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Developmental Studies of Human Geography

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Why Africa is Poor: And what Africans can do about it

By Greg Mills

Field Engineering: An Introduction to development work and construction

By Peter Stern

The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

By Hernando De Soto

South Sudan: The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War

By Hilde F. Johnson

The Russian Peasant 1920 and 1984

By Robert Ernest Frederick Smith

Development Aid in Russia: Lessons from Siberia

By J. Marquand

Let the Dawn Come: Social Development - Looking Behind the Cliches

By Inam Ahmed, etc.

Hand Dug Wells and their Construction

By Simon Watt, W E Wood

Managing Water Supply and Sanitation in Emergencies

By John Adams

Designing Water Supply and Sanitation Projects to Meet Demand in Rural and Peri-Urban Communities: Book 1. Concept, principles and practice

By Paul Deverill

Storm Drainage: An engineering guide to the low-cost evaluation of system performance

By Pete Kolsky

Tools for Sustainable Operation and Maintenance of Urban Infrastructure: Tool 7a and Tool 10

By Andrew Cotton, M Sohail

Water and Sanitation for Disabled People and Other Vulnerable Groups: Designing services to improve accessibility

By Hazel Jones, R.A. Reed

Crafting Institutions for Self-governing Irrigation Systems

By Elinor Ostrom

Low-Cost Sanitation: A survey of practical experience

By John Pickford

Community Health and Sanitation

By Charles Kerr (Editor, Waterlines)

The Critical Villager: Beyond Community Participation

By Eric Dudley

Rural Water Supply in Africa: Building Blocks for Handpump Sustainability

By Peter Harvey

Revolutions in Development Inquiry

By Robert Chambers (University of Sussex, UK)

Financing Health Care

By Hilary Goodman, Catriona Waddington

On-Plot Sanitation for Low-Income Urban Communities: Guidelines for selection

By Andrew Cotton

Community Initiatives in Urban Infrastructure

By Andrew Cotton

Confronting the Crisis in Urban Poverty: Making Integrated Approaches Work

By Lucy Stevens, Stuart Coupe, Diana Mitlin

Water-pumping Devices: A Handbook for Users and Choosers

By Peter Fraenkel

Aid, NGOs and the Realities of Women's Lives: A Perfect Storm

By Tina Wallace, Fenella Porter, Mark Ralph-Bowman

At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters

By Ben Wisner, Benjamin Wisner

Gender, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

By Caroline Sweetman, Kimberly Bowman

Unbreakable: Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters

By Stéphane Hallegatte, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Mook Bangalore, Julie Rozenberg

Capacity Development in Practice

By Jan Ubels, Naa-Aku Acquaye-Baddoo, ALAN FOWLER

Achieving Water Security