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DB2 9 for z/OS Database Administration
MC Press 2012; US$ 64.95Written primarily for database administrators who work on the IBM z/OS system and who are taking the DB2 9 Database for z/OS Certification exam (Exam 732), this resource also appeals to those who simply want to master the skills needed to be an effective database administrator on z/OS systems. The guide covers all topics on the exam, including database... more...
Designated Drivers
Wiley 2012; US$ 29.95An in-depth look at the Chinese car industry that sheds new light on the delicate nature of China's planned economy China's unprecedented growth over the last three decades, along with the recent financial crisis in the West, has raised questions about the superiority of state-led capitalism. In Designated Drivers: How China Plans to Dominate the... more...
African Railwaymen
Cambridge University Press 1974; US$ 30.00This was the first anthropological monograph to have dealt at length with the labour force of a major East African industry. more...
Cultures of Servitude
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 23.95Employers and servants in Kolkata reveal through their own stories how their evolving culture of servitude has produced, preserved, and disrupted ideas of gender and class in India and beyond. more...
Mingming & the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing
The FitzRoy Press 2010; Not AvailableThe book covers three extraordinary voyages in the tiny yacht Mingming, carrying on from where Voyages of a Simple Sailor left off. more...
Directives pour les agents chargés du contrôle par lEtat du port effectuant des inspections en application de la convention (no 188) sur le travail dans la pêche, 2007
ILO Publications 2012; US$ 30.00Les personnes qui travaillent à bord des navires de pêche doivent bien souvent faire face à des dangers exceptionnels et imprévisibles, et effectuent de nombreuses heures de travail dans des conditions pénibles. La convention de lOIT (no.188) sur le travail dans la pêche, 2007, vise à garantir à ces personnes... more...
Socle de protection sociale pour une mondialisation juste et inclusive
ILO Publications 2011; US$ 45.00Rapport du Groupe consultatif présidé par Michelle Bachelet. A plusieurs égards, la force du socle de protection sociale réside dans sa simplicité. Il repose sur lidée que chacun doit bénéficier dune sécurité de revenu de base suffisante pour vivre , garantie par des transferts en espèces... more...
South Africa's Gold Mines and the Politics of Silicosis
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 34.95This book reveals how the South African mining industry, abetted by a minority state, hid a pandemic of silicosis for almost a century, and allowed workers infected with the potentially fatal tuberculosis to spread disease to rural communities in South Africa and to labouring sending states. The first crisis of 1896-1912, which focused on minority... more...
We Get Nothing from Fishing
Langaa RPCIG 2010; US$ 29.95The world is regularly confronted on television and in other mass media with dramatic images of African boat migrants. Seemingly desperate, these Africans, most of them males, are willing to risk a perilous journey at sea, hoping for a better life in Europe. And, even worse, hundreds more are believed to die each year, swallowed up anonymously by the... more...
Men of Steam
Pen and Sword 2011; US$ 12.09Few modes of travel have the enduring appeal of steam railways. Today preserved lines, locomotives and rolling stock attract not just expert enthusiasts but more casual visitors who are keen to savor the distinctive atmosphere of a lost era in transport history. Yet these relics are but one aspect of the long story of steam, for they cannot reveal... more...









