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The Girl Who Smiled Beads

The Girl Who Smiled Beads

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A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save us A riveting tale of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or...
Sacred Elephant

Sacred Elephant

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The largest and oldest of land mammals, the elephant, is celebrated by Heathcote Williams in a poem written and broadcast on BBC radio. The ancients recognized and revered the elephant...
Another Day of Life

Another Day of Life

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The Great Game

The Great Game

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The "Great Game" was an imperial, political, diplomatic, and military enterprise in which intrepid individuals played for high stakes in a struggle that stretched from the Causasus in the West...
Daughters of Oduma

Daughters of Oduma

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An elite female fighter must reenter the competition to protect her found family of younger sisters in this "absorbing, striking" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) young adult fantasy inspired...
The Puppeteers - An Examination of Those Organizations and Bodies Concerned with the Elimination of the White Man In Africa

The Puppeteers - An Examination of Those Organizations and Bodies Concerned with the Elimination of the White Man In Africa

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Author: Harold Soref, Ian GreigBinding: PaperbackPublished: Tandem, 1965Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Cover has general wear, previous owner name inside, pages yellowedThe Puppeteers presents a detailed...
Daughters of Oduma

Daughters of Oduma

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An elite female fighter must reenter the competition to protect her found family of younger sisters in this "absorbing, striking" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) young adult fantasy inspired...
Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged

Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged

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The epic story of the rivalry that shaped the 20th century and poses questions for the 21st. Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill- India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime...
Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance

Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance

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'A historically insightful read' Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest 'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and...
Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance

Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance

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'A historically insightful read' Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest 'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and...
The Babylon Plot (Joe Mason, Book 4)

The Babylon Plot (Joe Mason, Book 4)

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At the root of all riches lies evil... Can he uncover their deadly conspiracy before they find him first? When ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason gets a call from the Vatican,...
Conquistadores

Conquistadores

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A riveting new history of Spanish imperialism, and the men who laid its foundations The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends...
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

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*Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize* 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new...
Red Africa: Affective Communities and the Cold War

Red Africa: Affective Communities and the Cold War

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It is now almost 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fragmentation of the Soviet Union into a series of republics and the rejection of communist politics...
Tales from the Heart: True Stories from my Childhood

Tales from the Heart: True Stories from my Childhood

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.' Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the...
African Trade Beads: Their 10,000-Year History

African Trade Beads: Their 10,000-Year History

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First made and worn 120,000 years ago, beads were originally made of natural materials -- stones, shells, wood -- and have been used for adornment, currency and burial offerings. Trade...
Wars of Empire

Wars of Empire

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The 19th century signalled the high renaissance of Western imperialism. As more and more territory fell under colonial rule, European empires began to advance seemingly unchecked across the world. But...
Dry Water: Diving Headfirst into Africa

Dry Water: Diving Headfirst into Africa

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All of the apparent accidents and mysterious coincidences that led me, an ordinary Australian girl, to a life in Africa happened for a good reason. I m not sure what...
The Snakebite Survivors' Club

The Snakebite Survivors' Club

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Jeremy Seal travels to the USA, Africa, Australia and India to meet people living amongst the world's deadliest snakes - and attempts to overcome his personal fear in the process....
African Nights

African Nights

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Continuing the book "I Dreamed of Africa", this volume is written in episodes and covers Kuki's life over the last ten to 12 years. She refers glancingly to the deaths...
The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working

The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working

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After years of frustration at the stifling atmosphere of political correctness surrounding discussions of Africa, long time World Bank official Robert Calderisi speaks out. He boldly reveals how most of...
Deliverance: The inside story of East Timor's fight for freedom

Deliverance: The inside story of East Timor's fight for freedom

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In late 1999 the world watched as a small country became the world's newest nation amid a frenzy of destruction and killing. Now, Deliverance tells the inside story of East...
In the Age of Mabo: History, Aborigines and Australia

In the Age of Mabo: History, Aborigines and Australia

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The 1992 High Court's Mabo decision has provoked much controversy in contemporary Australia. As the ruling has increasingly become the subject of intense debate throughout the community, the implications of...
I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian

I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian

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'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSON An astonishing search for a missing person,...
Raffles

Raffles

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How the East Was Won: Barbarian Conquerors, Universal Conquest and the

How the East Was Won: Barbarian Conquerors, Universal Conquest and the

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How did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today's modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew...
Foreign Native: An African Journey

Foreign Native: An African Journey

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From schooldays in Durban to later years as an Oxford don, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable political commentator, Johnson has produced an entertaining and occasionally eye-popping memoir...
A History of the British Presence in Chile: From Bloody Mary to

A History of the British Presence in Chile: From Bloody Mary to

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This book sets out to narrate the contributions to and influence on the history of Chile that British visitors and immigrants have had, not as bystanders but as key players,...
Oblivion Rouge, Volume 1: The HAKKINEN: Volume 1

Oblivion Rouge, Volume 1: The HAKKINEN: Volume 1

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Oblivion Rouge follows the career of a young teenage villager named Oumi as she becomes embroiled in a conflict that threatens a futuristic Africa and the world itself. In the...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS A TABLET BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
Heart of Fire: Missing - From Child Soldier to Soul Singer

Heart of Fire: Missing - From Child Soldier to Soul Singer

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Born in 1974 to an Ethiopian mother and an Eritrean father, Senait was abandoned by her parents as a baby and spent her early years in a state orphanage before...
Barron Field in New South Wales: The Poetics of Terra Nullius

Barron Field in New South Wales: The Poetics of Terra Nullius

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The First Salute: View of the American Revolution

The First Salute: View of the American Revolution

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The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

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Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium...
The Kaya Girl

The Kaya Girl

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An extraordinary tale of two teenagers who were never meant to be friends, this page-turner transports readers to a bustling market in Ghana's capital city where one friendship transforms two...
Conversations With Myself

Conversations With Myself

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African Europeans: An Untold History

African Europeans: An Untold History

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A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, "masterfully" ( Smithsonian ) revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History...
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning

Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning

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The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS A TABLET BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian Civil War

I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian Civil War

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'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSON An astonishing search for a missing person,...
Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill

Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill

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From The New York Times bestselling author, the gripping story of Winston Churchill's exploits in the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill believed that to achieve his ambition of...
The New Encyclopedia of British, European & African Birds: An Illustrated Guide and Identifier to Over 550 Birds, Profiling Habitat, Behaviour, Nesting and Food

The New Encyclopedia of British, European & African Birds: An Illustrated Guide and Identifier to Over 550 Birds, Profiling Habitat, Behaviour, Nesting and Food

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The habitats of Great Britain, Europe and Africa boast some of the most interesting and adaptable members of the avian world. This accessible and fully illustrated guide presents some of...