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Africa
Paperback. Covering the time span from the Paleolithic period to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC, this title explores three thousand years of uninterrupted contact between Egypt and Western Asia across the Sinai land-bridge. It presents a narrative of the love-hate relationship between the people of ancient Israel/Palestine and Egypt. Num Pages: 512 pages, 36 halftones 10 figs. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HBE; HBJF1; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 231 x 19. Weight in Grams: 760.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691000862
- ISBN
- 9780691000862
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Condition: New
€ 52.77€ 41.82
€ 52.77
€ 41.82
Paperback. A study of two transnational NGOs in Zimbabwe, this book offers a nuanced depiction of development as both liberatory and limiting. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; GTF; HRCX6; JPWH; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804753364
- ISBN
- 9780804753364
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.57
€ 32.99
€ 31.57
Paperback. He thus extends Rustow's (1970) theory that democratic behavior produces democratic values. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7, 7 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JJPR; 3JMC; JPHF; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801883330
- ISBN
- 9780801883330
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.05
€ 35.99
€ 30.05
Paperback. Describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many people elsewhere, utilize cosmopolitan medicine alongside traditional healing practices. This book asks What criteria determine the choice of the alternative therapies? And what is their institutional interrelationship? Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems & Medical Care. Num Pages: 308 pages, 26ill. BIC Classification: 1HFJZ; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 59.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Underlined
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520046337
- ISBN
- 9780520046337
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 27.80
€ 38.99
€ 27.80
Paperback. Testimonies of slavery and the slave trade Num Pages: 300 pages, 9 b&w illus., 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1H; 1HFD; C; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253222947
- ISBN
- 9780253222947
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.47
€ 29.99
€ 29.47
Paperback. By featuring the life histories of eight senior men, this work explores the changing meaning of becoming a man in modern Africa. It concentrates on the ideals and expectations that formed around men who were prominent in their communities when Ghana became an independent nation. Num Pages: 360 pages, 23 b&w photos, 1 maps, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; GTB; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 143 x 27. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253217868
- ISBN
- 9780253217868
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.97
€ 27.99
€ 26.97
Paperback. Focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology allows students to trace the experiences of one cultural group throughout the cycle of the slave experience in the Americas. Editor(s): Falola, Toyin; Childs, Matt D. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 472 pages, 10 b&w photos, 8 figures, 1 maps, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 1K; GTB; HBTS; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253217165
- ISBN
- 9780253217165
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 318 pages, 10 b&w illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFJ; 3JJP; HBJH; HBLW3; HBTV; JPVH4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253021397
- ISBN
- 9780253021397
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.40
€ 36.99
€ 35.40
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253007513
- ISBN
- 9780253007513
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.35
€ 32.99
€ 29.35
Paperback. Single White Female falls in love with a polygamous West African shaman and explores his indigenous spirituality. Num Pages: 187 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; BM; VXWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 23. Weight in Grams: 192.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782799481
- ISBN
- 9781782799481
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.26
€ 16.99
€ 15.26
Hardback. Num Pages: 607 pages, 1,600 objects illustrated. BIC Classification: 1H; ACBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 310 x 239 x 51. Weight in Grams: 3788.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764320057
- ISBN
- 9780764320057
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Condition: New
€ 85.59€ 63.64
€ 85.59
€ 63.64
Paperback. Translator(s): Stump, Jordan. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 3JJPR; 3JM; BT; HBTZ; JFSL1; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 259 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Archipelago Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780914671534
- ISBN
- 9780914671534
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Condition: New
€ 13.23
€ 13.23
Paperback. In 2002, as Sierra Leone prepared to announce the end of its brutal civil war, the distinguished anthropologist, poet, and novelist Michael Jackson returned to the country where he had intermittently lived and worked as an ethnographer since 1969. Here, he offers his reminiscences revisiting the site of his fieldwork from the 1970s. Num Pages: 232 pages, 23 b&w photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDE; GTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 225 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822333135
- ISBN
- 9780822333135
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.10
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Paperback. Mozambique has been hailed as a success story by the international community. The author examines the role of customary law in Mozambique to ask a larger question: what is the place of law in the neoliberal era, in which the juridical and the economic are deeply intertwined in an ongoing state of structural adjustment? Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; LAFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226153865
- ISBN
- 9780226153865
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.51
€ 34.99
€ 27.51
Hardback. From 1952 to 1981, South Africa's apartheid government ran an art school for the training of African art teachers at Indaleni, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal. The Art of Life in South Africa is the story of the students, teachers, art, and politics that circulated through a small school, housed in a remote former mission station. Series: New African Histories. Num Pages: 376 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFM; 3JJP; ACX; HBTB; JNB; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1293.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821422519
- ISBN
- 9780821422519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.12
€ 115.12
Paperback. The social dynamics of global polio eradication Num Pages: 192 pages, 8 color illus., 6 b&w illus., 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; MBNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253222282
- ISBN
- 9780253222282
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.96
€ 26.99
€ 26.96
Paperback. How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? The author aims to answer these questions. He shows that race, rather than theology, was formative in the emerging study of religion in Europe and North America. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; HRAC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226117430
- ISBN
- 9780226117430
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.05
€ 41.99
€ 32.05
Paperback. A scholarly portrayal of Shona musicians and the African Musical tradition. l Berliner provides the complete cultural context for the music and an intimate, precise account of the meaning of the instrument and its music. Num Pages: 334 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; AVGH; JFSL; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226043791
- ISBN
- 9780226043791
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 21.90
€ 26.99
€ 21.90
Paperback. Provides an analysis of African politics during the period when the colonial system began to disintegrate. Written as Africa was just realizing independence and still reveling in the optimism it brought, this work also examines the African unity movement that arose between 1957 and 1965 and its revolutionary core. Num Pages: 280 pages, Maps. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 25. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803298569
- ISBN
- 9780803298569
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.30
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€ 31.30
Paperback. Why hasn't Africa been able to respond to the challenges of modernity and globalization? Going against the conventional wisdom that colonialism brought modernity to Africa, this book claims that Africa was already becoming modern and that colonialism was an unfinished project. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221308
- ISBN
- 9780253221308
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.45
€ 33.99
€ 30.45