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Homo Odyssey

Adventures of a World Traveler

By: Brent Meersman

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Homo Odyssey

Adventures of a World Traveler

By: Brent Meersman

A gay Muslim in Berlin, a young gay man bewildered and lost on the highways of Los Angeles; a rent boy in Shanghai; a holiday romance in Mexico; a man from Dakar in a bathhouse in Paris; a love hotel in Tokyo; a darkroom in Rio; a hamam in Syria; the burning ghats on the Ganges; Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Shinto and atheist; legal and illegal ... blazing through 17 countries on six continents, "Homo Odyssey" is an explicit, upfront, edgy, often funny, travel adventure that will leave you seeing the world and yourself with different eyes. How do men sexually attracted to other men live in different parts of the world? How do they see themselves? How have they survived over the centuries, mostly in places hostile to them?

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Bruno-Books

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3959853610

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9783959853613

Rattling the Cage

Reflections on Democratic South Africa

By: Brent Meersman

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Rattling the Cage

Reflections on Democratic South Africa

By: Brent Meersman

Most South Africans have strong views on our past and present, often based on how we have been personally affected by history, and an understanding of the challenges that face us as a country. But how well-examined and solid are these positions? Have your views been properly thought through? Are you correctly informed? Do you even have the facts straight? Rattling the Cage takes the reader on an informed tour of the South African reality: from the highs and lows, the successes and failures, FW de Klerk’s gaffes to Fees Must Fall, the Oscar Pistorius trial, the 2010 FIFA World Cup, triple BEE, global warming, the Covid-19 pandemic, gay rights in Africa, and veganism. Among the questions Meersman asks are: Do South Africans still believe in their Constitution and democracy? Why do so many young South Africans say Nelson Mandela was a sell-out and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a dismal failure? Is outlawing hate speech and criminalising racist behaviour really a good idea? Why do communities still burn down their schools? How did the Marikana massacre happen in the democratic era? Why are African immigrants increasingly unwelcome in South Africa? Can our media be trusted to tell us the truth? And how do we embrace climate change? History, big-picture philosophy, grassroots journalism and a novelist’s eye – animated by a genuine sense of moral indignation at the current state of the nation – come together in these essays to provide critical perspectives on and insights into South Africa’s recent past and current political, economic and social undercurrents. No matter what your views are, you are sure to find your understanding of the country deepened, challenged and sometimes changed.

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Pan Macmillan South africa

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1770107738

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9781770107731

Pre-Incident Indicators of Terrorist Incidents

The Identification of Behavioral, Geographic and Temporal Patterns of Preparatory Conduct

By: Brent L. Smith

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Pre-Incident Indicators of Terrorist Incidents

The Identification of Behavioral, Geographic and Temporal Patterns of Preparatory Conduct

By: Brent L. Smith

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Explores whether sufficient data exists to examine the temporal and spatial relationships that existed in terrorist group planning, and if so, could patterns of preparatory conduct be identified? About one-half of the terrorists resided, planned, and prepared for terrorism relatively close to their eventual target. The terrorist groups existed for 1,205 days from the first planning meeting to the date of the actual/planned terrorist incident. The planning process for specific acts began 2-3 months prior to the terrorist incident. This study examined selected terrorist groups/incidents in the U.S. from 1980-2002. It provides for the potential to identify patterns of conduct that might lead to intervention prior to the commission of the actual terrorist incidents. Illustrations.

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540

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DIANE Publishing

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1437930611

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Rattling the Cage

Reflections on Democratic South Africa

By: Brent Meersman

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Reflections on Democratic South Africa

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A Childhood Made Up

Living with My Mother's Madness

By: Brent Meersman

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A Childhood Made Up

Living with My Mother's Madness

By: Brent Meersman

I remembered how, when I was a small child supposed to be asleep, my mother would slip into bed behind me and hold me. She would be trembling. She couldn’t hide it no matter how young I was. ‘Go to sleep, go to sleep,’ she’d say, as if that would save us.' Brent Meersman’s poignant memoir of a humble and eccentric upbringing in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1970s and ’80s reads as a stirring eulogy to his mother, and a vivid snapshot of the times. His adoring mother, a horse-loving artist, received only rudimentary treatment for her schizophrenia; while his father battled a vicious whirlpool of alcohol-fuelled depression. 'A Childhood Made Up' is beautifully observed and filled with wry humour. Delicate yet brutal, this story pays testament to the power of love and the quiet heroism of resilience."--Back cover.

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0624089398

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9780624089391

Sunset Claws

A Chronicle of a Generation

By: Brent Meersman

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Sunset Claws

A Chronicle of a Generation

By: Brent Meersman

Sunset Claws follows a generation of South Africans from 1976 to the millennium as they struggle to come to terms with what the birth of a nation has both given and taken from them. Told in three parts, the action moves from Cape Town in the turbulent 1980s to the civil war in KwaZulu-Natal in the early '90s and burgeoning, post-apartheid Johannesburg as the country enters the 21st century. ... Sunset Claws ... completes Meersman's "RSA" trilogy as a single novel with the full narrative of the previous two parts: Reports before Daybreak and Five Lives at Noon.'--

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0994670273

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9780994670274

Five Lives at Noon

By: Brent Meersman

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Five Lives at Noon

By: Brent Meersman

From the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990 to the day of the first democratic election in 1994 ... [a] young white man and a young black woman return from exile in London: a human rights lawyer searches for a missing comrade and his own redemption; and an ex-South African Defence Force soldier descends into the carnage of the civil war in KwaZulu-Natal."--Back cover.

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0992206014

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9780992206017

Book's by Brent Meersman

Homo Odyssey

Homo Odyssey

Rattling the Cage

Rattling the Cage

Pre-Incident Indicators of Terrorist Incidents

Pre-Incident Indicators of Terrorist Incidents

Rattling the Cage

Rattling the Cage

A Childhood Made Up

A Childhood Made Up

Sunset Claws

Sunset Claws

Five Lives at Noon

Five Lives at Noon

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