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This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year

By Andrew Doig

Some Body to Love: A Family Story

By Alexandra Heminsley

Mothering as a Metaphor for Ministry

By Emma Percy

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By Michel Foucault

Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War

By Stephen Robbins, Gerard J. De Groot

No Tie Required: How the Rich Stole Golf

By Christopher Cairns

The Nature of Politics

By Roger D. Masters

The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How Europe and America are Alike

By Peter Baldwin (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles)

Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries

By Frank Furedi (University of Kent, UK)

W.H.R.Rivers: Pioneer Anthropologist and Psychiatrist of the "Ghost Road"

By Richard Slobodin

Desert Dawn

By Waris Dirie

Death and the Family: Importance of Mourning

By Lily Pincus

The Birth of the Clinic

By Michel Foucault

Mothers, Young People and Chronic Illness

By Clare Williams

Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems

By John Bodley

Hell's Angels (Penguin Sociology & Anthropology)

By Thompson, Hunter S, Hunter S.

Doctor, What's Wrong?: Making the NHS Human Again

By Petit-Zeman, Sophie

Chinese Politics: State, Society and the Market

By Daniel Lynch, Stanley Rosen (University of Southern California, USA)

Japanese Society

By Chie Nakane

Common Threads: Women, Mathematics and Work

By Harris, Mary

Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara: Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century

By Judith Scheele (University of Oxford)

Marxism & Historical Writing

Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors and Gossip

By Pamela J. Stewart (University of Pittsburgh), Andrew Strathern (University of Pittsburgh)

Living with Africa

Transforming Settlement in Southern Africa

By Chris de Wet (Professor of Anthropology, Rhodes University, South Africa), Roddy Fox

The Moon is Dead! Give Us Our Money!: The Cultural Origins of an African

By Keletso E. Atkins

Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa

By James McDougall, Judith Scheele, Peregrine Horden, E. Ann McDougall, Katia Schoerle

Servitude in Modern Times

By M. L. Bush (Manchester Metropolitan University)

African Workers and Colonial Racism: Mozambican Strategies and Struggles in Lourenoco Marques, 1877-1962

By Jeanne Penvenne

Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire

By Jason Goodwin