The Idea of Africa, Paperback - V. Y. Mudimbe

... this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies." --International Journal of Africa...

... groundbreaking... clear, straightforward, and economical.... seminal... " --American AnthropologistThis is a challenging book... a remarkable c...

Particular attention was paid to the theory of political marketing, with conceptual definitions developed to better facilitate communication betwee...

Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea ...

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The Idea of Spatial Form contains the classic essay that introduced the concept of "spatial form" into literary discussion in 1945, and has since b...

Reducere. One of Newman's best and most accessible books, The Idea of a University stands among the central texts of the Oxford Movement and remains a crucia...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sonya (University of Roehampton, UK) NevinIllustration(s): 11 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Publicatio...

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Reducere. There are moments in life that are pure, and which seem to hang in the air, unhitched from the everyday world as we know it. Suspended for a few se...

Publisher: William B Eerdmans Publishing CoAuthor(s): Wolfhart PannenbergIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsTranslator: Philip ClaytonNumb...

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This haunting and bestselling memoir of the author's life - and loss - in Africa has sold 250, 000 copies to date.

This extraordinary, candid account of James Kilgo's African sojourn conveys the untamed beauty of the bush country with the attention of a seasoned...

The definitive reference guide to all of Africa's venomous snakes, written by a team of internationally acclaimed herpetologists.

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Robert BernasconiNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2000Dimensions: 211 x 134 x 12Cover type: Pa...

DescriptionIn sixteenth-century Northern Europe, during a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel explo...

Reducere. "The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum wi...

The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civiliza...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Grace LaveryIllustration(s): 14 b/w illus.Number of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155...

Reducere. Habermas and earlier members of the Frankfurt School have presented critical theory as a radically new form of knowledge. It is differentiated from...

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DescriptionThe idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet toda...

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Examining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas - the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the fron...

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From the moment the author arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and r...

Park's two journeys to Africa, in 1795 and 1805, provided Europeans with their first reliable descriptions of that continent's interior. A vivid re...

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DescriptionAncient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective--the baffli...

This Element examines progress in research and practice in forensic authorship analysis. It describes the existing research base and examines what ...

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What common culture is, what it offers, and how to generate it.Publisher: John Hunt PublishingAuthor(s): Brian GrahamNumber of pages: 192Publicatio...

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Wherever the idea of a world appears, there is an expression of cosmography. Cosmography, here, is defined as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of...

Description"Superb... A tour de force."--Ebrahim Moosa"Provocative... Aydin ranges over the centuries to show the relative novelty of the idea of a...

The Idea of Parliamentary Immunity. A Cross-country Conceptual Analysis for France, Germany, Poland and Romania - Ionut-Ciprian Negoita