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This is an emotionally driven true story that starts after Timothy wakes from a bicycle accident in an induced coma. The reader walks hand in hand with Timothy as he discovers his newly acquired disabled world. After hospitalisation, therapies and a legal trial, he looks to discover his new world and jumps back on his bike. As his system finds new legs, he uses his bike and physical activity to reawaken an emotional dynamic back into his life....

The exploration of cultural differences in this novel reflects W H Auden's poetic words that we must love one another or die. Daiga, an African student from Cameroon, arrives at the University of Stuttgart for a course in German. He is supposed to return home after his government funded course ends but he elects to stay on for a political science degree. How to finance this is the problem. He meets and marries Monica, a German girl who is at f...

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Newsboy takes readers through a lifetime in printing and journalism. One can experience the sudden transition to todays computer assisted printing process after more than 500 years of printing from moveable wooden and metal typefaces in the Western world. Good luck helped the author touch skies over three continents. He found stepping stones across the swirling rivers of newsboy, printer and journalist. Now as editor emeritus of a suburban Ott...

Men are duty bound to be honest, kind and true to women. Is this too much to expect? Certainly not for a woman such as the protagonist in "The innocence of Emine". Hers was no isolated case of innocence betrayed by mankind. Women the world over are still testifying against outrageous behaviour toward them. One does not have to research history for examples such as the ones found in this book. They are there before intelligent eyes in the media...

Giving Robert Mugabe a fair hearing around the escapades of a Zambian track runner, who breaks through the colour barrier for black African athletes, is no stretch. It really did happen and this book tells when and where. Backgrounding the story the momentous struggle to end British colonialism and white minority rule is unveiled in lively human terms. The long distance runner, Daniel, is forefronted along with his track rival, a white South A...

Over 70% of the world's nations spell out clearly in their constitutions that members of their parliaments or national assemblies are protected from the criminal process. This is called parliamentary inviolability. Only the Commonwealth parliaments and the Congress of the United States refuse to grant such special immunity to its members. This discourages good governance and encourages clashes among the three branches of government as the Crax...