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Toyin Falola, Victor Angbah
African Rivers

The Nile, Congo, Niger, Chad and Zambezi are names that evoke watershed periods in Africa's history. Yet, until now, scholars have paid little attention to Africa's riverine environment or how it has shap…

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Understanding Humanity with Isaiah Berlin

The central ideas of Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) remain as alive for our century as they did for his, and his enduring importance as a thinker is matched by his reputation as an essayist of the first rank. …

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Alison Prentice
The School Promoters

Alison Prentice's 1977 groundbreaking monograph The School Promoters is a revisionist account of public education's emergence. This latest edition includes a foreword and appendices by editors Bruce Curti…

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Money and American Literature

Few topics are as central to the American literary imagination as money. American writers' preoccupations with money predate the foundation of the United States and persist to the present day. Writers hav…

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Maurice Godelier
In and Out of the West

Is anthropology simply a continuation of colonial domination and cultural imperialism by other means, or has it--since its nineteenth-century rebirth as a purportedly scientific discipline--produced relia…

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Sean O'Brien
The Bonfire Party

The preoccupations of Sean O'Brien's work have for many of us become newly pressing: the recurrence of history, the shadow of war, the precariousness of a peacetime that can no longer be taken for granted…

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Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales

The first dedicated exploration of the short fiction of Shirley Jackson for three decades, this volume takes an in-depth look at the themes and legacies of her 200-plus short stories. Recognized as the mo…

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Karen van Kampen
The Brain Never Sleeps

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERWe all dream, but do we know why we dream? Discover what goes on behind our eyelids and what it means for our health.Do you have common recurring dreams of missing an exam, even…

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Célestin Keutcha Tchapnga
Le régime juridique des associations en droit public camerounais

Harmattan Cameroun

L'ensemble législatif donne aux règles applicables en matière d'association un visage dominé par le souci de préserver à la fois l'intérêt général et l'ordre public, de favoriser le développement économiq…

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Deryn Rees-Jones
Hotel Amour

"This is simply extraordinary writing, laced with wonder and devastation..." Joanna KlinkA sequel to her T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted Erato , Deryn Rees-Jones' remarkable new collection sees he…

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Helen McKenzie
Utterly British Maps

A fun and fascinating little book that uses the latest data to map everything that is very British.All the latest data is used to map Britain's preoccupations and quirks - from favourite crisp flavours to…

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V. S. Pritchett
Foreign Faces

'I am,' writes Mr. Pritchett, 'an offensive traveller'-meaning not that he is rude to porters, but that his praise of a country has sometimes been taken by its inhabitants as abuse or ridicule. Be that as…

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Janet Frame
Owls Do Cry

Virago Modern Classics

'Janet Frame was a unique and troubled soul whose luminous words are the more precious' HILARY MANTEL 'Her dark, eloquent song captured my heart' JANE CAMPION 'All my preoccupations as a writer - my notio…

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Jonathan Sacks
To Heal a Fractured World

Rabbi Sacks argues that preoccupation with self is a mistake and that ethics are concerned with the life we live together. With a new foreword by Rowan Williams.

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Leah Astbury
Making Babies in Early Modern England

Early modern English people were obsessed with making babies. Leah Astbury traces this preoccupation through manuscript letters, diaries, recipe books and almanacs, revealing its centrality to the histori…

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Anna Snaith
Writing Noise in Interwar Britain

This book explores the preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound in interwar Britain. It contends that the extreme decibel levels brought about during WW1 created not only a concern with the effects of noise on…

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George F Koob, Michael A Arends, Mandy L McCracken, Michel Le Moal
Cannabis

Cannabis, Volume Five in the Neurobiology of Addiction series, explores the molecular and cellular systems in the brain that are responsible for both nicotine and marijuana addiction. The book includes th…

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James Meese, Corinne Tan
Addressing Misinformation and Disinformation

Concerns around misinformation and disinformation have intensified with the rise of AI tools, with many claiming this is a watershed moment for truth, accuracy and democracy. In response, numerous laws ha…

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Jennifer Manoukian
Purist Pursuits

Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early-twentieth centuries, Jennifer Man…

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Michael Hauser
Badiou's Ontology of the Present

Emerging from the twin shadows of neoliberalism and postmodernism, Michael Hauser paints our current historical moment as an interregnum, born of but departing from those two towering modes of late20th-ce…

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