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Violence and Childhood in the Inner City

By Joan McCord (Temple University, Philadelphia)

Making Men into Fathers: Men, Masculinities and the Social Politics of Fatherhood

By Barbara Hobson (Stockholms Universitet)

Absent Fathers?

By Jonathan Bradshaw, Christine Skinner, Carol Stimson, Julie Williams

Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach

By Martha C. Nussbaum (University of Chicago)

Evaluating Family Support: Thinking Internationally, Thinking Critically

By Ilan Katz (Children and Young People's Unit, London, UK), John Pinkerton (Queen's University of Belfast

Children's Homes: A Study in Diversity

By Ian Sinclair, Ian Gibbs

The Welfare of Children with Mentally Ill Parents: Learning from Inter-Country Comparisons

By Rachael Hetherington (Brunel University), Karen Baistow (Brunel University), Ilan Katz (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children), Jeffrey Mesie (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children), Judith Trowell (Tavistock C...

The Globalisation of Crime: Understanding Transitional Relationships in Context

By Mark Findlay (University of Sydney)

Disconnected Youth?: Growing up in Britain's Poor in Neighbourhoods

By R. MacDonald, J. Marsh

Lewd Women & Wicked Witches

Divine Hunger: Cannibalism as a Cultural System

By Peggy Reeves Sanday

Africa and the Disciplines: The Contributions of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and Humanities

By Robert H. Bates, V. Y. Mudimbe, Jean F. O'Barr

In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology

By Pierre Bourdieu (College de France)

The Pursuit of Certainty: Religious and Cultural Formulations

By Wendy James

The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge

By V. Y. Mudimbe

Women of Fire and Spirit: Faith, History, and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya

By Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton (Lecturer in Afro-American and African Studies, Lecturer in Afro-American and African Studies, University of Virginia)

Re-Imagining Rwanda: Conflict, Survival and Disinformation in the Late Twentieth Century

By Johan Pottier (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

By Thomas Cushman

In the Shadow of the State: Intellectuals and the Quest for National Identity in Twentieth-Century Spanish America

By Nicola Miller

Divinity and Experience: The Religion of the Dinka

By Godfrey Lienhardt (former Reader in Social Anthropology, former Reader in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford)

Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State

By Sharon E. Hutchinson

Understanding Social Anthropology

By David Pocock, Jeremy MacClaney

Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England: Volume 3, Accommodations

By Maurice Cowling (Peterhouse, Cambridge)

Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town: Group Identity and Social Practice, 1875-1902

By Vivian Bickford-Smith

The End of Slavery in Africa

By Suzanne Miers, Richard L. Roberts

The Society of the Muslim Brothers

By Richard P. Mitchell (late Professor of Near Eastern History, late Professor of Near Eastern History, University of Michigan), John O. Voll (Professor, Professor, University of New Hampshire)

The Essential Public Manager

By Christopher Pollitt

Black Power in South Africa: The Evolution of an Ideology

By Gail M. Gerhart

Engendering Democracy

By Anne Phillips

Normal Childbirth: Evidence and Debate

By Susan Downe (Professor of Midwifery Studies, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK)