Tim Allen

Making easy air pudding . 25 stunning recipes.

The popular actor and comedian shares his observations on why things are the way they are while sharing his offbeat opinions about the meaning of life and his personal role in it. Reprint."

I'm Not Really Here

Don't stand too close to a naked man

For many people, flight across an international border occurs repeatedly and is not a uniquely traumatic event. For many more, displacement has occurred within their own countries. The contributors suggest that in situations of such long-term upheaval, notions of flight into refuge and repatriation to a homeland cease to have much meaning. These populations have received minimal assistance from international organizations and have lacked protection from oppressive governments and marauding guerillas. Their plight has largely been ignored. North America: Africa World Press

War, Flight and Homecoming in Northeast Africa

In Search of Cool Ground

Concentrates attention on crucial issues which have been largely ignored and must become key aspects of assistance programs in war-torn areas of the Horn of Africa.

War, Flight & Homecoming in Northeast Africa

Tracey Skelton

Culture and Global Change presents a comprehensive introduction to the cultural aspects of third world development. It contains 25 chapters from leading writers in the field who each explore a particular aspect of 'culture' and the significance and meaning of cultural issues for different people in throughout the contemporary world. With chapters dealing with the importance of 'Third World' cultures but also with changes in Russia, Japan, the USA and the UK, this book considers the relationship between culture and development within a truly global context.

Culture and Global Change

Alan Thomas

The new edition of this immensely successful textbook will help students of development economics to see through simplistic analyses and solutions to an understanding of what is perhaps the world's most complex and pressing problem area. Each chapter, written by a specialist in the field, includes discussion questions and chapter summaries, and is generously illustrated with diagrams, tables and photographs.Contents:Part 1: Conceptions of Poverty and Development 1. Poverty and the 'end of development'--Alan Thomas 2. Meanings and Views of Development--Alan Thomas Part 2: A World of Problems? 3. Understanding Famine and Hunger--Ben Crow 4. Diseases of Poverty--Gordon Wilson and Melissa Parker5. Unemployment and Making a Living--David Wield and Joanna Chattaway6. Is the World Over-populated?--Tom Hewitt and Ines Smyth7. Environmental Degradation and Sustainability--Phillip Woodhouse8. A World at War--Tim Allen9. Agencies of Development--Alan Thomas and Tim Allen Part 3: The Great Transformation? 10. Diversity in Pre-Capitalist Societies--Janet Bujra11. Colonialism, Capitalism, Development--Henry Bernstein12. The Power of Colonial States--David Potter 13. Half a Century of Development--Tom Hewitt14. Socialist Models of Development--Andy Kilminster15. The Second 'Great Transformation'? Capitalism at the end of the Twentieth Century--John Harriss Part 4: Understanding Development Now 16. Sustainable Globalization? The Global Politics of Development and Exclusion in the New World Order--Anthony McGrew 17. Democratization,'Good Governance' and Development--David Potter 18. Rethinking Gender Matters in Development--Ruth Pearson19. Technology, Poverty and Development--Gordon Wilson and Richard Heeks20. Life in the Cities--Jo Beale21. Taking Culture Seriously--Tim AllenPart 5: The Future of Development 22. Genetic Engineering of Development? Myths and possibilities--Joanna Chataway, Les Levidow and Susan Carr23. The New Politics of Identity--Tim Allen and John Eade24. Industrialization and Development: Prospects and Dilemmas--Joanna Chataway and Tim Allen

Poverty and Development

Koen Vlassenroot

The Lord's Resistance Army is Africa’s most persistent and notorious 'terrorist' group. Led by the mysterious Joseph Kony, it has committed a series of horrific human rights abuses, including massacres and mutilations. Since the mid 1980s, it has abducted tens of thousands of people, including large numbers of children forced to train as fighters. The IC in 2005 issued warrants for Kony and his top commanders, and the United States is backing a military campaign against the group. But the LRA survives, continuing to inspire both fascination and fear. Authoritative but provocative, The Lord’s Resistance Army provides the most comprehensive analysis of the group available. From the roots of the violence to the oppressive responses of the Ugandan government and the failures of the international community, this collection looks at this most brutal of conflicts in fascinating depth, and includes a remarkable first-hand interview with Kony himself.

Myth and Reality

The Lord's Resistance Army

Jean Seaton

Savage wars in Bosnia, Rwanda, Liberia, Iraq and many other places continue to fill our television screens and newspapers with terrible images of conflict. Despite the optimism about world peace, brought about by the collapse of super-power hostilities in the early 1990s, we seem to be encountering more wars, or at least wars that are more socially traumatic. All too often, the media suggest that these conflicts are caused by the return of primordial loyalties and hatreds after the collapse of the Cold War, or that mass slaughter can be explained by reference to the inherently evil nature of individuals or groups. This book counters this kind of nonsense, and asks why such views have gained a currency. It examines the role of the media in inciting conflicts within nations, as well as the adverse impacts of news reporting on international perceptions - and on policy-making. But it also reveals how valuable informed journalism can be. Above all, it highlights the dangers of basing analysis on vague assertions about deep human motivation, or on mythologies of the past and the present promoted by the protagonists themselves.

War Reporting and Representations of Ethnic Violence

The Media of Conflict

John Eade

Understanding Ethnicities in Conflict

Divided Europeans

The most comprehensive, interdisciplinary and student-focused introduction to international development available.

Includes 323 citations in English regarding ethical, moral, bioethics, and philosophical issues related to animals. Each citation includes complete bibliographic data. Covers literature from January 1986 through February 1993. Author and subject indices.

A Bibliography

Ethical and Moral Issues Relating to Animals

Ethical and moral issues relating to animals

The Invention of a Ugandan Tribe

Making the Madi

Anna Macdonald

Henry Radice

The field of humanitarianism is characterised by profound uncertainty, by a constant need to respond to the unpredictable, and by concepts and practices that often defy simple or straightforward explanation. Humanitarians often find themselves not just engaged in the pursuit of effective action, but also in a quest for meaning. That is the starting point for this book. Humanitarian action has in recent years confronted geopolitical challenges that have upended much of its conventional modus operandi and presented threats to its foundational assumptions and legal frameworks. The critical interrogation of the purpose, practice and future of humanitarian action has yielded a rich new field of enquiry, humanitarian studies, and many thoughtful books, articles and reports. So, the question arose as to the most useful way to provide a critical overview that might serve to bring some definitional clarity as well as analytical rigor to the waves of critique and shifting sands of humanitarian action. Humanitarianism: A Dictionary of Concepts provides an authoritative analysis that attempts to rethink, rather than merely problematize or define the issues at stake in contemporary humanitarian debates. It is an important moment to do so. Just about every tenet of humanitarianism is currently open to question as never before.

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