Oxford University Press

The worldwide Islamic revival is working important changes in both government and society in Africa. As yet, however, this powerful international movement has received little scholarly attention in its African setting. The authors draw on extensive fieldwork as well as primary and secondary sources to analyze the role of Islam in sub-Saharan...

Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available        in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at Univesity College        London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the        relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloquium...

This vital book is a comparative study of the social policies and professional practices that frame societal responses to the problems of child maltreatment in ten countries....

Case, Cody, and Ezcurra are very highly respected ecologists and field biologists. The first edition of this book, nearly 20 years ago, sold about 5000 copies, and has been out of print for some years. Long-term studies have continued, giving a much richer understanding of the underlying processes of population dynamics and succession, and the...

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