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The Impact of Oil on a Developing Country: The Case of Nigeria, Augustine A. Ikein. 1990. Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT. 328 pages. ISBN: 0-275--93364-4. $45.00

The Impact of Oil on a Developing Country: The Case of Nigeria, Augustine A. Ikein. 1990. Praeger... decades of destructive have violent for control of the with development provoked resources, struggles region’s disastrous social and environmental This collection focuses on the latest consequences. multi-disciplinary phase of Amazonian settlement. authories examine such issues as colonization in the most recent frontier Leading multinational areas, and the of Brazil’s borders. mining projects, hydro-electric schemes, military occupation After how new and business activities have exacerbated social tensions and demonstrating government ecological the volume considers alternative destruction, strategies. John Davis. 1990. New York. 220 ISB: 0-631-17202-5. $24.95. Greening Business, Routlege, pages. For 200 a of the world’s has been the earth and its years, quarter population systematically damaging population to an extent that is to threaten the basis of existence. It is that industrial and commercial imperative beginning businesses a new of ’sustainable at all levels and in all kinds of business Managers pursue path development.’ worldwide must take for this fundamental This book nine change. provides change responsibility practical now It with which to to the most business leaders. strategies respond important challenge facing today’s gives answers I to the ’What can do as a to contribute to sustainable and development?’, provides question: manager workable ideas for innovation. profitable The of 1990. Oil on a The Case of A. Ikein. Impact Developing Country: Nigeria, Augustine CT. 328 ISBN: Publishers, 0-275--93364-4. $45.00. Praeger Westport, pages. -- This an of the of the oil on a study provides analysis industry particular impact developing country Nigeria -- in over a of 32 that studies on the oil countries have tended period years. Arguing previous industry developing to on focus the economic of its societal Ikein uses a multidimensional only significance oil, ignomg costs, him that enables to the between the of the oil and the of approach identify linkage performance industry pattern national and an examination of the various socioeconomic Nigeria’s regional development. Through in-depth factors to influence the social of a of Ikein whether and how the thought well-being people, explores group have been the benefits of oil on their He those who Nigerian people helped by supposed economy. challenges in in of see benefits economic that the increase does not reach the mass purely terms, asserting export receipts and that such should be seen as rather than the people exploiting benefitting development indigenous population. International Political Kendall W. Stiles and Tsuneo Akaha. 1991. New York. Collins, Economy, Harper 448 ISBN: 0-673-46382-6. $NA. pages. The debates international economic are examined in this reader for growing surrounding developments upper-level and courses. and radical on issues in the field are Liberal, conservative, undergradute graduate viewpoints major the issues discussed are economic trade, investment, aid, presented. Among money, foreign development, national and the United States in the order, security global economy. and Social in Joel ed. 1991. Westview CO. 224 Africa, Samoff, Press, Boulder, Microcomputers Change ISBN: 0-8133-7934-2. $28.00. pages. on recent research in the and the authors Drawing Sudan, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Tanzania, contributing analyze broad of social and about the use of political patterns change brought by rapidly increasing microcomputer in Africa. technology at Patients in Finkler. 275 1991. Westview CO. Work, Pain, Kaja Press, Boulder, Physicians pages. 0-8133-1154-3. ISBN: $45.00. offers a detailed and is This of how modern biomedicine altered when ethnographic study surprising picture in a the of Finkler examines various outcome, practiced developng country. Addressing question therapeutic of biomedicine that influence The is seen as aspects patient response. doctor-patient relationship especially and for themselves in interviews and the author’s observations of important. Physicians patients speak through encounters. Finkler concludes the for doctors in doctor-patient by discussing significant problems reconciling their in biomedicine with the cultural dimensions of the in which training society they practice. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society SAGE

The Impact of Oil on a Developing Country: The Case of Nigeria, Augustine A. Ikein. 1990. Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT. 328 pages. ISBN: 0-275--93364-4. $45.00

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decades of destructive have violent for control of the with development provoked resources, struggles region’s disastrous social and environmental This collection focuses on the latest consequences. multi-disciplinary phase of Amazonian settlement. authories examine such issues as colonization in the most recent frontier Leading multinational areas, and the of Brazil’s borders. mining projects, hydro-electric schemes, military occupation After how new and business activities have exacerbated social tensions and demonstrating government ecological the volume considers alternative destruction, strategies. John Davis. 1990. New York. 220 ISB: 0-631-17202-5. $24.95. Greening Business, Routlege, pages. For 200 a of the world’s has been the earth and its years, quarter population systematically damaging population to an extent that is to threaten the basis of existence. It is that industrial and commercial imperative beginning businesses a new of ’sustainable at all levels and in all kinds of business Managers pursue path development.’ worldwide must take for this fundamental This book nine change. provides change responsibility practical now It with which to to the most business leaders. strategies respond important challenge facing today’s gives answers I to the ’What can do as a to contribute to sustainable and development?’, provides question: manager workable ideas for innovation. profitable The of 1990. Oil on a The Case of A. Ikein. Impact Developing Country: Nigeria, Augustine CT. 328 ISBN: Publishers, 0-275--93364-4. $45.00. Praeger Westport, pages. -- This an of the of the oil on a study provides analysis industry particular impact developing country Nigeria -- in over a of 32 that studies on the oil countries have tended period years. Arguing previous industry developing to on focus the economic of its societal Ikein uses a multidimensional only significance oil, ignomg costs, him that enables to the between the of the oil and the of approach identify linkage performance industry pattern national and an examination of the various socioeconomic Nigeria’s regional development. Through in-depth factors to influence the social of a of Ikein whether and how the thought well-being people, explores group have been the benefits of oil on their He those who Nigerian people helped by supposed economy. challenges in in of see benefits economic that the increase does not reach the mass purely terms, asserting export receipts and that such should be seen as rather than the people exploiting benefitting development indigenous population. International Political Kendall W. Stiles and Tsuneo Akaha. 1991. New York. Collins, Economy, Harper 448 ISBN: 0-673-46382-6. $NA. pages. The debates international economic are examined in this reader for growing surrounding developments upper-level and courses. and radical on issues in the field are Liberal, conservative, undergradute graduate viewpoints major the issues discussed are economic trade, investment, aid, presented. Among money, foreign development, national and the United States in the order, security global economy. and Social in Joel ed. 1991. Westview CO. 224 Africa, Samoff, Press, Boulder, Microcomputers Change ISBN: 0-8133-7934-2. $28.00. pages. on recent research in the and the authors Drawing Sudan, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Tanzania, contributing analyze broad of social and about the use of political patterns change brought by rapidly increasing microcomputer in Africa. technology at Patients in Finkler. 275 1991. Westview CO. Work, Pain, Kaja Press, Boulder, Physicians pages. 0-8133-1154-3. ISBN: $45.00. offers a detailed and is This of how modern biomedicine altered when ethnographic study surprising picture in a the of Finkler examines various outcome, practiced developng country. Addressing question therapeutic of biomedicine that influence The is seen as aspects patient response. doctor-patient relationship especially and for themselves in interviews and the author’s observations of important. Physicians patients speak through encounters. Finkler concludes the for doctors in doctor-patient by discussing significant problems reconciling their in biomedicine with the cultural dimensions of the in which training society they practice.

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