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2024A Fire Within and Other Stories
by Kristine Ong Muslim, Lilian Akampurira Aujo, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Lubnah Abdulhalim, Nnamdi Oguike, Heran Abate, Muthoni Muchemi, Farai Mudzingwa, Hellena Rial Isaac, MG Vassanji, Hassan Ghedi Santur, Muna Ahmed Omer, A. Igoni Barrett
A Fire Within and Other Stories showcases award-winning African authors addressing crucial continental issues through compelling short stories. Set across various African countries, the anthology explores topics like women's leadership, early marriage, corruption, and climate change. It uniquely pairs each story with discussion prompts, encouraging readers to engage deeply with Africa's social, political, and economic challenges.
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Children's & YAMarch 2020Amelie Trott and the Earth Watchers
by Moyra Irving
This is the extraordinary story of how one small girl stopped a planetary catastrophe. It’s a very timely book, written for the child in us all, with a forceful message about the power of young people to transform the world - a theme currently demonstrated by brave young heroes like Greta Thunberg. And with magical synchronicity, the very week Greta began her lone vigil outside the Swedish government last year, over 1,000 miles (1,897 km) away in the fictional world of books, Amelie Trott took to Parliament Square, London - on a mission to avert the End of the World. It’s a family drama with an international feel - set mainly in England but with episodes in Washington DC and around the world.
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Travel writingJanuary 2003Riding the Desert Trail
By Bicycle to the Source of the Nile
by Bettina Selby
One wet and windy day in the British Museum, Bettina Selby decided, almost on an impulse, to travel the length of the Nile Valley, from the Mediterranean Sea to the mysterious Mountains of the Moon and the great lakes of central Africa. She designed a special ‘all terrain’ bicycle for the journey; and suitably equipped with insect repellants, sun hat and an invaluable filter pump for purifying the waters of the Nile, a Swiss army penknife and an impractical aerosol spray for keeping rabid dogs at bay, she set off on her 4500-mile adventure. It took her from the Pyramids, the great temples of Luxor, the Valley of the Kings and all the magnificence of Egypt, to the empty burning sands of the Nubian Desert; from Cairo’s congenial bustle, and the hospitality of remote Nile-side villages, to the starving refugee camps of war-torn southern Sudan; from the world of international aid (about which she has very mixed feelings) to the terrifying child-soldiers of Uganda - the ruined paradise where her journey ends. Vivid, moving and observant, alive with the encounters that befall a solitary traveller in remote and often dangerous countries,Riding the Desert Trail is travel writing at its most exciting and exhilarating. Bettina Selby writes as well as she travels TLS
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Natural disastersJanuary 2011Disasters
Strengthening Community Mitigation and Preparedness
by Khanna, B.K. & Neena Khanna
The book covers all the task of implementation of the initiative of inculcating the culture of preparedness in the community as they are the first responders in case of a disaster. The book includes, what, how, when and by whom what should be done before, during and after a disaster takes place. The highlights of the book are: 1.All types of disasters ranging from earthquakes to terrorist strikes, from nuclear disasters to urban floods have been illustrated. 2.Case studies supporting all the disasters.3.Fully illustrated with adequate diagrams, flow charts and colour photographs etc.4.Situation and region specific requirements in cases of rehabilitation and casualty management. 5.Setting up and executing requirement specific Disaster Management Plans. 6.Conducting of mock s on various types of perceived disasters found there way in the book.The book would be useful for the first responders, district administration and state authorities (districts/tehsil/taluk/sub-division level functionaries, the DM planners in the state, NGOs) schools/educational institutions, National Disaster Response Force, Para Military Forces, Armed Forces.
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Structural engineeringDecember 2013Sustainable Infrastructure: Principles into Practice (Delivering Sustainable Infrastructure series)
by Charles Ainger (Author)
Sustainable Infrastructure: Principles into Practice is a practical and accessible handbook which addresses the key principles of sustainability for engineers and built environment professionals. It outlines the critical changes needed to deliver more sustainable solutions and offers techniques to embed these changes as best practice in order to deliver high quality, economical and sustainable infrastructure across the globe. With many years of engineering knowledge and practical experience between them, the authors identify key sustainability issues in engineering and a set of common principles which can be applied across all types of infrastructure at each stage of a project, from planning and development through to the implementation, in-use and end-of-life phases. The book provides readers with a set of tools to help define, test and measure sustainability, encouraging them to be champions of change and take full advantage of sustainable opportunities. Sustainable Infrastructure: Principles into Practice provides readers with: • A comprehensive set of fundamental principles and tools to guide engineering decision making for sustainable infrastructure delivery • Real life case studies and practical examples from across the world, including the UK, Europe, Africa and the USA. • An understanding of the concepts and current debates around the need for sustainability • Advice on what questions to ask and when at each stage of project delivery Sustainable Infrastructure: Principles into Practice serves as an introduction to subsequent volumes in the Delivering Sustainable Infrastructure series which apply these principles to sector-specific contexts, including water, transport and buildings.
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Religious & spiritual fictionJuly 2015Appointed To Die
by Kate Charles
Death at the Deanery - sudden and unnatural death. Someone should have seen it coming. For even before Stuart Latimer arrives as the new Dean of Malbury, shock waves are reverberating through the tightly-knit and insular Cathedral Close, with sweeping changes afoot. And the reality is even worse than the expectation. The Dean's naked ambition and ruthless behaviour alienate everyone in the Chapter: the gentle John Kingsley, vague Rupert Greenwood, pompous Philip Thetford and, especially, the strongly traditionalist Arthur Brydges-french. Financial jiggery-pokery, clandestine meetings, malicious gossip, and several people who witness more than they ought to, make for a potent mix. But who could foresee that the mistrust within the Cathedral Close would spill over into violence and death? Canon Kingsley's daughter Lucy draws in her lover David Middleton-Brown, against his better judgement, and together they probe the surprising secrets of a self-contained world where nothing is as it seems.
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Mystery2014Under an English Heaven
An Ellie Kent Mystery
by Alice K. Boatwright
What could be more pleaceful than living life as a vicar’s wife in the English countryside? That’s what newlywed Ellie Kent believes as she begins her life with her clergyman husband Graham. Unfortunately, she is no sooner ensconced in their cottage than an unknown man is found murdered in the graveyard near the vicarage. It’s bad enough that Ellie discovered the old man’s body, but bad turns to worse when the local constabulary begin to suspect her. After all, she is a foreigner and new to the area and she did discover the body. Then, to top off those seemingly innocuous reasons, it’s discovered that the deadman was wearing Italian underwear and Ellie was formerly married to an Italian man and had vacationed in Italy. When a local antiques dealer finds a book of Italian poetry in the surrounding woods and gives it to Ellie, she sees the book as a possible clue to the man’s identity and mayabe a means of discovering the true killer and removing herself from the top of the list of suspects. As Ellie begins to study the book, she becomes intrigued and mystified by its possible connections to the dead man. Was it his? And if so, who is the “Cara Mia” that he mentions in the inscription? Why is there no information about the author? The plot thickens and before Ellie is able to track down the killer and regain her reputation, other victims may fall.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2023The Making of the World
How International Organizations Shape Our Future
by Yves Schemeil
International Organizations (IOs) were designed to provide global public goods, among which security for all, trade for the richest, and development for the poorest. Their very existence is now a promise of success for the cooperative turn in international relations. Although the IO network was once created by established powers, rising states can hardly resist the massive production of norms that their governments can be reluctant to respect without being able to discard them. IOs are omnipresent, and exert great influence on the world as we know it. However, rulers and ruled are hardly aware of such compelling and snowballing processes. Yves Schemeil uses his in-depth knowledge of IOs to analyze their current impact on international relations, on world politics, and their potential of shaping the global future. This book fills the gap between actual influence and extant knowledge of IOs; it also assesses the likeliness of an even more intertwined world, in which IOs’ network cannot be disentangled – at least, not as easily as assessed by authoritarian leaders and authoritative authors. The book is based on a sound knowledge of dozens of organizations directly or indirectly observed, either personally or through teams of students in several countries, which made it possible for the author to select the hardest cases to test his hypotheses, and assess the option that we may ever have a world government.
