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Leapfrog: Recycled!

By Powell, Jillian, Wood, Amanda, Jillian Powell

Rural Development: Putting the last first (World Development)

By Chambers, Robert

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good

By William Easterly (Professor of Economics, New York University)

Hubble Bubble: Be careful what you wish for

By Jones, Christina

The Complete Odes and Epodes (Penguin Classics)

By Horace, Betty Radice, W. G. Shepherd

Why History?

By Keith Jenkins (University College Chichester, UK)

Closing the Circle: Democratization and Development in Africa

By Richard Sandbrook

Narrative and Genre

By Mary Chamberlain, Paul Thompson

Inner Harbour: Number 3 in series

By Nora Roberts

Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text

By Irene A. Bierman

Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa

By Luise White

Face to Face with Political Islam

By Burgat, Francois

Contested Terrains And Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa In Focus

By George Clement Bond, Nigel C. Gibson

The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities

By Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, Ali A. Mazrui

The Destruction of Memory: Architecture and Cultural Warfare

By Robert Bevan

Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800: Second Edition (Studies in Comparative World History)

By Thornton, John

In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

By Appiah, Kwame Anthony

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