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  • Patterns in Circulation

    Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa

    de Nina Sylvanus ...
    In this book, Nina Sylvanus tells a captivating story of global trade and cross-cultural aesthetics in West Africa, showing how a group of Togolese women—through the making and circulation of wax cloth—became influential agents of taste and history. Traveling deep into the shifting terrain of textile manufacture, design, and trade, she follows wax cloth around the world and through time to unveil ... Leer más

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  • Transport Corridors in Africa

    de Hugh Lamarque, Professor Paul Nugent, Sidy Cissokho, Dr Isabella Soi, Francesc Magrinyà, Sergio Oliete Josa, Bruce Byiers, Sean Woolfrey, Jérôme Lombard0, Dr Nina Sylvanus1, Dr José-María Muñoz2, Yunnan Chen3, Elisa Gambino4 ...
    In-depth examination of the inherent tensions and dynamics of transport corridors in Africa: between short-term optics and long-term durability; between regional integration and national interest; between the facilitation of trade and the generation of corridor revenue. The image of the corridor, a central pathway of road and rail carving its way through Africa's interior, has guided the ... Leer más

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  • IELTS Task 1 Academic: How to Plan and Write Responses for Graphs, Tables and Diagrams

    IELTS: Obtaining High Bands, #8

    de William Sauton ...
    Series Libro 8 - IELTS: Obtaining High Bands
    This book which provides practice in how to plan and write responses for graphs, tables and diagrams for the IELTS Academic Module is essential preparation for all serious students who are determined to achieve a high IELTS band score.Achieving a high IELTS band in Writing is not easy! There are no magic short-cuts. Writing any type of text is difficult and requires much practice and effort. This ... Leer más

    $6.50 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Migration in West Africa

    IMISCOE Regional Reader

    Edición de Joseph Kofi Teye ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access Regional Reader examines the dynamics and impacts of international migration within and from West Africa. The book presents key theoretical perspectives and empirical findings on historical trends, geographical patterns, drivers and socio-economic impacts of both voluntary and involuntary migration in West Africa, a region that is characterised by high level of mixed migration ... Leer más

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  • Famine, Affluence, and Morality

    de Peter Singer ...
    In 1972, the young philosopher Peter Singer published "Famine, Affluence and Morality," which rapidly became one of the most widely discussed essays in applied ethics. Through this article, Singer presents his view that we have the same moral obligations to those far away as we do to those close to us. He argued that choosing not to send life-saving money to starving people on the other side of ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Future of Europe

    Towards a Two-Speed EU?

    de Jean-Claude Piris ...
    The European Union is in crisis. Public unease with the project, Euro problems and dysfunctional institutions give rise to the real danger that the European Union will become increasing irrelevant just as its member states face more and more challenges of a globalised world. Jean-Claude Piris, a leading figure in the conception and drafting of the EU's legal structures, tackles the issues head on ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Mediocracy

    The Politics of the Extreme Centre

    de Alain Deneault ...
    Traducido por Catherine Browne ...
    There was no Reichstag fire. No storming of the Bastille. No mutiny on the Aurora. Instead, the mediocre have seized power without firing a single shot. They rose to power on the tide of an economy where workers produce assembly-line meals without knowing how to cook at home, give customers instructions over the phone that they themselves don’t understand, or sell books and newspapers that they ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Rise of China and India in Africa

    Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions

    de Dot Keet, Kwesi Aning, He Wenping, Fredrick Mutesa, Peter Kragelund, Alex Vines, Sanusha Naidu, Liu Haifang, Sanjukta Bhattacharya, Alemayehu Geda, Atnafu G. Meskel, Peter Draper, Tsidiso Disenyana, Renu Modi, Linn Axelsson, Professor Timothy M Shaw ...
    Series series Africa Now
    In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming Africa's international relations in a dramatic way. Although the overall impact of China and India's engagement in Africa has been positive in the short-term, partly as a result of higher returns from commodity exports fuelled by excessive ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Burkina Faso

    A History of Power, Protest, and Revolution

    de Ernest Harsch ...
    In October 2014, huge protests across Burkina Faso succeeded in overthrowing the long-entrenched regime of their authoritarian ruler, Blaise Compaoré. Defying all expectations, this popular movement went on to defeat an attempted coup by the old regime, making it possible for a transitional government to organize free and fair elections the following year. In doing so, the people of this ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Ethnicity, Inc.

    de John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity?Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The Social Structures of the Economy

    de Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions corresponding to them, and so on. But one has only to examine an economic transaction closely, as Pierre Bourdieu does here for the buying and selling of ... Leer más

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  • Congo Masquerade

    The Political Culture of Aid Inefficiency and Reform Failure

    de Theodore Trefon ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Congo Masquerade is about mismanagement, hypocrisy and powerlessness in what has proved to be one of Africa's most troublesome and volatile states. In this scathing study of catastrophic aid inefficiency, Trefon argues that whilst others have examined war and plunder in the Great Lakes region, none have yet evaluated the imported 'template format' reform package pieced together to introduce ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD