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Arditti R, Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 235pp. ISBN: 0–520–21570–2. $17.95. http://www.ucpress.edu

McGee Deutsch S, Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil and Chile 1890–1939. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 491pp. ISBN: 0–8047–3208–6. $60.00. http://www.sup.org

McGuire J, Peronism without Perón: Unions, Parties and Democracy in Argentina. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. 388pp. ISBN: 0–8047–3655–3. $60.00. http://www.sup.org

Bystydzienski JM & J Sekhon (eds), Democratisation and Women's Grassroots Movements. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999. 528pp. ISBN: 0–253–21279–0. $19.95. http://www.indiana.edu/‐iupress

Calland R (ed.), The First 5 Years: A Review of South Africa's Democratic Parliament . Cape Town: Idasa. 1999.120pp. ISBN: 1–874864–95–0. R89.95. http://www.idasa.org.za

Chao S (ed.), Ghana: Gender Analysis and Policymaking for Development. Washington: The World Bank, 1999. 72pp. ISBN: 0–8213–4530–3. $22.00. http://www.worldbank.org

Dunne T & NJ Wheeler, Human Rights in Global Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 337pp. ISBN: 0–521–64643‐X. $24.95. http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk

Eban A, Diplomacy for the Next Century. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. 191pp. ISBN: 0–300–07860–9. $11.95. http://www.yale.edu/yup

Edelman M, Peasants Against Globalisation: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.308pp. ISBN: 0–8047–3693–6. $22.95. http://www.sup.org

Monga C, The Anthropology of Anger: Civil Society and Democracy in Africa. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998. 219pp. ISBN: 1–55587–841–5. $19.95. http://rienner.com

Europa Publications, The European Union Encyclopedia and Directory 1999 , 3rd edition. London: Europa Publications, 1999. 520pp. ISBN: 1–85743–056–5. £245.00. http://www.europapublications.net

Gewertz DB & FK Errington, Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea: The Telling of Difference. Cambridge University Press, 1999. 177pp. ISBN 0–521–65567–6. £13.95. http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk

Gibson CC, Politicians and Poachers: The Political Economy of Wildlife Policy in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 244pp. ISBN: 0–521–66378–4. £14.95. http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk

Mortimore M, Roots in the African Dust: Sustaining the Drylands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.219pp. ISBN: 0–521–45785–8. $22.95. http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk

Schmidt R, Berry JK & JC Gordon (eds), Creating National Strategies: Forests to Fight Poverty. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 200pp. ISBN: 0–300–07845–5. $15. http://www.yale.edu/yup

Granich R & J Mermin, HIV, Health and Your Community. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 245pp. ISBN: 0–8047–3351–1. $14.95. http://www.sup.org

Jackson H, Kerkhoven R, Lindesy D, Mutangadura G & F Nhara, HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa: The Threat to Development. Harare and London: Southern African AIDS Information Dissemination Service and the Catholic Institute for International Relations, 1999. 63pp. ISBN: 1852872187. £2.50. http://www.safaids.org

Mutangadura G, Mukurazita D & H Jackson, A Review of Household and Community Responses to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the Rural Areas of Sub‐Saharan Africa. Geneva: UNAIDS, 1999. 62pp. Available in full text as PDF file on www.unaids.org/publications/documents/economics/index.html #agriculture.

World Bank, Confronting AIDS: Public Priorities in a Global Epidemic, revised edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the World Bank, European Commission, and UNAIDS, 1999.365pp. ISBN: 0–19–521591–5. $30. http://www.worldbank.org

World Bank, Africa Region, Intensifying Action Against HIV/AIDS in Africa: Responding to a Development Crisis. Washington: World Bank, 2000. 89 pp. ISBN: 0–8213–4572–9. $12. http://www.worldbank.org

Hoe S & D Roebuck, The Taking of Hong Kong: Charles and Clara Elliot in China Waters Richmond: Curzon Press, 1999.290pp. ISBN: 0–7007–1145–7. £35. http://www.curzonpress.co.uk

Madely J, Big Business Poor Peoples: The Impact of Transnational Corporations on the World's Poor. London: Zed Books, 1999.206pp. ISBN: 1–85649–672–4. $19.95. http://www.zedbooks.demon.co.uk

Seligson MA & JT Passé‐Smith (eds), Development and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Global Inequality. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998.469pp. ISBN: 1–55587–794‐X. $23.50. http://rienner.com.

Maisels K & B Trisk, A Life at Law: The Memoirs of IA Maisels, QC. Johannesburg:Jonathan Ball Publishers, 1998.338pp. ISBN 1–86842–065–5. R129. http://www.boekenet.com/jball.html

Margo C, Final Postponement: Reminiscences of a Crowded Life. Jeppestown: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 1998. 298pp. ISBN: 1–86842–071‐X. R120. http://www.boekenet.com/jball.html

Mies M, Patriarchy & Accumulation on a World Scale — Women in the International Division of Labour. London: Zed Books, 1998. 250pp. ISBN: 1–85649–735–6. $22.50. http://www.zedbooks.demon.co.uk

Nurnberger K, Beyond Marx and Market: Outwards of a Century of Economic Experimentation. London: Cluster Publications and Zed Books, 1998. 274pp. ISBN: 1–85649–648–1. http://www.zedbooks.demon.co.uk

Mkandawire T & CC Soludo, Our Continent, Our Future: African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment . Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 1999. 176pp. ISBN: 0–86543–705‐X. $21–95. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African‐studies/codesria.html

Thomas C & P Wilkin (eds), Globalisation, Human Security & the African Experience. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1999. 209pp. ISBN 1–55587–699–4. $49.95. http://rienner.com

Sheth VS (ed), Globalisation and the Third World State. Mumbai: Somaiya Publications Pvt. Ltd., 1999. 128pp. ISBN: 81–7039–239‐X. $9. http://www.somaiya.com

United Nations Environmental Programme, Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries. Nairobi: UNEP/UNDP Joint Project on Environmental Law and Institutions in Africa, 1996–98. 8 Volumes and Supplement. $50.00. http://www.unep.org

Watson JL (ed.), Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. 256pp. ISBN: 0–8047–3207–8. $16.95. http://www.sup.org

Welsh, David, Tony Leon: Hope and Fear? Reflections of A Democrat. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 1998.282pp. ISBN: 1–86842–070–1. R99.95. http://www.boekenet.com/jball.html

World Bank, World Bank Atlas, 1999. Washington DC: World Bank, 1999. 63pp. ISBN: 0–8213–4377–7. $20. http://www.worldbank.org

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