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The South Pole
Nature and Culture
The Geographic South Pole is a place of paradox. It is a point around which the Earth, quite literally, pivots; yet it has a habit of falling off the edge of our maps. An invisible spot on a high, featureless ice plateau, the Pole has no obvious material value, but is nonetheless a much sought-after ...
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The Savage Shore
Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery
For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled Great Southland. In this enthralling history of early discovery, Graham Seal offers breathtaking tales of shipwrecks, perilous landings, and Aboriginal encounters with the more than three ...
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- Harper Collins, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-752310-8
EAN 9780007523108
A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, 'The Looting Machine' explores the dark underbelly of the global economy. 'The Looting Machine' is a searing expose of the global web of traders, bankers, middlemen, despots and corporate raiders that is pillaging Africa's vast natural wealth. From the killing fields ...
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- Cornell University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 44,20 €
ISBN 978-1-5017-0023-1
EAN 9781501700231
How did four and a half decades of European colonial intervention transform Moroccan identity? As elsewhere in North Africa and in the wider developing world, the colonial period in Morocco (1912-1956) established a new type of political field in which notions about and relationships among politics and identity formation were fundamentally transformed. Instead of privileging ...
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Philip Gourevitch returns, twenty years after the genoicide, to Rwanda and the eastern Congo April 2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of perhaps the most terrible single event in many of our lifetimes: the Rwandan genocide, in which at least 800,000 Tutsis were massacred and an entire region of Central Africa was convulsed and permanently changed ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-249-1
EAN 9781782392491
Written with startling beauty and acuity, Stringer is an account of a year and a half that Anjan Sundaram spent in the Congo working on the bottom rung of the Associated Press. It was an intense period that would take him deep into the shadowy city of Kinshasa, to the dense rainforests that still evoke ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197865-9
EAN 9780141978659
An inspiring international bestseller, Good Morning, Mr Mandela tells the story of Zelda la Grange's incredible friendship with Nelson Mandela. Zelda la Grange grew up in South Africa as a white Afrikaner who supported the rules of segregation. Yet just a few years after the end of Apartheid she would become a most trusted assistant ...
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Fortunes of Africa
A 5,000 Year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavour
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-3545-3
EAN 9781471135453
In this vast and vivid panorama of history, Martin Meredith, bestselling author of The State of Africa, follows the fortunes of Africa over a period of 5,000 years. With compelling narrative, he traces the rise and fall of ancient kingdoms and empires; the spread of Christianity and Islam; the enduring quest for gold and other ...
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Messier, Ronald A; Miller, James A
The Last Civilized Place
Sijilmasa and its Saharan Destiny
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 85,30 €
ISBN 978-0-292-76665-5
EAN 9780292766655
Set along the Sahara's edge, Sijilmasa was an African El Dorado, a legendary city of gold. But unlike El Dorado, Sijilmasa was a real city, the pivot in the gold trade between ancient Ghana and the Mediterranean world. Following its emergence as an independent city-state controlling a monopoly on gold during its first 250 years, ...
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Northern and central Nigeria are engulfed in a violent insurgency campaign waged by Jama'atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda'awati w'al Jihad, a.k.a. 'Boko Haram', and more recently, its splinter group 'Ansaru'. From its inception an inward-looking, almost parochial, movement, Boko Haram, and even more so Ansaru, have now showed clear signs of regionalization, expanding their operations across ...
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- Harper Collins USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-752309-2
EAN 9780007523092
A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, 'The Looting Machine' explores the dark underbelly of the global economy.Africa: the world's poorest continent and, arguably, its richest. While accounting for just 2 percent of global GDP, it is home to 15 per cent of the planet's crude oil, 40 ...
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Gerard, Emmanuel; Kuklick, Bruce
Death in the Congo
Murdering Patrice Lumumba
- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 35,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-72527-0
EAN 9780674725270
More than 50 years later the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba's assassination trouble people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick reveal a tangled web of international politics in which many people-black and white, well-meaning or ruthless, African, European, and American-bear responsibility for this crime.Death in the Congo is a gripping ...
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- Vintage USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 20,95 €
ISBN 978-0-307-94665-2
EAN 9780307946652
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- IBTauris, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78453-074-7
EAN 9781784530747
An insurgency in Nigeria by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has left thousands dead, shaken Africa's biggest country and worried the world. Yet it remains a mysterious - almost unknowable - organisation. Through exhaustive on-the-ground reporting, Mike Smith takes readers inside the conflict and provides the first in-depth account of the violence and unrest.He ...
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The History of Africa
The Quest for Eternal Harmony
- Routledge, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 412 páginas
PVP: 49,15 €
ISBN 978-0-415-84455-0
EAN 9780415844550
There is a paradox about Africa: it remains a subject that attracts considerable attention yet rarely is there a full appreciation of its complexity. African historiography has typically consisted of writing Africa for Europe instead of writing Africa for itself, as itself, from its own perspectives. The History of Africa redresses this by letting the ...
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- IBTauris, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-822-9
EAN 9781780768229
On 24 October 1964, the Republic of Zambia was formed, replacing the territory which had formerly been known as Northern Rhodesia. Fifty years on, Andrew Sardanis provides a sympathetic but critical insider's account of Zambia, from independence to the present. He paints a stark picture of Northern Rhodesia at decolonisation and the problems of the ...
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Ilibagiza, Immaculee; Erwin, Steve
Left to Tell
One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Genocide
- Hay House UK Ltd, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78180-295-3
EAN 9781781802953
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family that she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into bloody holocaust. Immaculee's family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans.Incredibly, Immaculee survived ...
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Africa's Peacemakers
Nobel Peace Laureates of African Descent
- Zed Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-943-7
EAN 9781780329437
As Africa and its diaspora commemorate fifty years of post-independence Pan-Africanism, this unique and sometimes provocative collection of biographical essays provides profound insight into the thirteen prominent individuals of African descent who have won the Nobel Peace Prize since 1950. From the first American president of African descent, Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan and ...
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- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19833-1
EAN 9780300198331
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- Harper Collins USA, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-06-232393-4
EAN 9780062323934
Anecdotal, intimate remembrance of the South African leader by a journalist who grew to love him. As the South African correspondent for the London Independent during the key years between the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990 and his election as president of South Africa in 1994, Carlin (Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela ...
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