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  • ABD-ALLAH WYMANN-LANDGRAF, UMAR F.: Mālik and Medina: Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period. (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts.) xiv, 552 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2013. ISBN 978 90 04 21140 7.

  • ACHCAR, GILBERT: The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising. 358 pp. London: Saqi Books, 2013. ISBN 978 0 86356 899 2.

  • AGAI, BEKIM, AKYILDIZ, OLCAY and HILLEBRAND, CASPAR (eds): Venturing beyond Borders – Reflections on Genre, Function and Boundaries in Middle Eastern Travel Writing. (Istanbuler Texte und Studien.) 264 pp. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2013. €59. ISBN 978 3 89913 977 9.

  • AL-QUḌĀʿĪ, AL-QĀḌĪ (ed. Qutbuddin, Tahera): A Treasury of Virtues: Sayings, Sermons and Teachings of ʿAli with the One Hundred Proverbs attributed to Al-Jāḥiẓ. (Library of Arabic Literature.) xxxviii, 272 pp. New York: New York University Press, 2013. $35. ISBN 978 0 8147 2914 4.

  • AL-SHĀFIʿĪ (ed. LOWRY, JOSEPH): The Epistle on Legal Theory. (Library of Arabic Literatures.) xl, 504 pp. New York: New York University Press, 2013. $40. ISBN 978 0 8147 6998 0.

  • AZARNOUCHE, SAMRA (ed.): Khosrow fils de Kawād et un page. (Studia Iranica.) 211 pp. Paris: Association pour l'avancement des Etudes iraniennes, 2013. ISBN 978 2 910640 35 4.

  • BECHERT, HEINZ (ed. Steinkellner, Ernst): Der Buddhismus in Süd- und Südostasien: Geschichte und Gegenwart. 307 pp. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2013. €36.90. ISBN 978 3 17 022429 2.

  • BHATTACHARYA, DIPAK: Paippalāda-Saṃhitā of the Atharvaveda. Volume-Three. cxxviii, Kolkata: The Asiatic Society, 2011. Rs. 400. ISBN 978 81 922195 2 3.

  • BORDO, MICHAEL D. and ROBERDS, WILLIAM (eds): The Origins, History, and Future of the Federal Reserve: A Return to Jekyll Island. xix, 431 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £65. ISBN 978 1 107 01372 8.

  • BOSE, SUMANTRA: Transforming India: Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy. viii, 322 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2013. £25. ISBN 978 0 674 05066 2.

  • BUESCHER, BRAM: Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa. xx, 290 pp. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2013. £17.99. ISBN 978 0 8223 5420 8.

  • CHENG, EILEEN J.: Literary Remains: Death, Trauma, and Lu Xun's Refusal to Mourn. xi, 313 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2013. $54. ISBN 978 0 8248 3595 8.

  • CHOU, EVA SHAN: Memory, Violence, Queues: Lu Xun Interprets China. (Asia Past and Present.) viii, 333 pp. Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2012. ISBN 978 092430468 2.

  • ÇIPA, H. ERDAM and FETVACI, EMİNE (eds): Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future. xv, 181 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013. £16.99. ISBN 978 0 253 00864 0.

  • CONSTABLE, ANTHONY R. and FACEY, WILLIAM (eds): The Principles of Arab Navigation. xiv, 146 pp. London: Arabian Publishing, 2013. £35. ISBN 978 0957 106017.

  • COOLEY, JEFFREY L.: Poetic Astronomy in the Ancient Near East: The Reflexes of Celestial Science in Ancient Mesopotamia, Ugaritic, and Israelite Narrative. (History, Archaeology, and Culture of the Levant.) ix, 396 pp. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013. $54.50. ISBN 978 1 57506 262 4.

  • DANNREUTHER, ROLAND: International Security: The Contemporary Agenda. (Second edition.) vii, 336 pp. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity, 2013. £18.99. ISBN 978 0 7456 5377 8.

  • DAVIN, DELIA: Mao: A Very Short Introduction. (Very Short Introductions.) xviii, 142 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £7.99. ISBN 978 0 19 958866 4.

  • DÉCOBERT, CHRISTIAN, EMPEREUR, JEAN-YVES nd PICARD, CHRISTOPHE (eds): Alexandrie médiévale 4. (Études Alexandrines.) 263 pp. Alexandria: CNRS, Centre d'Études Alexandrines, 2011. ISBN 978 2111 28614 6.

  • DEVJI, FAISAL: Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea. vii, 278 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2013. £20. ISBN 978 1 84904 276 5.

  • DOYLE, SHANE: Before HIV: Sexuality, Fertility and Mortality in East Africa 1900–1980. xv, 436 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2013. £33.95. ISBN 978 0 19 726533 8.

  • DROGE, A.J.: The Qur’ān: A New Annotated Translation. (Comparative Islamic Studies.) lxii, 487 pp. Sheffield: Equinox, 2013. £24.99. ISBN 978 1 84553 945 0.

  • ELTSCHINGER, VINCENT and RATIÉ, ISABELLE: Self, No-Self, and Salvation: Dharmakīrti's Critique of the Notions of Self and Person. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte, 837. Band. Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens.) xiii, 382 pp. Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2013. ISBN 978 3 7001 7303 8.

  • EVANS, MARK: Security Arabic. (Essential Middle Eastern Vocabularies.) viii, 109 pp., CD. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. £12.99. ISBN 978 0 7846 4661 6.

  • FANCY, NAHYAN: Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn al-Nafīs, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection. (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East.) xiii, 186 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. £80. ISBN 978 0 415 62200 4.

  • FAROQHI, SURAIYA N. and FLEET, KATE (eds): The Cambridge History of Turkey. Volume 2. The Ottoman Empire as a World Power, (1453–1603). xxv, 697 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £120. ISBN 978 0 521 62094 9.

  • FETVACI, EMİNE: Picturing History at the Ottoman Court. xi, 316 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013. £33. ISBN 978 0 253 00678 3.

  • FRANCIS, EMMANUEL: Le discours royal dans l'Inde du Sud ancienne: Inscriptions et Monuments pallava (IVème–IXème siècles). Tome I. (Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain.) xli, 319 pp. Louvain: Université catholique de Louvain, 2013. ISBN 978 90 429 2688 2.

  • FRY, DOUGLAS P.: War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultured Views. xviii, 562 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. £60. ISBN 978 0 19 985899 6.

  • GENEQUAND, DENIS: Les établissements des élites omeyyades en Palmyrène et au Proche-Orient. (Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique.) xviii, 461 pp. Beirut: ifpo, 2012. ISBN 978 2351 593 80 6.

  • GERRARD, MICHAEL B. and WANNIER, GREGORY E. (eds): Threatened Island Nations: Legal Implications of Rising Seas and a Changing Climate. xix, 637 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £80. ISBN 978 1 107 02576 9.

  • GOKULSING, K. MOTI and DISSANAYAKE, WIMAL (eds): Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas. (Routledge Handbooks.) xv, 470 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. £120. ISBN 978 0 415 67774 5.

  • GOODALL, D. and RASTELLI, M. (eds): Tāntrikābhidhānakośa III: Ṭ–PH. A Dictionary of Technical Terms from Hindu Tantric Literature. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte.) 599 pp. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2013. €79. ISBN 978 3 7001 7337 3.

  • HE, YUMING: Home and the World: Editing the “Glorious Ming” in Woodblock-Printed Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. xiv, 343 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013. £29.95. ISBN 978 0 674 06680 9.

  • HELD, DAVID, ROGER, CHARLES and NAG, EVA-MARIA: Climate Governance in the Developing World. xix, 284 pp. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2013. £17.99. ISBN 978 0 7456 6277 0.

  • HERTOG, STEFFEN, LUCIANI, GIACOMO and VALERI, MARC (eds): Business Politics in the Middle East. viii, 377 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2013. £25. ISBN 978 1 84904 235 2.

  • HEYBERGER, BERNARD (trans. Champion, Renée): Hindiyya, Mystic and Criminal, 1720–1798: A Political and Religious Crisis in Lebanon. xiv, 322 pp. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2013. £25. ISBN 978 0 227 17388 6.

  • HEYWOOD, COLIN: The Ottoman World, the Mediterranean and North Africa, 1660–1760. (Variorum Collected Studies Series.) x, 312 pp. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. £90. ISBN 978 1 4094 6482 2.

  • HOGAN, EDMUND M.: Cross and Scalpel: Jean-Marie Coquard among the Egba of Yorubaland. xxv, 508 pp. Ibadan: HEBN Publishers, 2012. ISBN 978 978 081 287 4.

  • HOPKINS, BENJAMIN D. and MARSDEN, MAGNUS (eds): Beyond Swat; History, Society and Economy along the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier. xv, 365 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2013. £39.99. ISBN 978 1 84904 206 2.

  • HUGHES, AARON W.: Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam. xvi, 310 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. £20.50. ISBN 978 0 231 16147 3.

  • HUI, KEITH K.C.: Helmsman Ruler: China's Pragmatic Version of Plato's Ideal Political Succession System in The Republic. ix, 159 pp. Singapore: Trafford Publishing, 2013. ISBN 978 1 4669 3529 7.

  • HUMPHREY, CAROLINE and UJEED, HÜRELBAATAR: A Monastery in Time: The Making of Mongolian Buddhism. xiii, 426 pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. £21. ISBN 978 0 226 03190 3.

  • HUSSAIN, DELWAR: Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh–India Border. xxiii, 187 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2013. £20. ISBN 978 1 84904 232 1.

  • IQBAL, MUHAMMAD (with a new introduction by MAJEED, JAVED): The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. (Encountering Traditions.) xlvi, 277 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978 0 8047 8147 3.

  • JEYARAJ, DANIEL and YOUNG, RICHARD FOX (trans.): Hindu–Christian Epistolary Self-Disclosures: “Malabarian Correspondence” between German Pietist Missionaries and South Indian Hindus (1712–1714). (Documents on the History of Christianity in Asia, Africa and Latin America.) xvi, 349 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013. ISBN 978 3 447 06844 4.

  • JIWA, SHAINOOL (trans.): The Founder of Cairo: The Fatimid Imam-Caliph al-Muʿizz and His Era: An English Translation of the Text on al-Muʿizz from Idris ʿImād al-Din's ʿUyūn al-akhbar. (Ismaili Texts and Translations Series.) xii, 291 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2013. ISBN 978 1 78076 528 0.

  • JONES, CLIVE and PETERSEN, TORE T. (eds): Israel's Clandestine Diplomacies. xiii, 308 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2013. £35. ISBN 978 1 84904 233 8.

  • JONES, LINDA G.: The Power of Oratory in the Medieval Muslim World. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xi, 298 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. £60. ISBN 978 1 107 02305 5.

  • KANE, ABDOULAYE and LEEDY, TODD H. (eds): African Migrations: Patterns and Perspectives. xi, 301 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Pess, 2013. £21.99. ISBN 978 0 253 00576 2.

  • KEUL, ISTVÁN (ed.): “Yoginī” in South Asia: Interdisciplinary Approaches. (Routledge Studies in Asia Religion and Philosophy.) xv, 237 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. £85. ISBN 978 0 415 62522 7.

  • KITIARSA, PATTANA: Mediums, Monks and Amulets: Thai Popular Buddhism Today. xxi, 170 pp. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Press (in association with University of Washington Press), 2013. £19.99. ISBN 978 616 215 049 4.

  • KLEIN, JARED S. and YOSHIDA, KAZUHIKO (eds): Indic across the Millennia; From the Rigveda to Modern Indo-Aryan. 14th World Sanskrit Conference, Kyoto, Japan, September 1st–5th, 2009. Proceedings of the Linguistic Section. viii, 249 pp. Bremen: Hempen Verlag, 2012. €44. ISBN 978 3 934106 05 5.

  • KLOSE, FABIAN: Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence: The Wars of Independence in Kenya and Algeria. (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights.) xvii, 365 pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. £58.50. ISBN 978 0 8122 4495 3.

  • KÖHLER, MICHAEL A.: Alliances and Treaties between Frankish and Muslim Rulers in the Middle East: Cross-Cultural Diplomacy in the Period of the Crusades. (The Muslim World in the Age of the Crusades.) xv, 368 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2013. €130. ISBN 978 90 04 24857 1.

  • LEFÈVRE, RAPHAËL: Ashes of Hama: The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria. xvi, 273 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2013. £30. ISBN 978 1 84904 285 7.

  • LUNDY, BRANDON D. and NEGASH, SOLOMON: Teaching Africa: A Guide for the 21st Century Classroom. viii, 299 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013. £22.99. ISBN 978 0 253 00 821 3.

  • LUUKKO, MIKKO: The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud. (State Archives of Assyria. The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project.) lxxiv, 287 pp., 3 plates. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project and the Foundation for Finnish Assyriological Research, 2012. $89.50. ISBN 978 952 10 1338 6.

  • MARÉCHAL, BRIGITTE and ZEMNI, SAMI (eds): The Dynamics of Sunni–Shia Relationships: Doctrine, Transnationalism, Intellectuals and the Media. vi, 355 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2013. £39.99. ISBN 978 1 84904 217 8.

  • MARTÍ TORMO, VICENTE and CAMARA, INDALECIO LIZANO: Al-kaššāf: Enseñanza y aprendizaje del árabe como segunda lengua: manual bibliográfico para profesores e investigadores. 382 pp. Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2012. ISBN 978 84 338 5443 8.

  • MATTHEE, RUDI, FLOOR, WILLEM and CLAWSON, PATRICK: The Monetary History of Iran: from the Safavids to the Qajars. xxx, 290 pp. London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2013. £45. ISBN 978 1 78076 079 7.

  • MCMILLAN, M.E.: Fathers and Sons: The Rise and Fall of Political Dynasty in the Middle East. xi, 211 pp. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. £57.50. ISBN 978 1 137 30811 5.

  • MEGORAN, NICK and SHARAPOVA, SEVARA (eds): Central Asia in International Relations: The Legacies of Halford Mackinder. xvi, 331 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2013. £45. ISBN 978 1 84904 243 7.

  • MOORE, AARON WILLIAMS: Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire. vii, 378 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2013. £33.95. ISBN 978 0 674 05906 1.

  • MOUTU, ANDREW: Names are Thicker than Blood: Kinship and Ownership amongst the Iatmul. x, 218 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £60. ISBN 978 0 19 726445 4.

  • MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR: The Rumor of Globalization: Desecrating the Global from Vernacular Margins. x, 217 pp. London: Hurst & Co., 2013. £20. ISBN 978 1 84904 141 6.

  • MUMFORD, ANDREW: Proxy Warfare. (War and Conflict in the Modern World.) ix, 141 pp. Oxford: Polity, 2013. £14.99. ISBN 978 0 7456 5119 4.

  • NORMAN, JERRY: A Comprehensive Manchu–English Dictionary. xxvi, 418 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center (distributed by Harvard University Press), 2013. £33.95. ISBN 978 0 674 07213 8.

  • PAIMAN, ZAFAR and ALRAM, MICHAEL: The Tepe Narenj Buddhist Monastery at Kabul. Buddhist Art during the First Muslim Raids against the Town. (Collège de France. Publications de l'Institut de Civilisations Indienne.) 154 pp. Paris: Collège de France, 2013. ISBN 978 2 86803 082 5.

  • PATEL, ABDULRAZZAK: The Arab Nahḍah: The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist Movement. (Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature.) xii, 259 pp. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. ISBN 978 0 7486 4069 0.

  • PETRY, CARL F.: The Criminal Underworld in a Medieval Islamic Society; Narratives from Cairo and Damascus under the Mamluks. (Chicago Studies on the Middle East.) viii, 365 pp. Chicago: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Chicago, 2012. ISBN 978 0 9708199 8 7.

  • RAMBELLI, FABIO and REINDERS, ERIC: Buddhism and Iconoclasm in East Asia: A History. xvi, 247 pp. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. £65. ISBN 978 1 4411 4509 3.

  • ROBERTS, ALLEN F.: A Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo. xii, 312 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013. ISBN 978 0 253 00750 6.

  • ROCHER, ROSANE and ROCHER, LUDO: Founders of Western Indology: August Wilhelm von Schlegel and Henry Thomas Colebrook in Correspondence 1820–1837. (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes.) xv, 205 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013. ISBN 978 3 447 06878 9.

  • ROSSABI, MORRIS (ed.): Eurasian Influences on Yuan China. (Nalanda-Sriwjaya Series.) xviii, 234 pp. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2013. $49.90. ISBN 978 981 4459 72 3.

  • ROTBERG, ROBERT I.: Africa Emerges. viii, 269 pp. Oxford: Polity, 2013. £55. ISBN 978 0 7456 6162 9.

  • SADEGHI, BEHNAM: The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xxi, 215 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £60. ISBN 978 1 107 00909 7.

  • SCHEID, BERNHARD with NAKAI, KATE WILDMAN (eds): Kami Ways in Nationalist Territory: Shinto Studies in Prewar Japan and the West. xi, 277 pp. Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2013. €52.80. ISBN 978 3 7001 7400 4.

  • SCHROEDER, RICHARD A.: Africa after Apartheid: South Africa, Race, and Nation in Tanzania. xviii, 227 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013. £17.99. ISBN 978 0 253 00600 4.

  • SIEBERTZ, ROMAN: Preise, Löhne und Lebensstandard im safavidischen Iran: Eine Untersuchung zu den Rechnungsbüchern Wollebrand Geleynssen de Jonghs (1641–1643). (Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik.) 143 pp. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2013. €37.50. ISBN 978 3 7001 7263 5.

  • SISK, TIMOTHY: Statebuilding. (War and Conflict in the Modern World.) xiv, 215 pp. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity, 2013. £13.99. ISBN 978 0 7456 6159 9.

  • SLAJE, WALTER: Suum cuique. Zur ideengeschichtlichen Verankerung einiger indischer Gewalt-phänomene. (Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Klasse.) 54 pp. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur / Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. ISBN 978 3 515 10317 6.

  • SLAJE, WALTER: Trimūrti. Zur Verwandlung eines inklusivistischen Dominanzbegriffs in eine monotheistische Trinitätslehre. (Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Klasse.) 51 pp. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur / Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. ISBN 978 3 515 10318 3.

  • STEANS, JILL: Gender and International Relations. (Third edition.) vi, 294 pp. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2013. £17.99. ISBN 978 0 7456 6279 4.

  • STOLER, ANN LAURA (ed.): Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination. xi, 365 pp. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2013. £17.99. ISBN 978 0 8223 5348 5.

  • JONES, SUMIE with WATANABE, KENJI (eds): An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Mega-City, 1750–1850. xii, 515 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2013. $30. ISBN 978 0 8248 3740 2.

  • SUN, ANNA: Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities. xix, 244 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. £24.95. ISBN 978 0 691 15557 9.

  • SWAIN, SIMON: Economy, Family, and Society from Rome to Islam: A Critical Edition, English Translation, and Study of Bryson's Management of the Estate. xiii, 573 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. £100. ISBN 978 1 107 02536 3.

  • TURNER, JOHN P.: Inquisitions in Early Islam: The Competition for Political and Religious Authority in the Abbasid Empire. xi, 228 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013. ISBN 978 1 78076 164 0.

  • TURNER, THOMAS: Congo. xix, 240 pp. Oxford: Polity, 2013. £15.99. ISBN 978 0 7456 4844 6.

  • TUTTLE, GRAY and SCHAEFFER, KURTIS R. (eds): The Tibetan History Reader. xxvi, 720 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. £27.50. ISBN 978 0 231 14469 8.

  • UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT: Economic Development in Africa. Report 2012. Structural Transformation and Sustainable Development in Africa. ix, 149 pp. New York and Geneva: United Nations, 2012. ISBN 978 92 1 112853 6.

  • WEISS, THOMAS G.: Global Governance: Why? What? Whither? xvi, 225 pp. Oxford and Malden, MA: Polity, 2013. £16.99. ISBN 978 0 7456 6046 2.

  • WOODS, SHELTON: The Story of Việt Nam from Prehistory to the Present. (Key Issues in Asian Studies.) xxi, 96 pp. Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies, 2013. ISBN 978 0 924304 71 2.

  • YANG, CHIA-LING and WHITFIELD, RODERICK (eds): Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture. (Saffron Asian Art and Society Series.) 312 pp. London: Saffron Books, EAP, 2012. ISBN 978 1 872843 37 7.

  • YULE, HENRY and BURNELL, A.C.: Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India. xlv, 570 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £14.99. ISBN 978 0 19 960113 4.