wyszukanych pozycji: 15
Africa and the Disruptions of the Twenty-first Century
ISBN: 9782869789975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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271,88 zł |
Smouldering Charcoal
ISBN: 9781035900985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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94,02 zł |
The Transformation of Global Higher Education, 1945-2015
ISBN: 9781137578570 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 385 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book explores some of the major forces and changes in higher education across the world between 1945 and 2015. This includes the explosions of higher education institutions and enrollments, a development captured by the notion of massification. There were also profound shifts in the financing and economic role of higher education reflected in the processes of privatization of universities and curricula realignments to meet the shifting demands of the economy. Moreover, the systems of knowledge production, organization, dissemination, and consumption, as well as the disciplinary...
This book explores some of the major forces and changes in higher education across the world between 1945 and 2015. This includes the explosions of hi...
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333,00 zł |
The Study of Africa Volume 2: Global and Transnational Engagements
ISBN: 9782869781986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This is the second of a two-volume work taking stock of the study of Africa in the twenty-first century: its status, research agenda and approaches, and place. It is divided into two parts, the first entitled Globalisation Studies and African Studies, and the second, African Studies in Regional Contexts.
Topics addressed in part one include: trans-boundary formations and the study of Africa; global economic liberalisation and development in Africa; African diasporas, academics and the struggle for a global epistemic presence; and the problem of translation in African studies. Part two... This is the second of a two-volume work taking stock of the study of Africa in the twenty-first century: its status, research agenda and approaches, a...
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470,14 zł |
A Modern Economic History of Africa: v. 1: Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9782869780279 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Winner of the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 1994. The jury cited the book as "an ambitious, skilfully written, and exhaustively researched synthesis of African economic history in the 19th century." The citation goes on to say that "the book is an exercise in convincing challenge to hitherto accepted orthodoxies, terminologies, and interpretations, outstanding, pioneering work, destined to become highly influential, and providing such a wealth of information and details as to elevate the study of African economic history to a new pedestal."
Winner of the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 1994. The jury cited the book as "an ambitious, skilfully written, and exhaustively researched synth...
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430,47 zł |
Barack Obama and African Diasporas: Dialogues and Dissensions
ISBN: 9780821418963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An active blogger on "The Zeleza Post," from which these essays are drawn, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza provides a genuinely critical engagement with Africa s multiple worlds. With a blend of erudition and lively style, Zeleza writes about the role of Africa and Africans in the world and the interaction of the world with Africa.
In the title essay, Zeleza analyzes the significance of the election of a member of the African diaspora to the presidency of the United States. He also addresses Africa s urgent political concerns: China s role in Africa, South Africa's difficulties in making the... An active blogger on "The Zeleza Post," from which these essays are drawn, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza provides a genuinely critical engagement with Africa s ...
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132,75 zł |
The Study of Africa Volume 1: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Encounters
ISBN: 9782869781979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This is the first of a two-volume work which takes stock of the study of Africa in the twenty-first century: its status, research agenda and approaches, and place. It is divided into two parts, the first on the academic disciplines and African Studies, the second on interdisciplinary studies.
This is the first of a two-volume work which takes stock of the study of Africa in the twenty-first century: its status, research agenda and approache...
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538,10 zł |
The Transformation of Global Higher Education, 1945-2015
ISBN: 9781349720743 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 385 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book explores some of the major forces and changes in higher education across the world between 1945 and 2015. This includes the explosions of higher education institutions and enrollments, a development captured by the notion of massification. There were also profound shifts in the financing and economic role of higher education reflected in the processes of privatization of universities and curricula realignments to meet the shifting demands of the economy. Moreover, the systems of knowledge production, organization, dissemination, and consumption, as well as the disciplinary...
This book explores some of the major forces and changes in higher education across the world between 1945 and 2015. This includes the explosions of hi...
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235,04 zł |
African Universities in the Twenty-First Century: Vol 2
ISBN: 9782869781252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) As the twenty first century unfolds, African universities are undergoing change and confronting challenges which are unprecedented. The effects of globalisation, and political and economic pressures of liberalisation and privatisation, both internal and external, are reconfiguring all aspects of university life: teaching, research, and their public service functions; such that the need to redefine the roles of the African universities, and to defend their importance have become paramount. At the same time, the universities must themselves balance demands of autonomy and accountability,...
As the twenty first century unfolds, African universities are undergoing change and confronting challenges which are unprecedented. The effects of glo...
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402,17 zł |
Manufacturing African Studies and Crises
ISBN: 9782869780668 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Awarded Special Commendation in the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 1998. The intellectual liberation of the study of Africa is the battle cry of this forceful book. The author is one of Africas younger scholars, in the forefront of research and thinking about the role of African scholars, and the ownership and state of African Studies; and winner of The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 1994. He describes this book as an interrogation of African Studies, its formulations and fetishes, theories and trends, possibilities and pitfalls. He argues that, as a discursiveformation, African...
Awarded Special Commendation in the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 1998. The intellectual liberation of the study of Africa is the battle cry of ...
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538,10 zł |
African universities in the twenty-first Century: Volume 1: Liberalisation and internationalisation
ISBN: 9782869781245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) As the twenty first century unfolds, African universities are undergoing change and confronting challenges which are unprecedented. The effects of globalisation, and political and economic pressures of liberalisation and privatisation, both internal and external, are reconfiguring all aspects of university life: teaching, research, and their public service functions; such that the need to redefine the roles of the African universities, and to defend their importance have become paramount. At the same time, the universities must themselves balance demands of autonomy and accountability,...
As the twenty first century unfolds, African universities are undergoing change and confronting challenges which are unprecedented. The effects of glo...
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402,17 zł |
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History
ISBN: 9780415758345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With nearly two hundred and fifty individually signed entries, the Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History explores the ways in which the peoples of Africa and their politics, states, societies, economies, environments, cultures and arts were transformed during the course of that Janus-faced century. Overseen by a diverse and distinguished international team of consultant editors, the Encyclopedia provides a thorough examination of the global and local forces that shaped the changes that the continent underwent. Combining essential factual description with...
With nearly two hundred and fifty individually signed entries, the Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History explores the ways in whi...
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283,82 zł |
The Resolution of African Conflicts: The Management of Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780821418086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. These two volumes clearly demonstrate the efforts by a wide range of African scholars to explain the roots, routes, regimes and resolution of African conflicts and how to re-build post-conflict societies. They offer sober and serious analyses, eschewing the sensationalism of the western media and the sophistry of some of the scholars in the global North for whom African conflicts are at worst a distraction and at best a confirmation of their pet racist and petty universalist theories.
From the introduction by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza This book offers analyses of a range of African... These two volumes clearly demonstrate the efforts by a wide range of African scholars to explain the roots, routes, regimes and resolution of African ...
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136,63 zł |
The Roots of African Conflicts: The Causes and Costs
ISBN: 9781847013002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Violent conflicts have exacted a heavy toll on Africa's societies, polities and economies. The causes of conflict are too often examined by scholars from the countries that run the proxy wars and sell the arms to fuel them. This volume offers theoretically sophisticated, empirically grounded and compelling analyses of the roots of African conflicts. '...The studies in these two books seek to advance our understanding of African conflicts by going beyond the conventional and fashionable analyses of Africanist scholarship, often inflected with, if not infected by, Afropessimism, or the...
Violent conflicts have exacted a heavy toll on Africa's societies, polities and economies. The causes of conflict are too often examined by scholars f...
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131,37 zł |
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History
ISBN: 9780415234795 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With nearly two hundred and fifty individually signed entries, the Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History explores the ways in which the peoples of Africa and their politics, states, societies, economies, environments, cultures and arts were transformed during the course of that Janus-faced century. Overseen by a diverse and distinguished international team of consultant editors, the Encyclopedia provides a thorough examination of the global and local forces that shaped the changes that the continent underwent. Combining essential factual description with...
With nearly two hundred and fifty individually signed entries, the Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History explores the ways in whi...
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1209,08 zł |