Towards a Fifteen Year Review

Towards a Fifteen Year Review PDF Author: Government Communication & Information System (South Africa)
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Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 4

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Towards a Fifteen Year Review

Towards a Fifteen Year Review PDF Author: Government Communication & Information System (South Africa)
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Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 4

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Towards a Fifteen Year review

Towards a Fifteen Year review PDF Author: Policy Coordination and Advisory Services
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Towards a Fifteen Year Review Synthesis report

Towards a Fifteen Year Review Synthesis report PDF Author: The Presidency
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A Fifteen-year Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in Africa (BPfA) +15

A Fifteen-year Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in Africa (BPfA) +15 PDF Author:
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Towards a Fifteen Year Review Synthesis Report

Towards a Fifteen Year Review Synthesis Report PDF Author: South Africa. Presidency. Policy Co-ordination and Advisory Services
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Category : Political planning
Languages : en
Pages : 135

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Slouching Towards Bethlehem PDF Author: Joan Didion
Publisher: Macmillan
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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A RICH DISPLAY OF SOME OF THE BEST PROSE WRITTEN TODAY IN THE USA.

Towards a Fifteen Year Review

Towards a Fifteen Year Review PDF Author: South Africa. Presidency. Policy Co-ordination and Advisory Services
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ISBN: 9780621383119
Category : Public administration
Languages : en
Pages : 135

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Urban Growth in Emerging Economies

Urban Growth in Emerging Economies PDF Author: Gordon McGranahan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317964993
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Along with globalization, urban transitions have been central in the southward shift in economic power towards the newly emerging economies. As this book shows, however, these transitions have not been painless, and it is important for the rest of the urbanizing world to learn from the mistakes. It examines the role of urbanization and urban growth in the emerging economies, taking the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) as case studies. Their different approaches towards urbanization have shaped their historical development paths and assisted or constrained their futures. Several of the BRICS bear heavy burdens from past failures to accommodate urban growth inclusively and efficiently, and many other urbanizing countries in Asia and Africa are in danger of replicating their mistakes. The overriding lesson of the book is that cities and nations must anticipate urbanization, and accommodate urban growth pro-actively, so as not to be left with an enduring legacy of inequalities and lost opportunities. This book is aimed at students and researchers in urban studies and development studies. It will also be of interest to policy advisors concerned with urbanization and the role of cities in a country’s development

The Ministry for the Future

The Ministry for the Future PDF Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316300160
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 579

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ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR “The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem "If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox) The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year, this extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis. "One hopes that this book is read widely—that Robinson’s audience, already large, grows by an order of magnitude. Because the point of his books is to fire the imagination."―New York Review of Books "If there’s any book that hit me hard this year, it was Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, a sweeping epic about climate change and humanity’s efforts to try and turn the tide before it’s too late." ―Polygon (Best of the Year) "Masterly." —New Yorker "[The Ministry for the Future] struck like a mallet hitting a gong, reverberating through the year ... it’s terrifying, unrelenting, but ultimately hopeful. Robinson is the SF writer of my lifetime, and this stands as some of his best work. It’s my book of the year." —Locus "Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom." ―Bloomberg Green

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time PDF Author: Mark Haddon
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0307371565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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A bestselling modern classic—both poignant and funny—narrated by a fifteen year old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions. Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. At fifteen, Christopher’s carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbour’s dog Wellington impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing. Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer, and turns to his favourite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents’ marriage. As Christopher tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, the narrative draws readers into the workings of Christopher’s mind. And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon’s choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotions. The effect is dazzling, making for one of the freshest debut in years: a comedy, a tearjerker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read.