These translations of 45 Wolof folk-tales are organized according to their thematic patterns. The stories reveal much about the Wolof people's relationship with their environment, their beliefs about causality, and their social values, morality and customs.

Folktales from the Gambia: Wolof Fictional Narratives (English and Wolof Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Magel, Emil A.

Mythology & Folk Tales

Lynne Rienner

A multi-layered narrative comprising a series of interwoven short stories and poetic texts which can be read within continental Africa, the African Diaspora and beyond. Tadjo imagines an African society on the brink of total collapse yet there is no doubt that the story resonates in unsettling ways with recent political and social unrest in Côte d’Ivoire. This is a narrative of devastating ideographic power from one of the most important voices in African writing today.

The Blind Kingdom

Véronique Tadjo

United States

Afro-Marxist Regimes: Ideology and Public Policy

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

A study of popular movements and dissent in Iranian history that aims to shed new light on the populist metamorphosis of Iranian society in the post-1953 period and on the populist subculture of the 1960s and 1970s.

From Zarathustra to Khomeini: Populism and Dissent in Iran

History

Dorraj, Manochehr

Middle East

"Understanding Contemporary Africa" is a multidisciplinary book that can be used as a core text in "Introduction to Africa" courses and also as a supplemental reader in various discipline-oriented courses. The authors concentrate on the crucial issues facing Africa in the 1990s: there is a thorough treatment not only of politics, economics, and history, but also of women and development, the family, population and urbanization, the environment, religion, and literature. Each topic is covered in depth and on the basis of the latest available scholarship. Showing how Africa's past has shaped its present and examining the major forces now shaping the Africa of the next century, "Understanding Contemporary Africa" focuses on the themes most vital to an awareness of the African experience in all of its diversity and complexity.

Understanding Contemporary Africa

Africa

Encyclopedia of the European Union

Dinan, Demond [Ed]

Reference

Development and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Global Inequality

Business & Money

Mitchell A. & Passe-Smith John T. Seligsen

Economics

Ever Closer Union clearly and engagingly introduces the complexities of European integration. The 4th edition is fully revised and updated to take account of major changes in the EU, including full coverage of the impact of the Lisbon Treaty.

Ever Closer Union: An Introduction to European Integration, 4th Edition

Dinan, Desmond

Democratic Reform in Japan: Assessing the Impact (A Text-in-Time Edition)

Sherry L. Martin

Nubian Women of West Aswan: Negotiating Tradition and Change

During a recent trip to visit friends in the village of West Aswan, cultural anthropologist Jennings realized how dated her 1995 The Nubians of West Aswan: Village Women in the Midst of Change had become. Here she updates her ethnographic study to incorporate cultural changes relating to the growth in both population and size of the town, the new bridge across the Nile and resulting flood of tourists, new styles in clothing and dwellings, and new attitudes. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jennings, Anne M.

Anthropology

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