Wars, guns, and votes: democracy in dangerous places 9780061977206, 0061977209

In Wars, Guns, and Votes, Paul Collier investigates the violence and poverty in the small, remote countries at the lowes

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Wars, guns, and votes: democracy in dangerous places
9780061977206, 0061977209

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From Afghanistan and Iraq to Haiti, Cote d'Ivoire, and Egypt, ill-timed, fraudulent, or poorly managed elections ha

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Escape from Riyadh - William Gifford Palgrave A scholar and a solider, a Jesuit and a Jew, a French spy and a British am

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Book description One of the most surprising developments in Mexico's transition to democracy is the outbreak of cr

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"Perhaps that’s the greatest reason why He calls us to dangerous places: so that we will know His astonishing, sacr

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Stranded on Bering Island - Georg Wilhelm Steller As physician and scientific know-all on Vitus Bering's 1741 voyag

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Elections are at the heart of the American political system, but in 1976 only 54 percent of the voting age population we

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Farthest South - Ernest Henry Shackleton Born in Ireland, Shackleton joined the merchant navy before being recruited for

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For decades, Colombia has contended with a variety of highly publicized conflicts, including the rise of paramilitary gr

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This book recounts the history of an experimental regional library service in the early 1950s, a story that has implicat

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