Category: Book Review

Literature Outreach in Nigeria: A History of SIM Literature Work 1901-1980

Literature Outreach in Nigeria: A History of SIM Literature Work 1901-1980

Product details Paperback Publisher: Jim Mason (2009) ISBN-10: 1903689619 ISBN-13: 978-1903689615 Shipping Weight: 1 pounds From its beginning, SIM has been known as the mission where literature holds a prime place. This evidenced itself first when missionaries learned the language of the area; they were soon translating portions of the Scripture, then teaching the people to read, so they could […]

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How to Be Successful in a Toxic Culture

How to Be Successful in a Toxic Culture

If you’re working in a toxic organizational culture, you already know what a struggle it can be to succeed—or even survive. You’re far from alone—many people find themselves doing a job they love in a workplace they hate. You may not be able to single-handedly change the culture around you, but there are things you can do to advance your […]

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Principled Artificial Intelligence: Mapping Consensus in Ethical and Rights-Based Approaches to Principles for AI

Principled Artificial Intelligence: Mapping Consensus in Ethical and Rights-Based Approaches to Principles for AI

Check out this Scholarly Article, Principled Artificial Intelligence: Mapping Consensus in Ethical and Rights-Based Approaches to Principles for AI, from Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication. Citation Jessica Fjeld: Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Nele Achten: Harvard Law School; University of Exeter, School of Law, Students Hannah Hilligoss: Harvard University, Law School, Students ; Harvard University – Berkman […]

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“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe: The Madness of Nevermore

“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe: The Madness of Nevermore

There is something of the madman in every man. There is something of the sadist in every sinner. Is there something of ecstasy in every elegy? So it was with Edgar Allan Poe—and he called it Beauty. It often takes a poet—a poet like Poe—to exhume the mysterious depravity of people. As churchgoers lean into Lent in the last clawing […]

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The Middle East Then and Now: The History of Israel, Iran, Syria and Afghanistan

The Middle East Then and Now: The History of Israel, Iran, Syria and Afghanistan

Authors: M. Clement Hall and Charles River Editors Paperback: 254 pages Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 26, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 1493591681 ISBN-13: 978-1493591688 Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces Before World War I, the West was largely unfamiliar with the Middle East, but in less than 100 years it has become the […]

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The Family by Buchi Emecheta

The Family by Buchi Emecheta

A Jamaican girl joins her parents in London at age eleven and makes formidable adjustments and choices to overcome the limitations of her family life. Book Title: The Family Author: Buchi Emecheta Release date: 03/01/1990 Genre: Fiction Hardcover – 239 pages – 978-0-8076-1245-3 Although her characters speak in authentic patois and authoritatively convey the grim travails of a dysfunctional emigre […]

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Life by Algorithms: How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World

Life by Algorithms: How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World

About the Author Catherine Besteman is the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College. Hugh Gusterson is professor of international affairs and anthropology at the George Washington University. Product details Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: University of Chicago Press; First edition (May 23, 2019) Language: English ISBN-10: 022662756X ISBN-13: 978-0226627564 Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 […]

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Tony Evans Study Bible and Commentary

Tony Evans Study Bible and Commentary

The Tony Evans Study Bible includes extensive study notes and other ancillary resources carefully crafted and curated by Dr. Tony Evans as General Editor and adapted from his sermons, teachings, and writings. The companion Commentary includes an introduction to each Bible book followed by passage-by-passage exposition of the entire Bible by Dr. Tony Evans.  Celebrating 50 years of historic […]

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The Starless Sea: A Novel

The Starless Sea: A Novel

Product details Author: Erin Morgenstern Hardcover: 512 pages Publisher: Doubleday (November 5, 2019) Language: English ISBN-10: 038554121X ISBN-13: 978-0385541213 Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds Editorial From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and […]

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National indifference and the History of Nationalism in Modern Europe

National indifference and the History of Nationalism in Modern Europe

Editors: Maarten van Ginderachter, Jon Fox Published: February 5, 2019 Reference: 262 Pages ISBN 9781138503489: CAT# Y372310 Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History This book covers the contributions to East Central European historiography research showing national interference has the potential to reinvigorate the entire field of national studies as far as exposing and critiquing the teleological slant in much of the literature […]

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