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Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters
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Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire-- Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What WeDo
A lively and provocative look at how evolution shapes our behavior and our lives.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, our brains and bodies are hardwired to carry out an evolutionary mission that determines much of what we do, from life plans to everyday decisions.
With an accessible tone and a healthy disregard for political correctness, this lively and eminently readable book popularizes the latest research in a cutting- edge field of study-one that turns much of what we thought we knew about human nature upside-down.
Every time we fall in love, fight with our spouse, enjoy watching a favorite TV show, or feel scared--walking alone at night, we are in part behaving as a human animal with its own unique nature-a nature that essentially stopped evolving 10,000 years ago. Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa re-examine some of the most popular and controversial topics of modern life-and shed a whole new light on why we do the things we do.
Reader beware: You may never look at human nature the same way again.
ISBN:9780399533655
Author:Alan S Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa
What to Say When You Talk to Yourself...
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Negative programming prevents individuals from becoming and doing exactly what they want. Any amount of inspirational reading will only provide us with techniques that could work if put into practice.
This book explains the principles of self-talk - a unique way of reversing negativity, optimizing outlook, focusing plans and achieving success.
The key is in affirming, telling yourself the right things which then reflect in a more positive lifestyle.
ISBN:9780997086102
Author:Shad Helmstetter
Sam Walton Made in America
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world.
The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here, finally, inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure if his ambitions and achievements.
Sam shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style.
In a story rich with anecdotes and the "rules of the road" of both Main Street and Wall Street, Sam Walton chronicles the inspiration, heart, and optimism that propelled him to lasso the American Dream.
The Pen and The Gun by Maina Wa Kinyatti
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The Pen and The Gun will make an excellent addition to the study of the struggle for democracy, the imposition of dictatorship and state terrorism in Kenya.
The book will also enrich Kenya's prison revolutionary literature and, at the same time, reveal the brutality of the Kenyan penal system.
Linked to all of the above, it will shed light on the broader role of African nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in the African social revolution. the role of the working class and its peasant ally in the liberation of Africa from world imperialism is clearly defined.
ISBN:9781453834411
Author:Maina Wa Kinyatti
Growing Up in a Shrinking World How P...
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In this volume, Ali A. Mazrui's triangulated model is discussed, contested, redefined and challenged by some of the powerful and leading voices in African scholarship.
The voices contained in Growing up in a Shrinking World touch on diverse topics just as they are from scholars from diverse background, making the book authoritative as well as a thoroughly grounded interdisciplinary examination of Mazrui's legacy.
ISBN:9781569025604
Author:D Ndirangu Wachanga
At the Crossroads Readings of the Pos...
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Recent criticism on African literature and visual art, affected by contemporary global socio-economic and political influences, has been moving away from a singular focus on postcolonial theory towards notions of transnationalism.
There have been visible critical attempts that question the relevance of postcolonial critique, while various globally orientated critical approaches have emerged, complicating the notion of postcoloniality as we have known it.
This book consists of essays and articles that demonstrate this critical shift.
ISBN:9781592219636
Author:Ghirmai Negash, Andrea E Frohne and Samuel Zadi
The Search for Africa A History in th...
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These essays and articles, written between 1953 and 1993, explore the development of an African historiography and, in that context, the author's own development.
People who have been involved all their lives with Africa will be reminded of how many times Basil Davidson has given them new insights.
People who approach the study of Africa for the first time will find this collection opens out their perceptions.
ISBN:9780852557143
Author:Basil Davidson
The Power Of Babel Language and Gover...
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Noted Kenyan scholar, author, and educator Ali A. Mazrui, creator of the groundbreaking PBS series The Africans, teams up with his son Alamin to examine the complexities and contradictions of language and cultural identity on the African continent.
The Mazruis explore the challenges of native African languages surviving in countries where the political, economic, and technological discourses are conducted in Eurocentric languages such as English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. "This linguistic state of affairs," they argue, has resulted from "the failure of African people to be nationalistic enough in linguistic terms." The Power of Babel recounts the history and impact of oral traditions, as well as the influence of Arabic, Christian, and Semitic-based growths in literacy and the imposition of the European concept of the nation-state.
The authors also detail the role African American and Afro-Saxon English speakers could play in "African counter-penetration," using English to better educate the West about Africa. This timely and important treatise also finds room to incorporate discussion of such wide-ranging subject matters as James Baldwin, Frantz Fanon, and the rise of Ebonics. --Eugene Holley Jr.
ISBN:9780852558089
Author:Ali A Mazrui and Alamin Mazrui
Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the So...
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Thabo Mbeki plays a crucial role in world politics, but to many people he is an enigma. In this book Gumede pulls together his insights from years of reporting on the Mbeki presidency to create a sophisticated but easy-to-read account of power in South Africa.
He explores the complex position that Mbeki occupies and reveals the underlying political and personal tensions that help explain the forces that have created one of the world's most powerful and enigmatic leaders.
Covering Mbeki's attempts to modernize the economy and kick-start an African Renaissance, and investigating his controversial stance on issues from AIDS to Zimbabwe, the book offers invaluable insights into the arcane machinations behind political decisions that touch the lives of millions every day.
ISBN:9781842778487
Author:William Mervin Gumede
Entrepreneur How to Start an Online B...
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The secrets of the UK's biggest online entrepreneurs revealed
Thinking of starting a business? Already have a business online and looking to take it to the next level? The wonderful world wide web has made creating a start-up that much easier. Thousands of people are out there reaping the rewards the web can bring. If you want to join them, you've come to the right place.
Profiling today's foremost web entrepreneurs, Lucy Tobin - who meets successful business founders every week writing an enterprise column for The Evening Standard – takes us through their start-up stories and maps out exactly what's made them so successful.
You’ll hear first-hand from the bright sparks behind some of the UK's top online businesses. With interviews, practical advice and insights, you'll learn how they did it, what they recommend, and how you can do it too.
ISBN:9780857082886
Author:Lucy Tobin
Hot Sex Fantasies by Women for Women ...
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This collection of real women's sexual fantasies is designed to make a hot read and provide an insight into the desires of today's women. Compiled by New York magazine Journalist, Lisa Sussman, the book is a provocative collection of erotic fantasies, day dreams and confessions from anonymous women on both sides of the Atlantic.
Anonymity allows these women to tell the naughtiest what if... scenarios as well as some of their innermost secret wishes - the sorts of stories that just don't usually get shared - not even with a best friend.
The book is arranged in themes: anonymous encounters - sex with a stranger; he made me do it - losing control; sex with a woman; voyeurs and attention seekers - watching others and being watched; and threesomes and group sex.
ISBN:9780007147410
Author:Lisa Sussman
The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla
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How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport?
Or be told that, as an actress, the part you’re most fitted to play is ‘wife of a terrorist’? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated and used aggressively towards you? How does it feel to hear a child of colour say in a classroom that stories can only be about white people? How does it feel to go ‘home’ to India when your home is really London? What is it like to feel you always have to be an ambassador for your race? How does it feel to always tick ‘Other’?
Bringing together 21 exciting black, Asian and minority ethnic voices emerging in Britain today, The Good Immigrant explores why immigrants come to the UK, why they stay and what it means to be ‘other’ in a country that doesn’t seem to want you, doesn’t truly accept you – however many generations you’ve been here – but still needs you for its diversity monitoring forms.
Inspired by discussion around why society appears to deem people of colour as bad immigrants – job stealers, benefit scroungers, undeserving refugees – until, by winning Olympic races or baking good cakes, or being conscientious doctors, they cross over and become good immigrants, editor Nikesh Shukla has compiled a collection of essays that are poignant, challenging, angry, humorous, heartbreaking, polemic, weary and – most importantly – real.
ISBN:9781783522958
Author:Nikesh Shukla
Crucible of the Ages Essays in Honour...
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Essays In Honour of Wole Soyinka at 80, edited by two award-winning African writers is a celebration of the literary life of Wole Soyinka at an important stage in his life.
The volume provides the most extensive anthology ever produced on Africa's first Nobel Laureate in Literature and features 30 essays with a foreword by the former secretary general of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku. With contributions from three Nobel Laureates: Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer and Derek Walcott and other contributions from African leaders, scholars, writers and literary critics from around the world, they assess Soyinka's perspectives on power, politics and the arts to create dialogue and debate.
Diverse aspects of his life are reflected in six themes in this volume that also documents the literary and cultural histories of West Africa from the 1950s to the present day.
The Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o describes Soyinka as: " A writer and public intellectual, who has voiced his concerns over major happenings in different parts of the continent over the last fifty years and more, Soyinka has become the moral and democratic conscience of Africa."
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ISBN:9780956930798
Author:Ivor Agyeman Duah, Promise Ogochukwu Okekwe and Ayebia Clarke
Gandhi A Political and Spiritual Life...
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"My struggle is not merely political. It is religious and therefore quite pure."
How did Gandhi reconcile his political career with his religious beliefs? Why was he so revered by so many in his lifetime and ever since? And what gave him such belief in his own destiny to liberate his country and change the world?
This fresh and original interpretation of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary personalities shows for the first time how Gandhi's religious beliefs, political career and personal behaviour form a coherent whole. Tidrick revealingly examines Gandhi's ideas about the relationship between sexual control and power, and the bizarre and scandalous behaviour that resulted, and explores his interest in new religious and philosophical thinking.
Drawing on material neglected by earlier biographers, the portrait which emerges does not show the secular saint of popular myth but a difficult and self-obsessed man driven to pursue the world-changing destiny he believed was marked out for him.
ISBN:9781845111663
Author:Kathryn Tidrick
Regional Integration Identity and Cit...
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The Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) is engulfed by three interrelated crises: various inter-state wars, civil wars, and inter-communal conflicts; an economic crisis manifested in widespread debilitating poverty, chronic food insecurity and famines; and environmental degradation that is ravaging the region.
While it is apparent that the countries of the region are unlikely to be able to deal with the crises individually, there is consensus that their chances of doing so improve markedly with collective regional action. The contributors to this volume address the need for regional integration in the GHA.
They identify those factors that can foster integration, such as the proper management of equitable citizenship rights, as well as examining those that impede it, including the region's largely ineffective integration scheme, IGAD, and explore how the former can be strengthened and the latter transformed; explain how regional integration can mitigate the conflicts; and examine how integration can help to energise the region's economy.
Kidane Mengisteab is Professor of African Studies and Political Science at Penn State University; Redie Bereketeab is a researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden.
ISBN:9781847010582
Author:Kidane Mengisteab
My Kitchen Table 100 Vegetarian Feast...
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Pumpkin, Sweet Corn and Sweet Potato Stew; Green Summer Risotto; Baked Goats' Cheese with Lavender; and more
Sophie Grigson's passion for vegetarian food shines through every recipe in this gorgeous collection.
From light, summery salads to root vegetable soups, Mediterranean pastas, and Middle Eastern stews, this book will entice all readers, whether they are vegetarian or not. Includes dual measures.
ISBN:9781849903998
Author:Sophie Grigson
Cooking with an African flavour Sapra...
My Kitchen Table 100 Great Low Fat Re...
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From light bites to hearty meals and express dinners to slow weekend roasts, 100 recipes that prove a low-fat diet can be delicious.
Bursting with flavor but still low in fat, these recipes make it easier than ever to eat healthily, without cutting corners on taste.
Recipes include Crab and Tomato Chowder, Coconut and Coriander Chicken, Moussaka, Grilled Polenta with Wild Mushrooms, Roasted Pepper and Leek Strudel, and Lime Cheesecake Ice Cream. A nutritional breakdown accompanies each dish, and dual measurements are included.
ISBN:9780091944803
Author:Rosemary Conley
Riches Within Your Reach by Robert Co...
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Trusted and beloved by readers everywhere for his prosperity classic The Secret of the Ages, Robert Collier takes the next step in Riches Within Your Reach! and explains how to harness mental visualization to achieve financial and professional success.
"A definite purpose, held on to in the face of every discouragement and failure, in spite of all obstacles and opposition, will win no matter what the odds," wrote Robert Collier. And with faith in your own definite purpose, taught the self-help master, there is no limit to what you can accomplish. In every adversity, there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage, and in each defeat, there is a lesson in how to achieve victory next time. This is the message of Riches Within Your Reach!
In 1947, Collier produced Riches Within Your Reach! to assemble his most talked-about works into one simple guide. It features: The God in You (1937); The Magic Word (1940); The Secret of Power (1945); and The Law of Higher Potential (1947).
Together, these pioneering works reveal all facets of one powerful secret: Human beings, since the dawn of history, have used the applied principles of mental visualization to achieve their aims. Many of the world's most successful figures -from Napoleon Bonaparte to Benjamin Franklin to Andrew Carnegie-began their lives at a significant disadvantage, without the wealth or health that many of their peers enjoyed.
Yet they were able to triumph and succeed in ways that their contemporaries weren't-by tapping into the infinite power of their own minds. Riches Within Your Reach! not only builds upon this teaching but illuminates Collier's most remarkable lesson ever: that each of us has an equal chance to harness the powers within ourselves to succeed, but first, we must learn how to focus our desires.
ISBN:9781585427673
Author:Robert Collier
Do Humankinds Best Days Lie Ahead
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Progress. It is one of the animating concepts of the modern era. From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals and societies around the world.
But is progress inevitable? Its critics argue that human civilization has become different, not better, over the last two and a half centuries. What is seen as a breakthrough or innovation in one period becomes a setback or limitation in another. In short, progress is an ideology not a fact; a way of thinking about the world as opposed to a description of reality.
In the seventeenth semi-annual Munk Debates, which was held in Toronto on November 6, 2015, pioneering cognitive scientist Steven Pinker and best-selling author Matt Ridley squared off against noted philosopher Alain de Botton and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell to debate whether humankind’s best days lie ahead.
ISBN:9781487001681
Author:Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley, Alain de Botton and Malcolm Gladwell
