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Development Brokers and Translators: the Ethnography of Aid and Agencies

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Author: 
Lewis, David and David Mosse (eds.)
Publisher: 
Kumarian Press Inc., West Hartford, CT, 2006, ISBN:1-56549-217-X, 251 pp.
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Reviewed by Mariella Marzano University of Durham, UK

In English only

Issue: 
Volume 17, Number 2

Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting its Role

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Author: 
Barrett, Christopher B. and Maxwell,Daniel G.
Publisher: 
London and New York, Routledge, 2005, ISBN 0-415-70124-4 (hb) and 0-415-70125-2 (pb), 314 pp.
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Tony Jackson, Oxfam’s Food Aid Consultant 1979-83, and currently Great Lakes Policy Adviser, International Alert, London.

In English only
Issue: 
Volume 16, Number 5

Disaster Management and Civil Society: Earthquake Relief in Japan, Turkey and India

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Author: 
Özerdem, Alpaslan and Jacoby, Tim
Publisher: 
International Library of Postwar Reconstruction and Development no. 1, 2006, ISBN 1-84511-053-6, hbk, xiv+142 pp.
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David Alexander

University of Florence

In English only
Issue: 
Volume 16, Number 5

Reflections on Humanitarian Action: Principles, Ethics and Contradictions

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Author: 
Humanitarian Studies Unit (ed.)
Publisher: 
London: Pluto Books, 2001, ISBN: 0 7453 1726 X, 203 pp.
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Reviewed by Victor Tanner Independent consultant on the political repercussions of emergency programmes, Washington, DC

In English only

Issue: 
Volume 12, Numbers 3&4

Evaluating International Humanitarian Action

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Author: 
Wood, Adrian; Apthorpe, Raymond; Borton, John (Eds.)
Publisher: 
London: Zed Books, 2001, ISBN: 1 8564 9976 6, 224 pp.
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Reviewed by Michael N. Pedroni

Economist, Wrightson Associates LLC

In English only
Issue: 
Volume 12, Numbers 3&4
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