C. Davis

D. Johnson

This volume presents new research and critical debates in African book history, and brings together a range of disciplinary perspectives by leading scholars in the subject. It includes case studies from across Africa, ranging from third-century manuscript traditions to twenty-first century internet communications.

Critical Debates

The Book in Africa

This book examines ethical problems raised by a number of key twentieth-century theoretical and fictional texts by authors such as Levinas, Sartre, Beauvoir, Yourcenar, Duras and Genet. It argues that even texts which apparently espouse ethical positions based on respect for and responsibility towards others, frequently depict conflict as an insurmountable aspect of human relations. This is reflected at an aesthetic level, as these texts both describe the struggle for supremacy and replicate it in their relation to their readers.

Killing the Other

Ethical Issues in Twentieth Century French Fiction

In this new epic fantasy novel, death is just the beginning for Reese, and he is a man struggling to make sense of it all. Instead of the pearly white gates, upon arrival, Reese is met with a pristine modern city in another dimension loaded with wonderful technologies, billions of souls and thousands of colossal white skyscrapers. A formidable, massive wall is the only thing protecting the city from countless ferocious prehistoric beasts, and hoards of ghoulish creatures, known as Lost Souls. Watch the trailer at battlefortheafterlifesaga.com On the eve of a perilous cross-country race, war hangs in the balance. Armed with deadly weapons and their enhanced physical abilities, like strength, vision and quickness--the most gifted warriors, in the Afterlife, are pitted against each other. The first to either destroy their opponents, or reach a distant ancient temple outside the city walls, will win an unimaginable power. Reese must unlock the mysterious circumstances of his unusual arrival in the Afterlife, and do everything he can to stop the forces of evil from winning the race and enslaving everyone in the Afterlife.

Battle for the Afterlife Saga, Blue Courage

Pirates, enchanted mirrors, mermaids, evil villains, and triumphant heroes, there is certainly a tale for everyone. What is so enticing about short stories? Perhaps it is the idea of a simple sketch going from a faint image to being completely painted by our imaginations. Not only this but with any story we create our own characters, voicing, backdrops, plot-twists, and fears, or hopes. What lies between these few pages is a glimpse of something that for everyone will be completely unique unto themselves. I as the writer would like to challenge you to look for something different that makes each story not mine, but your own. Where your imagination stops no one can tell, and through whatever medium you choose to indulge it, enjoy. -C. Davis

The Grim Finish

University of Oxford

Philosophy and Fiction

Michael Tournier

Why do the dead return? Do they remain part of the world of the living? This book examines these questions as they emerge in areas as diverse as film, Holocaust testimony, and the works of Jacques Derrida, Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. The book suggests it may be as difficult for the living to get rid of the dead as it is to live without them.

Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and the Return of the Dead

Haunted Subjects

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A Tiny Book: Progressive Overload

B. Grünbaum

F.A. Sherk

Geometry has been defined as that part of mathematics which makes appeal to the sense of sight; but this definition is thrown in doubt by the existence of great geometers who were blind or nearly so, such as Leonhard Euler. Sometimes it seems that geometric methods in analysis, so-called, consist in having recourse to notions outside those apparently relevant, so that geometry must be the joining of unlike strands; but then what shall we say of the importance of axiomatic programmes in geometry, where reference to notions outside a restricted reper tory is banned? Whatever its definition, geometry clearly has been more than the sum of its results, more than the consequences of some few axiom sets. It has been a major current in mathematics, with a distinctive approach and a distinc ti v e spirit. A current, furthermore, which has not been constant. In the 1930s, after a period of pervasive prominence, it appeared to be in decline, even passe. These same years were those in which H. S. M. Coxeter was beginning his scientific work. Undeterred by the unfashionability of geometry, Coxeter pursued it with devotion and inspiration. By the 1950s he appeared to the broader mathematical world as a consummate practitioner of a peculiar, out-of-the-way art. Today there is no longer anything that out-of-the-way about it. Coxeter has contributed to, exemplified, we could almost say presided over an unanticipated and dra matic revival of geometry.

The Coxeter Festschrift

The Geometric Vein

Mega Cause I was one of the largest in a recent surge of trials in Argentina for human rights violations committed during the dictatorship of 1976-1983. This study analyzes Mega Cause I within a post-transitional justice framework, examining the role played by the state and human rights organizations and the trial's successes and difficulties.

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