Eva Salzman is a New Yorker, but such is the universal catchment area of her poetry that her living and writing in Britain does not make her either an American or a British poet. conditioning of lives at the hands of the gods. The book includes poems about uncompromising subjects - the destroyed Afghan Buddhas, the unreliability of memory and the Brooklyn Bridge. Another section of the book is made up of runic verses composed in and around music, using her ability to bring to the assembling of poetry some of the sense she has of the way music is put together.

Analysing how water development projects unfolded in five rural communities in Mozambique, Emily Van Houweling offers an alternative perspective on water and the politicised nature of water management in the region. Using a hydro-social cycle framework, she demonstrates how water is tied to everyday life in matrilineal Nampula and how social relations, gender roles, and local politics were reconfigured during the project. While centring the experience of community members, Van Houweling also includes the perspectives of project implementers, showing how project plans were translated and negotiated as they worked their way down to the community. Employing the concept of organisational culture, Van Houweling reveals the tensions that resulted from different actors' decision-making processes and motivations, and illuminates possible explanations for the gaps between policy and practice. Exploring women's empowerment, community ownership, and participation, this book facilitates innovative ways for thinking about evaluation, sustainability, and gender-water relations.

Derrida is one of those annoying geniuses you can take a class on, read half-a-dozen books by and still have no idea what he's talking about. Derrida's 'writing' is definitely confusing (it's like he's pulling the rug out from under the rug that he pulled out from under philosophy). But beneath the confusion, like the heartbeat of a bird in your hand, you can feel Derrida's electric genius. It draws you to it; you want to understand it...but it's so confusing. Jim Powell's Derrida For Beginners is the clearest explanation of Derrida and deconstruction presently available in our solar system. Powell guides us through blindingly obscure texts like Grammatology (Derrida's deconstruction of Saussure, Levi Strauss, Roussseau), "Differance" (his essay on language and life), Dissemination (his dismantling of Plato, his rap on Mallarme), along with his other masterpieces.