BOOKS

Politics and the Press: The News Media and Their Influences
edited by Pippa Norris, with a foreword by Marvin Kalb

Politics and the Press not only examines how journalists define the news; it also explores the role of the media in elections and the shaping of public opinion, as well as the reportage of    More >

Rural Progress, Rural Decay: Neoliberal Adjustment Policies and Local Initiatives
Liisa L. North and John D. Cameron, editors

How do rural development programs, especially those run by nongovernmental organizations, cope in a time of structural adjustment programs and economical liberalization? Using Ecuador as a    More >

Critical Perspectives on Christopher Okigbo
Donatus Ibe Nwoga, editor

A collection of essays and reviews, both favorable and negative, about the charismatic and popular Igbo poet who, at the age of 35, was killed by the advancing Nigerian army during the war    More >

Archie Mafeje
Bongani Nyoka

Noted for his academic prowess, quick wit, and tireless struggle both for pan-Africanist ideals and for the political emancipation of South Africans living under apartheid, Archie Mafeje has    More >

Movies, Myth, and the National Security State
Dan O’Meara, Alex Macleod, Frédérick Gagnon, and David Grondin

While analysts may agree that Hollywood movies have always both mirrored and helped to shape the tenor of their times, the question remains: Just how do they do it? And how do we identify    More >

Kosovo: An Unfinished Peace
William G. O'Neill

Despite the deployment of NATO forces in Kosovo and the UN's direct involvement in governing the province, such terrors as murder, disappearances, bombings, and arson have become routine    More >

The Politics of EU Police Cooperation: Toward a European FBI?
John D. Occhipinti

Will the European Union soon have a policing agency similar to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation? John Occhipinti traces the evolution of the European Police Office (Europol),    More >

The Early Writings of Alex La Guma: Reflections on Cultcha, Identity and Freedom in the 1950s and 1960s
André Odendaal and Roger Field, editors

As a leader of the South African Coloured People's Organisation and a communist, Alex La Guma was charged with treason, banned, lived under house arrest, and ultimately forced into    More >

Divided Country: The History of South African Cricket Retold, Volume 2, 1914–1950s
André Odendaal, Krish Reddy, and Christopher Merrett

When the Proteas play today, they bat for all South African cricketers—but there were once seven different cricket associations, each claiming to be to be    More >

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