Caribbean Currents

Peter Manuel, Kenneth Bilby, Michael Largey

This is an exploration of the region's music - its forms and innovations, musicians, festivals, and dance halls, its fans - and traces its African, Asian and European roots. This book is oriented toward a few distinct yet overlapping sets of readers. One group contains the music lover who has taken...

Beyond Intellectual Property

Darrell Posey

Beyond Intellectual Property: Toward traditional resources rights for indigenous peoples and local communities

Health Gap

Jennifer Kitts

Health Gap: Beyond pregnancy and reproduction

Colombia in Focus

Colin Harding

One in ten of the world's murders takes place in Colombia. Since the 1950s, the country has been the scene of civil war, protracted guerrilla insurgencies and massive human rights violations. Its notorious drug cartels have become synonymous with ruthlessness and ill-gotten wealth. But Colombia is a...

Strengthening the Capacity of NGOs

Caroline Sahley

A growing proportion of overseas aid resources is flowing through indigenous NGOs in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Concerns about the capacity and performance of many Southern NGOs are leading Northern NGOs and official donors to seek ways of strengthening their partners that extend beyond technic...

Rights Now!

David Dalton

One thousand million people in the world live in poverty. They are denied basic rights such as access to clean water, a home or enough to eat. This work explains why so many people are poor and powerless. It shows what some of them are doing about it, how ordinary people in Britain can support them...

Rural Building Course Volume 1

Contains information on tools, maintenance of tools, rural building materials, rural building products, tables of figures and a glossary.

Rural Building Course Volume 3

From foundations, walls, doors and windows, to roofs, plaster and render, locks and painting.

Rural Building Course Volume 4

A training book for drawing techniques related to the subjects covered in the other volumes of the Rural Building Course, and general drawing training.

Sericulture and Silk Production

Prabha Shekar, Martin Hardingham

This book describes the stages of mulberry bush growing, silkworm egg production, silkworm rearing, silk cocoon reeling and silk fabric production. Ideal for fieldworkers, development agencies and those starting small-scale manufacture or attempting to improve or extend manufacture (Published in the...