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  • Postmark Africa: Half a Century as a Foreign Correspondent

    by Michael Holman ...
    Michael Holman's eye-witness reports on the state of sub-Saharan Africa for the Financial Times and other media provide rare insights into the region’s post-independence successes and setbacks. From his accounts of the atrocities committed by Rhodesian forces in the 1960s to his interviews with those who would lead Africa into its own future and assessments of how they actually performed—often in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Dizzy Worms

    by Michael Holman ...
    Narrated by Jerome Pride ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 19 min

    Charity Mupanga, the resilient and maternal proprietor of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot) faces her toughest challenge in Dizzy Worms, the final novel in Michael Holman’s acclaimed trilogy set in the African slum of Kireba. Faced with a Health and Safety closure, Charity has a week to appeal and the chances of success seem negligible: elections are imminent, and Kireba is due to become a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Last Orders at Harrods

    An African Tale

    by Michael Holman ...
    Narrated by Jerome Pride ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Kuwisha trilogy

    Unabridged

    9 hours 43 min

    Charity Mupanga is the widowed owner of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot), a favourite meeting place for the movers and shakers of Kibera. While she can handle most challenges, from an erratic supply of Worcestershire sauce, the secret ingredient in her cooking, to the political tensions in East Africa's most notorious slum and a cholera outbreak that follows the freak floods in the state ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Fatboy and the Dancing Ladies

    by Michael Holman ...
    Narrated by Jerome Pride ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Kuwisha trilogy

    Unabridged

    7 hours 31 min

    Ferdinand Mlambo, the youngest boy ever to become senior kitchen toto at State House, is in deep trouble. Disloyalty to Kuwisha's Life President Nduka has not only cost him his prestigious job: the sinister chief steward to the president, Lovemore Mboga, has humiliated Mlambo by stripping him of his name. Word goes out: henceforth, he will be known as Fatboy. But with the help of Titus Ntoto, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Quebec’s Eastern Townships and the World

    A Region and Its Global Connections

    Edited by Cheryl Gosselin, Christopher Kirkey, Andrew Holman ...
    The Eastern Townships of Quebec are celebrated in popular discourse as a charming and remote nature playground for busy Montrealers, an appendage to stately Quebec City, and a northern abutment to the Northeast Kingdom of the United States. A closer look reveals a region with its own gravity, sense of being, and worldly connections.Quebec’s Eastern Townships and the World examines the region's ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Cases of citation

    On literature in art

    Edited by Chloë Julius, Michael Green, Matthew Holman ...
    Cases of citation presents a history of artists who incorporated literary references into their work from the 1960s onwards.Through a series of object-focused chapters that each take up a singular ‘case of citation’, the collection considers how literary citation emerged as a viable and urgent strategy for artists during this period. It surveys nine artworks by a diverse group of artists – ... Read more

    Was $97.99 USD Now $32.39 USD

  • Prologue to Conflict

    The Crisis & Compromise of 1850

    by Holman Hamilton ...
    This account of the failed Compromise of 1850 a decade before the Civil War "has all the suspense of a novel . . . incisive and provocative" ( The Journal of American History).In 1850, America was expanding rapidly westward as countless citizens went in search of land, opportunity—and, thanks to the gold rush in California, fortune. With settlements growing into towns and towns growing into cities ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Party Is Over

    The New Louisiana Politics

    by Jeremy Alford, Stephen Barnes, Mark Davis, Chase Edwards, Beverly Moore Haydel, Michael Henderson, Mirya Holman, Michelle N. Jeanis, David Khey, Anna Mahoney, Robert Mann, Jan Moller, Steven Procopio, Albert L. Samuels, Robert Travis Scott, Joshua Stockley, Rick Swanson, Gary Wagner ...
    For decades, the Louisiana political scene has been a source of interest and intrigue for scholars and casual observers alike. In recent years, the state’s political, economic, and environmental challenges have drawn sustained attention from regional and national media. Observers have typically focused on Louisiana’s distinctive political culture, including jungle primaries, colorful candidates, ... Read more

    Was $35.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • 1968 in Canada

    A Year and Its Legacies

    Edited by Michael K. Hawes, Andrew C. Holman, Christopher Kirkey ...
    Series series Mercury Series
    The year 1968 in Canada was an extraordinary one, unlike any other in its frenetic pace of activities and their consequences for the development of a new national consciousness among Canadians.It was a year when decisions and actions, both in Canada and outside its borders, were thick and contentious, and whose effects were momentous and far-reaching. It saw the rise of Trudeaumania and the birth ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Practices of Literary Translation

    Constraints and Creativity

    Edited by Jean Boase-Beier, Michael Holman ...
    In their introduction to this collection of essays, the editors argue that constraints can be seen as a source of literary creativity, and given that translation is even more constrained than 'original' literary production, it thus has the potential to be even more creative too. The ten essays that follow outline ways in which translators and translations are constrained by poetic form, personal ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Apostles of Disunion

    Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War

    by Charles B. Dew ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our ... Read more

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  • White Rage

    The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

    by Carol Anderson ...
    National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNew York TimesBestsellerUSA Today BestsellerA New York TimesNotable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the YearA Boston Globe Best Book of 2016A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016From the Civil W... ... Read more

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