Category Archives: World Music
Eat Feel Fresh: A Contemporary Plant-based Ayurvedic Cookbook
Bring your body into balance with over 100 healing recipes for a modern Ayurvedic lifestyle.The ancient science of Ayurveda teaches that food is divine medicine with the power to heal, and that the best foods for one person may not be beneficial to another. Unlike many diets with rigid, one-size-fits-all guidelines, Ayurveda is a lifestyle
Writings from Ancient Egypt
`Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered` In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and statues, or inked onto papyri, hieroglyphs give us a unique insight into the life of the Egyptian mind. For this remarkable new collection,
Death Sets Sail: A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery
*The number one bestseller!*The ninth and final novel in the bestselling, award-winning Murder Most Unladylike series.Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are in Egypt, taking a cruise along the Nile. They are hoping to see some ancient temples and a mummy or two; what they get, instead, is murder. Also travelling on the SS Hatshepsut is
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia`s The Great Sea is the first complete history of the Mediterranean, from the erection of temples on Malta around 3500 BC to modern tourism. Ranging across time and the whole extraordinary space of the Mediterranean from
The Dancing Face: Black Britain: Writing Back
A sensational, original thriller that examines the powerful link between identity, sacrifice and possession, and questions our compulsive need to chase after ambitions that leave devastation in their wakeUniversity lecturer Gus knows that stealing the priceless Benin mask, The Dancing Face, from a museum at the heart of the British establishment will gain an avalanche
Good Morning, Mr Mandela
An inspiring international bestseller, Good Morning, Mr Mandela tells the story of Zelda la Grange`s incredible friendship with Nelson Mandela. Zelda la Grange grew up in South Africa as a white Afrikaner who supported the rules of segregation. Yet just a few years after the end of Apartheid she would become a most trusted assistant
Augustine: Conversions and Confessions
A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographies Augustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which continues to delight its many admirers. In it he
Emerging Africa: How the Global Economy`s `Last Frontier` Can Prosper and Matter
A rare and timely intervention from Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, on development in Africa. To many, Africa is the new frontier. As the West lies battered by financial crisis, Africa is seen as offering limitless opportunities for wealth creation in the march of globalization. But what is Africa
Africa`s Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent
`A superb book…genuinely innovative` Jack Spence OBE, King`s College London Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing process of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems but also progress and the perpetual interplay of structure and agency.
The World We Once Lived In
From the Congo Basin to the traditions of the Kikuyu people, the lucid, incisive writings in `The World We Once Lived In` explore the sacred power of trees, and why humans lay waste to the forests that keep us alive.Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) was a Nobel Peace Prize winning activist and founder of the Green Belt
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can be Done About it
In this elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world`s leading experts on Africa and poverty, economist Paul Collier writes persuasively that although nearly five billion of the world`s people are beginning to climb from desperate poverty and to benefit from globalization`s reach to developing countries, there is a โ€bottom billionโ€ of the world`s
The BRICS: A Very Short Introduction
In the wake of the post-Cold War era, the aftermath of 9/11, the 2008 global financial crisis, and the emergence of the G20 at the leaders level, few commentators expected a reshaping of the global system towards multipolarity, and away from the United States. And yet, the BRICS – encompassing Brazil, Russia, India, China and
Wild Hope: On the Front Lines of Conservation Success
Wild Hope takes readers to extraordinary places to meet conservation`s heroes and foot soldiers – and to discover the new ideas they are generating about how to make conservation work on our hungry and crowded planet. The journey starts in the floodplains of Assam, where dedicated rangers and exceptionally tolerant villagers have together helped bring
Picturing Algeria
As a soldier in the French army, Pierre Bourdieu took thousands of photographs documenting the abject conditions and suffering (as well as the resourcefulness, determination, grace, and dignity) of the Algerian people as they fought in the Algerian War (1954–1962). Sympathizing with those he was told to regard as โ€enemies,โ€ Bourdieu became deeply and permanently
Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions
Narrated by dozens of activists and everyday individuals involved in the Arab Spring, this book documents the unprecedented events that led to the collapse of dictatorial regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. Beginning in 2011, these stories offer unique access to the message that inspired citizens to act, their experiences during revolt, and the
Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly
The Arab Spring began and ended with Tunisia. In a region beset by brutal repression, humanitarian disasters, and civil war, Tunisia`s Jasmine Revolution alone gave way to a peaceful transition to a functioning democracy. Within four short years, Tunisians passed a progressive constitution, held fair parliamentary elections, and ushered in the country`s first-ever democratically elected
Giraffe
In 1975, on the eve of May Day, secret police sealed off a zoo in a small Czechoslovakian town and ordered the destruction of the largest captive herd of giraffes in the world. Ledgard tells the story of the giraffes from the moment of their capture in Africa to their deaths behind the Iron Curtain.
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace
Over forty years of service to the United Nations – the last ten as Secretary-General – Kofi Annan has been at the centre of the major geopolitical events of our time. As much a memoir as a guide to world order, Interventions provides a unique, behind-the-scenes view of global diplomacy during one of the most
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE – 1492)
It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the odds. It spans the millennia and the continents – from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It is a story of
Winter`s Tales
If one theme unifies the 11 tales collected here, it is that of longing. Written after her return from Kenya and during the dark days of the Nazi occupation, they derive their themes and locales from Isak Dinesen`s childhood in Denmark. Isak Dinesen was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark
