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  • Africa

    Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

    by Richard Dowden ...
    After a lifetime's close observation of the continent, one of the world's finest Africa correspondents has penned a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa. It takes a guide as observant, experienced, and patient as Richard Dowden to reveal its truths. Dowden combines a novelist's gift for atmosphere with the scholar's grasp of historical change as he spins tales of cults and commerce in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion

    by Mercedes Aguirre, Richard Buxton, Soteroula Constantinidou, Ken Dowden, Radcliffe G. Edmonds, Ariadni Gartziou-Tatti, Daniel Iakov, Efimia D. Karakantza, Françoise Létoublon, Avgi Maggel, Nanno Marinatos, Dimitris Paleothodoros, Ioanna Patera, Isabelle Ratinaud, Spyros Syropoulos, Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos, Athanassia Zografou, Richard Seaford ...
    Series series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
    Light and darkness played an important role beyond the division of time in ancient Greek myth and religion; the contributors to Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion consider its function on both the individual and social level as manifested in modes of thought and behavior and expressed in language, beliefs, ritual, and iconography. The book is divided into five parts: color ... Read more

    $168.99 CAD

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    The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

    by Jason K. Stearns ...
    A “meticulously researched and comprehensive” (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa’s CongoAt the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of western Europe. It borders nine other nations, and since 1996 it has been racked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. ... Read more

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  • Blood River

    A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart

    by Tim Butcher ...
    When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone.Despite warnings that his plan was 'suicidal', Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. Making his way in an assortment of vessels ... Read more

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  • The Fate of Africa

    A History of the Continent Since Independence

    by Martin Meredith ...
    The definitive story of African nations after they emerged from colonialism -- from Mugabe's doomed kleptocracy to Mandela's inspiring defeat of apartheid.The Fate of Africa has been hailed by reviewers as "A masterpiece....The nonfiction book of the year" (The New York Post); "a magnificent achievement" (Weekly Standard); "a joy," (Wall Street Journal) and "one of the decade's most important ... Read more

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  • As We Forgive

    Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda

    by Catherine Claire Larson ...
    Inspired by the award-winning film of the same name.If you were told that a murderer was to be released into your neighborhood, how would you feel? But what if it weren't only one, but thousands? Could there be a common roadmap to reconciliation? Could there be a shared future after unthinkable evil?If forgiveness is possible after the slaughter of nearly a million in a hundred days in Rwanda, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid

    Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid

    by Samantha Nutt ...
    For readers of Christopher Hedges, Robert Fisk, and Christopher Hitchens, an extraordinary humanitarian gives us a bracing and uncompromising account of her work in some of the most devastated corners of the world -- and a new and provocative vision for changing course on our growing militarization.In 1995, twenty-five-year-old Samantha Nutt, a recent medical-school graduate and a field volunteer ... Read more

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  • Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa

    From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction

    by Robin Philpot ...
    The book comprises three parts. The first part addresses the little-discussed but crucial events preceding the assassination of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared, "The Rwandan genocide was 100% American Responsibility." Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared, "The Rwandan genocide was 100% American Responsibility." ... Read more

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  • My Friend the Mercenary

    A Memoir

    by James Brabazon ...
    "Intensely vivid story of war and the peculiar breed of warriors who fight in 21st-century Africa . . . and tribute to an extraordinary comrade-at-arms." — Kirkus ReviewsIn February 2002, British journalist James Brabazon set out to travel with guerrilla forces into Liberia to show the world what was happening in that war-torn country. To protect him, he hired Nick du Toit, a former South African ... Read more

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  • Another Man's War

    The True Story of One Man's Battle to Save Children in the Sudan

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    The rise of Sam Childers from violent, drug-addicted biker to a man willing to risk everything to rescue the orphans and child soldiers of Sudan"All my life, from birth, it’s been a fight. And it always seemed to be *another man’s war. I always seemed to be fighting for someone else. But it always came back to me. The Word says we’re born into sin, and sin always comes back to war.” —*Sam ... Read more

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  • There Was a Country

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    by Chinua Achebe ...
    From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil warFor more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a ... Read more

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  • Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

    On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

    by Paul Theroux ...
    In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change. ... Read more

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