Law – November 2012 to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 9, 2014|Law|0 comments

Social and legal norms : towards a socio-legal understanding of normativity / by Matthias Baier. Property : meanings, histories and theories / Margaret Davies. Challenging diversity : rethinking equality and the value of difference / Davina Cooper. Normal life : administrative violence, critical trans politics, and the limits of law / Dean Spade. Foreign direct liability and beyond : exploring the role of tort law in promoting international corporate social

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Anthropology and Sociology – June 2012 to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 7, 2014|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

Handbook of land and water grabs in Africa : foreign direct investment and food and water security / editors, Tony Allan … [et al.]. The global farms race : land grabs, agricultural investment, and the scramble for food security / edited by Michael Kugelman, Susan L. Levenstein. Darker than blue : on the moral economies of Black Atlantic culture / Paul Gilroy. Gender, war, and militarism : feminist perspectives /

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – September 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 8, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Tempel im Alten Orient : 7. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, 11.-13. Oktober 2009, München Im Auftrag der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft / herausgegeben von Kai Kaniuth, Anne Löhnert, Jared L. Miller, Adelheid Otto, Michael Roaf und Walther Sallaberger. Siedlungsgeschichte im mittleren Osttigrisgebiet : vom Neolithikum bis in die neuassyrische Zeit / Simone Mühl. The World of Berossos : Proceedings of the 4th International Colloquium on “The Ancient

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China and Inner Asia – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 16, 2013|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

朱舜水與近世日本儒學的發展 / 徐興慶編 遊藝翰墨 : 滿清愛新覺羅家族書畫藝術 / 王淑珍著 中國史畫100幅 : 《倫敦新聞畫報》1854-1912 國朝閨秀詩柳絮集校補 / 黄秩模編輯 ; 付瓊校補. 二十世纪中国小说理论资料 / 陈平原, 夏晓虹编 千峰翠色 : 中国越窑青瓷 / 李军编著 雲南氣候與災異資料輯錄 / 李德龍主編 中古汉语词汇复音化的多视角研究 / 邱冰著 屈原及其诗歌研究 / 常森著 近代日本人对上海的认识 : 1862-1945年 / 徐青著 上海租界研究 = Shanghai zujie yanjiu / 吴志伟著 中国近现代史辨疑与释读 = Zhongguo jinxiandaishi bianyi yu shidu / 邵雍著 The Purple phoenix : poems of Li Shangyin = [紫鳳 : 李商隱詩集] / translated by

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 31, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern civilizations Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean, 1989-1996 (Vol. 3 & Vol.4) Ebla and its landscape / edited by Paolo Malthiae & Nicolò Marchetti  Aspetti del sistema preposizionale dell’eblaita / Maria Vittoria Tonietti. The world of the Neo-Hittite kingdoms: a political and military history / Trevor Bryce. Linguistics studies in Phoenician: in memory of J. Brian Peckham / edited by Robert D. Holmstedt and Aaron Schade. The elements of

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Development Studies – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 6, 2013|Development Studies|0 comments

Coffee and power : revolution and the rise of democracy in Central America / Jeffery M. Paige The art of coercion : the primitive accumulation and management of coercive power / Antonio Giustozzi. The new protectorates : international tutelage and the making of liberal states / James Mayall, Ricardo Soares De Oliveira, editors. Understanding economic growth in China and India : a comparative study of selected issues / Yanrui Wu.

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Development Studies – March 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 23, 2013|Development Studies|0 comments

Benevolent benefactor or insensitive regulator? : tracing the role of government policies in the development of India’s automobile industry / Rajnish, Tiwari, Cornelius Herstatt, and Mahipat Ranawat. [Also available online from East-West Center] Economic reforms, regionalism, and exports : comparing China and India / Ganeshan Wignaraja. [Also available online from East-West Center] Global values in a changing world / Sonja Zweegers and Afke de Groot, editors. A new geography of

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Arab Human Rights Index

By Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb|February 25, 2013|Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Politics and International Relations|0 comments

The Human Rights Index for the Arab Countries, sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme on Governance in the Arab Region (UNDP-POGAR), is a repository for the entire set of United Nations documents pertaining to human rights and the responses, including reservations, by the Arab member states to the committees that monitor the core international human rights treaties. The Arab Human Rights Index (AHR) covers each Arab country’s ratification of

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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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Middle East and Central Asia – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 3, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Middle East Raising capital on Arab equity markets : legal and juridical aspects of Arab securities regulation / Lu’ayy Minwer Al-Rimawi. Peace, propaganda, & the promised land [videorecording] : U.S. media & the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Media Education Foundation directors, Sut Jhally, Bathsheba Ratzkoff producer, Bathsheba Ratzkoff writers, Bathsheba Ratzkoff, Sut Jhally. Psalms [sound recording] / Khaled Jubran. Race and slavery in the Middle East : histories of trans-Saharan Africans

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