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Influencing change building evaluation capacity to strengthen governance /

Table of Contents: “…Leading the change process -- Working towards development results : the case of Sri Lanka / Dhara Wijayatilake -- Capacity building and the evaluation of institutions : the core analytical framework / Eduardo Wiesner -- From project evaluations towards assessing institutional performance / Todor Dimitrov -- Evaluation systems as strategy management tools : building Dubai's institutional learning capacity / Mohammad Jaljouli -- Good practice and lessons learned -- Conceptual framework for developing evaluation capacities : building on good practice and capacity development / Caroline Heider -- Supporting evaluation capacity on environment and development / Rob van der Berg -- Capacity building : the Indian experience / Rashmi Agrawal and BVLN Rao -- Environmental/rural development and food security program in Madagascar / Bali Andriantseheno -- Recognizing "helping" as an evaluation capacity development strategy in South Africa / Stephen Porter -- Capacity building in M&E through the design and implementation of results-based M&E systems : lessons learnt from Africa, Asia, and Latin America / Gilles Clotteau, Marie-Helene Boily, Sana Darboe, and Frederic Martin -- Postscript : perspectives on the future -- Where is development evaluation going? …”
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The Buddhist dead practices, discourses, representations /

Table of Contents: “…Cuevas -- Gone but not departed : the dead among the living in contemporary Buddhist Sri Lanka / John Clifford Holt -- Mulian in the land of snows and King Gesar in hell : a Chinese tale of parental death in its Tibetan transformations / Matthew T. …”
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Influencing change building evaluation capacity to strengthen governance /

Table of Contents: “…Leading the change process -- Working towards development results : the case of Sri Lanka / Dhara Wijayatilake -- Capacity building and the evaluation of institutions : the core analytical framework / Eduardo Wiesner -- From project evaluations towards assessing institutional performance / Todor Dimitrov -- Evaluation systems as strategy management tools : building Dubai's institutional learning capacity / Mohammad Jaljouli -- Good practice and lessons learned -- Conceptual framework for developing evaluation capacities : building on good practice and capacity development / Caroline Heider -- Supporting evaluation capacity on environment and development / Rob van der Berg -- Capacity building : the Indian experience / Rashmi Agrawal and BVLN Rao -- Environmental/rural development and food security program in Madagascar / Bali Andriantseheno -- Recognizing "helping" as an evaluation capacity development strategy in South Africa / Stephen Porter -- Capacity building in M&E through the design and implementation of results-based M&E systems : lessons learnt from Africa, Asia, and Latin America / Gilles Clotteau, Marie-Helene Boily, Sana Darboe, and Frederic Martin -- Postscript : perspectives on the future -- Where is development evaluation going? …”
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Origins of political extremism mass violence in the twentieth century and beyond / by Midlarsky, Manus I.

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Genocide : New Perspectives on its Causes, Courses and Consequences /

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Origins of political extremism mass violence in the twentieth century and beyond / by Midlarsky, Manus I.

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Genocide : New Perspectives on its Causes, Courses and Consequences /

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Integral polity : integrating nature, culture, technology and economy / by Lessem, Ronnie

Table of Contents: “…About author -- Prologue: an introduction to integral polity : nature, culture, society, economy -- In pursuit of integrity -- Disintegrated to integral polity -- The origins of political order -- Natural and communal orientation : southern polity -- Natural grounding : constituting Africa -- Natural emergence : tradition and modernity -- Communal navigation: development and auto/centricity -- Natural Rapoko effect : food security at Zimbabwe's Chinyika -- Cultural and spiritual orientation : Eastern polity -- Spiritual grounding : India's human cycle -- Cultural and spiritual emergence : spiral dynamics -- Cultural, political and economic navigation : three/folding -- Conscious, powerful, economic effect : Sri Lanka's sarvodaya -- Technological and societal orientation : northern polity -- Social and political grounding : Europe living in truth -- Emergent innovation : technology, management, aesthetics -- Navigation : self management/cooperative association -- Social and technical effect : integral green Slovenia -- Economic and environmental orientation : western polity -- Environmental and economic grounding : the American soul -- Natural, cultural, social, economic emergence : future primal -- Political and environmental navigation : politics of nature -- Economic and environmental effect : Brazil's curitiba -- Nature, culture, society and economy : centering polity -- Integral ground : Holy Quaran : start sustainable development -- Emergent integral : harmony : sustainable development anew -- Integral navigation : the potential of the Arab spring -- Integral effect : sekem : integral sustainable development -- Epilogue.…”
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Integral polity : integrating nature, culture, technology and economy / by Lessem, Ronnie

Table of Contents: “…About author -- Prologue: an introduction to integral polity : nature, culture, society, economy -- In pursuit of integrity -- Disintegrated to integral polity -- The origins of political order -- Natural and communal orientation : southern polity -- Natural grounding : constituting Africa -- Natural emergence : tradition and modernity -- Communal navigation: development and auto/centricity -- Natural Rapoko effect : food security at Zimbabwe's Chinyika -- Cultural and spiritual orientation : Eastern polity -- Spiritual grounding : India's human cycle -- Cultural and spiritual emergence : spiral dynamics -- Cultural, political and economic navigation : three/folding -- Conscious, powerful, economic effect : Sri Lanka's sarvodaya -- Technological and societal orientation : northern polity -- Social and political grounding : Europe living in truth -- Emergent innovation : technology, management, aesthetics -- Navigation : self management/cooperative association -- Social and technical effect : integral green Slovenia -- Economic and environmental orientation : western polity -- Environmental and economic grounding : the American soul -- Natural, cultural, social, economic emergence : future primal -- Political and environmental navigation : politics of nature -- Economic and environmental effect : Brazil's curitiba -- Nature, culture, society and economy : centering polity -- Integral ground : Holy Quaran : start sustainable development -- Emergent integral : harmony : sustainable development anew -- Integral navigation : the potential of the Arab spring -- Integral effect : sekem : integral sustainable development -- Epilogue.…”
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Canals and Communities : Small-Scale Irrigation Systems /

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Canals and Communities : Small-Scale Irrigation Systems /

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Mixed legal systems, east and west /

Table of Contents: “…/ Esin Örücü -- Integration of Islamic law in the fabric of legal thought in Egypt / Mohamed Ahmed Serag -- The influence of religion on law in the Iranian legal system / Naser Ghorbannia -- The reception of Islamic law in Sri Lanka and its interplay with western legal traditions / Anton Cooray -- The contribution of the courts in the integration of Muslim law into the mixed fabric of South African law / Christa Rautenbach -- Islamic law and international law in the Islamic republic of Iran's constitution / Seyed Mostafa Mirmohammadi Azizi -- A study of the consolidation of Islamic law and modern western law in the Iranian penal code / Hossein Mir Mohammad Sadeghi -- The ancient Euro/Mediterranean radication of the aversion for usury / Ignazio Castellucci -- Settlement of Islamic finance disputes : the case of Malaysia and Saudi Arabia / Mohd Zakhiri Md Nor -- Mixed legal jurisdictions and clinical legal education : latest trends / David McQuoid-Mason.…”
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Mixed legal systems, east and west /

Table of Contents: “…/ Esin Örücü -- Integration of Islamic law in the fabric of legal thought in Egypt / Mohamed Ahmed Serag -- The influence of religion on law in the Iranian legal system / Naser Ghorbannia -- The reception of Islamic law in Sri Lanka and its interplay with western legal traditions / Anton Cooray -- The contribution of the courts in the integration of Muslim law into the mixed fabric of South African law / Christa Rautenbach -- Islamic law and international law in the Islamic republic of Iran's constitution / Seyed Mostafa Mirmohammadi Azizi -- A study of the consolidation of Islamic law and modern western law in the Iranian penal code / Hossein Mir Mohammad Sadeghi -- The ancient Euro/Mediterranean radication of the aversion for usury / Ignazio Castellucci -- Settlement of Islamic finance disputes : the case of Malaysia and Saudi Arabia / Mohd Zakhiri Md Nor -- Mixed legal jurisdictions and clinical legal education : latest trends / David McQuoid-Mason.…”
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Achieving Health for All : Primary Health Care in Action /

Table of Contents: “…Binka, John Koku Awoonor Williams, and Ayaga A. Bawah -- Sri Lanka's health improvements as an example of the implementation of the Alma-Ata Declaration / Vinya Ariyaratne -- How Vietnam's Doi Moi reforms achieved rapid gains in health with comprehensive primary health care / Nguyen Thanh Huong and Hoang Khanh Chi -- Cuba's progress on PHC since the Alma-Ata Conference / Sasmira Matta, David Bishai, and Pedro Mas Bemejo -- Health for All in the twenty-first century / Meike Schleiff and David Bishai.…”
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Achieving Health for All : Primary Health Care in Action /

Table of Contents: “…Binka, John Koku Awoonor Williams, and Ayaga A. Bawah -- Sri Lanka's health improvements as an example of the implementation of the Alma-Ata Declaration / Vinya Ariyaratne -- How Vietnam's Doi Moi reforms achieved rapid gains in health with comprehensive primary health care / Nguyen Thanh Huong and Hoang Khanh Chi -- Cuba's progress on PHC since the Alma-Ata Conference / Sasmira Matta, David Bishai, and Pedro Mas Bemejo -- Health for All in the twenty-first century / Meike Schleiff and David Bishai.…”
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Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South /

Table of Contents: “…Impact of integrating OER in teacher education at the Open University of Sri Lanka -- 14. Teacher professional learning communities : a collaborative OER adoption approach in Karnataka, India -- 15. …”
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Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South /

Table of Contents: “…Impact of integrating OER in teacher education at the Open University of Sri Lanka -- 14. Teacher professional learning communities : a collaborative OER adoption approach in Karnataka, India -- 15. …”
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Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 6: Housing Poverty and Inequality in Urban India -- Part Four: Rural Poverty Reduction Policies -- Chapter 7: Evaluation of the Policy of Crop Diversification as a Strategy for Reduction of Rural Poverty in India -- Chapter 8: Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh -- Part Five: Dimensions of Poverty and its Reductions -- Chapter 9: Decomposing Spatial Inequality in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach -- Chapter 10: Non-Income Dimensions, Prevalence, Depth and Severity of Poverty: Spatial Estimation with Household Level Data in India -- Chapter 11: Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States? …”
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Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 6: Housing Poverty and Inequality in Urban India -- Part Four: Rural Poverty Reduction Policies -- Chapter 7: Evaluation of the Policy of Crop Diversification as a Strategy for Reduction of Rural Poverty in India -- Chapter 8: Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh -- Part Five: Dimensions of Poverty and its Reductions -- Chapter 9: Decomposing Spatial Inequality in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach -- Chapter 10: Non-Income Dimensions, Prevalence, Depth and Severity of Poverty: Spatial Estimation with Household Level Data in India -- Chapter 11: Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States? …”
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Grabbing back : essays against the global land grab /

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