Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) play a vital role in economic growth, job creation, and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Despite their significance, many MSEs encounter ongoing challenges related to finance, regulation, market access, and adopting new technologies.This book presents a comparative analysis of MSE sustainability in India and Kenya, offering valuable insights into the policy environments, institutional support systems, and economic conditions that shape...

Kenyan English: Domains of Use, Forms, and Users' Attitudesfocuses on the unique issues that concern language researchers in Kenya and elsewhere. Edited by Martha M. MichiekaandEvans Gesura Mecha, the collection examines the English language forms and usages to describe the reality of Kenyan English use. The contributors address questions such as: What are the characteristics that distinguish Kenyan English from other national varieties? How is English taught, and what impact does that kin...

Through the history of each great success we find a great team. For most of us, being successful only involves personal effort that ends up paying off with a positive outcome. In reality, it is quite different, the larger a project, the more it requires the talents that a person alone could not have. This book explains how to make room for others in the process of our success. These people who intervene in our lives and our businesses are in search of valuation. The role of a leader is to ...

This book is a wonderful collection of positivism and mysticism where the quest for prosperity and happiness is explained in terms that are easier to understand without shocking anyone. The author being aware of the different religious beliefs which clash; he arranged things well so that everyone's spiritual convictions were taken into account, in order to avoid possible hostilities. The Magic of Success (or Fight the Loser In You) is a book of life; the principles therein do not correspon...

A quarter of a century ago, Andrew Barclay wrote a best-selling novel. He has never produced another book. Now a young PhD student from Los Angeles has tracked down the recluse to a backward town in a third-world Central American country.Looking for material for her thesis, she visits the writer; but instead of the brilliant author of memorable prose she finds an aging alcoholic whose twenty-five-year effort to produce another novel has generated nothing he deems worthy of publicat...

Couched in the form of extracts from the diary of a young female poet, D. R. Evans carries us intimately from her earliest memories through her college career as a scholarship winner at an elite Oxford college, engagement and marriage, emigration to America, and her eventual death of cancer in South Dakota.The pages are filled with Penny's doubts (many) and certainties (few), her early successes and mounting failures and frustrations, and her search for meaning in a world in which ...

In the hills of Arkansas, two convicts flee an accident when they are being transported to prison. On the run, they take a family hostage, but the fugitives reckon without the faith and resourcefulness of the family they have taken prisoner.One of the fugitives lost his own faith years before; but as the police close in he must come to terms with the events that caused him to lose faith, and decide whether he can keep running from the law... and from God.Nowhere to Run was ...

In this second book about the land of Palindor, Malthazzar's devious general, Shadow, pits Michael against his mother, the High Queen Catherine, as Reglandor invades the Third Land.Each believing that the other is evil, Catherine and Michael are led toward their inevitable confrontation, while behind the scenes Malthazzar gloats as his revenge against Catherine unfolds.

In the ski resort of Pinetree, Colorado, a middle-aged lawyer collapses and dies.At first, the explanation seems obvious. There are just a couple of loose ends that don't quite make sense. But the more the police and his next of kin try to build a picture of how Matthew Chambers died, the more it seems like something is seriously wrong somewhere.In All or Nothing, D. R. Evans brings his knack for astute characterization to the mystery genre, giving us a novel in which death...

Five short stories:After the StormGenesisAlpha MaleThe Duck TestThe Last Performance of Under Milk Wood

The world's first thinking machine has been created -- not by a university or a research organization, but by a brilliant iconoclast working on a British Caribbean island and funded by a shadowy Japanese group descended from the ancient samurai class.A secret group inside the American government co-opts a young NSA signals intelligence agent to work with one of its own agents in order to obtain the machine from the Japanese.But they aren't the only ones interested in steali...

In this third book set in the Three Lands of Abuscân, Catherine returns to Palindor along with her middle-aged son Michael and her rebellious teenaged grand-daughter, Diana.The book intertwines the stories of Catherine, Michael and Diana, along with many other characters from the earlier books, as well as several new ones. For the first time we meet Phendric, the grandson of Drefynt, of whom it was prophesied long ago that he would be "great and saving ", and Toldwyn, long dead and...