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Paperback. A novel study of the complex connections between Nelson Mandela and the nationalist leadership in the ANC with their kinsmen inside the Transkei Bantustan state, that reveals the significance of ethnic belonging, so important in African history. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW; JPFN; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 23 x 15 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847011565
- ISBN
- 9781847011565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.39
€ 26.99
€ 23.39
Hardback. "Title from cover. One issue only. Front headline "Rumours and Lies". 4 p. 44 cm. Original broadsheet. Good clean copy with slightest suggestion of dust dulling to edges." Keywords: "Periodicals , Socialism , Pamphlet"
- Publication date
- 1964
- Publisher
- The Spark publications
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- KEX0098389
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 20.99€ 4.99
€ 20.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Contends that it is through their encounter with Christian missions in the mid-19th century that the Yoruba came to know themselves as a distinctive people. This book focuses on the experiences of ordinary men and women and shows how the process of Christian conversion transformed Christianity into something more deeply Yoruba. Series: African Systems of Thought. Num Pages: 436 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HRCX7; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253215888
- ISBN
- 9780253215888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.12
€ 32.99
€ 29.12
Paperback. Series: Africa Region Human Development S. Num Pages: 122 pages, tabs. BIC Classification: 1HFGU; JNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 211 x 8. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- World Bank Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821348826
- ISBN
- 9780821348826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.42
€ 25.99
€ 22.42
Hardcover. Clean copy. Fine in dust jacket. DJ has some wear and tear but remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1960
- Publisher
- MacGibbon & Kee 1960
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0000859
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 169 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGU; RNF; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 169
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781622572632
- ISBN
- 9781622572632
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 99.52€ 69.31
€ 99.52
€ 69.31
Paperback. This text addresses a central question in the history of modern France and modern colonialism: how did the Third Republic, highly regarded for its professed democratic values, allow itself to be seduced by the insidious and persistent appeal of a civilizing ideology with distinct racist overtones? Num Pages: 384 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804740128
- ISBN
- 9780804740128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.62
€ 44.99
€ 39.62
An African Green Revolution. Finding Ways to Boost Productivity on Sma...
. Ed(S): Otsuka, Keijiro; Larson, Donald F.
Hardback. This volume explores the usefulness of the Asian model of agricultural development for Africa, where, even before the recent world food crisis, one third of all children were undernourished. Explains Africa's productivity gap and proposes ways to close it. Editor(s): Otsuka, Keijiro; Larson, Donald F. Num Pages: 302 pages, 76 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; KCM; KNAC; TVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400757592
- ISBN
- 9789400757592
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.11
€ 124.11
Hardback. "Title from cover. One issue only.december 1951. p. 37-66 ill. 24 cm. Original printed wraps. Fine copy with tight staple binding, clean and crisp pages, clean cover with slight suggestion of dust dulling to edges." Keywords: "Libraries , Pamphlet"
- Publication date
- 1951
- Publisher
- The Library
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- KEX0125810
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 20.99€ 4.99
€ 20.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Series: Griffith Institute Publications. Num Pages: 258 pages, plus 48 b/w pls, tbs. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 2AHA; 2CXC; DNF; DSBB; HRLP7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 310. Weight in Grams: 739.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Griffith Institute United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780900416750
- ISBN
- 9780900416750
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.90
€ 123.90
Hardcover. This work attempts to provide short profiles of Africa's leaders and their main challengers. It concentrates on the presidents and military rulers in power and those most likely to replace them. Each profile has a short assessment of their character and career followed by a life history. Num Pages: 272 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JM; GTB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810840195
- ISBN
- 9780810840195
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.20
€ 128.20
Paperback. While water professionals have been advocating water reforms, some of politically sensitive elements of reform remain untouched. This report suggests that a series of factors represent an opportunity to break this impasse and turning the potential into reality depends upon adopting reforms that respond to the dynamics of the political economy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; KNBW; RNF; TQSW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- World Bank Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821370964
- ISBN
- 9780821370964
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.46
€ 29.99
€ 25.46
Paperback. Long considered both best friend and worst enemy to humankind, fire is at once creative and destructive. In the endangered tropical paradise of Madagascar, the two faces of fires have fueled a century- long conflict between rural farmers and island leaders. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1HSM; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226461410
- ISBN
- 9780226461410
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 32.65
€ 42.99
€ 32.65
Hardcover. The author here examines eighteen farming communities of Tanga Region, Tanzania, an area of rural poverty with a long history of drought, floods, food shortages, famine, and social and economic disruption to understand what the farmers there know about their environment and which historical and economic factors play into the lack of food security. Series: University of Chicago Geography Research Papers S. Num Pages: 288 pages, 28 halftones, 51 line drawings, 58 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; KNAC; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 180 x 23. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226675800
- ISBN
- 9780226675800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.26€ 58.92
€ 70.26
€ 58.92
Hardback. "Title from cover. One issue only. Front headline "Gap Between Rich And Poor Nations Growing". 6 p. 44 cm. Original broadsheet. Good clean copy with slightest suggestion of dust dulling to edges." Keywords: "Periodicals , Socialism , Pamphlet"
- Publication date
- 1965
- Publisher
- The Spark publications
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- KEX0098431
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 20.99€ 4.99
€ 20.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. This volume examines the links between the changes in the oil industry in the Middle East and North Africa, and the growth of politically radical movements referring to Islam. It charts the rise in oil revenues in the 1970s and early 1980s, and the region's subsequent economic and social failures. Series: Petroleum Research Series in Petrolem Economics & Politics. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; JFSR2; KCP; KNBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471971535
- ISBN
- 9780471971535
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 270.39
€ 270.39
Hardcover. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW sunned to spine and with nicks and small tears. Remains a very good copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1961
- Publisher
- Purnell & Sons
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0005967
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Editor(s): Abbascia, Davide; Poggi, Giusto. Num Pages: 155 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 155
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781614704577
- ISBN
- 9781614704577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.07€ 108.21
€ 158.07
€ 108.21
Paperback. In 1903, Roger Casement, then a British consul, left his consular base on the Lower Congo River and made a journey through the regions of the Upper Congo to investigate at first hand reports of alleged atrocities. This edition brings together Casement's report, together with his diary of that year. Editor(s): O Siochain, Seamas (Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland). Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1HFJC; 1HFJZ; 3JJC; BG; HBJH; HBLW; HBTQ; HBTR; HBTZ; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Univ College Dublin Pr
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781900621991
- ISBN
- 9781900621991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.32
€ 32.99
€ 27.32
Hardcover. Does participation lead citizens of new democracies to invest or disinvest in democracy? This work examines the consequences of citizen involvement in Uganda, one of a growing number of countries employing the participatory model of constitutional reform. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 figures, 18 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFGU; JPHF; JPHV; JPV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472099931
- ISBN
- 9780472099931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.48€ 77.11
€ 85.48
€ 77.11
Paperback. "Cover title. Commissioning organisation: by L. Silberman. 20 p. 19 cm. Original printed wraps. Good clean copy with tight staple binding, green cover with title and illustration on front, clean and crisp pages." Keywords: Subjects
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1905
- Publisher
- Fabian Publications
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KEX0149737
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 104.95€ 10.00
€ 104.95
€ 10.00
Paperback. This new study presents striking parallels in both ethnic (non-European) and folk (European) traditional costumes and ornaments made with silver and glass. From Sudan, Guinea Coast, East and South Africa, Alps, Baltic Sea, Russia, Afghanistan, and Himalaya, these examples display a common sense of beauty among many distant peoples. Num Pages: 160 pages, 484 color photos. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; 1H; JFCK; WCP; WFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 217 x 12. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764311451
- ISBN
- 9780764311451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 24.81
€ 36.99
€ 24.81
Hardcover. Religiosity is one aspect without which Ethiopian society cannot be fully understood. This book aims to map out the terrain of the discourse in religion-social change nexus in Ethiopian using the notion of covenant as an interpretive tool. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137269416
- ISBN
- 9781137269416
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.49
€ 122.49
Hardcover. Aneji Eko was technically illiterate, but she represents a resource for understanding the complexities of African and Nigerian cultures. This is an account of matriarchy and the complex ties of kinship, their influences in shaping childhood culture, and how they determined cultural expectations across ethnic groups. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137382788
- ISBN
- 9781137382788
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89