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Abnormal Psychology
Abnormal psychology is a branch of psychology that studies, diagnoses, and treats unusual patterns of behavior, emotions, and thoughts that could signify a mental disorder.
Abnormal psychology studies people who are “abnormal” or “atypical” compared to the members of a given society.
Remember, “abnormal” in this context does not necessarily imply “negative” or “bad.” It is a term used to describe behaviors and mental processes that significantly deviate from statistical or societal norms.
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Abstracting Practices In Libraries
Abstracting services are important links in the chain of communication between the originator of information and the ultimate user. Enormous growth in published literature, diversity of publications, language barrier and scatter of published information etc., are some of the factors that have contributed the launching of abstracting and indexing services. Abstracting services are most important and useful tools. These bring together all or significant current publications, that lie scattered in a number of source documents. Indexing and abstracting services are also excellent records in contemporary published literature, the growth and development of which has been in direct response to get access to as much relevant information as possible on a subject. This book is a dependable reference work which imparts information on a number of fundamentals of abstracting practices. Topics like-introduction, abstracting practices, periodicals listing and accession, online computer service, bibliographic display, bibliographic control, functions of abstracting, acquisition system, interlibrary lending, and future abstracting practices etc. will prove of utmost use to all the concerned.
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Academic Library Automation
Libraries have used technology in general, and computers in particular, to automate a wide range of administrative, public, and technical services tasks. Designed as an overview of major facets of automation activity, this books examinations the current state of computer applications in areas of library work. The discussion briefly indicates the motives for automation and describes current dominant approaches, citing examples of representative products and services.
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Accounting for Lawyers
This book recognizes the fear faced by many law students and to a great extent the practicing lawyer concerning accounting and seeks to provide a basic and simplifi ed understanding to accounting principles for those who have no previous accounting background while at the same time introducing some advanced topics for students with previous exposure and thus a deeper scope of accounting principles. The book also sought to incorporate key accounting principles and relevant changes and developments in the Kenyan industry. A comprehensive glossary of terms has been provided to assist learners in grasping key meanings and explanations
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Achebe and Friends at Umuahia
WINNER OF THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2016 This is the first in-depth scholarly study of the literary awakening of the young intellectuals who became known as Nigeria’s “first-generation” writers in the post-colonialperiod. Terri Ochiagha’s research focuses on Chinua Achebe, Elechi Amadi, Chike Momah, Christopher Okigbo and Chukwuemeka Ike, and also discusses the experiences of Gabriel Okara, Ken Saro-Wiwa and I.C. Aniebo, in the context of their education in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s at Government College, Umuahia. The author provides fresh perspectives on Postcolonial and World literary processes, colonial education in British Africa, literary representations of colonialism and Chinua Achebe’s seminal position in African literature. She demonstrates how each of the writers used this very particular education to shape their own visions of the world in which they operated and examines the implications that this had for African literature as a whole. Supplementary material is available online of some of the original sources. See: http://boybrew.co/9781847011091_2 Terri Ochiagha holds one of the prestigious British Academy Newton International Fellowships (2014-16) hosted by the School of English, University of Sussex. She was previously a Senior Associate Member of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.
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Achebe and Friends at Umuahia – The Making of a Literary Elite – Softcover
This book will teach you how to:
– Achieve wealth and cash flow through real estate
– Find property with real potential
– Show you how to unlock the myths that are holding you back
– Negotiating the deal based on the numbers
– Evaluate property and purchase price
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Activity Book
Children love to be creative and imaginative, but sometimes they need a little help. This colouring book is full of activity and colouring fun pages that will keep them entertained for hours. With activities to complete from mazes, matching and problem solving they will be learning as they go. Helping to develop recognition, logical thinking, counting and number skills this book is perfect for young children giving them enjoyable time activities that are quiet yet educational at the same time.
Full of activity and colouring fun pages, children can be creative and imaginative filling each page with colourful designs. With activities to complete from mazes, matching and problem solving they will be learning as they go. Helping to develop recognition, logical thinking, counting and number skills and pen control this book is perfect for young children, giving them enjoyable, relaxing and quite time activities that will keep then entertained for hours.
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Adam’s Outline of Orthopaedics
This extensively revised and redesigned edition of Adams’s classic textbook on orthopaedics celebrates its 50th year in print. Renown for its clear, comprehensive and concise account of the subject the book will appeal to undergraduate, postgraduate and trainee surgeons alike.
- New edition of an internationally respected and successful textbook of orthopaedics.
- Gives succinct practical guidance on examination of the limbs and spine – especially useful for exam candidates.
- Provides up-to-date surgical therapies as well as conservative treatment options for orthopaedic conditions.
- Highly praised by reviewers for its clear and lucid text, and for its logical classification of orthopaedic conditions.
- A new author team includes a specialist contributor on imaging techniques.
- The sections on clinical methods and diagnostic techniques have been expanded in particular, those on new imaging modalities.
- Includes recent advances in minimal access surgery.
- Includes expanded coverage of hip surgery, spinal surgery and reconstruction.
- Includes a discussion of the role of genetics in the diagnosis of bone disorders.
- A revised, two-colour page design now matches that of its sister title Outline of Fractures.
- The extended artwork programme now includes more line drawings, new radiographs, MRI and CT scans.
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Adams’s Outline of Fractures, 12th Edition
The new edition of the now classic Adam’s Outline of Fractures – prepared by authors working in the UK – has been updated to include the latest conservative and surgical approaches to the management of fractures. Suitable for medical undergraduates and trainee surgeons, as well as nurses and physiotherapists working in trauma services, this classic text continues to offer a sound basis for the safe and effective management of musculoskeletal injuries.
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Administrative Law and Process in a Nutshell
This book offers a concise, knowledgeable guide to administrative law. In straightforward, readable prose, the authors not only summarize the dominant statutes and case law in the area, but also discuss informal administrative processes and the background realities of the regulatory state. Students can use the book as a complement to any major casebook, and practitioners will also find it an excellent brief introduction to this complex and important subject.
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ADVANCED ACCOUNTANCY
Section-1: Accounting Principles and Processes • Meaning and Scope of Accounting • Accounting Principles • Journalising Transactions • Ledger Posting and Trial Balance • Sub-Division of Journal • Negotiable Instruments • Bank Reconciliation Statement • Matching Concept • Capital and Revenue • Final Accounts • Rectification of Errors • Accounting Concept of Income • Depreciation, Provisions and Reserves • Advanced Final Accounts • Sectional and Self-Balancing Systems • Accounts of Non-Profit Making Organizations • Single Entry System, Section-2: Special Business Accounting • Consignment Accounts • Joint Venture Accounts • Account Current and Average Due Date • Inventory Valuation • Hire Purchase, Lease and Instalment Purchase Systems • Branch Accounts • Departmental Accounts • Royalty Accounts • Insurance Claims • Contract Accounts • Insolvency Accounts • Introduction to Government Accounting • Miscellaneous Accounts, Section-3: Partnership Accounts • Fundamentals • Reconstitution of Partnership Firms (Admission) • Reconstitution of Partnership Firms-II (Retirement, Death and Amalgamation) • Dissolution of Partnership Firms • Appendix-I: Guidance Note on Terms Used in Financial Statements • Appendix-II: Present Value of Rs. 1 • Appendix-III: Periodic Deposit Which Will Amount to Rs. 1 • Appendix-IV: Present Value of Rs. 1 Received Annually for N Years • Appendix-V: Periodic Payment to Amortize Rs. 1 and Interest
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Africa: Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa’s Oil Prize Paperback
Based on thirty years in the global oil game, intimate knowledge of African history and direct experience of over forty countries, this comprehensive book shows that Africa’s flaws are not the whole story, when it comes to the continent’s history. A definitive yet original account of the rush for Africa’s oil, this is also a guide to the hidden face of Africa. Duncan Clarke begins by placing African oil issues in their historical context before tackling the issues of power, nationalism and different parties’ strategies for control that have led to today’s oil scene. This book is the ultimate reference work on oil in Africa – which is vital to everyone’s future around the world.
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African Animal Tales: Greedy Zebra
When the animals discovere a cave full of furs and skins, they discarde their drab skins for glossy new ones. Greedy zebra, arrives late, after a delicious snack, only to find a few stripes of black cloth. He squeezes into them but Greedy Zebra iis too big for them and his new coat bursts open!
The story of how all the animals chose their clothing, except for Greedy Zebra, who had to take the left-over pieces . . .
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Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World The Western Slave Coast, c. 1550- c. 1885
From 1550 to colonial partition in the mid-1880s, trade was key to Afro-European relations on the western Slave Coast (the coastal areas of modern Togo and parts of what are now Ghana and Benin). This book looks at the commercialrelations of two states which played a crucial role in the Atlantic slave trade as well as the trade in ivory and agricultural produce: Hula, known to European traders as Grand Popo (now in Benin) and Ge, known as Little Popo (nowin Togo). Situated between the Gold Coast to the west and the eastern Slave Coast to the east, this region was an important supplier of provisions for Europeans and the enslaved Africans they purchased. Also, due to its positionin the lagoon system, it facilitated communication along the coast between the trading companies’ headquarters on the western Gold Coast and their factories on the eastern Slave Coast, particularly at Ouidah, the Slave Coast’s major slave port. In the 19th century, when the trade at more established ports was disrupted by the men-of-war of the British anti-slave trade squadron, the western Slave Coast became a hot-spot of illegal slave trading.
Providing a detailed reconstruction of political and commercial developments in the western Slave coast, including the transition from the slave trade to legitimate commerce, this book also reveals the region’s position in the wider trans-Atlantic trade network and how cross-cultural partnerships were negotiated; the trade’s impact on African coastal “middlemen” communities; and the relative importance of local and global factors for the history of a region or community.Silke Strickrodt is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. She is co-editor (with Robin Law and Suzanne Schwarz) of Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa (James Currey, 2013).
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After Mandela: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa-the book we have all been waiting for
When Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress declared victory over the bitter injustice of apartheid, some thought South Africa’s future was assured. But despite Mandela’s mission of reconciliation, rampant inequality remains; race relations are uneasy, violence is endemic and many in the ANC appear to have lost sight of the liberation ideals. With the election in 2009 of Jacob Zuma, a charismatic populist embroiled in scandal, uncertainty over the trajectory of the nation has only intensified.
South Africa now stands at a crossroads, and award-winning journalist Alec Russell draws on his deep knowledge of the country to tell us how it got there and to give us a compelling account, revised and updated for this edition, of the journey from Mandela to Zuma.
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Agricultural and Agribusiness Law An Introduction for Non-Lawyers
This introductory textbook provides an overview of the concepts necessary for an understanding of agricultural and agribusiness law. The text will help students of land-based industries with little or no legal background to appreciate and identify issues that may require referral or consultation with legal counsel. This new edition is fully revised and updated, particularly addressing developments in taxation and trade, and includes a new chapter on criminal law, an area of increasing relevance to agriculture.
Each concise chapter addresses a different legal issue that those employed in agriculture and agribusiness may face, and both federal law and representative examples of state law are included. In addition to traditional topics such as contracts, property law, and estate planning, the book also covers more contemporary issues such as organic certification, animal law, genetically engineered crops, and food safety.
Agricultural law extends beyond those directly engaged in farming to those in agribusiness who provide services and inputs to farmers, buy farmers’ products, store or transport products, manufacture food products and serve as intermediaries between farmers and consumers. The book will, therefore, also serve as a reference and a guide for those employed in agribusiness and agriculture.
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Agricultural Law and Economics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cases and Comments
Agricultural Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cases and Comments introduces the subject of agricultural law and economics to researchers, practitioners, and students in common law countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, and presents information from the legal system in Botswana, Gambia, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The law and economics approach entails the use of quantitative methods in research. This is consistent with the expectations in an applied economics field such as agricultural economics.
Covering the general traditional law topics in contracts, torts, and property, the book goes further to introduce cutting-edge and region-relevant topics, including contracts with illiterate parties, contract farming, climate change, and transboundary water issues. The book is supported by an extensive list of reference materials, as well as study and enrichment exercises, to deepen readers’ understanding of the principles discussed in the book. It is a learning tool, first and foremost, and can be used as a stand-alone resource to teach the subject matter of agricultural law and economics to professionals new to the subject area as well as to students in law school, agricultural economics, economics, and inter-disciplinary classes.
- Offers research findings on such topics as food safety, climate change, transboundary natural resources, international sale of goods, patents, and trademarks to highlight the future sources of pressure on the agriculture industry
- Uses case-studies to provide real-world insights into the challenges and considerations of appropriate agricultural law development
- Challenges readers to carry out their own research in their areas of study, and to gain some understanding of the relationship between law, economics, and statistics
- Includes extensive resources, such as chapter summaries, study questions, and challenge questions at the end of each chapter to assist instructors and students in gaining full benefits from using the book
- Provides separate instructor and student study guides, a test bank, and test bank answers, in hardcopy and electronic formats