• emerging africa by Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu (Author)

    Emerging Africa – How the Global Economy’s ‘Last Frontier’ can Prosper and Matter

    By Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu (Author)

    In this thoughtful and elegantly written book, Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu explodes the myths and conventional wisdoms about Africa’s quest for economic growth in a globalised world with a paradigm-shift perspective on the continent’s future.

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  • From Frying Pan to Fire By Olusegun Adeniyi

    From Frying Pan to Fire By Olusegun Adeniyi

    From Frying Pan to Fire By Olusegun Adeniyi

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  • A Troublesome Inheritance

    A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History

    By Nicholas Wade (Author)

    Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story
    Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has been banished from polite academic conversation. Arguing that race is more than just a social construct can get a scholar run out of town, or at least off campus, on a rail. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory.

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  • Construction Management JumpStart By Barbara J. Jackson

    Construction Management JumpStart By Barbara J. Jackson

    By Barbara J. Jackson

    Launch Your Construction Management Career—Quickly andEffectively

    Written by an experienced construction management specialist,Construction Management JumpStart provides all the core informationyou need, whether you’re considering a new career or expanding yourresponsibilities:

    • Understanding the functions of construction management
    • Understanding the design and construction process
    • Working with contracts documents
    • Estimating project costs
    • Administering contracts
    • Managing the job site
    • Creating and maintaining a project schedule
    • Measuring project performance
    • Controlling quality
    • Ensuring project safety
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  • Without Their Permission

    Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed

     By Alexis Ohanian

    WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER As Alexis Ohanian learned when he helped to co-found the immensely popular reddit.com, the internet is the most powerful and democratic tool for disseminating information in human history. And when that power is harnessed to create new communities, technologies, businesses or charities, the results can be absolutely stunning.

     By Alexis Ohanian

    In this book, Alexis will share his ideas, tips and even his own doodles about harnessing the power of the web for good, and along the way, he will share his philosophy with young entrepreneurs all over the globe.

    At 29, Ohanian has come to personify the dorm-room tech entrepreneur, changing the world without asking permission. Within a couple of years of graduating from the University of Virginia, Ohanian did just that, selling reddit for millions of dollars. He’s gone on to start many other companies, like hipmunk and breadpig, all while representing Y Combinator and investing in over sixty other tech startups. WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION is his personal guidebook as to how other aspiring entrepreneurs can follow in his footsteps.

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  • The Genius of Islam: How Muslims Made the Modern World

    The Genius of Islam: How Muslims Made the Modern World

    The Middle Ages were a period of tremendous cultural and scientific advancement in the Islamic Empire—ideas and inventions that shaped our world.
    Did you know that:
    • The numbers you use every day (Arabic numerals!) are a Muslim invention?
    • The marching band you hear at football games has its roots in the Middle East?
    • You are drinking orange juice at breakfast today thanks to Islamic farming innovations?
    • The modern city’s skyline was made possible by Islamic architecture?

    The Muslim world has often been a bridge between East and West, but many of Islam’s crucial innovations are hidden within the folds of history. In this important book, Bryn Barnard uses short, engaging text and gorgeous full-color artwork to bring Islam’s contributions gloriously to life.  Chockful of information and pictures, and eminently browsable, The Genius of Islam is the definitive guide to a fascinating topic.

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  • Contagious: Why Things Catch On

    Contagious: Why Things Catch On

    In Contagious, Berger reveals the secret science behind word-of-mouth and social transmission. Discover how six basic principles drive all sorts of things to become contagious, from consumer products and policy initiatives to workplace rumors and YouTube videos. Learn how a luxury steakhouse found popularity through the lowly cheesesteak, why anti-drug commercials might have actually increased drug use, and why more than 200 million consumers shared a video about one of the most seemingly boring products there is: a blender.

    Contagious provides a set of specific, actionable techniques for helping information spread—for designing messages, advertisements, and content that people will share. Whether you’re a manager at a big company, a small business owner trying to boost awareness, a politician running for office, or a health official trying to get the word out, Contagious will show you how to make your product or idea catch on.

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  • Burnt Shadows By Kamila Shamsie

    Burnt Shadows By Kamila Shamsie

    Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Hiroko Tanaka watches her lover from the veranda as he leaves. Sunlight streams across Urakami Valley, and then the world goes white.

    In the devastating aftermath of the atomic bomb, Hiroko leaves Japan in search of new beginnings. From Delhi, amid India’s cry for independence from British colonial rule, to New York City in the immediate wake of 9/11, to the novel’s astonishing climax in Afghanistan, a violent history casts its shadow the entire world over. Sweeping in its scope and mesmerizing in its evocation of time and place, this is a tale of love and war, of three generations, and three world-changing historic events. Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows is a story for our time by “a writer of immense ambition and strength. . . . This is an absorbing novel that commands in the reader a powerful emotional and intellectual response” (Salman Rushdie).

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  • Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World's Most Successful Businesses

    Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World’s Most Successful Businesses

    Taking readers inside the most cutting-edge businesses, Ninja Innovation is the ultimate guide to achieving victory in today’s innovate-or-die economy

    Gary Shapiro has observed the world’s most innovative businesses from his front-row seat as leader of the Consumer Electronics Association and its influential annual trade show, the International CES. Now he reveals the ten secrets of “ninja innovators” like Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and many others.

    What does it take to succeed? Discipline. Mission-oriented strategy. Adaptability. Decisiveness. And a will for victory. In short, today’s most successful businesses are “ninja innovators.” Drawn from Gary Shapiro’s three decades of experience leading the consumer electronics industry, Ninja Innovation takes readers behind the scenes of today’s top enterprises, uncovering their ten essential strategies for success.

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  • Amelia Bedelia Means Business

    Amelia Bedelia Means Business

    Amelia Bedelia makes her chapter book debut! In Amelia Bedelia Means Business, a New York Times bestseller and the first book in the new chapter book series, young Amelia Bedelia will do almost anything for a shiny new bicycle.

    Amelia Bedelia’s parents say they’ll split the cost of a new bike with her, and that means Amelia Bedelia needs to put the pedal to the metal and earn some dough! With Amelia Bedelia anything can happen, and it usually does. Short, fast-paced chapters, tons of friends, silly situations, and funny wordplay and misunderstandings make the Amelia Bedelia chapter books an ideal choice for readers of the Ivy and Bean, Magic Tree House, and Judy Moody books. Features black-and-white pictures by Lynne Avril on every page!

    Look out! Here comes Amelia Bedelia, and she means business! “Sure to be favorites on the early chapter-book shelves.”—School Library Journal

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  • What Have You Lost? By Naomi Shihab Nye

    What Have You Lost? By Naomi Shihab Nye

    What have you lost? A friend? A brother? A wallet? A memory? A meaning? A year?

    Each Night

    Images,
    dream news,
    fragments,
    flash
    then fade.
    These darkened walls.

    Here, I say.
    Climb into
    this story.
    Be remembered!

    Jay Bremyer

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  • Raising Accountable Kids: How to Be an Outstanding Parent Using the Power of Personal Accountability

    Raising Accountable Kids: How to Be an Outstanding Parent Using the Power of Personal Accountability

    How often have we heard complaints like these?

    “Why don’t my kids do what I say?”
    “Who made the mess in here?”
    “When will my teen make better choices?”

    These are the kinds of questions that parents ask that lead not only to complaining, but to victim thinking, procrastination, and blaming. The solution: Learn to parent the QBQ® way – and bring personal accountability to life within our families.

    Based on the same concepts that have made John Miller’s signature work, QBQ: The Question Behind the Question, an international bestseller over the last decade, Raising Accountable Kids provides the tool called the QBQ or The Question Behind the Question that will help every parent look behind questions such as “Why won’t my kids listen?” or “When will they do what I ask?” to find better ones—QBQs—like “What can I do differently?” or “How can I improve as a parent?” This simple but challenging concept turns the focus – and responsibility – back to parents and to what they can do to make a difference.

    With thoughtful commentary, observation, and advice, illustrated with engaging and memorable anecdotes that are the hallmarks of John Miller’s previous books, Raising Accountable Kids provides all moms and dads with the means and inspiration to be more effective parents – as well as teach their children how to practice their own brand of personal accountability – to create a happy, healthy family for a lifetime.

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