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The following books are available for review in PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES. Please email me your top two choices, your affiliation, a land address, and a fax number, and I shall try and send you one book (which you keep). Reviews are expected to be 1,000 words long, to be delivered by Aug 31 2004.
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Targeting Development: Critical Perspectives on the Millennium Development Goals
Eds. R Black and H White
Routledge, 2004
360pp, 16 chapters
Subject: Diverse critiques of all aspects of MDGs, political analysis
Cities transformed: Demographic change and its implications in the developing world
Eds. M Montgomery, R Stren, B Cohen and H Reed
Earthscan, 2004
529pp, 10 chapters
Subject: population, cities
Key issues in development
D Kingsbury, J Remenyi, J Mckay, and J Hunt
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
328pp, 11 chapters
Subject: textbook, general topics of development
The Health of Refugees: Public health Perspectives from Crisis to Settlement
Ed. Pascale Allotey
Oxford Uni Press, 2003
232pp, 14 chapters
Subject: Public health, refugees, worldwide
Achieving Schooling for All in Africa: costs, commitment and gender
C. Colclough et al
Ashgate, 2003
297pp, 8 chapters
Subject: Education, Africa, gender, nine countries
Rural Poverty, Risk and Development
M. Fafchamps
Elgar, 2003
262pp, 7 chapters
Subject: Economics, Econometrics
Gender and development
Janet Henshall Momsen
Routledge, 2004
272pp, 9 chapters
Subject: Textbook, gender
Geographies of Development (second edition)
R. Potter, T. Binns, J. Elliott, D. Smith
Pearson, 2004
509pp, 10 chapters
Subject: Textbook, all aspects of development, urban/rural/migration
Population and Development of the Arab Gulf States: the case of Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait
Nadeya Sayed Ali Mohammed
Ashgate, 2003
181pp, 10 chapters
Subject: Demography
The Gendered Nation: Contemporary Writings from South Asia
Neluka Silva
Sage, 2004
256pp, 6 chapters
Subject: Postcolonial creative writing, literary criticism
Migration, Modernity and Social Transformation in South Asia
Eds. F Osella and K Gardner
Sage, 2004
380pp,13 chapters
Subject: case studies of migration in South Asia
Peasant Movements in Post-colonial India: dynamics of mobilization and identity
D K SinghaRoy
Sage, 2004
275pp, 6 chapters
Subject: Empirical study of social movements, social resistance
The Right to Development: A Primer
Center for Development and Human Rights, Delhi
Sage, 2004
293pp, 6 chapters
Subject: Study of Human Rights politics in India
Fixing African Economies: policy research for development
Eds. C Phillips and D Seck
Rienner, 2004
248pp, 9 chapters
Subject: Case studies from Africa, non-econometric
Explaining Growth: A global research project
Eds. G. McMahon and L. Squire
Palgrave, 2003
263pp, 6 chapters
Subject: Macro and Micro economics, some econometrics, global themes
Globalization and the Poor
Jay Mandle
Cambridge, 2003
157pp, 8 chapters
Subject: Politics, summary of debates for and against globalization
Social History and African Environments
Eds. W. Beinart and J. McGregor
James Currey / Ohio, 2003
275pp, 13 chapters
Subject: Environmental history, landscape, colonial science
Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies
Ed. Sylviane Diouf
James Currey / Ohio, 2003
242pp, 13 chapters
Subject: Case studies from Africa, history, politics
Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change and Globalization
William Robinson
Verso, 2003
400pp, 5 big chapters
Subject: critique of global capitalism, political & social science, Central America
Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective
Ramon Grosfoguel
California, 2003
268pp, 7 chapters
Subject: world-system theory and postcolonialism, migration, political economy
The Children of Africa Confront AIDS
Eds. A Singhal and W Howard
Ohio, 2003
265pp, 15 chapters
Subject: Development Management, public health, case studies
The Return of the White Plague: Global poverty and the 'new' tuberculosis
Eds. M Gandy and A Zumla
Verso, 2003
13 chapters
Subject: Social science, comparisons of USA, Africa, public health
A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture
Eds. Rafi Segal and Eyal Weizman
Verso, 2003
191pp, 18 chapters
Subject: Politics of architecture, Zionism, urban studies, many photographs
Women, Gender and Development in the Caribbean
Patricia Ellis
Zed, 2003
181pp, 8 chapters
Subject: Politics, gender, Caribbean
Participatory Planning in the Caribbean: Lessons from Practice
Eds. J Pugh and R Potter
Ashgate, 2003
228pp, 10 chapters
Subject: Planning, diverse case studies of environment, urban, rural, gender
New Forms of Urbanization: Beyond the Urban-Rural Dichotomy
Eds. T Champion and G Hugo
Ashgate, 2004
420pp, 19 chapters
Subject: Urban studies, planning, case studies worldwide
Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities
M Huggins et al
California, 2002
293pp, 12 chapters
Subject: Politics, violence, oral histories
Trade, the Balance of Payments and Exchange Rate Policy in Developing Countries
AP Thirlwall
Elgar, 2003
177pp, 5 chapters
Subject: Applied economics, trade
Trade Policy Reforms in Latin America: Multilateral rules and domestic institutions
Eds. M Lengyel and V Ventura-Dias
Palgrave, 2004
239pp, 9 chapters
Subject: Trade, politics, governance, case studies from Latin America
International Trade, Capital Flows and Economic Development in East Asia
Ed. A Bende-Nabende
Ashgate, 2003
217pp, 8 chapters
Subject: Trade, regionalism, investment
The New Regionalism in Africa
Eds. J Grant, F Soderbaum
Ashgate, 2003
243pp, 12 chapters
Subject: International Relations, trade, politics, case studies from Africa
China's Economic Globalization Through the WTO
Eds. Ding Lu et al
Ashgate, 2003
225pp, 12 chapters
Subject: Trade, investment, one chapter of econometrics, China
China's Economics Development and Democratization
Yanlai Wang
Ashgate, 2003
253pp, 8 chapters
Subject: Political History, politics
Structural Adjustment: The SAPRI Report: the policy roots of economic crisis, poverty and inequality
Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network (SAPRI)
Zed, 2004
242pp, 9 chapters
Subject: Critical political and institutional analysis, cases from worldwide
Global Human Resource Management: Managing people in developing and transitional countries
Willy McCourt and Derek Eldridge
Elgar, 2003
382pp, 10 chapters
Subject: Development management, human resources, training
Natural Disasters and Development in a Globalizing World
Ed. M Pelling
Routledge, 2003
250pp, 15 chapters
Subject: Hazards, vulnerability, case studies worldwide
New Directions in Global Political Governance: the G8 and international order in the 21st century
Eds. J Kirton and J. Takase
Ashgate, 2002
368pp, 16 chapters
Subject: International Relations, Politics, focus on G8 countries
Class, Caste, Gender
Ed. Manoranjan Mohanty
Sage, 2004
439pp, 15 chapters
Subject: India, sociology, gender
The development of China's stockmarket, 1984-2002: equity politics and market institutions
Stephen Green
Routledge, 2004
287p, 13 chapters
Subject: China, finance
Latin America transformed: Globalization and Modernity (2nd ed)
Eds. R Gwynne and C Kay
Arnold, 2004
316pp, 13 chapters
Subject: textbook, Latin America, social, economic themes
Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a global perspective
R Grosfoguel
California, 2003
268pp, 7 chapters
Subject: world system structure, postcolonialism, globalization
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Dr. Tim Forsyth
Development Studies Institute
London School of Economics
London WC2A 2AE
England
Editorial board member of 'Progress in Development Studies' www.pidsjournal.com
Books for review: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/forsytht/PIDS_Books_for_Review.htm
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