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R. Scheyvens and D. Storey (eds):   Development fieldwork: a practical guide

M. Power:   Rethinking development geographies (textbook)

S. Clarke:   Making ends meet in Contemporary Russia: secondary employment, subsidiary agriculture and social networks

I. Okonta and O. Douglas:   Where vultures feast: Shell, human rights and oil.

J Willis:   Potent Brews: A social history of Alcohol in East Africa 1850-1999

A. Cheung and I Scott (eds):   Governance and public sector reform in Asia: paradigm shifts or business as usual?

G Hart:   Disabling globalization: places of power in post-apartheid South Africa

J. Kirton and J. Takase (eds):   New directions in global political governance: the G8 and international order in the 21st century

L Haagh and C Helgo:   Social policy reform and market governance in Latin America

Chung Lee (ed):   Financial liberalisation and the economic crisis in Asia

M. Gandy and A. Zumla (eds):   The return of the white plague: global poverty and the 'new' tuberculosis

Ranvinder Singh Sandhu (ed):   Urbanization in India: Sociological contributions

J. Ahrens:   Governance and Economic Development: a comparative institutional approach

S Jewitt:   Environment, knowledge and gender: local development in India's Jharkhand

J. Degnbol-Martinussen and P. Engberg-Pedersen:   Aid: understanding international development cooperation

J. Petras:   The new development politics: the age of empire building and new social movements

K. Tomasevski:   Education denied: costs and remedies

V Napolitano:   Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men: living in Urban Mexico

Pottier, J.:   Re-imagining Rwanda: conflicts, survival and disinformation in the late twentieth century

J Foran (ed):   The future of revolutions: rethinking radical change in the age of globalization

J Bettie:   Women without class: girls, race and identity

T van Naerssen and F Barten (eds):   Healthy cities in developing countries: lessons to be learned

M Huggins, M Haritos-Fatouros and Zimbardo:   Violence workers: police torturers and murderers reconstruct Brazilian atrocities

C Hughes and G Wacker (eds):   China and the internet: politics of the digital leap forward

M. Pelling (ed):   Natural disasters and development in a globalizing world.

F Varese:   The Russian Mafia: private protection in a new market economy

A Dutt and J Ros (eds):   Development Economics and structuralist macroeconomics: essays in honor of Lance Taylor

P. Fernando and G Porter (eds):   Balancing the load: women, gender and transport

B Crow:   Markets, class and social change: trading networks and poverty in rural South Asia

K Bhavnani, J Foran and P Kurian:   Feminist futures: re-imagining women, culture and development

S. R. Dhooleka:   Where are you from? Middle-class migrants in the modern world (subject: South Asian families in London, nostalgia, culture)

D Anderson:   Eroding the commons: the politics of ecology in Baringo, Kenya 1890s-1963

T. Forsyth:   Critical Political Ecology: the politics of environmental science

J. Pryer:   Poverty and vulnerability in Dhaka slums: the urban livelihoods study

M. Huband:   The skull beneath the skin: Africa after the cold war

H. Wiarda:   Civil society: the American model and Third World development

G. McCann and S. McCloskey (eds):   From the local to the global: key issues in development studies

A. Engler:   Apostles of greed: capitalism and the myth of the individual in the market

I. Coxhead and S. Jayasuriya:   The open economy and the environment: development, trade and resources in Asia

J. Ron:   Frontiers and ghettos: state violence in Serbia and Israel

F. Sforzi:   The institutions of local development

F. Tembo:   Participation, negotiaon and poverty: encountering the power of images: designing pro-poor development programs

I. Baud and J. Post:   Realigning actors in an urbanizing world: governance and institutions from a development perspective

R. Sedjo (ed):   Economics of forestry [reader]

C. Edmonds (ed):   Reducing poverty in Asia: emerging issues in growth, targeting and measurement

R. Iyer:   Water: perspectives, issues, concerns

D. Reid:   Tourism, globalization and development: responsible tourism planning

J. Pottier, A. Bicker and P. Silitoe (eds):   Negotiating local knowledge: power and identity in development

M. Nuitjen:   Power, community and the state: the political anthropology of organization in Mexico

R. Chan, K.K. Leung, and R. Ngan (eds):   Development in Southeast Asia: review and prospects

R. Vos, L. Taylor. R. Paes de Barros (eds):   Economic liberalization, distribution and poverty: Latin America in the 1990s

A. Thirlwall:   Trade, the balance of payments and exchange rate policy in developing countries

M. Darkoh and A. Rwomire (eds):   Human impact on environment and sustainable development in Africa

C. Gray (ed):   Inside independent Nigeria: diaries of Wolfgang Stolper 1960-1962

P. Ellis:   Women, gender and development in the Carribbean: reflections and projections

B. Haverkort, K. van 't Hooft, and W. Hiemstra (eds):   Ancient roots, new shoots: endogenous development in practice (a publication of the Compas project)

B. Dalal-Clayton, D. Dent and O. Dubois:   Rural planning in developing countries: supporting natural resource management and sustainable livelihoods

P. Hountondji:   The struggle for meaning: reflections on philosophy, culture and democracy in Africa

J. Toye (ed):   Trade and development: directions for the 21st century

H. Bloch (ed):   Growth and development in the global economy

L. Kong and B. Yeoh:   The politics of landscapes in Singapore: constructions of 'nation'

G. Myers:   Verandahs of power: colonialism and space in urban Africa

P. Ahluwalia and A. Zegeye (eds):   African identities: contemporary political and social challenges

S. Lloyd-Evans and R. Potter (eds):   Gender, ethnicity and the informal sector in Trinidad

R. Jha (ed):   India's economic reforms.

R. Gwynne et al.:   Alternative capitalisms - Geographies of emerging regions  (textbook).



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Dr. Tim Forsyth
Development Studies Institute
London School of Economics
London WC2A 2AE,UK
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