2608, 2015

Africa – December 2013 to July 2015.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 26, 2015|Africa|

Africa Business & Industry The politics of African industrial policy : a comparative perspective / Lindsay Whitfield Film & Media Identity in postmillennial German film narratives on Africa / Shikuku Emmanuel Tsikhungu. Images of Africa : Creation, negotiation and subversion / Julia Gallagher. Through African eyes / editors, Mahen Bonetti and Prerana Reddy. History Understanding Africa / E. Jefferson Murphy ; illustrated by Louise E. Jefferson. Literature Mysteries of Africa

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1908, 2015

Anthropology and Sociology – December 2013 to July 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 19, 2015|Anthropology and Sociology|

Anthropomorphism Thinking with animals : new perspectives on anthropomorphism / edited by Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman. Art & Artefacts Making and growing : anthropological studies of organisms and artefacts / by Elizabeth Hallam and Tim Ingold. Australasia The Black pacific : anti-colonial struggles and oceanic connections / Robbie Shilliam. Community Community, cosmopolitanism and the problem of human commonality / Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport. East Asia Seeing transnationally :

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2705, 2015

Anthropology and Sociology – Spring 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 27, 2015|Anthropology and Sociology|0 comments

Anthropology in theory: issues in epistemology / edited by Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders Ruth Landes: a life in anthropology / Sally Cole The other face of the moon / by Lévi-Strauss, Claude The ground between: anthropologists engage philosophy / edited by Veena Das, Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, and Bhrigupati Singh Ethnographies of uncertainty in Africa / edited by Elizabeth Cooper and David Pratten After the ancestors: an anthropologist’s

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2201, 2014

Economics – June to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 22, 2014|Economics|0 comments

Scale and scope : the dynamics of industrial capitalism / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. with the assistance of Takashi Hikino. [Also available as an e-book from ebrary] Women and austerity : the economic crisis and the future for gender equality / edited by Maria Karamessini and Jill Rubery. Immigration, poverty, and socioeconomic inequality / David Card and Steven Raphael, editors. Further mathematics for economic analysis / Knut Sydsaeter … [et

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2101, 2014

Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – Dec 2012 to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 21, 2014|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Red star over Iraq : Iraqi communism before Saddam / Johan Franzén. Languages of love and hate : conflict, communication, and identity in the medieval Mediterranean / edited by Sarah Lambert and Helen Nicholson. Mongol rule in Seljuk Anatolia. The politics of conquest and history-writing 1243-1282. Sara ur Yildiz. The people want : a radical exploration of the Arab Uprising / Gilbert Achcar ; translated from the French by G.M.

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1001, 2014

South Asia – September 2012 to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 10, 2014|South Asia|

Sharing water : irrigation and water management in the Hindukush, Karakoram, Himalaya / edited by Hermann Kreutzmann. Religious cultures in early modern India : new perspectives / edited by Rosalind O’Hanlon and David Washbrook. Five lords, yet none a protector, and : two plays ;Words sweet and timeless / Saoli Mitra. Ramayana: a retelling / by Daljit Nagra. Gandhi before India / Ramachandra Guha. India and the British Empire /

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0701, 2014

Development Studies – September 2012 to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 7, 2014|Development Studies|0 comments

Rural social movements in Latin America : organizing for sustainable livelihoods / edited by Carmen Diana Deere and Frederick S. Royce. Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts / Saleem H. Ali. Treasures of the earth : need, greed, and a sustainable future / Saleem H. Ali. Different rainbows / edited by Peter Drucker. Aid, NGOs and the realities of women’s lives : a perfect storm / Tina Wallace Beyond

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0701, 2014

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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0701, 2014

China and Inner Asia – June to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 7, 2014|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

The People’s Republic of China at 60 : an international assessment / edited by William C. Kirby. The gender of memory : rural women and China’s collective past / Gail Hershatter. China maritime customs and China’s trade statistics, 1859-1948 / Thomas P. Lyons. Dancing for the dead [videorecording] : funeral strippers in Taiwan / a Marc L. Moskowitz film. A Jesuit garden in Beijing and early modern Chinese culture /

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0301, 2014

Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 3, 2014|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam Understanding the Qur’an today / Mahmoud Hussein translated from the French by David Bond. The terrorist in search of humanity : militant Islam and global politics / Faisal Devji. Parcours de féministes musulmanes belges. De l’engagement dans l’islam aux droits des femmes? Ghaliya Djelloul. Islamic banking and finance : what it is and what it could be / editor, Tarek El Diwany Made with : the emerging alternative to

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