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Growth without Development
Peru in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
This book examines how some growing countries are experiencing economic development, while others are falling behind. It addresses the fundamental issues of development strategies by examining country-specific policies that have resulted in success or failure. The author focuses on Peru and makes...
by Shunna Pillay
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A panoramic look at South Africa in the 1950s, this spirited tale explores the people, music, and hardships common to areas such as District Six, Durban, and Sophiatown. Based on the life of musician Shunna Pillay, the story focuses on what it feels like to yearn for freedom amid governmental and societal constraints.
Return to Sender
The Moral Economy of Peru’s Migrant Remittances
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Return to Sender is an anthropological account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that activity means for themselves and for their home communities. The book draws on first-hand ethnographic data from North and South America, Europe, and Japan to describe how Peruvians remit...
La Galgada, Peru
A Preceramic Culture in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Excavations over many years in the Peruvian Andes and coastal regions have revealed that the village settlements on the west coast of South America were one of the early centers of world civilization. One of these settlements, La Galgada, flourished from 3000 B.C. to 1700 B.C. Its extraordinarily complete...
The Kon-Tiki expedition
By raft across the South Seas
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This is the story of how Thor Heyderdahl and five other men crossed the Pacific Ocean on a balsa-wood raft in an extraordinary bid to prove Heyderdahl's theory that the Polynesians undertook the same feat on such a craft over 1000 years ago.
by Derek Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
On his first trip to Chile, Derek Paterson fell instantly in love with the people and the country. On was ready to leave when the b;oozy coup of 11 September 1973 slammed the borders closed. Three days later he was thrown into a police cell and then taken to the infamous, notorious National Stadium...
Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World
History and Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Pamila Gupta takes a unique approach to examining decolonization processes across Lusophone India and Southern Africa, focusing on Goa, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa, weaving together case studies using five interconnected themes.
Gupta considers decolonization through the twined lenses...
The Dust Rose Like Smoke
The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In 1876 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer’s Seventh Cavalry at Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. In both cases the total defeat of regular army troops by forces regarded as undisciplined...
by Charles G. Dyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
A coffee break book.
Early in the South African Border war, I am stationed near the Angola border as a military transport driver. This is the story of one memorable exciting incident that took place there.
Southeast Treasure Hunter's Gem & Mineral Guide (6th Edition)
Where & How to Dig, Pan and Mine Your Own Gems & Minerals
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Updated 6th edition with new sites & museums! Learn Where & How to Dig, Pan and Mine Your Own Gems & Minerals SOUTHEAST Alabama • Arkansas • Florida • Georgia • Kentucky • Louisiana • Mississippi • Missouri • North Carolina • South Carolina • Tennessee • Virginia...
The Big Peruvian Cookbook
100 Delicious Traditional Recipes from Peru
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Cook up the bold, unique flavors of this multicultural culinary destination.
Peruvian cuisine, described by food critic Eric Asimov as one of the world's most important cuisines and a model of fusion cuisine, is the new lip-smacking trend worthy of every American table. The Big Peruvian Cookbook is...
by Andrew Delaplaine
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in the Queen City. Delaplaine’s father lived in Charlotte for 25 years, so he knows the city quite well. “I’d been through the airport a hundred times before I ever had a chance to spend 2 days in Charlotte....
Langues et littératures de l’Inde
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Dans le sous-continent indien aux côtés du bloc dravidien, des groupes munda et tibéto-birman, le groupe linguistique de loin le plus important est le groupe indo-aryen. Les langues indo-aryennes forment la branche indienne de la famille indo-européenne.
by H. Rider Haggard
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Cetywayo and his White Neighbors’.
Cetywayo and His White Neighbors, or Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal and the Transvaal is an 1882 non-fiction book by H. Rider Haggard, his first full-length published...