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Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
DND, Development News Digest
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Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
NGOs and Political Change
Author: Patrick KilbyPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1925022471
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The Australian Council for International Development is the peak body of Australian international development NGOs. This book explores ACFID’s history since its founding in 1965, drawing on current and contemporary literature as well as extensive archival material. The trends and challenges in international development are seen through the lens of an NGO peak body: from the heady optimism of the first Development Decade of the 1960s, through the growth in government support of NGOs in the 1980s, to the challenges of the 2010s. The major themes of ACFID are presented: human rights; gender justice; humanitarianism; NGO codes of conduct; and influencing government policy both broadly and as it relates to NGOs. Each of these themes is placed in a global context and in relation to what other NGO networks are doing internationally.
SEC News Digest
Author: United States. Securities and Exchange CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Securities
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Lists documents available from Public Reference Section, Securities and Exchange Commission.
Accession List
Author: New Serial Titles
Author: By abbreviation
Author: Leland G. AlkirePublisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Accession List
Author: University of Wisconsin--Madison. Land Tenure Center. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Game Wizards
Author: Jon PetersonPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262542951
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running legal battle waged by its cocreators. When Dungeons & Dragons was first released to a small hobby community, it hardly seemed destined for mainstream success--and yet this arcane tabletop role-playing game became an unlikely pop culture phenomenon. In Game Wizards, Jon Peterson chronicles the rise of Dungeons & Dragons from hobbyist pastime to mass market sensation, from the initial collaboration to the later feud of its creators, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. As the game's fiftieth anniversary approaches, Peterson--a noted authority on role-playing games--explains how D&D and its creators navigated their successes, setbacks, and controversies. Peterson describes Gygax and Arneson's first meeting and their work toward the 1974 release of the game; the founding of TSR and its growth as a company; and Arneson's acrimonious departure and subsequent challenges to TSR. He recounts the "Satanic Panic" accusations that D&D was sacrilegious and dangerous, and how they made the game famous. And he chronicles TSR's reckless expansion and near-fatal corporate infighting, which culminated with the company in debt and overextended and the end of Gygax's losing battle to retain control over TSR and D&D. With Game Wizards, Peterson restores historical particulars long obscured by competing narratives spun by the one-time partners. That record amply demonstrates how the turbulent experience of creating something as momentous as Dungeons & Dragons can make people remember things a bit differently from the way they actually happened.
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