Politics and International Relations – July to December 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 18, 2013|Politics and International Relations|0 comments

The borders of justice / edited by Etienne Balibar, Sandro Mezzadra, Ranabir Samaddar.  Emergence of the political subject / Ranabir Samaddar.  Making sense of media and politics : five principles in political communication / Gadi Wolfsfeld.  Interpretation and method : empirical research methods and the interpretive turn / Edited by Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea. The everyday life of the state : a state-in-society approach / edited by Adam White  

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Economics – July to December 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 17, 2013|Economics|0 comments

Debunking economics – revised and expanded edition : the naked emperor dethroned? / Steve Keen. The development frontier : essays in applied economics / Peter Bauer The economic approach to human behavior / Gary S. Becker. The current state of economic science / ed. by Shri Bhagwan Dahiya. Further mathematics for economic analysis / Knut Sydsaeter … [et al.].  Basic econometrics / Damodar N. Gujarati, Dawn C. Porter. Econometrics :

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Financial and Management Studies – July to December 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 17, 2013|Financial and Management Studies|0 comments

Accounting: an introduction (6th ed) / Eddie McLaney and Peter Atrill. Elements of multinational strategy / Keith Head. International business / Alan M. Rugman, Simon Collinson.  Managing across borders : the transnational solution. The quest for global dominance : transforming global presence into global competitive advantage (2nd ed) / Anil K. Gupta, Vijay Govindarajan, Haiyan Wang foreword by Jeffrey E. Garten. Corporate finance and investment : decisions and strategies (7th

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World Bank needs your feedback!

By Victoria Bird|December 16, 2013|Development Studies, Economics, Financial and Management Studies, Politics and International Relations|0 comments

Just a reminder that the World Bank eLibrary is still available until 31st December 2103. The access is free of charge and the only requirement from the World Bank is that a number of users will give feedback through a questionnaire when the access has concluded. The Bank would greatly appreciate if you might take a few minutes to provide feedback via the World Bank eLibrary Evaluation Feedback Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/wbelibrary2013trialsurvey. Access from here: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://elibrary.worldbank.org.

Anthropology and Sociology – August to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 13, 2013|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

An anthropology of images : picture, medium, body / Hans Belting ; translated by Thomas Dunlap. Carnival and cannibal ; Ventriloquous evil / by Jean Baudrillard ; translated by Chris Turner. The spirit of mourning : history, memory and the body / by Paul Connerton. Material memories / by edited by Marius Kwint, Christopher Breward and Jeremy Aysnley. From Berg’s Materializing culture series…“This book is an attempt to understand the

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Music, Media and Film Studies – September, October and November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 12, 2013|Music, Media and Film Studies|0 comments

In the culture society : art, fashion and popular music / Angela McRobbie. The cultural study of music : a critical introduction / edited by Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert, Richard Middleton. [Also available as an e-book from ebrary] All you need to know about the music business / Donald S. Passman, illustrations by Randy Glass. This business of global music marketing / Tad Lathrop. Sound unbound : sampling digital music

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Korea – November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 11, 2013|Korea|0 comments

The Korean wave : Korean media go global / edited by Youna Kim. Practicing feminism in South Korea : the women’s movement against sexual violence / Kyungja Jung. Northeast Asia’s nuclear challenges / edited by Su Hoon Lee. Income inequality in Korea : an analysis of trends, causes, and answers / [Chong-Bum An, Barry P. Bosworth]. Anti-dumping duty and firm heterogeneity : evidence from Korea / Seungrae Lee and Joo

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Japan – November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 11, 2013|Japan|0 comments

Religion in Japan : unity and diversity / H. Byron Earhart. Schoolgirls, money and rebellion in Japan / Sharon Kinsella. Regionalizing culture : the political economy of Japanese popular culture in Asia / Nissim Kadosh Otmazgin. Fandom unbound : otaku culture in a connected age / edited by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Izumi Tsuji. Northeast Asia’s nuclear challenges / edited by Su Hoon Lee. Treacherous translation : culture, nationalism,

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Art and Archaeology – October and November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 10, 2013|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

Things done change : the cultural politics of recent Black artists in Britain / Eddie Chambers. Incredible Tretchikoff : life of an artist and adventurer / Boris Gorelik. Empires and diversity : on the crossroads of archaeology, anthropology, and history / edited by Gregory E. Areshian Asia & Spanish America : trans-Pacific artistic and cultural exchange, 1500-1850: papers from the 2006 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum /

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