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Access to Essential Medicines as a Component of the Right to Health
by Marks, Stephen
In Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors, Andrew Clapham wrote, "Perhaps the most obvious threat to human rights has come from the inability of people to achieve access to expensive...
Published Date: April 2009 More
Cover of United States and MexicoUnited States and Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict
by Domínguez, Jorge I.; Fernandez de Castro, Rafael
By sharing one of the longest land borders in the world, the United States and Mexico will always have a special relationship. In the early twenty-first century, they are as important to one another...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: March 2009 More

Cover of How Do Good Health Technologies Get to Poor People in Poor Countries?How Do Good Health Technologies Get to Poor People in Poor Countries?
by Reich, Michael R.; Frost, Laura J.
Many people in developing countries lack access to health technologies, even basic ones. Why do these problems in access persist? What can be done to improve access to good health technologies,...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: March 2009 More

Cover of How Professors ThinkHow Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment
by Lamont, Michèle
Excellence. Originality. Intelligence. Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly is it, and how do professors identify it?
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: March 2009 More

Rational Choice Politics
by Shepsle, Kenneth A.; Dewan, Torun; Dowding, Keith
The formal modeling techniques of rational choice theory have become central to the discipline of political science, for example with regard to the understanding of the working of legislatures,...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: January 2009 More

Health, Development, and Human Rights
by Marks, Stephen
The purpose of this chapter is to explore how the three concepts of human rights, health and human development have been defined and linked and what implications these linkages have for international...
Published Date: December 2008 More
Cover of The Ascent of MoneyThe Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by Ferguson, Niall
Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: November 18, 2008 More

Cover of Midnight's DiasporaMidnight's Diaspora: Critical Encounters with Salman Rushdie
by Varshney, Ashutosh; Herwitz, Daniel
Almost twenty years after the Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa against him, Salman Rushdie remains the most controversial and perhaps the most famous living novelist. Far more than an acclaimed...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: November 2008 More

Meierhenrich book cover imageThe Legacies of Law
by Meierhenrich, Jens
Focusing on South Africa during the period 1650–2000, this highly original book examines the role of law in making democracy work in changing societies. The Legacies of Law sheds light on the...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: October 2008 More

Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America, Third Edition
by Domínguez, Jorge I.; Shifter, Michael
This latest edition of this acclaimed text examines four themes vital to building market-oriented democracies in Latin America: the development of democratic institutions, globalization's impact,...
Publication Type: Edited Work
Published Date: 2008 More