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  • Dirty Wars and Polished Silver

    The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix

    de Lynda Schuster ...
    From a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent, an exuberant memoir of life, love, and transformation on the frontlines of conflicts around the world**Growing up in 1970s Detroit, Lynda Schuster felt certain life was happening elsewhere. And as soon as she graduated from high school, she set out to find it.Dirty Wars and Polished Silver is Schuster’s story of her life abroad as a foreign ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • A Burning Hunger

    One Family’s Struggle Against Apartheid

    de Lynda Schuster ...
    If the Mandelas were the generals in the fight for black liberation, the Mashininis were the foot soldiers. Theirs is a story of exile, imprisonment, torture, and loss, but also of dignity, courage, and strength in the face of appalling adversity. Originally published in Great Britain to critical acclaim, A Burning Hunger: One Family's Struggle Against Apartheid tells a deeply moving human story ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

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  • The Warm Heart of Africa

    de Kevin M. Denny ...
    The Warm Heart of Africa, fifty years in the making, is the story of Susan, one of the first Peace Corps Volunteers. It is also the story of Peter, a ninety-two year old African who became her salvation. She meets him soon after attempting to quit the Peace Corps...but failing. Peter is at first reticent to talk of his past, for fear of opening old wounds. With time, he learns to trust and slowly ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Diamond in the Desert

    Behind the Scenes in Abu Dhabi, the World's Richest City

    de Jo Tatchell ...
    Get a closer look at this glittering, oil-rich city in a "revealing travelogue through the capital of the United Arab Emirates" ( Publishers Weekly).Jo Tatchell first arrived in the city of Abu Dhabi as a child in 1974, when the discovery of oil was quickly turning a small fishing town into a growing international community. Decades later, this Middle Eastern capital is a dizzying metropolis of ... Leer más

    $8.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Mindset of a Champion: Your Favorite Rapper's Least Favorite Book

    de Byron Crawford ...
    The Mindset of a Champion follows the career of legendary blogger Byron Crawford a/k/a Bol, founder and editor of the eponymous hip-hop blog, from a dark, foul-smelling dorm room in the middle of nowhere, to his pioneering work in the field of online hip-hop journalism, in which he either coined or popularized several slang terms that are generally frowned upon, attempted to have Kanye West banned ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Of Warriors, Lovers and Prophets

    Unusual Stories from South Africa's Past

    de Max du Preez ...
    South African history will never be the same again … Shunning the predictable, Max du Preez has put on his investigative journalist’s cap and examined our past from a fresh perspective. The result is a collection of extraordinary and mostly unknown stories, all meticulously researched and written in an engaging and lively style. Instead of regurgitating the story of Jan van Riebeeck’s arrival at ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Brazil Inside Out

    de Jan Rocha ...
    Seen as a successful ‘emerging economy’, Brazil walks tall on the world stage and its voice is growing louder. Its success, celebrated in the 2014 Football World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, is attracting millions of foreign tourists. Yet Brazil also faces huge challenges: to combine economic growth with measures to reduce the huge social inequality inherited from its slave-owning past, to ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Egyptian Myth

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Geraldine Pinch ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The complex world of Egyptian myth is clearly illuminated in this fascinating new approach to ancient Egypt. Geraldine Pinch explores the cultural and historical background behind a wide variety of sources and objects, from Cleopatra's Needle and Tutankhamun's golden statue, to a story on papyrus of the gods misbehaving. What did they mean, and how have they been interpreted? The reader is taken ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Twentieth-Century South Africa

    de William Beinart ...
    Series series OPUS
    An innovative examination of the forces - both destructive and dynamic - which have shaped twentieth-century South Africa. This book provides a stimulating introduction to the history of South Africa in the twentieth century. It draws on the rich and lively tradition of radical history writing on that country and, to a greater extent than previous accounts, weaves economic and cultural history ... Leer más

    $21.89 USD

  • No Dancing, No Dancing

    Inside the Global Humanitarian Crisis

    de Denis Dragovic ...
    What happens to aid projects after the money is spent? Or the people and communities once the media spotlight has left?No Dancing, No Dancing follows the return journey of a former aid worker back to the site of three major humanitarian crises—South Sudan, Iraq and East Timor—in search of what happened to the people and projects. Along the way, he looks for answers to how we can better respond to ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Children in Slavery through the Ages

    Edición de Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller ...
    Significant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children. The vast literature on slavery has grown to include most of the history of this ubiquitous practice, but nearly all of it concentrates on the adult males whose strong bodies and laboring capacities preoccupied the masters of the modern Americas. Children in Slavery through the Ages examines the children among ... Leer más

    $29.69 USD

  • The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    de Rebecca Shumway ...
    The history of Ghana attracts popular interest out of proportion to its small size and marginal importance to the global economy. Ghana is the land of Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan-Africanist movement of the 1960s; it has been a temporary home to famous African Americans like W. E. B. DuBois and Maya Angelou; and its Asante Kingdom and signature kente cloth-global symbols of African culture and pride ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD