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  • Prisoners of the Past

    South African democracy and the legacy of minority rule

    by Steven Friedman ...
    Building on the work of economic historian Douglass North and Ugandan political scholar Mahmood Mamdani, Friedman argues that the difficulties besetting South African democracy are legacies of the past, not products of the post-1994 eraSouth Africa’s democracy is often seen as a story of bright beginnings gone astray, a pattern said to be common to Africa. The negotiated settlement of 1994, it is ... Read more

    Was $26.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • The Colour of Our Future

    Does race matter in post-apartheid South Africa?

    by Xolela Mangcu, Nina G. Jablonski, Lawrence Blum, Steven Friedman ...
    South Africa is ready for a new vocabulary than can form the basis for a national consciousness which recognises racialised identities while affirming that, as human beings, we are much more than our racial, sexual, class, religious or national identities.The Colour of Our Future makes a bold and ambitious contribution to the discourse on race. It addresses the tension between the promise of a ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Good Jew, Bad Jew

    Racism, anti-Semitism and the assault on meaning

    by Steven Friedman ...
    Shows how anti-Semitism has been distorted to serve the Israeli stateGood Jew, Bad Jew is a critique by one of South Africa’s foremost political theorists of mainstream understandings of Jewishness. Steven Friedman offers a searing analysis of the weaponisation of anti-Semitism in service of political objectives that support the Israeli state and global white supremacy. Looking specifically at the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Winning with Data Science

    A Handbook for Business Leaders

    by Howard Steven Friedman, Akshay Swaminathan ...
    Whether you are a newly minted MBA or a project manager at a Fortune 500 company, data science will play a major role in your career. Knowing how to communicate effectively with data scientists in order to obtain maximum value from their expertise is essential. This book is a compelling and comprehensive guide to data science, emphasizing its real-world business applications and focusing on how to ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Decolonisation

    Revolution and Evolution

    by David Boucher, Ayesha Omar, Christopher Allsobrook, Camilla Boisen, Ndumiso Dladla, Sule Emmanuel Egya, Michael Elliott, Steven Friedman, Amber Murrey0, Paul Patton1, Chris Saunders2, Ian S Spears3 ...
    Offers a comparative analysis of the processes and aftermath of decolonisation from philosophical, historical, literary and legal perspectives. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • One Virus, Two Countries

    What COVID-19 Tells Us About South Africa

    by Steven Friedman ...
    Has South Africa ‘done well’ at limiting illness and deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic? Academic and political commentator, Steven Friedman, thinks not. While the country’s mainstream media believes it has, in his view the evidence tells another story. South Africa has experienced by far the most cases and deaths in Africa – at one point as many as the rest of the continent combined.One Virus, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Ultimate Price

    The Value We Place on Life

    by Howard Steven Friedman ...
    How much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that underlie these price tags are often buried in technical language, yet they influence our economy, laws, behaviors, policies, health, and safety.These price tags are often unfair, infused as they are with gender, racial, national, and cultural biases that ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Mbeki and After

    Reflections on the Legacy of Thabo Mbeki

    by Richard Calland, Jane Duncan, Steven Friedman, Mark Gevisser ...
    For nearly ten years – indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela’s presidency – Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa’s political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little doubt that Mbeki was a seminal figure in South Africa’s new democracy, one who left a huge mark in many fields, perhaps most controversially in ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Israel and South Africa

    The Many Faces of Apartheid

    by Ronnie Kasrils, Doctor Oren Ben-Dor, Jonathan Cook, Leila Farsakh, Anthony Löwstedt, Amneh Badran, Steven Friedman, Virginia Q. Tilley, Ran Greenstein ...
    Within the already heavily polarised debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, parallels between Israel and apartheid South Africa remain highly contentious. A number of prominent academic and political commentators, including former US president Jimmy Carter and UN Special Rapporteur John Dugard, have argued that Israel's treatment of its Arab-Israeli citizens and the people of the occupied ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Measure of a Nation

    How to Regain America's Competitive Edge and Boost Our Global Standing

    by Howard Steven Friedman ...
    If America were a corporation, how would an independent analyst judge its ability to compete against other corporate giants? According to the author, that hypothetical analyst would label America a corporate dinosaur and recommend that the nation either change or face extinction. This book focuses on how to improve America by first comparing its performance with thirteen competitive industrial ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Citizen Action and National Policy Reform

    Making Change Happen

    by Rabéa Naciri, Amita Baviskar, Michael D. Layton, Ana Maria Sanchez Rodriguez, Claudio A. Fuentes, Beatriz Campillo Carrete, Jennifer C. Franco, Steven Friedman, Ireri Ablanedo Terrazas, Saturnino M. Borras, Pinar Ilkkaracan ...
    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? Which factors help to make myriad efforts by diverse actors add up to reform? What is needed to overcome setbacks, and to consolidate the smaller victories?These questions need answers. Aid agencies have invested heavily in supporting civil society organizations as change agents in fledgling and established democracies alike. Evidence ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Power in Action

    Democracy, citizenship and social justice

    by Steven Friedman ...
    Argues that South Africans, like everyone else, need democracy for a more equal societyWhat are democracies meant to do? And how does one know when one is a democratic state? These incisive questions and more by leading political scientist, Steven Friedman, underlie this robust enquiry into what democracy means for South Africa post 1994. Democracy is often viewed through a lens reflecting Western ... Read more

    $26.99 USD