The following free webinars are being provided by the UK Data Service in September and October: Webinar: Key data: Business data – 10 September 2015, 3pm Webinar: Key data: Longitudinal data – 16 September 2015, 3pm Webinar: Introduction to the UK Data Service – 6 October 2015, 3pm Webinar: Key data: International macrodata – 8 October 2015, 2pm Webinar: Finding and accessing data in the UK Data Service – 14 October 2015, 3pm Webinar: Getting
Books Africa The Moroccan women’s rights movement / Amy Young Evrard. Commercial Law Comparative commercial contracts : law, culture and economic development / by Boris Kozolchyk, Evo DeConcini Comparative Law Comparative law / Mathias Siems. An introduction to comparative law theory and method / Geoffrey Samuel. The method and culture of comparative law : essays in honour of Mark Van Hoecke / edited by Maurice Adams and Dirk Heirbaut. East
We currently have trial access (until 20 Feb 2015) to the Armed Conflict Database (ACD) from the International Institute for Strategic Studies. The Armed Conflict Database monitors armed conflicts worldwide, focusing on political, military and humanitarian trends in current conflicts, whether they are local rebellions, long-term insurgencies, civil wars or inter-state conflicts. In addition to the comprehensive historical background for each conflict, the weekly timelines and the monthly updates, the
SOAS Library currently has trial access (until 21 December 2014) to Human Rights Studies Online from Alexander Street Press. Access (on-campus only) at: http://search.alexanderstreet.com/huri The collection brings together comprehensive, comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes in the 20th and 21st centuries. The collection includes 75,000 pages of text and 150 hours of video. The collection takes a case study approach, providing primary and
Romancing the wild: cultural dimensions of ecotourism / by Robert Fletcher. Crisis and migration: critical perspectives / Anna Lindley [E-book]. Aid on the edge of chaos: rethinking international cooperation in a complex world / Ben Ramalingam. Humanitarian crises and migration: causes, consequences and responses / edited by Susan F. Martin, Sanjula Weerasinghe and Abbie Taylor. Methodological challenges and new approaches to research in international development / edited by Laura Camfield. New
E-books Development and Democracy : What Have We Learned and How? / Ole Elgstrom and Goran Hyden Survival Migration : Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement / Alexander Betts International development studies : theories and methods in research and practice / Andrew Sumner and Michael Tribe. Reducing urban poverty in the global South / David Satterthwaite and Diana Mitlin. Child security in Asia the impact of armed conflict in
e-books Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka : Caught in the Peace Trap? / Goodhand, Jonathan, Spencer, Jonathan & Korf, Benedikt South Asia Across the Disciplines : Document Raj : Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India / Raman, Bhavani Islamic Civilization in South Asia : A History of Muslim Power and Presence in the Indian Subcontinent / Avari, Burjor Everyday ethnicity in Sri Lanka : up-country Tamil identity politics
The UN Report containing the findings of the commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was published yesterday. The report documents in great detail the wide-ranging array of crimes against humanity allegedly being committed in the country. “The gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a State that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world,” it states. The Commission will formally
On ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyıllarda Bizans dünyasında değişim : bildiriler = Change in the Byzantine world in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries : proceedings / [editörler, Ayla Ödekan, Engin Akyürek, Nevra Necipoğlu]. The rise and fall of human rights : cynicism and politics in occupied Palestine / Lori Allen. Land of progress : Palestine in the age of colonial development, 1905-1948 / Jacob Norris. Hüsnüne Aşk Olsun / Selami
All of these titles are available to all users on-campus, and to SOAS staff & students off-campus (where possible) using SOAS id and password to login. Africana Linguistica Volume 17 (2011) onwards. [on-campus only] Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development Volume 1(2010) onwards. Critical Policy Studies Volume 1 (2007) onwards. Food Chain Volume 1(2011) onwards. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy Volume 22(2004) onwards. Environment
