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Mammals of Africa: Volumes 1 – ...
Mammals of Africa (MoA) is a series of six volumes which describes, in detail, every currently recognized species of African land mammal. This is the first time that such extensive coverage has ever been attempted, and the volumes incorporate the very latest information and detailed discussion of the morphology, distribution, biology and evolution (including reference to fossil and molecular data) of Africa's mammals.
With 1,160 species and 16 orders, Africa has the greatest diversity and abundance of mammals in the world.
The reasons for this and the mechanisms behind their evolution are given special attention in the series.
Each volume follows the same format, with detailed profiles of every species and higher taxa. The series includes some 660 colour illustrations by Jonathan Kingdon and his many drawings highlight details of morphology and behaviour of the species concerned.
Diagrams, schematic details and line drawings of skulls and jaws are by Jonathan Kingdon and Meredith Happold. Every species also includes a detailed distribution map. Extensive references alert readers to more detailed information.
• Volume I: Introductory Chapters and Afrotheria (352 pages)
• Volume II: Primates (560 pages)
• Volume III: Rodents, Hares and Rabbits (784 pages)
• Volume IV: Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats (800 pages)
• Volume V: Carnivores, Pangolins, Equids and Rhinoceroses (560 pages)
• Volume VI: Hippopotamuses, Pigs, Deer, Giraffe and Bovids (704 pages)
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
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Akata Witch transports the reader to a magical place where nothing is quite as it seems. Born in New York, but living in Aba, Nigeria, twelve-year old Sunny is understandably a little lost. She is albino and thus, incredibly sensitive to the sun.
All Sunny wants to do is be able to play football and get through another day of school without being bullied. But once she befriends Orlu and Chichi, Sunny is plunged in to the world of the Leopard People, where your worst defect becomes your greatest asset. Together, Sunny, Orlu, Chichi and Sasha form the youngest ever Oha Coven.
Their mission is to track down Black Hat Otokoto, the man responsible for kidnapping and maiming children. Will Sunny be able to overcome the killer with powers stronger than her own, or will the future she saw in the flames become reality?
Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
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A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born girl Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society. As she began to develop her magical powers, Sunny learned that she had been chosen to lead a dangerous mission to avert an apocalypse, brought about by the terrifying masquerade, Ekwensu. Now, stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny is studying with her mentor Sugar Cream and struggling to unlock the secrets in her strange Nsibidi book.
Eventually, Sunny knows she must confront her destiny. With the support of her Leopard Society friends, Orlu, Chichi, and Sasha, and of her spirit face, Anyanwu, she will travel through worlds both visible and invisible to the mysteries town of Osisi, where she will fight a climactic battle to save humanity.
Much-honored Nnedi Okorafor, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards, merges today’s Nigeria with a unique world she creates. Akata Warrior blends mythology, fantasy, history and magic into a compelling tale that will keep readers spellbound.
Business Process Change A Guide for B...
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Business Process Change, Second Edition: A Guide for Business Managers and BPM and Six Sigma Professionals.
Every company wants to improve the way it does business, to produce goods and services more efficiently, and to increase profits. Nonprofit organizations are also concerned with efficiency, productivity, and with achieving the goals they set for themselves. Every manager understands that achieving these goals is part of his or her job. BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT (or BPM) is what they call these activities that companies perform in order to improve and adapt processes that will help improve the way they do business.
In this balanced treatment of the field of business process change, Paul Harmon offers concepts, methods, and cases for all aspects and phases of successful business process improvement. Updated and added for this edition are coverage of business process management systems, business rules, enterprise architectures and frameworks (SCOR), and more content on Six Sigma and Lean--in addition to new coverage of performance metrics.
• Extensive revision and update to the successful BPM book, addressing the growing interest in Business Process Management Systems, and the integration of process redesign and Six Sigma concerns.
• The best first book on business process, the most up-to-date book to read to learn how all the different process elements fit together.
• Presents a methodology based on the best practices available that can be tailored for specific needs and that maintains a focus on the human aspects of process redesign.
• Offers all new detailed case studies showing how these methods are implemented.
ISBN:9780123741523
Author:Paul Harmon and Business Process Trends
Touched with Fire An Anthology of Poems
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A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards. This anthology has two main objectives: to introduce students to a wide range of poetry in English from the last 400 years, and to provide them with guidance on how to approach poetry examinations.
The poems are divided into six collections, not by theme or by historical period, but as satisfying small anthologies of twenty-two poems each.
Clear guidance is given on what is expected in an essay for a poetry examination, and actual answers are reproduced which help the student analyze what kind of response gets good marks and why.
ISBN:9780521315371
Author:Jack Hydes
An Atlas of African Dermatology
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Radiologists in training need a sound understanding of concepts and their applications that relate directly to practical experience, and this is precisely what this book sets out to achieve.
A team of widely respected teachers show how the equipment can be used for all the principal interventions, and highlight some of the ethical issues involved. The presentation is concise but comprehensive, so that pressured trainees can update their knowledge in a modern, attractive reference.
Each chapter is followed by a set of multiple-choice questions to enable readers to test their knowledge.
ISBN:9781857755442
Author:Barbara Leppard
My Pregnancy
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Moms-to-be today enjoy quick and easy access to a wealth of information, both on the internet and in magazines, where they can communicate with experts on the same level. This book aims to tap into the needs of this new wave of net-savvy moms and answer all their questions in one place.
The six authors are not only health care professionals-an obstetrician, a midwife, a pediatrician, a nutritionist, a fitness expert, and a relationship expert-but each one is also a mom, so has both personal and professional experience of the topics she is writing about, and can present them in a highly accessible way.
The authors speak as mom to mom, but what they say is backed by years of experience in their particular capacity in dealing with pregnant women, as well as by their experience at home with their own children. Essential medical information and practical pregnancy know-how are combined with expert advice and insights into every pregnancy topic, from diet, fitness, and sex to prenatal choices and safety at work.
This all-encompassing approach gives My Pregnancy a wider breadth and greater range of advice than most other pregnancy books. Expert Q&As, personal experiences, in-depth feature boxes, and even sections on whether the authors followed their own advice add to the personal, caring, reassuring vibe that runs throughout the book.
ISBN:9780756689117
Author:Virginia Beckett
Exercise Your Way to Health: Depression
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Exercise Your Way to Health: Depression: Exercise Plans to Improve Your Life
Depression is hugely common in our society. The Mental Health Foundation believes that 1 in 4 people will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year, with mixed anxiety and depression being the most common. It affects 1 in 5 older people living in the community and 2 in 5 in care homes (MHF).
This means that a staggering amount of people are having to deal with its devastating fallout at home, work and in retirement each year. However, evidence shows that a supervised programme of exercise can be as effective as antidepressants in treating mild or moderate depression (Mental Health Foundation / MIND).
The link between exercise and mental wellbeing is a key part of recovery, and this user-friendly book is there to show the way. As with all the titles in the Exercise Your Way to Health series, the book contains a series of well-illustrated exercises specifically designed to combat depression and its physical side effects. Taking into account the prevalence of depression and the well-documented link between exercise and mental health, this is a timely publication, and one that will help many people regain control of their lives.
ISBN:9781408131824
Author:Debbie Lawrence and Jenny Burns
Dedan Kimathi The Whole Story by Jose...
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Writer takes an honest look at the life and times of Dedan Kimathi, Kenya’s foremost freedom fighter at his Kimathi Street corner statue in Nairobi, a dreadlocked Dedan Kimathi is a small, frail, bent old man struggling to lift his rifle.
That is the public image of the greatest Kenyan ever to live. Old, frail, starved. The sculptors were not helped by a literature that portrays Mau Mau adherents as bloodthirsty, atavistic, rural, poor and illiterate.
Which child wants this for his grandpa? Yet image is everything.
ISBN:9789966229724
Author:Joseph Karimi
Son of Fate by John Kiriamiti
This novel is by the author of the celebrated My Life in Crime and is his first. The life of the 'Son of Fate' is a grim struggle for survival, after his release from prison.
He tries his luck at farming, and odd jobs in the city, but everything fails, and he finds himself on the wrong side of the law again. But a glimmer of hope comes when he rescues a tycoon.
20000 Leagues Under the Sea (Collins ...
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'The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.' Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his colleagues set out on an expedition to find a strange sea monster and are captured by the infamous and charismatic Captain Nemo and taken abroad the Nautilus submarine as his prisoners.
As they travel the world's oceans, they become embroiled in adventures and events beyond their wildest dreams. Visionary in its outlook, Vern's 20,000 Leagues under the Sea is a legendary science fiction masterpiece.
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ISBN:9780007351046
Author:Jules Verne
Black Beauty: Collins Classics
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'…we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.'
When his beloved owners are forced to sell him, Black Beauty leaves his life as a young, care-free colt behind him and embarks on a working life of misery.
Cruelly treated by his new masters, Anna Sewell rails against animal mistreatment in this poignant tale of a horse whose spirit cannot be broken.
ISBN:9780007350971
Author:Anna Sewell
The Time Machine
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
"In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back . . . You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked – those pale chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!”
An English scientist regales his dinner guests with the tale of his travels to the year 802,701, where he discovers that the human race has evolved into two distinct societies. The Eloi, elegant and peaceful, yet lacking spirit, are terrorized by the sinister, light-fearing Morlocks, who live underground, surrounded by industry. And when his time machine mysteriously vanishes, the scientist must descend to the realm of the Morlocks in order to find his only hope of escape.
H. G. Wells is considered a founding father of modern science fiction, coining the term ‘time machine’ and popularizing the idea of time travel in literature.
ISBN:9780008190033
Author:H.G. Wells
Tell Tale
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Nearly a decade after his last volume of short stories was published, Jeffrey Archer returns with his eagerly-awaited, brand-new collection TELL TALE, giving us a fascinating, exciting and sometimes poignant insight into the people he has met, the stories he has come across and the countries he has visited during the past ten years.
Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? And the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father’s wealth changes his life in the most profound way.
Revel in the stories of the 1930’s woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A Gentleman and A Scholar while another young woman who thumbs a lift gets more than she bargained for in A Wasted Hour.
These wonderfully engaging and always refreshingly original tales prove not only why Archer has been compared by the critics to Dahl and Maugham, but why he was described by The Times as probably the greatest storyteller of our age.
ISBN:9781250066923
Author:Jeffrey Archer
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arth...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. This was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in The Final Problem.
Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901-1902 (although setting it before Holmes' death) Doyle came under intense pressure to revive his famous character. The first story is set in 1894 and has Holmes returning in London and explaining the period from 1891-94, a period called "The Great Hiatus" by Sherlockian enthusiasts. Also of note is Watson's statement in the last story of the cycle that Holmes has retired, and forbids him to publish any more stories.
The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived
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The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived: Secrets for Unparalleled Success and Unshakable Happiness from the Life of Jesus.
Just as the sun blinds our eyes to a sky filled with stars, Jesus? deity can blind us to the unseen riches of His humanity. In The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived, Steven K. Scott reveals the hidden treasures to be found in Christ’s life as a human. When you learn from Jesus? life on earth, your own life will be propelled to a whole new level of achievement, happiness, and success.
As you look at Jesus? life, you will learn how to:
• Find new meanings that will raise your life to new heights.
• Develop missions that will produce greater creativity and productivity.
• Communicate messages that will move the minds and hearts of your listeners.
• Act in a manner that attracts others, increases your value, and heightens your self-esteem.
• Adopt a method that accelerates extraordinary success.
• Discover your incredible worth.
• Give and receive a type of love that is truer than any you have experienced before.
Let the greatest Man who ever lived turn your purpose-driven life into a purpose-accomplished life!
ISBN:9781400074655
Author:Steven K Scott
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
2010 Reprint of 1942 First Edition. Markham is often described as "the first person" to fly the Atlantic east to west in a solo non-stop flight, though most now dispute this claim. When Markham decided to take on the Atlantic crossing, no pilot had yet flown non-stop from Europe to New York, and no woman had made the westward flight solo, though several had died trying. Markham hoped to claim both records.
On September 4, 1936, she took off from Abingdon, England. After a 20-hour flight she crash-landed at Baleine Cove on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. In spite of falling short of her goal, Markham had become the first woman to cross the Atlantic east-to-west solo, and the first person to make it from England to North America non-stop.
She was celebrated as an aviation pioneer. Markham chronicled her many adventures in her memoir, West with the Night, published in 1942. Despite strong reviews in the press, the book sold modestly, and then quickly went out of print. After living for many years in the United States, Markham moved back to Kenya in 1952, becoming for a time the most successful horse trainer in the country.
Remote Dawn
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Bwiza - a small girl with a name containing the property of beauty is getting the worst start a child can have in this world when she is losing her whole family at young age.
But when she is growing up her noble character and the mysterious power of love gives her a new foundation for a meaningful life by helping other orphans.
And finally she is also embraced by happiness when Wilson, a young man who is completely reappraising his life, by chance is crossing her path and the sweet music of love arises around them during one blessed night in the enchanted realm of a dark warm garden under the yellow African moon.
ISBN:9789186528041
Author:Barassa
Teta A Story of a Young Girl
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It is a rainy day in Kibuye in 1962, when Teta is born. She is a spoiled child, the only daughter in her family. Everybody spoils her. Life offers her everything she wants. It even offers her the dream of every girl; love . . . She is seventeen when she meets Kayira. It is love at first sight. Her family agrees. She will get married with the man she loves.
But is this her destiny? To be happy and to get everything that she wants? Her destiny was pre-determined when she was born and all she could do was to follow her destiny. Will their love resist her destiny? Will the love that fill their young hearts endure the trials of life?
ISBN:9789186528065
Author:Barassa
Hillary the Other Woman: A Political ...
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You think you know Hillary and Bill Clinton pretty well. After all, they have been in the public eye—from Arkansas to the White House and beyond—for over forty years.
Dolly Kyle met former president Clinton (Billy as she calls him) on a Hot Springs golf course when she was eleven and he was almost thirteen. It was colpo de fulmine (the thunderbolt) at first sight. Their friendship grew throughout high school and college. It became a decades-long affair that lasted despite marriages and politics all the way to the threshold of the White House—when she became a political liability, and he threatened to destroy her, as Hillary had done to so many of his other women over the years. What you know about the Clintons is probably limited to the pleasantries that the mainstream media have chosen to share with you. Hillary the Other Woman pulls no punches in describing the way "media magic” makes Clinton stories disappear.
Have you heard about
The RICO (Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) federal lawsuit that Kyle filed against Clinton and cronies while he and co-president Hillary were in the White House?
The racial discrimination lawsuits filed by African-Americans against Clinton as governor of Arkansas?
Clinton’s orders for the Arkansas State Police to "stop and search” vehicles driven by Hispanics?
Thousands of young African-American men given long prison sentences under the "three strikes” laws pushed by co-presidents Bill and Hillary?
The co-president Clintons pandering to minorities with a subtle form of race baiting with their welfare agenda?
The racist names they call Jesse Jackson behind his back?
Hillary the Other Woman is not only about the politics of the Arkansas gubernatorial years and the famous "two for the price of one” presidency. It also provides a perspective on Arkansas life that formed the backdrop and training ground for the Clintons in their later crimes, their gangster-like threats and intimidation of political enemies, and their arrogant belief that they are above the law. You will see the connection between Hillary’s current email scandal and her shredding of documents when they left the Arkansas governor’s mansion. You will realize that the Clinton Foundation is the new international version of the money laundering and bribes that you glossed over as "Cattlegate.” You will read clear, concise, entertaining accounts that put the multitude of Clinton scandals into everyday perspective. Finally, you will be privy to the Clinton "truth suppression” techniques that allowed them to get away with all of it. Until now…
ISBN:9781944229450
Author:Dolly Kyle
