Released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the end of apartheid, this is an updated edition of a best-selling work of political analysis. Patrick Bond, a former adviser to the ANC, investigates how groups such as the ANC went from being a force of liberation to a vehicle now perceived as serv[...]
Despite the rhetoric, the people of Sub-Saharan Africa have become poorer. From Tony Blair's Africa Commission, the G7 finance ministers' debt relief, the Live 8 concerts, the Make Poverty History campaign and the G8 Gleneagles promises, to the United Nations 2005 summit and the Hong Kong WTO meetin[...]
In 1994, the first non-racial elections in South Africa brought Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress to office; elections since have confirmed the ANC's hold, both popular and legitimate, on power. Yet, at the same time, South Africa has one of the highest rates of protest and dissent in[...]
These two volumes look at Operation "Market Garden", the allied airborne assault on the Netherlands in September 1944. They provide hundreds of then and now comparison photographs, many published for the first time.[...]
Alkan: lonely 19th century genius, virtuoso pianist and also composer of some of the most difficult and disturbingly powerful piano music. This edition, in two parts, deals first with the man, and second with his music.[...]
The students studying valuation as a part of their Real Estate Management degree have to calculate the rating yield of properties they value. However, since the long history of this law dates back to 1601 it's complicated and can be difficult to understand. This textbook deals with this complex aspe[...]