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KINGS: A Fascinating Look at the Rule...
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Ge...
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would.
Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his co-discovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.
The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code.
Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids?
After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020.
Shadow in Perpetuity (The Hard Journe...
Shadow in Perpetuity – Hard Journey with Cancer was launched in 2021. The author, Professor Nicholas Athieno-Abinya He is a prolific storyteller who inspires us with a combination of wit and sobriety, the complications and sparse triumphs of treating cancer.
He is a consultant medical Oncologist at the Nairobi Hospital Cancer Centre. He was formerly Professor of Medicine at the University of Nairobi and Head of Oncology at Aghakhan University Hospital, Nairobi.
He is the author of Drug management of Haematologic Neoplasm by Jomo Kenyatta Foundation 2016.
This book is talking more about his journey with cancer. Cancer is common and causes a lot of panic. Most cancers when diagnosed early are highly curable, but are incurable when diagnosed late. In this country we have personnel and institutions that can take care of most cancers though not all, and few need referral outside.
The problem is that many people don't have faith in local institutions and personnel, and demand referral out. The reality is that over 90-95% of cancers which cannot be cured locally can also not be cured elsewhere. People therefore have a tendency to go and waste money abroad, where oftentimes they are made to believe that they are cured, while this may not be true.
When confronted with a diagnosis of cancer, one should promptly seek help from relevant experts, take the prescribed path, and leave the rest to God. If the end is inevitable, so be it.
Callused Hands
Kenyan coffee is renowned all over the world for its distinctive quality and hence reputation. It graces tables of the finest eateries from London to New York, and has been romanticized by those who visited the country and were enchanted by it. At one point it was the leading contributor to the country's foreign revenue. Unknown to many in the world the slavery-like conditions under which it is produced. Callused Hands explores some of these difficult conditions under which this precious 'black gold' is produced, and the unseen faces that grovel under the surface in ensuring that gourmet consumers in the West are fed.
"This is a great book! It makes me feel like it is a fresh and imaginative story that makes sense the entire time of reading it. It is well written and exceptionally compelling." - Sheena Brennan - Publishing Editor
"The novel celebrates the spirit and bravery of disempowered women who can, together, tip the balance in favour of workers and justice. This is a compassionate and ultimately triumphant story. - Linda Cracknell, Writer-in-Residence at Edinburgh Sick Kids Hospital
"Stanley Gazemba's Calloused Hands is an exciting work that re-imagines hopelessness. In a sluggish almost non-committal fashion, the novel creates ground for the readers to take a peek into the lives of the 'wretched of the earth.' One feels as though he has been sucked into that bottomless pit from which the characters are struggling to come up for air. The never-ending suffering becomes a bitter-sweet element that angers and then provokes one to want to change the story- to make it sweeter for all." - Dr. Fred Mbogo, Moi University
Unscripted – The Great Rat-Race...
Learn How to Free Yourself and Your Life Through the Power of Unscripted Entrepreneurship.
By all appearances, Jeff and Samantha Trotman are living the American Dream. But behind the white picket fence, they endure an American Nightmare. With little time for each other, a pile of debt, and Ferrari taste on a Ford budget, the ruse of affluence is killing them.
Two respectable jobs and a lovely suburban house paint a pretty picture, but behind the ink the canvas tells another story of two working corpses sharing a broken marriage. And now, with an unplanned pregnancy, they’re facing a mid-life crisis twenty years early. With little time and looming bankruptcy, the Trotmans are forced to face the red-pill truth they long denied: They were alive, but they weren’t living.
Determined to resurrect their life and their marriage, the Trotmans plot a rat-race escape—only to find themselves more thickly in it. As tensions rise and hope fades, follow along step-by-step as the Trotmans pivot to a new strategy and a new career: starting a business as entrepreneurs. While they navigate their journey, you’ll learn 120 wealth-building strategies and principles that your mainstream financial guru won’t dare reveal—actionable concepts that will help you profit your way into the Unscripted 1%, an emerging economic class of entrepreneurs who enjoy a lifetime of freedom emancipated from miserly living and Wall Street's "save, pray, and wait" paradigm.
Discover how one family escapes the rat-race grind and wins a lifetime of financial freedom, leaving behind the tyranny of meaningless jobs and mediocre living— and how you can too. Here is just a little of what you will learn:
- The Bad Math Principle: Why most people will never escape the rat-race, much less earn financial freedom.
- The 1/5/10 Strategy: One this one simple exercise will unearth your ultimate dream life while establishing a decision framework for its reality.
- The Honeypot Principle: Why the financial media's "invest a $100/mo for 40 years in indexed-funds" narrative is part of the same rat-race scheme, just a different side of the same rigged coin.
- The Dual Change Strategy: The two divergent sides of change and how it can make you a fortune.
- The Value Skew Strategy: How to find literally 1000s of business ideas and why you never need to "disrupt" or invent anything new or novel.
- The Millionaire Payday Strategy: How to spot opportunities to hire yourself and earn an instant millionaire-making income.
- The Cinderella Principle: Why starting a business based on a cultural trend or a fad is horrible idea.
- The Perseverance Strategy: Never struggle with motivation again; the four necessary ingredients to tap into unlimited motivation and determination, regardless of the obstacles in your way.
- The Triangulated Value Strategy: The 3-pronged strategy in maximizing marketing yields while also and over 110+ more!
- Don’t let the rat-race and its co-conspirators proclaim your life as non-essential. Don’t let the rat-race entice you to save your life away for the promise of an elderly retirement. Don’t let the rat-race lull you into a tedious existence medicated by television, video games, and trivial sporting events. Go Unscripted, escape the rat-race, and discover your happily-ever-after.
Tessy and the School Bag
Tessy and the School bag is about how a young girl learns how to be polite when she would like something from her parents. She likes her friend's bag and she has to find an appropriate way to ask her mother to buy for her the same bag.
A child of 5 to 7 years will get a chance to learn how to use kind words like Please and Sorry when they read this story.
Chronicles of the Idler
Chronicles of the Idler, Volume One is a collection of short, satirical pieces on various aspects of life. In simple, straight words, the author takes a quick, but critical, look at people, life, places, situations and events and spices up the stories with imagery and unmatched humour.
What Others Say
“Many people assume that with the demise of the likes of P. K. Okoth of Drums’ Malimoto and the great Wahome Mutahi of Whispers, humour is as good as buried. Not anymore! Chronicles of the Idler is a satirical collection in a class of its own. It is original, comical and superb!” - Solomon Abayo, Principal, Riambase High School.
Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
Most people are unable to love on the only level that truly matters: love that is compounded of maturity, self-knowledge, and courage.
As with every art, love demands practice and concentration, as well as genuine insight and understanding.
In his classic work, The Art of Loving, renowned psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm explores love in all its aspects—not only romantic love, steeped in false conceptions and lofty expectations, but also brotherly love, erotic love, self-love, the love of God, and the love of parents for their children.
The Business of the 21st Century by K...
The Unending Surprises in Marriage by...
When getting married, some of us assume that we know everything about our spouses and other
stakeholders like friends and relatives.
However, as time passes, we see changes in their behaviors, perspectives, attitudes, and beliefs and we are surprised. If the changes are negative, we find ourselves doubting the essence of marriage and its ability to last a lifetime. If the changes are positive, we celebrate.
This book is for all married couples, irrespective of their age in marriage, and those who are planning to get married, to inform them that they will discover something new about their spouses and other stakeholders. It has real-life stories of negative and positive surprises. It also has solutions that will help you to deal with negative surprises and make your marriage fulfilling.
I Wish I Knew This Earlier: Lessons o...
We’ve all been on promising dates that left us feeling worse in the long run, suffered from breakups we might have mishandled, or stayed in relationships which should have worked but didn’t. So what are we missing?
Don’t panic! Toni Tone is here to give the big sister advice we all need: discovering what we want from a connection, flourishing through heartbreak, and learning the vital importance of difficult conversations for growth and self-respect. Speaking from a place of experience and empathy, she talks through the value of intuition, asking questions, and taking responsibility for the choices we make, offering practical, simple advice to improve any relationship, and insight into our own behaviours.
From comfort zones and goal setting to healthy boundaries and keeping yourself centred, Toni offers the loving, healing and authentic common sense lessons that aren’t so common.
It may just change your life.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CARDS
Mwongozo wa Bembea ya Maisha by John ...
Madhumuni ya kuandika kitabu hiki ni kumrahisishia mwalimu na mwanafunzi kazi na kumpa mwelekeo unaofaa. Kitabu hiki kimeangazia masuala ibuka katika utahini wa karatasi ya tatu ya Kiswahili katika mtihani wa KCSE. Kitabu hiki kimejumuisha vipengele saba vya uhakiki wa fasihi andishi kama vile; Ploti ya tamthilia, dhamira ya mwandishi, mandhari na umuhimu wake, ufaafu wa anwani, maudhui, wahusika na uhusika na mbinu za lugha.
Maswali ya udurusu pia yamejumuisha katika kila mwisho wa onyesho ambayo yatamsaidia mwanafunzi kujinoa na kujipima ratili uelewa wake wa ploti. Maswali ya kiwango cha kitaifa pia yamejumuisha pamoja na majibu yake.
Masuala ibuka kama vile umuhimu wa wahusika, mbinu za kimtindo, aina za takriri, aina za taswira, na vipengele vingine.
“Living a Fruitful Life” ...
‘Living A Fruitful Life’ explores the essence of God's will to direct your passion to achieve your life purpose, by instilling in you the virtue and discipline of grit, rational choices and life skills that makes you stand out and raise your bar in excellence.
The life you live hence becomes fruitful, by your convictions, life choices and decisions in a world of dual tolerance where the society is fast changing. You are authentic and a marked person in the divine realms, and are meant to maximize your gifts and skills to shape your generation.
This books sharpens that discovery and builds in you a desire to hold on to the end!
Forgive Me Sunita by E.B. Ogalo
Sunita, a Standard Seven pupil at Nairobi Primary School finds herself in difficult situation. She is a student leader and is loved by both teachers and most of her colleague learners.
However, she notices that one of the student leaders is a bully and chooses to address the problem but what follows makes her come face to face with betrayal, hatred and the dire need to forgive.
Will she forgive the people who hurt her?
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of...
The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences.
The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing OxyContin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis.
Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling.
Collins German Dictionary and Grammar...
COLLINS GERMAN DICTIONARY AND GRAMMAR is designed for all intermediate learners of German, whether at school, at home, or for business. 90,000 references and 118,000 translations will help those learning German take their language skills to the next level.
This edition of COLLINS GERMAN DICTIONARY AND GRAMMAR offers extensive and relevant coverage of today's English and German, with thousands of phrases and examples guiding the user to the most appropriate translation.
A comprehensive grammar guide presents detailed examples and translations to help users to understand German grammar - the perfect complement to the dictionary.
The clear Collins typography gives the text a contemporary feel, and along with the new alphabet tabs, ensures that users find the information they need quickly and easily.