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Love All Men, Have Lunch with a Few: The Boys of Bunny's Restaurant: My Father's Story as a Japanese P.O.W.
ISBN: 9781432773830 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During his three and one-half years as a POW of the Japanese, one man was subjected to and a witness to atrocities and cruelties that would destroy most men. But instead, these incredible trials brought out the deepest strength: the will to survive, and a determination to embrace even the most unthinkable suffering, with the knowledge that it had something to teach him.
During his three and one-half years as a POW of the Japanese, one man was subjected to and a witness to atrocities and cruelties that would destroy mo...
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Love All Men, Have Lunch with a Few: The Boys of Bunny's Restaurant: My Father's Story as a Japanese P.O.W.
ISBN: 9781432780517 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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119,76 |
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A Culture Worth Saving: Never too late
ISBN: 9781432783082 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From an Early and Colorful Past to the Present: The People Behind Florida's Fishing Industry Florida and fishing have been synonymous since Admiral Pedro Men ndez de Avil s founded St. Augustine in 1565. He brought myriad tradesmen, including net makers and fishermen who harvested seafood for sustenance and trade. From 1880 through 1925, four million Italian immigrants arrived in the United States, along with immigrants from Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Scotland, and Scandinavia. Thousands of families migrated to Florida, searching for economic and political freedom. Thankfully, many chose...
From an Early and Colorful Past to the Present: The People Behind Florida's Fishing Industry Florida and fishing have been synonymous since Admiral Pe...
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75,36 |
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Kebulan
ISBN: 9781469908182 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amazing story of the journey of man, homo sapien-sapien, in ancient Kebulan, the continent called Africa. In 20,000 B.C., ten students from the House of Life were chosen to journey into the mysterious land of the east where many before them had journeyed but were lost, with many never to return to Kebu. It is the beginning where civilization was spread from central Kebu to the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and finally the Americas. Kebulan is a must read
Amazing story of the journey of man, homo sapien-sapien, in ancient Kebulan, the continent called Africa. In 20,000 B.C., ten students from the House ...
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Shaba II: The French and Belgian Intervention in Zaire in 1978
ISBN: 9781780394572 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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94,48 |
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The Anglophone Cameroon Predicament
ISBN: 9789956717118 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores the predicament of Anglophone Cameroon - from the experiment in federation from 1961 to the political liberalisation struggles of the 1990s - to challenge claims of a successful post-independence Cameroonian integration process. Focusing on the perceptions and actions of people in the Anglophone region, Atanga argues that what has come to be called the 'Anglophone Problem' constitutes one of the severest threats to the post-colonial nation-state project in Cameroon. As a linguistic and cultural minority, Anglophone Cameroonians realised that the Francophone-led state and...
This study explores the predicament of Anglophone Cameroon - from the experiment in federation from 1961 to the political liberalisation struggles of ...
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232,75 |
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Nso' and Its Neighbours. Readings in the Social History of the Western Grassfields of Cameroon
ISBN: 9789956717538 / Angielski / Miękka / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a rich and compelling volume of readings in social history on Nso and its neighbours in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon. It consists of 19 essays by some of the leading historians, archeologists and ethnographers of the region, with seminal contributions by Jean-Pierre Warnier, Paul Nchoji Nkwi, Bongfen Chem-Langhee, Phyllis Kaberry, E.M Chilver, Miriam Goheen, Ian Flower, Dan Lantum and V.G. Fanso. The book covers a broad range of themes from precolonial times to date, including trade, alliances, diplomacy, the iron industry, colonial impact, continuities, discontinuities and...
This is a rich and compelling volume of readings in social history on Nso and its neighbours in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon. It consists of 19...
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354,01 |
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The Crime of the Congo
ISBN: 9781443814386 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is one of Conan Doyle's appeals to public opinion, in this case calling for international intervention over the running of the Belgian Congo (modern-day DRC), which he called the greatest crime in history.
This volume is one of Conan Doyle's appeals to public opinion, in this case calling for international intervention over the running of the Belgian Con...
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61,56 |
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Chasse et élevage dans la Corne de l'Afrique entre le Néolithique et les temps historiques
ISBN: 9781407300191 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines the exploitation of the faunal diversity during the Holocene in the Horn of Africa, especially in the arid plain of Gobaad in Djibouti and in the mountainous region of Wolayta in Ethiopia. For that purpose, the author has studied faunal collections (more than 70 000 remains and 34 species) from five archaeological sites occupied from the 5th millennium BC to the 1st millennium AD. Both these regions offer very different natural environments, in which the presence of specialized societies of hunter-gatherers is evident. By integrating the findings of this research with...
This volume examines the exploitation of the faunal diversity during the Holocene in the Horn of Africa, especially in the arid plain of Gobaad in Dji...
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Memory and the Mountain
ISBN: 9781407301174 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book considers the relationships between memory, experience and landscape from insights gained conducting ethnographic research; its primary focus is the Wachagga of Kilimanjaro, East Africa. In so doing it aims to raise issues relating to interdisciplinary work involving ethnography and landscape archaeology.
This book considers the relationships between memory, experience and landscape from insights gained conducting ethnographic research; its primary focu...
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Lamu: History, Society, and Family in an East African Port City
ISBN: 9781558761063 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A history of Lamu, once an important East African port city, now an unspoiled tourist destination. It covers the impact of slavery and the slave trade, the introduction of British colonial rule, health issues, agricultural practices, religious and ceremonial practices, family life, and more.
A history of Lamu, once an important East African port city, now an unspoiled tourist destination. It covers the impact of slavery and the slave trade...
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263,18 |
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State of a Union. The Half Century of Cameroon's Bicultural Experience
ISBN: 9789956726714 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The bicultural polity of Cameroon has become problematic over the years. In addition to the increasing marginalization experienced by its English speaking component in many domains (politics, administration, economy, culture), it is facing mounting inequality and disarray despite the nation-building aspirations at reunification in 1961. This book examines the very basis of the union crisis by tracing the causes to the asymmetrical nature of negotiations between the contracting partners - the founding fathers of the union - and the politics of guile and force that has characterized the regimes...
The bicultural polity of Cameroon has become problematic over the years. In addition to the increasing marginalization experienced by its English spea...
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A Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo
ISBN: 9780253007506 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880s. While Lusinga participated in the east African slave trade, Storms' secret mandate was to meet Henry Stanley's eastward march and trace "a white line across the Dark Continent" to legitimize King Leopold's audacious claim to the Congo. Confrontation was inevitable, and Lusinga lost his head. His skull became the subject of a sinister evolutionary... A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while ... |
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Fulani Hegemony in Yola (Old Adamawa) 1809-1902
ISBN: 9789956726950 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the launching of jihad against Sarkin Gobir and other Hausa chiefs by Uthman dan Fodio, a renowned Muslim reformer, Yola became one of the focal points for Uthmans Movement south of the Lake Chad region. The leader was Modibbo Adama (1809-1847) and the emirate he formed was called Adamawa. The study analyses the factors which came into play in the creation and maintenance of the emirate out of a vast array of segmented units of authority. By the middle of the 19th century, Europeans started visiting the region in a general drive to abolish slave trade from its sources and substitute...
Following the launching of jihad against Sarkin Gobir and other Hausa chiefs by Uthman dan Fodio, a renowned Muslim reformer, Yola became one of the f...
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From a Sparrow to a Storm: The untold story of the Watts Baby; arrested and imprisoned 48 hours before the revolt known as the 1965 Watts Riots.
ISBN: 9781432757502 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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113,15 |
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Invisible Agents: Spirits in a Central African History
ISBN: 9780821420249 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Invisible Agents shows how personal and deeply felt spiritual beliefs can inspire social movements and influence historical change. Conventional historiography concentrates on the secular, materialist, or moral sources of political agency. Instead, David M. Gordon argues, when people perceive spirits as exerting power in the visible world, these beliefs form the basis for individual and collective actions. Focusing on the history of the south-central African country of Zambia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, his analysis invites reflection on political and religious... Invisible Agents shows how personal and deeply felt spiritual beliefs can inspire social movements and influence historical change. Conven... |
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Strange Victory: The Life and Work of Elizabeth Garland Hall 1867-1933
ISBN: 9781477458044 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Strange Victory is a story of a African American woman missionary's contribution to the evangelization of Africa. It is the pilgrimage of one woman who made a difference in the lives of thousands of women and children both in Africa and the Caribbean. Struggling against the color and gender prejudices and discrimination in the Baptist churches and Mission Boards of that time, undeterred she witnessed to her faith and with her husband William left behind an enviable record of Christian commitment which has rarely been equaled and yet has not been adequately acknowledged. This book which is a...
Strange Victory is a story of a African American woman missionary's contribution to the evangelization of Africa. It is the pilgrimage of one woman wh...
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Facing the Challenge of Emancipation: A Study of the Ministry of William Hart Coleridge, First Bishop of Barbados, 1824-1842
ISBN: 9789766530143 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study documents how William Hart Coleridge, the first Anglican bishop of Barbados and the Leewards, executed the new mandate of the Anglican church between 1824 and 1842. When the British Government turned to the Established Church for assistance in the amelioration of the condition of the enslaved population in the West Indian colonies, two new Sees of Jamaica and Barbados and the Leeward Islands were created in 1824 and two new Bishops were appointed, Coleridge and Christopher Lipscomb. The book focuses on Coleridge's episcopate in Barbados, discussing the Colonial Church before his...
This study documents how William Hart Coleridge, the first Anglican bishop of Barbados and the Leewards, executed the new mandate of the Anglican chur...
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University Crisis and Student Protests in Africa. The 2005 -2006 University Students' Strike in Cameroon
ISBN: 9789956727070 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Faced with a deepening crisis in their universities, African students have demonstrated a growing activism and militancy. They have been engaged in numerous, often violent, strikes for improvements in their deteriorating living and study conditions and the introduction of a democratic culture in the universities and society as a whole, including the right to express their views, organise in student unions and participate in university management. This book focuses on a recent violent strike action in Cameroon's state universities, with special attention to the University of Buea - the only...
Faced with a deepening crisis in their universities, African students have demonstrated a growing activism and militancy. They have been engaged in nu...
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261,85 |
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The Residue of the Western Missionary in the Southern Cameroons. The Christian Village: A Sad Tale of Strife and Dissension
ISBN: 9789956727940 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the fascinating study of Christian enclaves in the Southern Cameroons of the colonial era. The Christian enclaves came into being with absolute spontaneity as a modus vivendi. Oblivious of the danger in store both colonial governments and traditional authorities provided the conditions in which these Christian villages took root and flourished. However what had taken root in the territory as a self-protection mechanism, soon unleashed its lethal, enticing tentacles luring both the wives of royals and commoners into their bosom. This disruptive influence of Christian villages...
This book is the fascinating study of Christian enclaves in the Southern Cameroons of the colonial era. The Christian enclaves came into being with ab...
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