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Africa
Hardcover. 169 p. illus. 21 cm. Publishers cloth. Near-fine copy. Nice dw with slight rubbing to edges of spine.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1961
- Publisher
- Barker
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KEX0044078
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.99€ 4.99
€ 17.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Focusing on the political life of the sha'b in Cairo, this book shows how men and women develop creative and effective strategies to accomplish shared goals, despite the dominant forces ranged against them. It examines communal patterns of allocation, distribution, and decision-making. Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics. Num Pages: 358 pages, 15 halftones 25 tables. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFSG; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691025681
- ISBN
- 9780691025681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.13€ 51.02
€ 65.13
€ 51.02
Paperback. In the gloom it came along the branches towards me, its round, hypnotic eyes blazing, its spoon-like ears turning to and fro independently like radar dishes ..it was Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky come to life ..one of the most incredible creatures I had ever been privileged to meet. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1HSM; WNCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Viking
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780670920686
- ISBN
- 9780670920686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
hardcover. Originally a royal court dance, "baakisimba" asserted the authority of the king as the head of Baganda society. Integrating a study of the performance genre with a detailed analysis of gender among the Baganda, this book illuminates the complex relationship between "baakisimba" and Baganda culture. Series: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations. Num Pages: 316 pages, 34 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGU; ASD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415967761
- ISBN
- 9780415967761
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.71
€ 148.71
Paperback. Describes Corinne Hofmann's return to Switzerland and the difficulties that faced her there, detailing how she built a new life for herself and her daughter and overcame all obstacles with the same courage and optimism with which she faced the demands of her life in the Kenyan outback. Translator(s): Millar, Peter. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; BT; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Arcadia Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905147441
- ISBN
- 9781905147441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.84
€ 15.99
€ 11.84
Hardback. Looks at how refugees and asylum seekers are stigmatised in political rhetoric and media coverage. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVWR; 1H; JFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745334332
- ISBN
- 9780745334332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.65€ 83.84
€ 100.65
€ 83.84
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408866474
- ISBN
- 9781408866474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.06
€ 22.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 22. BIC Classification: 1HFDM; AVGW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816693504
- ISBN
- 9780816693504
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51
Paperback. Clive Walker has changed the face of conservation in South Africa and devoted his life to the preservation of our wildlife and natural heritage. Baobab trails is the story of his journey, spanning more than forty years, told through his experiences with some extraordinary and remarkable personalities. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; BGA; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Publisher
- Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781431408672
- ISBN
- 9781431408672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.70
€ 27.99
€ 24.70
Paperback. Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto illustrates how this rapidly growing, underfunded but surprisingly effective institution found the niche that allowed it to exist, to provide medical care to a massive patient body and at times even to flourish in the apartheid state. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; MBP; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Wits University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781868147472
- ISBN
- 9781868147472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Paperback. Explains the most unusual, obscure, and curious words and expressions from vintage blues music. This book unravels the nuances of more than twelve hundred idioms and proper or place names found on oft-overlooked 'race records' recorded between 1923 and 1949. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KB; 3JJG; AVGK; GBC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252076602
- ISBN
- 9780252076602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.40
€ 27.99
€ 26.40
Paperback. The climactic death-throes of Soviet Communism during the 1980s included a last-gasp attempt at strategic franchise expansion in Southern Africa. Channelled through Castro's Cuba, oil-rich Angolan armed forces (FAPLA) received billions of dollars of weaponry including MiG 23 and Sukhoi fighter jets, SAM 8 missile systems and armoured vehicles. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMA; 3JJPN; HBJH; HBLW3; HBW; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Publisher
- Helion and Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909982024
- ISBN
- 9781909982024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.13
€ 26.99
€ 20.13
Hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBL; 3JJH; HBJH; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752468785
- ISBN
- 9780752468785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.44
€ 13.99
€ 13.44
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804784863
- ISBN
- 9780804784863
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.24
€ 160.24
Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 113 color + 27 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1HFDY; AFKB; AGN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 316 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1396.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300222449
- ISBN
- 9780300222449
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.21€ 46.67
€ 59.21
€ 46.67
Paperback. Drawing on interviews with Nigeria's writers, publishers, booksellers, and readers, surveys, and a reading of close to 500 Nigerian novels - from lightweight romances to literary masterpieces - this work explores how global cultural flows and local conflicts meet in the production and reception of fiction. Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1 map, 2 line illus., 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 2AB; DSB; DSK; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691058290
- ISBN
- 9780691058290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.05€ 55.38
€ 71.05
€ 55.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1HF; 3JJG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008112967
- ISBN
- 9780008112967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.81
€ 11.99
€ 10.81
Paperback. The poems in Tsitsi Ella Jaji's Beating the Graves meditate on the meaning of living in diaspora, an experience increasingly common among contemporary Zimbabweans. Vivid evocations of the landscape of Zimbabwe filter critiques of contemporary political conditions and ecological challenges, veiled in the multiple meanings of poetic metaphor. Series: African Poetry Book Series. Num Pages: 114 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 7. Weight in Grams: 177.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 114
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803299603
- ISBN
- 9780803299603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.47
€ 17.99
€ 17.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, 125 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; AJC; WNP; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 116 x 10. Weight in Grams: 206. 128 pages, 125 colour illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1HFGK; AJC; WNP; WTH. Dimension: 179 x 116 x 10. Weight: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Camerapix
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781874041214
- ISBN
- 9781874041214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.45
€ 10.99
€ 9.45
Paperback. Shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic independence and access to a public community space into platforms for activism. This book argues that the beauty industry played a crucial role in the creation of the modern black female identity. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3; KNSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252076961
- ISBN
- 9780252076961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.21
€ 27.99
€ 26.21
Paperback. When does a country become a state? On 18 May 1991, the leaders of the Somali. National Movement and the elders of northern Somali clans proclaimed that they were setting up the new Republic of Somaliland. Why has Somaliland not followed Somalia into 'state collapse'? Series: African Issues. Num Pages: 288 pages, maps, photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFGS; GTF; JPH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394. Series: African Issues. 288 pages, maps, photographs. When does a country become a state? On 18 May 1991, the leaders of the Somali. National Movement and the elders of northern Somali clans proclaimed that they were setting up the new Republic of Somaliland. Why has Somaliland not followed Somalia into 'state collapse'?. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1HFGS; GTF; JPH. Dimension: 221 x 149 x 17. Weight: 410.
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847013101
- ISBN
- 9781847013101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.81
€ 33.99
€ 32.81
Paperback. Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? Editor(s): Mangcu, Xolela. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBJH; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 130. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Wits University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781868145324
- ISBN
- 9781868145324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
paperback. Beginning where stories of colonial liquor control and exploitation leave off, this title looks at the commerce of beer, it's valorising of male sociability and sports, and the corporate culture of South African Breweries, the world's most successful brewing company. Series: African Systems of Thought. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFCV; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221803
- ISBN
- 9780253221803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Paperback. The intent in this book is to removethe secrecy that surrounds incestuous abuse in white South Africa by presenting five in-depth personal accounts of sexual exploitation as told by the survivors. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFFE2; JFM; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- St. Martin's
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333642337
- ISBN
- 9780333642337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.10€ 51.69
€ 52.10
€ 51.69