BOOKS
Learning for Living: Towards a New Vision for Post-School Learning in South AfricaIvor Baatjes, editor In the context of South Africa's deepening inequalities, widespread poverty, and increasing unemployment rates, the need for a new approach to adult education is becoming urgent. Learning for Living issues a call to action to meet that need. Drawing on the lived experiences of people throughout the country, the book challenges policymakers, researchers, educators, and civil society More > | ![]() |
Learning to Live with Statistics: From Concept to PracticeDavid Asquith Is it possible to demystify statistics? Can math phobia be overcome? Perhaps surprisingly, the answer is yes. Learning to Live with Statistics, based on years of teaching experience, explains basic statistical concepts and procedures in a straightforward, digestible way. Using familiar examples that highlight the relevance of the subject to everyday life, David Asquith provides clear More > | ![]() |
Legends, Sorcerers, and Enchanted Lizards: Door Locks of the Bamana of MaliPascal James Imperato, with an foreword by Robert J. Koenig The Bamana people are known for their rich artistic traditions, including the creation of masks, statues, door locks, headdresses, and ritual and utilitarian objects: Their door locks are among the most remarkable of all African art. Sculpted of wood in a rich variety of forms, they depict mythological and historical figures, social events, and representational figures—crocodiles, lizards, More > | ![]() |
Legislative Politics in the Arab World: The Resurgence of Democratic InstitutionsAbdo Baaklini, Guilain Denoeux, and Robert Springborg The vitality and significance of parliaments in the Arab world is one of the essential—but overlooked—stories of political life in the 1990s. Baaklini, Denoeux, and Springborg present the first comprehensive, comparative analysis of modern Arab legislatures. Drawing on their extensive experience as both scholars and project consultants, the authors Yemen). Their work is of critical More > |
Legislative Power in Emerging African DemocraciesJoel D. Barkan, editor A puzzle underpins this groundbreaking study of legislative development in Africa: Why are variations in the extent of legislative authority and performance across the continent only partially related, if at all, to the overall level of democratization? And if democratization is not the prime determinant of legislative authority, what is? Exploring the constraints that have retarded the More > | ![]() |
Legislative Women: Getting Elected, Getting AheadBeth Reingold, editor This wide-ranging study grapples with the increasingly complex array of opportunities and challenges that face women today as both legislative candidates and elected officials. Offering cutting-edge, original research, Legislative Women expands our knowledge on an array of critical topics. The contributors address everything from campaign finance to the significance of race and ethnicity, from More > | ![]() |
Legislatures and the New Democracies in Latin AmericaDavid Close, editor Legislatures are indispensable parts of constitutional liberal democracies, controlling and criticizing the executive while voicing a wide range of opinions on public issues. This book examines the role of the legislature in the politics of democratic construction and consolidation in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Uruguay. Analyzing the status and daily operations More > |
LeninHélène Carrère d'Encausse, translated by George Holoch Vladimir Ilitch Lenin, who died in 1924 at the age of fifty-four, went through two distinct periods in his life. He spent twenty years in exile dreaming of the revolution and creating his political tool—the Communist Party—with the Russian Revolution happening in his absence. But eight months after the Revolution, in October 1917, he gained total power. Within four years, amidst a More > | ![]() |
Liberia's Civil War: Nigeria, ECOMOG, and Regional Security in West AfricaAdekeye Adebajo Liberia's Civil War offers the most in-depth account available of one of the most baffling and intractable of Africa's conflicts. Adekeye Adebajo unravels the tangled web of the conflict by addressing four questions: Why did Nigeria intervene in Liberia and remain committed throughout the seven-year civil war? To what extend was ECOMOG's intervention shaped by Nigeria's More > | ![]() |
Light of My Eye [a novel]Paula Jacques, translated by Susan Cohen-Nicole Light of My Eye affectionately recreates the waning days of the once thriving Jewish community of Cairo during the turbulent period between the collapse of the Egyptian monarchy and Nasser's rise to power. At the center of the novel are young Mona Castro and her family, whose lives and destinies are evoked in scenes that veer between poignancy and wit. Mona's coming of age is marked by More > | ![]() |