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A Road to Extinction: Can Palaeolithic Africans Survive in the Andaman Islands?
A Road to Extinction: Can Palaeolithic Africans Survive in the Andaman Islands?
£13.95New from EnvelopeBooks – an important study in social anthropology A ROAD TO EXTINCTION is a plea for the survival of a group of palaeolithic tribespeople who, against the odds, have retained their extraordinary culture in the forests of the Andaman Islands, 400 miles off the coast of Burma in the Indian Ocean. The Andamans were […]
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A Sin of Omission
A Sin of Omission
£15.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS A powerful novel about innocent faith and an abuse of trust. Torn from his parents as a child, Stephen Mzamane is picked by the Anglican church to train at the Missionary College in Canterbury and then sent back to southern Africa’s Cape Colony to be a preacher. He is a brilliant success, […]
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Artist Spy Prisoner: My Life in Romania Under Fascist and Communist Rule
Artist Spy Prisoner: My Life in Romania Under Fascist and Communist Rule
£12.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS An anguished memoir of one man’s political struggle and physical resilience. The Romanian artist George Tomaziu must have anticipated being imprisoned for monitoring German troop movements through Romania during the Second World War. He may also have imagined that if the Allies won, and if he somehow survived the brutalisation of captivity […]
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Lagos, Life and Sexual Distraction
Lagos, Life and Sexual Distraction
£12.95Will Baami ever stop beating up his wife and become a commissioner? Will Ezinne ever go on a date with Chibuzor, Segun’s answer to Cristiano Ronaldo? Will Oladayo always be bullied by Benjamin, the corrupt politician’s son? Will Musa’s friends Maryam and Kabiru survive Boko Haram’s attack on their village? The life of the underprivileged, […]
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Postmark Africa: Half a Century as a Foreign Correspondent
Postmark Africa: Half a Century as a Foreign Correspondent
£12.99FIRST-HAND POLITICAL REPORTING FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS Michael Holman’s eye-witness reports on 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 atrocities by Rhodesian forces in the 1960s to his interviews with those who would lead Africa into its own future and assessments […]
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The Martyrdom of Ahmad Shawkat
The Martyrdom of Ahmad Shawkat
£18.95Ahmad Shawkat was an Iraqi Kurd who edited his own radical magazine—Bilattijah— after the fall of Saddam Hussein and who wrote enthusiastically about Iraq’s future as a state free from tyranny, secular and religious, having been imprisoned and tortured four times by the regime. When Michael Goldfarb went to Iraq the cover the Second Gulf […]
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The Train House on Lobengula Street
The Train House on Lobengula Street
£15.95NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS How can Indian girls get the same opportunities as Indian boys? The Kassims are a traditional Indian Muslim family, living in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 60s, where they enjoy a wealth of new opportunities but are held down by white racism and are torn apart by their own changing values. […]
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The West and the Rest
The West and the Rest
£18.95We tend to view the world beyond these shores on the basis of what the media make of it, whether the media of words or of images, and long-considered or instant. Ian Ross offers a welcome change of perspective. He spent his career as a senior executive in two controversial industrial sectors—tobacco and oil—and necessarily […]
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Wembley Speaks: What the Next Door Neighbours are Saying: A Year in the Life of a London Suburb
Wembley Speaks: What the Next Door Neighbours are Saying: A Year in the Life of a London Suburb
£18.95Wembley Speaks is a new type of grassroots sociology. Based entirely on postings on Nextdoor, the hyper-local community app, over the course of one calendar year, the book offers a twenty-first-century equivalent of Henry Mathew’s groundbreaking study, London Labour and the London Poor (1851). For the first time in print, the reader is able to […]
