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Spaces of Danger

Culture and Power in the Everyday

by Katharyne Mitchell, Richard Walker, Gunnar Olsson, Damani Partridge, Nancy Postero, Shiloh Krupar, Gillian Hart, Michael J. Watts, Derek Gregory0, Cindi Katz1, Michele Pred2, Trevor Paglen3, Paul Rabinow5 ...

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These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployed misinformation, diversions, and silences. As the essays expose the ... Read more

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These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployed misinformation, diversions, and silences. As the essays expose the
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The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa

Beyond the Margins

by Wale Adebanwi, Jane Guyer, John and Jean Comaroff, Maxim Bolt, Michael J. Watts, Peter L Geschiere, Sara S. Berry, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Tristan Oestermann, Adigun Agbaje0, Anne-Maria Makhulu1, Celestin Monga2, David Pratten3, Elisha Elisha Renne4, Frederick Cooper5, Gbemisola Animasawun6, James Ferguson7 ...

What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on ... Read more

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What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on
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Making Threats

Biofears and Environmental Anxieties

by Alan Goodman, Jeanne Guillemin, Hugh Gusterson, Anne Hendrixson, Larry Lohmann, Emily Martin, Richard Matthew, Jackie Orr, Paul A. Passavant, Heather Turcotte, Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Michael Watts ...

Today we live in times of proliferating fears. The daily updates on the ongoing "war on terror" amplify fear and anxiety as if they were necessary and important aspects of our reality. Concerns about the environment increasingly take center-stage, as stories and images abound about deadly viruses, alien species invasions, scarcity of oil, water, food; safety of GMOs, biological weapons, and fears ... Read more

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Today we live in times of proliferating fears. The daily updates on the ongoing "war on terror" amplify fear and anxiety as if they were necessary and important aspects of our reality. Concerns about the environment increasingly take center-stage, as stories and images abound about deadly viruses, alien species invasions, scarcity of oil, water, food; safety of GMOs, biological weapons, and fears
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Glidepath

by Andrew Watts ...

Narrated by Michael Pauley ...

Series Audiobook 1 - A Max Fend Thriller
Unabridged

9 hours 22 min

Charles Fend, the billionaire CEO of Fend Aerospace, is only days away from launching the world's first autonomous commercial airliner when a mysterious cyber attack threatens to cripple the project. But who is responsible?Is it the wealthy ex-KGB agent, Pavel Morozov, who has shown up from a past Charles had long-forgotten?Or was it Charles' own son Max—now on the run from the FBI after he was ... Read more

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Charles Fend, the billionaire CEO of Fend Aerospace, is only days away from launching the world's first autonomous commercial airliner when a mysterious cyber attack threatens to cripple the project. But who is responsible?Is it the wealthy ex-KGB agent, Pavel Morozov, who has shown up from a past Charles had long-forgotten?Or was it Charles' own son Max—now on the run from the FBI after he was
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Henry Ford, Consumerism, Consciousness and a New America

by Steven Watts ...

Narrated by Michael Toms ...

Unabridged

57 min

After five years culling through Henry Ford's lifetime collection of personal notes and documents, and records of interviews with his colleagues and employees, Mr. Watts brings us a picture of a man whose impact on our society extends far beyond the automobile and the assembly line. ... Read more

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After five years culling through Henry Ford's lifetime collection of personal notes and documents, and records of interviews with his colleagues and employees, Mr. Watts brings us a picture of a man whose impact on our society extends far beyond the automobile and the assembly line.
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Kierkegaard

An Essential Introduction

by Michael Watts ...

Series series Oneworld Philosophers
'Best single source on Kierkegaard I've seen. Excellent short biography of his life and family. Fantastic explanation of how to approach Kierkegaard's ideas… I did spend a lot of time on the Danish philosopher's work as a graduate student (particularly Fear and Trembling) and I do wish that I had had this at the time' (Austin Cline, online review at atheism.about.com; full review at http://atheism ... Read more

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'Best single source on Kierkegaard I've seen. Excellent short biography of his life and family. Fantastic explanation of how to approach Kierkegaard's ideas… I did spend a lot of time on the Danish philosopher's work as a graduate student (particularly Fear and Trembling) and I do wish that I had had this at the time' (Austin Cline, online review at atheism.about.com; full review at http://atheism
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Rethinking Biology: Public Understandings

by Michael J Reiss, Fraser Watts, Harris Wiseman ...

'Rethinking Biology offers many useful perspectives on a range of topics: why neuroscience and brain imaging threaten to create a reductive view of self and behaviour every bit as misleading as the genetic one, why adaptationism needs taming in evolutionary narratives …'Public Understanding of ScienceBiologists always need to grapple with integrating two explanatory approaches. On the one hand, ... Read more

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'Rethinking Biology offers many useful perspectives on a range of topics: why neuroscience and brain imaging threaten to create a reductive view of self and behaviour every bit as misleading as the genetic one, why adaptationism needs taming in evolutionary narratives …'Public Understanding of ScienceBiologists always need to grapple with integrating two explanatory approaches. On the one hand,
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Journey To Freedom

by John Pridmore, With Greg Watts ...

Narrated by Willam Michaels ...

Unabridged

4 hours 33 min

‘Many of us can feel trapped and in prison,that life is not worth living and that thereare parts of us which we find hard to accept’In Journey to Freedom He explores why somany of us sense there is something missingfrom our lives and why feelings of fulfilmentand happiness are so short lived.Drawing on his own experiences and those ofthe men and women he has encountered onhis travels, whose lives ... Read more

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‘Many of us can feel trapped and in prison,that life is not worth living and that thereare parts of us which we find hard to accept’In Journey to Freedom He explores why somany of us sense there is something missingfrom our lives and why feelings of fulfilmentand happiness are so short lived.Drawing on his own experiences and those ofthe men and women he has encountered onhis travels, whose lives
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Sodom and Gomorrah

by Marcel Proust, Adam Watt ...

Translated by Helen Constantine ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
'the metamorphosis of Monsieur de Charlus into a new person was so complete that... everything which had appeared incoherent to me until then, was becoming intelligible, and self-evident' The fourth volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time extends the protagonist's journey of discovery into the social world of fin-de-siècle France. As the biblically inflected title, Sodom and Gomorrah, suggests, ... Read more

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'the metamorphosis of Monsieur de Charlus into a new person was so complete that... everything which had appeared incoherent to me until then, was becoming intelligible, and self-evident' The fourth volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time extends the protagonist's journey of discovery into the social world of fin-de-siècle France. As the biblically inflected title, Sodom and Gomorrah, suggests,
... Read more

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Social Contracts for Development

Bargaining, Contention, and Social Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa

by Mathieu Cloutier, Bernard Harborne, Deborah Isser, Indhira Santos, Michael Watts ...

Series series Africa Development Forum
Sub-Saharan Africa has achieved significant gains in reducing the levels of extreme poverty in recent decades. Yet, the region continues to experience challenges across the development indicators, including energy access, literacy, delivery of services and goods, and jobs skills, as well as low levels of foreign direct investment. Exacerbating the difficulties faced by many countries are the ... Read more

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Sub-Saharan Africa has achieved significant gains in reducing the levels of extreme poverty in recent decades. Yet, the region continues to experience challenges across the development indicators, including energy access, literacy, delivery of services and goods, and jobs skills, as well as low levels of foreign direct investment. Exacerbating the difficulties faced by many countries are the
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Audiobook

Oshkosh Connection, The

by Andrew Watts ...

Narrated by Michael Pauley ...

Series Audiobook 2 - A Max Fend Thriller
Unabridged

9 hours 14 min

A Pakistani intelligence officer secretly communicates with a Mexican drug cartel. A lobbyist is assassinated in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. A US Senator receives death threats from a shadowy group. There is a connection. And Max Fend has only days to discover what it is.The chase leads CIA asset Max Fend from the Pacific coast of Mexico to the plains of Wisconsin, home of the largest air ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A Pakistani intelligence officer secretly communicates with a Mexican drug cartel. A lobbyist is assassinated in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. A US Senator receives death threats from a shadowy group. There is a connection. And Max Fend has only days to discover what it is.The chase leads CIA asset Max Fend from the Pacific coast of Mexico to the plains of Wisconsin, home of the largest air
... Read more
British Colonisation of Northern Nigeria, 1897-1914

A Reinterpretation of Colonial Sources

by Mahmud Modibbo Tukur ...

"In this densely detailed and interpretatively nuanced study, Mahmud Modibbo Tukur lays bare the very foundations of the colonial state in what is now northern Nigeria. This is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the foundations of contemporary Nigeria and how we came to be what we are." – Prof. Abdul Raufu Mustapha, University of Oxford, UK.Mahmud Modibbo Tukur's work challenges ... Read more

$49.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"In this densely detailed and interpretatively nuanced study, Mahmud Modibbo Tukur lays bare the very foundations of the colonial state in what is now northern Nigeria. This is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the foundations of contemporary Nigeria and how we came to be what we are." – Prof. Abdul Raufu Mustapha, University of Oxford, UK.Mahmud Modibbo Tukur's work challenges
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