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

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!

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 Mountford-

Zimdars, 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 Al-

Saleh. 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