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Kgalema Motlanthe
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Presenting a superb account of a man characterized by his reticence, this biography offers a rare and thorough insight into the life of one of South Africa’s most powerful: Kgalema Motlanthe. From Motlanthe’s ancestral family to his political awakenings as he discovered the African National Congress,...
Abortion Under Apartheid
Nationalism, Sexuality, and Women's Reproductive Rights in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Abortion Under Apartheid examines the politics of abortion in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1990), when termination of pregnancy was criminalized. It analyzes the flourishing clandestine abortion industry, the prosecution of medical and "backstreet" abortionists, and the passage in 1975...
Biko's Ghost
The Iconography of Black Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
“When you say, ‘Black is Beautiful,’ what in fact you are saying . . . is: Man, you are okay as you are; begin to look upon yourself as a human being.” With such statements, Stephen Biko became the voice of Black Consciousness. And with Biko’s brutal death in the custody of the South African...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
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There was never a war in history in which the right was absolutely...
The End of the Line (including audiolink/version)
A true story of "the bad old days", but with the fresh hope of the new.
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
This is my second book and first novel (from 1993)
''The End Of The Line' could be described as “faction” - fiction with a serious
factual grounding. It is simple, and therefore moving. It gives yet another highly
individual portrait of that troubled land, and it does so through a believable...
Wayfaring Stranger
A Musical Journey in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Can you feel nostalgic for a life you've never known?
Suffused with her much-loved warmth and wit, Emma John's memoir follows her moving and memorable journey to master one of the hardest musical styles on earth - and to find her place in an alien world.
Emma had fallen out of love with...
City of Extremes
The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
City of Extremes is a powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994. Martin J. Murray describes how a loose alliance of city builders—including real estate developers, large-scale property owners, municipal officials, and security specialists—has...
The End of Apartheid
Diary of a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
In 2 February 1990, FW de Klerk made a speech that changed the history of South Africa. Nine days later, the world watched as Nelson Mandela walked free from the Viktor Verster prison. In the midst of these events was Lord Renwick, Margaret Thatcher's envoy to South Africa, who became a personal friend...
Piero Gleijeses' International History of the Cold War in Southern Africa, Omnibus E-Book
Includes Conflicting Missions and Visions of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This Omnibus E-Book brings together Piero Gleijeses's two landmark books for the first time:
Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991
During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval,...
U.S. Intervention in British Guiana
A Cold War Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
In the first published account of the massive U.S. covert intervention in British Guiana between 1953 and 1969, Stephen G. Rabe uncovers a Cold War story of imperialism, gender bias, and racism.
When the South American colony now known as Guyana was due to gain independence from Britain in...
Fodor's South Florida
With Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and the Keys
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
FULLY REDESIGNED!
- New front cover
- New back cover
- “Best of” Lists
- Other useful features
- “Travel Smart”
- More images
- Stronger Voice and Opinions
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Up the Andes
Travel the Andes from North to South from Top to Bottom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
A ride from the Alto Plano of Bolivia and Peru to the frozen tip of Patagonia; on the world's most dangerous road, where the stakes are high, on to Argentina's fabled Ruta 40, where the steaks are large and cheap. Across salt pans, into mud holes, up the Andes and down again; past the ruins of the ruins...
by James Kilgore
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Lying bare the political and personal intricacies of community struggles, this extraordinary story portrays the historical roots of the service delivery revolts that have swept South Africa in recent years. This novel centers around an engaging and tragic couple: an unemployed ex-shop steward and...
The Scooter Diaries
An Adventure Romance Through Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
In November of 1959, Ron Bowman quit his job as a newspaper reporter, sold his car and bought a 150cc Lambretta scooter. He intended to ride it from his hometown of Thorold, Ontario, Canada all the way to Peru. As far as he knew, no one had ever made such a journey, but he was going to try.
Three...