Used Books
There are 2201 books in this aisle.
|
by Timothy Mitchell  Publisher Comments Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.... (read more)  List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
add to wish list
by Marcia Clair Inhorn Publisher Comments The social consequences of infertility place poor urban women in Egypt at the center of a web of tumultuous relationships with spouses, in-laws, and neighbors. Although Egyptian patriarchy is based on the central role played by men in reproduction, women... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by John Allen Publisher Comments This comprehensive biography is a fully authorized look at the life of Archbishop Desmond Tutu--Nobel Peace Prize winner, chairman for the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and spiritual leader to the world. Available in time for the... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Doris Lessing Publisher Comments A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is brilliant . . . and captures the contradictions of a young country.--New York Times Book... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Michael Doran Publisher Comments This book aims to alter profoundly the accepted version of the history of post-World War II Egyptian foreign policy. To this end, Doran convincingly demonstrates the absence of any true pan-Arab front from the very beginning of the Arab League... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $4.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Pascal James Imperato Publisher Comments The last of the major African lakes to be visited by European travelers in the late nineteenth century, Lake Rudolf lies in the eastern arm of the great Rift Valley in present-day northern Kenya, near the Ethiopian border. Also known as Lake Turkana... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $7.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by M Bettencourt Dias Publisher Comments The unique autobiography of a young boy, now 78, born to pioneer teachers in Mozambique. The first young man in Mozambique to earn a scholarship in mining, Manuel spills the story of his life in South Africa and Mozambique during the somewhat volatile... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Meredeth Turshen Publisher Comments Analyzes the disappearance of public health in the form of state services in Africa, and the growth of a private market in health care that will serve primarily an urban elite. Debates the pros and cons of shifting the delivery of health services to the... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Lynne Duke Publisher Comments In this stunning memoir, veteran Washington Post correspondent Lynne Duke takes readers on a wrenching but riveting journey through Africa during the pivotal 1990s and brilliantly illuminates a continent where hope and humanity thrive amid unimaginable... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Art Stock Publisher Comments The culture of a country is not just confined to its museums. Opulent and creative, it is everywhere and in everything: in this streets, in the local industries, in the foods people eat, the movies they watch, and in the buildings where they live, work... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
|
|
|
|
by Hilary Owen Publisher Comments This book is the first work in the English language to discuss the participation of women writers in the narrative construction of Mozambican nationhood over the last half-century. Covering the rise of anti-colonial nationalism in the 1950s, the advent... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Ronald Daise Publisher Comments Documents the lifestyles, customs, superstitions, and lore of cultures from which the Gullah sprang. Ronald Daise lovingly weaves poetry, personal experience, spirituals, and stunning visuals, to connect the Gullah culture to West African values and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Pat Shipman Publisher Comments In 1859, at age fourteen, Florence Szász 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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by George Alagiah Publisher Comments As a five-year-old, George Alagiah emigrated with his family to Ghana-- the first African country to attain independence from the British Empire. "A Passage to Africa" is Alagiah's shattering catalogue of atrocities crafted into a portrait of Africa that... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Linda Melvern Publisher Comments Planning the Rwanda Genocide. Published on the tenth anniversary of the horrific genocide in Rwanda, an expert witness tells the first full story of the massacre's planning, with damning details of Western inaction, apathy and conspiracy.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Guy Arnold Synopsis Muammar al-Gaddafi is one of the most controversial figures of his time. He is treated by Western governments, especially the United States, as if he were a major power in the world stage, rather than the leader of a desert state of just five million... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $8.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Mohamed A El Khawas Review This small volume will contribute to both the graduate student's search for information and the undergraduate's general knowledge of formerly Portuguese Africa and currently white-dominated Africa. It should be added to all college libraries where there... (read more) List Price $65.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Christopher Clapham Publisher Comments African independence launched into international politics a group of the world's poorest, weakest and most artificial states. How have such states managed to survive? To what extent is their survival now threatened? Christopher Clapham shows how an... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Lynne Duke Publisher Comments In this stunning memoir, veteran Washington Post correspondent Lynne Duke takes readers on a wrenching but riveting journey through Africa during the pivotal 1990s and brilliantly illuminates a continent where hope and humanity thrive amid unimaginable... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Timothy Burke Publisher Comments "Well researched, highly intelligent, well written, and markedly original--there is nothing like it in the literature of East, Central, and Southern Africa."--Terence Ranger, Oxford University "An exciting and original contribution to a number of areas... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
|
