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Africa: A Biography of the Continentby John ReaderISBN 067973869X (0-679-73869-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Africa: A Biography of the Continent'Book summary:From the primeval cataclysms that formed the continent to the civil wars and genocide that ravage it today--a work of startling grandeur and scope that provides a remarkable panoramic history of Africa, by a deeply intelligent writer who has spent most of his adult life there.
We all originated in Africa, and no matter what our race, our most ancient relationship is with that continent. Reader tells the story of our earliest ancestors' adaptation to Africa's ferocious obstacles of jungle, river, and desert, and of how its unique array of animals, plants, viruses, and parasites has over millions of years helped and hindered human progress to a degree unknown anywhere else on Earth.
Illustrated with many of the author's own beautiful photographs, which capture the staggering diversity of human experience in every part of the continent--from the inland estuaries of the Niger and the rain forests of the Equator, to the deserts of the north and the high veld of the south--this book weaves together into a richly fluent narrative the rise and fall of ancient civilizations, the changing patterns of indigenous life over the millennia, the complex history of slavery, the devastating impact of European settlers, and the fragile reemergence of independent nations. John Reader has given us an extraordinary biography of an infinitely fascinating continent. [via]More editions of Africa: A Biography of the Continent:
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Africaby Michael Lewis, John ReaderISBN 0792276817 (0-7922-7681-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Africa'Book summary:Thirteen/WNET and National Geographic Television have joined forces to create a television event for Fall 2001 - Africa: Land of the Sun - and 8-hour film series showing the majesty and wonder of this remarkable land. The series will be shot on location by some of the world's best filmmakers, and will be produced in a theatrical style to underscore the epic nature of Africa's history, the splendor of it's landscapes, and the beauty and power inherent in these portraits of places, people, and animals. Scientific evidence suggests that the first humans emerged on the continent of Africa. There, our ancestors learned to stand upright, find food, and survive against predators. They developed languages and cultures and migrated to settle all the habitable land of African and eventually the entire world. Despite this primal connection, Africa remains a mysterious land; a place associated with famine, slavery, frightening diseases, and incomprehensible tribalism. An equally common image is that of a giant safari park. For millions of African-Americans, Africa is a distant homeland, placed beyond the bounds of memory by the breach of slavery. This series and its companion book will capture the geographic life story of Africa - how life evolved and flourished there, adopting a unique and complex vibrancy over time in response to the environment. This is an ecological portrait of Africa, its peoples, flora, and fauna. The series will show, for the first time, a consolidated image of Africa by presenting its diverse regions and complex history within the context of its geography - its natural wonders and ecological challenges. In doing so, the series tells one of the greatest stories on earth: the story of human evolution and human survival against remarkable odds. [via]
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Africa and Africansby Paul Bohannan, Philip CurtinISBN 0881338400 (0-88133-840-0)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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Africa and the Victoriansby Ronald RobinsonISBN 0333310063 (0-333-31006-3)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Africa Explored: Europeans in the Dark Continent, 1769-1889by Christopher HibbertISBN 0815411936 (0-8154-1193-6)
Softcover, Cooper Square Pub
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Africa in History: Themes and Outlinesby Basil DavidsonISBN 0684826674 (0-684-82667-4)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Africa in History: Themes and Outlines'Book summary:Prior to the original publication of Africa in History, the history and development of Africa had been measured by the European concept of "civilization," applying a Eurocentric approach to African art and literature. Basil Davidson's landmark work presents the inner growth of Africa and its worldwide significance, the internal dynamic of its old civilizations and their links with Asia, Europe and America, as well as the development of specific areas, tribes and cultures. From accounts of the days of the green Sahara and the great iron age, the earliest Portuguese colonization, the coming of slavery and the subsequent legacy of violence and mistrust, the growth of Islam in the north and the cults of the Congo, the sophistication of art and architecture, and the pattern behind social and tribal mores, the entire picture of the continent emerges. This revised edition reflects the recent astonishing changes in South Africa, including the release of Nelson Mandela. [via]
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Africa Since 1800by Anthony Atmore, Roland Anthony OliverISBN 0521544742 (0-521-54474-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Africa Since 1800'Book summary:This history of modern Africa takes as its starting-point the year l800, because, although by that time the greater part of the interior of Africa had become known to the outside world, most of the initiatives for political and economic change still remained in the hands African rulers and their peoples. The book falls into three parts. The first describes the precolonial history of Africa, while the middle section deals thematically with partition and colonial rule. The third part deals with the emergence of the modern nation states of Africa and their history. Throughout the l90 years covered by the book, the authors are as concerned with the continuity of African history as with the changes which have taken place during this period. The new edition covers events up to the end of l99l and discusses the fresh perspectives brought about by the end of the Cold War. [via]
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Africa Since 1800by Roland Anthony OliverISBN 0521299756 (0-521-29975-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Presentby Frederick Cooper, Martin KleinISBN 0521776007 (0-521-77600-7)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Africa since 1940 : The Past of the Present'Book summary:Frederick Cooper's latest book on the history of decolonization and independence in Africa helps students understand the historical process from which Africa's current position in the world has emerged. Bridging the divide between colonial and post-colonial history, it shows what political independence did and did not signify and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious leaders and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked, and interacted with each other. [via]
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African Anarchism: The History of a Movementby Sam Mbah, I. E. IgariweyISBN 1884365051 (1-884365-05-1)
Softcover, See Sharp Pr
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African Civilizations: Precolonial Cities and States in Tropical Africa An Archaeological Perspectiveby Graham ConnahISBN 0521319927 (0-521-31992-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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African History for Beginners: African Dawn - a Dlasporan Viewby Herb Boyd, Shey Wolvek-PfisterISBN 0863161448 (0-86316-144-8)
Softcover, Writers & Readers
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The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Realityby Cheikh A. DiopISBN 1556520727 (1-55652-072-7)
Softcover, Lawrence Hill Books
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The African Origin of Civilization:Myth or Reality: Myth or Realityby Cheikh Anta DiopISBN 0882080229 (0-88208-022-9)
Softcover, L. Hill
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The African Slave Tradeby Basil DavidsonISBN 0316174386 (0-316-17438-6)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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Africans: A Readerby Ali A. MazruiISBN 0275920739 (0-275-92073-9)
Softcover, Praeger Pub Text
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Africans: A Reader'Book summary:Contemporary Africa is the product of three major influences--an indigenous heritage, Western culture, and Islamic culture. The AfricanS≪/i> looks at these legacies, how they co-exist, and their impact on the continent and the people who are called African. This reader, a supplement to the telecourse, provides an introduction to a variety of historical and contemporary writings on Africa.
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The Africans: A Triple Heritageby Ali A. MazruiISBN 0316552011 (0-316-55201-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Assassination of Lumumbaby De Witte Ludo, Ann Wright, Renee FenbyISBN 1859844103 (1-85984-410-3)
Softcover, Verso Books
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The Assassination of Lumumbaby Ludo Dewitte, Ludo De WitteISBN 1859846181 (1-85984-618-1)
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Black Hawk Downby Mark BowdenISBN 0871137380 (0-87113-738-0)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Hawk Down'Book summary:Journalist Mark Bowden delivers a strikingly detailed account of the 1993 nightmare operation in Mogadishu that left 18 American soldiers dead and many more wounded. This early foreign-policy disaster for the Clinton administration led to the resignation of Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and a total troop withdrawal from Somalia. Bowden does not spend much time considering the context; instead he provides a moment-by-moment chronicle of what happened in the air and on the ground. His gritty narrative tells of how Rangers and elite Delta Force troops embarked on a mission to capture a pair of high-ranking deputies to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid only to find themselves surrounded in a hostile African city. Their high-tech MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters had been shot down and a number of other miscues left them trapped through the night. Bowden describes Mogadishu as a place of Mad Max-like anarchy--implying strongly that there was never any peace for the supposed peacekeepers to keep. He makes full use of the defense bureaucracy's extensive paper trail--which includes official reports, investigations, and even radio transcripts--to describe the combat with great accuracy, right down to the actual dialogue. He supplements this with hundreds of his own interviews, turning Black Hawk Down into a completely authentic nonfiction novel, a lively page-turner that will make readers feel like they're standing beside the embattled troops. This will quickly be realized as a modern military classic. --John J. Miller [via]
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Black Mother: Africa the Years of Trialby Basil DavidsonISBN 0575000627 (0-575-00062-7)
Hardcover, V. Gollancz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Mother: Africa the Years of Trial'Book summary:Great book from the Pulitzer Prize winning author. Hardcover. Original jacket. Stated First Edition. Brown cloth boards. White lettering on spine. Square and tightly bound. Numbers on front cover written in chalk. Front end pages browned due to newspaper article laid in. Jacket spine faded. Minor edge wear. Price ($6.50) intact. VG/VG. [via]
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Blue Nileby Alan MooreheadISBN 0060956402 (0-06-095640-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Nile'Book summary:An account of the course of the Blue Nile from the Ethiopian Highlands, through the Sudan and Egupt to the sea. The book contains an historical narrative which starts in the eighteenth century and ends in 1869. The period was dominated by four men: James Bruce, the Scot who journeyed to the supposed source of the Blue Nile, and stayed in warring Ethiopia; Napoleon who, needing military glory to further his political ambitions, led a brilliantly conceived expedition to Egypt; Mohammed Ali, the Turkish viceroy, who sent his son to conquer the Sudan in a ruthless quest for gold and slaves; and Emporer Theodore of Ethiopia, a tyrant who held British subjects captive. [via]
The Cambridge History of Africaby J. Desmond ClarkISBN 052122215X (0-521-22215-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge History of Africa: From 1870 to 1905by Roland Oliver, G.N. SandersonISBN 0521228034 (0-521-22803-4)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Cambridge History of Africa: From Ca. 1790 to Ca. 1870by J.E. FlintISBN 0521207010 (0-521-20701-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge History of Africa: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuriesby R. GrayISBN 0521204135 (0-521-20413-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Conquest of the Saharaby Douglas PorchISBN 0880640618 (0-88064-061-8)
Softcover, Fromm International Publishing Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Conquest of the Sahara'Book summary:In The Conquest of the Sahara, Douglas Porch tells the story of France's struggle to explore and dominate the great African desert at the turn of the century. Focusing on the conquest of the Ahaggar Tuareg, a Berber people living in a mountain area in central Sahara, he goes on to describe the bizarre exploits of the desert's explorers and conquerors and the incompetence of the French military establishment. Porch summons up a world of oases, desert forts and cafés where customers paid the dancer by licking a one-franc piece and sticking it on her forehead.[via]
The Conquest of the Sahara reveals the dark side of France's "civilizing mission" into this vast terrain, and at the same time, weaves a rich tale of extravagant hopes, genius and foolhardiness.More editions of The Conquest of the Sahara:
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A Continent For The Taking: The Tragedy And Hope Of Africaby Howard W. FrenchISBN 1400030277 (1-4000-3027-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Continent For The Taking: The Tragedy And Hope Of Africa'Book summary:In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africas most devastating recent historyfrom the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylors arrival in Monrovia, to the genocide in Rwanda and the Congo that left millions dead. Blending eyewitness reportage with rich historical insight, French searches deeply into the causes of todays events, illuminating the debilitating legacy of colonization and the abiding hypocrisy and inhumanity of both Western and African political leaders.
While he captures the tragedies that have repeatedly befallen Africas peoples, French also opens our eyes to the immense possibility that lies in Africas complexity, diversity, and myriad cultural strengths. The culmination of twenty-five years of passionate exploration and understanding, this is a powerful and ultimately hopeful book about a fascinating and misunderstood continent. [via]More editions of A Continent For The Taking: The Tragedy And Hope Of Africa:
The Decolonization of Africaby David BirminghamISBN 0821411535 (0-8214-1153-5)
Softcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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The Fate of Africa: From The Hopes Of Freedom To The Heart Of Despair A History Of Fifty Years Of Independenceby Martin MeredithISBN 1586483986 (1-58648-398-6)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa Peopleby Noel MostertISBN 0679401369 (0-679-40136-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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History of Africaby Kevin ShillingtonISBN 0333599578 (0-333-59957-8)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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A History of the African Peopleby Robert William JulyISBN 0881339806 (0-88133-980-6)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africaby Walter RodneyISBN 0882580965 (0-88258-096-5)
Softcover, Howard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa'Book summary:Before a bomb ended his life in the summer of 1980, Walter Rodney had created a powerful legacy. This pivotal work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, had already brought a new perspective to the question of underdevelopment in Africa. His Marxist analysis went far beyond the heretofore accepted approach in the study of Third World underdevelopment. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an excellent introductory study for the student who wishes to better understand the dynamics of Africa s contemporary relations with the West. [via]
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Ibn Battuta In Black Africaby Said Hamdun, Noel King, Ibn BattutaISBN 1558760881 (1-55876-088-1)
Softcover, Markus Wiener Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ibn Battuta In Black Africa'Book summary:Everybody knows the names of European explorers such as Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus, but how many have heard of Ibn Battuta? This intrepid North African scholar first set out for Mecca in the year 1325 A.D. and became so smitten with life on the road that he just kept traveling for the next 29 years. Though Mecca was the object of most of his journeys, Ibn Battuta took different routes each time and thus managed to visit such far-flung places as the Maldive Islands, northern Turkey, and southern China. Ibn Battuta twice traveled south of the Sahara, once visiting the coast of East Africa during a voyage back to Morocco from Arabia, and once journeying to Mali by camel caravan--his last recorded adventure. As with all his journeys, Ibn Battuta kept a detailed account of the places he visited and the people he met. In Ibn Battuta in Black Africa, editors Noel King and Said Hamdun have selected and translated many of Ibn Battuta's writings about his travels in Africa. Anyone interested in the precolonial cultures that thrived in sub-Saharan Africa will find this highly personal account of the private lives and public institutions of the peoples of 14th-century East and West Africa fascinating reading. [via]
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Ibn Battuta In Black Africaby Noel King, Ibn Batuta, Said HamdunISBN 1558763368 (1-55876-336-8)
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Introduction to African Civilizationby John G. Jackson, Runoko RashidiISBN 0806521899 (0-8065-2189-9)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to African Civilizations,'Book summary:This is a unique and pioneering survey of the ancient and contemporary (1937) African world. Huggins views Africa and African accomplishments from a decidedly African-centered perspective. A strong supporter of Ethiopia and its fight against fascism, Huggins devotes a detailed chapter to Ethiopian history and the war with Italy. Huggins successfully wrote this book for students, independent study groups, and the general reader. This edition is not to be confused with John G. Jackson s later book which has the same title. Huggins was one of Jackson s mentors. Comparing the two books one can see how Jackson was influenced by Huggins, a seldom-noted member of the Harlem historians. With the republication of the original Introduction to African Civilizations, readers now have access to Willis N. Huggins his ability as an historian, his dedication as an activist, and to one of the more important works produced by a Black self-trained historian. [via]
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africaby Adam HochschildISBN 0618001905 (0-618-00190-5)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa'Book summary:King Leopold of Belgium, writes historian Adam Hochschild in this grim history, did not much care for his native land or his subjects, all of which he dismissed as "small country, small people." Even so, he searched the globe to find a colony for Belgium, frantic that the scramble of other European powers for overseas dominions in Africa and Asia would leave nothing for himself or his people. When he eventually found a suitable location in what would become the Belgian Congo, later known as Zaire and now simply as Congo, Leopold set about establishing a rule of terror that would culminate in the deaths of 4 to 8 million indigenous people, "a death toll," Hochschild writes, "of Holocaust dimensions." Those who survived went to work mining ore or harvesting rubber, yielding a fortune for the Belgian king, who salted away billions of dollars in hidden bank accounts throughout the world. Hochschild's fine book of historical inquiry, which draws heavily on eyewitness accounts of the colonialists' savagery, brings this little-studied episode in European and African history into new light. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandelaby Nelson MandelaISBN 0316548189 (0-316-54818-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela'Book summary:The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa's apartheid regime. Among the book's interesting revelations is Mandela's ambivalence toward his lifetime of devotion to public works. It cost him two marriages and kept him distant from a family life he might otherwise have cherished. Long Walk to Freedom also discloses a strong and generous spirit that refused to be broken under the most trying circumstances--a spirit in which just about everybody can find something to admire. [via]
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The Lost Cities of Africaby Basil DavidsonISBN 0316174319 (0-316-17431-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Cities of Africa'Book summary:Combining archeological evidence and scholarly research, Davidson traces the exciting development of the rich kingdoms of the lost cities of Africa, fifteen hundred years before European ships first came to African shores. [via]
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Modern Africaby Basil DavidsonISBN 0582655250 (0-582-65525-0)
Softcover, Longman
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Modern Africa: A Social and Political Historyby Basil DavidsonISBN 058221288X (0-582-21288-X)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Momentous Events, Vivid Memoriesby David B. PillemerISBN 0674004183 (0-674-00418-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Momentous Events, Vivid Memories'Book summary:The bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassination of President Kennedy, the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger: every generation has unforgettable events, the shared memory of which can create fleeting intimacy among strangers. These public memories, combined with poignant personal moments--the first day of college, a baseball game with one's father, praise from a mentor--are the critical shaping events of individual lives.
Although experimental memory studies have long been part of empirical psychology, and psychotherapy has focused on repressed or traumatizing memories, relatively little attention has been paid to the inspiring, touching, amusing, or revealing moments that highlight most lives. What makes something unforgettable? How do we learn to share the significance of memories?
David Pillemer's research, brought together in this gracefully written book, extends the current study of narrative and specific memory. Drawing on a variety of evidence and methods--cognitive and developmental psychology, cross-cultural study, psychotherapy case studies, autobiographies and diaries--Pillemer elaborates on five themes: the function of memory; how children learn to construct and share personal memories; memory as a complex interactive system of image, emotion, and narrative; individual and group differences in memory function and performance; and how unique events linger in memory and influence lives. A provocative last chapter, full of striking examples, considers potential variations in memory across gender, culture, and personality. Momentous Events, Vivid Memories is itself a compelling and memorable book.
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The Penguin Atlas of African Historyby Colin McEvedyISBN 0140513213 (0-14-051321-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Atlas of African History'Book summary:This invaluable reference work provides an account of the development of African society from 175 million years ago, through the first appearance of humans to the complex polity of the twentieth century. Colin McEvedy tracks the development of modern man, the differentiation and spread of languages, the first crossings of the Sahara, the exploration of the Niger, and the search for the 'fountains of the Nile'. Gold and ivory lure traders from far away; Christendom and Islam compete for African attention. Names from the distant past become nation-states with aspirations appropriate to the modern world. With sixty maps and a clear, concise text, this synthesis is especially useful to African studies and history teachers, but is also a fascinating guide for the general reader. [via]
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Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara KingsolverISBN 1417687703 (1-4176-8770-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poisonwood Bible'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.
The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver's most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price's wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel's tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan's refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver's fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Race to Fashodaby David Levering LewisISBN 155584278X (1-55584-278-X)
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The Race to Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africaby David L. LewisISBN 1555840582 (1-55584-058-2)
Hardcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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Rootsby Alex Haley, Michael Eric DysonISBN 1593154496 (1-59315-449-6)
Softcover, Vanguard Pr
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Roots : The Saga of an American Familyby Alex HaleyISBN 0517208601 (0-517-20860-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roots : The Saga of an American Family'Book summary:This "bold...extraordinary...blockbuster..." (Newsweek magazine) begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree.
When Alex Haley was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to tell him stories about their family, stories that went way back to a man she called "the African" who was taken aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America. As an adult, Alex Haley spent twelve years searching for documentation that might authenticate what his grandmother had told him. In an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered the name of "the African"--Kunta Kinte, as well as the exact location of the village in West Africa from where he was abducted in 1767.
While Haley created certain unknown details of his family history, ROOTS is definitely based on the facts of his ancestry, and the six generations of people--slaves and freedmen, farmers and lawyers, an architect, teacher--and one acclaimed author--descended from Kunte Kinte. But with this book, Haley did more than recapture the history of his own family. He popularized genealogy for people of all races and colors; and in so doing, wrote one of the most important and beloved books of all time, a true Modern Classic. [via]More editions of Roots : The Saga of an American Family:
Running the Amazonby Joe KaneISBN 1885283024 (1-885283-02-4)
Hardcover, Adventure Library
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The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912by Thomas PakenhamISBN 0380719991 (0-380-71999-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigaliby Gil Courtemanche, Patricia ClaxtonISBN 1400034345 (1-4000-3434-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali'Book summary:Look, for people whore going to be dead soon, were not doing too badly.
The novel of the year is what La Presse called this extraordinary book, a love story that takes place in the days leading up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. A first work of fiction by one of French Canadas most admired journalists, Gil Courtemanche, it was first published in Quebec in 2000, spent more than a year on bestseller lists and won the Prix des Libraires, the booksellers award for outstanding book of the year. Rights were sold to publishers in over twenty countries in Europe and around the world. This humanist story of an unlikely love affair set against a holocaust has become an internationally acclaimed phenomenon, worthy of comparison with the work of Graham Greene and Albert Camus.
The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel, Kigali, in the early 1990s, draws a regular crowd of assorted aid workers, strutting Rwandan officials, Belgian businessmen, French paratroops and Canadian expats. Among them is Bernard Valcourt, a documentary filmmaker from Quebec, on a mission to set up a television station in the capital. Valcourt, who for two decades has earned his living from wars and famines, lingers around the pool drinking warm beer and watching football; but most of all, watching Gentille, a beautiful young waitress, who is a Hutu but often mistaken for a Tutsi because of her familys strange history.
The trouble coming stems from a long conflict, instigated in colonial times by Whites who treated Tutsis as superior to Hutus. The Hutu government is now openly encouraging violence against Tutsis. The physical traits of the Tutsis make them easy prey, but they are not the only ones in danger. Too many people are already dying in Rwanda daily: of AIDS, of malaria, and increasingly at roadblocks at the hands of drunken militia, or pulled from their homes. The hotel staff and prostitutes sense trouble and death drawing closer as they continue providing drinks and meals and sex.
The story of this developing catastrophe is revealed through the lives of a handful of Rwandans who befriend Valcourt. They confide in him because he listens, and because his interviews offer them a chance to try to change the way things are by telling the world. Their candour and warmth begin to make his heart glow. He meets people like Méthode, who knows a bloodbath is brewing and would rather die of AIDS in the comfort of a hotel room than by a machete. Threatened, frightened, sick, they dont want to talk and act like theyre dying. Poor as they are, they want to have some moments of pleasure and celebrate life.
As Kigali life continues in its resourcefulness and persistence, Valcourt is falling in love with Rwanda, and with Gentille, who loves him because he sees her as no-one has seen her before. Even as the worst horrors begin, as friends are raped and murdered, he starts to feel a strange peace in this land of a thousand hills, though he repudiates the outside world for its failure to intervene. Because Gentille is thought to be Tutsi, her life is in danger. Still, no-one can believe that the extremists will go too far, that brothers and sisters will kill brothers and sisters, and that 800,000 civilians will be massacred.
A hard-hitting chronicle of an overlooked chapter of recent history, told with skill and compassion, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is also a celebration of living in the moment, of the integrity of friendship and the courage of everyday heroes. Harrowing, unsettling, challenging, but beautiful and moving, it is a book that cannot leave the reader untouched; as a Quill & Quire reviewer said, it is full of real people that demand to be remembered. [via]More editions of A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali:
Sundiata - an Epic of Old Maliby D. T. Niane, G. D. PickettISBN 1405849428 (1-4058-4942-8)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879by Donald R. Morris, Mangosuthu ButheleziISBN 0306808668 (0-306-80866-8)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879'Book summary:Filled with colorful characters, dramatic battles like Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift, and an inexorable narrative momentum, this unsurpassed history details the sixty-year existence of the world's mightiest African empirefrom its brutal formation and zenith under the military genius Shaka (17871828), through its inevitable collision with white expansionism, to its dissolution under Cetshwayo in the Zulu War of 1879.[via]More editions of The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879:
The Washing of the Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879by Donald R. MorrisISBN 0671628224 (0-671-62822-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwandaby Philip GourevitchISBN 0312243359 (0-312-24335-9)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda'Book summary:"Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus--if that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it," Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, and in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute.
The "stories" in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly visits this tiny country in an attempt to make sense of what has happened, and those of the people he interviews. These include a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren, and can only answer these charges by saying, "What could I do?" Gourevitch, a staff writer for the New Yorker, describes Rwanda's history with remarkable clarity and documents the experience of tragedy with a sober grace. The reader will ask along with the author: Why does this happen? And why don't we bother to stop it? --Maria Dolan [via]
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The White Nileby Alan MooreheadISBN 1885283032 (1-885283-03-2)
Hardcover, Adventure Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The White Nile'Book summary:A thrilling narrative history of the exploration of Africa in the last half of the 19th century featuring larger-than-life personalitiesStanley, Livingstone, Burton, among many othersand intense drama. An immediate bestseller when first published, this may be the most absorbing and enjoyable of all the books about African exploration.
Original publication date 1960
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Un Dimanche a La Piscine a Kigali: Romanby Gil CourtemancheISBN 2764600712 (2-7646-0071-2)
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LA Biblia Envenenada / The Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara Kingsolver, Damian AlouISBN 8484530256 (84-8453-025-6)
Softcover, Ediciones Del Bronce
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Biblia Envenenada / The Poisonwood Bible'Book summary:La autora des suroeste de Estados Unidos nos trae una novela de pasión, y de tragedia con un paisaje bello e inesperado. Una selección de Oprah para su club de lectores. Un bestseller de toda clase. [via]
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