History – November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 6, 2013|History|0 comments

Macau: the formation of a global city / edited by C.X. George Wei. Cisneros y la conquista española del norte de África : cruzada, política y arte de la guerra / Beatriz Alonso Acero. Research methods for history / edited by Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire. [also available as an e-book from ebrary] From reliable sources: an introduction to historical methods / Martha Howell and Walter Prevenier. Women shall not

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Anthropology and Sociology – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 15, 2012|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

Anthropological practice : fieldwork and the ethnographic method. / Judith Okely From global poverty to global equality : a philosophical exploration / Pablo Gilabert. Connected, or, What it means to live in the network society / Steven Shaviro. The inside text : social, cultural and design perspectives on SMS / ed. by R. Harper, L. Palen and A. Taylor. The rise of anthropological theory : a history of theories of

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Religions – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 14, 2012|Religions|0 comments

e-books The Routledge companion to religion and film / edited by John Lyden. [Dawsonera] [Also available in print] Theology and social theory: beyond secular reason / John Milbank. [Dawsonera] Spiritual marketplace: baby boomers and the remaking of American religion / Wade Clark Roof. [Dawsonera] After God / Mark C. Taylor. [Dawsonera] Books The cult of emptiness : the Western discovery of Buddhist thought and the invention of Oriental philosophy / Urs App. Catalogue

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Music, Media and Film Studies – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 1, 2012|Music, Media and Film Studies|0 comments

Postcolonial cinema studies / edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller. World music : a global journey / Terry E. Miller & Andrew Shahriari. Newspeak in the 21st century / David Edwards & David Cromwell. Net smart : how to thrive online / Howard Rheingold drawings by Anthony Weeks. The art of free cooperation / edited by Geert Lovink and Trebor Scholz.