When Jacobus, a scheming psudo itinerant missionary arrives in the resource endowed Bang’anja Kingdom, King Manjolo and his subjects are euphoric. Soon, death would be a scourge of the past for them. Jacobus has convinced them he is on his God’s mission to unravel the secret to eternal life for their king. Manjolo believes knowledge of this secret will elevate his status to that of a god, and neighbouring kings and their subjects will supplicate before him for eternal life. To unravel the secret, Jacobus requests unfettered access into the kingdom’s sacred carven shrine with diamond studded walls to harmonize his God’s endeavours with the Bang’anja’s. Many before him have tried ingenious ruses to establish the location of the shrine and failed. Will the devious Jacobus succeed?

This adventurous work records Robert Edison Fulton's solo round-the-world tour on a two-cylinder Douglas motorcycle between July, 1932 and December, 1933. First published in 1937.

How a skeptical journalist was introduced to the charismatic renewal and to the phenomenon of speaking in tongues.

Training in Surgery is the first title in a new series aimed at postgraduate trainees. Using an attractive, highly illustrated double-spread layout it follows the Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Project and reflects the new surgical specialty training curriculum in a clear and concise style.

People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national indigenous language—written, widespread, sometimes used in school—surrounds it. An international language like French or English, a vestige of colonialism, carries prestige, is used in higher education, and promises mobility—and yet it will not be well known by its users. The essays in Languages in Africa explore the layers of African multilingualism as they affect language policy and education. Through case studies ranging across the continent, the contributors consider multilingualism in the classroom as well as in domains ranging from music and film to politics and figurative language. The contributors report on the widespread devaluing and even death of indigenous languages. They also investigate how poor teacher training leads to language-related failures in education. At the same time, they demonstrate that education in a mother tongue can work, linguists can use their expertise to provoke changes in language policies, and linguistic creativity thrives in these multilingual communities.

Incorporating and balancing advancing subspecialization is a significant challenge of modern surgery. The changes of surgical education and early subspecialization is a smaller spectrum of experience of graduating surgeons joining the rural workforce. Surgeons working in rural and remote hospitals, however, must be proficient in the great breadth of current surgical practice and face a number of challenges and demands that are specific to rural surgery. This textbook provides an update on the evidence and surgical techniques for the experienced rural surgeon and most importantly is a guideline for younger surgeons and surgical trainees joining the general surgical workforce in rural and remote areas around the world.