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The Old Lion Of Africa by Walter N Ma...
Brief Summary
Dr.Walter Nyamori Masiga`s life story is an extended miracle of sorts. He stayed in his mother`s womb for three years, was immobilized by yellow fever at five years age and was so done with life when he lost his father at a tender age that he failed his first-ever exam. Yet he went on to earn the highest accolades from some of the best universities in the world.
And when he joined the world of work, holding some of the highest positions in the world of science and research, his name became synonymous with eradication of Rinderpest in Africa. His sterling record saw his Europeans peers fondly christened him `The Old Lion of Africa`. In this inspiring book, he recounts his life an official of the AFC Leopards football club, at a time when Ingwe pounced so menacingly that they maintained their signature 3-0 win.
Dr. Masiga recalls brushing shoulders with the high and mighty at home and in faraway lands, as well as meeting his future wife, the late Elizabeth Semo Masiga, who later rose to become permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education.
ISBN:The Old Lion Of Africa001
Author:Walter N Masiga
The Logic of Life by Tim Harford
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Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why your idiot boss is paid a fortune for sitting behind a mahogany altar? Thorny questions and you might be surprised to hear the answers coming from an economist.
But Tim Harford, award-winning journalist and author of the bestseller The Undercover Economist, likes to spring surprises. In this deftly reasoned book, Harford argues that life is logical after all. Under the surface of everyday insanity, hidden incentives are at work, and Harford shows these incentives emerging in the most unlikely places.
Using tools ranging from animal experiments to supercomputer simulations, an ambitious new breed of economist is trying to unlock the secrets of society. The Logic of Life is the first book to map out the astonishing insights and frustrating blind spots of this new economics in a way that anyone can enjoy.
The Logic of Life presents an X-ray image of human life, stripping away the surface to show us a picture that is revealing, enthralling, and sometimes disturbing. The stories that emerge are not about data or equations but about people: the athlete who survived a shocking murder attempt, the computer geek who beat the hard-bitten poker pros, the economist who defied Henry Kissinger and faked an invasion of Berlin, the king who tried to buy off a revolution.
Once you have read this quotable and addictive book, life will never look the same again.
ISBN:9781400066421
Author:Tim Harford
Little Red Book of Selling 12.5 Princ...
Sales Bible The Ultimate Sales Resource
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Global sales authority Jeffrey Gitomer's bestselling classic, The Sales Bible, has been updated and appended in this new edition, offering you the ultimate sales methods and strategies that really work ? every day, in real-world selling situations.
With over 200,000 copies of the previous editions sold, The Sales Bible was listed as one of "The Ten Books Every Salesperson Should Own and Read" by the Dale Carnegie Sales Advantage Program.
Jeffrey Gitomer's column, "Sales Moves," and blog, "SalesBlog.com" are read by more than four million people every week. His customers include Coca-Cola, BMW, Kimpton Hotels, Hilton, Wells Fargo Bank, IBM, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Hewlett Packard, and hundreds of others.
The Sales Bible is your personal, trusted, authoritative resource to reach your sales potential and shine like a star. Accept no substitutes. Here are a few highlights:
• The 10.5 Commandments of Selling
• Generate leads and close sales in any market environment
• Find 25 proven ways to set hard-to-get appointments
• Use top-down selling to fill your sales pipeline with prospects who are ready to buy now
• Ask the right questions to make more sales in half the time
• How to use the top social media platforms to create inbound leads and prove value.
The Sales Bible has helped tens of thousands of salespeople all over the world reach their potential and close the deal ? and it can help you. So what are you waiting for?
ISBN:9781118985816
Author:Jeffrey Gitomer
God Hears Her 365 Devotions for Women...
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When you're having one of those days, you just want to know that someone is on your side. You have more than just someone . . . you have your Heavenly Father! He is with you. He is for you. He hears your heart's cry.
And He will reassure you of this through the beautifully designed, hardcover devotional collection, God Hears Her. The personal stories, Scripture passages, and inspirational quotes pulled from Our Daily Bread devotionals will lift you up and remind you that God is bigger than the trials you face.
God Hears Her
• Contains 365 daily devotions written by women for women
• Makes an ideal gift, with its small size and attractive hardcover binding
• Includes a foreword by Elisa Morgan, named by Christianity Today as 1 of the top 50 women influencing today’s church and culture
• Pick up one today to encourage yourself and get another one to encourage a friend.
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ISBN:9781627078719
Author:Our Daily Bread Ministries
Our Daily Bread
Brief Summary
"That’s exactly what I needed to hear today. How did you know?” Comments like this are common from the readers of Our Daily Bread devotionals. Our writers can't know your specific needs . . . but God does! He can use each daily devotion that goes into the 2016 Our Daily Bread Devotional Collection to meet you where you are.
Perhaps He’ll speak to you through real-life stories, Scripture passages, and encouraging thoughts in these 366 meditations. This book is the perfect way to start your busy day or springboard you further into your quiet time.
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ISBN:9781680434514
Author:Our Daily Bread Ministries
How To Make Your Marriage Work by Kib...
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In this simple-to-read book, Dr. K I Laibuta does not hesitate to turn the page and bring the reader face to face with lives of strife and pain as marital relationships turn into ordeals that banish the envisioned romantic bliss. The book provides practical solutions to challenges with which couples contend in daily life, and offers tested counsel on how to find joy in an enduring and fulfilling relationship.
It draws on practical wisdom that nurtures mutual support for personal growth and contentment. By use of inspirational anecdotes, Dr. Laibuta confronts the realities of life in marriage without pretense or evasive glamour, and takes the reader beyond those euphoric feelings of love and obsession by which the newly-wed are often overwhelmed in their newly-found wonderland. In doing so, the book reveals the conflicting languages of love and desire, and takes the reader through the ensuing phases of enduring love.
It lays bare the fears of every spouse when the children have gone, and in times of want and loneliness in separation or divorce, or when death strikes.
ISBN:HowToMakeYourMarriage001
Author:Kibaya Laibuta
Fasting and Eating for Health by Joel...
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Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease
Joel Fuhrman's Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease offers precise diet and fasting programs to relieve headache, hypoglycemia, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, colitis, psoriasis, lupus, and uterine fibroids. You'll also learn:
- How to use fasting to lose weight
- How to start, what to expect, how to reintroduce food to maintain maximum benefits
- How to work with a physician for longer fasts (more than 3 days)
ISBN:9780312187194
Author:Joel Fuhrman
Food As Medicine by Dharma Singh Khalsa
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Food As Medicine: How to Use Diet, Vitamins, Juices, and Herbs for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life.
A holistic approach to healing through making smart food choices by health guru Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa that combines spiritual advice and integrative medicine to provide healthful recipes and nutrition plans targeting common and chronic illnesses for a longer, healthier, natural life.
Did you know that blueberries can increase brain longevity? That kiwi fruit can be an excellent weapon for battling cancer and heart disease? That pears can help prevent fibroid tumors?
From the bestselling author of Meditation as Medicine, comes a remarkable book that helps you achieve maximum health by eating well. Grounded in science, Food as Medicine is a pragmatic and accessible reference that sets readers on the right nutritional path. Dr. Khalsa then explains how to use natural organic juices and foods as medicine, and how food can help reverse the progress or diminish the symptoms of certain diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Hepatitis C.
Drawing on patient case histories, Food as Medicine outlines the seven principles of "The Khalsa Plan" for healthy eating, details ailment-specific nutritional plans, and lays out dozens of delicious recipes that promote overall well-being. After all, food is not only the original medicine -- it's the best medicine.
ISBN:9780743442282
Author:Dharma Singh Khalsa
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jen...
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Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six: The band's album Aurora came to define the rock 'n' roll era of the late seventies, and an entire generation of girls wanted to grow up to be Daisy. But no one knows the reason behind the group's split on the night of their final concert at Chicago Stadium on July 12, 1979 . . . until now.
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock 'n' roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.
Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.
Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.
The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.
Deadlier 100 of the Best Crime Storie...
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100 of the best crime stories written by women, selected and introduced by Sophie Hannah. From Agatha Christie and Daphne du Maurier, to Val McDermid and Margaret Atwood, women writers have long been drawn to criminal acts.
Here, award-winning author Sophie Hannah brings together 100 of her favourite examples.
Deadlier includes prize-winners, bestsellers and rising stars, so whether you take your crime cosy or hard-boiled, this big, beautiful anthology will keep you reading long into the night.
ISBN:9781784975463
Author:Sophie Hannah
Gold of Our Fathers by Kwei Quartey
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Darko Dawson, Chief Inspector in the Ghana police service, returns in this atmospheric crime series often compared to Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels.
Darko Dawson has just been promoted to Chief Inspector in the Ghana Police Service—the promotion even comes with a (rather modest) salary bump. But he doesn’t have long to celebrate because his new boss is transferring him from Accra, Ghana’s capital, out to remote Obuasi in the Ashanti region, an area now notorious for the illegal exploitation of its gold mines.
When Dawson arrives at the Obuasi headquarters, he finds it in complete disarray. The office is a mess of uncatalogued evidence and cold case files, morale is low, and discipline among officers is lax. On only his second day on the job, the body of a Chinese mine owner is unearthed in his own gold quarry. As Dawson investigates the case, he quickly learns how dangerous it is to pursue justice in this kingdom of illegal gold mines, where the worst offenders have so much money they have no fear of the law.
ISBN:9781616956318
Author:Kwei Quartey
African Twilight The Vanishing Ritual...
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African Twilight is the two-volume, slipcased magnum opus of the two pioneering documentary photographers of African tribal cultures and ceremonies--a world that is quickly vanishing before our very eyes.
Now, nearly two decades after these photographer's landmark African Ceremonies and with a greater sense of urgency, this book completes the journey, covering disappearing rituals and ceremonies from some of the most inaccessible corners of the African continent, to create the definitive statement on this subject. This new landmark volume will set the standard for capturing a visual testament to the vanishing traditions of African peoples. No other book like this exists or can ever be created again, as more than 40 percent of what has been documented here has already vanished.
For the last 15 years of their four decades of African fieldwork, world-renowned photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have continued their journey across Africa, seeking out remote communities to record the sacred ceremonies, powerful art forms, and boundless creativity of the people living there today. This ground-breaking book is a testament to these vanishing moments and peoples. African Twilight is a celebration of the powerful artistry and boundless creativity of Africa's cultural heritage for audiences worldwide, transporting viewers into a world of connections between individual and community, body and soul, land and people. All of the photography is previously unpublished.
ISBN:9780847860173
Author:Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher
The French Revolution and What Went W...
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Legend has it that, in a few busy weeks in July 1789, a despotic king, his freeloading wife, and a horde of over-privileged aristocrats, were displaced and then humanely dispatched.
In the ensuing years, we are told, France was heroically transformed into an idyll of Liberté, Egalité and Fraternité.
In fact, as Stephen Clarke argues in his informative and eye-opening account of the French Revolution, almost all of this is completely untrue.
In 1789 almost no one wanted to oust King Louis XVI, let alone guillotine him.
While the Bastille was being stormed by out-of-control Parisians, the true democrats were at work in Versailles creating a British-style constitutional monarchy.
The founding of the Republic in 1792 unleashed a reign of terror that caused about 300,000 violent deaths.
And people hailed today as revolutionary heroes were dangerous opportunists, whose espousal of Liberté, Egalité and Fraternité did not stop them massacring political opponents and guillotining women for demanding equal rights.
Going back to original French sources, Stephen Clarke has uncovered the little-known and rarely told story of what was really happening in revolutionary France, as well as what went so tragically and bloodily wrong.
ISBN:B074MC1Z46
Author:Stephen Clarke
Soaring Above the Storms of Passion b...
Mudavadi’s memoir, Soaring Above the Storms of Passion, paints Odinga as a man under pressure who was willing to play tricks on both friend and foe to overcome the difficult situation before him.
Some of Mudavadi’s claims have also corroborated what had already been written by exiled Kenyan activist Miguna Miguna who was part of Odinga’s team in the aftermath of August General Election.
For instance, Mudavadi writes of the plan to have a parallel swearing in ceremony for Odinga.
The plan received a lot of opposition from the international community and the ANC Party Leader says one Western country went as far as to cancel Odinga’s visa and that of many of his allies.
Mudavadi was in the team of those who believed the Opposition chief should not have been sworn in but Odinga was also under a lot of pressure from the swearing in diehards who included Miguna Miguna, James Orengo, Jimmy Wanjigi, Raila Junior, among others.
As the pressure mounted, Mudavadi, in consultation with Raila and the technical team decided to announce the postponement of the swearing in ceremony that had been expected to take place on December 12th 2018.
Just before Mudavadi could make the announcement during a press conference at Okoa Kenya office, Raila became untraceable.
Unknown to Mudavadi, the Opposition chief was holed up in Jimmy Wanjigi’s house in Muthaiga where the Okoa Kenya TV had planned to film a swearing in ceremony which would then be distributed on the internet.
The team in Wanjigi’s house did not know that Raila had already directed the swearing in ceremony to be postponed, and kept asking Mudavadi why he was taking too long to make the announcement.
"I learnt from people present that Raila seemed to have been very shocked to watch us on TV calling off the swearing in. He is reported to have said, "Oh they are calling it off?” At this point the swearing in at Muthaiga was called off. Before we left for the Okoa Kenya offices, he had called me to ask why we were taking long to make the announcement,” Mudavadi writes in his new book.
Breaking the Boundaries between Fanta...
Brief Summary
Breaking the Boundaries between Fantasy and Reality is an impulse, a more than a force or rather a push to profound levels of greatness. What would be the greatest desire for existence than realizing your true worth, abilities, Forte and fortitude to attaining all that your heart ever desired regardless of the state of existence you are in?
This is the book that brings you to the realization of that self in you, that great eminent, distinguished symbol of significance. It is an escape blueprint from the worst and demotivating world of cocoons of fantasy in one’s existence, and start thinking of their lives positively.
In the best way so as to realize their divine purpose in life. The author has explored into depth the reasons why majority of people do not realize their dreams in life. He has succeeded in offering solutions to these Fantasies that never become a reality.
It comprises of 12 chapters of great power and relentless wisdom to enhance your ability to think positively, to improve your knowledge as well as to learn more. Each chapter has a taste of its own glamour and taste, full of humor and educative stories, based on truth and others on fiction. It is a book you won’t imagine of putting down when you start reading it though.
You fail to read this, and you will be missing a very great transformational information about a life, from a person who has seen life in different perspective through life experience to becoming a better person.
ISBN:9789966160815
Author:Makau Kennedy
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl.
But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life–until the unthinkable happens.
Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver and Karen Russell, Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.
Think Like a White Man
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The White Man Commandments
1. Politics trumps performance
2. Compassion impedes progress
3. Winning justifies everything (and anything)
4. Victory is only complete upon the absolute humiliation or, preferably, humiliating death of an opponent
5. Racism has immense strategic benefit
6. A fact is not a fact until a White Man or at least a white person says it is a fact . . . even when it is not a fact
7. Activism is a societal ill but occasionally a useful tool
8. Sex is a treat, a threat, a weakness, a necessity and a bargaining chip
9. Cash rules - and everyone has a price
10. Power is the prize
11. A White Man must be respected, feared or at least, loved
12. The White Man is God (Elvis is King, the Beatles are the greatest, Eminem is., etc.)
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Loyal Enemies by Jamie Gilham
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Loyal Enemies: British Converts to Islam 1850-1950
Loyal Enemies uncovers the history of the earliest British converts to Islam who lived their lives freely as Muslims on British soil, from the 1850s to the 1950s. Drawing on original archival research, it reveals that people from across the range of social classes defied convention by choosing Islam in this period.
Through a series of case studies of influential converts and pioneering Muslim communities, Loyal Enemies considers how the culture of Empire and imperialism influenced and affected their conversions and subsequent lives, before examining how they adapted and sustained their faith. Jamie Gilham shows that, although the overall number of converts was small, conversion to Islam aroused hostile reactions locally and nationally.
He therefore also probes the roots of antipathy towards Islam and Muslims, identifies their manifestations and explores what conversion entailed socially and culturally. He also considers whether there was any substance to persistent allegations that converts had "divided" loyalties between the British Crown and a Muslim ruler, country or community.
Loyal Enemies is a book about the past, but its core themes--about faith and belief, identity, Empire, loyalties and discrimination-- are still salient today.
ISBN:9780199377251
Author:Jamie Gilham