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Who Rules South Africa?
Jonathan Ball Publishers 2012; US$ 21.88In this timely work, WHO RULES SOUTH AFRICA?, highly regarded authors Paul Holden and Martin Plaut analyse the political elites that battle daily for power in South Africa. They argue that power does not reside in traditional institutions such as Parliament or even the Cabinet. Rather, power lies within the ANC-led Alliance which, with no founding... more...
Bunker Hill
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 12.99Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower , brings his prodigious talents to the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution. Boston in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots who range from sober citizens to thuggish... more...
A Train in Winter
Random House 2012; US$ 13.34On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz - the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp. Of the group, 49 survivors would return to France. Here is the story... more...
A Long Way Gone
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007; US$ 12.99My new friends have begun to suspect I haven?t told them the full story of my life. ?Why did you leave Sierra Leone?? ?Because there is a war.? ?You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?? ?Yes, all the time.? ?Cool.? I smile a little. ?You should tell us about it sometime.? ?Yes, sometime.? This is how wars... more...
Liberation Square
St. Martin's Press 2012; US$ 26.99A definitive, absorbing account of the Egyptian revolution, written by a Cairo-based Egyptian-American reporter for Foreign Policy and The Times (London), who witnessed firsthand Mubarak's demise and the country's efforts to build a democracy In early 2011, the world?s attention was riveted on Cairo, where after three decades of supremacy,... more...
Tears of the Desert
Hodder & Stoughton 2012; Not AvailableThe first memoir from a woman born and raised in South Darfur. An incredibly powerful first-hand account of the horrors of the genocide. more...
Foreign Intervention in Africa
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 22.00Chronicles foreign political and military interventions in Africa from 1956 to 2010, helping readers understand the historical roots of Africa's problems. more...
Development and the African Diaspora
Zed Books 2008; US$ 34.95This book engages critically with the current enthusiasm among policy-makers for treating the African diaspora as an untapped resource for combating poverty. Its focus on diasporic networks, rather than private remittances, reveals the particular successes and challenges diasporas face in acting as a group, not least in mobilising members of the diaspora... more...
Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 37.00This book chronicles the rise to power of the student controlled Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in the northern Ethiopian province of Tigray. more...
Pirates Of Barbary
Random House 2011; US$ 13.33From the coast of Southern Europe to Morocco and the Ottoman states of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, Christian and Muslim seafarers met in bustling ports to swap religions, to battle and to trade goods and sales - raiding as far as Ireland and Iceland in search of their human currency.Studying the origins of these men, their culture and practices, Adrian... more...









