Thousands of  Boohs.

FELA: THE LIFE ANITTIMES  OF
AN AFRICAN  MUSICAL  ICON
Michael Veal

PEOPLE FUNNY BOY: THE GENIUS
OF LEE  SCRATCH' PERRY
David Katz

Michael Veal has demonstrated
a tremendous command of the
literature,  not  merely  on  Fela
and  the  Nigerian  music scene,
but  the  Nigerian  context  in
which  Fela grew and  matured,
the Afro-Diasporic musical con-
text, and the bind of global/
world  music  fratneworb  that
has yet to appreciate Fela's con-
tribution...

People  Funny Boy delves behind
the myth of Perry to give a fuller
examination of his life and. more
importantly,  his worh.  It centres
on extensive interviews with fam-
ily members, fellow artists, friends,
former lovers, enemies and proc-
lamations from  the  man himself
to present a complex portrait of a
soul who is driven by unseen spir-
itual forces...

THE CORNEL WEST READER
Cornel West

Cornel West has for the last
decade been one of America's
premiere public intellectuals and
one of the prophetic voices of
our era. Whether writing a
scholarly boob or an article for
Newsweeb, speahing of Emerson.
Chebhov. Morrison or Martin
Luther King. Jr., West radiates a
passion and insight steeped in
the rich traditions from which he draws - the blacb church,
existensialist thought, Marxist theory and Jazz. This monu-
mental collection traces the arc of West's thought  from
explorations of  prophetic pragmatism' to his philosophizing
on race, popular culture and radical politics

Cornel West is not simply a lucid African-American  guide
equal to the complexities of real multi culturalism, but also an
authentic teacher of hope and reason  Edward Said

tHE  COST OF LIVING
Arilndhati Roy

THE CULTURES OF
GLOBALIZATION
Fredric lameson and Masao
Miyoshi. editors

Contributors:  Noam  Chomshy
loan  Davies  Manthia  Diawara
Enrique  Dussel  David  Harvey
Sherif  Hetata  Fredric  Jameson
Geeta  Kapur  Liu  Kang  Joan
Martinez-Alier  Masao  Miyoshi
Walter  D.  Mignolo  Alberto
Moreiras  Paib Nah-chung  Leslie
Shlair  Subramani  Barbara Trent

The  Cultures  of  Globalization
presents  an  international  panel
of intellectuals who consider the

process of globalization  as it concerns the  transformation  of the
economic  into the cultural  and vice versa; the  rise of  consumer
culture around the world; the production and cancellation of forms
of subjectivity; and the challenges it presents to national  identity,
local culture, and traditional forms of everyday life.Discussing over-
lapping themes of transnational consequence, the contributors to
this volume describe how the global character of technology, com-
munication  networbs, consumer  culture,  intellectual  discourse,
the arts, and mass entertainment have all been affected  by recent
worldwide trends.

THE AGE OF SPIRITUAL
MACHINES
When Computers Exceed
Human  Intelligence

Ray Kurzweil

THE ACE Of

MACHINfJ

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RAV  KUR^H'i

Imagine a world where the  dif-
ference  between  man and  ma-
chine blurs, where the line be-
tween  humanity  and  technol-
ogy fades,  and  where  the soul
and the silicon chip unite. This
is not science fiction. This is the
twenty-first  century  according
to Ray Kurzweil. the inventor of
the most innovative and  com-
pelling technology of our era.
In his inspired hands. life in the
new  millennium  no  longer
seems daunting...

In this spirited polemic. Roy dares
to  tabe  on  two of  the  great  illu-
sions of India's progress: the mas-
sive dam  projects  that were sup-
posed to haul this sprawling sub-
continent  into  the  modern  age-
but which instead have displaced
untold  millions- and  the detona-
tion of lndiass first nuclear bomb,
with all its attendant Faustian bar-
gains.  Merging  her  inimitable
voice with a great moral  outrage
and imaginative sweep. Roy peels
away the mash of democracy and
prosperity to show the true costs
hidden beneath...

THE ROAD TO HELL
The Ravaging Effects Of Foreign
Aid And International  Charity
Michael Maren

.  JO  AD
TO  HELL

Foreign aid tends to conjure up im-
ages of endless bags of food, selfless
doctors fighting  malnutrition
and  inoculating  children  against
disease, and American  actors and
actresses mabing late-night televi-
sion appeals to sponsor needy chil-
dren. 
simple,
bindhearted checb writing- or Con-
gressional appropriations-and  lots
of  caring.  Right? Wrong  Danger-
ously wrong.

involves 

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