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LIT - Academic Publishing LIT Verlag has established itself as one of Germanys leading academic publishers. LIT publishing program presents a fast growing English language list. It offers original research, stimulating and innovative contributions to major academic disciplines. All titles are distributed in North America through well established American academic publishers. We kindly invite scholars to join our successful English language programme. contact: london@lit-verlag.de Catalogues Academic Books Seasonal catalogues: Anthropology African Studies Asian Studies East European Studies History Religion Geography Literay and Languages Education Philosophy Political Sciences Sociology Economics Law Anthropology	New Publications Resilience and Unemployment -- Asmund Aamaas, William J.F. Keenan, Clemens Sedmak, Linda van der Zijden (Eds.) Kenya Reconstructing? -- Roseline M. Achieng' Terrorism and Narrative Practice -- Thomas Austenfeld, Dimiter Daphinoff, Jens Herlth (Eds.) Bridging Urbanities -- Bettina Bauerfeind, Josefine Fokdal (Eds.) Prophetic Witness -- Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, Etienne de Villiers (Eds.) "All is Race" -- Simone Beate Borgstede The Regional Puzzle -- Christian B. Breuer Moving Images - Mobile Viewers: 20th Century Visuality -- Renate Brosch (Ed.) Security Sector Governance in Francophone West Africa: Realities and Opportunities -- Alan Bryden, Boubacar N'Diaye (Eds.) Gouvernance du secteur de la sécurité en Afrique de l'Ouest francophone : bilan et perspectives -- Alan Bryden, Boubacar N'Diaye (dir. publ.) Negotiating Retributive and Restorative Justice in Conflict Transformation Efforts -- Paul Bukuluki Creation and Salvation -- Ernst M. Conradie (Ed.) Gender and Rural Development -- Olanike F. Deji Le Mythe de l'Albinos dans les Récits Subsahariens Francophones -- Tsevi Dodounou Body Signs: The Latino/a Body in Cultural Production -- Astrid M. Fellner Reporting on International Political Conflicts -- Heinz-Dietrich Fischer Communicative Freedom -- Willem Fourie Peasants into European Farmers? -- Katy Fox Apocalypse Soon? -- Kornelia Freitag (Ed.) The Politics of Criminology -- Stratos Georgoulas The Multi-Level and Polycentric European Union -- Robert Grzeszczak, Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski (Eds.) Writing the Revolution -- Raphael Hörmann Floods and Farmers -- Pham Cong Huu Economic Emancipation -- Albert Okechukwu Ikpenwa Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Finno-Ugric Literatures -- Johanna Laakso, Johanna Domokos (Eds.) The Internationalization of Ayahuasca -- Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Henrik Jungaberle (Eds.) Exploring the Edge of Empire -- Florian Mühlfried, Sergey Sokolovskiy (Eds.) La théologie et l'éthique dans l'espace public -- Denis Müller Malaysia and the European Union -- Christoph Marcinkowski (Ed., in collaboration with Constance Chevallier-Govers and Ruhanas Harun) The Destroyed Synagogues of Vienna -- Bob Martens, Herbert Peter Gentrification and Resistance -- Laura Naegler Challenging the State in Africa -- Godwin Onuoha Hermeneutic Rationality. La rationalité herméneutique -- Maria Luísa Portocarrero, Luis António Umbelino, Andrzej Wiercinski (Eds.) Global Forces, Local Identity: The Economics of Cultural Diversity -- Aloys Prinz, Bert Steenge, Gert-Jan Hospers, Martin Langen (Eds.) Handbook of Micro Health Insurance in Africa -- Hans Jürgen Rösner, Gerald Leppert, Philipp Degens, Lisa-Marie Ouedraogo (Eds.) Redescriptions -- Nonkonformismus und europäische Religionsgeschichten. Nonconformism and European Histories of Religions -- Taizé -- Silvia Scatena Back to the Roots: Security Sector Reform and Development -- Albrecht Schnabel, Vanessa Farr (Eds.) Retrenchment in the American Welfare State -- Martin Schuldes Political Bodies and the Body Politic in J. M. Coetzee's Novels -- Roman Silvani Children's Rights: Experienced and Claimed -- Smiljana Simeunovic Frick (Ed.) Western Fictions, Black Realities -- Isabel Soto, Violet Showers Johnson (Eds.) Establishing the Revolutionary -- Birgit Staemmler, Ulrich Dehn (Eds.) Aging, Performance, and Stardom -- Aagje Swinnen, John A Stotesbury (Eds.) Unity in Diversity - Federalism as a Mechanism to Accommodate Ethnic Diversity: The Case of Ethiopia -- Christophe Van der Beken Racism and Modernity -- Iris Wigger, Sabine Ritter (Eds.) more...	Recommendation Andrea Fleschenberg, Claudia Derichs (Eds.) Women and Politics in Asia A Springboard for Democracy? Why study the nexus of gender, politics and democracy in Asia? What kind of democracy and political participation can we conceptualize and identify for this heterogeneous region? In the increasingly visible Asian context, which concepts, contexts, discourses and practices do we need to reflect upon most in order to understand the complex relationship between gender and democratic processes? The authors in this book engage with precisely these crucial questions, and do so by drawing on a variety of case studies covering India, Malaysia, Indonesia and Cambodia. more...	News / Events International Studies Association Convention New Orleans La, USA, February 17-20, 2010 More than 5000 attendees are expected at ISA's 51st annual convention. Mayor LIT title will be on display at the conference. Security Sector Reform in Challenging Environments Engaging antrohopology in development and social change: practices, discourses and ethics Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 20-23 January 2010 Euro-African Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development (APAD) En francais Major challenges of engaging anthropology are to reconnect theory and practical application, and to create a platform for dialogue between a theoretically oriented, empirically grounded anthropology, and an anthropology directly applied to development and social change. Inventer et mobiliser le local Inventing and Mobilising the Local American Anthropological Association December 2-6, 2009 Philadelphia, PA LIT presented its Anthropology list at the AAA. Anthropology African Studies Association November 19-22, 2009 New Orleans Marriott, New Orleans, LA LIT presented new title at the ASA meeting in New Orleans. African Studies The XVII International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Monday 2nd November 2009 in Addis Ababa. Ethiopian Studies Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) LIT presented new titles on security studies and political science at Europe's largest conference for political science in Potsdam 09.09.2009 Security Sector Reform in Challenging Environments