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  • A Swamp Full of Dollars

    Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier

    by Michael Peel ...
    The largest U.S. trading partner in sub-Saharan Africa, petroleum-rich Nigeria exports half its daily oil production to the United States. Like many African nations with natural resources coveted by the world's superpowers, the country has been shaped by foreign investment and intervention, conflicts among hundreds of ethnic and religious groups, and greed. Polio has boomed along with petroleum, ... Read more

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  • The Future of Fossil Fuels

    From Hubbert's Peak

    by Kenneth S. Deffeyes ...
    Series series Princeton Shorts
    As debates about the effects of fossil fuels on our climate and foreign policy intensify, the question of just how much longer we can depend on this finite source of energy becomes more and more pressing. This selection from Hubbert's Peak, the leading book on the limits of our oil supply, forecasts what the future will bring for fossil fuels and what the alternatives are likely to be.Princeton ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Rwanda Means the Universe

    A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines

    by Louise Mushikiwabo, Jack Kramer ...
    Mushikiwabo is a Rwandan working as a translator in Washington when she learns that most of her family back home has been killed in a conspiracy meticulously planned by the state. First comes shock, then aftershock, three months of it, during which her worst fears are confirmed: The same state apparatus has duped millions of Rwandans into butchering nearly a million of their neighbors.Years ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • American Warlord

    A True Story

    by Johnny Dwyer ...
    The incredible true story of Chucky Taylor, the only American ever convicted of torture.Chucky Taylor was an average American teenager, until he got a call from his father, a man who would become the infamous dictator of Liberia. Arriving in West Africa and reunited with his father, Chucky soon found himself leading a murderous militia group tasked with carrying out the president’s vendettas. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Oil, Politics and Violence

    by Max Siollun ...
    An insider traces the details of hope and ambition gone wrong in the “Giant of Africa,” Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country. When it gained independence from Britain in 1960, hopes were high that, with mineral wealth and over 140 million people, the most educated workforce in Africa, Nigeria would become Africa’s first superpower and a stabilizing democratic influence in the region. However, ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Through the Dark Continent

    Volume 1

    by Henry M. Stanley ...
    Through the Dark Continent is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth century Africa and the European explorers who travelled through it.Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a Welsh-American journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Upon finding Livingstone, Stanley reportedly asked, ... Read more

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  • Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen

    An Ordinary Family’s Extraordinary Tale of Love, Loss, and Survival in Congo

    by Lisa J Shannon ...
    Driven by her family's devastating losses, Congolese expatriate Francisca Thelin embarks, with human rights activist Lisa J. Shannon, on a perilous journey back to her beloved homeland, now under the shadow of one of Africa's most feared militias -- Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army. With gunmen camped at the edge of town, Francisca is forced to face a paralyzing clash between her life in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • African Culture and Melville's Art

    The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick

    by Sterling Stuckey ...
    Although Herman Melville's masterworks Moby-Dick and Benito Cereno have long been the subject of vigorous scholarly examination, the impact of African culture on these works has received surprisingly little critical attention. Presenting a groundbreaking reappraisal of these two powerful pieces of fiction, Sterling Stuckey reveals how African customs and rituals heavily influenced one of America ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • By the Rivers of Water

    A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey

    by Erskine Clarke ...
    In early November 1834, an aristocratic young couple from Savannah and South Carolina sailed from New York and began a strange seventeen year odyssey in West Africa. Leighton and Jane Wilson sailed along what was for them an exotic coastline, visited cities and villages, and sometimes ventured up great rivers and followed ancient paths. Along the way they encountered not only many diverse ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World

    by James H. Sweet ...
    Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Álvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time — from Africa to South America to Europe — addressing the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade through the language of health and healing. In Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Africa 2017-2018

    by Francis Wiafe-Amoako ...
    Series series World Today
    The World Today Series: Africa provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends. Each country is examined through the following sections: Basic Facts; Land and People; The Past: Political and Economic History; The Present: Contemporary Issues; and The ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Formulas and Calculations for Drilling, Production and Workover

    by Norton J. Lapeyrouse ...
    The most complete manual of its kind, this handy book gives you all the formulas and calculations you are likely to need in drilling operations. New updated material includes conversion tables into metric. Separate chapters deal with calculations for drilling fluids, pressure control, and engineering. Example calculations are provided throughout.Presented in easy-to-use, step-by-step order, ... Read more

    $113.39 USD