Political Science
Political Science
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. [The author believes that] today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no...
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Machiavelli The Prince
THE PRINCE is undoubtedly the most important political document every written. It can only be compared to such treatise as Plato’s Republic and Sun Tzu’s Art of War. In modern times the ideas and advice in the book may seem...
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THE UNSEEN HAND by A. Ralph Epperson (Hardcover)
Ralph Epperson contends that the major events of the past, the revolutions, the wars, the depressions and the revolutions, have been planned years in advance by an international conspiracy. He puts forward his Conspiratorial View of History.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents: A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
HBO's Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight with John Oliver presents a children's book about a Very Special boy bunny who falls in love with another boy bunny.Meet Marlon Bundo, a lonely bunny who lives with his Grampa Mike Pence, the former Vice President...
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I Am Jazz
The story of a transgender child based on the real-life experience of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transkids everywhere"This is an essential tool for parents and teachers to share with children whether those kids identify as trans...
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And Tango Makes Three
ASPCA Henry Bergh Book Award Winner | Lambda Literary Award Finalist | ALA Notable Children’s Book NomineeThe bestselling, heartwarming true story of two male penguins who create a nontraditional family that “is a must for any library” (School Library Journal,...
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Melissa (previously published as GEORGE)
BE WHO YOU ARE. When people look at Melissa, they think they see a boy named George. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. Melissa thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then...
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Exhumed, Tried and Hanged
Exhumed, Tried and Hanged elucidates the abuse of folk good faith and ignorance by a conceited, ruthless and grasping leadership that sows carnage among the natives of Etambeng, culminating in unprecedented exodus, untold suffering and death of the people in...
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Ethnobotanic Resources of Tropical Montane Forests. Indigenous Uses of Plants in the Cameroon Highland Ecoregion
Mountain forests provide important ecological services, and essential products. This book focuses on the importance of mountain forests in Cameroon for the local people who depend most directly on them, and have often developed a wealth of indigenous knowledge on...
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Ethnicity, Citizenship and State in Eastern Africa
This volume, from an Africa perspective, examines the relationship between ethnicity and citizenship within the framework of nation-state. Its objective and scope engage relational aspects of political integration, awaken public conscience, and motivate civic engagement. It provides a platform that...
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Enslaved: Trapped and Trafficked in Digital Black Holes: Human Trafficking Trajectories to Libya
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Enslaved: Trapped and Trafficked in Digital Black Holes: Human Trafficking Trajectories to Libya
Eritrean refugees are being trafficked and enslaved in Libya, where they are tortured to force relatives to pay a ransom for their release. Labelled with a digital code, they are moved along in the possession of the traffickers through a...
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The End of an Era? Robert Mugabe and a Conflicting Legacy
Arguably, one of the most polarizing figures in modern times has been Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the former President of the Republic of Zimbabwe. The mere mentioning of his name raises a lot of debate and often times vicious, if not...
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The Elusiveness of Peace in a Suspect Global System
A convenient veil is drawn over the many issues facing the majority of citizens on a daily basis as a result of the so-called free market. One is left with an impression that we live in a glorious utopia in...
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Divining the Future of Africa. Healing the Wounds, Restoring Dignity and Fostering Development
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Divining the Future of Africa. Healing the Wounds, Restoring Dignity and Fostering Development
This book explores the relationship between Africa, the West and China. It notes that while Africa is a continent of diverse cultures, raw materials, human resource, indigenous knowledges, and above all the biggest recipient of foreign aid globally, it continues...
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Dissent: The Highest Stage of Patriotism
Dissent: The Highest Stage of Patriotism is a treatise on dissent as the acme of love for one's fatherland. Arguing against the grain, the author avoids smug patriotism; that which manages to make everything about the homeland flawless and beautiful. It...
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Dispossession and Access to Land in South Africa. An African Perspective
This book deals with the conceptualization of access to land by the dispossessed in South Africa as a human right. Yanou examines the country's property model in the context of the post apartheid constitutional mandate to redress the skewed land...
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Displacement, Elimination and Replacement of Indigenous People: Putting into Perspective Land Ownership and Ancestry in Decolonising Contemporary Zimbabwe
Colonial scholars have taken immense pleasure in portraying Africans as possessed by spirits but as lacking possession and ownership of their resources, including land. Erroneously deemed to be thoroughly spiritually possessed but lacking senses of material possession and ownership of...
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DISCOnnections: Popular Music Audiences in Freetown, Sierra Leone
This book offers an intriguing account of the complex and often contradictory relations between music and society in Freetown's past and present. Blending anthropological thought with ethnographic and historical research, it explores the conjunctures of music practices and social affiliations...
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Diminishing Corruptive Practices in the Public Hospital System of Cameroon: A Qualitative Multiple Case Study
Corrupt business and management practices exist at all levels within the public hospital system (PHS) in Cameroon and are of increasing concern among the polity as the perceptions of key stakeholders who work within the system has not been examined...
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'Dignity of Labour' for African Leaders: The Formation of Education Policy in the British Colonial Office and Achimota School on the Gold Coast
From 1910 to the 1930s, educating Africans was a major preoccupation in the metropole and in the colonies of imperial Britain. This richly researched book untangles the discourse on education for African leaders, which involved diverse actors such as colonial...
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Died not Dead
In the village of Fakulum, a very special child is born - Njemucharr - in a time when the white man's grip on Africa hasn't quite loosened. Groomed and nurtured in typical African fashion by the entire village, Njemucharr aspires...
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Diary of a Dismissed Delegate: Public Good at the Mercy of Bureaucracy and Sycophancy in Cameroon
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Diary of a Dismissed Delegate: Public Good at the Mercy of Bureaucracy and Sycophancy in Cameroon
Diary of a Dismissed Delegate is the personal story of the trials and travails of George Ngwane as a civil servant in Cameroon. With documented evidence in support, the book delves into the destructive machinations of the bureaucracy and sycophancy...
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Dialogues in Climate and Environmental Research, Policy and Planning: A Special Focus on Zimbabwe
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Dialogues in Climate and Environmental Research, Policy and Planning: A Special Focus on Zimbabwe
Climate change is the topic of the century. It is a subject of discussion by sceptics, heretics and those that have immersed in it as a serious debate for engagement. In this volume, the matter is localized to the plateau...
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Development Perspectives from the South: Troubling the Metrics of [Under-]development in Africa
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Development Perspectives from the South: Troubling the Metrics of [Under-]development in Africa
Not so long ago, The Economist described Africa as a hopeless continent. This damning description specifically referred to the development status of Africa. While the debate on the political and socio-economic [under-]development of Africa had been raging on prior to the Economist's...
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Development Naivety and Emergent Insecurities in a Monopolised World: The Politics and Sociology of Development in Contemporary Africa
It is common knowledge that development without security is like a runaway horse. Yet, development in Africa has been plagued by insecurities since the extractive periods of slave trade and colonialism. In spite of political independence and the euphoria of...
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Development and Subsistence in Globalising Africa: Beyond the Dichotomy (African Potentials)
In Africa, people striving to live and survive under the complex relationship between development and subsistence have been directly or indirectly feeling influences of globalisation. As Africa's involvement in globalisation deepens, social phenomena are apparently synchronizing or becoming more similar...
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Democratizing or Reconfiguring Predatory Autocracy? Myths and Realities in Africa Today
The celebrations that heralded democratic change in the 1990s in Africa have gradually faded into muffled cries of anger and attendant violence of despair. Almost everywhere on the continent so-called democratic leaders are openly subverting the people's will and disregarding...
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The Democracy Illusion in Mauritius
Once a beacon of democracy in Africa, Mauritius is today making headlines as a democracy in steep decline instead. This book dissects this decline through three lenses: local leadership mimicking inept foreign leadership (Chapter 1: Ineptocracy), colonial foundations naturally resistant...
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Democracy, Good Governance and Development in Africa
Questions surrounding democracy, governance, and development especially in view of Africa have provoked acrimonious debates in the past few years. It remains a perennial question why some decades after political independence in Africa the continent continues experiencing bad governance, lagging...
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Democracy for Breakfast. Unveiling Mirage Democracy in Contemporary Africa
Democracy is the faith that the process of experience is more important than any special result attained, so that special results achieved are of ultimate value only as they are used to enrich and order the ongoing process. Africans must...
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