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Development Theory Books
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Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 518 ratings — published 1994
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as development-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,510 ratings — published 1998
Theories and Practices of Development (Routledge Perspectives on Development)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 3.64 — 124 ratings — published 2004
Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment in Plantation Economies of the Third World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.70 — 10 ratings — published 1972
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,002 ratings — published 1999
Development Theory (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society): Deconstructions/Reconstructions
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 32 ratings — published 2001
The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 3.85 — 186 ratings — published 1997
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,337 ratings — published 2021
From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492 - 1969 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 347 ratings — published 2000
The Wealth of (Some) Nations: Imperialism and the Mechanics of Value Transfer
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 108 ratings — published
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.32 — 30,078 ratings — published 1971
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,386 ratings — published 1971
The Intimacies of Four Continents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.31 — 512 ratings — published 2015
Accumulation on a World Scale: A Critique of the Theory of Underdevelopment (2 Volumes)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 34 ratings — published 1970
Development Theory: An Introduction to the Analysis of Complex Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 1996
Frontend Architecture for Design Systems: A Modern Blueprint for Scalable and Sustainable Websites (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 3.32 — 125 ratings — published 2015
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,888 ratings — published 1999
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,646 ratings — published 1999
A Programmer's Guide to Computer Science: A virtual degree for the self-taught developer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 3.46 — 102 ratings — published
Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Python: Write Complex and Powerful Code Using the Latest features of Python 3.7 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 3.70 — 23 ratings — published
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms: Level Up Your Core Programming Skills (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.39 — 611 ratings — published
Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,664 ratings — published 2015
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,518 ratings — published 1993
A Philosophy of Software Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,975 ratings — published 2018
Learning To Program (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 49 ratings — published 2014
Transforming the Indonesian Uplands (Studies in Environmental Anthropology)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 19 ratings — published 1998
Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 428 ratings — published 2002
Anthropologies and Histories: Essays in Culture, History, and Political Economy (Hegemony and Experience)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 24 ratings — published 1989
Liberation Ecologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 45 ratings — published 1996
Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 3.40 — 21 ratings — published 2015
Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 27 ratings — published 2011
Fields of the Lord: Animism, Christian Minorities, and State Development (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 9 ratings — published 2000
Balancing the Load: Women, Gender and Transport (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2002
Teetering on the Rim (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 15 ratings — published 2000
Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 18 ratings — published 2005
Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 63 ratings — published 1995
In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 186 ratings — published 1993
Lost Geographies of Power (RGS-IBG Book Series)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 14 ratings — published 2003
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 671 ratings — published 2004
The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 658 ratings — published 1990
The Limits to Capital (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.20 — 717 ratings — published 1982
The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 243 ratings — published 2007
Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 54 ratings — published 1999
The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 195 ratings — published 1991
Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 154 ratings — published 2006
Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as development-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 126 ratings — published 2007