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Organic Materials for Sustainable Civil Engineering

by Yves Mouton

This book provides an inventory of organic materials and products, the major components of all civil engineering projects, in terms of their scientific and technical background, including the regulations that...


Australia's Competitiveness: From Lucky Country to Competitive Country

by Michael J. Enright & Richard Petty

In this in-depth overview of Australia's economy, Michael Enright and Richard Petty — leading scholars on international competition—look at the data behind the news reports to offer a complete view of Australia's...


UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design

by Laura Klein

Great user experiences (UX) are essential for products today, but designing one can be a lengthy and expensive process. With this practical, hands-on book, you’ll learn how to do it faster and smarter using...


Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts

by Thomas Eisenmann

If you want salient advice about your startup, you’ve hit the jackpot with this book. Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best posts from many blogs on technology startup...


The New Scramble for Africa

by P?draig Carmody

Once marginalized in the world economy, the past decade has seen Africa emerge as a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. With its share of world trade and investment now...


Europe and problems of marketization: from Polanyi to Scharpf

by Colin Crouch

The author uses the theory of the 'Great Transformation' of the industrialisation of England developed by Karl Polanyi to describe the current situation in Europe. There is a strong marketisation of the economy...


Development Without Aid: The Decline of Development Aid and the Rise of the Diaspora

by David A. Phillips

“Development Without Aid” opens up perspectives about foreign aid to the world’s poorest countries. Growing up in Malawi the author developed a sense of the limitations of foreign assistance and from this...


Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries

by Jagdish Bhagwati & Arvind Panagariya

In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru’s pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s....


China's Disappearing Countryside: Towards Sustainable Land Governance for the Poor

by Yongjun Zhao

This book examines the linkages between land tenure, development and governance in the context of China's development transformation. Drawing on empirical studies, it advocates the exploration of innovative...


Revolution in a Bottle: How Terracycle Is Eliminating the Idea of Waste

by Tom Szaky

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA


Branding and Product Design: An Integrated Perspective

by Monika Hestad

Branding and design are moving closer together. Despite the strong link between famous brands and the products sold under their name, there is still a gap in understanding the relationship between product design...


Narrowing the Development Gap in ASEAN: Drivers and Policy Options

by Mark McGillivray & David Carpenter

An important part of the vision of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is to ensure that the benefits of development and economic integration are equitably shared by all member states and their...


Water and Climate Change in Africa: Challenges and Community Initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi

by Patricia E. Perkins

In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change. While the details vary from country to country, the impacts will be especially grave...


Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth

by Peter Blair Henry

Thirty years ago, China seemed hopelessly mired in poverty, Mexico triggered the Third World Debt Crisis, and Brazil suffered under hyperinflation. Since then, these and other developing countries have turned...


Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

by Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz

Whether you’re a startup founder trying to disrupt an industry or an intrapreneur trying to provoke change from within, your biggest challenge is creating a product people actually want. Lean Analytics steers...


Aid and Political Conditionality

by Olav Stokke

Foreign aid has increasingly become subject to political conditionality. In the 1980s some institutions made aid dependent upon the recipient countries' economic policy reforms. Market liberalisation was the...


The Ecology of Commerce

by Paul Hawken

The world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken's Ecology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business....


Real Estate Market Analysis: Methods and Case Studies, Second Edition

by Deborah L. Brett & Adrienne Schmitz

Offering the tools needed to evaluate trends and understand key factors affecting the real estate market, this book explains how to get started, where to get information, and how to apply the basic techniques...


Lessons from the Poor: Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit

by Alvaro Vargas Llosa & James D. Gwartney

An important contribution to the literature of economic development, this book presents case studies of productive entrepreneurship in contemporary Africa and Latin America. It looks at the growth of Kenya's...


Sand in the Gears: How Public Policy Has Crippled American Manufacturing

by Andrew O. Smith

American manufacturing has been on the decline for at least two generations. That fact is plain to any observer who travels through the Rust Belt of the Midwest, where the closing of steel plants and automobile...