This report completes the second phase of the Operations Evaluation Department's independent evaluation of the World Bank's involvement in global programs

The current global financial and economic criss are likelyt to pur enormous pressure on governments to respond with immediate measures and to undertake far-reaching reforms in the medium term, reguring a substantial increase in donor support

This book delivers a telling critique of the behavioral explanation of epidemic AIDS and the stereotypes that lie beneath it. It also shows how the methodologies applied in recent epidemiology and health economics are based on a one-risk-fits-all model that ignores the greater vulnerability of poor people and gives rise to narrow, shortsighted, and dead-end policies

This is a Guide to what an airline passenger sees out the window while flying over the United States. With its ingenious design and a map of preferred flight paths, it's easy to find those pages that correspond to a passenger's particular flight, and then to identify features that can be seen from the air

No other introductory book presents the diversity and complexity of postwar American art from Abstract Expressionism to the present as clearly and succinctly as this groundbreaking survey. D. Joselit traces and analyzes the often contradictory formal, ideological and political conditions during this period that made American art predominant throughout the world

This book offers an entertaining and enthralling historical tour of a city to which American writers brought all their capacity for close observation and all their passion for personal and literary experimentation

Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900–1970 is the first comprehensive survey of Asian American modernism. This exhibition of works by artists of Asian ancestry who lived and worked in the United States seeks to showcase some of the most important individuals contributing to the canon of Asian American art and advance awareness of this under-represented group in American art history. Their art reflects the currents of identity and style that shift between aesthetics of diverse international geographies

Advanced Engineering Mathematics is known for its comprehensive coverage, careful and correct mathematics, outstanding exercises, and self-contained, modular content for maximum flexibility. The new edition continues in the tradition of providing a comprehensive and up-to-date resource for teaching and learning engineering mathematics - an applies mathematics book for engineers, physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists

Unlike a course in "calculus" or "diferential equations"' where the content of the course is fairly standardized, the content of a course entitled "engineering mathematics" sometimes varies considerably between two different academic institutions. A text entitled Advanced Engineering Mathematics is therefore a compendium of many mathematical topics, all of which are loosely related by the expedient of either being needed or useful in courses and subsequent careers in science and engineering

Achive IELTS is designed for students preparing to take the International English Language Testing System test. It takes students from IELTS 4.5 to 6 and was developed and tested at UK and international universities and language schools by experienced IELTS teachers and examiners