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  • Saplings and Spades

    A Woodland Returns

    by David Parkins ...
    As a young boy, David witnessed bulldozers obliterate a forest for a bypass. Decades later, he resolved to replace the annihilated trees with another wood. Starting from nothing, he set about the task. It was not easy; there was vastly more to woodland establishment than planting saplings. Writing informally, David recalls the triumphs and disasters of his undertaking. Success was hard-won and ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

  • Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward

    by David Parkin ...
    This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen sixties in much of Africa created expectations of increased development, education and living standards. There was hope that ethnic tensions arising from false colonial boundaries might be transcended by ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Three Insane Poets

    by David Rollins, Julie Stacey, David Parkin ...
    The Three Insane Poets are David Parkin, who has a traumatic brain injury, David Rollins, who has borderline personality disorder, and Julie Stacey, who has bipolar disorder. This collaboration is at times hilarious, poignant, and always thought provoking. All three poets live in Leicester. ... Read more

    $3.34 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making

    by David Parkin ...
    Series Book 19 - Encounters
    This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in East Africa. It gives an overview of developments since the 1960s in the anthropology of language use and how these have influenced the author’s thinking. The volume makes the argument that language and other forms of communication involve semiotic ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Power, Mobility and Voice

    Jan Blommaert's Unfinished Business

    Edited by Karel Arnaut, Ico Maly, David Parkin, Dr. Massimiliano Spotti ...
    Series Book 27 - Encounters
    Builds on the profound and challenging legacy of sociolinguist Jan Blommaert, one of the most important thinkers in contemporary sociolinguistics, who dismantled the theoretical and ideological orthodoxies of his time.This volume honours the influential work of Jan Blommaert, furthering his critical and constructive engagement with power dynamics across numerous domains. It takes Blommaert’s work ... Read more

    $1.00 USD

  • Don't Open the Door!

    by Veronika Martenova Charles ...
    Illustrated by David Parkins ...
    Series series Easy-to-Read Spooky Tales
    Having been warned not to open the door for anyone while Mom goes to help a neighbor, the three boys try to outdo each other by telling scary stories about strangers at the door. By the time they have finished, they have scared themselves under the bed. Stories in this book come from Bohemia, the Guyanas, and Peru and are based on the universal theme of not opening the door to strangers. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    My Happy Marriage, Vol. 4

    by Akumi Agitogi, Tsukiho Tsukioka ...
    Narrated by Miranda Parkin, Damien Haas ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - My Happy Marriage (novel)

    Unabridged

    4 hours 48 min

    CAUGHT BETWEEN FRIEND AND FOE…On their trip home from the Kudou family villa, Miyo and Kiyoka narrowly escape an ambush from the leader of the Gifted Communion, Naoshi Usui, who claims to be Miyo’s father. Fearing that Miyo will be targeted again, Kiyoka insists that she accompany him to his workplace from now on and appoints a female soldier named Kaoruko as her bodyguard. Though Miyo is ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • That Cat Can't Stay

    by Thad Krasnesky, David Parkins ...
    Bank Street Best Books for Children Smithsonian Notable Books for Children Cat Writers' Association Muse Medallion Winner and World's Best Litter-ary Award Winner Wanda Gág Best Read Aloud Honor Book Included on 4 State Book Award lists – in DE, IL, NE, and NY Stories for Young Listeners category, Storytelling World Resource Awards Society of School Librarians International Honor Book 2010 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Islamic Prayer Across the Indian Ocean

    Inside and Outside the Mosque

    by Stephen Headley, David Parkin ...
    Series series Routledge Indian Ocean Series
    In its attempt to squash the influence of animism and pantheism or polytheism and to promote the idea of the One and Only Absolute God, Islam has come up against a tendency within itself to incorporate certain local religious traditions and practices. This book shares that combination of universality and local particularity, exploring this paradox and the contradictory tendencies contained in it. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Bush Base, Forest Farm

    Culture, Environment, and Development

    Edited by Elisabeth Croll, David Parkin ...
    Taking a unique anthropological apprach, Bush Base: Forest Farm explores the management of resources in third would development programmes. The contributors, all distinguished anthropologists with practical experience of development projects, focus on the role of human cultural imagination in the use of environmental resources. They challenge the traditional sharp distinction between human ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Evil in Africa

    Encounters with the Everyday

    Edited by William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek ...
    William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around them. Grouped around notions of evil as a cognitive or experiential problem, evil as malevolent process, and evil as an inversion of justice, these essays investigate what can be accepted and what must be condemned in order to evaluate being and morality in ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    My Happy Marriage, Vol. 5

    by Akumi Agitogi, Tsukiho Tsukioka ...
    Narrated by Miranda Parkin, Damien Haas ...
    Series Audiobook 5 - My Happy Marriage (novel)

    Unabridged

    5 hours 42 min

    LOVE AT A CROSSROADS…Though Miyo managed to escape Usui after Kiyoka came to her aid, the Gifted Communion continues to gain power and influence across Japan. Foreseeing that Usui and his organization will make another attempt to capture Miyo, Crown Prince Takaihito proposes that she and Kiyoka shelter with him in the Imperial Palace. But as Miyo adjusts to her new surroundings, she is taken aback ... Read more

    $25.99 USD