BOOKS

Falcon Brigade: Combat and Command in Somalia and Haiti
Colonel Lawrence E. Casper, USA Ret.

Col. Lawrence E. Casper (U.S. Army-Ret.) narrates the first documented account by a military officer of the harrowing US operations in Somalia and Haiti. As commander of the Falcon Brigade,    More >

Family Matters: Family Cohesion, Values, and Wellbeing (South African Social Attitudes Survey)
Zitha Mokomane, Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig, and Steven Gordon

There has been considerable controversy and debate in South Africa (and elsewhere) in recent years over an apparent crisis of the family, including appeals for a return to    More >

Famine, Conflict and Response:  A Basic Guide
Frederick C. Cuny, with Richard B. Hill

Famine, Conflict, and Response is a practical guide to finding lasting solutions for famine and world hunger. Frederick Cuny's innovative economic approach to countering famine revolves    More >

Farmers' Experiments: Creating Local Knowledge
James Sumberg and Christine Okali

Over the last two decades, growing interest in greater farmer participation in formal agricultural research has had major implications both for investment priorities and for models of    More >

Fate of a Cockroach and Other Plays
Tawfiq al-Hakim, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies

Includes The Song of Death, The Sultan's Dilemma, and Not a Thing Out of Place, as well as the title play, an absurdist comedy.    More >

Fatima Meer
Shireen Hassim

Fatima Meer, a South African academic, public intellectual, and activist, was a tireless fighter for social justice and human rights—for which she variously suffered banning and    More >

Fear, Justice, and Modern True Crime
Dawn K. Cecil

For centuries, people have been drawn to true stories of crime and the justice system. But what began primarily as a literary genre focusing on murder has evolved. From docuseries and    More >

Feeding the Market: South American Farmers, Trade and Globalization
Jon Hellin and Sophie Higman

Based on extensive fieldwork from the sweeping grasslands of Patagonia to the coffee farms of Ecuador, the authors illustrate the practical obstacles that farmers face in accessing markets,    More >

Fellowships in International Affairs: A Guide to Opportunities in the United States and Abroad
Women in International Security

At a time of increasingly intense competition for research opportunities and access to careers in international affairs, Fellowships in International Affairs is an indispensable directory of    More >

Female Circumcision in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and Change
Bettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund, editors

Though the issue of female genital cutting, or "circumcision," has become a nexus for debates on cultural relativism, human rights, patriarchal oppression, racism, and Western    More >

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