Author: Stephen Ellis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195220162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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With Christian revivals (including Evangelicals in the White House), Islamic radicalism and the revitalisation of traditional religions it is clear that the world is not heading towards a community of secular states. Nowhere are religious thought and political practice more closely intertwined than in Africa. African migrants in Europe and America who send home money to build churches and mosques, African politicians who consult diviners, guerrilla fighters who believe that amulets can protect them from bullets, and ordinary people who seek ritual healing: all of these are applying religious ideas to everyday problems of existence, at every level of society. Far from falling off the map of the world, Africa is today a leading centre of Christianity and a growing field of Islamic activism, while African traditional religions are gaining converts in the West. One cannot understand the politics of the present without taking religious thought seriously. Stories about witches, miracles, or people returning from the dead incite political action. In Africa religious belief has a huge impact on politics, from the top of society to the bottom. Religious ideas show what people actually think about the world and how to deal with it. Ellis and Ter Haar maintain that the specific content of religious thought has to be mastered if we are to grasp the political significance of religion in Africa today, but their book also informs our understanding of the relationship between religion and political practice in general.
Author: F. X. Nine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780590764810
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 119
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Author: F. X. Nine
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780590437776
Category : Fantastic fiction.
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Agent Justin Halley, a human fighting machine, must attack a heavily-guarded terrorist base and destroy the ultimate weapon, Metal Gear, or the free world is doomed, in a story based on the Nintendo game with game-solving hints.
Author: Christopher Howell
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780590437752
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Simon, hero of the Castlevania game, and Tim Bradley, Nintendo wiz, battle monsters and ghouls, break through walls, and defeat Dracula.
Author: Robert Greene
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0670881465
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 481
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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.
Author: Dave Trott
Publisher: Harriman House Limited
ISBN: 085719836X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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“The wise man knows he doesn’t know. The fool doesn’t know he doesn’t know.” Lao Tzu “In the West they only respect experts. But the expert mind is the closed mind.” Shunryu Suzuki What’s the most important step in fixing a puncture? It isn’t jacking up the car, or taking the wheel off, or finding the puncture. There’s something more fundamental than any of those. Something without which you can’t even begin to fix a puncture. The most important step is finding out you’ve got a puncture. Without that you can’t do anything. Instead of saying, “It’s just a bit bumpy, must be the road,” and carrying on, you must acknowledge that something has changed and you don’t know what that is. If you don’t admit you don’t know what’s happening, you can never find out. If you don’t find out, you can never change it. The most important step, always, is admitting you don’t know. That’s the power of ignorance. In this latest collection of real-life stories, Dave Trott provides lessons about problem solving and creative thinking that can be applied in advertising, business, and the wider world. With his trademark wit, wisdom and critical eye, he shows how great problem solvers and creative thinkers are those who are not afraid to say “I don’t know.”
Author: Ellen Miles
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780590437721
Category : Mega Man 2 (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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The evil Dr. Wiley is determined to take over the universal! He's created eight of the toughest, meanest, baddest robot super-hero, save civilization?
Author: A. L. Singer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780590445986
Category : Martial arts fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Ninja Ryu journeys into the Amazon jungle to fight a legendary demon.
Author: Yoshitaka Amano
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 9781593078683
Category : Color drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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There is only one Final Fantasy. Through more than a dozen wildly diverse adventures, from the release of the first game in 1987 to the most recent expansion on the story, the international influence of the game is legendary both inside the video-game industry and throughout popular culture. It is a tale of bold heroes and heroines, breathtaking landscapes and terrifying creatures. Through Final Fantasy, names like Luneth, Refia, Rosa Farrell, Cecil Harvey, and many others have become household names to millions of players across the globe.
Author: Pamela Shurmer-Smith
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN: 9780340592175
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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