Development Studies

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  ​Anwar Ibrahim: Tenacious in Dissent, Hopeful in Power

  Over 50 years Anwar Ibrahim was a Malay nationalist student, a motor of Islamic activism, a co-opted rising star in government, an ‘anointed...
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  Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance

  Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent This realization has led to cries for...
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  Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work and What We Can Do About It

  Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it Have you ever wondered why not Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't...
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  Capital in the Twenty-First Century

  What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the...
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  Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy

  The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred...
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  Challenging Malaysia’s Status Quo

  History professor, consumer advocate, policy analyst and public intellectual par excellence Dr Lim Teck Ghee has put together this important...
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  Children Without a State: A Global Human Rights Challenge

  The first book to address children's statelessness and lack of legal status as a human rights issue Children are among the most vulnerable...
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  City Unseen: New Visions of an Urban Planet

  Stunning satellite images of one hundred cities show our urbanizing planet in a new light to reveal the fragile relationship between humanity and...
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  Cultivating Gender: Meanings of Place and Work in Rural Vietnam

  "The husband ploughs, the wife transplants, the buffalo harrows" In rural Vietnam, this ancient saying has survived communist revolution, land...
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  Development as Freedom

  This title is a synthesis of the thought of economist Amartya Sen, who views economic development as a means to extending freedoms rather than an end...
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  Dictators without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia

  A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout...
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  Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe

  How Capitalism makes a fortune from disaster, poverty and catastrophe   Disaster has become big business Best-selling journalist Antony...
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  Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia: Money, politics, Patronage and Clientelism at the Grassroots

  How do politicians win elected office in democratic Indonesia During the weeks leading to Indonesia’s 2014 legislative election, a team of...
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  Electoral Dynamics in Sarawak: Contesting Developmentalism and Rights

  Based upon observation of the 2016 Sarawak state elections at a time of political turmoil for the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, Electoral...
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  Genes, Cells and Brains: The Promethean Promises of the New Biology

  Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars, said James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA But Watson could not have predicted the...
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  Growth against Democracy: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World

  Growth against Democracy: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World, by HLT Quan is a compelling interrogation of the ways in which we have thought...
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  India: Superfast, Primetime, Ultimate Nation

  India dreams of a glorious future: to be a great power with global influence And that may soon be within its reach - it has a young, dynamic and...
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  Intellectual Conversations: Malaysian Writers and Thinkers in the 1970s

  This book conveys the essence of a series of guided conversations with leading Malaysian intellectuals—predominantly writers, journalists,...
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