Search Results: Africa from High Park Books

Washington, D.C.: The World Bank. First Edition . Illustrated Wraps. Fine. English language. A roadmap, by 50 scholars and policymakers, that could allow Africa to take its rightful place in the world economy - if Africans take a more active, business-like appproach to governance and economic management. 278 pages with extensive references. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Random House South Africa, 1998. Soft cover. Near Fine. Country of My Skull captures the complexity of the work of South Africa's Truth Commission in a uniquely personal narrative that is harrowing, evocative and illuminating. The author is a journalist and poet. 286 pages. Minor scuff to top edge of cover and about 9 pages ends. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Durban, South Africa: Institute of Black Research, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. A collection of primary documents that portrays the drama of an immigrant community's transplantation on the soil of another country in all its complex manifestations. The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. Reddish-brown boards with gilt lettering on face & spine. 690 pages. Clean & tight. Uncommon title

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2002. Paperback. Near Fine. A drama based on events inOyo in 1946 by the Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist - the recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature. Originally published in 1975. 14th Norton soft cover printing. 77 pages with author's notes. Slight corner wwear.

Fultus Corporation, 2005. 1st Edition . Trade Paperback. Near Fine +. First novel about conflict between acorrupt African dictator and an opposition activist African woman. The Uganda-born writer lives in Kitchener, Ontario. 473pp. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Slight curling to front covers.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University Of California Press, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. David Goodman, a journalist and activist who has witnessed South Africa's struggles since the darkest days of apartheid, chronicles the nation's historic transition to democracy. Says Desmond Tutu: 'A searingly honest book by someone who really knows his subject ... The message of this book applies just as easily to the United States, where the fault lines run very deep, too.' With black-and-white photographs by Paul Weinberg. 400 pages.

U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good+. (International Political Economy). An academic examination of the historic relationships between cotton production, the international cotton trade and poverty south of the Sahara. The Guelph, Ontario researcher / professor assesses various approaches to corporate social responsibility and nongovernmental policy advocacy in African resource exploitation. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 241 pages with appendices, extensive bibliography & index. Minor corner rubbing with a slight bump to one corner. Internals fine.

New York: Penguin Books, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good+. Second book and first novel by the highly-acclaimed, reclusive South-African born author, academic & translator, Nobel Prize winner and the first 2-time Booker Prize winner. 139pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Small amount of black cover rubbed off at bottom spine ends. SIGNED & dated (1984) at Toronto's Harbourfront on title page.

Casablanca, Morocco: Idéale. Paperback. Very Good -/No DJ Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Leo Sarkisian. Artwork (mostly portraiture) by Sarkisan - America artist, musician, musicologist, scholar and humanist who lived in and travelled the African continent Presented by the American Cultural Center. Text in English and French. Stapled , illustrated wraps. Brochure design and test by Floyd Wade. Unpaginated. 22 pages of color and B&W art and photographs. Some edge/corner/spine wear, soiling and rubbing. Pages clean, tight and unmarked.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005. First Printing . Trade Paperback. Near Fine +/No DJ Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Uncorrected Proofs. An account of the first descent of the Nile River by kayak and raft - a 3000 mile journey that adventurers Pasquale Scaturro & Gordon Brown undertook in 2004. Uncorrected Manuscript for Limited Distribution. 268pp. Very slight corner curling.

London: James Curry / Heinemann Inc., 1994. First Thus . Cloth. Near Fine +/Near Fine. The failure of development in Africa has sparked far-reaching economic reforms. But economic recovery not only calls for policy adjustments; it also requires the rehabilitation of decayed capital and new domestic investment in order to sustain recovery and finance growth. First published in 1992 by African Centre for Economic Policy Research. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. 210 pages with index. Very slight corner bump and slightest of corner wear. DJ has minor edge /corner wear.

East Lawerence Town, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield Press, 2000. Trade Paperback. Near Fine +. Baxter's third book about her life in Africa, set against the backdrop of the hardship that most Africans battle every day of their lives. 287pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New York / Germany : International Centre of Photography / Steidl Publishers, 2006. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A magnificent PHOTO catalogue from a 2006, New York exhibition of more than 250 photographs from more than 30 artists from across Africa. Black boards with silver lettering on spine. Due to size & weight, extra shipping will be required. Please contact us by email to determine an accurate postal cost to your region. Can be delivered / picked up locally in the Kitchener - Waterloo area.