Africa is playing a more important role in world affairs than ever before. Yet the most common images of Africa in the American mind are ones of poverty, starvation, and violent conflict. But while these problems are real, that does not mean that Africa is a lost cause. Instead, as Stephen Ellis explains in Season of Rains, we need to rethink Africa’s place in time if we are to understand it in all its complexity—it is a region where growth and prosperity coexist with failed state...

A rescue dog leads a struggling financial advisor to the wealth he is looking for. Steve, a burnt out banker, has spent a lifetime advising others. He envisages his retirement as “the light at the end of the tunnel of responsibility”. But instead of Mai Tais on the beach, motorcycling through Europe, and hiking the Himalayas, he encounters a tornado, a worldwide pandemic and one felonious attempt to seal the deal on a retirement windfall. Saddled with Zeke — a kill-shelter reject; a hundre...

Stephen Ellis search for answers to unexplained things began in 1979. While visiting San Francisco, one night an image of a girl appeared before him in his rooma girl he later found out had been murdered in that room one month earlier.Shaking-off the natural tendency to disbelieve what he saw, Ellis began to research material on ghosts. He found that many people had ghostly experiences, but none had logical explanations for them. Ellis began to find that valid explanations existed,...

Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of serious crime. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a global reach, interacting with their Italian, Latin American and Russian counterparts. Yet in 1944, a British colonial official wrote that 'the number of persistent and professional criminals is not great' in Nigeria and that 'crime as a career has so far made little appeal to the young Nigerian'. T...

Nelson Mandela's release from prison in February 1990 was one of the most memorable moments of recent decades. It came a few days after the removal of the ban on the African National Congress; founded a century ago and outlawed in 1960, it had transferred its headquarters abroad and opened what it termed an External Mission. For the thirty years following its banning, the ANC had fought relentlessly against the apartheid state. Finally voted into office in 1994, the ANC today regards its a...

This Audiobook contains the following works : The Richest Man in Babylon [George Samuel Clason] - Starts at Chapter 1 Meditations [Marcus Aurelius] - Starts at Chapter 20 Every Man His Own University [Russell H. Conwell] - Starts at Chapter 33 How to Get What You Want [Wallace D. Wattles] - Starts at Chapter 39 Self Development And Power [L. W. Rogers] - Starts at Chapter 44 Self-Reliance [Ralph Waldo Emerson] - Starts at Chapter 47 The Game of Life and How to Play it [Florence Scovel Shin...

Although Barnum considered himself primarily a showman and his main goal was to put money in his own pocket, this little book, subtitled Golden Rules for Making Money does have a good deal of common sense about how to make money, and perhaps more importantly, how to keep it once you've made it. Of course, having been written nearly a century and a half ago, some of the advice may be a little dated, but it remains a very readable self-help book

This Audiobook contains the following works : Think and Grow Rich [Napoleon Hill ] Starts at Chapter 1 The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money [P.T. Barnum] Starts at Chapter 19 As a Man Thinketh [James Allen] Starts at Chapter 40 The Science of Getting Rich [Wallace D. Wattles] Starts at Chapter 49 Morning and Evening Thoughts [James Allen] Starts at Chapter 67 The prophet [Khalil Gibran] Starts at Chapter 131 Dollars Want Me: The New Road To Opulence[Henry Harrison Brown]...

In this amazing anthology of the baffling and the bizarre, author Karen Farrington recounts the latest investigations into strange phenomena that have mystified mankind for centuries.Some of history's most astounding tales of the weird and wonderful are retold here in vivid detail, from the grotesque to the gruesome and from the unearthly to the plain inexplicable. Embracing themes as diverse as alien abductions, zoological oddities, Roswell and the Kraken of Viking legend, Marvels...

The Sacred Promise offers scientific proof of Spirit’s existence—be it the deceased, angels, or spirit guides—and shows Spirit’s willingness and promise to offer guidance and help with the challenges of day-to-day living.Sacred Promise brings us into the laboratory of scientist Dr. Gary Schwartz, where he establishes the existence of Spirit by its own Willful Intent—a proof of concept for deceased spirits. The author takes readers on a personal jo...

A vast country spanning an entire continent, Canada is a land of many secrets. Canadian Mysteries of the Unexplained is a compelling exploration into some of the country's most baffling events, creatures and personages. From the chilling fate of the Franklin Expedition, to the brutal murder of magnate Harry Oakes and the repeated sightings of the enigmatic Sasquatch, author John Marlowe delves into the supernatural, the unsolved and the inexplicable.Stories include: The Flesh-Hungr...

Do you think that you have bad dreams? Well, these people have lived them!Secret government experiments, soulless monsters, a haunted mansion, and more are covered by paranormal researcher extraordinaire Brad Steiger, an author of thousands of books and articles on the mysterious and unknown.Steiger gathers more of his favorite and scariest stories of the unexplained in this compilation. These tales are worse than nightmares. They were not dreams! They are ...