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The Lively Science - Michael Agar - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Lively Science - Michael Agar - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Lively Science is Michael Agar''s accessible, idiosyncratic, often humorous, and sometimes controversial explication of his own polestar truth: " Research on humans in their social world by other humans is not a traditional science like the one created by Galileo and Newton ." However, if the social world is not a lab, neither is it a collection of random events. The book lays out a clear, straightforward path to carrying out the basic scientific tasks of forming questions and answering them to explore and account for that non-randomness. The author deploys myriad engaging examples drawn from a lifetime of applied and basic research to demonstrate how human science researchers can produce discoveries that are scientifically defensible and useful in the real world. Agar grounds his how-to guide in an approachable discussion of epistemology and draws on thinkers whose writings may be unfamiliar to many social scientists. He blends that work with new intellectual tools, such as complexity theory, disasters research, and conversational analysis. The result is an innovative and practical methodology that is true to the realities and surprises of research by and about humans, yet preserves scientific standards of falsifiability, empiricism, logic, and systematic presentation of results. This book represents the best of Michael Agar''s visionary work. With a new foreword by Michael Brown celebrating Agar''s enormous contribution to social science methodology, The Lively Science is for all researchers who seek to explore the full potential of a human social science.

DKK 412.00
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Paper Money of Congo - Jean Claude Martiny - Bog - Spink & Son Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Paper Money of Congo - Jean Claude Martiny - Bog - Spink & Son Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The book describes the history of all the treasury notes issued by the Congo Free State in 1896 and all the banknotes issued by the Bank of Belgian Congo from 1912 to 1952 and by the Bank of Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi until Congo’s independence in 1960\. Using unpublished archival documents from at home and abroad, all projects and actual issues are discussed in detail with the exception of the banknotes issued during the Second World War, since the Bank of Belgian Congo had relocated its activities to London and Kinshasa, and documents of that period appear to have been lost during the air raids on London.

DKK 1024.00
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The Congo in Flemish Literature - - Bog - Leuven University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Congo in Flemish Literature - - Bog - Leuven University Press - Plusbog.dk

First-ever anthology of Flemish Congo prose This book presents the first anthology of Flemish prose on the Congo, the former colony of Belgium, in English translation. Because of the Dutch language barrier, Flemish literature on the Congo has traditionally remained inaccessible to and thus neglected by international scholarship, as opposed to French or English prose on this part of the African continent. That this particular perspective has thus far remained underexposed, or even disregarded, is all the more regrettable in light of the fact that the vast majority of Belgians who went to work in the African colony came from Flanders. The Congo in Flemish Literature now represents a key step towards filling this lacuna by providing an overview of the different societal attitudes towards the colonial undertaking prevailing in Belgium during and after the colonial era, the way the relationship between Belgium and the Congo changed over time, subject to the zeitgeist and sociopolitical and economic developments, and the individual authors'' varying points of view with regard to the colonisation. Flemish Congo prose offers a fascinating glimpse into Belgium’s colonial past and legacy, primarily during the colonial era, but also at the time of its violent aftermath following Congolese independence on 30 June 1960, and well into the following decades.

DKK 307.00
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The Sceptical Optimist - Nicholas Agar - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Sceptical Optimist - Nicholas Agar - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many ''smart'' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet -- has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as ''radical optimism''. Radical optimists claim that accelerating technical progress will soon end poverty, disease, and ignorance, and improve our happiness and well-being. Agar disputes the claim that technological progress will automatically produce great improvements in subjective well-being. He argues that radical optimism ''assigns to technological progress an undeserved pre-eminence among all the goals pursued by our civilization''. Instead, Agar uses the most recent psychological studies about human perceptions of well-being to create a realistic model of the impact technology will have. Although he accepts that technological advance does produce benefits, he insists that these are significantly less than those proposed by the radical optimists, and aspects of such progress can also pose a threat to values such as social justice and our relationship with nature, while problems such as poverty cannot be understood in technological terms. He concludes by arguing that a more realistic assessment of the benefits that technological advance can bring will allow us to better manage its risks in future.

DKK 188.00
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Congo - David Van Reybrouck - Bog - Tiderne Skifter - Plusbog.dk

Congo - David Van Reybrouck - Bog - Tiderne Skifter - Plusbog.dk

En milepæl i den politiske og historiske reportage. Die Welt Forfatteren begynder sin levende beretning i 1850 erne og giver et uafrysteligt indblik i slavehandelen og gummiproduktionen i slutningen af 1800-tallet det belgiske koloniherredømme kampen for selvstændighed og Mobutus brutale diktatur og i årsagerne til de krige som har hærget landet fra 1996 til i dag de grusomste konflikter siden Anden Verdenskrig. David van Reybrouck er belgisk kulturhistoriker arkæolog og prisbelønnet forfatter. Congo Historien om Afrikas hjerte bygger på et unikt kildemateriale og på hans mange rejser i Centralafrika. De mange hundrede interviews han har lavet i Kinshasas slum og i bittesmå landsbyer såvel som blandt udvandrede afrikanere i Europa og Kina kaster nyt lys over en rig og uhyre kompleks historie. Pressen skrev: Beskriver på forbilledlig vis Congos seneste ca. 150 års historie & et standardværk Jyllands-Posten (seks stjerner) Har man lyst til at blive klogere på Congo kan jeg ikke forestille mig et bedre udgangspunkt end David van Reybroucks monumentale portrætbog Congo Politiken (seks hjerter) Bogen er spækket med detaljer nerve kant vid og ynde. Det er Congo uden filter. Weekendavisen Læs bogen! Og du bliver ikke bare klogere på Congo men på Afrika og hvis man læser særligt intenst godt bliver du også klogere på Europa. Velkomponeret velfortalt er den et væld af indsigt. - Information

DKK 222.00
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Congo as Fiction - - Bog - Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag - Plusbog.dk

Congo as Fiction - - Bog - Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag - Plusbog.dk

A single Congo does not exist - or is in any case fictitious. Yet the Democratic Republic of Congo has an extraordinarily vibrant art scene that attracts great interest from around the world. Nowhere else in Africa art production is as manifold in form, media, and materials used. For many years, Congolese artists have been exploring and reflecting upon the effects of globalised trade, colonialism, proselytisation, and virtual boundaries. As the works of artists such as Sammy Baloji or Sinzo Aanza demonstrate, these effects never before were more topical than today.For the first time, this book, which is published in conjunction with an exhibition at Zurich''s Museum Rietberg, features objects and photographs collected by the German anthropologist Hans Himmelheber during his journey to the Congo in 1938-39. The coloured masks, imposing figures, and richly decorated everyday objects bear witness to the period''s extraordinary creativity and innovativeness as well as of the collector''s own idea of Congo. They are juxtaposed with works by contemporary Congolese artists and complemented by essays that investigate the fiction of Congo both as an African and Western World imagination. Thus, the book links the past with the utopia of contemporary artistic production in central Africa.Published to accompany the exhibition Congo as Fiction: Art Worlds Between Past and Present at Museum Rietberg, Zurich, between 22 November 2019 and 15 March 2020.

DKK 439.00
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Postcards From Congo - - Bog - Arsenal Pulp Press - Plusbog.dk

Postcards From Congo - - Bog - Arsenal Pulp Press - Plusbog.dk

The Democratic Republic of Congo, the second-largest country in Africa by area, has a fractured and bloody history, variously undone by decades of colonialism, civil war, corruption, and totalitarian rule. The country has played a crucial role in the economic growth of the Global North, but in doing so, has suffered immensely. So many seminal advances in technology were possible only through the extraction of materials from Congo, from rubber to copper to uranium to coltan. In each case, the Congolese people paid a great price exacerbated by the weight of colonial exploitation and dictatorial rule. In this comprehensive graphic history, author and illustrator Edmund Trueman explores the fractious story of Congo. Through deft illustrations and storytelling, Congo''s history - not widely known to Western readers - comes vividly alive. We see how Congolese musicians have spread their language across Africa by creating some of the most popular music on the continent, and how Congolese women have spent decades sidestepping sexist legislation to become leaders in local business. From resistance against colonialism to the fight for independence and the self-determination to make a life in an almost stateless place, Postcards from Congo depicts how the Congolese people have resisted and survived in order to take control of their lives and the country they call home. Includes a foreword by historian Didier Gondola, Professor of African History and Africana Studies at Purdue University, Indianapolis.

DKK 182.00
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Congo Diary - Ernesto Che Guevara - Bog - Seven Stories Press,U.S. - Plusbog.dk

Congo Diary - Ernesto Che Guevara - Bog - Seven Stories Press,U.S. - Plusbog.dk

In April 1965, Che Guevara set out clandestinely from Havana to Congo to head a force of some 200 veteran Cuban soldiers to assist the African liberation movement against Belgian colonialists, four years after the assassination of the democratically elected socialist president of Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Because this diary deals with what Che admits was a ''failure,'' he examines every painful detail about what went wrong in order to draw constructive lessons for planned future guerrilla movements. Congo Diary gives us Che''s brutal honesty and his story-telling ability as he recounts this fascinating episode of guerrilla warfare unblinkingly and without sugar coating or jargon.

DKK 152.00
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Cold War in the Congo - Frank Villafana - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Cold War in the Congo - Frank Villafana - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

It is widely acknowledged that Congo became an East- West battlefield during the first half of the decade of the 1960s, yet the participation of Cuban exiles in the struggles is rarely noted. In this absorbing volume Villafana details the contribution made by Cuban exiles to the preservation of democracy in Congo. When Congo was given its independence by Belgium in 1960, most of its people believed their new government had been installed by the West and opposed it. Anti-colonial, anti-government Congolese patriots started fighting. Some were pro-communist, some anti-communist, and most didn''t know the difference. Many countries were involved on both sides of this conflict: Cuba, the Soviet Union, The People''s Republic of China, the United States (represented by military advisors, the CIA and Cuban exiles), Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, and several African nations. The Cold War made the involvement of some of these countries predictable, but not the Cuban involvement. Villafana explores reasons for Castro''s involvement in Congo. He considers whether Castro was operating with a master plan, of which Africa was a key. He discusses why Castro chose Che Guevara to head the ill-fated military expedition. He contemplates why the United States allowed Castro to freely export his revolution, and why it used Cuban exiles to prevent the mineral riches of Congo from falling into the hands of international communism. Villafana shows that CIA-sponsored Miami Cuban exiles were instrumental in thwarting Castro''s plans for Congo, which were believed to have included a confederacy with Tanzania and Congo (Brazzaville), to gain control of Central Africa and its vast resources.

DKK 581.00
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King Leopold's Congo and the "Scramble for Africa" - Michael A. Rutz - Bog - Hackett Publishing Co, Inc - Plusbog.dk

King Leopold's Congo and the "Scramble for Africa" - Michael A. Rutz - Bog - Hackett Publishing Co, Inc - Plusbog.dk

"King Leopold of Belgium''s exploits up the Congo River in the 1880s were central to the European partitioning of the African continent. The Congo Free State, Leopold''s private colony, was a unique political construct that opened the door to the savage exploitation of the Congo''s natural and human resources by international corporations. The resulting ''red rubber'' scandal—which laid bare a fundamental contradiction between the European propagation of free labor and ''civilization'' and colonial governments'' acceptance of violence and coercion for productivity''s sake—haunted all imperial powers in Africa. Featuring a clever introduction and judicious collection of documents, Michael Rutz''s book neatly captures the drama of one king''s quest to build an empire in Central Africa—a quest that began in the name of anti-slavery and free trade and ended in the brutal exploitation of human lives. This volume is an excellent starting point for anyone interested in the history of colonial rule in Africa ." —Jelmer Vos, University of Glasgow

DKK 587.00
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