Catálogo de libros: Organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG)

122 Catálogo de libros: Organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG)

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  • The Politics of Crisis Management in China
    Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo
    This book studies the Chinese government and military’s rapid mobilization and coordination work in the aftermath of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. It is a comparative and historical analysis for scholars and policy makers interested in the study of earthquake management from a multidisciplinary perspective. ...
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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
    Derek McDougall
    Historical Dictionary of International Organizations in Asia and the Pacific, Second Edition includes a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, thematic topics and major international issues affecting the region. ...
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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
    This ethnographic study looks closely at women from the upper and middle classes in Kolkata, India, who work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that help empower women from all classes of society. ...
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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 and raises the issue of international NGO activities in rural development activities. This book provides the historical, economic, and political backgrounds that influenced the design and the conflict resolution. ...
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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
    This book examines the themes of imperialism and empire from the perspective of the foreign policy program of organized labor in the United States. It details efforts to make real popular democracy within Labor. The author calls for American workers to join the global movement for economic and social justice and to extend globalization from ’below’ against the values and activi...
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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 to Z of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations
    Edward S. Mihalkanin / Edward SMihalkanin / Robert F. Gorman / Robert FGorman
    The A to Z of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations follows major new developments in the arena of human rights since its publication, including the emergence of terrorism and international responses to it; the establishment of an international criminal court; the evolution of regional human rights bodies in Africa, Europe, and Latin America; and the proliferation of new ...
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    62,76 €

  • Power, Interdependence, and Nonstate Actors in World Politics
    Since they were pioneered in the 1970s by Robert Keohane and others, the broad range of neoliberal institutionalist theories of international relations have grown in importance. In an increasingly globalized world, the realist and neorealist focus on states, military power, conflict, and anarchy has more and more given way to a recognition of the importance of nonstate actors, ...
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    67,91 €

  • Bridging the Gaps
    This edited collection provides an in-depth study of faith-based development organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean. With both analytical rigor and ethnographic awareness, the essays explore faith-based organizations as a possible model for economic development. ...
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    142,93 €

  • Lobbying in America
    Bryson Morgan / Ronald Hrebenar
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    82,17 €


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