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  • The Heretic of Cacheu

    Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port

    by Toby Green ...
    'A stunning global history of West Africa ... with this new tour de force, Green confirms himself as the most innovative historian, writer, and thinker of his generation' Ana Lucia Araujo, author of Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of SlaveryA unique, startling book that gives a rich and detailed sense of life in an African port some 360 years agoIn 1665 Crispina Peres, the most powerful ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

  • A Fistful of Shells

    West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

    by Toby Green ...
    Winner of the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2019Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award'Astonishing, staggering' Ben Okri, Daily TelegraphA groundbreaking new history that will transform our view of West AfricaBy the time of the 'Scramble for Africa' in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally conn... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Covid Consensus

    The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor?A Critique from the Left

    by Toby Green, Thomas Fazi ...
    During the first years of the pandemic, the political mainstream agreed that 'following the science' with hard lockdowns and vaccine mandates was the best way to preserve life. But social science reveals the true human cost of this policy. The Covid Consensus provides an internationalist-left perspective on the world's Covid-19 response, which has had devastating consequences for democratic rights ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Imaginary Crimes

    by Toby Green ...
    4 CITIES, 4 LIVES, 1 CRIMEÖ In Madrid, an Argentinian bookseller gets caught up in the scheme of an American professor to prevent an appalling crime. Her sidekicks soon include a Gambian migrant in Paris and a Spanish waitress in London. Seeking some sort of companionship in their exiles, the four characters join forces in a quest that becomes a dangerous obsession. All four lives seem to be ... Read more

    $68.59 CAD

  • The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589

    by Toby Green ...
    Series Book 118 - African Studies
    The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Green argues that answering these questions requires a ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Covid-19 Restrictions in the Global South

    Accelerating Inequalities, Worsening Human Rights

    Edited by Aleida Mendes Borges, Toby Green, T. Sundararaman ...
    This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary collection is one of the first scholarly books in the world to address the impacts of Covid-19 restrictions on the Global South.Bringing together health and social scientists from around the world--including many leading figures from Global-South countries such as Angola, Bolivia, Colombia, India, Kenya, and Nigeria--the book shows how, in low- and middle ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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    Ghost of a Chance

    by Simon R. Green ...
    Narrated by Toby Leonard Moore ...
    Series series Ghost Finders

    Unabridged

    8 hours

    New York Times best-selling author Simon R. Green has crafted numerous acclaimed science fiction and fantasy novels, including Blue Moon Rising, Blood and Honor, and Shadows Fall. In this first installment of the Ghost Finders series, JC Chance, Melody Chambers, and Happy Jack Palmer are agents of the Carnacki Institute-a place where the sole purpose is to "do something" about ghosts. But what ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blair, Labour, and Palestine

    Conflicting Views on Middle East Peace After 9/11

    by Dr. Toby Greene ...
    Many of Tony Blair's policy decisions in the Israeli-Palestinian arena were controversial and politically costly. Blair, Labour and Palestine argues that gaps between him and much of his party were rooted in different world views. A positive attitude towards Israel came to be seen as a defining mark of New Labour loyalists. However, contrasting views among left-leaning strands in the party ... Read more

    $47.49 CAD

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    Ghost of a Smile

    by Simon R. Green ...
    Narrated by Toby Leonard Moore ...
    Series series Ghost Finders

    Unabridged

    8 hours 32 min

    Acclaimed for the depth and breadth of his fictional universe, best-selling SF and fantasy writer Simon Green is the author of the popular Twilight of the Empire and Deathwalker series. In Ghost of a Smile, the Ghost Finders answer a desperate call for help from one of the world's biggest drug companies. A team of police enforcement agents has already disappeared, and the Ghost Finders have no ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Ghost of a Dream

    by Simon R. Green ...
    Narrated by Toby Leonard Moore ...
    Series series Ghost Finders

    Unabridged

    8 hours 57 min

    New York Times best-selling author Simon R. Green's Ghost Finders novels offer listeners thrilling paranormal adventures starring operatives from the secretive Carnacki Institute. Here, the team faces off against a supernatural menace called the Phantom of the Haybarn, which is haunting a long-abandoned theater. This malevolent spirit's ability to warp reality will push the team to the brink. ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cities and Citadels

    An Archaeology of Inequality and Economic Growth

    by Adam S. Green, Toby C. Wilkinson, Darryl Wilkinson, Nancy Highcock, Thomas Leppard ...
    Cities and Citadels provides an urgent update of archaeology’s engagement with economic theory.Recent events have forced a major reassessment of economic thinking. In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession and the economic impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world finds itself in unprecedented times. Even though archaeology typically concerns itself with the remote past, it must also help us ... Read more

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    Spirits from Beyond

    by Simon R. Green ...
    Narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds ...
    Series series Ghost Finders

    Unabridged

    9 hours 9 min

    THE NEW GHOST FINDER NOVEL from the bestselling author of the Nightside and Secret Histories series... Meet the operatives of the Carnacki Institute-JC Chance: the team leader, brave, charming, and almost unbearably arrogant; Melody Chambers: the science geek who keeps the antisupernatural equipment running; and Happy Jack Palmer: the terminally gloomy telepath. Their mission: Do Something About ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus