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The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Final Days in Jerusalem Paperback
Sh 1,300.00Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan join together to reveal a radical and little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to and responded to questions about Mel Gibson’s blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of events during the week leading up to Jesus’s crucifixion.
Using the gospel of Mark as their guide, Borg and Crossan present a day-by-day account of Jesus’s final week of life. They begin their story on Palm Sunday with two triumphal entries into Jerusalem. The first entry, that of Roman governor Pontius Pilate leading Roman soldiers into the city, symbolized military strength. The second heralded a new kind of moral hero who was praised by the people as he rode in on a humble donkey. The Jesus introduced by Borg and Crossan is this new moral hero, a more dangerous Jesus than the one enshrined in the church’s traditional teachings.
The Last Week depicts Jesus giving up his life to protest power without justice and to condemn the rich who lack concern for the poor. In this vein, at the end of the week Jesus marches up Calvary, offering himself as a model for others to do the same when they are confronted by similar issues. Informed, challenged, and inspired, we not only meet the historical Jesus, but meet a new Jesus who engages us and invites us to follow him.
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The Line of Beauty: A Novel
Sh 650.00In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby―whom Nick had idolized at Oxford―and Catherine, who is highly critical of her family’s assumptions and ambitions.
As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family. His two vividly contrasting love affairs, one with a young black clerk and one with a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to Nick as the desire for power and riches among his friends. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, this is a major work by one of our finest writers.
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The Love Killers
Sh 650.00Beth, Lara and Rio – three exotic women with a common cause and vengeance in their hearts.
They’re out to avenge a murder and they’ll go to any lengths. Their targets : the heirs of the Bassalino crime family. Their weapon : sex. The result : a bloodbath of sexual mayhem through the lethal corridors of organised crime.
Three beautiful women set out to prove that when it comes to revenge, the female is far deadlier than the male – especially when they’re The Love Killers…
About the Author
Jackie Collins is the author of nineteen international, provocative and controversial best-sellers. She lives in Beverly Hills, California
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The Man Who Quit Money Paperback
Sh 1,000.00In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings-all thirty dollars of it-in a phone booth. He has lived without money-and with a newfound sense of freedom and security-ever since. The Man Who Quit Money is an account of how one man learned to live, sanely and happily, without earning, receiving, or spending a single cent. Suelo doesn’t pay taxes, or accept food stamps or welfare. He lives in caves in the Utah canyonlands, forages wild foods and gourmet discards. He no longer even carries an I.D. Yet he manages to amply fulfill not only the basic human needs-for shelter, food, and warmth-but, to an enviable degree, the universal desires for companionship, purpose, and spiritual engagement. In retracing the surprising path and guiding philosophy that led Suelo into this way of life, Sundeen raises provocative and riveting questions about the decisions we all make, by default or by design, about how we live-and how we might live better.
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The Merciful God of Prophecy: His Loving Plan for You in the End Times
Sh 1,600.00Tim LaHaye explores prophecy from biblical times to the future. Through perceptive study of Scripture and the attentive use of examples from The Book of Daniel to Revelations, the author reveals God’s great plan for eternity.
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The Mission Song
Sh 400.00Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman’s daughter. Educated first at mission school in the East Congolese province of Kivu, and later at a discreet sanctuary for the secret sons of Rome, Salvo is inspired by his mentor Brother Michael to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages of which, almost from birth, he has been an obsessive collector.
Soon a rising star in his profession, he is courted by City corporations, hospitals, law courts, the Immigration services and – inevitably – the mushrooming overworld of British Intelligence. He is also courted – and won – by the all-white, Surrey-born Penelope, star reporter on one of our great national newspapers, whom with typical impulsiveness he promptly marries. Yet even as the story opens, a contrary and irresistible love is dawning in him.
Despatched to a no-name island in the North Sea to attend a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords, Salvo is obliged to interpret matters never intended for his re-awoken African conscience.
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The Mission Song
Sh 650.00In an historic year for John le Carregrave;, Hodder & Stoughton are proud to announce the publication of THE MISSION SONG John le Carre was born in 1931. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy: Tinke, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Honorable Schoolboy, and Smiley’s People. His novels include The Little Drummer Girl, A Perfect Spy, The Russia House, Our Game, The Taileor of Panama, and Single & Single. John le Carre lives in Cornwall.
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The Monster Of Florence
Sh 650.00When author Douglas Preston moved his family to Florence he never expected he would soon become obsessed and entwined in a horrific crime story whose true-life details rivaled the plots of his own bestselling thrillers. While researching his next book, Preston met Mario Spezi, an Italian journalist who told him about the Monster of Florence, Italy’s answer to Jack the Ripper, a terror who stalked lovers’ lanes in the Italian countryside. The killer would strike at the most intimate time, leaving mutilated corpses in his bloody wake over a period from 1968 to 1985. One of these crimes had taken place in an olive grove on the property of Preston’s new home. That was enough for him to join “Monsterologist” Spezi on a quest to name the killer, or killers, and bring closure to these unsolved crimes. Local theories and accusations flourished: the killer was a cuckolded husband; a local aristocrat; a physician or butcher, someone well-versed with knives; a satanic cult. Thomas Harris even dipped into “Monster” lore for some of Hannibal Lecter’s more Grand Guignol moments in Hannibal. Add to this a paranoid police force more concerned with saving face and naming a suspect (any suspect) than with assessing the often conflicting evidence on hand, and an unbelievable twist that finds both authors charged with obstructing justice, with Spezi jailed on suspicion of being the Monster himself. The Monster of Florence is split into two sections: the first half is Spezi’s story, with the latter bringing in Preston’s updated involvement on the case. Together these two parts create a dark and fascinating descent into a landscape of horror that deserves to be shelved between In Cold Blood and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
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The Musicians Of Bremen And Other Silly Stories
Sh 395.00This marvellous collection of rib-tickling tales features a host of best loved authors, from Edward to Rudyard Kipling. Each book contains four hilarious stories and extracts accompanied by superbly silly illustrations
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The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat
Sh 495.00Lady Candling’s prize Siamese cat has been stolen and the Five Find Outers are on the case! Luke, the gardening boy, is the main suspect but Bets, Pip, Daisy, Larry and Fatty are sure he didn’t take the cat.
They have their own suspicions though. Why is Mr Tupping, Lady Candling’s gardening, so unfriendly for the instance? And why won’t Mr good, the village policeman, listen to them?
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The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing, 2010 Edition – Softcover
Sh 995.00Now in its fourth edition, Jason Kelly’s The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing has established itself as a clear, concise, and highly effective guide for investing in stocks. This comprehensively updated edition contains tried-and-true investment principles to teach investors how to create and refine a profitable investment program. New strategies and content include:
·Basic tips on when to invest and how to reduce the amount of risk in this turbulent market
·A new core portfolio technique that shows readers a way to achieve 3 percent quarterly performance with the IJR exchange-traded fund
·An exclusive interview with legendary Legg Mason investment counselor, Bill Miller, including his thoughts on the financial crash of 2008Accessible and intelligent, The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing is what every investor needs to keep pace in the current market.
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THE NEW CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF KENYA: PRINCIPLES, GOVERNMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Sh 2,400.00On 27 August 2010, a new Constitution for Kenya was promulgated. The Constitution seeks to re-orient the country by establishing a robust dispensation for good democratic governance amenable to the exercise of human rights. This book is tailored to unveil to the reader the fundamental normative and institutional frameworks of Kenya’s new Constitution. Not only does it define key concepts in constitutional law, generally, it also details how government in Kenya has been restructured and re-organised to give effect to the traditional principles that form the basis of constitutional law.
The golden thread that cuts across the various chapters of the book is the emphasis that good constitutions anchor certain tenets that have garnered recognition as hallmarks of democratic dispensation.These hallmarks include the concept of separation of powers; the doctrine of the rule of law; constitutionalism and human rights. These attributes have largely been secured by the 2010 Constitution. Thus, this book is expected to contribute to this new promise by making knowledge on the Constitution accessible through breaking down and contextualising its provisions. It is certain to be useful to law and government students, lawyers, researchers and other persons who seek to understand the new constitutional order. Morris Kiwinda Mbondenyi, LL.D., LL.M. (UNISA), LL.B. (Moi), Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, African Nazarene University. J Osogo Ambani, LL.D. (Cand), LL.M. (UP), LL.B. (UoN), Lecturer, MoiUniversity School of Law. -
The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
Sh 700.00Fifteen years ago, in Mitch Albom’s beloved novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the world fell in love with Eddie, a grizzled war veteran- turned-amusement park mechanic who died saving the life of a young girl named Annie. Eddie’s journey to heaven taught him that every life matters. Now, in this magical sequel, Mitch Albom reveals Annie’s story.
The accident that killed Eddie left an indelible mark on Annie. It took her left hand, which needed to be surgically reattached. Injured, scarred, and unable to remember why, Annie’s life is forever changed by a guilt-ravaged mother who whisks her away from the world she knew. Bullied by her peers and haunted by something she cannot recall, Annie struggles to find acceptance as she grows. When, as a young woman, she reconnects with Paulo, her childhood love, she believes she has finally found happiness.
As the novel opens, Annie is marrying Paulo. But when her wedding night day ends in an unimaginable accident, Annie finds herself on her own heavenly journey – and an inevitable reunion with Eddie, one of the five people who will show her how her life mattered in ways she could not have fathomed.
Poignant and beautiful, filled with unexpected twists, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven reminds us that not only does every life matter, but that every ending is also a beginning – we only need to open our eyes to see it.
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The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Sh 650.00This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith’s widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to “help people with problems in their lives.” Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors.
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency received two Booker Judges’ Special Recommendations and was voted one of the International Books of the Year and the Millennium by the Times Literary Supplement.
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The Osterman Weekend
Sh 650.00- An electrifying thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the Bourne series.
In a secret room in Washington DC, John Tanner is asked to stake his life – and his wife and children – on a gamble whose goals and risks no one will fully reveal to him.
In a small suburban town where only the nicest people live, friends, neighbours, everyone and anyone could be part of a monstrous international conspiracy of evil.
The machinery has already been set in motion. And at stake is the very existence of America – and the future of the entire free world…
- An electrifying thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the Bourne series.
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The Peasant, The Snake and the Fox
Sh 495.00“The Peasant, the Snake and the Fox” is a delightful board book that promises to captivate young readers and parents alike. Crafted with care, it offers a sturdy construction, ideal for little hands. Its 700 gsm paper pages are both durable and gentle, with rounded corners for safety. The glossy cover not only enhances its visual appeal but also adds protection against spills and stains. Perfect binding maintains the book’s structure through frequent use, and child-friendly features like tear and water resistance ensure longevity. What sets it apart is the exceptional quality of digital print and attractive illustrations. Vibrant colors and charming characters breathe life into each page, sparking young imaginations. Beyond entertainment, the book provides valuable learning opportunities, fostering creativity and language skills while teaching important life lessons. Whether for bedtime or bonding, “The Peasant, the Snake and the Fox” creates cherished family memories. Its durability ensures it becomes a treasured keepsake, making it a beautiful addition to any child’s library.
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The Philosophy of Mathematics Education
Sh 21,115.00Although many agree that all teaching rests on a theory of knowledge, there has been no in-depth exploration of the implications of the philosophy of mathematics for education. This is Paul Ernest’s aim. Building on the work of Lakatos and Wittgenstein it challenges the prevalent notion that mathematical knowledge is certain, absolute and neutral, and offers instead an account of mathematics as a social construction. This has profound educational implications for social issues, including gender, race and multiculturalism; for pedagogy, including investigations and problem solving; and challenges hierarchical views of mathematics, learning and ability. Beyond this, the book offers a well-grounded model of five educational ideologies, each with its own epistemology, values, aims and social group of adherents. An analysis of the impact of these groups on the National Curriculum results in a powerful critique, revealing the questionable assumptions, values and interests upon which it rests. The book finishes on an optimistic note, arguing that pedagogy, left unspecified by the National Curriculum, is the way to achieve the radical aims of educating confident problem posers and solvers who are able to critically evaluate the social uses of mathematics.
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The Power of a Praying Woman
Sh 650.00Stormie Omartian’s bestselling The Power of a Praying® series (more than 28 million copies sold) is rereleased with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives.
It may seem easier to pray for your spouse, your children, your friends, and your extended family, but God wants to hear your requests for your life too. He loves it when you come to Him for the things you need and ask Him to help you become the woman you have always longed to be.
The Power of a Praying® Woman is just for you. You’ll find personal illustrations, carefully selected Scriptures, and heartfelt prayers to help you
- trust God with deep longings, not just pressing needs
- cover every area of life with prayer
- maintain a right heart before God
Each chapter concludes with a prayer you can follow or use as a model for your own prayers. Women of all ages will find hope and purpose for their lives with The Power of a Praying® Woman.
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THE POWER OF SELF IMAGE
Sh 1,000.00Do you ever wake up, stand in front of the mirror and loathe the man or woman you see?
Do you want to change and transform your life?
Are you feeling that you could be happier, healthier and wealthier?Are you satisfied with how you feel about yourself?
Do you present yourself with confidence and courage when you have right opportunities?
Are you in total control of your life or happy with how you look and relate with others?
Do you feel that there is something better beside what you have and you want to feel great?This Motivational and Personal Development Book is a must read if you are to set out on your journey of self-discovery.
” The Power Of Self Image” book will open your eyes to this best kept secret for successful people and companies: One’s success, happiness, health and wealth are equivalent to his or her SELF IMAGE. It will also shift your mindset to the reality: We don’t have a relationship, financial, mental, emotional or spiritual problem; it all boils down to poor self image. And if you don’t believe in you, Bonnie will tell you why: You are NOT too young or too old to change or transform your self image.
Just like the most successful companies succeed because of their Corporate Image, likewise people succeeds because of their Strong Self Image. Between a successful person and a failure their difference lies in their SELF IMAGE. Your FIRST IMPRESSION is the LAST IMPRESSION. No one gives you a second chance when you present yourself. All successful deals, relationships and trust are built by the first impression. Your SELF IMAGE is the only key to success in your life.
