Wringing Success from Failure in Late-Developing Countries: Lessons from the Field by Joseph F. Stepanek (Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut, US; 1999 264 pp; $59.95)
The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity, and Growth: Nigeria and Indonesia by David Bevan, Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK [for the World Bank, Washington, DC, US]; 1999; 432 pp; $60)
African Entrepreneurship: Theory and Reality, eds. Anita Spring and Barbara E. Mcdade (University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, US; 1998; 320 pp; $49.95)
Microfinance Handbook: An Institutional and Financial Perspective by Joanna Ledgerwood (World Bank, Washington, DC, US; 1998; 302 pp; $30)
Famine in Africa: Causes, Responses and Prevention by Joachim von Braun, Tesfaye Teklu and Patrick Webb (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, US [for the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, US]; 1999; 218 pp; $39)
Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective by Michael Bratton and Nicholas Van de Walle (Cambridge University Press, New York; 1997; 307 pp; hc $59.95, pb $19.95)
Multi-Party Politics in Kenya: The Kenyatta and Moi States and the Triumph of the System in the 1992 Election by David Throup and Charles Hornsby (James Currey, Oxford, UK; 660 pp; 1998; hc $59.95, pb $29.95)
The African State at a Critical Juncture: Between Disintegration and Reconfiguration, eds. Leonardo Villalón and Phillip Huxtable (Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, Colorado, US; 1997; 360 pp; hc $65, pb $22)
Peacemaking and Peacekeeping for the New Century, eds. Olara Otunnu and Michael W. Doyle (Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, US; 1998; 352 pp; hc $65, pb $23.95)
The Foresaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced, eds. Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng (Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, US; 1998; hc $52.95, pb $22.95)
Learning from Somalia: The Lessons of Armed Humanitarian Intervention, eds. Walter Clarke and Jeffrey Herbst (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, US; 1997; 288 pp; $75 hc, $26 pb)
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden (The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York; 1999; 386 pp; $24). A detailed account of the 1993 pitched battle between US troops and Mogadishu residents, an incident which subsequently led to a sea change in the UN Security Council's readiness to deploy peace-keeping operations.
The New Africa: Dispatches from a Changing Continent by Robert M. Press, photographs by Betty Press (University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, US; 1999; 358 pp; $24.95)
Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa by Karl Maier (John Wiley, New York, US; 1998; 278 pp; $24.95)
Capacity Building in Developing Countries: Human and Environmental Dimensions, ed. Valentine Udoh James (Praeger, Westport, Connecticut, US; 1998; 344 pp; $75)
The North African Environment at Risk, eds. Will D. Swearingen and Abdellatif Bencherifa (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, US; 1998; 304 pp; $26)
Woman between Two Worlds: Portrait of an Ethiopian Rural Leader by Judith Olmstead (University of Illinois Press, Champaign, Illinois, US; 1997; $256 pp; hc $39.95, pb $19.95)
Women at the Crossroads: A Prostitute Community's Response to AIDS in Urban Senegal by Michelle Lewis Renaud (Gordon and Breach Publishers, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 1997; $21)
Economic Crisis and Political Change in North Africa, ed. Azzedine Layachi (Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut, US; 1998; 192 pp; $55)
South Africa in Southern Africa: Reconfiguring the Region, ed. David Simon (Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, US; 1998; 259 pp; hc $44.95, pb $22.95)
The United States and the Horn of Africa: An Analytical
Study of Pattern and Process by Okbazghi Yohannes (Westview
Press, boulder, Colorado, US; 1997; 368 pp; $79)
