Product Description: One day as Sophie put a puzzle together with her father, she asked, Daddy, what if you were a puzzle? Then Sophie laughed at her silly question.Daddy thought about Sophie's question, and this is what he said . . .

Product Description: Is Botswana still 'an African miracle'? Thanks to diamonds the country's growth rate was the highest in the world into the 1990s, and regular parliamentary elections judged free on polling day have been held since 1965. However a duopoly of presidentialism and ruling party preponderance has stimulated arrogance, complacency and corruption among the country's rulers...read more

Product Description: In many African countries, the possibilities for democratisation are being strongly opposed by authoritarian and corrupt tendencies from within inherited institutions and new ruling elites. This volume interrogates the structures of social change, civil society, the working classes and ruling and competing elites in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa...read more

Product Description: This book critically examines the realities of liberal democracy; its elitism and non-accountability; and its inequalities and injustices. Participatory systems and movements, whether in Athens, seventeenth and nineteenth century England, or South Africa 1970-1990, are more effective in satisfying the democratic aspirations of the people and in curtailing ambitious elites, than what is passed off now as 'democracy'...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Anthropologist Kenneth Good went to the rain forests of the Amazon to study the Yanomami. He found more than one of the few remaining peoples untouched by modern civilization. During more than a decade of observation, Good found himself accepted, indeed virtually adopted, by the tribe and eventually fell in love with a young Yanomami woman...read more

Product Description: **AUTHOR - with David Chanoff*** A fascinating and unusual love story. When anthropologist Kenneth Good began his work with the Yanomama Indians he planned to stay for fifteen months: twe