By Hill Symon

	9.50 E

A balanced guide to religion, which analyses the cultural, social and political implications of religion globally. Religion is a term which is often used in the media and public life without any clarification. However, it is a word that encompasses hundreds of different beliefs. It is a loaded word that has a different meaning for each person.

By Huchu Tendai

	10.00 E

Vimbai is a hairdresser, the best in Mrs Khumalo’s salon, and she knows she is the queen on whom they all depend. Her situation is reversed when the good-looking, smooth-talking Dumisani joins them.

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By Interface: a journal for and about social movements

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Volume three, issue two of Interface, a peer-reviewed e-journal produced and refereed by social movement practitioners and engaged movement researchers, takes the special theme "Feminism, women’s movements and women in movement", with a dedicated section on feminist strategies for change.

By Singh Kavaljit

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The aim of this book is to encourage and stimulate a more informed debate on reforming the global finance. It examines recent developments and problems afflicting the global financial system. FREE TO DOWNLOAD FOR A LIMITED PERIOD!

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By Waterman Peter

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Almost 1000 pages of Peter Waterman’s Working Papers on labour and global movements. Peter Waterman (London 1936) is a veteran activist-researcher in and on labour, social movements, the old and new internationalisms.

By Van der Linden Marcel & Mohapatra Prabhu P. (Eds.)

	18.00 E

This volume brings together a set of essays that highlight some of the major transformations in the field of labour history today.

By Mlalazi Christopher

	10.00 E

"Mlalazi is an important author whose work should be found in all serious collections of contemporary African literature. In addition, here is a title to be added to collections designed to inform readers of contemporary life in Africa through fiction writing." The African Book Publishing Record

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By Githinji Peter Kuria

	2.00 E

As the world continues to face a growing energy crisis, biomass is being taunted as the future fuel solution.

It is not only a potential source of renewable energy, but also a source of livelihoods for over 3 billion people in the world.  Even though not acknowledged, it contributes immensely to the GDP of most developing nations. 

This is a potential for conflict in the future, but is there a solution?  An ancient practice promises to resolve key biomass energy problems of the future.

By Noorani A.G.

	7.00 E

A scathing indictment of the Sangh Parivar. Marshalling a wealth of factual and archival detail, eminent lawyer and political commentator A.G. Noorani puts the Sangh Parivar in the dock in his characteristically forthright and hard-hitting style.

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By Isomäki, Risto & Pettay, Esko

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Is it a good time to reduce the sulphur emissions from shipping? The authors take a look at what is now happening at the Arctic Ocean, and why the heating of the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean could be the most serious part of our whole planetary overheating problem.

By Athreya Venkatesh et. al

	7.00 E

Marx’s Capital for beginners. Seven leading Marxist scholars lay out the conceptual framework of Capital as well as investigate its various themes in essays written specially for this Reader.

By Raftopoulos Brian & Mlambo A. S. (Eds.)

	15.00 E

Becoming Zimbabwe is the first comprehensive history of Zimbabwe, spanning the years from 850 to 2008.

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By Kontula Anna

	9.00 E

Why do some women decide to sell sex by choice, or at least without being subject to any obvious coercion?

By Nicolas Walter ; David Goodway (ed)

	15.00 E

Nicolas Walter was the son of the neurologist, W. Grey Walter, and both his grandfathers had known Peter Kropotkin and Edward Carpenter. However, it was the twin jolts of Suez and the Hungarian Revolution while still a student, followed by participation in the resulting New Left and nuclear disarmament movement, that led him to anarchism himself. His personal history is recounted in two autobiographical pieces in this collection as well as the editor’s introduction.