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Interviews | May 7, 2012

Jill Owens: IMG Gideon Lewis-Kraus: The Powells.com Interview



Gideon Lewis-KrausI started and finished A Sense of Direction in one evening; I couldn't really stop thinking about it, so I couldn't put it down. I found it... Continue »
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Africa

  1. Rebel and Saint

    Julia Clancy-Smith's unprecedented study brings us a remarkable view of North African history from the perspective of the North Africans themselves. Focusing on the religious beliefs and political actions of Muslim elites and their followers in Algeria... (read more)

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  2. Homeland

    President Obama's Kenyan half-brother describes his hard-knocks life in Africa, during which he embraced alcohol and petty crime until finally hitting the road to recovery, in a memoir where the author also gives a frank assessment of Kenyan political... (read more)

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  3. Mirage

    Two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. But in 1798, more than 150 French engineers, artists, doctors, and scientists—even a poet and a... (read more)

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  4. Mandela

    Nelson Mandela, who emerged from twenty-six years of political imprisonment to lead South Africa out of apartheid and into democracy, is perhaps the world's most admired leader, a man whose life has been led with exemplary courage and inspired conviction.... (read more)

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  5. In and out of Morocco

    Every summer for almost forty years, tens of thousands of Moroccan emigrants from as far away as Norway and Germany have descended on the duty-free smugglers' cove/migrant frontier boomtown of Nador, Morocco. David McMurray investigates the local effects... (read more)

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  6. The House at Sugar Beach

    Helene Cooper is Congo, a descendant of two Liberian dynasties--traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. Her childhood was filled... (read more)

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  7. Scribbling the Cat

    The best-selling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight details her unique friendship with a banana farmer, one of her parents' neighbors in Zambia, a white African, veteran of the Rhodesian war, and born-again Christian, and their mutual odyssey... (read more)

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  8. Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa

    Ethnic conflict in Africa is reaching critical levels. Governments are being toppled. National economies are collapsing. And the potential for civil unrest--even violent encounters--throughout the continent threatens to engulf not only Africa, but much... (read more)

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  9. Remembering the Present

    This book combines ethnography with the study of art to present a fascinating new vision of African history. It contains the paintings of a single artist depicting Zaire's history, along with a series of ethnographic essays discussing local history, its... (read more)

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  10. Ancient Egypt

    The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination--mummies and pyramids, curses and rituals have captured our imaginations for generations. We all have a mental picture of ancient Egypt, but is it the right one? How much do we really know about... (read more)

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  11. Multicultural Counseling in a Divided and Traumatized Society

    This book is developed from the framework of locating childhood and adolescence within the wider context of South African society. The merging world-view and identity of South African children are described. A portion of the book describes the... (read more)

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  12. What Is Africa's Problem?

    Recent seismic shifts in Congo and Rwanda have exposed the continued volatility of the state of affairs in central Africa. As African states have shaken off their postcolonial despots, new leaders with sweeping ideas about a pan-African alliance have... (read more)

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  13. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

    An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone... (read more)

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  14. Exporting American Dreams

    The story of Thurgood Marshall's journey to Africa in 1969 to help Kenyan independence leaders write their constitution is told in an intriguing work that recounts how his involvement with Kenya's foundation affirmed his belief in progress by legal means.... (read more)

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  15. Napoleon's Egypt

    In this& vivid and timely history, Juan Cole& tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt.& Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and& showcasing his fascinating views of the Orient, Cole& delves into... (read more)

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  16. Africa's World War

    Examines the horrific wars and political changes that have taken place in sub-Saharan Africa upon the end of the Rwandan genocide in 1996 through a detailed guide of the events that have taken place in recent years, along with profiles of some its most... (read more)

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  17. To the Heart of the Nile

    In 1859, at age fourteen, Florence Szasz stood before a room full of men and waited to be auctioned to the highest bidder. But slavery and submission were not to be her destiny: Sam Baker, a wealthy English gentleman and eminent adventurer, was moved by... (read more)

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  18. Global Visions, Local Landscapes

    In her new book, Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land degradation. She challenges analytical distinctions between separate 'local' and 'global' spaces, rather proposing that the global... (read more)

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  19. A Portrait of Egypt

    A foreign correspondent for The New Yorker magazine presents a detailed account of contemporary Egyptian politics and culture that predicts a takeover by the country's Islamic militants, profoundly affecting the Arab world in the process. Reprint.... (read more)

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  20. Forced to Grow

    This is the story of an ambitious, determined woman--deserted by her husband at age 23 with three children under 6--who made it out of the black ghetto of Guguletu, put herself through high school and college, then grad school at Columbia, and obtained a... (read more)

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