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  • A place we used to call home
    Shiraz Nomad
    Born in southern Iran, Shiraz Nomad witnessed first-hand the upheaval of the 1979 Revolution and the violent repression that followed. His youth was marked by imprisonment, torture, and the constant struggle to survive in a regime determined to silence dissent. Forced into exile, he rebuilt his life in England, carrying with him the memories of a homeland scarred by loss yet ri...
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    19,58 €

  • The Struggle has started
    Shiraz Durrani
    This is the second book published by Vita Books on Makhan Singh (1913-1973). The first one was Makhan Singh, A Revolutionary Trade Unionist published in 2015. That a second book is considered necessary is an indication that the full history and contribution of Makhan Singh to the working class struggles in India and Kenya still need more publications to be written and placed in...
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    33,85 €

  • Mikro- und konventionelle Bankgeschäfte in China
    Ahmad Shiraz
    Dieses Buch befasst sich mit der finanziellen und sozialen Leistung von Mikrofinanzinstituten. Grundlage dieses Buches ist eine Studie, die die finanzielle und soziale Leistung von derzeit in China tätigen MFI bewertet und analysiert. Es verglich die finanzielle Leistung von MFIs in Bezug auf Finanzkennzahlen mit der finanziellen Leistung konventioneller Banken als Benchmark, u...
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    31,83 €

  • Micro-banques et banques conventionnelles en Chine
    Ahmad Shiraz
    Ce livre est écrit dans le domaine des performances financières et sociales des institutions microfinancières. La base de ce livre est une recherche qui évalue et analyse les performances financières et sociales des IMF opérant actuellement en Chine. Il compare les performances financières des IMF en termes de ratios financiers avec les performances financières des banques conv...
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    31,77 €

  • Micro e bancos convencionais na China
    Ahmad Shiraz
    Este livro é escrito no domínio do desempenho financeiro e social das instituições microfinanceiras. A base deste livro é uma investigação que avalia e analisa o desempenho financeiro e social das IMF que operam atualmente na China. Comparou o desempenho financeiro das IMF em termos de rácios financeiros com o desempenho financeiro dos bancos convencionais como referência, a fi...
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    31,77 €

  • Banche micro e convenzionali in Cina
    Ahmad Shiraz
    Questo libro è stato scritto nel campo della performance finanziaria e sociale delle microistituzioni finanziarie. La base di questo libro è una ricerca che valuta e analizza la performance finanziaria e sociale delle MFI attualmente operanti in Cina. Il libro confronta la performance finanziaria delle MFI in termini di indici finanziari con la performance finanziaria delle ban...
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    31,71 €

  • Bankowość mikro i konwencjonalna w Chinach
    Ahmad Shiraz
    Niniejsza książka została napisana w dziedzinie wyników finansowych i społecznych instytucji mikrofinansowych. Podstawą tej książki jest badanie, które ocenia i analizuje wyniki finansowe i społeczne MIF działających obecnie w Chinach. Porównano wyniki finansowe MIF pod względem wskaźników finansowych wraz z wynikami finansowymi konwencjonalnych banków jako punktem odniesienia,...
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    31,71 €

  • Trade Union Studies in the UK and Kenya
    Nigel Flanagan / Shiraz Durrani
    Nigel Flanagan brings a distinct perspective to the problems of trade union organising. In this account he draws on his own experiences as an activist, shop steward, strike organiser and working for the global union UNI. The book has be very well received and after six impressions this revised and enlarged edition is also being published in a Kenyan version with our partners, V...
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    41,13 €

  • A Struggle of sixty-two days
    Shiraz Durrani
    The Annual General Meeting of the Labour Trade Union of Kenya in Sept 1936 fixed Oct 1936 for implementation of the eight-hour day .. In December 1936, the Union gave notices to employers that all wages should be increased by 25% from April 1937. The strike began on 1 April, 1937. It was a complete strike. A strike-committee was formed, picketing was organised, a free kitchen w...
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    29,69 €

  • Guerrilla Incursions into the Capitalist Mindset
    Shiraz Durrani
    Guerrilla Incursions into the Capitalist Mindset is an unprecedented collection of over 60 essays, interviews, petitions and letters as well as poems and short stories flowing from the pen of Shiraz Durrani. It is a treasure trove of truths that has so far been obscured by the information vacuum created by capitalism and its sister, imperialism. By reprinting out-of-print mater...
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    67,09 €

  • When My Mind Speaks
    Shamra Shiraz
    ’When My Mind Speaks’ is a collection of poems written by a seventeen-year-old high school teenager who has always found solace in words. These poems remain a reflection of the emotions and experiences she has had during her early teen years. It is a time of confusion and anxiety, of introspection. It is a period that often brings feelings of loneliness, sadness, and melancholy...
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    17,54 €

  • Two Paths Ahead
    Shiraz Durrani
    The struggle between socialism and capitalism in Kenya has been long, bitter and violent. Capitalism won with the active support of USA and UK governments at the time of independence in 1963. Yet the original (1960) Kenya African National Union (KANU) Party was in favour of socialism. It was Presidents Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Arap Moi who used violence to suppress those advoca...
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    41,12 €

  • Key Points in the History of Kenya,1885-1990
    Shiraz Durrani
    History never dies. It is embedded in people’s memories when books are burnt and children are taught false histories, imagined by false historians from near and far - says the author in this book. This is the context in which Key Points in the History of Kenya, 1885-1990 is published. This, the 4th in the Kenya Resists Series from Vita Books, brings together presentation points...
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    49,91 €

  • Pio Gama Pinto
    Shiraz Durrani
    Pio Gama Pinto was born in Kenya on March 31, 1927. He was assassinated in Nairobi on February 24, 1965. In his short life, he became a symbol of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles in Kenya and India. He was actively involved in Goa's struggle against Portuguese colonialism and in Mau Mau during Kenya's war of independence. For this, he was detained by the Bri...
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    62,11 €

  • People’s Resistance to Colonialism and Imperialism in Kenya
    Shiraz Durrani
    This book looks at the third pillar of resistance to British colonialism – people’s resistance, the others being Mau Mau and radical trade union movement. It brings together several aspects of people’s resistance to colonialism and imperialism – before and after independence and includes resistance by nationalities, women, students, peasants and workers in what can only be desc...
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    40,76 €

  • Trade Unions in Kenya’s War of Independence
    Shiraz Durrani
    It is due to the success of the trade union movement in the national liberation movement that the colonial government suppressed prominent trade unions and attacked TU leaders like Makhan Singh, Fred Kubai, Pio Gama Pinto and Bildad Kaggia. It also passed on colonial laws to the independent Kenya government so as to ensure that future trade unions were forced to take the non-ra...
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    40,79 €

  • Mau Mau the Revolutionary, Anti-Imperialist Force from Kenya
    Shiraz Durrani
    Very few countries hide or obscure the significance of their most important historical achievements. Kenya has managed to do so without any regrets or even a thought about the implication of such a major oversight in connection with Mau Mau Resistance. The reason for this underplay is not difficult to understand. The government that came to power at independence was not only no...
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    37,96 €

  • Kenya’s War of Independence
    Shiraz Durrani
    Kenya's War of Independence restores Kenya’s stolen history to its rightful place, stripped of colonial interpretations. In this expanded and revised version of his 1986 booklet, Kimaathi, Mau Mau's First Prime Minister of Kenya, Durrani covers Mau Mau’s resistance to colonialism and neo-colonialism and reflects on its ideology, organisation and achievements. He sees Ma...
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    61,84 €

  • Shi’i Islam in Iranian Cinema Religion and Spirituality in Film
    Nacim Pak-Shiraz
    In recent years there has been a remarkable surge in Iranian films expressing contentious issues which would otherwise be very difficult to discuss publicly inside the Islamic Republic of Iran - such as the role of clergy in Iranian society. Nacim Pak-Shiraz here highlights how many Iranian film directors concern themselves with the content of the religious and historical narra...
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    54,95 €

  • The Collected Ghazals of Hafiz - Volume 2
    Shams-ud-Din Muhammad Hafiz Shiraz / Jamiluddin Morris Zahuri
    This is not a scholarly tome, but neither is it a free, modern expression of mystical half-truths. Translated by a practising poet in the Sufi tradition, along with a scholarly-minded lover of Hafiz from Shiraz, it is as true to the original texts that are known as is possible, whilst still being readable English poetry. The original Farsi and a transliteration are included. Th...
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    23,10 €

  • Dancing with Shadows
    Shiraz Pradhan
    Scientific determinism, Tarot cards, Cinema, Music, Love, and Quantum Physics. The narrator negotiates love, murder, and war in this captivating philosophical journey. Pradhan is exceptional in showing the narrator's holistic approach to understanding. Quantum physics and love. A united theory of everything? It is an idealistic adolescent goal, and this is what makes Dancin...
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    16,63 €

  • Islam in the School Curriculum
    Shiraz Thobani
    Islam in the School Curriculum explores the conceptualisation of school-based Islam on two levels: as a symbolic category in English religious education as a consequence of policy shifts, and as pedagogic discourse at the local community level in state and Muslim schools. Using recontextualisation theory, the author examines the relations between educational governance, social ...
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    66,61 €

  • Defenders of the Scroll
    Shiraz
    A teenage boy. A dark wizard. A mystic scroll. And the fate of a world hangs in the balance... When Alex 'the Axeman' Logan is pulled from his world to help a young princess, named Dara, save her kingdom from the Shadow Lord, he thinks there has been a mistake. He’s a teen guitar player close to failing 11th grade, not some defender of the realm. All he has are some school book...
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    13,14 €

  • Information and liberation
    Shiraz Durrani
    Information and Liberation is a retrospective collection of Shiraz Durrani’s articles and conference papers on the politics of information. The book documents the struggle for progressive and relevant information policies and practices over a period of 25 years in Kenya, Britain, and other countries. The book records also the vision, struggles and achievements of many progressi...
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    64,67 €

  • Language in the Bilingual Family
    Shiraz Nerenberg
    Among immigrant communities in the United States, the shift from heritage language dominance to bilingualism to English monolingualism is a well established phenomenon. While a number of influences outside the home are known to play an important role in this process, factors inside the home are inarguably influential but largely mysterious. This book sheds light on this area th...
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    72,83 €

  • Never Be Silent
    Shiraz Durrani
    “We will never be silent until we get land to cultivate and freedom in this country of ours” …so sang Mau Mau activists. The struggle for independence in Kenya was waged at many levels. Never be Silent explores how this struggle was reflected in the communications field. It looks at publishing activities of the main contending forces and explores internal contradictions within ...
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    58,67 €

  • The Blueprint for My Girls
    Yasmin Shiraz
    Have you ever wished that someone had told you ahead of time how a problem could be avoided?Do you feel like no one understands where you’re coming from?Now there’s a blueprint that can offer you comfort, motivation, and real solutions.When Yasmin Shiraz launched Mad Rhythms, a hip-hop magazine aimed at college students, she visited youth organizations and colleges across the c...
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    14,53 €