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Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
$19.99 Read moreA powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of t… [more below]
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703219
- Language: English
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Introduction to African Civilizations
$17.95 Add to cartTimely, relevant, and illuminating, this essential book by respected cultural historian, teacher, and author John G. Jackson sheds long overdue light on standard Eurocentric and distorting approaches … [more below]
- Author: Jackson, John G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0806521899
- Language: English
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Day Hiking Bend & Central Oregon: Mount Jefferson/ Sisters/ Cascade Lakes
$19.95 Add to cart- Full-color photo insert and two-color text and maps throughout
- Bend is a mecca for outdoor recreation
- Local author who knows and loves the area
- 1 percent of sales benefit Oregon Parks Forever
From t… [more below]
- Author: Manwill, Brittany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1594859345
- Language: English
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The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance
$40.83 Add to cartAn Economist Best Book of the Year
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
A ProMarket Best Political Economy Book of the Year
One of The Week‘s Ten Best Business B- Author: Prasad, Eswar S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0674258444
- Language: English
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Farewell Waltz
$17.99 Add to cart“After Farewell Waltz there cannot be any doubt. Kundera is a master of contemporary literature. This novel is both an an example of virtuosity and a descent into the human soul.” —L’Unite
Set in an o
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 21 1998
- ISBN10: 0060997001
- Language: English
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Africa’s World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
$23.99 Add to cartThe Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars i… [more below]
- Author: Prunier, Gerard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0199754209
- Language: English
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Mission to the Volga
$17.00 Add to cartThe earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic
Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #28
- Author: Fa?l?n, A?mad Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1479899895
- Language: English
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Kilimanjaro: A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa
$30.00 Add to cartA SPECTACULAR COLLECTION OF IMAGES AND WORDS THAT OFFER A DETAILED GLIMPSE INTO THE UNIQUE BEAUTY AND RHYTHM OF AFRICA’S NATURAL WONDER. Mount Kilimanjaro is the African continent’s highest mountain a… [more below]
- Author: Schulz, Hiltrud
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1623718287
- Language: English
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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
$21.99 Add to cartFor the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who “watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blo… [more below]
- Author: Dallaire, Roméo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0786715103
- Language: English
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Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
$18.95 Add to cartAn unforgettable journey through Central Asia, one of the most mysterious and history-laden regions of the world.
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the So- Author: Fatland, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1643137697
- Language: English
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Postcards from Congo: A Graphic History
$19.95 Read moreThe Democratic Republic of Congo, the second-largest country in Africa by area, has had a fractured and bloody history, variously undone by decades of colonialism, civil war, corruption, and totalitar… [more below]
- Author: Trueman, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1551528959
- Language: English
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Precolonial Black Africa
$16.95 Add to cartThis comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civili… [more below]
- Author: Diop, Cheikh Anta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 1988
- ISBN10: 1556520883
- Language: English
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Ruined (TCG Edition)
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
“A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage’s beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play is] a shattering, intimate journey into faraway news reports
- Author: Nottage, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 1, 2009
- ISBN10: 155936355X
- Language: English
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Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya
$19.00 Add to cartIn this travel memoir, the acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a three-week trek through Nepal, the spectacular and exotic Himalayan land, where she and her companions are gathering seeds fo
- Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 1, 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538107
- Language: English
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White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
$24.99 Add to cartA revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US.
In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brough- Author: Williams, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1541768302
- Language: English
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Rick Steves Central Europe: The Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia & More
$29.99 Add to cartNow more than ever, you can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Central Europe. From romantic cities steeped in history to the stunning slopes of the A… [more below]
- Series: Rick Steves
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1144
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 164171557X
- Language: English
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The Korean Cookbook
$54.95 Add to cartONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Guardian, Vice, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Robb Report
‘A sophisticated, flavorful introduction to Korean cooking.’ – Saveur
‘Stunning and comprehensive.’ – Vog
- Author: Park, Junghyun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1838667547
- Language: English
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King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
$19.99 Add to cart“An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel.” — Christian Science Monitor
“As Hochschild’s brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times .- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 03, 2020
- ISBN10: 0358212502
- Language: English
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The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
$35.00 Read moreThe New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller–about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader… [more below]
- Author: Reid, Stuart A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1524748811
- Language: English
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
$31.00 Read moreThe revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.
An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses- Author: Kara, Siddharth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1250284309
- Language: English
