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  • The Nature of the Path

    Reading a West African Road

    de Marcus Filippello ...
    Series series A Quadrant Book
    The Nature of the Path reveals how a single road has shaped the collective identity of a community that has existed on the margins of larger societies for centuries. Marcus Filippello shows how a road running through the Lama Valley in Southeastern Benin has become a mnemonic device that has allowed residents to counter prevailing histories.Built by the French colonial government, and following a ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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  • Planet of Slums

    de Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    THE BEST-SELLING MODERN CLASSIC: The world’s leading urbanist offers a “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize–winning author).According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • You Must Set Forth at Dawn

    A Memoir

    de Wole Soyinka ...
    The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered homeland.In the tough, humane, and lyrical language that has typified his plays and novels, ... Leer más

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  • Oil, Politics and Violence

    de Max Siollun ...
    An insider traces the details of hope and ambition gone wrong in the “Giant of Africa,” Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country. When it gained independence from Britain in 1960, hopes were high that, with mineral wealth and over 140 million people, the most educated workforce in Africa, Nigeria would become Africa’s first superpower and a stabilizing democratic influence in the region. However, ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • Economics in the Twenty-First Century

    A Critical Perspective

    de Robert Chernomas, Ian Hudson ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Economics has always been nicknamed the “dismal science,” but today the field seems a little more dismal than usual as governments, social movements, and even students complain that the discipline is failing to make sense of the major economic problems of the day.In Economics in the Twenty-First Century, Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson demonstrate how today’s top young economists continue to lead ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Power of Labelling

    How People are Categorized and Why It Matters

    Edición de Rosalind Eyben, Joy Moncrieffe ...
    �The Power of Labelling illuminates a fundamental and intriguing dimension of social and political life. Striking cases from a range of policy contexts generate eyeopening analyses of labelling�s causes and consequences, uses and abuses, and of alternatives in thinking and relating.�DES GASPER, INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES, THE HAGUE�The authors convincingly and often vividly explain how the ... Leer más

    $65.99 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

  • The Rise and Fall of an African Utopia

    A Wealthy Theocracy in Comparative Perspective

    de Stanley Barrett ...
    In 1947 a group of Yoruba-speaking fishermen who had been persecuted because of their religious beliefs founded their own community in order to worship in peace. Although located in an impoverished part of Nigeria, within a few years the village enjoyed remarkable economic success. This was partly because the fishermen held all goods in common, pooled the profits in the community treasury, and ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Integrating Science and Policy

    Vulnerability and Resilience in Global Environmental Change

    Edición de Roger E Kasperson ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    As progress towards a greater knowledge in sustainability science continues, the question of how better to integrate scientific progress with actual decisions made by practitioners remains paramount. This book aims to help close the gap between science and practice. Based on a two year collaborative project between Harvard and Clark Universities, the book takes as its focus the vulnerability and ... Leer más

    $94.99 USD

  • Language Vitality Through Bible Translation

    Edición de Marianne Beerle-Moor, Vitaly Voinov ...
    Series Libro 95 - Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics
    This interdisciplinary collection of articles, written by scholars involved in translating the Bible into various languages around the world, demonstrates that such translation projects are promoting the vitality of local languages, both those that are endangered and those that are still fairly healthy but non-empowered. Bible translation and activities typically associated with it, such as ... Leer más

    $85.99 USD

  • UN Millennium Development Library: Coming to Grips with Malaria in the New Millennium

    de UN Millennium Project ...
    The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Congo's Environmental Paradox

    Potential and Predation in a Land of Plenty

    de Theodore Trefon ...
    Series series African Arguments
    The Democratic Republic of Congo has the natural resources the world needs – it is crucial to satisfying our craving for the latest high-tech gadgets; the Inga Dam could light up all of Africa; while Congo's farmers could feed a billion people. These realities are redefining the country's strategic contribution to a globalized world. A resource paradise for some, the DRC is an environmental ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD