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      • Highlights for Children

        Highlights for Children is a multi-media brand that has nurtured children for more than 70 years. Our books and digital products - puzzles, trade and educational - are devoted to helping children around the world become their best selves.

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      • Chihab Editions

        Created in 1989 by Azeddine GUERFI, operating in the field of publishing and distribution of books. It has 1500 titles in extracurricular, university, professional training, literature, history, children's books and art-books.

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      • Travel & holiday guides
        July 2011

        Cameroon

        by Ben West

        With ancient chiefdoms tucked between terraced fields and volcanic mountains, Mount Cameroon – Africa's highest peak, the impressive Waza National Park with its herds of elephants, and the coast's sleepy palm-fringed beaches, Cameroon has no shortage of attractions, yet it somehow fails to be a tourist haunt. The only full-length, English-language guide, this book contains essential information on nature, culture and staying healthy plus practical details like getting around and accommodation options in the city and countryside. It includes details of wildlife and bird sites, ancient tribal kingdoms, colourful trading towns, 'pygmy' hunting camps and even where to see the endangered lowland gorilla._x000D_ _x000D_

      • January 2014

        The Shaping of South African Society, 1652–1840.

        by Edited by Richard Elphick, edited by Hermann Giliomee

        History is a powerful aid to the understanding of the present, and those who are concerned with the escalating crisis in South Africa will find this an invaluable source book. It is the only book devoted to the first 200 years of that nation’s history based on recent research.This is the story of the evolution of a society in which race became the dominant characteristic, the primary determinant of status, wealth, and power. Cultural chauvinism of the first European colonists – primarily the Dutch – merged with economic and demographic developments to create a society in which whites relegated all blacks – free blacks, Africans, imported slaves – to a systematic pattern of subordination and oppression that foreshadowed the apartheid of the twentieth century. From the beginning of the nineteenth century the new empire-builders, the British, reinforced the racial order. In the next century and a half the industrialized South Africa would become firmly integrated into the world economy.Published originally in South Africa in 1979 and updated and expanded now, a decade later, this book by twelve South African, British, Canadian, Dutch, and American scholars is the most comprehensive history of the early years of that troubled nation. The authors put South Africa in the comparative context of other colonial systems. Their social, political, and economic history is rich with empirical data and rests on a solid base of archival research. The story they tell is a complex drama of a racial structure that has resisted hostile impulses from without and rebellion from within.

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