History – August 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 25, 2014|History|0 comments

General and comparative The Oxford history of historical writing [Vol.2: 400-1400]/ Daniel Woolf, general editor. The Oxford handbook of the history of medicine / edited by Mark Jackson.  Africa An African in Paris / Bernard Binlin Dadié ; translated by Karen C. Hatch. Blue dahlia, black gold: a journey into Angola / Daniel Metcalfe Lost and found in Johannesburg, a memoir / Mark Gevisser. Good morning, Mr Mandela / by

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Politics and International relations – September 2012 to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 8, 2014|Politics|0 comments

Controlling the Message: A Strategic Approach to Nation Branding  / Efe Sevin Decentralization and popular democracy : governance from below in Bolivia / Jean-Paul Faguet. A conflict of visions : ideological origins of political struggles / Thomas Sowell. Statebuilding and state-formation : the political sociology of intervention / edited by Berit Bliesemann de Guevara [e-book from ebrary] The behavioral foundations of public policy / edited by Eldar Shafir. Dispossession : the

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Development Studies – September and October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 28, 2012|Development Studies|0 comments

 e-books Coming climate crisis?  : consider the past, beware the big fix / Claire L. Parkinson. Available from Dawsonera. Abortion in Asia local dilemmas, global politics / edited by Andrea Whittaker. Available from Dawsonera. United in discontent : local responses to cosmopolitanism and globalization / edited by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos and Elisabeth Kirtsoglou. Available from Dawsonera. e-book and print Ethics for disaster / Naomi Zack. [Also available as an e-book from

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