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Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled - Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg (Hardcover,... Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled - Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Camilla Adang, Bruno Chiesa, Omar Hamdan
R1,601 Discovery Miles 16 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Gift of the Stars - Book 1 of The Tales of Zren Janin (Hardcover): M L Dunker A Gift of the Stars - Book 1 of The Tales of Zren Janin (Hardcover)
M L Dunker
R771 R695 Discovery Miles 6 950 Save R76 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Across the Sub-Arctics of Canada [microform] - a Journey of 3, 200 Miles by Canoe and Snowshoe Through the Barren Lands:... Across the Sub-Arctics of Canada [microform] - a Journey of 3, 200 Miles by Canoe and Snowshoe Through the Barren Lands: Including a List of Plants Collected on the Expedition, a Vocabulary of Eskimo Words, a Route Map and Full Classified Index (Hardcover)
J W (James Williams) 1863 Tyrrell
R887 Discovery Miles 8 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Finding Me - A Memoir (Paperback): Viola Davis Finding Me - A Memoir (Paperback)
Viola Davis
R360 R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Save R39 (11%) Ships in 7 - 12 working days

In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever.

This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn’t always see me.

As I wrote Finding Me, my eyes were open to the truth of how our stories are often not given close examination. We are forced to reinvent them to fit into a crazy, competitive, judgmental world. So I wrote this for anyone running through life untethered, desperate and clawing their way through murky memories, trying to get to some form of self-love. For anyone who needs reminding that a life worth living can only be born from radical honesty and the courage to shed facades and be . . . you.

Finding Me is a deep reflection, a promise, and a love letter of sorts to self. My hope is that my story will inspire you to light up your own life with creative expression and rediscover who you were before the world put a label on you.

The Skin Game (Hardcover): Michael Burnett Miller The Skin Game (Hardcover)
Michael Burnett Miller
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Womb of Diamonds - A True Adventure From Child Bride Of Syria To Celebrity Businesswoman Of Japan (Hardcover): Ezra Choueke Womb of Diamonds - A True Adventure From Child Bride Of Syria To Celebrity Businesswoman Of Japan (Hardcover)
Ezra Choueke
R878 Discovery Miles 8 780 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Black Broadway in Washington, DC (Hardcover): Briana A Thomas Black Broadway in Washington, DC (Hardcover)
Briana A Thomas; Foreword by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Religious Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire - Institutional Change and the Professionalisation of the Ulema (Hardcover): Erhan... Religious Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire - Institutional Change and the Professionalisation of the Ulema (Hardcover)
Erhan Bektas
R2,851 Discovery Miles 28 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The influence of the ulema, the official Sunni Muslim religious scholars of the Ottoman Empire, is commonly understood to have waned in the empire's last century. Drawing upon Ottoman state archives and the institutional archives of the ulema, this study challenges this narrative, showing that the ulema underwent a process of professionalisation as part of the wider Tanzimat reforms and thereby continued to play an important role in Ottoman society. First outlining transformations in the office of the Sheikh ul-islam, the leading Ottoman Sunni Muslim cleric, the book goes on to use the archives to present a detailed portrait of the lives of individual ulema, charting their education and professional and social lives. It also includes a glossary of Turkish-Arabic vocabulary for increased clarity. Contrary to beliefs about their decline, the book shows they played a central role in the empire's efforts to centralise the state by acting as intermediaries between the government and social groups, particularly on the empire's peripheries.

Women, Men and Books - Issues of Gender in Yiddish Discourse (Hardcover): Gennady Estraikh, Mikhail Krutikov Women, Men and Books - Issues of Gender in Yiddish Discourse (Hardcover)
Gennady Estraikh, Mikhail Krutikov
R2,390 Discovery Miles 23 900 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Plains Indians Culture, Wars and Settling the Western US History of the United States History 6th Grade Children's... The Plains Indians Culture, Wars and Settling the Western US History of the United States History 6th Grade Children's American History (Hardcover)
Baby Professor
R689 R613 Discovery Miles 6 130 Save R76 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Unapologetically Favored - A woman. A leader. A testimony. (Hardcover): Courtney Kittrell Unapologetically Favored - A woman. A leader. A testimony. (Hardcover)
Courtney Kittrell
R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Codex Nuttall; Facsimile of an Ancient Mexican Codex Belonging to Lord Zouche of Harynworth, England (Hardcover): Zelia... Codex Nuttall; Facsimile of an Ancient Mexican Codex Belonging to Lord Zouche of Harynworth, England (Hardcover)
Zelia 1858-1933 Nuttall; Created by Robert Nathaniel Cecil George Zouche, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Eth
R740 Discovery Miles 7 400 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Dylan's Birthday Present/O Presente de Aniversario de Dylan - Bilingual English and Portuguese (Brazil) Edition (Large... Dylan's Birthday Present/O Presente de Aniversario de Dylan - Bilingual English and Portuguese (Brazil) Edition (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Victor Dias De Oliveira Santos
R556 R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves - Piracy and Personhood in American Literature (Hardcover): Sharada Balachandran Orihuela Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves - Piracy and Personhood in American Literature (Hardcover)
Sharada Balachandran Orihuela
R2,647 Discovery Miles 26 470 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race and slavery, and piracy as seen through the lens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. Balachandran Orihuela defines piracy expansively, from the familiar concept of nautical pirates and robbery in international waters to post-revolutionary counterfeiting, transnational slave escape, and the illegal trade of cotton across the Americas during the Civil War. Weaving together close readings of American, Chicano, and African American literature with political theory, the author shows that piracy, when represented through literature, has imagined more inclusive and democratic communities than were then possible in reality. The author shows that these subjects are not taking part in unlawful acts only for economic gain. Rather, Balachandran Orihuela argues that piracy might, surprisingly, have served as a public good, representing a form of transnational belonging that transcends membership in any one nation-state while also functioning as a surrogate to citizenship through the ownership of property. These transnational and transactional forms of social and economic life allow for a better understanding the foundational importance of property ownership and its role in the creation of citizenship.

My Life & Times In Doomadgee (Hardcover): Maree Manly My Life & Times In Doomadgee (Hardcover)
Maree Manly
R662 R592 Discovery Miles 5 920 Save R70 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
African Life and Customs Hardcover (Hardcover): Edward W Blyden African Life and Customs Hardcover (Hardcover)
Edward W Blyden
R610 R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Save R61 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
All About Harry (Hardcover): Dr. Alan Swarc All About Harry (Hardcover)
Dr. Alan Swarc
R553 Discovery Miles 5 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Eighty Years in the Making (Hardcover): Rose Anna Crawford Eighty Years in the Making (Hardcover)
Rose Anna Crawford
R589 Discovery Miles 5 890 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The View from the Mountaintop - What Would Dr. King Have to Say Today? (Hardcover): T Leon Williams The View from the Mountaintop - What Would Dr. King Have to Say Today? (Hardcover)
T Leon Williams
R782 Discovery Miles 7 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Abnakis and Their History, or, Historical Notices on the Aborigines of Acadia [microform] (Hardcover): Eugene 1819-1881... The Abnakis and Their History, or, Historical Notices on the Aborigines of Acadia [microform] (Hardcover)
Eugene 1819-1881 Vetromile
R832 Discovery Miles 8 320 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Project Azalea (Hardcover): J E Conery Project Azalea (Hardcover)
J E Conery
R672 Discovery Miles 6 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem (Hardcover): Flavius Josephus The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem (Hardcover)
Flavius Josephus
R933 Discovery Miles 9 330 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Memorial Book for the Jewish Community of Yurburg, Lithuania - Translation and Update (Hardcover, 3rd Revised, Contains New... The Memorial Book for the Jewish Community of Yurburg, Lithuania - Translation and Update (Hardcover, 3rd Revised, Contains New Material on the Cemetery Restoration and the Synagogue Square Memorial Erected ed.)
Zevulun Poran; Edited by Joel Alpert, Josef Rosin
R1,498 Discovery Miles 14 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rick Turner's Politics As The Art Of The Impossible (Paperback): Michael Onyebuchi Eze, Lawrence Hamilton, Laurence Piper,... Rick Turner's Politics As The Art Of The Impossible (Paperback)
Michael Onyebuchi Eze, Lawrence Hamilton, Laurence Piper, Gideon van Riet
R395 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R30 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Rick Turner was a South African academic and activist who rebelled against apartheid at the height of its power. For this he was assassinated in 1978, at just 32 years of age, but his life and work are testimony to the power of philosophical thinking for humans everywhere. Turner chose to live freely in an unfree time and argued for a non-racial, socialist future in a context where this seemed unimaginable.

This book takes seriously Rick Turner’s challenge that political theorising requires thinking in a utopian way. Turner’s seminal book The Eye of the Needle: Towards a Participatory Democracy in South Africa laid out some of his most potent ideas on a radically different political and economic system. His demand was that we work to escape the limiting ideas of the present, carefully design a just future based on shared human values, and act to make it a reality, both politically and in our daily lives.

The contributors to this volume engage critically with Turner’s work on race relations, his relationship with Steve Biko, his views on religion, education and gender oppression, his participatory model of democracy, and his critique of enduring forms of poverty and economic inequality. They show how, in his life and work, Turner modelled how we can dare to be free and how hope can return, as the future always remains open to human construction. This book makes an important contribution to contemporary thinking and activism where the need for South Africans to define their understanding of their greater common good is of crucial importance.

A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou - Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites (Hardcover): Benjamin... A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou - Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites (Hardcover)
Benjamin Hebblethwaite
R2,908 Discovery Miles 29 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou analyzes Haitian Vodou's African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti. Split into two sections, the African chapters focus on history, economics, and culture in Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda while scrutinizing the role of Europeans in fomenting tensions. The political, military, and slave trading histories of the kingdoms in the Bight of Benin reveal the circumstances of enslavement, including the geographies, ethnicities, languages, and cultures of enslavers and enslaved. The study of the spirits, rituals, structure, and music of the region's religions sheds light on important sources for Haitian Vodou. Having royal, public, and private expressions, Vodun spirit-based traditions served as cultural systems that supported or contested power and enslavement. At once suppliers and victims of the European slave trade, the people of Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda deeply shaped the emergence of Haiti's creolized culture. The Haitian chapters focus on Vodou's Rada Rite (from Allada) and Gede Rite (from Abomey) through the songs of Rasin Figuier's Vodou Lakay and Rasin Bwa Kayiman's Guede, legendary rasin compact discs released on Jean Altidor's Miami label, Mass Konpa Records. All the Vodou songs on the discs are analyzed with a method dubbed "Vodou hermeneutics" that harnesses history, religious studies, linguistics, literary criticism, and ethnomusicology in order to advance a scholarly approach to Vodou songs.

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