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"Generations at Work"Managing the Clash of Veterans, Boomers, Xers, Nexters in Your Workplace
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At no point in history have so many different generations of employees worked side by side, and they're not always happy about it. This guide explains the differences in values and views, ways of working, talking, and thinking of four distinct generations. With illustrations. Hardback, 256 pages. Size: 238 x 167 mm. Weight: 583g.
Author: Zemke, Ron Raines, Claire Filipezak, Bob
ISBN: 0814404804
Publisher: Amacom
Date: 1999 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Age Groups
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"Another Day in Paradise"Front Line Stories From International Aid Workers
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Another Day in Paradise is an anthology of first-person stories by international aid workers. Written by active aid workers and spanning the hot spots of the globe from Afghanistan to Cambodia, Rwanda to Vietnam and Ecuador to Bosnia, these stories tell it like it really is on the ground. With photographs. Hardback, 256 pages. Size: 241 x 161 mm. Weight: 605g.
Author: (Bergman, Carol, ed.)
ISBN: 1844070344
Publisher: Earthscan Ltd
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Aid & Relief Programmes
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"Nation-Building"Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq
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"Forum on Constructive Capitalism" series; Brings together academics, political analysts, and practitioners to reflect on the US experience with nation-building, from its historical underpinnings to its modern-day consequences. Examining the contrasting models in Afghanistan and Iraq, they highlight the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq as a cautionary example of inadequate planning. Paperback, 232 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 372g.
Author: (Fukuyama, Francis, ed.)
ISBN: 0801883350
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Aid & Relief Programmes
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"Reinventing Foreign Aid"
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Discusses how to improve the effectiveness of foreign aid, proposing practical solutions to specific problems rather than a utopian master plan. This work also includes writers who look at scientific evaluation of aid projects and describe projects found to be cost-effective, including vaccine delivery and HIV education. With 60 illustrations. Paperback, 624 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 777g.
Author: (Easterly, William Russell, ed.)
ISBN: 0262550660
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Aid & Relief Programmes
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"Making Aid Work"
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"Boston Review Book" series; The problem of global poverty is our greatest moral challenge. This title offers an account of the potential of foreign aid to reduce poverty and a challenge to aid organizations to think harder about how they spend their money. It argues that donors should assess programs with field experiments using randomized trials. Hardback, 136 pages. Size: 183 x 120 mm. Weight: 236g.
Author: Banerjee, Abhijit
ISBN: 0262026155
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Aid & Relief Programmes
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"Aid and Other Dirty Business"How Good Intentions Have Failed the World's Poor
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Do you know why Africa is so poor? What really happens to your aid money? Why trade rules fail African countries and yet cost you too? We've heard it all before: the corrupt leaders, heartless global corporations, the wicked World Bank. This book offers an approach to this problem. Paperback, 352 pages. Size: 199 x 126 mm. Weight: 238g.
Author: Bolton, Giles
ISBN: 0091914353
Publisher: Ebury Press
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Aid & Relief Programmes
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"Where Soldiers Fear to Tread"At Work in the Fields of Anarchy
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In 1998 John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker. On the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, Burnett was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without government or law. The experience of being an aid-worker changed the way he sees the world. With maps, port. Hardback, 356 pages. Weight: 586g.
Author: Burnett, John
ISBN: 0434012076
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Aid & Relief Programmes
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"The White Man's Burden"Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
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Addresses the problems of extreme poverty and the West's failed attempts to help the poor. While recognising the energy and compassion behind the campaign to make poverty history, the author argues that grand plans and good intentions are a part of the problem not the solution. With tables and figures. Hardback, 400 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author: Easterly, William Russell
ISBN: 0199210829
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Aid & Relief Programmes
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"Economic Gangsters"Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
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Follows the foreign aid money trail into the grasping hands of corrupt governments and shady underworld characters. This book proposes solutions that can make a difference to the world's poor - including cash infusions to defuse violence in times of drought, and steering the World Bank away from aid programs that are susceptible to corruption. With 4 line illus. 1 table.. Hardback, 250 pages. Size: 216 x 140 mm. Weight: 413g.
Author: Fisman, Raymond Miguel, Edward
ISBN: 0691134545
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Aid & Relief Programmes
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"Building Democracy in Contemporary Russia"Western Support for Grassroots Organizations
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With 2 line drawings, 15 tables. Hardback, 224 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 544g.
Author: Henderson, Sarah L. (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Oregon State University, Usa)
ISBN: 0801441358
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date: 2003 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Aid & Relief Programmes
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"Human Resources for Health"Overcoming the Crisis
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Analysis of global workforce, proposes that mobilisation and strengthening of human resources for health is central to combating health crises in some of the world's poorest countries. With 26 figures, 3 maps, 6 tables, 28boxed text. Paperback, 216 pages. Size: 253 x 205 mm. Weight: 153g.
Author: The Joint Learning Initiative
ISBN: 0974110876
Publisher: Global Equity Initiative
Date: 2005 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Aid & Relief Programmes
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"Pedestrian Dynamics"Feedback Control of Crowd Evacuation
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"Understanding Complex Systems" series; Effective evacuations can save lives. This book provides mathematical models of pedestrian movements that can be used specifically for designing feedback control laws for effective evacuation. It includes various feedback control laws to accomplish the effective evacuation. The control designs are obtained through different nonlinear techniques. With 3 black & white halftones, 63 black & white line drawings. Hardback, 260 pages. Size: 235 x 155 mm. Weight: 487g.
Author: Kachroo, Pushkin Al-Nasur, Sadeq J. Wadoo, Sabiha Amin Shende, Apoorva
ISBN: 3540755594
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. Kg
Date: 2008 (Germany)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Aid & Relief Programmes
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"Introduction to Emergency Management"
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"Wiley Pathways" series; . With illustrations. Paperback, 624 pages. Size: 231 x 187 mm. Weight: 666g.
Author: Lindell, Michael Prater, Carla Perry, Ronald W.
ISBN: 0471772607
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Aid & Relief Programmes
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"Not Breaking the Rules Not Playing the Game"International Assistance to Countries at War
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Investigates the international assistance given to countries at war. Presenting evidence from Sierra Leone, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Southern Sudan, the author finds that appealing to a morality based on rights and principles allows aid staff to justify their operational weaknesses by blaming or discrediting others. With maps. Paperback, 265 pages. Size: 216 x 138 mm. Weight: 351g.
Author: Marriage, Zoe
ISBN: 1850658137
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Aid & Relief Programmes
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"Disaster Response and Recovery"Strategies and Tactics for Resilience
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"Wiley Pathways" series; Explores the various types of disasters that may occur. This book aims to uncover the myriad of actors that are involved in emergency management as well as the theoretical frameworks from which post disaster activities may be approached. It helps readers gain understanding of the typical challenges to be expected during response efforts. With illustrations. Paperback, 504 pages. Size: 229 x 187 mm. Weight: 746g.
Author: Mcentire, David
ISBN: 0471789747
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Aid & Relief Programmes
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