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  • The Republic of Therapy

    Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS

    by Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Arjun Appadurai, Jean L. Comaroff, Judith Farquhar ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen focuses on the period between 1994, when effective antiretroviral treatments for HIV were discovered, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Echoes of the Ashanti Empire Part 1

    by Dennis Mensah ...
    This interesting research publication traces the origins of the Ashanti people, their historical links to the mining and trading of the precious mineral of gold and their migration into the Southern Forests of what is now the modern-day country of Ghana. This publication reveals the origins of trade relations with the European nations in the 15th Century, the truth about the role played by the ... Read more

    $3.30 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scrambling for Africa

    AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science

    by Johanna Tayloe Crane ...
    Series series Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
    Anthropologist Crane (Univ. of Washington-Bothell) presents a solidly documented and well-reasoned discussion of AIDS and its far-reaching effects. An excellent overview deals with resistance to treatment.. Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, professionals.―ChoiceA work of outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship, Scrambling for Africa will be of interest to audiences in anthropology, ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • A Kind of Homecoming

    by E. R. Braithwaite ...
    From the bestselling author of To Sir, With Love comes the moving personal memoir of a westernized black man who journeys to Africa in search of his roots and discovers a vibrant and extraordinary society on the verge of monumental changeIn the early 1960s acclaimed British Guianese author E. R. Braithwaite embarked on a pilgrimage to the West African countries of Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Someone Was Here

    Profiles in the AIDS Epidemic

    by George Whitmore ...
    Three powerful profiles of men and women whose lives were changed forever by the AIDS epidemic"Some of my reasons for wanting to write about AIDS were altruistic, others selfish. AIDS was decimating the community around me; there was a need to bear witness. AIDS had turned me and others like me into walking time bombs; there was a need to strike back, not just wait to die. What I didn't fully ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Up-Country Man

    Memories of an automotive engineer, #2

    by Kenneth C Ryeland ...
    Series Book 2 - Memories of an automotive engineer
    "The Up-Country Man" (Third Edition) is a factual and personal account of the events leading to secession and the conditions inside Biafra during the early days of the Nigerian civil war. In April 1967, a young British engineer arrives in Nigeria to take up his new job. The country is seven years into a volatile independence and Ken Ryeland struggles to come to terms with the culture shock and the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage

    Valuing All Families under the Law

    by Nancy D. Polikoff, Michael Bronski ...
    Series Book 3 - Queer Ideas/Queer Action
    The debate over marriage equality for same-sex couples rages across the country. Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage boldly moves the discussion forward by focusing on the larger, more fundamental issue of marriage and the law. The root problem, asserts law professor and LGBT rights activist Nancy Polikoff, is that marriage is a bright dividing line between those relationships that legally matter ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Where the Negroes Are Masters

    by Randy J. Sparks ...
    Annamaboe--largest slave trading port on the Gold Coast--was home to wily African merchants whose partnerships with Europeans made the town an integral part of Atlantic webs of exchange. Randy Sparks recreates the outpost's feverish bustle and brutality, tracing the entrepreneurs, black and white, who thrived on a lucrative traffic in human beings. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Searching for Boko Haram

    A History of Violence in Central Africa

    by Scott MacEachern ...
    For the past decade, Boko Haram has relentlessly terrorized northeastern Nigeria. Few if any explanations for the rise of this violent insurgent group look beyond its roots in worldwide jihadism and recent political conflicts in central Africa. Searching for Boko Haram is the first book to examine the insurgency within the context of centuries, millennia even, of cultural change in the region. The ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Governing the Nile River Basin

    The Search for a New Legal Regime

    by Mwangi Kimenyi, John Mbaku ...
    The effective and efficient management of water is a major problem, not just for economic growth and development in the Nile River basin, but also for the peaceful coexistence of the millions of people who live in the region. Of critical importance to the people of this part of Africa is the reasonable, equitable and sustainable management of the waters of the Nile River and its tributaries ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS

    Advocacy, Politics, and Race in the South

    by Stephen J. Inrig ...
    Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic. Southern states claim the highest rates of new infections, the most AIDS-related deaths, and the largest number of adults and adolescents living with the virus. Moreover, the epidemic disproportionately affects African American communities across the region. Using the history ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • ABC of HIV and AIDS

    Edited by Michael W. Adler, Simon G. Edwards, Robert F. Miller, Gulshan Sethi, Ian Williams ...
    Series Book 220 - ABC Series
    An authoritative guide to the epidemiology, incidence, testing and diagnosis and management of HIV and AIDS.From an international expert editor and contributor team, this new sixth edition includes expanded coverage of HIV testing, assessment and routine follow up and new chapters outlining problematic conditions associated with HIV and AIDS. Prevention strategies, early diagnosis and ... Read more

    $42.00 USD