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This Book Is Gay
The bestselling young adult non-fiction book on sexuality and gender! Lesbian. Gay. Bisexual. Transgender. Queer. Intersex. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who's ever dared to wonder. This...
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Lush
Natasha Friend is a Judy Blume for today -- clearly evident in this remarkable new novel about a girl whose father is an alcoholic and how she and her family learn to deal with his condition.It's hard to be a...
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A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl
Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva all get mixed up with a senior boy–a cool, slick, sexy boy who can talk them into doing almost anything he wants. In a blur of high school hormones and personal doubt, each girl struggles with...
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (20th Anniversary Edition)
The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of EvictedMillions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to...
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Excision: les jeunes changent l'Afrique par les TIC (French Edition)
Assessing the impact of 25 years of action to promote the discontinuation of female circumcision (FGM) in Francophone West Africa, should consider the contribution of the digital revolution, and how young people - girls and boys - have been associated....
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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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Etat, Religions et Genre en Afrique Occidentale et Centrale (French Edition)
Les questions du genre, du mariage et de la famille sont au coeur des batailles culturelles et sociales les plus rudes de l'époque contemporaine qui débouchent dans beaucoup de pays africains sur des réformes légales et sociétales dictées par le...
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Epistle to Afrophobic South Africa
When many African countries ganged up against the white apartheid regime, nobody thought Black South Africans, in a jiffy, would barbarously unleash Afrophobia against their own Blacks brethren they derogatorily call makwerekwere or foreigners. This poesy chides South Africans and Africans who...
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Environmental Conservation through Ubuntu and Other Emerging Perspectives
In spite of its surging popularity with scholars and environment conservation and management aid experts, scientific environmental epistemology does not seem to be the answer to the forestry and environmental problems that Africa is facing. Due to the lasting impacts...
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Environment and Natural Resource Conservation and Management in Mozambique
This is an eloquent, engaged and extremely well informed narrative of the environmental and natural resource conservation and management issues in Mozambique. While the topics in this volume are diverse, they are all explicitly designed to move beyond the routinized...
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Engaging Children and Youth in Africa. Methodological and Phenomenological Issues
Representing research from east, central, west, and southern Africa, Engaging Children and Youth in Africa provides a well-balanced analysis of on-the-ground data with methodological and phenomenological issues that abound in much of research in Africa today. With an introduction that...
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Emerging Orders in the Sudans
This book explores the emergent character of social orders in Sudan and South Sudan. It provides vivid insights into multitudes of ordering practices and their complex negotiation. Recurring patterns of exclusion and ongoing struggles to reconfigure disadvantaged positions are investigated...
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Education in Ghana: History and Politics
This volume arises from a cooperation between Ghanaian and German academics. It answers the need to have a more comprehensive and up to date volume which addresses key topics, areas and problems of the Ghanaian education system with a focus...
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Economics of Banana Production and Marketing in the Tropics. A Case Study of Cameroon
In most African countries, banana production has been consigned to subsistence production. However, a few countries, especially in Francophone West Africa, have recognised the commercial importance of banana, and have used their special relationship with France to export bananas. This...
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Economic Behaviour As If Others Too Had Interests
In the instinct to survive those who are able to dominate the competition go about their activities as if others (humans and non-humans) did not matter or did not have interests. Selfishness becomes more prevalent as a people move from...
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Why are the Police Afraid of My Daddy?
This is the story of a young African-American boy whose life is turned upside down when his father is stopped by the police. The book explores the relationship between a father and a son. It addresses the issue of how...
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Dynamiques de L'Ethnicite En Afrique. Elements Pour Une Theorie de L'Etat Multinational (French Edition)
How does one think about the form of the State in its management of conflicting ethnic groups in positive light in Africa in the present and in the future? Ethnic reality in Africa continues to be the principal determining factor...
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Droits des Personnes Agées et Droits des Personnes Handicapées: Enonciations, Opérations et Réceptions africaines
Cette publication est certainement la toute premiere grande syntese tematique et critique sur la condition des personnes socialement vulnérables (PSV) en Afrique. Une excellente brochette de 40 experts et Institutions de differents oavs du continent t deploie un effort d'intelligibilite...
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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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Divine Bud: Testimonies of God's intervention
This book presents innovative material on ethnography; more specifically, it exposes events where African individuals deal with the supernatural - such as: reaction to the death of a child whose surgical operation was considered an answer to prayers to God,...
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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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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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The Dialectics of Praxis and Theoria in African Philosophy. An Essay on Cultural Hermeneutics
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The Dialectics of Praxis and Theoria in African Philosophy. An Essay on Cultural Hermeneutics
This book is a clarion call for African renaissance informed by African spirituality. It develops the vision that Africans can be the same in the process of change. Africans have to coincide with their ways of perceiving values, and to...
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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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