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Author: Ginette Bâ-Curry Publisher: ISBN: 9781937444006 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 160
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In Senegalese history, Maba Diakhou B (1809-1867) is known as the champion of Islamic resistance against European colonization and corrupt traditional rulers. He is remembered for his religious and military conquests, his diplomatic skills, and also for his character and qualities as a person. His tomb in Senegal has become a place of a yearly pilgrimage, attracting thousands of disciples belonging to the Tijaniyya order.
Author: Ginette Bâ-Curry Publisher: ISBN: 9781937444006 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
In Senegalese history, Maba Diakhou B (1809-1867) is known as the champion of Islamic resistance against European colonization and corrupt traditional rulers. He is remembered for his religious and military conquests, his diplomatic skills, and also for his character and qualities as a person. His tomb in Senegal has become a place of a yearly pilgrimage, attracting thousands of disciples belonging to the Tijaniyya order.
Author: Dorit Brixius Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009200453 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 275
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This rich, deeply researched study offers the first comprehensive exploration of cross-cultural plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius. Using the concept of creolisation – the process by which elements of different cultures are brought together to create entangled and evolving new entities – Brixius examines the production of knowledge on an island without long-established traditions of botany as understood by Europeans. Once foreign plants and knowledge arrived in Mauritius, they were adapted to new environmental circumstances and a new socio-cultural space. Brixius explores how French colonists, settlers, mediators, labourers and enslaved people experienced and shaped the island's botanical past, centring the contributions of subaltern actors. By foregrounding neglected non-European actors from both Africa and Asia, within a melting pot of cultivation traditions from around the world, she presents a truly global history of botanical knowledge.
Author: John Reader Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191619868 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 558
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This is the story of the search for human origins - from the Middle Ages, when questions of the earth's antiquity first began to arise, through to the latest genetic discoveries that show the interrelatedness of all living creatures. Central to the story is the part played by fossils - first, in establishing the age of the Earth; then, following Darwin, in the pursuit of possible 'Missing Links' that would establish whether or not humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor. John Reader's passion for this quest - palaeoanthropology - began in the 1960s when he reported for Life Magazine on Richard Leakey's first fossil-hunting expedition to the badlands of East Turkana, in Kenya. Drawing on both historic and recent research, he tells the fascinating story of the science as it has developed from the activities of a few dedicated individuals, into the rigorous multidisciplinary work of today. His arresting photographs give a unique insight into the fossils, the discoverers, and the settings. His vivid narrative reveals both the context in which our ancestors evolved, and also the realities confronting the modern scientist. The story he tells is peopled by eccentrics and enthusiasts, and punctuated by controversy and even fraud. It is a celebration of discoveries - Neanderthal Man in the 1850s, Java Man (1891), Australopithecus (1925), Peking Man (1926), Homo habilis (1964), Lucy (1978), Floresiensis (2004), and Ardipithecus (2009). It is a story of fragmentary shards of evidence, and the competing interpretations built upon them. And it is a tale of scientific breakthroughs - dating technology, genetics, and molecular biology - that have enabled us to set the fossil evidence in the context of human evolution. John Reader's first book on this subject (Missing Links: The Hunt for Earliest Man, 1981) was described in Nature as 'the best popular account of palaeoanthropology I have ever read'. His new book covers the thirty years of discovery that have followed.
Author: J. M. Schoffeleers Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 388
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In the early 1990s, the church in Malawi mounted concerted and public opposition to the regime of Hastings Banda. The Catholic bishops issued a Lenten pastoral letter, which ignited the processs that led to a democratic election. This record of the story through the 1960s onwards is about a church discovering its mandate, and struggling to live with it. The record is a chronicle of events and developments before and after the publication of the bishops' Lenten letter, It also contains the literal text, in part or in full, of important statements and docucments issued by the parties concerned.
Author: Wai Tat Fu Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030388255 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 286
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This edited book adopts a cognitive perspective to provide breadth and depth to state-of-the-art research related to understanding, analyzing, predicting and improving one of the most prominent and important classes of behavior of modern humans, information search. It is timely as the broader research area of cognitive computing and cognitive technology have recently attracted much attention, and there has been a surge in interest to develop systems and technology that are more compatible with human cognitive abilities. Divided into three interlocking sections, the first introduces the foundational concepts of information search from a cognitive computing perspective to highlight the research questions and approaches that are shared among the contributing authors. Relevant concepts from psychology, information and computing sciences are addressed. The second section discusses methods and tools that are used to understand and predict information search behavior and how the cognitive perspective can provide unique insights into the complexities of the behavior in various contexts. The final part highlights a number of areas of applications of which education and training, collaboration and conversational search interfaces are important ones. Understanding and Improving Information Search - A Cognitive Approach includes contributions from cognitive psychologists, information and computing scientists around the globe, including researchers from Europe (France, Netherlands, Germany), the US, and Asia (India, Japan), providing their unique but coherent perspectives to the core issues and questions most relevant to our current understanding of information search behavior and improving information search.
Author: John R. Wilson Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1466559624 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 1018
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Written by experts with real-world experience in applying ergonomics methodology in a range of contexts, Evaluation of Human Work, Fourth Edition explores ergonomics and human factors from a "doing it" perspective. More than a cookbook of ergonomics methods, the book encourages students to think about which methods they should apply, when, and why.
Author: Don Harris Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3642217419 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 649
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, EPCE 2011, held in Orlando, FL, USA, in July 2011, within the framework of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2011, together with 11 other thematically similar conferences. The 67 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical parts on cognitive and psychological aspects of interaction; cognitive aspects of driving; cognition and the Web; cognition and automation; security and safety; and aerospace and military applications.
Author: Andre Norton Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises ISBN: 1618249738 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 422
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Two best-selling novels of science fiction adventure from the People saga of legendary storyteller Andre Norton together for the first time. Iron Cage: Johnny has always loved and been protected by the People, the bearlike inhabitants on the planet he calls home. But when a star ship arrives carrying Johnny's original species, humans¾humans who seek to exploit the People for their own ends¾Johnny is forced to choose between loyalty to the creatures he considers his family, and the need to reconnect with his long lost heritage. Breed to Come: On a distant future Earth, humans have polluted the planet and departed, leaving their pets behind to inherit a blasted world. But from that devastated past, a new breed of intelligence arises: the catlike People. Now humans return and the People are in no mood to deal once again with the "demons" who abandoned them to fate so long ago. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Author: Ginette Bâ-Curry
Author: Ginette Bâ-Curry
Author: Dorit Brixius
Author: John Reader
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Author: Wai Tat Fu
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Author: Don Harris
Author: Andre Norton