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Chinua Achebe renowned as Africa's most famous novelist and author who died in Boston, USA, on 21st March 2013 at the age of 82. He is recognized as the founding father of Modern African writing in English. The publication of his first novel Things Fall Apart not only contested European narratives about Africa but also challenged traditional assumptions about the form and function of the novel. His literary life spanned over fifty years, from ...

Globally, cervical cancer is the second leading cause of death for women with cancer. This is a tragedy in part because cervical cancer affects women usually a decade sooner than other cancers when those women are in their reproductive years and in the prime years in the labour force. While screening with the Pap test or other more recently evaluated tests have resulted in low cervical cancer rates in high resource countries, the lack of scree...

OTOMO Katsuhiro is one of the most respected and influential Japanese artists/storytellers in the history of modern comics. He has also worked extensively in animations, from his own, hugely successful adaptation of his epic manga, Akira, which is widely considered to be a pinnacle of the form - a work of astonishing power and visionary scope, with unsurpassed artistry.This book, as the second title published by PIE International, exclusively ...

The challenge that is defense planning includes: "educated futurology" and the humanities as methodological approaches, futurists and scenarios, trend spotting and defense analysis, the impossibility of science in studying the future, the impossibility of verification by empirical testing of hypotheses, the value of the humanities which are politics, strategy, and history for defense planning, the use and misuse of analogy, learning from histo...

The Peterloo massacre of 1819 is one of the landmarks of British history. Notwithstanding the weeks of legal argument and the decades of noisy disputes about who was responsible, the sheer quantity of information is exceptional, so the basic facts have never been in serious doubt.

This book is written for students of English who are interested in the history of the language and would like to read an accessible but also comprehensive and reasonably detailed introduction. Apart from basic information about language change and the Indo-European background of English, it gives an outline of the major periods of the language (Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Late Modern English), with a brief examination...

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¿The story unwinds in a typical American city. Jason, a talented computer programmer found himself thrown into captivity with Tasha. She was a woman caught in the snare of human sex trafficking from the darkest parts of the internet. Alone, but together they embarked on an unparalleled journey of greed, extortion, theft and human cruelty through the use of the very connection of simple, home-based communications.

Women balance home, work, children and other relationships...so why are so many of us so bad at balancing our own accounts? In this simple step-by-step guideline, financial professional Erica L. McCain, LUTCF explains the traps that women fall into when trying to save for their future--and how they can avoid them. Ladies with loot are those women who seem to have it all together, who know how to get the most value for their money and aren't sh...

Der Tod ist und bleibt das größte aller Abenteuer." Gehen Sie mit dem Autor zusammen auf eine Reise, die im Leben beginnt, über den Tod hinaus geht und entdecken Sie dabei eine Welt voller verborgener Wahrheiten und Geheimnisse. Ein 'Leben nach dem Tod' ist weder Wunschdenken noch Kindheitsphanatsie, sondern vielmehr Fakt und Realität. Man muss schon bewusst wegschauen und sich gewisse Unwahrheiten ständig gebetsmühlenartig einrede...

POETRY COLLECTION 20 IN PROSE POEMS, RHYMES AND SOME VERSES .... NOW IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ...

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How is the future world energy demand to be met? The rates of use of the fossil fuels coal, oil and natural gas are increasing all over the world. The remaining stocks are finite and are not renewable. This book considers the various options of renewable energy, including water energy, wind energy and biomass, solar thermal and solar photovoltaic energy. And should the nuclear option remain open? The work also examines the environmental implic...

Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions and techniques. Guided application of various skills, including shaping flower decorations, moulding animals and figurines and piping or painting designs. Versatile basic recipes that can be mixed and matched to produce a wide variety of combinations. Combines delicious flavours with attractive designs

The sequel to the Eisner Award-nominated Simon & Kirby collection Young Romance.

Applying postcolonial theory as a framework of analysis, this volume offers critiques of notions of development, progress, humanism, culture, representation, and identity, examining the implications of these critiques for pedagogical theory and educational practice.

Sophie White is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Now a major motion picture! Kidnapped into slavery in 1841, Northup spent 12 years in captivity. This autobiographical memoir represents an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. 7 illustrations.

This journal is the perfect traveling companion for anyone visiting Las Vegas. Plan and record all details of your trip, includes lined and blank pages for writing your diary and sketching, with handy information tailored for travelers. Lists to help you pack, plan and set budgets are included in this journal.

In this text, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must separate oneself from the mother and maternal care-givers on whom one depended in childhood to become a self or an autonomous subject.