2012, 2012

Politics and International Relations – September to November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 20, 2012|Politics|0 comments

Great games, local rules : the new power contest in Central Asia / Alexander Cooley. Chaos, violence, dynasty : politics and Islam in Central Asia / Eric McGlinchey. Understanding Central Asia : politics and contested transformations / Sally Cummings. Movement, power and place in Central Asia and beyond : contested trajectories / edited by Madeleine Reeves. Extremists in our midst: confronting terror [electronic resource] / Abdul Haqq Baker. [Available as

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1912, 2012

Economics – September to November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 19, 2012|Economics|0 comments

Microeconometrics using Stata / A. Colin Cameron, Pravin K. Trivedi. The market system : what it is, how it works, and what to make of it / Charles E. Lindblom. The nature and logic of capitalism / Robert L. Heilbroner. Regaining Europe : an economic agenda for the 21st century / George Irvin International capital markets: systems in transition / edited by John Eatwell and Lance Taylor. [Available as an

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1912, 2012

Finding company or industry information – digging deeper

By Victoria Bird|December 19, 2012|Economics, Financial and Management Studies|0 comments

How do you go about finding out who runs a business?Or information on a company? Or which firms are major players in an industry? Beyond merely Googling and then searching the webpage of said company, there is a myriad of sources available to you to research company data. Here are a few tips to get you started. Library Databases Business Source Premier: this database contains detailed company profiles for the world’s 10,000 largest

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1912, 2012

Linguistics – June to November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 19, 2012|Linguistics|0 comments

e-journals Pragmatics and Society Volume 1(2010) onwards. System Volume 26(1998) onwards. Books Parametric variation : null subjects in minimalist theory / Theresa Biberauer … [et al.]. [Available as an e-book from Cambridge Books Online] The biolinguistic enterprise : new perspectives on the evolution and nature of the human language faculty / edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Cedric Boeckx. The limits of syntactic variation / edited by Theresa Biberauer. Language, Saussure,

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1812, 2012

International Migrants Day

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 18, 2012|Development Studies, Law, Politics and International Relations|0 comments

Studying Migration? Today is the UN International Migrants Day.The Library has many books and other resources on this topic. In honour of the day, here are some selected items of relevance to this topic: The Journal of Refugee Studies, available online, explores the complex problems of forced migration and national, regional and international responses. Recent book acquisitions in the Library include: Labour migration and human trafficking in Southeast Asia : critical Perspectives

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1812, 2012

Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – September to November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 18, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

17. Yüzyıl Türkçesi ve Söz Varlığı / Mertol Tulum Reinstating the Ottomans : alternative Balkan modernities, 1800-1912 / by Isa Blumi. A bibliography of works on Medieval communication / Marco Mostert. Vehicles of transmission, translation, and transformation in medieval textual culture / edited by Robert Wisnovsky … [et al.]. Horizons of the world : Festschrift for İsenbike Togan = Hudûdü’l-âlem : İsenbike Togan’a armağan / edited by/editörler İlker Evrim Binbaş,

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1812, 2012

Literature – October and November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 18, 2012|Literature|0 comments

Literature Sufism in the contemporary arabic novel. Gender, nation, and the Arabic novel : Egypt, 1892-2008 / Hoda Elsadda. Culture, diaspora, and modernity in Muslim writing / edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, Amina Yaqin. Literature and war: conversations with Israeli and Palestinian writers / Runo Isaksen ; translated by Kari Dickson Science fiction and empire / Patricia Kerslake. Post-war anglophone Lebanese fiction : home matters in the diaspora /

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1712, 2012

Linguistics – October and November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 17, 2012|Linguistics|0 comments

Linguistics Translation and translation studies in the Japanese context / edited by Nana Sato-Rossberg and Judy Wakabayashi. Essential Japanese grammar : a comprehensive guide to contemporary usage / Masahiro Tanimori, Eriko Sato. Space in tense : the interaction of tense, aspect, evidentiality and speech acts in Korean / by Kyung-Sook Chung. Beginner’s Iraqi Arabic : with 2 audio CDs : an introduction to the spoken language of Iraq / Nawal

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1712, 2012

Where in the world?

By Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb|December 17, 2012|Politics and International Relations|0 comments

Finding up-to-date and reliable maps that accurately reflect the impact of unrest or natural disaster can be very tricky. Here are a few pointers. UNOSAT‘s* latest satellite map releases shows Al Zaatari Refugee Camp, with ongoing updates likely. Other maps recently produced include the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan, floods on the Chad/Cameroon border and a Satellite Analysis of Standing Waters in Rivers State, Nigeria. The UN cartographic section also has general and

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1712, 2012

Anthropology and Sociology – October and November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 17, 2012|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

Anthropology & Sociology The SAGE handbook of social anthropology / edited by Richard Fardon, Olivia Harris,  Trevor H.J. Marchand, Mark Nuttall, Cris Shore, Veronica Strang and Richard A. Wilson. Fashioning Japanese subcultures / Yuniya Kawamura. Ancestors in Borneo societies : death, transformation, and social immortality / edited by Pascal Couderc and Kenneth Sillander. An approach to the cultural mapping of North-East India in respect of tribal tales / Pratibha Mandal.

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