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  • Everyday Corruption and the State

    Citizens and Public Officials in Africa

    by Giorgio Blundo, Jean-Pierre Olivier de-Sardan, N. B. Arifari, M. T. Alou ...
    Daily life in Africa is governed by the 'petty' corruption of public officials in services such as health, transport, or the judicial system. This remarkable study of everyday corruption in three African countries investigates the reasons for its extraordinary prevalence.The authors construct an illuminating analytical framework around the various forms of corruption, the corruptive strategies ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Alou

    My Baseball Journey

    by Felipe Alou, Peter Kerasotis ...
    Growing up in a tiny shack in the Dominican Republic, Felipe Alou never dreamed he would be the first man born and raised in his country to play and manage in Major League Baseball—and also the first to play in the World Series.In this extraordinary autobiography, Alou tells of his real dream to become a doctor, and an improbable turn of events that led to the pro contract. Battling racism in the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Black Diaspora of the Americas: Experiences and Theories out of the Caribbean

    by Christine Chivallon, Antoinette Titus-Tidjani Alou (Translator) ...
    The forced migration of Africans to the Americas through the transatlantic slave trade created primary centres of settlement in the Caribbean, Brazil and the United States – the cornerstones of the New World and the black Americas. However, unlike Brazil and the US, the Caribbean did not (and still does not) have the uniformity of a national framework. Instead, the region presents differing ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD

  • Exodus!

    Heirs and Pioneers, Rastafari Return to Ethiopia

    by Giulia Bonacci ...
    Translated by Antoinette Tidjani Alou ...
    In 1977, Bob Marley composed Exodus, a reggae masterpiece that evokes the return of Rastafari to Africa. Over the past fifty years, Rastafari have made the journey to Ethiopia, settling in the country as “repatriates”. This little-known history is told in Exodus! Heirs and Pioneers, Rastafari Return to Ethiopia. Giulia Bonacci recounts, with sharpness and rigour, this amazing journey of Rastafari ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Democratic Struggle, Institutional Reform, and State Resilience in the African Sahel

    by Rahmane Idrissa, Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem, Ismaïla Madior Fall, Moumouni Soumano, Augustin Loada, Mahaman Tidjani Alou, Lucien Toulou, Leonardo A. Villalón ...
    Long on the periphery of both academic research and international attention, the countries of the West African Sahel currently find themselves at the center of global concerns over security, terrorism, migration, and conflict. Since the early 1990s the Sahelian states have also been engaged in political struggles over the construction of democratic institutions. Edited by Leonardo A. Villalón and ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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    The Crisis Continues

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    In 1977 R W Johnson's best-selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? provided a controversial analysis of the survival prospects of the apartheid regime. Now, after more than twenty years of ANC rule, he believes the situation has become so critical that the question must be posed again. He moves from an analysis of Jacob Zuma's rule to the increasingly dire state of the South African economy, ... Read more

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  • The Last Real Season

    A Hilarious Look Back at 1975 - When Major Leaguers Made Peanuts, the Umpires Wore Red, and Billy Martin Terrorized Everyone

    by Mike Shropshire ...
    A first-person account of the 1975 Major League Baseball season—the last year before free agency took over and changed the national pastime forever.“One of the funniest baseball books I’ve ever read—who knew that a baseball beat writer could be so funny and clever!” —Bill Madden, New York Daily NewsIn The Last Real Season, Mike Shropshire captures the essence of a different time and place in ... Read more

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  • The Big Truck That Went By

    How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster

    by Jonathan M. Katz ...
    On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle it. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral, authoritative first-hand account, Katz chronicles the terror of that day, the devastation ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Conform

    Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

    by Glenn Beck ...
    Series series The Control Series
    Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, considers the hot-button issue of education in the US, exposing the weaknesses of the Common Core school curriculum and examining why liberal solutions fail.Public education is never mentioned in the constitution. Why? Because our founders knew that it was an issue for state and local governments—not the federal one.It’s not a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Opening Day

    The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season

    by Jonathan Eig ...
    This bestselling account of the most important season in baseball history, 1947, tells the dramatic story of how Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and changed baseball forever.April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball ... Read more

    $22.50 CAD

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  • Chronicle Of The Conquest Of Granada By Washington Irving (Mobi Classics)

    by Washington Irving ...
    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ... Read more

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  • Sending Them Home

    Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference; Quarterly Essay 13

    by Robert Manne ...
    Series Book 13 - Quarterly Essay
    In Sending Them Home, Robert Manne tells the stories of individual asylum seekers and finds in their experience the seeds of a devastating critique. Balancing sorrow and pity with a controlled anger, Manne develops a sustained argument about what could, and should, be done for the nine thousand refugees who remain in limbo on temporary protection visas.Sending Them Home also contains a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD