The Commonwealth

The Commonwealth

The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 56 independent and equal countries. It is home to 2.5 billion people, and includes both advanced economies and developing countries. 33 of our members are small states, including many island nations. Our member governments have agreed to shared goals like development, democracy and peace. Our values and principles are expressed in the Commonwealth Charter.

The Commonwealth Secretariat is the intergovernmental organisation that supports member countries to achieve the Commonwealth’s aims of development, democracy and peace. It publishes authoritative, evidence-based research and knowledge products for policymakers, academics, professionals and wider publics across the world. Our areas of focus and expertise include small and developing states; environment and climate change; democracy, law and government; and social issues concerning young people, gender, health and education.

A Future for Small States

This report provides an analysis of key issues concerning small states' security and development. It sets out a series of recommendations to counteract vulnerability arising from such factors as globalization, environmental degradation and global warming, and international crime.

  • Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780850925111
  • Publication Date: Jan 1997
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Pollution Control and Waste Management in Developing Countries

Rogers W'O Okot-Uma

A practical view of environmental management, focusing on pollution control and waste management. It records the experience gained through Commonwealth Secretariat regional seminars conducted in Africa over several years. It uses real examples to illustrate the points made.

  • Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat and SFI Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780850925579
  • Publication Date: Jan 2000
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Gender Budgets Make Cents

Debbie Budlender

Providing an understanding of gender responsive budgets, this text is part of the inter-agency programme of the Commonwealth Secretariat, IDRC and UNIFEM. It covers the theoretical framework, the evolution of work in this area, the role of different stakeholders and the lessons learned to date.

  • Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780850926965
  • Publication Date: Jan 2002
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The Shaping of Tertiary Education in the Anglophone Caribbean

Vivienne Roberts

As tertiary education in the Caribbean enters a period of expansion and maturity, this book is a timely study into how the sector should evolve if it is to meet its target of increasing enrolment from under 10 to 15 per cent by 2005.

  • Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780850927320
  • Publication Date: Jan 2003
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Small Change or Real Change?

Gender equality is essential for sustained economic growth and for democracy, peace and security. This book presents key thinking on a topic that is of international concern: how to ensure that sufficient financial resources are available through aid modalities and from domestic sources to effect the changes to make gender equality a reality.

  • Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780850928662
  • Publication Date: Dec 2008
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Principles of Inorganic Chemistry

G.S. Sodhi

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9789388971034
  • Publication Date: Jun 2019
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Process Biotechnology Fundamentals

S.N. Mukhopadhyay

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9789388971041
  • Publication Date: Jun 2019
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS

Vinod K. Sharma

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9789388971058
  • Publication Date: Jun 2019
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Studies in the Ontology of E.J. Lowe

Timothy Tambassi

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9783868382136
  • Publication Date: Jul 2018
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Disordered Actions

John Skalko

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9783868382181
  • Publication Date: Apr 2019
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Aquinas on Theology and God’s Existence

Michael Augros

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9783868382211
  • Publication Date: Jun 2019
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Hereditary Bone and Joint Diseases in the Dog

Joe Peter Morgan

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9783877065488
  • Publication Date: Apr 2001
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Small Animal Gastroenterology

Jörg M. Steiner

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9783899930276
  • Publication Date: Apr 2008
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Rule outs in small animal medicine

Katrin Hartmann

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9783899939835
  • Publication Date: Nov 2019
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Resolving Business Disputes

Stephen Bate

Resolving Business Disputes will give company directors, business executives and other commercial decision-makers a unique and essential insight into how to resolve business disputes and to reach the best outcomes by making effective decisions. The book is a guide, explaining the unique choices created by commercial conflict, basic workings of the law about disputes, the main avenues of dispute resolution, the forecasting of litigation outcomes for cases going to court, the funding of legal cases, the management of the risk involved, the creation of a dispute strategy, how to make the best use of legal advice and how to negotiate effectively. Also covers implications of Covid-19 for trade and commerce, including issues for the resolution of contract disputes.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781913507008
  • Publication Date: May 2020
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Jean Paul Getty

Wyn Derbyshire

Jean Paul Getty (1892-1976) -  a powerful, oil tycoon who was at one point the richest man in the world, with a private life described as 'bizarre beyond belief', but what drove him and shaped the man he was?   The author looks at the difficulties Getty had in interacting with others on a personal level, and why many have portrayed Getty as living a solitary, even lonely life, despite being surrounded by guards, staff, visiting business colleagues and female companions.  Instead he suggests that Getty's fortune was to serve as the central foundation of his life. His need to create, defend and expand that fortune – all of which he successfully did – is key to understanding his life. 

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781913507039
  • Publication Date: Jan 2022
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