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  • Fringes

    Life on the Edge of Professional Rugby

    by Ben Mercer ...
    Updated edition of the #1 Amazon BestsellerLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020Sports books tend to detail extraordinary achievements, triumphs against the odds or commemorate World Cup winning captains.This book does not do that.For many, playing professional sport is the Dream Job. Few manage it, very few make it to the top and for the rest, life is very different. ... Read more

    $10.73 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Fringes

    Life on the Edge of Professional Rugby

    by Ben Mercer ...
    Narrated by Ben Mercer ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 3 min

    LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020Sports books tend to detail extraordinary achievements, triumphs against the odds or commemorate World Cup winning captains.This book does not do that.For many, playing professional sport is the Dream Job. Few manage it, very few make it to the top and for the rest, life is very different. This is their story.In Fringes, Ben Mercer ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Student Revolt in 1968

    France, Italy and West Germany

    by Ben Mercer ...
    Series series New Studies in European History
    Student Revolt in 1968 examines the origins, course and dissolution of student protest at three universities in the 1960s - the Freie Universität Berlin in West Germany, the campus of Nanterre in France, and the Faculty of Sociology at Trento in Italy. It traces how student revolts over space, speech, sociology and cultural democratisation catalysed a dynamic protest movement within universities ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Development and the African Diaspora

    Place and the Politics of Home

    by Doctor Claire Mercer, Ben Page, Martin Evans ...
    There has been much recent celebration of the success of African 'civil society' in forging global connections through an ever-growing diaspora. Against the background of such celebrations, this innovative book sheds light on the diasporic networks - 'home associations' - whose economic contributions are being used to develop home. Despite these networks being part of the flow of migrants' ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

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    by Herodotus, Procopius & Strabo ...
    Primary Accounts of the Ancient Civilizations of North Africa is a collection of accounts about African civilizations written by some of the oldest and most prominent historians of antiquity, including Herodotus, also known as the Father of History, who lived in the 5th century B.C. (c.484 BC c.425 BC) and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy ... Read more

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  • The Ancient Black Hebrews and Arabs

    by Anu M'Bantu and Gert Muller ...
    The evidence from the Bible describes the ancient Hebrews as being Afro-haired and Black. Abraham, Jacob, David and Solomon were Black. Pictures of the ancient Hebrews show this part of Biblical record to be accurate. These pictures are presented here! Most people do not know that the original Arabs of ancient times were Black. This book quotes ancient authorities and the ancient Arabs themselves ... Read more

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  • Emperor Haile Selassie

    by Bereket Habte Selassie ...
    Series series Ohio Short Histories of Africa
    Emperor Haile Selassie was an iconic figure of the twentieth century, a progressive monarch who ruled Ethiopia from 1916 to 1974. This book, written by a former state official who served in a number of important positions in Selassie’s government, tells both the story of the emperor’s life and the story of modern Ethiopia.After a struggle for the throne in 1916, the young Selassie emerged first as ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • We Never Knew Exactly Where: Dispatches From the Lost Country of Mali

    by Peter Chilson ...
    Series series FP Borderlands
    A masterful blend of reportage and history from one of the world's newest front lines in the war on terror -- the endangered African country of Mali.What happens when a country suddenly splits in two? In 2012, Mali, once a poster child for African democracy, all but collapsed in a succession of coups and countercoups as Islamist rebels claimed control of the country’s north, making it a new safe ... Read more

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  • Collection Of African Religion Volume 1

    by NETLANCERS INC ...
    Collection Of African Religion Volume 1This is an excellent exploration and analysis of African Religious thoughts and practices. The author's expositions are detailed, especially when speaking about the usually more obscure African societies. What's extremely interesting is the logic behind the practices such as (before entering 'rites of passage') leaving a child in the wilderness temporarily in ... Read more

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  • Democracy in Africa

    Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform

    by Nic Cheeseman ...
    Series Book 9 - New Approaches to African History
    This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of democracy in Africa and explains why the continent's democratic experiments have so often failed, as well as how they could succeed. Nic Cheeseman grapples with some of the most important questions facing Africa and democracy today, including whether international actors should try and promote democracy abroad, how to design ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Boy Who Runs

    The Odyssey of Julius Achon

    by John Brant ...
    In the tradition of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation by way of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run, this is the inspirational true story of the Ugandan boy soldier who became a world-renowned runner, then found his calling as director of a world-renowned African children’s charity.“Julius can’t remember who first saw the men. He heard no warning sounds—no dog barking or twig snapping. Until ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • A History of Modern Oman

    by Jeremy Jones, Nicholas Ridout ...
    The ideal introduction to the history of modern Oman from the eighteenth century to the present, this book combines the most recent scholarship on Omani history with insights drawn from a close analysis of the politics and international relations of contemporary Oman. Jeremy Jones and Nicholas Ridout offer a distinctive new approach to Omani history, building on postcolonial thought and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD