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    Stop Losing Money And Become A Smart Bettor

    10 Basic Lessons For Betting On Football Games

    by Bruce House ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Martin G ...

    Unabridged

    28 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Do you bet just for fun? Do you think it's nothing more than a game? Then know that you are giving your money away for free to the bookmakers.Betting is serious business, and only those who bet with intelligence and strategy can make a profit.In 10 basic lessons, you will learn how to turn your bets from a simple hobby into a serious activity, reducing ... Read more

    $2.35 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Migrants and Strangers in an African City

    Exile, Dignity, Belonging

    by Bruce Whitehouse ...
    In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Enduring Polygamy

    Plural Marriage and Social Change in an African Metropolis

    by Bruce Whitehouse ...
    Series series Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
    Why hasn’t polygamous marriage died out in African cities, as experts once expected it would? Enduring Polygamy considers this question in one of Africa’s fastest-growing cities: Bamako, the capital of Mali, where one in four wives is in a polygamous marriage. Using polygamy as a lens through which to survey sweeping changes in urban life, it offers ethnographic and demographic insights into the ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Polygamy: The Basics

    by Bruce Whitehouse, William Jankowiak ...
    Series series The Basics
    Polygamy: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the kinship structure known as plural marriage or polygamy. Tailored for general readers and non-specialists, this book distils research findings from evolutionary anthropology, history, economics, political science, and cultural anthropology to survey polygamy’s place in human cultural, economic, and demographic developments from ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Condemned to Repeat?

    The Paradox of Humanitarian Action

    by Fiona Terry ...
    Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering. In Condemned to Repeat?, Terry examines the side-effects of intervention by aid organizations and points out the need to acknowledge the political consequences of the ... Read more

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    by Roland Marchal, Ned Dalby, Faouzi Kilembe, Ledio Cakaj, Nathaniel Olin, Enrica Picco, Stephen W. Smith, Laurence D. Wohlers ...
    Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked. Democracy, in any kind of a meaningful sense, has eluded the country. Since the mid-1990s, army mutinies and serial rebellion in CAR have resulted in two major successful coups. Over the course of these upheavals, the country has become a laboratory for peacebuilding ... Read more

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  • The Suffering of the Immigrant

    by Abdelmalek Sayad, Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Translated by David Macey ...
    This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader’s understanding of the issues surrounding immigration. Sayad’s book will be widely used in courses on race, ethnicity, immigration and identity in sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, politics and geography.an outstanding and original work on the experience of immigration ... Read more

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  • Humanitarian Intervention

    by Thomas G. Weiss ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East Timor, and Libya to Côte d�Ivoire, soldiers have rescued civilians in some of the world's most notorious war zones. But what about Syria? Why have we observed the Syrian slaughter and done nothing? Is humanitarian intervention in crisis? Is the so-called ... Read more

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    Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota

    by Jon D. Holtzman ...
    This book examines contemporary migration to the United States through a surprising and compelling case study – the Nuer of Sudan, whose traditional life represents one of the most important case studies in the history of anthropology.It provides an opportunity to examine issues of current importance within anthropology, such as social change, transnationalism, displacement, and diaspora in an ... Read more

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  • Identity, Citizenship, and Political Conflict in Africa

    by Edmond J. Keller ...
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    "Engaging…detailed with current information about the situation in many African countries." — African Studies QuarterlyReflecting on the processes of nation-building and citizenship formation in Africa, Edmond J. Keller believes that although some deep parochial identities have eroded, they have not disappeared—and may be more assertive than previously thought, especially in instances of political ... Read more

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  • Polygamy Question

    Edited by Janet Bennion, Lisa Fishbayn Joffe ...
    The practice of polygamy occupies a unique place in North American history and has had a profound effect on its legal and social development. The Polygamy Question explores the ways in which indigenous and immigrant polygamy have shaped the lives of individuals, communities, and the broader societies that have engaged with it. The book also considers how polygamy challenges our traditional notions ... Read more

    $20.89 USD