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  • Love and Marriage in Africa in the Novels of Elechi Amadi, Buchi Emecheta and Chinua Achebe

    by Dr. Richa Jha ...
    The theme of love and marriage in literature is perhaps as old as literature itself. Works of literature across borders and genres have worked around these twin themes to give us some of the most memorable tales, yet they appear quite neglected by the critics when making a study of African literature. The world of literary criticism has witnessed a newfound interest in the African continent, which ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Whispers in the Classroom Voices on the Field

    Stories of School, Friends and Life

    Edited by Richa Jha ...
    School! A splendid institution. It tells you about what's around you while helping you explore what lies within. It brings you face-to-face with personal triumphs and failures, victories and defeats, frictions and forgiveness, rivalry and team-work, lifelong friendships and heart-rending partings, and more. School, in short, is a complete life coach. Whispers in the Classroom, Voices on the Fields ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    Karen Armstrong explains how to practise the religion of compassion that her last books have preached.In November 2009 Armstrong and TED launched The Charter of Compassion, which states that "We call upon all men and women to restore compassion to the centre of morality and religion...to cultivate an informed empathy with the suffering of all human beings — even those regarded as enemies." To date ... Read more

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  • The Year of the Runaways

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    by Sunjeev Sahota ...
    Nominated for the Man Booker Prize. One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists in 2013 gives us a sweeping, urgent, contemporary epic about a year in the life of a group of young illegal immigrants living and working together in the north of England.Three young men from very different backgrounds come together in a journey from India to England, where they hope to begin something new. To support ... Read more

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  • An Atlas of Impossible Longing

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    by Anuradha Roy ...
    “This is why we read fiction at all” raves the Washington Post: Family life meets historical romance in this critically acclaimed, “gorgeous, sweeping novel” (Ms Magazine) about two people who find each other when abandoned by everyone else, marking the signal American debut of an award-winning writer who richly deserves her international acclaim.On the outskirts of a small town in Bengal, a ... Read more

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  • Awake, Not Woke

    A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology

    by Noelle Mering ...
    The long-simmering crisis that grips our culture has exploded in recent years, leaving us divided and intransigent. Discourse seems futile when we are no longer a people with shared principles or even a shared understanding of reality. What seems obvious to one person is patently absurd to the next.This collapse of meaning is not accidental. It has been plotted and documented for decades, and now ... Read more

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  • Strangers at Our Door

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely because they are unknown. Today we find ourselves confronted with an extreme form of this historical dynamic, as our TV ... Read more

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  • The Culture Struggle

    by Michael Parenti ...
    One of America’s most astute and engaging political analysts, Michael Parenti shows us that culture is a changing process and the product of a dynamic interplay between a wide range of social and political interests. Drawing from cultures around the world, Parenti shows that beliefs and practices are readily subjected to political manipulation, and that many parts of culture are being commodified, ... Read more

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  • Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Bhikhu Parekh ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by non-violent protest, which he made the basis of his successful struggle against British rule in India. In this Very Short ... Read more

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  • Inheritance

    by Balli Kaur Jaswal ...
    In 1971, a teenage girl briefly disappears from her house in the middle of the night, only to return a different person, causing fissures that threaten to fracture her Punjabi Sikh family.As Singapore’s political and social landscapes evolve, the family must cope with shifting attitudes toward castes, youth culture, sex and gender roles, identity and belonging. Inheritance examines each family ... Read more

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  • Life and Words

    Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary

    by Veena Das ...
    In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology’s most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. Veena Das examines case studies including the extreme violence of the Partition of India in 1947 and the ... Read more

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  • Male Daughters, Female Husbands

    Gender and Sex in an African Society

    by Ifi Amadiume ...
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    Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the YearIn 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands to critical acclaim. Here Amadiume boldly argues that the notion of gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference ... Read more

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