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  • Your Madness, Not Mine

    Stories of Cameroon

    by Makuchi ...
    Series Book 70 - Research in International Studies, Africa Series
    Women’s writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by the minority status her people occupy within the nation-state.The stories in Your Madness, Not Mine are about postcolonial Cameroon, but especially ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Sacred Door and Other Stories

    Cameroon Folktales of the Beba

    by Makuchi ...
    Series Book 86 - Research in International Studies, Africa Series
    The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions. Makuchi retells the stories that she heard at home when she was growing up in her native Cameroon.The collection of thirty-four folktales of the Beba ... Read more

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  • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

    by David Hume ...
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in English in 1748. It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739-40. Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which "fell dead-born from the press," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his ... Read more

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    by BookRags ...
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  • Facing the flag

    Facing the Flag or For the Flag (French: Face au drapeau) is an 1896 patriotic novel by Jules Verne. The book is part of the Voyages Extraordinaires (Extraordinary Voyages) series.Like The Begum's Millions, which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally ... Read more

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