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Paperback. South Africa, like many countries in Africa, is resource rich but the benefits are not shared by the whole population. High levels of unem-ployment are leading to increasing conflict and violence, undermining the brighter future hoped for when apartheid was abolished. Num Pages: 272 pages, Graphs & Tables Index. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JP; KCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 234 x 30. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Shepheard-Walwyn
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856835049
- ISBN
- 9780856835049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.25
€ 26.99
€ 23.25
Paperback. Staging a new politics of performance in the African diaspora Series: African Expressive Cultures. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253222268
- ISBN
- 9780253222268
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.00
€ 29.99
€ 27.00
Paperback. Series: Orientations in Development. Num Pages: 102 pages, Col.ill.figs.tabs.M. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; JFC; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 170 x 8. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- World Bank Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821349380
- ISBN
- 9780821349380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.31
€ 17.99
€ 16.31
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780743266253
- ISBN
- 9780743266253
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.47
€ 17.99
€ 16.47
Paperback. Focuses on efforts to stop female circumcision in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1920 and 1946. This book suggests that efforts to suppress female circumcision were tied to the continuation of slavery and the rise of commercial cotton growing in Sudan, as well as to concerns about infant mortality and maternal health. Num Pages: 440 pages, 9 halftones. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HBS; HBJH; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691123059
- ISBN
- 9780691123059
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.66
€ 45.99
€ 32.66
Hardback. This book blends economics, politics and agrarian studies to provide a new way of understanding the nexus between development and genocide in Rwanda. Num Pages: 276 pages, 24 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 3JJPR; HBJH; HBTZ; KCM; TVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400764330
- ISBN
- 9789400764330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.79
€ 123.79
Paperback. Explores how anthropology can come to terms with "colonial library" and begin to develop an ethnographic practice that transcends politics of Africa's imperial past. This book develops a model of critical agency, focusing on a variety of language genres in Africa situated in rituals that transform socio-political relations. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 map, 1 line drawing, 8 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1H; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226023526
- ISBN
- 9780226023526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.35
€ 30.99
€ 24.35
Paperback. Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women in Tamatave entered the sexual economy in hope of finding a European husband. This book chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar's economic liberalization. Num Pages: 264 pages, 14 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HSM; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226113319
- ISBN
- 9780226113319
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.01
€ 40.99
€ 31.01
Paperback. Num Pages: 139 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 3JJPL; KCG; KNJH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 10. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 139
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781617611902
- ISBN
- 9781617611902
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.05€ 44.39
€ 62.05
€ 44.39
Paperback. Africa. 280 pp. Some pages dulled but o/w in v g condition
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1962
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KNW0001657
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In this work, Tsenay Serequeberhan discusses attempts to define African philosophy and the practice of hermeneutics to articulate a philosophy that is distinctively African. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; CFP; HPD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 231.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847689217
- ISBN
- 9780847689217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.48
€ 54.48
Hardback. "Title from cover. 128 p. ill. 22 cm. Paperback. Very good, clean copy, cover just slightly toned."
- Publication date
- 1961
- Publisher
- Africa South Publications
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- KEX0103082
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 20.99€ 4.99
€ 20.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Continuing the book "I Dreamed of Africa", this volume is written in episodes. The author refers glancingly to the deaths of her husband and son, covering family issues, the conservation and preservation of the animals around her and the fear and beauty of being lost in the bush at night. Num Pages: 160 pages, b&w and colour photographs, maps, glossary. BIC Classification: 1H; BGH; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 156. Continuing the book "I Dreamed of Africa", this volume is written in episodes. The author refers glancingly to the deaths of her husband and son, covering family issues, the conservation and preservation of the animals around her and the fear and beauty of being lost in the bush at night. Num Pages: 160 pages, b&w and colour photographs, maps, glossary. BIC Classification: 1H; BGH; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 156. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KKD0001513
- ISBN
- 9780140238464
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. Leading Middle East analysts consider the causes and consequences of the Arab Spring. Editor(s): Haddad, Bassam; Bsheer, Rosie; Abu-Rish, Ziad. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; 3JMG; HBJF1; HBJH; HBLX; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 219 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745333250
- ISBN
- 9780745333250
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.53€ 82.60
€ 99.53
€ 82.60
Hardcover. (Post)apartheid Conditions: Psychoanalysis and Social Formation advances a series of psychoanalytic perspectives on contemporary South Africa, exploring key psychosocial topics such as space-identity, social fantasy, the body, whiteness, memory and nostalgia. Series: Studies in the Psychosocial. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFFE; JFFJ; JMAF; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032997
- ISBN
- 9781137032997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardback. The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. This book presents the different facets of Africa, which will soon have a billion people, at the midpoint of the rapid population boom that humanity has ever known. Num Pages: 334 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; JFC; JP; KCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745651576
- ISBN
- 9780745651576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.41
€ 77.41
Hardcover. An ethnographic study of East African cattle raiding which critiques the policies of the postcolonial Tanzanian state Num Pages: 216 pages, Fr.11ill.15tabs.6M. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 1HFGT; GTB; JHM; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472111527
- ISBN
- 9780472111527
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.16€ 81.16
€ 90.16
€ 81.16
paperback. Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, this book argues that the visual offered an alternative to literacy for current and former slaves, whose works mobilize forms of illustration that subvert dominant representations of slavery by both apologists and abolitionists. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; DSB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 437.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221087
- ISBN
- 9780253221087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.67
€ 21.99
€ 21.67
Paperback. In 1990s the Ivoirian police failed to control the situation, so a group of poor, politically marginalized, and mostly Muslim men took on the role of the people's protectors as part of a movement they called Benkadi. This title reveals how dozos worked beyond the divisions to derive their new roles as enforcers of security. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 halftones, 3 maps, 1 line drawing, 2 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFDY; 3JJPR; HBJH; HBLW3; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226326542
- ISBN
- 9780226326542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.15
€ 36.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. Editor(s): Wilson Forje, John. Num Pages: 199 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1H; JP; JW; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 253 x 176 x 16. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612090238
- ISBN
- 9781612090238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.05€ 44.39
€ 62.05
€ 44.39
Hardcover. Development Corruption in South Africa examines governance matters with a focus on corruption. This rich empirical body on governance variables and governance performance is a welcome addition to South African government literature. Num Pages: 228 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JPZ; KCL; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137386953
- ISBN
- 9781137386953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.32
€ 122.32
Paperback. Africa. 206 pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1964
- Publisher
- Penguin England
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KNW0001809
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. The first "behind-the-scenes" history of FDR's secret mission to invade North Africa. Num Pages: 336 pages, plus 8-page b&w insert. BIC Classification: 1D; 1HB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JPSH; JWKF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 42.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592289165
- ISBN
- 9781592289165
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 21.23
€ 26.99
€ 21.23
The Investment Climate in Brazil, India, and South Africa: A Compariso...
Fan, Qimiao, Reis, Jose Guilherme, Jarvis, Mi...
Paperback. Few trends have captured the interest and imagination of economists and policy makers as has the sustained economic rise of middle-income countries in the years. This volume assesses the factors that contribute to the creation of a robust investment climate. Num Pages: 117 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1HFM; 1KLSB; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 267 x 197 x 8. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- World Bank Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821373637
- ISBN
- 9780821373637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.40
€ 24.99
€ 21.40