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Africa for Kids
Chicago Review Press 2007; US$ 13.99Africa is brought to life in this imaginative look at the plants, animals, and people that make it such a fascinating continent. Studies of both traditional tribes and modern African cities showcase Africa's diversity, and authentic activities allow kids to dive into the rich culture by making a Maasai bivouac shelter, writing a fable in the African... more...
Amazing Africa Projects You Can Build Yourself
Nomad Press 2010; US$ 12.95Separating the vast continent into its many distinct and diverse countries, this comprehensive reference introduces the ancient civilizations and tribes, unique traditions, and amazing wildlife of Africa. With 25 fun projects that kids can complete using easily accessible supplies and even recycled materials, this study clearly demonstrates what... more...
The Bedouin of Cyrenaica
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 60.00This collection brings together Emrys Peters' major writings on the Bedouin of Libya. more...
DK Eyewitness Books: Africa
Dorling Kindersley 2000; US$ 15.99Here is a spectacular and informative guide to the peoples of a vast and mysterious continent. Superb color photographs offer a unique "eyewitness" view of the people, houses, tools and artifacts of African cultures and civilizations. See the gold of King Kofi-Karikari of the Asante, a priest''scostume made of bird''s feathers, a traveler''s magic... more...
Exit the Colonel
PublicAffairs 2012; US$ 29.99The inside story of the decades-long unravelling of the Gaddafi regime, and of the West's role in both empowering his dictatorship and seeding revolution more...
Exit Gaddafi
Saqi 2012; US$ 18.94Things were not well in Muammar al-Gaddafi?s Libya long before the uprising that began in February 2011. Years of aggression against the West, its Middle Eastern and African neighbours, and the Libyan people themselves, had led to US and UN sanctions and to Libya?s isolation. A pariah on the world stage, Gaddafi struggled to maintain order by cracking... more...
Forgotten Voices
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 47.95In Forgotten Voices, Ali Abdullatif Ahmida employs archival research, oral interviews and comparative analysis to rethink the history of colonial and nationalist categories and analyses of modern Libya. more...
Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya
Monthly Review Press 2013; US$ 85.00In this incisive account, scholar Horace Campbell investigates the political and economic crises of the early twenty-first century through the prism of NATOs intervention in Libya. He traces the origins of the conflict, situates it in the broader context of the Arab Spring uprisings, and explains the expanded role of a post-Cold War NATO. This... more...
A History of Modern Libya
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 26.00First comprehensive history of modern Libya over the last two decades. more...
Libya
The History Press 2011; US$ 7.28How Libya has evolved from Ottoman province to international pariah to seething cauldron of rebellion. For more than four decades, Libya has been something of an enigma to outsiders. Ruled by the despotic and unstable Muammar Gaddafi since he led a military coup in 1969, it has vast oil wealth and one of the highest standards of living in Africa.... more...









