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BOOKS RECEIVED

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Africa Spectrum 48 (2), 2013. Hamburg: German Institute of Global and Area Studies. No price reported. Paper.

Ackerman, Bruce. The Civil Rights Revolution. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2014. $35.00. Cloth.

Cheney-Coker, Syl. Sacred River: A Novel. Modern African Writing Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. $29.95. Cloth.

Clements, Benedict, et al., eds. Energy Subsidy Reform: Lessons and Implications. Washington, D.C.: IMF Publication Services, 2013. vii + 184 pp. $28.00. Paper.

Cobley, Alan, and Victor C. Simpson, eds. Trajectories of Freedom: Caribbean Societies, 1807–2007. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2013. $30.00. Paper.

Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Madman of Piney Woods. New York: Scholastic Press, 2014. $16.99. Paper.

Davies, Carole Boyce. Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2013. $28.00. Paper.

du Toit, Cornel W., ed. Chance, Causality, Emergence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. South African Science and Religon Forum, vol. 16. Johannesburg: Unisa Press, 2013. No price reported. Paper.

Evaristo, Bernardine. Mr. Loverman, A Novel. New York: Akashic Books, 2014. $15.95. Paper.

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena. The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2014. $39.95. Cloth.

Gohrisch, Jana, and Ellen Grunkemeier, eds. Postcolonial Studies across the Disciplines. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. $128.80. Cloth.

Guasco, Micahel. Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. $45.00. Cloth.

Humphries, John. Search for the Nile’s Source: The Ruined Reputation of John Petherick, Nineteenth-Century Welsh Explorer. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013. Distributed in the U.S. by University of Chicago Press. $30.00. Paper.

Ijatuyi-Morphe, Randee. Africa’s Social and Religious Quest: A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis of the African Situation. Religion, Anthropology, and the Bible in Africa (RABA). Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2014. $60.99. Paper.

Marshall, Woodville. From Plantations to University Campus: The Social History of Cave Hill, Barbados. Kingston, Jamaica: University of West Indies Press, 2013. No price reported. Paper.

Naivoharisoa, Patrick Ramamonjisoa. Au-delà des rizières. Paris: Sepia, 2012. €18.00. Paper.

Ndounou, Monica White. Shaping the Future of African American Film: Color-Coded Economics and the Story Behind the Numbers. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2014. $27.95. Paper.

Neumeier, Beate, and Kay Schaffer, eds. Decolonizing the Landscape: Indigenous Cultures in Australia. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014. €70.00. Cloth.

Nunez, Elizabeth. Not for Everyday Use. New York: Akashic Books, 2014. $15.95. Paper.

Ogbaa, Kalu. Carrying My Father’s Torch: A Memoir. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2014. $35.00. Cloth.

Owusu-Ansah, David. Historical Dictionary of Ghana. 4th edition. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. $125.00. Cloth.

Peekash Press, ed. Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean. New York: Akashic Books and Peepal Tree Press, 2014. $15.95. Paper.

Stanley, Henry Morton. Adventurers of an American Traveller in Turkey. Edited by M. Leduc-Grimaldi, and J. L. Newman. Belgium: Royal Museum for Central Africa, 2013. No price reported. Paper.

Sullivan, Louis W., with David Chanoff. Breaking Ground: My Life in Medicine. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014. $29.95. Cloth.

wa Ngugi, Wanjiku. The Fall of Saints. New York: Atria Books, 2014. $24.00. Cloth.

Walcott, Derek. The Journeyman Years: Occasional Prose 1957–1974. Edited by Gordon Collier. Rodopi: Amsterdam, 2013. Volume 1: $175.00. Volume 2: $168.00. Cloth.