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  • The Ultimate Broadway Musical List Book

    From Showboat to Hamilton, American musical theater has long held the imagination of the nations theatergoers. Those who love Broadway musicals always have their favoritestheir all-time bests, their most reviled shows, and the ones that are absolutely unforgettable. The Ultimate Broadway Musical List Book considers the history of the Broadway musical from the unique perspective of the listthe ... Read more

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  • Good Jew, Bad Jew

    Racism, anti-Semitism and the assault on meaning

    Shows how anti-Semitism has been distorted to serve the Israeli stateGood Jew, Bad Jew is a critique by one of South Africa’s foremost political theorists of mainstream understandings of Jewishness. Steven Friedman offers a searing analysis of the weaponisation of anti-Semitism in service of political objectives that support the Israeli state and global white supremacy. Looking specifically at the ... Read more

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  • Winning with Data Science

    A Handbook for Business Leaders

    Whether you are a newly minted MBA or a project manager at a Fortune 500 company, data science will play a major role in your career. Knowing how to communicate effectively with data scientists in order to obtain maximum value from their expertise is essential. This book is a compelling and comprehensive guide to data science, emphasizing its real-world business applications and focusing on how to ... Read more

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  • Power in Action

    Democracy, citizenship and social justice

    Argues that South Africans, like everyone else, need democracy for a more equal societyWhat are democracies meant to do? And how does one know when one is a democratic state? These incisive questions and more by leading political scientist, Steven Friedman, underlie this robust enquiry into what democracy means for South Africa post 1994. Democracy is often viewed through a lens reflecting Western ... Read more

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  • Prisoners of the Past

    South African democracy and the legacy of minority rule

    Building on the work of economic historian Douglass North and Ugandan political scholar Mahmood Mamdani, Friedman argues that the difficulties besetting South African democracy are legacies of the past, not products of the post-1994 eraSouth Africa’s democracy is often seen as a story of bright beginnings gone astray, a pattern said to be common to Africa. The negotiated settlement of 1994, it is ... Read more

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  • One Virus, Two Countries

    What COVID-19 Tells Us About South Africa

    Has South Africa ‘done well’ at limiting illness and deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic? Academic and political commentator, Steven Friedman, thinks not. While the country’s mainstream media believes it has, in his view the evidence tells another story. South Africa has experienced by far the most cases and deaths in Africa – at one point as many as the rest of the continent combined.One Virus, ... Read more

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  • Israel and South Africa

    The Many Faces of Apartheid

    Within the already heavily polarised debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, parallels between Israel and apartheid South Africa remain highly contentious. A number of prominent academic and political commentators, including former US president Jimmy Carter and UN Special Rapporteur John Dugard, have argued that Israel's treatment of its Arab-Israeli citizens and the people of the occupied ... Read more

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  • Ultimate Price

    The Value We Place on Life

    How much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that underlie these price tags are often buried in technical language, yet they influence our economy, laws, behaviors, policies, health, and safety.These price tags are often unfair, infused as they are with gender, racial, national, and cultural biases that ... Read more

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  • The Ultimate Broadway Musical List Book

    Second Edition

    From Showboat to Hamilton, American musical theater has long held the imagination and enjoyment of the nations’ theater goers. It creates an emotional reaction as there are favorites we cherish, the all-time bests, those that are the most reviled, the over-rated and the unforgettable. This second edition of The Ultimate Broadway Musical List Book considers the history of the Broadway Musical from ... Read more

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  • Decolonisation

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    Offers a comparative analysis of the processes and aftermath of decolonisation from philosophical, historical, literary and legal perspectives. ... Read more

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  • Mbeki and After

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    For nearly ten years – indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela’s presidency – Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa’s political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little doubt that Mbeki was a seminal figure in South Africa’s new democracy, one who left a huge mark in many fields, perhaps most controversially in ... Read more

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  • The Colour of Our Future

    Does race matter in post-apartheid South Africa?

    South Africa is ready for a new vocabulary than can form the basis for a national consciousness which recognises racialised identities while affirming that, as human beings, we are much more than our racial, sexual, class, religious or national identities.The Colour of Our Future makes a bold and ambitious contribution to the discourse on race. It addresses the tension between the promise of a ... Read more

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