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'Papa, why do you dance when you walk?' When Aden's 8-year-old
daughter asks him this one morning in Paris, he is taken aback. The
question is innocent, but the answer is not so simple. Unable to
resist Bea's inquisitive spirit, he moves silkily between memories
of his childhood: from his silent, mysterious mother and the shanty
roofs of his neighbourhood to the malicious attack that changed his
life forever and the ensuing struggle that made him a man.
Anchoring his memories is a Djibouti on the cusp of independence; a
land of shifting deserts and immense heat, French-from-France
ex-pats, and one lonely and sick boy finding solace in books. Why
Do You Dance When You Walk is a poignant and timeless story of the
complexity of family, the value of poetry and freedom, and the
ripple effect of the traumas that stalk our movement.
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The Master (Hardcover)
Nicole Ball, David Ball, Patrick Rambaud
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R621
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The extraordinary life of Zhuang Zhou sits halfway between fable
and philosophy. “It was twenty-five centuries ago in the land of
Song, between the Yellow River and the River Huai: Zhuang Zhou was
born without a cry with his eyes wide open.” Welcome to
China in the fifth century BCE, a colorful, violent, unstable world
into which Zhuang is born. Here royals raise huge armies,
constantly waging wars against one another. They have slaves,
concubines. Gold is everywhere. And so is hunger. Born rich and
entitled, Zhuang learns to refuse any official function. His
travels bring him closer to ordinary people, from whom he learns
how to live a simple and useful life. This is how he will become
one of the greatest Chinese philosophers who gave his name to his
legendary book, the Zhuangzi, one of the two foundational texts of
Taoism—a magnificent procession of lively stories in which we
meet dwarfs, virtuous bandits, butchers, powerful lords in their
castles, turtles, charming concubines, and false sages. In this
remarkable bildungsroman, award-winning French novelist Patrick
Rambaud spins out the extraordinary life of Zhuang Zhou—a poetic,
cruel, and often humorous tale, halfway between fable and
philosophy.
Proponents of arms control and disarmament are often confronted
with the argument that reductions in defense expenditure lead to
cutbacks in military industries and thus to economic hardship.
While a reduction in defense production would cause some economic
dislocation, this would be mitigated by the ability of the economy
to adapt to changing patterns of production. This book, first
published in 1983, assesses the likely effects of reductions in
defense industries by an examination of the roles these industries
play in national economies. Each chapter discusses industry
employment, output, research and development, capital value,
profitability, concentration and competition, internal organization
and regional employment concentration. Other questions considered
include the economic importance of weapons exports, the defense
industry as a 'leading edge' in maintaining national technological
capabilities, and the reliance of individual firms on defense
contracting.
Proponents of arms control and disarmament are often confronted
with the argument that reductions in defense expenditure lead to
cutbacks in military industries and thus to economic hardship.
While a reduction in defense production would cause some economic
dislocation, this would be mitigated by the ability of the economy
to adapt to changing patterns of production. This book, first
published in 1983, assesses the likely effects of reductions in
defense industries by an examination of the roles these industries
play in national economies. Each chapter discusses industry
employment, output, research and development, capital value,
profitability, concentration and competition, internal organization
and regional employment concentration. Other questions considered
include the economic importance of weapons exports, the defense
industry as a 'leading edge' in maintaining national technological
capabilities, and the reliance of individual firms on defense
contracting.
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The Red Sofa (Hardcover)
Michele Lesbre; Translated by David Ball, Nicole Ball
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R512
Discovery Miles 5 120
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In The Red Sofa, we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the
Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who
left twenty years before. As the train moves across post-Soviet
Russia and its devastated landscapes, Anne reflects on her past
with Gyl and their patriotic struggles, as well as on the neighbor
she has just left behind, Clemence Barrot. Rocked by the train's
movements Anne is moved by her memory of Clemence, who is old and
whose memory is failing, but who has not lost her taste for life
and adventure. Ensconced on her red sofa at home, Clemence loves to
tell Anne her life story, mourning lost loved ones and celebrating
the lives of brave, rebellious women who went before her.
Eventually, Anne's train trip returns her home having not found
Gyl, but having found something much more meaningful herself. "A
luminous novel about desire, a clear text about the joy of living."
Prix Pierre Mac Orlan 2007
"Everything starts with a song and everything ends with another
song," says the narrator of The Divine Song. Paris is an old Sufi
cat who keeps watch over his brilliant yet pathetic master, Sammy
Kamau-Williams, the Enchanter. In Sammy, we recognize the African
American singer-composer, poet, and novelist Gil Scott-Heron who is
best known for his song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." The
Divine Song takes us from the shores of Africa to Sammy's
ancestors' arrival in the Americas in the hold of the slave ships.
From there, Abdourahman A. Waberi takes the characters from
Tennessee--under the tutelage of Lili Williams, Sammy's beloved
African-born grandmother--to New York and the concert halls of
Paris and Berlin, wherever blues and jazz find an enchanted
audience. African tales, religious practices, segregation, the
civil rights movement, addiction, and jail--Sammy's life comes to
encompass the whole of the African American experience. At a time
when social and racial divisions have yet again come into sharp
relief, this lyrical novel by one of African literature's rising
stars is necessary reading for anyone who celebrates the resilience
of art.
The Weary Sons of Freud lambasts mainstream psychoanalysis for its
failure to grapple with pressing political and social matters
pertinent to its patients' condition. Gifted with insight and
compelled by fury, Catherine Clement contrasts the original,
inspirational psychoanalytical work of Freud and Lacan to the
obsessive imitations of their uninspired followers-the weary sons
of Freud. The analyst's once attentive ear has become deaf to the
broader questions of therapeutic practice. Clement asks whether the
perspective of socialism, brought to this study by a woman who is
herself an analysand, can fill the gap. She reflects on her own
history, as well as on that of psychoanalysis and the French left,
to show what an activist and feminist restoration of the talking
cure might look like.
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Passage of Tears (Paperback)
Abdourahman A Waberi; Translated by David Ball, Nicole Ball
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R465
Discovery Miles 4 650
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Passage of Tears cleverly mixes many genres and forms of
writing--spy novel, political thriller, diary (replete with
childhood memories), travel notebook, legends, parables,
incantations, and prayers. Djibril's reminiscences provide a sense
of Djibouti's past and its people, while a satire of Muslim
fundamentalism is unwittingly delivered through the other
Djiboutian voice. Waberi's inventive parody is a lesson in
tolerance, while his poetic observations reveal his love and
concern for his homeland.
Carrots and sticks have always been used in combination in
diplomatic affairs, but scholars and policymakers have focused more
on the sticks than the carrots. In this provocative study,
policy-savvy scholars examine a wide range of cases-from North
Korea to South Africa to El Salvador and Bosnia-to demonstrate the
power of incentives to deter nuclear proliferation, prevent armed
conflict, defend civil and human rights, and rebuild war-torn
societies. The book addresses the 'moral hazard' of incentives, the
danger that they can be construed as bribes, concessions, or
appeasement. Incentives can take many forms-economic and political,
as palpable as fuel oil and as intangible, yet powerful, as
diplomatic recognition and 'constructive engagement.' The cases
demonstrate that incentives can sometimes succeed when traditional
methods-threats, sanctions, or force-fail or are too dangerous to
apply.
Nicole Ball brings the effects of security expenditure to the
center of that debate, examining in detail how the potential
negative consequences on development outweigh the potential
positive effects.
Originally published in 1990.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
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The Wound (Paperback)
Laurent Mauvignier; Translated by David Ball, Nicole Ball; Foreword by Nick Flynn
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R605
R499
Discovery Miles 4 990
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“Where is your wound?” asks Jean Genet in the lines Laurent
Mauvignier uses as an epigraph to The Wound. By the time we have
finished this four-part novel, we realize that for many the wound
lies four decades back in “the Events” that people have
tried to not talk about ever since: the Algerian War.
Chronicling the lives of two cousins—Bernard and
Rabut—both in the present and at the time of the Algerian War of
Independence in the 1960s, we get a full picture of the lasting
effects this event had on the men who were involved. Through the
fragments of their stories we see the whole history of the war: its
atrocities, its horrors, and its hatreds. Mauvignier shows readers
how the Algerian War, always present yet always repressed, has
sickened the emotional and moral life of everyone it touched—and
France itself, perhaps. The epigraph, like the novel, suggests that
wounded men may even become the wound itself.
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The Red Sofa (Paperback)
Michele Lesbre; Translated by David Ball, Nicole Ball
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R305
R194
Discovery Miles 1 940
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Now in paperback, The Red Sofa is a quiet French novella exploring
love, memory, and the perspective that travel gives us on both. In
The Red Sofa, we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the
Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who
left twenty years before. As the train moves across post-Soviet
Russia and its devastated landscapes, Anne reflects on her past
with Gyl and their patriotic struggles, as well as on the neighbor
she has just left behind, Clemence Barrot. Rocked by the train's
movements Anne is moved by her memory of Clemence, who is old and
whose memory is failing, but who has not lost her taste for life
and adventure. Ensconced on her red sofa at home, Clemence loves to
tell Anne her life story, mourning lost loved ones and celebrating
the lives of brave, rebellious women who went before her.
Eventually, Anne's train trip returns her home having not found
Gyl, but having found something much more meaningful-herself.
Land of Many Colors is set in the fictional city of Fort Pilote in
the French Caribbean. It opens with the deaths of a young
liberation activist and his mother in 1984. The narrator, a doctor
who handles both of these cases, attempts to reconstruct the
history of the family through four generations. The doctor's
account illuminates the political and social complexities of race
and class distinctions, the legacy of French colonialism that has
spawned the movement for independence. Set in Jamaica, Nanna-ya
explores the relationships that develop between George, a
well-to-do store-owner, his wife, Grace, and his lover, Joyce.
Their intertwined histories touch on a variety of racial and gender
themes, which are handled with uncommon insight and subtlety. Like
Land of Many Colors, Nanna-ya explores the difficulty of
reconstructing historical narratives and recovering the experiences
of people of color in the Caribbean. Born in Guadeloupe in 1937,
Maryse Conde has lived in Africa and traveled throughout the world.
She first won international acclaim for Children of Segu, a novel
exploring the rise and fall of the Bambara Kingdom. Her other
writings include the novels Tree of Life, Crossing the Mangrove,
and The Last of the African Kings (Nebraska 1997). Nicole Ball is a
freelance translator living in Paris. Her translations include
works by Catherine Clement. Leyla Ezdinli is an assistant professor
of French at Smith College.
In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric,
this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer
Abdourahman A. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world upside down.
On this reimagined globe a stream of sorry humanity flows from the
West, from the slums of America and the squalor of Europe, to
escape poverty and desperation in the prosperous United States of
Africa. It is in this world that an African doctor on a
humanitarian mission to France adopts a child. Now a young artist,
this girl, Malaika, travels to the troubled land of her birth in
hope of finding her mother--and perhaps something of her lost self.
Her search, at times funny and strange, is also deeply poignant,
reminding us at every moment of the turns of fate we call truth.
Nicole Ball brings the effects of security expenditure to the
center of that debate, examining in detail how the potential
negative consequences on development outweigh the potential
positive effects. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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