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

Le soleil du matin brille dans un ciel limpide. Depuis la terrasse, j'ai vue sur les minarets et les dômes. J'observe un corbeau perché à l'une des extrémités de la corde à linge. Mon regard dérive vers le toit mitoyen et je ravale ma salive. L'envie me prend d'aller voir Oumm Zaki, qui ne manque jamais de m'offrir une sucrerie. Je franchis le muret séparant les deux terrasses et me dirige vers une fenêtre qui donne sur la petite cour intérieure. Là, en passant la tête par un carreau cassé, je découvre en contrebas Oumm Zaki, entièrement nue. Assise sur un canapé, elle démêle lentement ses cheveux en s'abandonnant aux rayons du soleil, entièrement nue... Vision étrange, éblouissante que ce corps plantureux ainsi offert au regard. Je l'appelle : - Téza ! Elle sursaute, relève la tête et, me voyant, s'écrie en riant : - Petit garnement ! ... descends...

Fountain and Tomb: Hakayat Haretna

naguib-mahfouz

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

An expansion of the magic rules from Shadowrun: Designing spells, using and forming magical groups, and the Enchanting of items. The Grimoire covers Initiates, Insect totems and Toxic shamans, adventuring on the metaplanes, Free Spirits, Magical Adepts, Alchemy, the creation of specialized types of shamans and mages, and presents a complete section on new spells as well as expansion of old ones.

Grimoire: Shadowrun Sourcebook: The Manual of Practical Thaumaturgy 14th, 2050

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Contemporary Books

Fantasy

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

Seligsen, Mitchell A. & Passe-Smith, John T.

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

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