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  • Swahili Port Cities

    The Architecture of Elsewhere

    Collections series
    On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean. Prita Meier explores this coastal environment and shows how an African mercantile society created a place of cosmopolitan longing. Meier understands architecture as more than a way to remake local space. Rather, the architecture ... En savoir plus

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  • 90 Minutes at Entebbe

    The Full Inside Story of the Spectacular Israeli Counterterrorism Strike and the Daring Rescue of 103 Hostages

    The incredible story of an Israeli mission that rescued 103 hostages from a hijacked jetliner.On June 27, 1976, Air France Flight 139 was hijacked by terrorists and flown to Entebbe Airport in Uganda. In the following agonizing days, Israeli passengers were singled out and held hostage. A week later on July 4, one hundred Israeli commandos raced 2,500 miles from Israel to Entebbe, landed in the ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • White Mischief

    The Murder of Lord Erroll

    par James Fox ...
    The riveting true story of decadence, deception, and murder among British aristocrats in colonial KenyaIn 1941, with London burning in the Blitz, a group of hedonistic English nobles partied shamelessly in Kenya. Far removed from falling bombs, the wealthy elites of "Happy Valley" indulged in morphine, alcohol, and unrestricted sex, often with their friends' spouses. But the party turned sinister ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Last Hunger Season

    A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change

    par Roger Thurow ...
    At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. But this would be no ordinary day, this second Friday of the new year. This was the day Leonida and a group of smallholder farmers in western Kenya would begin their exodus, as she said, "from misery to Canaan," the land of milk and honey. Africa's ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The World's Most Dangerous Place

    Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia

    par James Fergusson ...
    Although the war in Afghanistan is now in its endgame, the West’s struggle to eliminate the threat from Al Qaeda is far from over. A decade after 9/11, the war on terror has entered a new phase and, it would seem, a new territory. In early 2010, Al Qaeda operatives were reportedly “streaming” out of central Asia toward Somalia and the surrounding region.Somalia, now home to some of the world’s ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Victorian House Explained

    par Trevor Yorke ...
    The Victorian house comes in all shapes, sizes and materials. The legacy of this hugely influential era can be found in every region of England, from the majestic rows of gleaming white terraces in West London to the grid of red-brick houses in northern mill towns. Using his own drawings, diagrams and photographs, the author, Trevor Yorke, explains, in an easy to understand manner, all aspects of ... En savoir plus

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  • The Hunt for the Golden Mole

    All Creatures Great & Small and Why They Matter

    par Richard Girling ...
    Taking as its narrative engine the hunt for an animal that is legendarily rare, Richard Girling writes an engaging and highly informative history of humankind's interest in hunting and collecting—what prompts us to do this? What good might come of our need to catalog all the living things of the natural world?Girling, named Environmental Journalist of the Years 2008 and 2009, has here chronicled – ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Exporting American Dreams

    Thurgood Marshall's African Journey

    par Mary L. Dudziak ...
    Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s. Not long after he led the legal team in Brown v. Board of Education, Marshall aided Kenya's constitutional negotiations, as adversaries battled over rights and land--not with weapons, but with legal arguments. Set ... En savoir plus

    $36.29 CAD

  • Tears On The Equator

    Muzungu

    In the beginning, in 1973, when a young couple met at a seminary in the city of Boston, during a time of great racial tension over an issue called bussing, they dared to share a dream and the dream was about faith, progress, unity, love and sustainable development in Africa. She trained in education, her Canadian husband schooled in medicine. They would return to the Ugandan paradise island of her ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • London Deco: Offices Part 2

    par Gregory Edwards ...
    Take a journey into a part of London that you never knew existed. Explore the city's many Art Deco office buildings in a profusely illustrated two part ebook by award winning author Gregory Edwards. In amongst the great jumble of styles present in Central London you will find the Art Deco offices that were created between the two world wars when London rebuilt itself and expanded with bright new ... En savoir plus

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  • Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior

    Dominating Moscow's skyline once again is the recently rebuilt and re-consecrated enormous Orthodox Church of Christ the Savior. The Cathedral replaces the world's largest outdoor swimming pool, which, in turn, replaced the foundations of the gigantic Palace of Soviets begun in the 1930s. It occupies the same location where the original Cathedral of Christ the Savior stood. That church, begun by ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Building Modern Turkey

    State, Space, and Ideology in the Early Republic

    par Zeynep Kezer ...
    Collections Livre 13 - Culture Politics & the Built Environment
    Building Modern Turkey offers a critical account of how the built environment mediated Turkey's transition from a pluralistic (multiethnic and multireligious) empire into a modern, homogenized nation-state following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I. Zeynep Kezer argues that the deliberate dismantling of ethnic and religious enclaves and the spatial practices that ensued ... En savoir plus

    $67.99 CAD