Research skills for policy and development how to find out fast / edited by Alan Thomas and Giles Mohan.

Table of Contents: “…Information needs and policy change / Stephen Potter & Ramaya Subrahmanian -- Boundaries for thinking and action / Chris Blackmore & Ray Ison -- Grabbing attention / Joseph Hanlon -- Communicating results / Joanna Chataway, Avril Joffe & Jill Mordaunt -- Interrogating information through a literature study / Stephanie Barrientos -- Interpreting institutional discourses / Bridget O'Laughlin -- People as informants / Philip Woodhouse -- Investigation as empowerment : using participatory methods / Linda Mayoux & Hazel Johnson -- Doing incorrect research : the importance of the subjective and the personal in researching poverty / Dina Abbott -- Thinking with quantitative data / Chandan Mukherjee & Marc Wuyts -- Using evidence in advocacy / Sue Mayer -- Organizational assessment and institutional footprints / Chris Roche -- Challenging cases / Alan Thomas.…”

Security studies a reader

Table of Contents: “…Ann Tickner -- The Third World and security studies / Amitav Acharya -- Redefining security (2) / Jessica Tuchman Matthews -- Human security / Roland Paris -- The renaissance of security studies / Stephen M. Walt -- Securitisation / Ole Wæver -- The nemesis of utopianism / E. …”