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  • Voices of Privilege and Sacrifice from Women Volunteers in India
    Aditi Mitra
    New updated version now available!This book is the outcome of a study conducted in the eastern city of Kolkata in India in the mid-2000s. It is an ethnographic study that looks closely at women from the upper and middle classes who work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that help empower women from all classes of society. Unlike many studies that focus on grassroots wo...
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    64,10 €

  • Bourgeois Radicals
    Carol Anderson
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    123,52 €

  • The Politics of Crisis Management in China
    Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo
    This book analyzes the ways in which the Chinese government and military responded to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan province. It adopts a comparative and historical perspective in studying the responses of the Chinese government in the first critical 72 hours, the mobilization of the People’s Liberation Army and its difficulties, the assertive and important role of th...
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    132,22 €

  • Cures for Ailing Organizations
    Sue Knaup
    Cures for Ailing Organizations is a first aid manual that guides nonprofits and social enterprises out of common difficulties that hinder their work. Until now, organizations working to help our world have been left to struggle on their own and when they disband, as many do, few tears are shed. In fact, nonprofits and social enterprises seem to be expected to struggle, as if it...
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    22,10 €

  • Overturning Tables
    Scott A Bessenecker
    Outreach Resource of the Year RecommendationBest World Missions Book, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds BookstoreWe are more than the businesses we have become.Much of Christian ministry has been shaped to operate not according to the witness of the Scriptures, but according to the values of the free market. We adopt metrics of success that have nothing to do with the state ...
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    22,27 €

  • The Press in American Politics, 1787-2012
    Patrick Novotny
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    82,41 €

  • Historical Dictionary of International Organizations in Asia and the Pacific, Second Edition
    Derek McDougall
    Historical Dictionary of International Organizations in Asia and the Pacific, Second Edition covers global, international, and regional organizations in Asia and the Pacific, and encompasses both governmental and non-governmental organizations. This second edition covers the history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dict...
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    157,59 €

  • Measuring and Improving Social Impacts
    Kristi Yuthas / Marc J. Epstein
    The world is beset with enormous problems. And as a nonprofit, NGO, foundation, impact investor, or socially responsible company, your organization is on a mission to solve them. But what exactly should you do? And how will you know whether it’s working? Too many people assume that good intentions will result in meaningful actions and leave it at that. But thanks to Marc Epst...
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    57,02 €

  • Functional Representation and Democracy in the EU
    Corinna Wolff
    This book offers a consistent framework to assess participation from the perspective of democratic legitimacy, conceptualising it as functional representation. ...
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    62,11 €

  • Special Interest Society
    James R. Hudson / James RHudson
    Membership-based organizations play a central role in our society yet those studying voluntary associations fail to recognize their distinctive characteristics as their impact is profound and our understanding of them severely limited. By analyzing over 400 published histories, this book breaks new ground revealing why they emerge, what they do to shape nearly every profession,...
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    148,26 €

  • Resource Mobilization for Ngos in the Developing World
    Mavuto Kapyepye
    The longevity and productivity of every NGO hinges on its capacity to effectively mobilize resources for its cause. Based on extensive research and years of professional practice, this book examines critically the issues and challenges of existing practices for fundraising by NGOs in the developing world and the pitfalls involved in towing the traditional model without taking i...
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    27,03 €

  • Voices of Privilege and Sacrifice from Women Volunteers in India
    Aditi Mitra
    New updated version now available!This book is the outcome of a study conducted in the eastern city of Kolkata in India in the mid-2000s. It is an ethnographic study that looks closely at women from the upper and middle classes who work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that help empower women from all classes of society. Unlike many studies that focus on grassroots wo...
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    105,77 €

  • Non-Governmental Organisations in International Law. Anna-Karin Lindblom
    Anna-Karin Lindblom
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    60,36 €

  • Shaping a global women’s agenda
    Karen Garner
    Shaping a global women’s agenda documents the crucial and central role of women’s international organisations played at the League of Nations and at the United Nations as the NGOs interjected concerns for women’s and human rights into the global governance system. ...
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    35,33 €

  • Politics, Agricultural Development, and Conflict Resolution
    Chuku-Dinka R. Spencer / Chuku-Dinka RSpencer
    Using the Moyen Bani Programme as an example, External Assistance or External Interference gives an analysis of a grassroots conflict which, not foreseen at project design, lasted six years in Mali. This book provides the historical, economic, and political backgrounds that influenced the design and the conflict resolution. Concepts of perception, emotion, and identity explain ...
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    45,15 €

  • Race, Power & Politics
    Michael McCray
    RACE, POWER & POLITICS is the only book about ACORN ever written by authentic ACORN insiders-National Board Members. It is a must read for all concerned citizens, journalists and advocates, whether Tea Party, conservatives, civil libertarians or fairminded liberals; anyone interested in-and not afraid of learning the unvarnished truth about the Association of Community Organiza...
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    21,56 €

  • Race, Power & Politics
    Michael McCray
    RACE, POWER & POLITICS is the only book about ACORN ever written by authentic ACORN insiders-National Board Members. It is a must read for all concerned citizens, journalists and advocates, whether Tea Party, conservatives, civil libertarians or fairminded liberals; anyone interested in-and not afraid of learning the unvarnished truth about the Association of Community Organiza...
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    29,87 €

  • Against the Odds. a History of Zimbabwe Project
    Mary Ndlovu
    1978: In Rhodesia, the Internal Settlement led to the creation of a coalition government. Smith had, however, neither capitulated nor abandoned his belief in white superiority, and thousands of people fled across the country’s borders. In England, a group of missionaries, supported by the Catholic Institute for International Relations, formed a steering group that was to become...
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    45,00 €

  • Pluralism and Freedom
    Stephen V. Monsma / Stephen VMonsma
    Faith-based organizations play a major role in providing a host of health, educational, and social services to the public. Nearly all these efforts, however, have been accompanied by intense debate and numerous legal challenges. The right of faith-based organizations to hire based on religion, the presence of religious symbols and icons in rooms where government-subsidized serv...
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    112,55 €

  • AFL-CIO’s Secret War against Developing Country Workers
    Kim Scipes
    The principles of trade unionism are based on working people acting together in solidarity with each other, to improve wages, working conditions, and life for themselves and all others. In its most developed forms, this extends not only to the worker next to you, but to working people all around the world, wherever they might be. Some of the foremost proponents of these princ...
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    62,36 €

  • The Political Economy of NGOs
    Jude L. Fernando
    This book explores the paradoxical relationship between NGOs and capitalism, showing that supposedly progressive organisations often promote essentially the same policies and ideas as existing governments. It examines how a diverse group of NGOs have shaped state formation in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. It argues that, rather than influencing state formation for the better, NGOs ...
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    50,88 €

  • Collaborative Grantseeking
    Jeremy T. Miner / Jeremy TMiner / Jerry Griffith / Lynn E. Miner / Lynn EMiner
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    103,97 €

  • Collaborative Grantseeking
    Jeremy Miner / Jerry Griffith / Lynn Miner
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    56,40 €

  • Strengthening Popular Participation in the African Union. a Guide to Au Structures and Processes
    The African Union (AU) has committed to a vision of Africa that is ’integrated, prosperous and peaceful - driven by its own citizens, a dynamic force in the global arena’ (Vision and Mission of the African Union, May 2004). This guide is an effort to take up the challenge of achieving this vision. It is a tool to assist activists to engage with AU policies and programmes. It de...
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    42,15 €

  • Taking Aim at the Arms Trade
    Anna Stavrianakis
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    51,33 €

  • Reforming the Malawian Public Sector. Retrospectives and Prospectives
    Richard Tambulasi
    Reforming the Malawian Public Sector argues that the new public management model that Malawi, like most African countries, adopted under the influence of donor organisations has not led to the intended development. The book examines decentralisation, performance contracting, and public-private partnerships as key aspects of the reforms and comes to the conclusion that at best, ...
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    51,50 €

  • Non-State Actors as Standard Setters
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    156,06 €

  • Scouting for Girls
    Tammy Proctor
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    95,63 €

  • The A to Z of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations
    Edward S. Mihalkanin / Edward SMihalkanin / Robert F. Gorman / Robert FGorman
    While the idea of human rights and humanitarian assistance has ancient roots-evidence can be seen in such examples as the Ten Commandments, the Bhagavad Gita, and the teachings of Confucius and Socrates-it wasn’t until the 1800s that the first modern humanitarian and human rights organizations came to be. The 19th century saw the beginning of the abolitionist movement, the form...
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    62,76 €

  • Bridging the Gaps
    As neoliberal philosophies and economic models spread across the globe, faith-based non-governmental ('third-sector') organizations have proliferated. They increasingly fill the gaps born of state neglect by designing and delivering social services and development programming. This collection shines a much-needed critical light onto these organizations by exploring the varied w...
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    142,93 €


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