Cutting the Cost of Cold, Preface by Brenda Boardma
Автор: Kyle Burke Название: Revolutionaries for the Right: Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War ISBN: 1469640732 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469640730 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 38810.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Freedom fighters. Guerilla warriors. Soldiers of fortune. The many civil wars and rebellions against communist governments drew heavily from this cast of characters. Yet from Nicaragua to Afghanistan, Vietnam to Angola, Cuba to the Congo, the connections between these anticommunist groups have remained hazy and their coordination obscure. Yet as Kyle Burke reveals, these conflicts were the product of a rising movement that sought paramilitary action against communism worldwide. Tacking between the United States and many other countries, Burke offers an international history not only of the paramilitaries who started and waged small wars in the second half of the twentieth century but of conservatism in the Cold War era.From the start of the Cold War, Burke shows, leading U.S. conservatives and their allies abroad dreamed of an international anticommunist revolution. They pinned their hopes to armed men, freedom fighters who could unravel communist states from within. And so they fashioned a global network of activists and state officials, guerrillas and mercenaries, ex-spies and ex-soldiers to sponsor paramilitary campaigns in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Blurring the line between state-sanctioned and vigilante violence, this armed crusade helped radicalize right-wing groups in the United States while also generating new forms of privatized warfare abroad.
Автор: Ilon Название: The Cost of Not Educating the World`s Poor ISBN: 1138887498 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138887497 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 158230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In The Cost of Not Educating the World's Poor, Lynn Ilon observes from her 30 years of travel and work in some 20 developing countries, how global instability, problems of environmental degradation, spread of global disease, migration and political instability are a cost of viewing the uneducated poor as separated from a networked of fast-growing global knowledge. This book shows how powerful global learning systems are rapidly forming and linking the rich world with the world of the poor and developing nations. Using a narrative voice interleaved with concise introductions to the underlying theories (economics, development, learning, technology and networks) it shows us how changing our ways of thinking can lead to new possibilities. The Cost of Not Educating the World's Poor is based on an emerging theory of development economics and the author's own vast experiences and stories. It also discusses, among other issues:
International development and how it has evolved toward an emphasis on knowledge
How networked human capital creates new potential for poorly resourced countries
The formation of a global system of learning networks
The digitization of knowledge
How nations improve their well-being through knowledge and equity
This inter-disciplinary assessment of international learning inequality and the methods to overcome it will appeal to researchers concerned with emerging concepts of global learning networks and their effects on development. It will also be of interest to students and policymakers studying national inequality, economics, and global development.
Автор: Glennerster, Howard Название: Understanding the cost of welfare ISBN: 1447334043 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447334040 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 39590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A substantial, authoritative, third edition of this important textbook about the impact of economic priorities and pressures on social policies at a time when neo-liberal arguments for reducing the burden of welfare are more dominant than ever before.
Автор: Howard Glennerster Название: Understanding the cost of welfare ISBN: 1447334035 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447334033 Издательство: Marston Book Services Цена: 105590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A substantial, authoritative, third edition of this important textbook about the impact of economic priorities and pressures on social policies at a time when neo-liberal arguments for reducing the burden of welfare are more dominant than ever before.
Автор: Cookson, Tara Patricia Название: Unjust conditions ISBN: 0520296990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520296992 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 31680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
Unjust Conditions follows the lives and labors of poor mothers in rural Peru, richly documenting the ordeals they face to participate in mainstream poverty alleviation programs. Championed by behavioral economists and the World Bank, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are praised as efficient mechanisms for changing poor people's behavior. While rooted in good intentions and dripping with the rhetoric of social inclusion, CCT programs' successes ring hollow, based solely on metrics for children's attendance at school and health appointments. Looking beyond these statistics reveals a host of hidden costs for the mothers who meet the conditions. With a poignant voice and keen focus on ethnographic research, Tara Patricia Cookson turns the reader's gaze to women's care work in landscapes of grossly inadequate state investment, cleverly drawing out the tensions between social inclusion and conditionality.
Название: Heat Pumps for Cold Climate Heating ISBN: 0367465353 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367465353 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 132710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Heat Pumps for Cold Climate Heating can be used for reference by scientific researchers and engineers engaged in research on air source heat pump technology, product development and popularization; and by energy management and policy researchers.
Автор: Minea Vasile Название: Heating and Cooling with Ground-Source Heat Pumps in Cold and Moderate Climates: Fundamentals and Basic Concepts ISBN: 0367469871 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367469870 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 168430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The book covers fundamentals and design principles of vertical and horizontal indirect and direct expansion closed-loop, ground and surface water ground-source heat pump systems. It details thermodynamic aspects of mechanical and thermochemical compression cycles of geothermal heat pumps and energetic, economic and environmental aspects.
Автор: Sumner Andy Название: Global Poverty ISBN: 019870352X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198703525 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 41700.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An in-depth analysis of the global poverty `problem` and how it is framed and understood. The volume questions existing theories of the causes of global poverty and argues that global poverty is gradually becoming a question of national distribution.
