For decades, Nigeria stood among the African nations that opposed apartheid in South Africa. Through diplomatic pressure, support for liberation movements, educational opportunities, economic measures, and public solidarity, Nigerians contributed to a continental struggle for freedom, equality, and human dignity.Yet decades after South Africa's historic transition to democracy in 1994, outbreaks of xenophobic violence have exposed a painful contradiction: Africans who once stood to...

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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERINSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLERA gritty, inspiring, heart-wrenching memoir by the Academy Award-winning legend and icon Sylvester Stallone, about his unlikely path to stardom and the creation of the greatest underdog story ever told.In the fifty years since Sylvester Stallone ran up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum, he and those steps have become symbols of resilience and det...

Secret ballrooms, hidden artwork and unlikely friends—welcome to the Regency, where even time moves in surprising ways!Jake Simmons hates his new home.The Regency is nothing more than floor after floor of peeling wallpaper and faded glory. Jake misses his old life. He misses the time when his mother was employed. He misses living in a house where the wind doesn’t make the windows whistle.Loneliness (and a trail of kittens) leads Jake to the apartmen...

In a world fraught with challenges, this book stands as a beacon of resilience and triumph. "Against the Odds: Triumph in the Face of Adversity" is not just a collection of stories; it is a journey into the very heart of the human spirit. Unveiling Untold Narratives: Embark on an odyssey through gripping narratives that unfold the lives of individuals facing seemingly insurmountable odds. From the struggle's inception to the euphoria of triumph, these tales resonate with the echo...

"Echoes of what lies ahead” provides a thoughtful analysis of how emerging technologies are shaping our world and offers a vision for navigating the future in a way that harmonizes innovation with enduring human values. It unveils the dynamic intersection of cutting-edge technology and human values, exploring how innovations like AI, digital platforms, and immersive tech are reshaping our world. With a focus on education, global relations, and personal connections, this insightful book bal...

The canals of Mars as the astronomers were arguing about them, by a zoologist who had spent years in Japan and looked at the evidence with an outsider's eye. Morse, who had watched Mars through Lowell's telescope at Flagstaff, came down firmly on Lowell's side. This edition binds 60 plates of painting with the text, among them Friedrich, Church and Redon, alongside 12 illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.

Two settler children and the daughter of a Delaware chief are caught on the wrong side of the Wyoming Valley massacre of 1778, and the girl leads them east through the woods. Ellis wrote frontier stories by the hundred and knew the ground; this one turns on an Indian child's judgement of adults at war. The massacre is real and so is the flight; the friendship is what the book is actually about. Fifty-six plates of rivers, mills, and wooded streams by painters including Eastman Johnson and ...

A reference shelf in one volume: a thousand gods, heroes and monsters of Greece, Rome, Egypt, India and the North, each given a paragraph and a source. Ellis compiled it for schools and readers who kept meeting these names in poetry and wanted them settled quickly. This edition adds a 46-plate gallery of paintings by Taunay, the brothers Glauber and others, plus twelve illustrations restored and coloured.

There was good cause for these exclamations upon the part of the Yankee and Irishman, as they stood on the margin of Wolf Ravine, and gazed off over the prairie. Several miles to the north, something like a gigantic man could be seen approaching, apparently at a rapid gait for a few seconds, when it slackened its speed, until it scarcely moved. Occasionally it changed its course, so that it went nearly at right angles. At such times, its colossal proportions were brought out in full relief...

The first thing to be considered on going into the forest is the camp where the night is to be spent. In choosing a place for this see that there is fresh water, wood for the fire and brush-wood for building a "lean-to," or hut, at hand. It is well to build on a dry, level place, with just enough slope to the ground to insure the water running away in case of rain. The Indians used to live in huts thatched with brush-wood, and these are best made by building what is known as a "lean-to." L...