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Bearing Witness
New expanded edition of a classic anthropology title that examines ethnicity as a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relations.
Raw Life, New Hope
The Cape Flats, a windswept, barren and sandy area which rings Cape Town, is home to more than a million people. Many live here in sprawling shack settlements. The post-apartheid state is attempting to eradicate such settlements by providing formal houses in planned residential estates. Raw Life, New Hope is a longitudinal study of the residents of one such shack settlement, The Park, who moved to new, 'formal' houses in The Village, at the turn of the millennium. It introduces readers to core social science topics and modes of theorising. Over 17 years the author has traced how ordinary people attempt to live in accord with their ideals of decency under almost impossible circumstances, and the effects of material changes in their lives after 1994, including the provision of housing. Photos, maps, anecdotes, recipes and philosophical reflections on subjects that arose during conversations elicit a sense of the everyday and of how people try to solve the problems of poverty
Global Taiwanese
Illuminating how the identities of Taiwanese diasporic subjects are contextually and historically shaped, this book advances a nuanced, complex, and differentiated understanding of globalization.
Cross-cultural Approaches to Adoption
This edited collection looks at diverse examples of child-rearing and adoption practices from across the globe, revealing some of the assumptions that lie beneath western childcare policy.
Saunders’ Field Guide to Gladioli of South Africa
The genus Gladiolus has fascinated plant collectors, taxonomists and the general public for centuries. Known for their spectacular flowers, these highly adapted and specialised plants occur throughout Africa, Madagascar, Europe and the Middle East. South Africa is home to more than half of the world’s Gladiolus species and the Western Cape is the heart of species diversity. Saunders’ Field Guide to Gladioli of South Africa is the first of its kind to offer a complete photographic record of the 166 species that occur in the region. Posthumously completed, this book is the culmination of the Saunders’ long search to find and photograph every known species of Gladiolus in South Africa. It...
Chilly Milly Moo
Milly Moo wants only one thing - to churn out the finest, loveliest, tastiest, creamiest milk. But there's a problem - she's far too hot. Milly Moo dreams of a freezing cold land and, as the temperature drops, something very exciting happens...
Flat Squirrel
Talking Animals Whacky stunts Cross the road or die trying Wind in the Willows meets Over The Hedge A cautionary tale of meanies and team players, junk food and donuts and finding your real friends, for kids, adults and grown-ups who never grew up. A funny action and adventure animal book for our times. Somewhere in New England, when loggers cut down the beech trees of Squirrel Wood, our brave flying squirrel Duggan goes on a quest to find nuts. Winter's coming and those stores won't fill themselves. Dodging big trucks to cross the highway, he meets a bunch of animals arguing over food in their hut. Disabled groundhog Lilian, beavers Mr and Mrs Kennedy and Scurvy the magpie, give Duggan a fr...
Condemned to Repeat?
Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering. In Condemned to Repeat?, Terry examines the side-effects of intervention by aid organizations and points out the need to acknowledge the political consequences of the choice to give aid. The author makes the controversial claim that aid agencies act as though the initial decision to supply aid satisfies any need for ethical discussion and are often blind to the moral quandaries of aid. Terry focuses on four historically relevant cases: Rwandan camps in Zaire, Afghan...
Ethical Quandaries in Social Research
"Ethical quandries in social research opens up a space of frank discussion about the often unsettling, messy realities of ethical decision-making in the thick of social research. They expose tensions within professional codes of ethics, as well as a range of dilemmas that arise when personal ethical convictions jostle with disciplinary and institutional ethical imperatives."--Back cover.
Hyde and Squeak
Would YOU dare to eat a beastly-looking jelly? Squeak the mouse just can't resist a taste . . . Slurp! Burp! Grunt! Growl! Uh-oh! Squeak has turned into Hyde – a massive, hungry monster mouse! Look out! Hyde and Squeak is a hilarious comic-book twist on the classic tale of Jekyll and Hyde. Created by author-illustrator Fiona Ross (Ballet Cat, Chilly Milly Moo), this wonderfully disgusting picture book will appeal to fans of The Dinosaur that Pooped the Bed.
