Anthropology and Sociology – April 2012

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Together : the rituals, pleasures and politics of co-operation / Richard Sennett. Differentiating development : beyond an anthropology of critique / edited by Soumhya Venkatesan and Thomas Yarrow. The state and the social : state formation in Botswana and its pre-colonial and colonial genealogies / Ørnulf Gulbrandsen. Ethnographic practice in the present / edited by Marit Melhuus [et al.]. Serendipity in anthropological research : the nomadic turn / by Haim

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Economics – April 2012

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Just transitions : explorations of sustainability in an unfair world / Mark Swilling, Eve Annecke. New pathways out of poverty / edited by Sam Daley-Harris, Anna Awimbo. Advocacy across borders : NGOs, anti-sweatshop activism and the global garment industry / Shae Garwood. The rice crisis : markets, policies and food security / ed. by David Dawe. Poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty / Abhijit

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Law – April 2012

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The law of international responsibility / edited by James Crawford … [et al.]. Foundations of comparative law : methods and typologies / edited by William E. Butler, Oleksiy V. Kresin and Iuriy S. Shemshuchenko.  Public international law : contemporary principles and perspectives / G. Boas. The notion of progress in international law discourse / Thomas Skouteris. The development of the Chinese legal system : change and challenges / Guanghua Yu.

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Korea – April 2012

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Women and Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea : new perspectives / edited by Youngmin Kim and Michael J. Pettid. IT development in Korea : a broadband nirvana? / Kwang-Suk Lee. The quest for statehood : Korean immigrant nationalism and U.S. sovereignty, 1905-1945 / Richard S. Kim. Militants or partisans : labor unions and democratic politics in Korea and Taiwan / Yoonkyung Lee. Korean unification and the positions and roles of the

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Japan – April 2012

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The face of Jizō : image and cult in medieval Japanese Buddhism / Hank Glassman. Bonds of the dead : temples, burial, and the transformation of contemporary Japanese Buddhism / Mark Michael Rowe Japan’s shrinking regions in the 21st century / Peter Matanle and Anthony S. Rausch with the Shrinking Regions Research Group. Passionate friendship : the aesthetics of girls’ culture in Japan / Deborah Shamoon. The Okinawan diaspora in

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Africa – April 2012

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The cash dividend : the rise of cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa / Marito Garcia and Charity M. T. Moore. Prisoners of Prester John : the Portuguese mission to Ethiopia in search of the mythical king, 1520-1526 / Cates Baldridge. Gender and power in Sierra Leone : women chiefs of the last two centuries / by Lynda Day. The state and the social : state formation in Botswana and

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Politics and International Relations – April 2012

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Journals Cultural Politics – Volume 8(2012) onwards. Red pepper – Dec 2011 onwards. Books Europe, the USA and political Islam : strategies for engagement / edited by Michelle Pace. After the nation? : critical reflections on nationalism and postnationalism / edited by Keith Breen and Shane O’Neill . The Iran-Iraq War / Rob Johnson. Religion and politics in international relations : the modern myth / Timothy Fitzgerald. The best of

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Films and Sound Recordings – April 2012

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Films Arna’s children written and directed by Juliano Mer Khamis and Danniel Danniel.  워낭소리 / 제작, 스튜디오 느림보 ; 감독, 이 충렬 ; 프로듀서, 고 영재.  Old partner = Wŏnang sori written, edited, and directed by Lee Chung-Ryoul. No one killed Jessica written & directed by Raj Kumar Gupta.  Planeat  edited & directed by Shelley Lee Davies & Or Shlomi  The shooting of Thomas Hurndall  directed by Rowan Joffe. Chū

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Music, Media and Film Studies – April 2012

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Satchmo blows up the world : jazz ambassadors play the Cold War / Penny M. Von Eschen.  Music and globalization : critical encounters / edited by Bob W. White.  Women and popular music : sexuality, identity, and subjectivity / Shelia Whiteley.  Musical elaborations / Edward W. Said.  The challenge of the silver screen : an analysis of the cinematic portraits of Jesus, Rama, Buddha and Muhammad / by Freek L.

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