AFRO-NETS> BOOKS Special - DB Classifieds - Aug 29, 2001

[Warren Feek <wfeek@comminit.com>]

BOOKS Special - DB Classifieds - Aug 29, 2001
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from The Communication Initiative...global forces...local 
choices...critical voices...telling stories... 

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1. Reinventing Government in the Information Age - 
http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-2867.html - Includes 4 detailed 
case studies of public sector information systems from developing 
countries. Each case has an educators' guide and an analysis section 
that overviews use of IT in the public sector, the reasons behind 
failure of so many IT-enabled reform projects, and ways of improving 
success rates. 

Publisher: Routledge. Price: US $32.95 PB; US $75.00 HC.

Purchase the Paperback: 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415242479/qid=998497654/sr=1-1/thecommunicat-20

Purchase the Hardcover: 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415190371/qid=998497654/sr=1-2/thecommunicat-20

2. HIV, Health & Your Community: a Guide for Action by Reuben Granich 
& Jonathan Mermin - http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-2872.html - 

Designed as a manual for people confronting the HIV epidemic in their 
communities, this has been written to be easily accessible to those 
without medical or technical knowledge and without prior training in 
the prevention of HIV and the care of those with AIDS. Publisher: 
Stanford University Press. Price: US $15.95 PB; US $49.50 HC.

Purchase the Paperback: 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0804733511/qid=998498002/sr=1-1/thecommunicat-20

Purchase the Hardcover: 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0804733503/qid=998498002/sr=1-2/thecommunicat-20

3. Invisible Stars: A Social History of Women in American Broadcast-
ing by Donna L. Halper - 
http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-2810.html 
- Arranged by decades from the pioneering 20s through the era of big 
networks to the fragmented markets of the new millennium, Halper's 
book traces 24 women as their careers changed with the times. Halper 
charts the ambiguous, hypocritical and sometimes schizophrenic atti-
tudes in the minds of both sexes, and uncovers their roots in reces-
sion and war, as well as in the manipulations of the media. Pub-
lisher: M.E. Sharpe. Price: US $39.95.

Purchase: 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0765605813/qid%3D998320322/thecommunicat-20

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communication-related Immunisation & Vaccination activities and 
strategies, particularly in developing countries. Contact 
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4. Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill by Lara 
Marks - http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-2824.html - Medical 
historian Marks shows how concerns about population growth, along 
with the West's post-WWII faith in scientific progress, led to the 
century's first "designer" or "lifestyle" drug. She explains how new 
developments in chemistry and the discovery of hormone-yielding wild 
plants made birth control pill research possible, and why it took so 
long to develop. She also shows how cultural factors affected women's 
eagerness or reluctance to try the new method of contraception. Pub-
lisher: Yale University Press. Price: US $29.95.

Purchase: 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300089430/qid=996075311/sr=1-1/thecommunicat-20

5. The Wealth & Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich & Some So 
Poor by David S. Landes - http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-
2409.html - Why some countries were able to industrialize and others 
weren't has been the subject of much heated debate over the decades; 
climate, natural resources, and geography have all been put forward 
as explanations - and are all brushed aside by Landes in favor of his 
own controversial theory: that the ability to effect an industrial 
revolution is dependent on certain cultural traits, without which in-
dustrialization is impossible to sustain. Price: US $15.95 PB; US 
$30.00 HC. 

Purchase the Paperback: 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393318885/qid=993067676/sr=1-1/thecommunicat-20

Purchase the Hardcover: 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393040178/qid=993067676/sr=1-7/thecommunicat-20

6. A Plague of Paradoxes: AIDS, Culture, & Demography in Northern 
Tanzania by Philip W. Setel - 
http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-2827.html - Offers an extended 
case study of this epidemic and the cultural circumstances out of 
which it emerged in Northern Tanzania. Drawing from anthropology, de-
mography, and epidemiology, Setel explains how a particular African 
community experiences AIDS, and how it has been forced to reflect on 
its traditional ideas and practices concerning sexuality and fertil-
ity. Publisher: University of Chicago Press. Price: US $19.00 PB; US 
$42.00 HC.

Purchase the Paperback: 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226748863/qid=998322057/sr=1-1/thecommunicat-20

Purchase the Hardcover: 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226748855/thecommunicat-20

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7. Social Marketing: Strategies for Changing Public Behavior by 
Philip Kotler, Eduardo L. Roberto - 
http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-2714.html - Literacy campaigns, 
family planning, and programmes to combat teenage pregnancy, drug 
abuse, and AIDS represent only a fraction of the social campaigns 
launched by agencies throughout the world in an effort to change pub-
lic behavior. And yet, as marketing experts Philip Kotler and Eduardo 
Roberto find, most of these well-intentioned campaigns have had lit-
tle effect. Kotler and Roberto provide a straightforward guide for 
planning and effectively implementing social campaigns. Publisher: 
Free Press. Price: US $40.00.

Purchase: 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0029184614/thecommunicat-20

8. Entertainment-Education: A Communication Strategy for Social 
Change by Arvind Singhal & Everett M. Rogers - 
http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-511.html - Focused on the his-
tory and development of entertainment-education, explores the process 
of designing and implementing a media message to both entertain and 
educate to increase audience members' knowledge about an educational 
issue, create favorable attitudes, and change overt behavior. Pub-
lisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Price: US $32.50. 

Purchase: 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805833501/qid%3D986230593/sr%3D1-11/thecommunicat-20

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sues of Required Competencies for Effective Development Communication 
Practitioners. Contact <wfeek@comminit.com>

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9. Monitoring & Evaluating Small Business Projects: A Step-By-Step 
Guide by Shirley Buzzard & Elaine Edgcomb, SEEP - 
http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-1869.html - This workbook 
guides NGO field staff through a systems approach to measuring the 
progress of small businesses owned by the poor. Based on the experi-
ences of over 25 NGOs, the manual enables an organisation to examine 
the economic, social and institutional impact of its micro and small 
enterprise programmes. Publisher: PACT. Price: US $30.00.

Purchase: 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0942127005/qid=990457243/sr=1-1/thecommunicat-20

10. Stunted Lives, Stagnant Economies: Poverty, Disease, & Underde-
velopment by Eileen Stillwaggon - 
http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-1991.html - Describes the liv-
ing conditions of the poor in developing countries and the diseases 
and injuries that result from this environment. Using Argentina as a 
case study, Stillwaggon argues that making good health available to 
everyone is not a scientific problem but an economic one. Stillwaggon 
offers practical, low-cost solutions to promote human development and 
economic growth. Publisher: Rutgers University Press. Price: US 
$23.00 PB; US $59.00 HC.

Purchase the Paperback: 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813524946/qid%3D991323888/sr%3D1-1/ref%3Dsc%5Fb%5F1/ thecommunicat-20

Purchase the Hardcover: 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813524938/thecommunicat-20

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send your Training Events & Books for advertisement to 
<wfeek@comminit.com>

DB CLASSIFIEDS: Vacancies will be issued Sept 19 - to advertise your 
Vacancies contact Carey Hooge <chooge@comminit.com>

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Warren Feek 
Director The Communication Initiative 
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Fax: +1-250-658-1728
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