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  • The Creases Of My Shoe!

    by Dominic Thomas ...
    They say you can tell a lot about a man by his shoes - the miles he's walked, the falls he's taken, the ground that shaped him. In The Creases of My Shoe, Dominic Angelo Thomas peels back the layers of a life split between two worlds: the razor-edged streets of the D.C./Maryland corridor and the concrete confines of a prison cell.Raised as much by his fiercely resourceful grandmother as by the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Africa and France

    Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism

    by Dominic Thomas ...
    Series series African Expressive Cultures
    An "excellent [and] incisive" look at identity, immigration, and culture in postcolonial France ( Journal of West African History).This stimulating and insightful book reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production in theater, literature, and even museum construction. Dominic Thomas's analysis unravels the complex cultural and political realities of long ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Museums in Postcolonial Europe

    Edited by Dominic Thomas ...
    The history of European nation-building and identity formation is inextricably connected with museums, and the role they play in displaying the acquired spoils and glorious symbols of geopolitical power in order to mobilize public support for expansionist ventures. This book examines the contemporary debate surrounding the museum in postcolonial Europe.Although there is no consensus on the ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Utopia

    by Thomas More ...
    Translated by Dominic Baker-Smith ...
    'It remains astonishingly radical ... one of Utopia's most striking aspects is its contemporaniety' Terry EagletonIn Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all. As the traveller describes the island, a bitter contrast is drawn between this ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Tears of the Black Man

    by Alain Mabanckou ...
    Translated by Dominic Thomas ...
    "[An] intellectually dense collection . . . Mabanckou's challenging perspective on African identity today is as enlightening as it is provocative." — Publishers WeeklyIn The Tears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today. Mabanckou confronts the long and entangled history of Africa, France, and the United States as it has been ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Heart of the Leopard Children

    by Wilfried N'Sondé ...
    Translated by Karen Lindo ...
    Series series Global African Voices
    A nameless young man lives in the housing projects outside of Paris. When he was a child, his parents moved with him from the Congo to France, hoping in vain to escape poverty and violence. His best friend, Drissa, is in a psychiatric hospital and now Mireille, his girlfriend, the woman with whom he has shared his childhood and hopes, has left him to reconnect with her Jewish roots in Israel. ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Languages, Compilers, Analysis - From Beautiful Theory to Useful Practice

    Essays Dedicated to Alan Mycroft on the Occasion of His Retirement

    Edited by Dominic Orchard, Tomas Petricek, Jeremy Singer ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This Festschrift is dedicated to Alan Mycroft who formally retired from the University of Cambridge after almost 40 years. Following a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1977, Alan took the Diploma in Computer Science in 1978. He then completed a PhD in Edinburgh in 1981 on Abstract Interpretation and Optimising Transformations for Applicative Programs under the supervision of ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • The Colonial Legacy in France

    Fracture, Rupture, and Apartheid

    Edited by Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard, Dominic Thomas ...
    Debates about the legacy of colonialism in France are not new, but they have taken on new urgency in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Responding to acts of religious and racial violence in 2005, 2010, and 2015 and beyond, the essays in this volume pit French ideals against government-sponsored revisionist decrees that have exacerbated tensions, complicated the process of establishing and ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution

    Edited by Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, Dominic Thomas ...
    This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture, provides the basis for a revised understanding of its cultural, political, and social legacy and its lasting impact on ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Shameful State

    by Sony Labou Tansi ...
    Translated by Dominic Thomas ...
    Series series Global African Voices
    Set in a fictitious African nation, this novel by the distinguished writer Sony Labou Tansi takes aim at the corruption, degeneracy, violence, and repression of political life in Africa. At the heart of The Shameful State is the story of Colonel Martillimi Lopez, the nation's president, whose eccentricity and whims epitomize the "shameful situation in which humanity has elected to live." Lopez ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Invention of Race

    Scientific and Popular Representations

    Edited by Nicolas Bancel, Thomas David, Dominic Thomas ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally as evidenced in ethnographic museums, world fairs, zoological gardens, international colonial exhibitions and ethnic shows. A deep epistemological change took place in Europe in this domain toward the end of the eighteenth century, ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • A Companion to Comparative Literature

    Edited by Ali Behdad, Dominic Thomas ...
    Series Book 163 - Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literature.Features over thirty original essays from leading international contributorsProvides a critical assessment of the status of literary and cross-cultural inquiryAddresses the history, ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD