History – October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 2, 2012|History|0 comments

E-books Egypt in the reign of Muhammad Ali / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot [Available from Cambridge Books Online]. Wars of imperial conquest in Africa, 1830-1914 / Bruce Vandervort [Available from ebrary] South Africa: a modern history / T.R.H. Davenport and Christopher Saunders; foreword by Desmond Tutu (5th edition) [Available from Dawsonera] Books Representing Israel in modern Egypt: ideas, intellectuals and foreign policy from Nasser to Mubarak / Ewan Stein In

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Law – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 3, 2012|Law|0 comments

Journals/Law Reports Family Law Online Access to the Family Law Reports (FLR), Family Law Journal (Fam LJ), Child and Family Law Quarterly (CFLQ) and International Family Law (IFL). LawAfrica Includes LawAfrica Law Reports (LLR) a comprehensive database of reports from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Digest on Civil Case Law & Procedure deals with cases arising from judicial review and constitutional matters. The East Africa Law Reports (EALR) contains full text of

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Law – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 27, 2012|Law|0 comments

Access to asylum : international refugee law and the globalisation of migration control / Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen Authoritarian rule of law : legislation, discourse, and legitimacy in Singapore/ Jothie Rajah Corporate finance law : principles and policy / Louise Gullifer and Jennifer Payne  Corporate governance and the global financial crisis : international perspectives / ed. by William Sun, Jim Stewart and David Pollard. Corporate social responsibility of multinational corporations in developing

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Middle East and Central Asia – Jan to May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 29, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Palestinian village histories : geographies of the displaced / Rochelle A. Davis. Imperial citizen : marriage and citizenship in the Ottoman frontier provinces of Iraq / Karen M. Kern Streets of memory : landscape, tolerance, and national identity in Istanbul / Amy Mills. Romanschauplatz Saudi-Arabien : Transformationen, Konfrontationen, Lebensläufe / Elga Martinez-Weinberger. The spaces between the teeth : a gazetteer of towns on the Islamic-Byzantine frontier / Asa Eger. The

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Law – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Law|0 comments

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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