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The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress Revisitedby George Padmore, Marika Sherwood, Hakim AdiISBN 1873201125 (1-873201-12-5)
Softcover, New Beacon Books
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The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860: A History of the Continuing Settlement of the United Statesby Marcus Lee HansenISBN 1931313296 (1-931313-29-6)
Softcover, Simon Pubns
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Attempting to Bring the Gospel Home: Scottish Missions to Palestine, 1839-1917by Michael MartenISBN 1850439834 (1-85043-983-4)
Hardcover, Tauris Academic Studies
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The Best Short Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1853261793 (1-85326-179-3)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Between Two Opinions: Or, the Romance of a Spahiby Pierre Loti, M. L. WatkinsISBN 1596055731 (1-59605-573-1)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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Blaming the Victimsby Edward SaidISBN 1859843409 (1-85984-340-9)
Softcover, Verso Books
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Brazzaville Beachby William BoydISBN 1856190269 (1-85619-026-9)
Hardcover, Sinclair-Stevenson
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Call for Hawaiian Sovereigntyby Michael K. Dudley, Keoni K. AgardISBN 1878751093 (1-878751-09-3)
Softcover, Na Kane O Ka Malo Pr
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The Catastrophistby Ronan BennettISBN 1596913053 (1-59691-305-3)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catastrophist'Book summary:Perhaps it takes a writer with Ronan Bennett's peculiar personal history to write so compelling a novel about the place where politics and art intersect. By the time he was 23, Bennett, an Irish Catholic from Northern Ireland, had already spent five years in and out of various jails, charged with politically motivated crimes he'd never committed. He then traded in prison walls for the rarified halls of academia, studying for a Ph.D. in history before embarking on a new career as a fiction writer. Though at first The Catastrophist, set in the Congo during its bid for independence from Belgium, may seem a far cry from Belfast in the '70s, Bennett uses his hard-won wisdom to examine the role of the artist in a political conflict.
James Gillespie, a disillusioned Irish historian turned novelist, has arrived in the Congo on the eve of independence, hoping to reunite with his Italian lover, Ines. The two had once been passionately involved in Europe, but Ines's job as a journalist took her to the Congo, where her Communist leanings have kept her. Ines is an enthusiastic supporter of Patrice Lumumba, and her journalism reflects her bias. Gillespie, on the other hand, has a novelist's broader view, and his ability to see all facets of the issue simultaneously keeps him from choosing sides and drives a wedge between him and Ines. As she becomes more involved with Lumumba and his followers, he is befriended by an American CIA agent whom Ines suspects of being an enemy. When the political situation heats up, she puts herself increasingly in harm's way until, at last, Gillespie must put his own life on the line to save hers. Bennett does a stellar job of recreating the complicated web of political intrigue and shifting alliances at play in the Congo in 1959, but he really shines when exploring how personal relationships unravel under the strain of ideology. As Ines tells Gillespie shortly before she leaves him, his ability to see all points of view is a privilege few people can afford: "When you are on history's losing side, when you are poor and cursed to eat bread, to accept your enemy's point of view is to accept starvation and slavery." The Catastrophist is a love story, a historical novel, a troubling reflection on Africa's ongoing political upheaval. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Christopher Columbus And the Conquest of Paradiseby Kirkpatrick SaleISBN 1845111540 (1-84511-154-0)
Softcover, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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Cloud Nineby Caryl ChurchillISBN 1854590901 (1-85459-090-1)
Softcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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Colenso 1899: The Boer War In Natalby Ian KnightISBN 1855324660 (1-85532-466-0)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colenso 1899: The Boer War In Natal'Book summary:In 1899 Great Britain was at the height of its Imperial power. The Queen Empress had been on the throne for more than 50 glittering years, and her domain touched upon every continent. Yet, even at this pinnacle of Imperial pomp and majesty, the British army, guardian of the Empire in countless wars across the globe, was destined to be humiliated by poorly-organised citizen militia consisting of men whom the British professionals despised as back-wood farmers. In one week in December 1899 the farmers of the South African Boer Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal inflicted three serious reverses on British troops. [via]
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Colonial Wars and the Politics of Third World Nationalismby Frank FurediISBN 185043784X (1-85043-784-X)
Hardcover, I B Tauris & Co Ltd
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Come Back to Afghanistan: Trying to Rebuild a Country with My Father, the President, and My One-Eyed Uncleby Said Hyder Akbar, Susan BurtonISBN 1596910682 (1-59691-068-2)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing
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The Culture of Make Believeby Derrick JensenISBN 1931498571 (1-931498-57-1)
Softcover, Chelsea Green Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Culture of Make Believe'Book summary:In the Culture of Make Believe, Derrick Jensen sets the bar as high as possible, examining the atrocities that characterize so much of our culture-from lynchings in early 20th-century America, modern slavery and corporate misdeeds to manufacturing disasters, death squads in developing nations and the destruction of the natural world.
Interweaving political, historical, philosophical and deeply personal perspectives, Jensen argues that only by understanding past horrors can we hope to prevent future ones. Impeccably researched, The Culture of Make Believe arrives at some shocking and thought-provoking conclusions. As readers of A Language Older than Words can attest, Jensen is a public intellectual of rare abilities. [via]
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Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoplesby Linda Tuhiwai SmithISBN 1856496244 (1-85649-624-4)
Softcover, Zed Books
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Delacroix in Moroccoby Maurice Serullaz, Institut du monde arabe (France), Delphine Le Cesne, Tamara BlondelISBN 2080135724 (2-08-013572-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Delacroix in Morocco'Book summary:ABOUT THIS BOOK: A sensual, impressive, scholarly, biographical, and readable book on Delacroix's remarkable work in Morocco in the 1830's. The level of reproduction here is excellent. The book features sketches, working drawings, and color studies which allow us to see the artist at work.
BOOK DETAILS: Hardback, cloth over boards, sewn binding. 239 pp. 4.25 pounds. Large format color illustrations throughout.
ABOUT DELACROIX'S MOROCCO WORK: "'If someday you have a few months to spare, come to Barbary...you will feel the precious and exceptional influence of the sun, which gives everything a piercing life.' Just over 160 years ago, Eugene Delacroix left a wan Paris winter for a six-month adventure in North Africa. While few of us can jump up and follow his footsteps, following his brush strokes is an excellent alternative."
"Splendor and sprawl barely begin to describe Delacroix's 1832 trip to Morocco. He was 35 years old, had experienced a queasy mix of acclaim and derision at the Salons, and was restless for adventure." His "itinerary took him from Tangiers on an epic journey inland to visit the sultan, followed by a brief side trip to Spain, and a stopover that included a harem visit in Algiers."
"Delacroix worked like a demon, filling seven notebooks with drawings, watercolors and notes on the people, architecture and accouterments of Moroccan life."
"Delacroix is called a Romantic. The word implies an inchoate emotionalism that is important in his work, but the man himself was almost icily intellectual." "His anthropological eye was perfectly suited for the North African mission. Watercolor sketches of figures, buildings, objects and landscapes, most bearing color notations, show the artist's unquenchable appreciation for the details of appearance."
-- Christa Weil [via]
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Divide and Fall?: Bosnia in the Annals of Partitionby Radha KumarISBN 185984183X (1-85984-183-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Ecofeminismby Maria Mies, Vandana ShivaISBN 1856491560 (1-85649-156-0)
Softcover, Zed Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecofeminism'Book summary:Two of Zed's best-known authors, one an economist, the other a physicist and philosopher, come together in this book on a controversial environmental agenda. Using interview material, they bring together women's perspectives from North and South on environmental deterioration and develop and new way of approaching this body of knowledge which is at once practical and philosophical.[via]
Do women involved in environmental movements see a link between patriarchy and ecological degradation? What are the links between global militarism and the destruction of nature? In exploring such questions, the authors criticize prevailing theories and develop an intellectually rigorous ecofeminist perspective rooted in the needs of everyday life. They argue for the acceptance of limits, the rejection of the commoditization of needs, and a commitment to a new ethics.More editions of Ecofeminism:
The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lecturesby John Robert SeeleyISBN 1596052651 (1-59605-265-1)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelagoby Luis FranciaISBN 1885030312 (1-885030-31-2)
Softcover, Muae Pub
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Falklands, the Secret Plotby Oscar R. Cardoso, R. Kirschbaum, E. van der KooyISBN 187061500X (1-870615-00-X)
Softcover, Preston Editions
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The Food Question: Profits Versus Peopleby Ben CrowISBN 1853830631 (1-85383-063-1)
Softcover, Stylus Pub Llc
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 1853260231 (1-85326-023-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lynd WardISBN 1850790701 (1-85079-070-1)
Hardcover, New Orchard Editions
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Freud And The Non Europeanby Edward W. SaidISBN 1844675114 (1-84467-511-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Gender, Geography and Empire: Victorian Women Travellers in West Africaby Cheryl McEwanISBN 1840142529 (1-84014-252-9)
Hardcover, Ashgate Pub Co
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Grapes of Canaanby Albertine LoomisISBN 1881987124 (1-881987-12-4)
Softcover, Ox Bow Pr
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Hobson Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionaryby A. C. Burnell, H. YuleISBN 185326363X (1-85326-363-X)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hobson Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary'Book summary:Bungalow, pyjamas, tiffin, rickshaw, veranda, curry, cheroot, chintz, calico, gingham, mango, junk and catamaran are all words which have crept into the English language from the days of Britain's colonial rule of the Indian sub-continent and the Malaysian Peninsular. Hobson-Jobson (derived from the Islamic cry at the celebration of Muhurram 'Ya Hasan, ya Hosain' is shorthand for the assimilation of foreign words to the sound pattern of the adopting language. This dictionary, compiled in the late-19th century, is an invaluable source which has never been superseded. It is an essential book for all who are interested in English etymology and the development of the language. [via]
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Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursiveby Henry Yule, A. C. Burnell, William CrookeISBN 1870836111 (1-870836-11-1)
Hardcover, Linguasia
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The House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gordon TapperISBN 1593082312 (1-59308-231-2)
Softcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of the Seven Gables'Book summary:Nathaniel Hawthorne's gripping psychological drama concerns the Pyncheon family, a dynasty founded on pious theft, who live for generations under a dead man's curse until their house is finally exorcised by love. [via]
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Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (P)by Howard Zinn, Donaldo MacedoISBN 1594510555 (1-59451-055-5)
Softcover, Paradigm Publishers
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Imperial Identities : Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeriaby Patricia LorcinISBN 1860643760 (1-86064-376-0)
Softcover, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congoby Michela WrongISBN 1841154210 (1-84115-421-0)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Indian Peter: The Extraordinary Life And Adventures Of Peter Williamsonby Douglas SkeltonISBN 1840188391 (1-84018-839-1)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Jungle Bookby Rudyard KiplingISBN 185326119X (1-85326-119-X)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Book'Book summary:This is Rudyard Kipling''s classic tale of a young boy brought up in the jungle. Gregory Alexander''s vivi d illustrations follow the adventures of Mowgli, Baloo, Bagh eera and friends. ' [via]
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LA Pesteby Albert CamusISBN 2070360423 (2-07-036042-3)
Softcover, Gallimard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Peste'Book summary:" c'est moi qui remplace la peste ", s'écriait caligula, l'empereur dément. Bientôt, la " peste brune " déferlait sur l'europe dans un grand bruit de bottes. france déchirée aux coutures de somme et de loire, troupeaux de prisonniers, esclaves voués par millions aux barbelés et aux crématoires, sur le monde symbolique de melville ou de daniel def?, la peste éternise ces jours de ténèbres, cette " passion collective " d'une europe en folie, détournée comme oran de la mer et de sa mesure. Sans doute la guerre accentue-t-elle la séparation, la maladie, l'insécurité. mais ne sommes-nous pas toujours plus ou moins séparés, menacés, exilés, rongés comme le fruit par le ver ? face aux souffrances comme à la mort, à l'ennui des recommencements - orphée cent fois repris - la peste recense les conduites, elle nous impose la vision d'un univers sans avenir, ni finalité, un monde de la répétition et de l'étouffante monotonie, oú le drame même cesse de paraître dramatique et s'imprègne d'humour macabre, oú les hommes se définissent moins par leur démarche, leur langage et leur poids de chair que par leurs silences, leurs secrètes blessures, leurs ombres portées et leurs réactions aux défis de l'existence. La peste sera donc, au gré des interprétations, la " chronique de la résistance " ou un roman de la permanence, le prolongement de l'etranger ou " un progrès " sur l'etranger, le livre des " damnés " et des solitaires ou le manuel du relatif et de la solidarité - en tout cas, une oeuvre pudique et calculée qu'albert camus douta parfois de mener à bien au cours de sept années de gestation, de maturation et de rédaction difficiles, entrecoupées de combats du résistant et du journaliste. [via]
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Latin America : From Colonization to Globalizationby Noam ChomskyISBN 1876175133 (1-876175-13-3)
Softcover, Pluto Press
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Legible Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asiaby Clare AndersonISBN 1859738605 (1-85973-860-5)
Softcover, Berg Pub Ltd
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 185326136X (1-85326-136-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became "show pupil" - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and Sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances. Her strong character enables her to fight successfully against her new-found poverty and the scorn of her fellows. [via]
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The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Ageby V. G. KiernanISBN 1897959230 (1-897959-23-0)
Softcover, Serif
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The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800by Robin BlackburnISBN 1859841953 (1-85984-195-3)
Softcover, Verso Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800'Book summary:At the time when European powers colonized the Americas, the institution of slavery had almost disappeared from Europe itself. Having overcome an institution widely regarded as oppressive, why did they sponsor the construction of racial slavery in their new colonies? Robin Blackburn traces European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch, and finds that the stigmatization of the ethno-religious Other was given a callous twist by a new culture of consumption, freed from an earlier moral economy. The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought - successfully - to batten on this commerce, and - unsuccessfully - to regulate slavery and race. Successive chapters of the book consider the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English and the French. Each are shown to have contributed something to the eventual consolidation of racial slavery and to the plantation revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is shown that plantation slavery emerged from the impulses of civil society rather than from the strategies of the individual states. Robin Blackburn argues that the organization of slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both proposed and rejected. Finally he shows that the surge of Atlantic trade, premised on the killing toil of the plantations, made a decisive contribution to both the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West. [via]
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The Mamur Zapt & the Return of the Carpetby Michael PearceISBN 1890208779 (1-890208-77-9)
Softcover, Poisoned Pen Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mamur Zapt & the Return of the Carpet'Book summary:The Mamur Zapt, head of Cairos CID in the heyday of (the indirect) British rule, focuses on political, not police, matters. With the bustling new century, the loosening of imperial ties, and the rise of nationalism, his is a busy office. The attempted assassination of a veteran politician raises the spectre of a major terrorist statement at the capitals principal religious festival where the faithful celebrate the Return of the Holy Carpet from Mecca. Easily navigating multiple nationalities, Captain Owen, the Welsh incumbent, bolsters the Mamur Zapts office with the aid of a host of memorable characters. Starts a 15-book series.[via]More editions of The Mamur Zapt & the Return of the Carpet:
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 1595400370 (1-59540-037-0)
Softcover, Authorhouse
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Softcover Large Print edition of the third of Austen s published romances. Mansfield Park explores the complex relations of Fanny Price, eldest daughter of an impoverished family that is taken in by Sir Thomas Bertram of Mansfield Park. She becomes an indispensable part of the household and soon finds herself involved in the affairs of the headstrong daughter, Maria Bertram, the son, Edmund, and many others. [via]
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The Moons of Palmaresby Zainab AmadahyISBN 1896705227 (1-896705-22-7)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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The Mortal Immortalby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 1892391015 (1-892391-01-5)
Softcover, Tachyon Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mortal Immortal'Book summary:This collection contains all five of Mary Shelley's supernatural stories, and will hopefully shed much needed light on an author often credited with writing the first science fiction novel. Here you will find the secrets of eternal youth, souls that exchange bodies, and ancient Englishmen and Romans newly thawed out of ice. In addition to several stories by Mary Shelley, this volume also features a brand new story by renowned science fiction author Michael Bishop. This work serves as a narrative introduction for this collection. Mary Shelley's considerable reputation rests squarely on the shoulders of her one great novel - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, published anonymously in 1818 and revised under her own byline in 1831. Her powerful tale of blasphemous creation is perhaps more familiar to modern readers through its many film adaptations as it is from the book itself. From Boris Karloff's electrifying performance as Frankenstein to Kenneth Branaugh's latest directorial rendering, the story has received numerous interpretations which have renewed interest in the book time and time again. However, Shelley's other works have not fared as well as Frankenstein. She wrote just a handful of novels, of which only The Last Man (1826) has remained sporadically in print, due to its great length and slow, ornate and often tedious use of language. A precursor to such disaster novels as George R. Stewart's Earth Abides and Richard Jeffries' After London, The Last Man follows its protagonist Lionel Verney through a distant future world which has been depopulated by plague. The shorter works of Mary Shelley have remained even more obscure. During her lifetime, she published just over two-dozen stories, only three of which were of interest to readers of science fiction and fantasy. In addition to these three supernaturally-themed stories, two additional stories were published after Shelley's death. "Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman," was printed in a volume of reminisces by a magazine editor who had commissioned the story thirty years earlier. "Valerius: The Reanimated Roman," a story in a similar vein to "Roger Dodsworth," remained unpublished until 1976, when both stories were discovered by Charles E. Robinson, a Shelley scholar and professor of English at the University of Delaware. [via]
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The New Rulers of the Worldby John PilgerISBN 185984412X (1-85984-412-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Rulers of the World'Book summary:Award-winning journalist and filmmaker John Pilger tackles the injustices and double standards inherent in the politics of globalization and exposes the terrible truth behind the power and wealth of states and corporations.
John Pilger's television film The New Rulers of the World was, among much else, a debunking of the myth of globalization. Reporting from Indonesia, he revealed how General Suharto's bloody seizure of power in the 1960s was part of a western design that was just the beginning of the imposition of a 'global economy' upon Asia.
Now, he has collected both original work and expanded versions of his recent essays on power, its secrets and illusions in a book that illuminates the nature of modern imperialism. He discloses how up to a million Indonesians dies as the price for being the World Bank's 'model pupil', and the price paid by the people of Iraq for the West's decade-long embargo on that country. He returns to his homeland, Australia, to look behind the hype that led to the Millennium Olympics in Sydney and to reflect on Australia's continuing subjugation of its Aboriginal people. And, following the September 11 attacks on America and the bombing of Afghanistan, he describes the new thrust of American power and its goal of 'world order', as well as the propaganda that justifies and drives it.
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboardby Joseph ConradISBN 1593081936 (1-59308-193-6)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard'Book summary:Introduction and Notes by Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway College, University of London Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspired the struggling state itself, buckle under economic and political pressures? Nostromo is an extraordinary illustration of the impact of foreign commercial exploits on a young developing nation, and the problems of reconciling individual identity with a social role. [via]
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Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemiesby Ian Buruma, Avishai MargalitISBN 1594200084 (1-59420-008-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies'Book summary:A pioneering investigation of the lineage of anti-Western stereotypes that traces them back to the West itself.
Twenty-five years ago, Edward Said's Orientalism spawned a generation of scholarship on the denigrating and dangerous mirage of "the East" in the Western colonial mind. But "the West" is the more dangerous mirage of our own time, Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit argue, and the idea of "the West" in the minds of its self-proclaimed enemies remains largely unexamined and woefully misunderstood. Occidentalism is their groundbreaking investigation of the demonizing fantasies and stereotypes about the Western world that fuel such hatred in the hearts of others.
We generally understand "radical Islam" as a purely Islamic phenomenon, but Buruma and Margalit show that while the Islamic part of radical Islam certainly is, the radical part owes a primary debt of inheritance to the West. Whatever else they are, al Qaeda and its ilk are revolutionary anti-Western political movements, and Buruma and Margalit show us that the bogeyman of the West who stalks their thinking is the same one who has haunted the thoughts of many other revolutionary groups, going back to the early nineteenth century. In this genealogy of the components of the anti-Western worldview, the same oppositions appear again and again: the heroic revolutionary versus the timid, soft bourgeois; the rootless, deracinated cosmopolitan living in the Western city, cut off from the roots of a spiritually healthy society; the sterile Western mind, all reason and no soul; the machine society, controlled from the center by a cabal of insiders-often Jews-pulling the hidden levers of power versus an organically knit-together one, a society of "blood and soil." The anti-Western virus has found a ready host in the Islamic world for a number of legitimate reasons, they argue, but in no way does that make it an exclusively Islamic matter.
A work of extraordinary range and erudition, Occidentalism will permanently enlarge our collective frame of vision. [via]More editions of Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies:
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The Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal Peopleby Josephine FloodISBN 1741148723 (1-74114-872-3)
Softcover, Allen & Unwin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal People'Book summary:[via]Offering insight into the life and experiences of the worlds oldest culture, this account of Australias Aboriginal history spans the mythologies of the Dreamtime through the modern-day problems within the community. Culture and history enthusiasts will get answers to such questions as Where did the Aborigines come from and when? How did they survive in such a harsh environment? and What was the traditional role of Aboriginal women? This story emphasizes the resilience and adaptability of the Aboriginal people, especially throughout their relationship with the Europeans who eventually colonized the continent.More editions of The Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal People:
Patriot Sage: George Washington and the American Political Traditionby William J. Bennett, Matthew Spalding, Gary L. GreggISBN 1882926382 (1-882926-38-2)
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Political Arrangementsby Henri Lustiger-ThalerISBN 1895431549 (1-895431-54-9)
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Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Societyby Sherene RazackISBN 1896357598 (1-896357-59-8)
Softcover, Between the Lines
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society'Book summary:Race, Space, and the Law belongs to a growing field of exploration that spans critical geography, sociology, law, education, and critical race and feminist studies. Writers who share this terrain reject the idea that spaces, and the arrangement of bodies in them, emerge naturally over time. Instead, they look at how spaces are created and the role of law in shaping and supporting them. They expose hierarchies that emerge from, and in turn produce, oppressive spatial categories.
The authors' unmapping takes us through drinking establishments, parks, slums, classrooms, urban spaces of prostitution, parliaments, the main streets of cities, mosques, and the U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico borders. Each example demonstrates that "place," as a Manitoba Court of Appeal judge concluded after analyzing a section of the Indian Act, "becomes race." [via]More editions of Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society:
The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nancy StadeISBN 159308207X (1-59308-207-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax. [via]
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Small Wars You May Have Missedby Andrew Yooll-GrahamISBN 1902669215 (1-902669-21-5)
Softcover, Signal Books
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Stanley's Exploits, Or, Civilizing Africaby D. J. NicollISBN 1873605978 (1-873605-97-8)
Softcover, Sharply Library
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Tel El-Kebir 1882 : Wolseley's Conquest of Egyptby Donald FeatherstoneISBN 1855323338 (1-85532-333-8)
Softcover, Osprey Publishing, Limited
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Traffics and Discoveriesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1842329596 (1-84232-959-6)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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Travels in West Africaby Mary H. KingsleyISBN 1842121103 (1-84212-110-3)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Typeeby Herman MelvilleISBN 1853262307 (1-85326-230-7)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Typee'Book summary:Melville's first novel, "Typee" is a tale of adventure set in the primitive islands of the South Seas in the mid 19th century, based on the author's own experience. [via]
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Veiled Half-Truths : Western Travelers' Perception of Middle Eastern Womenby Judy MabroISBN 1860640273 (1-86064-027-3)
Softcover, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
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Walking Through Fire: A Life of Nawal El Saadawiby Nawal Elsaadawi, Nawal Sadawi, Sherif HetataISBN 1842770772 (1-84277-077-2)
Softcover, Zed Books
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Walking With Ghosts: Poemsby Qwo-li DriskillISBN 1844711137 (1-84471-113-7)
Softcover, Salt Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walking With Ghosts: Poems'Book summary:Written from a contemporary Cherokee, Queer and mixed-race experience, these poems confront a legacy of land-theft, genocide, and forced removal, and resist ongoing attacks on both Indigenous and Gay/ Lesbian/ Bisexual /Transgender communities. Tender, startling, confrontational and erotic, this book honors the dead and brings the survivors back home. [via]
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The War of the World: Twentieth-century Conflict And the Descent of the Westby Niall FergusonISBN 1594201005 (1-59420-100-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the World: Twentieth-century Conflict And the Descent of the West'Book summary:Niall Fergusson's most important book to date-a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing.
From the conflicts that presaged the First World War to the aftershocks of the cold war, the twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all of human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale and intensity of its violence when, thanks to the advances of science and economics, most people were better off than ever before-eating better, growing taller, and living longer? Wherever one looked, the world in 1900 offered the happy prospect of ever-greater interconnection. Why, then, did global progress descend into internecine war and genocide? Drawing on a pioneering combination of history, economics, and evolutionary theory, Niall Ferguson-one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People"-masterfully examines what he calls the age of hatred and sets out to explain what went wrong with modernity.
On a quest that takes him from the Siberian steppe to the plains of Poland, from the streets of Sarajevo to the beaches of Okinawa, Ferguson reveals an age turned upside down by economic volatility, multicultural communities torn apart by the irregularities of boom and bust, an era poisoned by the idea of irreconcilable racial differences, and a struggle between decaying old empires and predatory new states. Who won the war of the world? We tend to assume it was the West. Some even talk of the American century. But for Ferguson, the biggest upshot of twentieth-century upheaval was the decline of Western dominance over Asia.
A work of revelatory interpretive power, The War of the World is Niall Ferguson's masterwork. [via]
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 1595400303 (1-59540-030-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds'Book summary:This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Ya Basta!: Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprisingby Subcomandante Insugente Marcos, Ziga Vodovnik, Noam Chomsky, Naomi KleinISBN 1904859135 (1-904859-13-5)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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The Zanzibar Chest: a Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Landsby Aidan HartleyISBN 1594480117 (1-59448-011-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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The Zulu War 1879by Ian KnightISBN 1841766127 (1-84176-612-7)
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Les Aventures De Tintin, Reporter Du Petit Vingtieme, Au Congoby HergeISBN 2203011025 (2-203-01102-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Aventures De Tintin, Reporter Du Petit Vingtieme, Au Congo'Book summary:The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of comic strips created by Belgian artist Herge the pen name of Georges Remi (1907 1983). The series first appeared in French in Le Petit Vingtieme, a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle on 10 January 1929. Set in a painstakingly researched world closely mirroring our own, Herge's Tintin series continues to be a favorite of readers and critics alike 80 years later.
The hero of the series is Tintin, a young Belgian reporter. He is aided in his adventures from the beginning by his faithful fox terrier dog Snowy (Milou in French). Later, popular additions to the cast included the brash, cynical and grumpy Captain Haddock, the bright but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus (Professeur Tournesol) and other colorful supporting characters such as the incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson (Dupond et Dupont). Herge himself features in several of the comics as a background character; as do his assistants in some instances.
The success of the series saw the serialized strips collected into a series of albums (24 in all), spun into a successful magazine and adapted for film and theatre. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, with translations published in over 50 languages and more than 200 million copies of the books sold to date.
The comic strip series has long been admired for its clean, expressive drawings in Herge's signature ligne claire style. Engaging, well-researched plots straddle a variety of genres: swashbuckling adventures with elements of fantasy, mysteries, political thrillers, and science fiction. The stories within the Tintin series always feature slapstick humor, accompanied in later albums by sophisticated satire, and political and cultural commentary. [via]More editions of Les Aventures De Tintin, Reporter Du Petit Vingtieme, Au Congo:
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Lire L'exotismeby Jean-Marc MouraISBN 2100000918 (2-10-000091-8)
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Le Reve Mexicain, Ou, La Pensee Interrompueby J.-M. G. Le ClezioISBN 207071389X (2-07-071389-X)
Hardcover, Gallimard
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Rouge Bresil: Romanby Jean-Christophe RufinISBN 2070761983 (2-07-076198-3)
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Une Tempeteby Aime CesaireISBN 2020314312 (2-02-031431-2)
Softcover, Editions Du Seuil
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