Nelson Mandela A Very Short Introduction

Author : Elleke Boehmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192803018
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction written by Elleke Boehmer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as being a remarkable statesman, Nelson Mandela has become a universal symbol of justice, a secular saint. Elleke Boehmer examines not only the great anti-apartheid leader's life, but also the ways in which images and representations have been used to create the Mandela we know today - an internationally recognized icon of freedom.

Author : Elleke Boehmer
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402768897
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nelson Mandela written by Elleke Boehmer and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable statesman and one of the world’s longest-detained political prisoners (1964-90), Nelson Mandela has become an exemplary figure of anti-racist struggle and democracy, a moral giant. This fascinating and uncompromising biographical study paints a complex portrait of Mandela that goes beyond hagiography: it examines his quality of character, his theatrical flair, his maverick ability to absorb transnational influences, his steely survival skills, his postmodern ease with media image, and his ethical legacy.

Author : Keith Grint
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191614327
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leadership: A Very Short Introduction written by Keith Grint and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of leadership raises many questions: What is it? How does it differ from management and command? Are leaders born or bred? Who are the leaders? Do we actually need leaders? Inevitably, the answers are provocative and partial; leadership is a hugely important topic of debate. There are constant calls for 'greater' or 'stronger' leadership, but what this actually means, how we can evaluate it, and why it's important are not very clear. In this Very Short Introduction Keith Grint prompts the reader to rethink their understanding of what leadership is. He examines the way leadership has evolved from its earliest manifestations in ancient societies, highlighting the beginnings of leadership writings through Plato, Sun Tzu, Machiavelli and others, to consider the role of the social, economic, and political context undermining particular modes of leadership. Exploring the idea that leaders cannot exist without followers, and recognising that we all have diverse experiences and assumptions of leadership, Grint looks at the practice of management, its history, future, and influence on all aspects of society. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451675399
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes to the Future written by Nelson Mandela and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays.

Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780759521049
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long Walk to Freedom written by Nelson Mandela and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.

Author : Elleke Boehmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192645552
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction written by Elleke Boehmer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring A pathbreaking analysis of the relationship between Mandela the myth, and Mandela the historical figure, looking at the way images, stories, and politics have been combined to create the iconic image of Mandela that we know today. Boehmer explores the long trajectory of Mandela's life, explaining first the historical and political context of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and then the post-apartheid period of difficult reconciliation, including the shifts and changes in Mandela's reputation since the millennium. This innovative postcolonial reflection takes on board the more critical revisionist literature on Mandela that has emerged since 2015, looking at responses to his death in 2013, and the 2018 commemorations of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The first edition set a trend in scholarship on Mandela by reading his character and achievements through the lens of his influences, interests, and leading ideas. The second edition extends this focus with a far-reaching critical look at meanings of reconciliation and Mandela's ethic of reciprocity. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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Publisher : Gallopade International
ISBN 13 : 9780635026170
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nelson Mandela written by and published by Gallopade International. This book was released on 19?? with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time Inc. presents a biographical sketch of Nelson Mandela as part of the "LIFE" magazine Hall of Heroes. South African statesman and President Nelson Mandela (1918- ) was a political activist and spent 26 years in prison before the collapse of apartheid.

Author : David J. Vaughan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199682844
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minerals written by David J. Vaughan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earth contains a vast array of minerals, many with highly complex arrangements of atoms of several elements. David Vaughan explores the structure of minerals, the conditions under which they form and transform, their properties, and their interaction with microbes, as well as their importance in human health.

Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429988398
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Myself written by Nelson Mandela and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his entire extant personal papers, which offer an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. A singular international publishing event, Conversations with Myself draws on Mandela's personal archive of never-before-seen materials to offer unique access to the private world of an incomparable world leader. Journals kept on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle of the early 1960s; diaries and draft letters written in Robben Island and other South African prisons during his twenty-seven years of incarceration; notebooks from the postapartheid transition; private recorded conversations; speeches and correspondence written during his presidency—a historic collection of documents archived at the Nelson Mandela Foundation is brought together into a sweeping narrative of great immediacy and stunning power. An intimate journey from Mandela's first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, Conversations with Myself illuminates a heroic life forged on the front lines of the struggle for freedom and justice. While other books have recounted Mandela's life from the vantage of the present, Conversations with Myself allows, for the first time, unhindered insight into the human side of the icon.

Author : Thomas Flynn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191579300
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction written by Thomas Flynn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existentialism was one of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century. Focusing on its seven leading figures, Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty and Camus, this Very Short Introduction provides a clear account of the key themes of the movement which emphasized individuality, free will, and personal responsibility in the modern world. Drawing in the movement's varied relationships with the arts, humanism, and politics, this book clarifies the philosophy and original meaning of 'existentialism' - which has tended to be obscured by misappropriation. Placing it in its historical context, Thomas Flynn also highlights how existentialism is still relevant to us today. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.