South Africa: The Cordoned Heart

Politics & Social Sciences

Francis, Wilson

Social Sciences

W.W.Norton & Co

A project of the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southernstet Africa (whose activities, funded by the Carnegie Corp., included a conference in Cape Town in 1984), this collection of 136 pictures taken by 20 South African photographers poignantly documents the evils of apartheid. Wendy Schwegmann captures a black man dismantling his home in Mogopa as he prepares to be resettled by the government in his tribal ""homeland.'' Lesley Lawson shows a shabbily dressed black maid polishing a table in a lavish corporate conference room. Ben MacIennan records four black workers in their ``dormitory'' in front of tiers of concrete beds, which resemble bathtubs. The introduction and extensive commentaries by Wilson, a professor at the University of Cape Town, offer an impassioned, statistical account of the extent and horror of poverty in South Africa.

W.W.Norton

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Science & Math

Environment

Ladybird Books

-- Activities, experiments and projects give hands-on experience-- Precise instructions help put the theories into practice

Weather and Climate (Usborne Science & Experiments)

Children's Books

Science, Nature & How It Works

Usborne Publishing, Ltd.

The authors of this book, one an economist, the other a medical doctor and community health organizer, have drawn together a chilling report on the connection between apartheid and poverty.

Uprooting Poverty: The South African Challenge

Mamphela Ramphele

Politics & Government

David Philip, Publishers

<p>As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)</p>

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