Product Description: How can one believe in an age of doubt? How can we name the mystery of God in human words? Does nature speak of the glory of God? Does science undermine faith? Is the problem of evil unanswerable? In this volume scientists, theologians, philosophers, as well as a historian and social scientist, take seriously the challenge of knowing and speaking about God in an age of doubt and challenge...read more

Poverty reduction is once more at the top of the agenda in international development with new targets to reduce absolute income poverty by half and reduce other aspects of disadvantage over the first two decades of the 21st century. This important new text assesses the lessons of 50 years of development aid to illuminate the lessons as to what is required to eliminate world poverty in particular the importance of political issues and of listening to the voices of poor people themselves.

Product Description: This book maintains that chronic poverty is a significant issue in India which needs to be addressed by policy makers. The book focuses on the nature and politics of chronic poverty in India, and provides an analysis of poverty reduction policies from a chronic poverty perspective...read more

Product Description: Food security is of vital importance to all nations, but particularly so in developing countries. Governments worldwide are seeking to liberalize agricultural trade, and to change their role from one of controlling trade and prices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Some urgent new thinking is needed if any lessons are to be learnt from the recent disasters. This book brings together the experience of a number of writers who have worked on, or studied, poverty alleviation programmes in Asia and Africa.

Product Description: Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA) is carried out by professionals who have to undertake a wide range of human factors and human resource design decisions. Using a wide range of industries and contexts to demonstrate the aplicability of HTA in various settings, the author has used straightforward and accessible case studies and examples for the reader...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Essential reading for all rural development students and practitioners in the 1990s, this book examines the paradigm shift in rural development from an industrial to an holistic approach to technology development, from a technocratic to a participatory approach to management, and from resource control by big organisations to local resource management...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)