'Jonathan Glennie's excellent and immensely readable new book presents a compelling case for those of us who care about Africa not to demand ever more aid, but rather to seek the more fundamental changes in the global economy which could reduce dependency on aid and contribute to the ultimate eradication of poverty.' - David Woodward, former head of New Global Economy Programme, nef

Read Jonathan Glennie's new blog www.thetroublewithaid.org.

'This is an impressive account of the rise and demise of the belief system that has pushed mankind to the brink of disaster' - Wolfgang Sachs, author/editor of The Development Dictionary and Fair Future

'Compelling and exciting reading…Rist's book, written with deliciously mild irony, is an account of the most crucial moments in which the rites of a belief embraced by millions were elaborated and canonized' - European Journal of Development Research
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'A cogent, passionate and damning anti-racist feminist exposè and dissection of the politics of contemporary US warmongering and its devastating impacts. An essential reference point for all those committed to mobilising against imperialist capitalism, war and globalisation' - Ailbhe Smyth, Senior Lecturer, Women's Studies, UCD.

This book paints a vivid picture of women's active involvement in reshaping intimate and public sexual life in East Asia. In bringing together exciting new feminist research on sexuality from East Asia and making it available to a wider audience, East Asian Sexualities unsettles stereotypes, rectifies lack of awareness and demonstrates that East Asia matters.

'This is a welcome and pioneering attempt, conducted overwhelmingly by Africans, to integrate the insights both of academic conflict and peace analysis, and of indigenous African approaches to conflict resolution, and apply them to the needs of peace-building in modern Africa.' - Christopher Clapham, Editor, The Journal of Modern African Studies

'This is an impressive and timely book written by one of the most knowledgeable writers on the Palestine-Israel conflict. Its insight into the devastating impact of Zionist settler colonialism and its account of the current reality on the ground are unique ... A must read for those seeking peace and justice in the Middle East.' - Nur Masalha, Reader in Religion and Politics and Director of Centre for Religion and History and Holy Land Research Project, St Mary’s University College (UK), and author of The Bible and Zionism (2007)

'There is no doubt about the authors' exceptional understanding of and deep affection for Afghanistan...All said, this is an indispensable book for anyone wishing to gain an understanding of what has been done in and to Afghanistan in the last 30 years. It is also a book that raises profound questions about how and why well-meaning organisations operate in countries which they, often one-sidedly and driven by their own perception of good and evil, believe to need assistance.' Asian Affairs, November 2005

'The Throes of Democracy offers a perceptive, and highly readable, interpretation of Brazil's recent past and present. An astute observer of politics, social mores, and popular culture, Bryan McCann constructs a portrait of contemporary Brazil that helps us to understand new and long-standing problems, while also accounting for Brazilian society's dynamism and ongoing democratization.' - Barbara Weinstein, New York University

'Global Health Watch 2 is not only an educational resource for health professionals and activists, it also makes clear the need for global health advocates to engage in lobbying many key actors to do better and to do more, whilst resisting those that do harm.'Ambitious, daring and foresighted, everyone should read GHW2. This is a brave report, and everyone will take something from it' - Gill Walt, Professor of international health policy, LSHTM

'Jan Nederveen Pieterse brilliantly and engagingly depicts America's failing approach to global policy, and what might be done by way of correction. This lucid analysis deserves the widest possible readership and debate.' - Richard Falk, Princeton University

'Here is a book many of us have been awaiting - a sophisticated reading of the just war tradition as it speaks to the post 9/11 international order. Bellamy's understanding of just war as a tradition of thought means that his critical assessment of American efforts to counter terrorism carries great weight. This is a book which will benefit students and scholars alike' - Tony Lang, University of St Andrews

'This is a thought provoking book. It challenges common assumptions about the global social and political environment we face, both in the west and at a global level. In doing so it gives voice to a critical perspective that needs to be heard and critically discussed.' - John Solomos, City University London

'This is an important and nuanced discussion of the `war on terror' as a cultural project which deploys sexualized racisms as its method. We are asked to stand against the rhetoric of transnational security and instead build alternative global publics to reject the `open secrets' that make us unwilling actors in this horrific war.' - Zillah Eisenstein

'Tom Lines combines a lifelong commitment to development with a thorough knowledge of the complexities of global markets. Cutting expertly through economic jargon and myth, he explains why markets, far from being neutral, reflect the power and politics of those who govern them, determining who wins and who loses from globalization. You don't have to agree with every detail of his analysis to learn from this salutary reminder that the current boom in commodity prices is not the end of a history of commodity dependence which has left deep scars on the developing world.' - Duncan Green, head of research, Oxfam GB

'The most intelligent treatment of the politics and economics of climate change I have ever read. Brilliant, clear and unanswerable’ George Monbiot

'Elegantly simple and eminently workable, this is a proposal that could change the world. Kyoto2 should be read by anyone with an interest in climate change policy.' - Mark Lynas

'Located at the intersection of feminism, masculinity studies, post colonial studies and international relations, this striking collection demonstrates the extraordinary resilience and malleability of gendered power and violence in today's toxic post 9/11 world and opens up new terrain in the study and practice of national and global politics' - Jindy Pettman, ANU

'Laura Shepherd shows us here how we can bring the burgeoning scholarships on violence against women and on human security into conversation with each other in a way that makes us smarter about each - and about the intricate trickily gendered political processes of the UN too. Quite a feat.' - Cynthia Enloe, Clark University

Industrial Development for the 21st century examines the new challenges and opportunities arising from globalization, technological change and new international trade rules.

This book brings together an inter-disciplinary group of Palestinian, Israeli, American, British and Irish scholars who theorise 'the question of Palestine'.

'President Lula is perhaps the most elusive figure to have reached the top of Brazilian politics, and Richard Bourne's fine study of the man and his background is a well-researched and illuminating report. This is a trenchant, warts-and-all account of Lula's career' - Richard Gott

Religious fundamentalism and its role in US foreign policy is seemingly unstoppable. In For God's Sake Lee Marsden argues that the religious 'core values' of middle America have potentially disastrous consequences for the United States and the world in the coming century.

Read Lee Marden on the 'Comment is Free' Section of The Guardian website here

''This is the most helpful and illuminating book on a Western country's foreign policy in Africa for a very long time. Porteous takes us behind the scenes into the policy world itself. Rarely have such intricacies been conveyed so compellingly' - Jane Guyer, Johns Hopkins University

'A lucid, hugely informative and insightful account of British policy towards Africa under Blair. It should be required reading for today's Ministers and their advisers.' - David Mepham, Director of Policy, Save the Children

'This anthology is a must read for all development practitioners frustrated by strategies that are grossly out of touch with the realities of the masses; it is for those that wish to "be real" and relevant to those they are supposed to work for. Its wide range and depth of analysis is guaranteed to jumpstart a stimulating debate even among the most conservative development thinkers.' - Sylvia Tamale, Associate Professor and Dean of Law, Makerere University, Uganda

'Clearly written, cleverly argued and comprehensively supported by evidence, Environment and Citizenship should be on everybody's reading list. A major contribution to the study of responsibility, justice and the environment.' - Bryan S. Turner, Co-editor of Citizenship Studies
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'Acts of Citizenship is itself an exuberant, startling, act of social theory about the acts that create and transform our bonds as citizens. The names of Derrida, Levinas, and Agamben fly from the pages, along with a range of figures such as the Tank Man of Tiananmen square, Socrates, Seneca and Pat Tillman. This is the book to read if you want to know where social theory is now.' - Stephen Turner, University of Southern Florida

'Without nostalgia or sentimentality, this volume revives even as it disseminates and complicates an appreciation of active citizenship. Philosophically rich, culturally wide-ranging and eminently readable, this is a marvelous, indeed inspiring book' - Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley

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'This is an important and hopeful work that does not shy away from the inequalities and power asymmetries that confront cities of the South, but still manages to show that the politics of the ‘wretched’, if sustained and integrated into a wider institutional arena, can bring about change for the good of the many. It rejects the depressing readings of such urbanism that have come to dominate without resorting to a naïve or false utopianism. Edgar Pieterse has written a book that is a must for urban thinkers and practitioners interested in the virtues of the everyday' - Ash Amin, Director of Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University

'The best introduction is Darfur: A Short History of a Long War by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal...their accounts are as readable as they are tragic' - Nicholas D. Kristof in The New York Review of Books

'The definitive history of the Darfur conflict' - Andrew Natsios, Former Administrator of USAID and U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan

'Among the best works available' - Mahmood Mamdani, University of Columbia

'Essential reading' - Mia Farrow

Read Alex de Waal's Blog 'Making Sense of Darfur' here

Insight with Alex de Waal: the Crisis in Darfur
Watch a video of Alex de Waal speaking on Darfur with Nima Elbagir at London's Frontline Club on May 22nd here

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'Chris Alden has written the first substantive book on China-Africa relations in three decades. Anyone wishing to understand the complexities of China's engagement with Africa must read this fine study.' - David Shambaugh, George Washington University & The Brookings Institution

‘In this short and readable book, Chris Alden provides a clear overview of China's involvement with Africa, a relationship that is having a huge impact both on the country and the continent.' – The Economist - Read the full review here

'Alden's book answers the need for a measured review of China-Africa relations. Alden combines judicious analysis with a balanced, authoritative survey of the context and nature of current relations' - The Times Literary Supplement, May 23rd 2008

'A timely, well-written and important book' - The Economist

‘A Shakespearian tale of power struggles, paranoia, betrayals, secrets, lies, and, above all, hubris.’ -The Guardian

'This is a definitive account ... told with revelatory research, a cool head and expert storytelling.' - Naomi Klein, author No Logo

Read William Gumede online

NEW! 21.05.08: Failing Its People - An Article on South Africa by William Gumede in The Guardian

Read Articles by William Gumede in: The New Statesman, The Independent and The Guardian

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'Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality.’ - Lisa Adkins, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London

'What a relief to have a different conversation about sex and economics outside of the usual morality/rescue mentality' - Susie Bright "http://susiebright.com" (Santa Cruz, CA USA)

Sex at the Margins in the Media

The New Statesman, March 2008
Spiked Review of Books, April 2008
The Erotic Review, January 2008

'A terrific read...this book is "vital" in the most profound meaning of that word.' - Review of Radical Political Economics

'Full of insights into the relationship between ecological degradation and capitalist expansion, this is a must-read for thinkers and activists.' - Walden Bello

'The ultimate antagonist of capital is not labor but nature… is capitalism setting the state for ecosocialist uprising?' - Ted Dace, CounterPunch, www.counterpunch.org

Read the Ecosocialist Manifesto by Joel Kovel and Michael Lowy

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'This longer historical view is essential, if one is to grasp not only what drives the North Korean regime but what it shares (to the growing irritation of the Americans) with the South.' - John Gittings, Guardian

'French certainly knows his stuff, and there is no shortage of good arguments and facts as he details this thesis and its worrying implications. This is a book packed with information without being emotional or rhetorical as the subject tends to make people.' - Asia Times

'Truly an important book.' - Juliet Mitchell, University of Cambridge

'This volume addresses unasked but fundamental questions about post-conflict development in Afghanistan. Elaheh Rostami-Povey offers important analysis and moving illustrations of the difficulties faced by women there. It is vital reading for those wishing to understand aid and reconstruction.' - Haleh Afshar, University of York

A novel by Nawal El Saadawi.

'Nawal el Saadawi writes with directness and passion, transforming the systematic brutalisation of peasants and of women in to powerful allegory' - New York Times Book Review

'Scorching' - New Internationalist

'A powerful indictment of the treatment of women in many parts of the Middle East' - Labour Herald

'Woman at Point Zero should begin the long march towards a realistic and sympathetic portrayal of Arab women' - Middle East International

This new edition includes a specially commissioned foreword by Miriam Cooke, Duke University, USA.

'Nadje Al-Ali draws a vivid picture of Iraqi society and politics using intense personal narratives, and offers alternative visions of modern Iraqi history. An absorbing read.' - Sami Zubaida, Emeritus Professor, Birkbeck College, University of London

'[A collection of] the thoughts, memories and experiences of more than 100 women who, at one time or another, have joined Iraq's huge diaspora in America, Britain and Jordan....the pattern [Al-Ali] draws of the way that educated women's lives have changed and rechanged since Iraq's 1958 revolution is fascinating.' - The Economist

Read Nadje Al-Ali in The Guardian here

New DVD available 'Iraqi Women: An Interview with Nadje Al-Ali'
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"For Zillah Eisenstein politics is like the air we breathe and the ideas we live - always deserving our deepest attention. In Sexual Decoys once again, Eisenstein brilliantly draws us into the profoundly complex gendered politics of war, mobilizing startling constructs like sexual decoys, patriarchal imperialism, neoliberal feminism, and racialized fascist democracy to sharpen our analytic feminist lenses and demystify war cultures. A smart, challenging book for everyone concerned with what it means to live ethically and accountably in the USA of the present." - Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Professor of Women‘s Studies, Syracuse University

‘...raises provocative questions...Smart and witty, sobering yet uplifting, this book is essential reading for all of us committed to social justice.’ - Ms Magazine

New! Read Zillah Eisenstein on Hilary Clinton here

'The best overall account of the background to the genocide, and the failure to prevent it, is Linda Melvern's A People Betrayed ... She discovered so much that we did not know, and her book remains one of the best sources available.' - Lt. Gen Romeo Dallaire, Force Commander United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda, UNAMIR. October 1993-August 1994 and author of Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

Read more reviews of 'A People Betrayed' on Linda Melvern's website here


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"...makes a strong case for small-scale, sustainable agriculture as the means to achieve food security for the two billion people who currently lack it...covers a huge range of issues, including trade, gender, credit, land rights and the record of the World Bank and UN agencies" - New Agriculturalist
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