UNU Books in Tokyo
Operating as an academic bookstore, UNU Books aims to advance public understanding of the pressing global problems of human survival, development, and welfare through a wide selection of scholarly books, briefs, reports and DVDs. Books on the following topics are available:
- Peace & Security
- Environment & Urban Issues
- Human Rights
- Development
- International Trade & Economics
The bookstore’s collection of titles is mostly drawn from UNU Press, which publishes the scholarly research output of UNU academic programmes as well as the work of noteworthy academics. A collection of UNU-IAS biodiversity publications is also featured.
UNU Books is open Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 17:00. We invite you to stop by and browse our collection. Please feel free to ask for any advice or assistance as required.
All UNU symposium or event participants are entitled to receive a 25% discount when purchasing books from the store. Simply bring along the coupon contained in your conference package to receive a discount.
New Arrivals
Vulnerability in Developing Countries
Edited by Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray
Reflecting the multi-dimensionality of vulnerability, the volume showcases a variety of methodologies that offer new perspectives on the use and relevance of vulnerability in economic development. Case studies focus on major developing countries like China and India, countries in transition, small island states and failing states. The volume concludes by offering a prescription on the necessary requirements to tackle vulnerability in developing countries, including strengthening household resilience, building appropriate safeguards against risk, and creating and maintaining quality institutions. Read more…
Book of the Month
Human Insecurity in East Asia
Edited by Michio Umegaki, Lynn Thiesmeyer, and Atsushi Watabe
Threats to human security do not necessarily take cataclysmic forms such as war or natural disaster. Nor does human insecurity exist solely within a suspended living environment like refugee camps. Often threats to human security are as subtle as a slow-rising tide, whose calamitous nature remains unknown till it breaks as a monstrous flood. The essays in this volume call attention to these less obvious threats to human security and how people and communities face them. Woven from the first-hand observations of life at various sites in East Asia, the narratives in these essays illuminate how uncanny the threats to human security can be. Read more…
Best Sellers
- World Religions and Norms of War
- Human Insecurity in East Asia
- The Political Interests of Gender Revisited: Redoing Theory and Research with a Feminist Face
- No Entry Without Strategy: Building the Rule of Law under UN Transitional Administration
- The Rise of Bilateralism: Comparing American, European and Asian Approaches to Preferential Trade Agreement
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