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For Bread Alone
Saqi 2012; US$ 10.19Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed?s family walks to Tangier in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of Mohamed?s siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed by his father in a fit of rage. On moving to another province Mohamed learns how to charm and steal, and discovers the joys of drugs,... more...
National Currencies and Globalization
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95Globalization and money - two concepts inextricably linked. In many ways the speed with which financial resources traverse the globe, the opportunities which this provides for the efficient allocation of resources, the possibilities which this creates for financial crises and traders who act as agents removed from the concerns of national citizens... more...
The Stories of Paul Bowles
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 16.99The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wry?possessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and ultimately moral. In "Pastor Dowe at Tecaté," a Protestant missionary is sent to a faraway place where his... more...
Travels
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 13.99Inmore than forty essays and articles that range from Paris to Ceylon, Thailand to Kenya, and, of course, Morocco, the great twen-tieth-century American writer encapsulates his long and full life, and sheds light on his brilliant fiction. Whether he?s recalling the cold-water artists? flats of Paris?s Left Bank or the sun-worshipping eccentrics of... more...
The Sheltering Sky
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99The Sheltering Sky is a landmark of twentieth-century literature. In this intensely fascinating story, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans' incomprehension of alien cultures leads to the ultimate destruction of those cultures. A story about three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II,... more...
The Delicate Prey
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99Exemplary storles that reveal the blzarre, the dlsturblng, the perllous, and the wlse ln other clvlllzatlons -- from one of Amerlca's most lmportant wrlters of the twentleth century. more...
Let it Come Down
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 13.99In Let It Come Down , Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel... more...
The Spider's House
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99Set in Fez, Morocco, during that country's 1954 nationalist uprising, The Spider's House is perhaps Paul Bowles's most beautifully subtle novel, richly descriptive of its setting and uncompromising in its characterizations. Exploring once again the dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures?recurrent... more...
Everything is Nice
Sort Of Books 2012; US$ 13.11Definitive edition of stories, with a biographical note and photos THIS NEW COLLECTION gathers together all of Jane Bowles?s fictional work (except her novel, Two Serious Ladies). It includes all of her stories, her plays, the excised sections of Two Serious Ladies (which was originally Three Serious Ladies), fragments of two unfinished novels (Out... more...
Globalization and Labour in China and India
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00Globalization has pushed China and India to the centre of the stage but what has been the impact on workers in these countries? This book demonstrates the complexity of the processes and responses at play. There are signs that both states are shifting their role in a 'counter movement from above'. But will this be enough to quell the social unrest? more...









