Used Books
There are 2252 books in this aisle.
|
by James Pope-hennessy  Synopsis Based on the journals and letters of slave traders, merchant seamen and sometimes of the slaves themselves, this book presents the terrible history of the Atlantic slave trade, from its origins in the 15th century to its gradual dissolution in the early... (read more)  List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (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 $14.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Joyce E Kirk Publisher Comments Since apartheid’s dissolution in the early 1990s and its formal abolishment in April 1994, there has been increasing interest in the early history of African struggles against segregation and apartheid. This book focuses on the resistance to... (read more) List Price $79.00 Your price $19.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Elaine Hurford Publisher Comments A beautiful collection celebrating the variety of South Africa.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments Featuring more than 100 speeches and Forewords by Kofi Anan and Bill Cosby, this book is organized thematically, with Nelson Mandela expressing his views on politics, religion, education, health care, and nation building. 16 pages of photos.... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Mol Ogundipe Leslie Synopsis A selection of writings in which the author has critically and creatively pondered issues of gender, politics, and social transformation for at least three decades... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Christina Lamb Publisher Comments In the declining years of the British Empire, in Northern Rhodesia, Stewart Gore-Browne was a proper English gentleman who built himself a sprawling country estate, complete with liveried servants, rose gardens, and lavish dinners finished off with... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Francis Deng Publisher Comments Increasingly marginalized since the end of the Cold War, the continent of Africa is struggling to identify both the root causes and possible solutions to the maladies that continue to plague it. In the early 1990's, a group of African leaders and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.13 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
|
|
|
|
by Simon Marinker Publisher Comments A historical novel heavily referencing World War II, the Holocaust, and featuring murderous intrigue in Vichy French Algeria.... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price $14.95 (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 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 $6.50 (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 Dina Temple-Raston Publisher Comments The 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which more than 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu were massacred in just 100 days, was an unparalleled modern-day slaughter. How does a nation pick up the pieces after the killing has stopped? In a gripping narrative that... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.88 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Pascal Jam 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 $49.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Basil Pao Publisher Comments In the spring of 2001, photographer Basil Pao accompanied actor (and former Monty Python member) Michael Palin and a BBC film crew into the heart of the world's largest desert--the Sahara. The result of that journey is these remarkable pictures of... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Beth Baron Publisher Comments This original and historically rich book examines the influence of gender in shaping the Egyptian nation from the nineteenth century through the revolution of 1919 and into the 1940s. In Egypt as a Woman, Beth Baron divides her narrative into two strands:... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by David Lamb Publisher Comments The Africans is an extraordinary combination of analysis and adventure. Part travelogue, part contemporary history, it is a portrait of a continent that sometimes seems hell-bent on destroying itself, and of people who are as courageous as they are long... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
by Henk Van Woerden Publisher Comments On September 6, 1966, Dimitri Tsafendas entered South Africa’s parliament, gripping a wickedly long knife, and stabbed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd four times in the chest. This chilling study of the life of Tsafendas—the homeless... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
add to wish list
|
