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Chasing the Devil: A Journey Through Sub-Saharan Africa in the Footsteps of Graham Greene

By: Tim Butcher

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Chasing the Devil: A Journey Through Sub-Saharan Africa in the Footsteps of Graham Greene

By: Tim Butcher

The audacious, gripping travelogue of a writer chasing the ghost of Graham Greene into the heart of Africa. Of all the anarchic and war-torn African nations, none is more forbidding than Liberia, the land that nurtured child soldiers, the violent trade in "blood diamonds," even ritual murder. Graham Greene, in search of extreme adventure, ventured through its dense jungles to write the travel classic Journey Without Maps; three-quarters of a century later, Tim Butcher decided to follow Greene's footsteps, only to find the path even more ominous and overgrown than in his predecessor's day. Among the devils he encounters are masked sorcerers whose magical powers depend on cannibalism and missionaries long forgotten in the hinterland he traverses. Butcher, a former African correspondent for the London Telegraph and author of Blood River, his best-selling account of a dramatic journey through the Congo, has produced in this thrilling sequel a book that The Independent hails as "fascinating, harrowing, and eventful.

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Atlas and Company

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1935633244

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9781935633242

Milestones in Archaeology

A Chronological Encyclopedia

By: Tim Murray

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Milestones in Archaeology

A Chronological Encyclopedia

By: Tim Murray

This engaging work uses key discoveries, events, people, techniques, and controversies to give the general reader a rich history of archaeology from its beginnings in the 16th century to the present. The history of archaeology leads from the musty collections of dilettante antiquarians to high-tech science. The book identifies three major developmental periods—Birth of Archaeology (16th–18th centuries), Archaeology of Origins and Empires (19th century), and World Archaeology (20th century). An introductory essay acquaints the reader with the essence of the science for each period. The short entries comprising the balance of the book expand on the themes introduced in the essays. Organized around personalities, techniques, controversies, and conflicts, the encyclopedia brings to life the history of archaeology. It broadens the general reader's knowledge by detailing the professional significance of widely known discoveries while introducing to wider knowledge obscure but important moments in archaeology. Archaeology is replete with the visionaries and swashbucklers of popular myth; it is also filled with careful and dedicated scientists.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1851096450

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9781851096459

National Wrestling Alliance

The Untold Story of the Monopoly That Strangled Professional Wrestling

By: Tim Hornbaker

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National Wrestling Alliance

The Untold Story of the Monopoly That Strangled Professional Wrestling

By: Tim Hornbaker

After 32 years, Montreal will soon lose its professional baseball team. The former president of the Expos explains how the team went from being one of major league baseball's most promising franchises to becoming a financial pariah, barely escaping extinction at the end of the 2001 season and now facing demise in 2002. This history of the team's troubled existence covers years of gradually declining revenue and attendance, the sale of the team to a consortium of business leaders in 1991, and the league's ongoing debate over eliminating the Expos once and for all.

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ECW Press

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1554902746

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9781554902743

The Resilience Shield

By: Dr Dan Pronk,Ben Pronk,Tim Curtis

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The Resilience Shield

By: Dr Dan Pronk,Ben Pronk,Tim Curtis

a powerful text that will benefit any reader' - Dr Richard Harris SC, OAM, hero of the Thai cave rescue Life is hard. Rocketing rates of physical and mental health issues are testimony to the immense pressures of our complex world. So how do we become tough and adaptable to face life's challenges? The Resilience Shield provides that defence. In their groundbreaking guide to overcoming adversity, Australian SAS veterans Dr Dan Pronk, Ben Pronk DSC and Tim Curtis take you behind the scenes of special operations missions, into the boardrooms of leading companies and through the depths of contemporary research in order to demystify and define resilience. Through lessons learned in and out of uniform, they've come to understand the critical components of resilience and how it can be developed in anyone - including you. The Resilience Shield explores the hard-won resilience secrets of elite soldiers and the latest thinking on mental and physical wellbeing. This book will equip you with an arsenal of practical tools for you to start making immediate improvements in your life that are attainable and sustainable. Let's build your shield! Praise for The Resilience Shield 'informative and enlightening . . . compelling lessons and advice' - The Hon Julie Bishop 'Clear, approachable insights into resilience' - Merrick Watts 'A blend of raw experience and impeccable science...a brilliant guidebook for our times' - Hugh Mackay AO

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Macmillan Publishers Aus.

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1760987603

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9781760987602

16 Air Assault Brigade

Britain's Rapid Reaction Force

By: Tim Ripley

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16 Air Assault Brigade

Britain's Rapid Reaction Force

By: Tim Ripley

After the S.A.S., 16 Brigade is the most high profile formation in the British Army but to date there has been no complete history of its operations and activities. The aim of this book is to produce a history of Britains Elite Rapid Reaction Force 16 Air Assault Brigade.It will provide a historical narrative of 16 Brigades operations since its formation in 1999. It explains the innovative tactics and operational procedures used by to move by air into battle. It covers military hardware, the Brigade has some of the UKs most advanced weapon system, including Apache attack helicopters. It will include the elite combat units including the Parachute Regiment and Pathfinders. Key personalities from the Brigade will be examined together with a comprehensive analysis of how the Brigade has performed and how it is likely to evolve in coming years.The Brigade is due to return to Afghanistan in 2008 so its public profile will remain high.

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Casemate Publishers

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1783409134

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Italian Neighbors

By: Tim Parks

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Italian Neighbors

By: Tim Parks

In this seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between, novelist Tim Parks celebrates ten years of living with his wife in Verona, Italy. More than a travel book, this is a tale of how the most curious people and places gradually assume the familiarity of home, a work that manages to be both a portrait and an invitation for everyone who has ever dreamed about Italy.--From publisher description.

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Grove Press

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0802140343

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Blood River

The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country

By: Tim Butcher

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Blood River

The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country

By: Tim Butcher

A British journalist retraces the legendary 1874 expedition of H. M. Stanley in this “remarkable marriage of travelogue and history” (Max Hastings, author of Armageddon). When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to Africa in 2000,. he quickly became obsessed with the Congo River and the idea of recreating H. M. Stanley’s nineteenth-century journey along the nearly three-thousand-mile waterway. Despite repeated warnings that his plan was suicidal, Butcher set out for the Congo’s eastern border with just a backpack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. Making his way in an assortment of vehicles, including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by a cast of characters from UN aid workers to a pygmy rights advocate, he follows in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurer. Butcher’s forty-four-day journey along the Congo River is an unforgettable story of exploration, survival, and history come to life. “Quite superb . . . a masterpiece.” —John le Carré, #1 New York Times–bestselling author “Do NOT try to repeat Tim Butcher’s audacious and terrifying Congo journey. If you do, you will probably die.” —The Guardian “[Blood River] keeps the heart beating and the attention fixed from beginning to end.”—Fergal Keane, international bestselling author of Wounds “It is the wit and passion of the writing that keeps you engrossed.”—Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland

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Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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1555849091

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9781555849092

Ethics of Peacebuilding

By: Tim Murithi

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Ethics of Peacebuilding

By: Tim Murithi

This book explores the ethical dimension of peacebuilding. In the aftermath of the Cold War the hope for a more stable and just international order was rapidly dissolved by the internecine conflicts that plagued all continents. The Rwanda and Srebrenica genocides demonstrated the challenge of promoting peace in a world increasingly defined by intra-state conflict and sub-national groups confronting nation-states. Murithi interrogates the role that ethics plays in promoting and consolidating peacebuilding and presents a synthesis of moral philosophy and international relations and an analysis of the ethics of negotiation, mediation, forgiveness and reconciliation. In its attempt to explore the extent to which ethical concerns influence and inform peacebuilding this book contributes to a growing body of literature on ethics and international relations which will enable students, scholars and practitioners to ground their understanding of a principled peacebuilding.

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Edinburgh University Press

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074863049X

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Autonomous Weapon Systems and the Law of Armed Conflict

Compatibility with International Humanitarian Law

By: Tim McFarland

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Autonomous Weapon Systems and the Law of Armed Conflict

Compatibility with International Humanitarian Law

By: Tim McFarland

A close examination of the interface between autonomous technologies and the law with legal analysis grounded in technological realities.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108499740

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9781108499743

Staging 'Euridice'

Theatre, Sets, and Music in Late Renaissance Florence

By: Tim Carter,Francesca Fantappiè

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Staging 'Euridice'

Theatre, Sets, and Music in Late Renaissance Florence

By: Tim Carter,Francesca Fantappiè

Euridice was one of several music-theatrical works commissioned to celebrate the wedding of Maria de' Medici and King Henri IV of France in Florence in October 1600. As the first 'opera' to survive complete, it has been viewed as a landmark work, but its libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini and music by Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini have tended to be studied in the abstract rather than as something to be performed in a specific time and place. Staging “Euridice” explores how newly-discovered documents can be used to precisely reconstruct every aspect of its original stage and sets in the room for which it was intended in the Palazzo Pitti. By also taking into account what the singers and instrumentalists did, what the audience saw and heard, and how things changed from creation through rehearsals to performance, this book brings new aspects of Euridice to light in startling ways.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009041967

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9781009041966

International Trade in Wildlife

By: Tim Inskipp,Sue Wells

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International Trade in Wildlife

By: Tim Inskipp,Sue Wells

Originally published in 1979 International Trade in Wildlife is a product of the 1973 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora conference, containing the full text of the CITIES convention. The volume outlines the animals and plants controlled by CITIES, and describes the protective policies put in place to protect endangered plants and animals. It gives a detailed background to the international traffic in monkey’s, spotted cats, whales, ivory, parrots, tortoises, marine turtles, crocodiles, butterflies, sponges and rare orchids at the time of publication and acts as a comprehensive document on the conservation policies enacted through CITIES, as well as facts surrounding the decline of endangered species. Although published over 40 years ago, the document still offers a comprehensive and useful guide to conservation and will be an important historical document for environmental policy makers and conservationists alike.

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Routledge

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1000753565

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Index of Economic Freedom

By: Tim Kane,Mary Anastasia O'Grady

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Index of Economic Freedom

By: Tim Kane,Mary Anastasia O'Grady

Twelve of the top 20 freest economies in the world are European. So why were there riots in Paris last year? Simple. France is not one of the top 20, suffering from low labor freedom and high unemployment. For over a decade, The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation, Washington's preeminent think tank, have tracked the march of economic freedom around the world with the influential Index of Economic Freedom. This year, the 2007 Index of Economic Freedom has been redesigned to be accessible to the congressional staffer and the college student, the finance minister and the financial adviser. The Index measures 10 freedoms - from property rights to entrepreneurship - in 157 countries. For the first time, the 2007 edition also analyzes regions to showcase the freest economies in every part of the world. Book jacket.

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0891952748

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9780891952749

Legends of Pro Wrestling

150 Years of Headlocks, Body Slams, and Piledrivers

By: Tim Hornbaker

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Legends of Pro Wrestling

150 Years of Headlocks, Body Slams, and Piledrivers

By: Tim Hornbaker

Legends of Pro Wrestling offers the first comprehensive look at the entire world of wrestling. With detailed biographies and never-before-seen statistics of some of the greatest athletes in the sport, you will be able to read about hundreds of wrestlers, dating back to the mid-1800s. As the first of its kind, this centralized reference book offers wrestling enthusiasts a range of information at their fingertips and stands alone as the ultimate wrestling resource. This book offers readers a link between what happened a century ago to what is currently happening today. An older fan of Bruno Sammartino or “The Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers can enjoy this book as much as someone who follows John Cena or The Undertaker today. This collection is a never-ending source of facts, figures, and other entertaining data. Professional wrestling is a world of accomplishment, legacy, and, most importantly, fate. Through injuries, sickness, and family tribulations, many wrestlers have given everything they have to give in the ring, and true fans of the sport love every single second of it. No matter your age, if you’re a fan of professional wrestling, Legends of Pro Wrestling is the book for you to own and cherish. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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Simon and Schuster

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1613218753

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Tetteh Quarshie. The Ascension of a Pioneering Cocoa Farmer to a Ghanaian "lieu de mémoire"

By: Tim R. Kerkmann

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Tetteh Quarshie. The Ascension of a Pioneering Cocoa Farmer to a Ghanaian "lieu de mémoire"

By: Tim R. Kerkmann

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject History - Africa, grade: 1,0, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften), course: Agriculture and Colonialism in Africa, language: English, abstract: This paper aims at examining the mythical figure Quarshie and its interpretation. How have the narratives about the beginnings of cocoa cultivation in the Gold Coast changed throughout the 20th century and how was Tetteh Quarshie constructed as an enduring national "lieu de mémoire" that has continued to trigger fascination within the Ghanaian society? This paper will try to give an answer to this question. The paper proceeds in three steps: Firstly, it presents the introduction of cocoa into the Gold Coast in order to enlighten this complex process marked by a few different actors, among these prominently stands Quarshie. Different sources as well as assessments in the later literature are analysed in this context. The second chapter deals with the evolution and structures of the ensuing cocoa boom in Ghana that, despite temporal declines, still continues today. As many historians have underscored, cocoa cultivation was successfully performed by local smallholder farmers largely independent from British influence – as a consequence, the construction of Quarshie as a "lieu de mémoire" further accentuates the indigenous and emancipatory character of the Ghanaian cocoa industry. In a third step, the commemorative culture about the beginnings of cocoa cultivation in the Gold Coast is retraced, from earlier diverging interpretations to the incremental exaltation of Quarshie. Both theoretical literature on commemoration culture and topical Ghanaian newspaper articles are thereby used. In fact, the current project of the Tetteh Quarshie Cocoa Museum proves that cocoa and its history remain at the core of the Ghanaian self-image – and that Quarshie’s name seems indispensable in this regard. It is thus high time to track down this highly questionable narrative of the cocoa introduction in the Gold Coast, which has not been done yet in detail. In addition, a goal on the theoretical meta-level of the paper is to underline the merits of the "lieux de mémoire"-approach, particularly in the (West) African context where this has not yet been widely applied.

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GRIN Verlag

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3346056120

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Florence

The Mini Rough Guide

By: Tim Jepson,Jonathan Buckley

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Florence

The Mini Rough Guide

By: Tim Jepson,Jonathan Buckley

Discover the jewel of Tuscany: the cathedral with its stupendous dome, the medieval Ponte Vecchio, and the city's trove of churches and galleries. Critical reviews of night spots and cuisine are also included. in color.

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1858284716

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Grand Theft Auto III

Official Strategy Guide

By: Tim Bogenn

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Grand Theft Auto III

Official Strategy Guide

By: Tim Bogenn

BradyGames Grand Theft Auto 3 Official Strategy Guide provides detailed strategies for the gangland missions and side missions in the game. Comprehensive walkthrough including in-depth coverage of weapons, character moves, vehicles, and bosses. Secrets and cheats revealed to uncover mysteries and multi-layered missions interspersed in the game story.

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074400098X

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Let the Sauce Simmer

A Novel. Not a Cookbook.

By: Tim Davis

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Let the Sauce Simmer

A Novel. Not a Cookbook.

By: Tim Davis

Joseph and Josephine Morelli came to America from Italy in 1907 with their three young children and a secret that would go undiscovered for 80 years. Through 4 generations the family ran a restaurant while dealing with depressions, recessions, drought, disease, allegations, investigations, and murder – their own seven plagues. To survive, they had to cook up a lot more than the daily specials. “Let the Sauce Simmer” is a sad, happy and humorous account of the trials and tribulations of hardworking, double-dealing immigrant entrepreneurs; a generation that came of age during the tumultuous 1960s; and a love affair to die for, literally. Sometimes, the best kept secrets are best kept for good reason.

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LifeRich Publishing

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1489730869

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9781489730862

MCSE Internet Explorer 4 Exam Cram

By: David Johnson,James M. Stewart,Tim Catura-Houser

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MCSE Internet Explorer 4 Exam Cram

By: David Johnson,James M. Stewart,Tim Catura-Houser

A guide to passing the "Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 by Using the Internet Explorer Administration Kit" exam (exam #70-079). Features special sections on test-taking strategies, warnings on trick questions, and study tips, and provides practice exams, lists of acronyms, and a glossary. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Coriolis Group Books

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1576102866

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Military Medicine and the Making of Race

Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–1874

By: Tim Lockley,Timothy James Lockley

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Military Medicine and the Making of Race

Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–1874

By: Tim Lockley,Timothy James Lockley

Demonstrates how Britain's black soldiers helped shape the very idea of race in the nineteenth century Atlantic world.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108495621

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9781108495622

Because I am a Girl

By: Deborah Moggach,Irvine Welsh,Joanne Harris,Kathy Lette,Marie Phillips,Tim Butcher,Xiaolu Guo

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Because I am a Girl

By: Deborah Moggach,Irvine Welsh,Joanne Harris,Kathy Lette,Marie Phillips,Tim Butcher,Xiaolu Guo

Because I am a girl I am less likely to go to school Because I am a girl I am more likely to suffer from malnutrition Because I am a girl I am more likely to suffer violence in the home Because I am a girl I am more likely to marry and start a family before I reach my twenties. Eight authors have visited eight different countries and spoken to young women and girls about their lives, struggles and hopes. The result is an extraordinary collection of writings about prejudice, abuse, and neglect, but also about courage, resilience and changing attitudes. Proceeds from sales of this book will go to PLAN, one of the world's largest child-centered community development organisations.

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Random House

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1409089169

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Trial Justice

The International Criminal Court and the Lord's Resistance Army

By: Tim Allen

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Trial Justice

The International Criminal Court and the Lord's Resistance Army

By: Tim Allen

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has run into serious problems with its first big case -- the situation in northern Uganda. There is no doubt that appalling crimes have occurred here. Over a million people have been forced to live in overcrowded displacement camps under the control of the Ugandan army. Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army has abducted thousands, many of them children and has systematically tortured, raped, maimed and killed. Nevertheless, the ICC has confronted outright hostility from a wide range of groups, including traditional leaders, representatives of the Christian Churches and non-governmental organizations. Even the Ugandan government, which invited the court to become involved, has been expressing serious reservations. Tim Allen assesses the controversy. While recognizing the difficulties involved, he shows that much of the antipathy towards the ICC's intervention is misplaced. He also draws out important wider implications of what has happened. Criminal justice sets limits to compromise and undermines established procedures of negotiation with perpetrators of violence. Events in Uganda have far reaching implications for other war zones - and not only in Africa. Amnesties and peace talks may never be quite the same again.

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1848137931

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Nigeria’s University Age

Reframing Decolonisation and Development

By: Tim Livsey

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Nigeria’s University Age

Reframing Decolonisation and Development

By: Tim Livsey

This book explores the world of Nigerian universities to offer an innovative perspective on the history of development and decolonisation from the 1930s to the 1960s. Using political, cultural and spatial approaches, the book shows that Nigerians and foreign donors alike saw the nation’s new universities as vital institutions: a means to educate future national leaders, drive economic growth, and make a modern Nigeria. Universities were vibrant places, centres of nightlife, dance, and the construction of spectacular buildings, as well as teaching and research. At universities, students, scholars, visionaries, and rebels considered and contested colonialism, the global Cold War, and the future of Nigeria. University life was shaped by, and formative to, experiences of development and decolonisation. The book will be of interest to historians of Africa, empire, education, architecture, and the Cold War.

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Springer

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1137565055

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Dispatches from the Front

Stories of Gospel Advance in the World's Difficult Places

By: Tim Keesee

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Dispatches from the Front

Stories of Gospel Advance in the World's Difficult Places

By: Tim Keesee

China, Pakistan, Egypt, Iraq . . . God is at work. Christians are testifying. The gospel is advancing. In this captivating travelogue, a veteran missions mobilizer leads readers to experience global Christianity, exploring the faith and lives of Christians living in some of the world's most perilous countries. The incredible accounts recorded here—stories that span the globe from the Balkans to Afghanistan—highlight the bold faith and sacrificial bravery of God's people. Ultimately, this book magnifies Christ's saving work in all the earth and encourages Christians to joyfully embrace their role in the gospel's unstoppable advance!

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Crossway

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143354072X

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Literary Tour of Italy

By: Tim Parks

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Literary Tour of Italy

By: Tim Parks

An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks - who was described in a recent review as "e;one of the best living writers of English"e; - has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writings on all aspects of Italian life and customs. This volume contains a selection of his best essays on the literature of his adopted country.From Boccaccio and Machiavelli through to Moravia and Tabucchi, from the Stil Novo to Divisionism, across centuries of history and intellectual movements, these essays will give English readers, and lovers of the Bel Paese and its culture, the lay of the literary land of Italy.

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Alma Books

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0714545503

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9780714545509

The Book of the Royal Year

By: Tim Graham

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The Book of the Royal Year

By: Tim Graham

No one else captures the British Royal Family on film as Tim Graham does. Candid, warm, touching, amusing, his exclusive photographs give us an intimate view of the family that we have never seen before.

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0671648365

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9780671648367

Florence

By: Teresa Fisher,Tim Jepson

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Florence

By: Teresa Fisher,Tim Jepson

AAA Spiral Florence is truly a one-of-a-kind travel companion. It provides a unique easy-read binding, full-color photos, and locator maps. The guide has over 200 pages of intimate details, insightful articles, and engaging anecdotes. Witty magazine articles provide an interesting perspective of an area's culture and history. AAA Spiral Florence details must-see stops and, for those with more time, special treasures that call for leisurely sightseeing.

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1595081925

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9781595081926

A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow

My American Hitchhiking Odyssey

By: Tim Brookes

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A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow

My American Hitchhiking Odyssey

By: Tim Brookes

A noted cultural critic and NPR essayist offers a lively and provocative account of his hitchhiking odyssey across the United States, documenting his experiences along the way and reexamining America's onetime love affair with the road trip. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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0792277295

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