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African Journal of AIDS Research
Item type: JournalsAfrican Journal of AIDS Research (AJAR) is a peer-reviewed research journal publishing papers that make an original contribution to the understanding of social dimensions of HIV/AIDS in African contexts. -
Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Item type: JournalsPublishes papers that contribute to improving the mental health of children and adolescents, especially those in Africa. It covers subjects such as epidemiology, mental health prevention and promotion, psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, policy and risk behaviour. -
Waters and Oceans Worldwide (WOW)
Item type: DatabasesWaters and Oceans Worldwide (WOW) offers comprehensive information for researchers specialising in all aspects of water research. The database collection has two million records and wide international coverage. Prominent themes covered include water supply, water treatment, water quality, sanitation, health, irrigation, drainage, groundwater and hydrology, habitat and ecology management, environmental impacts, oceanography, marine geology, pollution, coastal and estuarine studies, climatology and climate change, hydroelectric power, dam construction and related civil and water engineering issues, desalination, mining, and much more. -
Doctors for Tomorrow: Family Medicine in South Africa
Item type: Books • Author: Jannie Hugo & Lucie AllanThe changes taking place within family medicine in South Africa today affect the provision of health care in both public and private sectors. -
Groupers of the World: A Field and Market Guide
Item type: Books • Author: Matthew T Craig • Yvonne J Sadovy de Mitcheson • Phillip C HeemstraGroupers of the World is a detailed but easy-to-use guide to all of the more than 160 recognised species of these mostly large, colourful, tropical reef fishes, also known as rockcod. Groupers of the World: a Field and Market Guide is an indispensable publication for fisheries scientists and managers, as well as for divers, anglers and those with an interest in reef fishes in general. -
South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape
Item type: Books • Author: Edited by Laurence WrightSouth Africa's Education Crisis casts light on the context and causes of the education crisis in the Eastern Cape, as well as drawing together original research, commentary and analysis in language education topics by teacher educators from Rhodes University's Institute for the Study of English in Africa and colleagues elsewhere, all of whom have been involved in the in-service education and development of teachers for many years. Although the focus is on the Eastern Cape, many of the issues considered are common to education in rural areas throughout southern Africa and this book will prove useful to educational researchers, education managers, teachers and teacher educators elsewhere in South Africa and beyond. -
Constitutional Court Review
Item type: JournalsThe Constitutional Court Review (CCR) is an international journal of record that tracks the work of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. The long essays, replies, articles and case comments use recent decisions to navigate more general currents in the Court’s jurisprudence. The Journal follows a strict double-anonymized, peer-reviewed editorial process. The CCR invites contributions from outstanding scholars but also considers unsolicited submissions that fit with the aims and scope of the Journal. It is published annually. Articles are published Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY). -
Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread: Mary Pocock's record of a journey with Dorothea Bleek across Angola in 1925
Item type: Books • Author: Tony Dold and Jean Kelly (Editors)Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread: Mary Pocock's record of a journey with Dorothea Bleek across Angola in 1925 presents the record of a remarkable overland journey documented by the botanist Mary Agard Pocock and illustrated, in colour, with her photographs, sketches and paintings of southern Angola, its people and its plants. The purpose of the six-month-long expedition, by boat, on foot and by machila, was primarily for the renowned ethnologist Dorothea Bleek to collect ethnographic information of the last remaining Bushmen of the region. Besides her role as aide-de-camp, Mary Pocock’s intention was to study the flora. She collected almost 1000 plant specimens from this virtually unexplored region, several of which proved to be new to science. -
Wrecking Ball: Why permanent technological unemployment, a predictable pandemic and other wicked problems will end South Africa’s experiment in inclusive democracy
Item type: Books • Author: Stu WoolmanWrecking Ball explores, in an unprecedented manner, a decalogue of wicked problems that confronts humanity: Nuclear proliferation, climate change, pandemics, permanent technological unemployment, Orwellian public and private surveillance, social media that distorts reality, cyberwarfare, the fragmentation of democracies, the inability of nations to cabin private power, the failure of multinational institutions to promote collaboration and the deepening of autocratic rule in countries that have never known anything but extractive institutions. Collectively, or even severally, these wicked problems constitute crises that could end civilisation. -
The Selfless Constitution: Experimentalism and Flourishing as Foundations of South Africa’s Basic Law
Item type: Books • Author: Stu WoolmanDo you possess ‘freedom’—the will to do as you choose—as an individual, as a participant in social affairs or as a citizen in the political realm? Well, no. Not really. At least not as most of us understand a term loaded down with metaphysical baggage. Don’t worry. You’ve got something better: a neurological system capable of carrying out the most complex analytical and computational tasks; membership in innumerable communities that provide you with huge stores of knowledge and wisdom; and a politico-constitutional order that ought to provide the material and the immaterial conditions that will enable you to pursue a life worth valuing. Drop the simplistic folk-psychology of unfettered freedom, whilst holding on to intentionality, and you might be inclined to adopt a set of social practices and political arrangements that enhance the chances that you and your compatriots will flourish. -
Queer Bodies in African Films
Item type: Books • Author: Gibson NcubeIn examining diverse films in various languages and from different parts of the African continent, Queer Bodies in Africa Films shows that queer African experiences and cultural productions have developed beyond the hegemony of South Africa. Furthermore. its nuanced reading of films from different geographic zones and time frames contends that a focus on the body allows for a unique understanding of what queerness is and means within the context of Africa.
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