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Messy Cities

Can messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive?Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a poorly…

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Alessandro Cigno, Furio C Rosati
The Economics of Child Labour

Children throughout the world are engaged in a variety of activities classifiable as work. These range from relatively harmless, even laudable, activities like helping parents in the home, to morally or p…

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Ugo Gentilini
Timely Cash

This book provides a historical overview of the 2,500-year history of cash transfers to better understand the roots of contemporary debates on whether and how such assistance should be provided.

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Thibauld Marcesse
The Accommodation of Democracy

In The Accommodation of Democracy, Thibaud Marcesse documents the implementation of the world's largest publics works program--called the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or NREGS--in India's mo…

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Sarah Harkness
Literature for the People

A fascinating, evocative history of Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, two poor but idealistic young men who created a Victorian publishing empire.

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Infrastructuring Assemblies

An investigation into social and political assembly and how urban infrastructure can support pluralism, social resilience, and democracy.Infrastructuring Assemblies investigates the phenomenon of social a…

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Thibauld Marcesse
The Accommodation of Democracy

In The Accommodation of Democracy, Thibaud Marcesse documents the implementation of the world's largest publics works program--called the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or NREGS--in India's mo…

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Ryan M Seidemann
Cemetery Protections in Urban Environments

This book illuminates the role of the law in the protection and preservation of urban cemetery spaces, providing a history and analysis of cemetery site protections in the United States and discussing how…

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Anthony B Atkinson
Measuring Poverty Around the World

The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality-a critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the …

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Disease Control Priorities, Fourth Edition (Volume 1)

DCP4 works with low- and lower-middle-income countries to improve health outcomes by using economic evidence for better priority setting in healthcare. Volume 1 shares lessons from country led processes i…

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Russell Burge
The Promised Republic

In The Promised Republic, Russell Burge offers a bold new history of South Korea's rapid development. By focusing on the experience of rural-to-urban migrants who built and lived in Seoul's shantytowns, B…

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Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "Digital Future: Science, Education, and Innovative Development of Socio-Economic Systems"

Part 1_Digital Transformation of Science and Research.- Part 2_Innovations in Digital Education.- Part 3_Digitalization of Socio-economic Systems.- Part 4_Ethical Issues of AI Application.

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Tony Addison, Alan Roe
Resources Matter

This book explores a central issue of our time: our materials world is simultaneously both part of the problem (especially fossil fuels) as well as part of its solution (the materials necessary for the te…

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Richard Damania, Ebad Ebadi, Kentaro Mayr, Jun Rentschler
Nature's Paradox

Nature's Paradox is about the intersection of two major crises of the 21st century; the sustainability crisis and the social exclusion and inequality crisis. It explores the disproportionate impact that e…

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Howard A Husock
The Projects

How housing policy failed the people it was designed to help --- and how to fix it As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans live in deteriorating public housing projects, e…

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Sara C Bronin
Key to the City

Zoning codes dictate how and where we can build housing, factories, restaurants, and parks. They limit how tall buildings can be and where trees can be planted. They have become the most significant regul…

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David Omotoso Stovall
Engineered Conflict

A hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance creates spaces for working-class people of color to identify the true cause of conflic…

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Omar Arias, Daisuke Fukuzawa, Duong Trung Le, Aaditya Mattoo
Future Jobs

Explore how robots, AI, and digital platforms foster growth by boosting labor productivity and creating new tasks while challenging workers with job displacement. Adapting to this shift demands skill enha…

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Tanzil Shafique
City of Desire

In this major open access contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South - informal settlem…

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David Omotoso Stovall
Engineered Conflict

A hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance creates spaces for working-class people of color to identify the true cause of conflic…

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