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  • ARCHITECTURE FOR THE POOR
    FATHY, HASSAN
    This volume describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia, and such traditional Egyptian architectural designs as enclosed courtyards and vaulted roofing, Fathy worked with the villagers ...
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    42,75 €

  • ARMENIA AND KARABAGH. THE STRUGGLE FOR UNITY
    WALKER, CHRISTOPHER J. (ED)
    The focus of this book is an issue crucial to Armenian identity - the disrupted enclave of mountainous(Nagorno) Karabagh in neighbouring Azerbaijan. For centuries a centre of Armenian culture and intellectual life and with an Armenian majority, Karabagh or Artsakh has consistently been denied an Armenian identity by successive Russian, British and Azeri rulers. Since 1920 Armen...
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    45,53 €

  • YORUBA GURUS
    FALOLA, TOYIN
    YORUBA GURUS ...
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    28,85 €

  • WHY IS THIS A QUESTION?
    JONES, PAUL ANTHONY
    1.1 01.1 10000000000000000 ...
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    14,25 €

  • HOW TO STAND UP TO A DICTATOR
    RESSA, MARIA
    How to Stand Up to a Dictator is confronting, even terrifying - but feels vital... This book lays bare how big tech companies are allowing democracy to be eroded through the dissemination of disinformation, and the devastating effects it can have on a nation...Ressa spends her days on bail awaiting her next court hearing. The rest of us should be watching with bated breath. In ...
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    16,00 €

  • EDIBLE ECONOMICS
    CHANG, HA-JOON
    For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland and unhealthy - like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines contributes to a more interesting and balanced diet, so too is it essential we listen to a variety of e...
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    14,25 €

  • FIRE AND FLOOD
    LINDEN, EUGENE
    The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty yearsIn 1979, President Jimmy Carter was presented with the findings of scientists who had been investigating whether human activities might change the climate in harmful ways. "A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too ...
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    15,50 €

  • HOW TO RAISE AN ANTIRACIST
    KENDI, IBRAM X.
    How do kids think about race? How are they affected by it? At what age should we talk to them about racism? What is the best way to do that? How can we raise our children to be antiracist?In this inspiring and deeply personal investigation, Ibram X. Kendi explains how to safeguard our children from racism and how we can all participate in fostering a new generation of antiracis...
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    15,75 €

  • FROM KHARTOUM TO JERUSALEM
    MAIRS, RACHEL
    In 2014, a collection of papers was found on eBay: a scrapbook, inside which was written 'Testimonial Book of Dragoman Solomon N. Negima'. The letters pasted into the testimonial book bear recommendations of Negima's services as dragoman – a combination of tourist guide and interpreter – in the Holy Land, from travellers of different nationalities, social classes, religions, ge...
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    43,50 €

  • A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Carlotte Brontë to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) si...
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    16,50 €

  • ¡MEXICO, LA PATRIA!
    RANKIN, MONICA A.
    During the 1930s Mexico was undergoing a healing process after three decades of revolutionary turmoil and reform. In this climate, the coming of World War II became a major turning point in the legacy of the Mexican Revolution, offering the country a unique opportunity to unite against a common external enemy. The war also thrust the nation into an international forum as German...
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    30,00 €

  • POLITICS AND VOLUNTEERING IN JAPAN
    HADDAD, MARY ALICE
    POLITICS AND VOLUNTEERING IN JAPAN ...
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    75,84 €