The Zafarani Files

The Zafarani FilesThe intrigues of an old Cairo quarter: gossip, spells, betrayals, and busybodies in a parable about political and personal freedoms "Absurdist and bleakly comic"Robert Irwin, Times Literary Supplement An unknown observer is watching the residents of a small, closely knit neighborhood in Cairos old city, making notes. The college graduate, the street vendors, the political prisoner, the caf owner, the taxi driver, the beautiful green eyed young wife

John Michael Haynes and Larry Sun Fong

China and Sustainable Development in Latin America documents the social and environmental impacts of the China-led commodity boom in Latin America

Grass Roots and Glass Ceilings debunks the prevalent myth that academia is a setting where race is irrelevant

ductive future

regional and national disease control agencies and programmes

Each chapter focuses on a routine experience in which people collaborate to make sense of and coordinate an unscripted activity: organizing the coherence of the rules of a game

and parapsychology is making the case

he describes the spatiality of modernity on the basis of a close historical analysis of the practices of spectacle from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period

and gendered contexts

and examines how the afterlives of empire are shaping contemporary societies as evident in media discourse

An essential introduction to American economic history from 1929 to the present

The artifacts brought back from this expedition