New Books – March 2015

The 160 titles listed below have been added to our selection in the past month. Stop in often, as new titles arrive every day!

WORLD BANK PUBLICATIONS HIV Epidemics in the European Region: Vulnerability and Response, by Lucy Platt, Emma Jolley, Vivian Hope, Alisher Latypov, Peter Vickerman, Ford Hickson, Lucy Reynolds, and Tim Rhodes. $39.95pb Le potential transformateur de l’industrie miniere: Une opportunite pour l’electrification de l’Afrique subsaharienne, by Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee, Zayra Romo, Gary McMahon, Perrine Toledano, Peter Robinson and Ines Perez Arroyo. $29.95pb

ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES Development Economics and Aid

The Age of Sustainable Development, by Jeffrey D. Sachs. Columbia University Press. $34.95pb InfoShop Special—20% Off! ($27.96) Asia-Africa Development Divergence: A Question of Intent, by David Henley. Zed. $32.95pb Explaining Post-Conflict Reconstruction, by Desha M. Girod. Oxford University Press. $29.95pb Happiness and Economic Growth: Lessons from Developing Countries, edited by Andrew E. Clark and Claudia Senik. Oxford University Press. $60.00hb The Politics of Inclusive Development: Interrogating the Evidence, edited by Sam Hickey, Kunal Sen, and Badru Bukenya. Oxford University Press. $99.00hb The Role of Elites in Economic Development, edited by Alice H. Amsden, Alisa DiCaprio, and James A. Robinson. Oxford University Press. $40.00pb Sustainable Development: The UN Millennium Development Goals, the UN Global Compact, and the Common Good, by Oliver F. Williams. The University of Notre Dame Press. $47.00pb Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, by Greg Mills. Hurst. $29.95pb

General Economics The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach, by Robin Hahnel. Pluto Press. $25.00pb The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order, by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey. St. Martin’s Press. $27.99hb Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup, by Andrew Zimbalist. Brookings Institution Press. $25.00hb Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights, by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer and Susan Randolph. Oxford University Press. $24.95pb Handbook of Experimental Economic Methodology, edited by Guillaume R. Frechette and Andrew Schotter. Oxford University Press. $125.00hb Handbook on the Economics of Reciprocity and Social Enterprise, edited by Luigino Bruni and Stefano Zamagni. Edward Elgar. $65.00pb Introduction to Islamic Economics: Theory and Application, by Hossein Askari, Zamir Iqbal and Abbas Mirakhor. Wiley. $80.00hb

The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers That Rule Our World, by Zachary Karabell. Simon & Schuster. $16.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK! The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism’s Future, by Geoff Mulgan. Princeton University Press. $19.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK! A Practitioner’s Guide to Stochastic Frontier analysis Using Stata, by Subal C. Kumbhakar, Hung-Jen Wang and Alan P. Horncastle. Cambridge University Press. $49.99pb Strained Relations: US Foreign-Exchange Operations and Monetary Policy in the Twentieth Century, by Michael D. Bordo, Owen F. Humpage and Anna j. Schwartz. The University of Chicago Press. $97.50hb Totaled: Salvaging the Future from the Wreckage of Capitalism, by Colin Cremin. Pluto Press. $26.00pb

Agriculture and Rural Development Agricultural Finance: From Crops to aLand, Water and Infrastructure, by Helyette Geman. Wiley. $115.00hb Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability: A Political Economy Analysis, edited by Per Pinstrup-Andersen. Oxford University Press. $125.00hb

Banking, Finance and Investment; Microfinance The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis, by Ben Bernanke. Princeton University Press. $12.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK! Financial and Macroeconomic Connectedness: A Network Approach to Measurement and Monitoring, by Francis X. Diebold and Kamil Yilmaz. Oxford University Press. $39.95pb Investment Risk Management, edited by H. Kent Baker and Greg Filbeck. Oxford University Press. $99.00hb Liquidity Lost: The Governance of the Global Financial Crisis, by Paul Langley. Oxford University Press. $85.00hb The Oxford Handbook of Banking, 2/e, edited by Allen N. Berger, Philip Molyneux, and John O. S. Wilson. Oxford University Press. $175.00hb Treasury’s War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare, by Juan C. Zarate. PublicAffairs. $18.99 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Unexpected Outcomes: How Emerging Economies Survived the Global Financial Crisis, edited by Carol Wise, Leslie Elliott Armijo, and Saori N. Katada. Brookings Institution Press. $22.95pb

Education and Training Education Policy in Developing Countries, edited by Paul Glewwe. The University of Chicago Press. $40.00pb Fair Access to Higher Education: Global Perspectives, edited by Anna MountfordZimdars, Daniel Sabbagh, and David Post. The University of Chicago Press. $35.00pb

Energy, Industry and Mining Deconstructing Energy Law and Policy, by Raphael J. Heffron. Edinburgh University Press. $39.95pb Energy Poverty: Global Challenges and Local Solutions, edited by Antoine Halff, Benjamin K. Sovacool, and Jon Rozhon. Oxford University Press. $110.00hb Iran’s Natural Gas in the Post-Revolutionary Period: Optimism, Scepticism, and Potential, by Elham Hassanzadeh. Oxford University Press. $85.00hb The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World, by Steve Levine. Viking. $28.95hb

Environment and Pollution Prevention Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet, by Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman. Princeton University Press. $27.95hb InfoShop Special-20% Off! ($22.36) Dictionary of Environmental and Climate Change Law, edited by Nicholas A. Robinson, Wang Xi, Lin Harmon and Sarah Wegmueller. Edward Elgar. $45.00pb Handbook of Research on Environmental Taxation, edited by Janet E. Milne and Mikael Skou Andersen. Edward Elgar. $65.00pb How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate, by Andrew J. Hoffman. Stanford University Press. $12.95pb A Rough Ride to the Future, by James Lovelock. Overlook. $25.95hb Who Rules the Earth? How Social Rules Shape Our Planet and Our Lives, by Paul F. Steinberg. Oxford University Press. $29.95hb

Gender Companeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories, by Hilary Klein. Seven Stories Press. $19.95pb Gender, Development and Disasters, by Sarah Bradshaw. Edward Elgar. $29.95pb We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Anchor Books. $7.95pb

Governance, Civil Society and Participation Corruption, Grabbing and Development: Real World Challenges, edited by Tina Soreide and Aled Williams. Edward Elgar. $39.95pb Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice, by Shaazka Beyerle. Lynne Rienner. $25.00pb Losing Control: Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization, by Saskia Sassen. Columbia University Press. $25.00pb

Health, Nutrition and Population The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less, by Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor. PublicAffairs. $16.99pb Cured: The People Who Defeated HIV, by Nathalia Holt. Plume. $16.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK! Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Ineffectual, Error Prone System, by Ezekiel Emanual. PublicAffairs. $17.99pb

Infrastructure, Transportation and Urban Development Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement, edited by Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto Lopez-Morales. Policy Press. $47.95pb Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change, by Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia. Island Press. $25.00pb

Labor and Income; Migration The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration, by Martin Ruhs. Princeton University Press. $24.95pb

Legal and Judicial Issues

Advanced Introduction to International Humanitarian Law, by Robert Kolb. Edward Elgar. $27.95pb Cross-Examination in International Arbitration, by Kaj Hober and Howard S. Sussman. Oxford University Press. $85.00pb Dictionary of International Human Rights Law, by Connie de la Vega. Edward Elgar. $45.00pb Formalizing Displacement: International Law and Population Transfers, by Umut Ozsu. Oxford University Press. $110.00hb Intimations of Global Law, by Neil Walker. Cambridge University Press. $39.99pb An Introduction to Contemporary International Law: A Policy-Oriented Perspective, 3/e, by Lung-chu Chen. Oxford University Press. $59.95pb Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law: Searching for Common Ground?, edited by Anver M. Emon, Mark S. Ellis, and Benjamin Glahn. Oxford University Press. $42.50pb Private International Law and Global Governance, edited by Horatia Muir Watt and Diego P. Fernandez Arroyo. Oxford University Press. $149.50hb A Short Introduction to International Law, by Emmanuelle Tourme Jouannet. Cambridge University Press. $19.99pb

Private Sector The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World’s Most Important Company, by Michael S. Malone. Harper Business. $34.99hb Small Business and the City: The Transformative Potential of Small-Scale Entrepreneurship, by Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov and Matt Semansky. University of Toronto Press. $29.95pb

Public Sector Public Sector Entrepreneurship: U. S. Technology and Innovation Policy, by Dennis Patrick Leyden and Albert N. Link. Oxford University Press. $39.95hb Quality of Government and Corruption from a European Perspective: A Comparative Study of Good Government in EU Regions, by Nicholas Charron, Victor Lapuente and Bo Rothstein. Edward Elgar. $39.95pb Systematic Thinking for Social Action, by Alice Rivlin. Brookings Institution Press. $18.00pb

Technology and Telecommunications Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do about It, by Marc Goodman. Doubleday. $27.95hb The Naked Future: What Happens in a World that Anticipates Your Every Move, by Patrick Tucker. Current. $16.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Trade, Commodities and Pricing Reconstructing the World Trade Organization for the 21st Century: An Institutional Approach, by Kent Jones. Oxford University Press. $39.95hb

REGIONAL STUDIES East Asia and the Pacific China’s Technological Catch-Up Strategy: Industrial Development, Energy Efficiency, and CO2 Emissions, by Michael T. Rock and Michael A. Toman. Oxford University Press. $55.00hb The Korean Economy: From a Miraculous Past to a Sustainable Future, by Barry Eichengreen, Wonhyuk Lim, Yung Chul Park and Dwight H. Perkins. Harvard University Press. $49.95hb

Europe and Central Asia Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe, by George Friedman. Doubleday. $28.95hb A Journey into Russia, by Jens Muhling. Haus. $24.95hb Leadership Dispatches: Chile’s Extraordinary Comeback from Disaster, by Michael Useem, Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan. Stanford University Press. $29.95hb My Fellow Prisoners, by Mikhail Khodorovsky. Overlook. $20.00hb Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice, by Bill Browder. Simon & Schuster. $28.00hb

Middle East and North Africa Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947, by Bruce Hoffman. Alfred A. Knopf. $35.00hb

The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know®, 2/e, by James L. Gelvin. Oxford University Press. $16.95pb Democracy Is the Answer: Egypt’s Years of Revolution, by Alaa Al Aswany. Gingko Library. $43.00hb The Libyan Revolution and Its Aftermath, edited by Peter Cole and Brian McQuinn. Oxford University Press. $49.95hb Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions, by Asaad AlSaleh. Columbia University Press. $22.95pb

South Asia 88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary, by Robert L. Grenier. Simon & Schuster. $28.00hb Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal, by Prashant Jha. Hurst & Company. $30.00pb The Faithful Scribe: A Story of Islam, Pakistan, Family, and War, by Shahan Mufti. Other Press. $17.95pb Gandhi before India, by Ramachandra Guha. Vintage. $18.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK! The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry between India and Pakistan, by Dilip Hiro. Nation Books. $35.00hb Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History, by Nira Wickramasinghe. Oxford University Press. $35.00pb The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan, by Rafia Zakaria. Beacon Press. $26.95hb

Sub-Saharan Africa The ANC Women’s League, by Shireen Hassim. Ohio University Press. $14.95pb Capital Flight from Africa: Causes, Effects, and Policy Issues, edited by S. Ibi Ajayi and Leonce Ndikumana. Oxford University Press. $99.00hb China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa, by Howard W. French. Vintage. $16.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK! Congo: The Epic History of a People, by David Van Reybrouck. Ecco. $19.99 NEW IN PAPERBACK! Lumumba: Africa’s Lost Leader, by Leo Zeilig. Haus. $21.95pb

The Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa, edited by Haroon Bhorat, Alan Hirsch, Ravi Kanbur, and Mthuli Ncube. Oxford University Press. $110.00hb The Quest for Regional Integration in the East African Community, edited by Paulo Drummond, S. Kal Wajid, and Oral Williams. International Monetary Fund. $35.00pb Saturnalia: Traveling from Cape Town to Kampala in Search of an African Utopia, by Justin Chapman. Rare Bird Books. $15.95pb Short-Changed? South Africa since Apartheid, by Colin Bundy. Ohio University Press. $14.95pb South Sudan: A Slow Liberation, by Edward Thomas. Zed. $27.95pb The Soweto Uprising, by Noor Nieftagodien. Ohio University Press. $14.95pb

OTHER SUBJECTS Current Affairs The American Senate: An Insider’s History, by Neil MacNeil and Richard A. Baker. Oxford University Press. $21.95pb Believer: My Forty Years in Politics, by David Axelrod. Penguin Press. $35.00hb Blueprint for a Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World, by Srdja Popovic. Spiegel & Grau. $16.00pb Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London, by Mohsin Hamid. Riverhead Books. $27.95hb Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy, edited by Peter L. Bergen and Daniel Rothenberg. Cambridge University Press. $34.99pb Falling Short: The Coming Retirement Crisis and What to Do about It, by Charles D. Ellis, Alicia H. Munnell, and Andrew D. Eschtruth. Oxford University Press. $24.95hb The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones, by Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum. Basic Books. $29.99hb HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton, by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. Broadway. $15.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK! The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy, by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley. Brookings Institution Press. $22.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Power Forward: My Presidential Education, by Reggie Love. Simon & Schuster. $26.00hb Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America, by David K. Shipler. Vintage. $17.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

General History The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, by Eugene Rogan. Basic Books. $32.00hb The Origins of Business, Money, and Markets, by Keith Roberts. Columbia Business School Publishing. $21.95pb The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s, by Doug Rossinow. Columbia University Press. $35.00hb Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari. Harper. $29.99hb Shadow Warfare: The History of America’s Undeclared Wars, by Larry Hancock with Stuart Wexler. Counterpoint. $24.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK! The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years, by Joseph A. Califano, Jr. Touchstone. $18.00pb

Human Rights and Humanitarianism World Report 2015: Events of 2014. Human Rights Watch. Seven Stories Press. $32.00pb

International Relations America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy-the Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else, by William Blum. Zed. $14.95pb Busted Sanctions: Explaining Why Economic Sanctions Fail, by Bryan R. Early. Stanford University Press. $29.95pb Grand Strategy in Theory and Practice: The Need for an Effective American Foreign Policy, by William C. Martel. Cambridge University Press. $38.99pb The Improbable War: China, the United States and the Logic of Great Power Conflict, by Christopher Coker. Oxford University Press. $29.95hb

Management and Leadership Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World, by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler. Simon & Schuster. $28.00hb

Changing Your Company from the Inside Out: A Guide for Social Intrapreneurs, by Gerald F. Davis and Christopher J. White. Harvard Business Review Press. $28.00hb Coping with Excess: How Organizations, Communities and Individuals Manage Overflows, edited by Barbara Czarniawska and Orvar Lofgren. Edward Elgar. $39.95pb The Creator’s Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, by Amy Wilkinson. Simon & Schuster. $27.00hb The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office, by Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan. Princeton University Press. $17.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK! Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for Leaders, by Jennifer Garvey Berger and Keith Johnston. Stanford University Press. $35.00hb A Theory of Organizing, 2/e, by Barbara Czarniawska. Edward Elgar. $39.95pb The Upside of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success, by Megan McArdle. Penguin. $16.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Theoretics The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind, by Michio Kaku. Anchor Books. $16.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK! Is Shame Necessary? New Uses for an Old Tool, by Jennifer Jacquet. Pantheon. $24.00hb It’s Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success, by Mary Spio. Perigee. $24.95hb The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Prediction Fail-but Some Don’t, by Nate Silver. Penguin. $17.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK! This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress, edited by John Brockman. Harper Perennial. $15.99pb The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joy of Bureaucracy, by David Graeber. Melville House. $25.95hb

Travel; Washington DC Guides Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC, by J. D. Dickey. Lyons Press. $26.95hb

Children's Literature

A Ticket Around thwe World, by Natalia Diaz and Melissa Owens; Kim Smith, illus. Owl Books. $16.95hb

Fiction The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Peron, by Carlos Gamerro. & Other Stories. $15.95pb The African Equation, by Yasmina Khadra. Gallic Books. $15.95pb A Bad Character, by Deepti Kapoor. Alfred A. Knopf. $24.00hb 20% Off! ($19.20) The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe, by Romain Puertolas. Alfred A. Knopf. $22.95hb 20% Off! ($18.36) The Frangipani Hotel, by Violet Kupersmith. Spiegel & Grau. $15.00pb The Girl in the Road, by Monica Byrne. Broadway. $15.00pb Green on Blue, by Elliot Ackerman. Scribner. $25.00hb 20% Off! ($20.00) I am Radar, by Reif Larsen. Penguin Press. $29.95hb 20% Off! ($23.96) Kinder Than Solitude, by Yiyun Li. Random House. $16.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK! The Librarian, by Mikhail Elizarov. Pushkin Press. $18.95pb Pig’s Foot, by Carlos Acosta. Bloomsbury. $17.00pb Pushkin Hills, by Sergei Dovlatov. Counterpoint. $15.95pb The Seventh Day, by Yu Hua. Pantheon. $25.00hb 20% Off! ($20.00) Signs Preceding the End of the World, by Yuri Herrera. & Other Stories. $13.95pb The Son, by Jo Nesbo. Vintage Crime. $15.95pb Song for an Approaching Storm, by Peter Froberg Idling. Pushkin Press. $14.95pb This House Is Not for Sale, by E. C. Osondu. Harper. $25.99hb 20% Off! ($20.79) Young Skins, by Colin Barrett. Black Cat. $15.00pb

Remainders/Bargain Books Berlin Now: The City after the Wall, by Peter Schneider. Was $27, now $7 Blessed Are the Dead, by Malla Nunn. Was $14, now $5

Here Come the Black Helicopters: UN Global Governance and the Loss of Freedom, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. Was $22.99, now $3 A Long Walk to Freedom, by Nelson Mandela. Was $18, now $7 A Minor Apocalypse, by Tadeusz Konwicki. Was $12.95, now $5 The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction, by Nate Silver. Was £25, now $10 Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed, by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. Was $18.99, now $5