transform your Python-based data science projects with efficient data wrangling and manipulation
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Poisoned Eden Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problem of Public Health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865-1908


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English | February 1, 2022 | ISBN: 1496208404, 1496228626 | True EPUB | 348 pages | 8.5 MB
In 1895, after enduring two previous cholera epidemics and facing horrific hygienic conditions and the fear of another epidemic, officials in the Argentine province of Tucumán described their home as the "Poisoned Eden," a play on its official title, "Garden of the Republic." Cholera elicited fear and panic in the nineteenth century, and although the disease never had the demographic impact of tuberculosis, malaria, or influenza, cholera was a source of consternation that often illuminated dormant social problems.
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Pointers and References in C++ Fifth Step in C++ Learning (C++ Programming Book 5)


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English | 2023 | ASIN: B0CQVT49X1 | 174 pages | EPUB (True) | 603.93 KB
Introducing the fifth installment in the Programming in C++ Series by Eucoding - "Pointers and References in C++." Embark on a journey into the intricate world of memory management and data manipulation as you delve into the heart of C++ programming. This book serves as your compass, guiding you through the nuanced realm of pointers and references with clarity and precision.
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Photographing Eden Poems


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2008 | 73 Pages | ISBN: 082141836X | EPUB | 1 MB
Photographing Eden presents the first full-length collection of poems by a major new talent. The work meditates on several ideas, the crux of which is Eden: spirituality, environmentalism, and the relationships between men and women. Observing, often through the lens of a camera, our state in the world, the poems try to focus sharply on what often seems a blur. The poems are always attentive to artistic mediums and the craft behind them because our struggle is to make something perfect in the imperfect world in which we live, while acknowledging the impossibility of that quest. Gray's poems range all over, from adventures in Egyptian ruins with machine-gun-toting tourist police to the western edge of the foggy Irish coastline, and to the mythic past, where Adam and Eve visit a zoo and Eden has become a nature preserve.
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Philosophies of Gratitude


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English | ISBN: 0197526861 | 2020 | 324 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In Philosophies of Gratitude, Ashraf H. A. Rushdy explores gratitude as a philosophical concept. The first half of the book traces its significance in fundamental Western moral philosophy and notions of ethics, specifically examining key historical moments and figures in classical antiquity, the early modern era, and the Enlightenment.
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