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A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics

By Hans Kung

IMF Programmes in Developing Countries: Design and Impact

By Tony Killick

Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900

By Lauren Benton (New York University)

Literacy in Theory and Practice: 9 (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture, Series Number 9)

By Street, Brian

Literacy, Society, and Schooling: A Reader

By Suzanne de Castell (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia), Allan Luke (James Cook University, North Queensland), Kieran Egan (Simon Fraser University

Greek Religion and Society

By Easterling/Muir/Finley

Colonialism/Postcolonialism

By Ania Loomba

Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture in the History of Religion

By William Albert Graham (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

On the Good Life (Classics)

By Cicero, Grant, Michael

Tribe: The Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moon

By Tom Stacey

The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century

By Howard, Michael, Louis, Wm. Roger

The Interface between the Written and the Oral (Studies in Literacy, the Family, Culture and the State)

By Goody, Jack

Planning Sustainability (Environmental Politics)

By Kenny, Michael, Meadowcroft, James

The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity

By Gilbert, Sir Martin

A Gesture Life

By Lee, Chang-rae

The Athenian Constitution (The Penguin classics)

By Aristotle, Peter John Rhodes, Peter John Rhodes, .

Revolution And Transition In East-central Europe: Second Edition

By David Mason

Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe, Volume I: Foundations

By R. W. Southern (Late of University of Oxford)

Revolution From Above: The Demise of the Soviet System

By David Kotz, Fred Weir

Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe

By John Higley (University of Texas, Austin), Richard Gunther (Ohio State University)

The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society (Studies in Literacy, the Family, Culture and the State)

By Goody, Jack

Western Political Theory in the Face of the Future

By John Dunn

The Politics of Socialism: An Essay in Political Theory

By John Dunn

A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present

By Patrizia Palumbo, angelo del Boca, giulia barrera, Barbara Sorgoni, Nicola Labanca

Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective

By Michael Bratton (Michigan State University), Nicholas van de Walle (Michigan State University)

The Last Days Of The Reich:Collapse of Nazi Germany, May 1945 (Cassell Military Paperbacks S.)

By Lucas, James

God's Last Words: Reading the English Bible from the Reformation of Fundamentalism

By Katz, David S

Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan

By Alex de Waal (Director, Director, Justice Africa, London)

The Colonial Legacy in Somalia: Rome and Mogadishu: from Colonial Administration to Operation Restore Hope

By Paolo Tripodi

Negotiated Revolutions: The Czech Republic, South Africa and Chile

By George Lawson