This book analyses the past and ongoing decline of Zimbabwe under the rule of ZANU-PF, with a primary focus on the period 1997 to the present. In contrast to much existing literature on post-independence Zimbabwe which has focused on the political dimensions of Zimbabwe’s fragility, this research highlights the economic aspects of Zimbabwe’s regression flowing from prolonged mismanagement of the economy which has served to consolidate the rule of the country’s political and economic elite....

Road Map to a Healthy Eating Lifestyle: How to Reach Your Weight Goals and Keep the Weight Off presents a practical, structured approach to lasting weight management using a clear road-trip metaphor. The book guides readers through a step-by-step “Road Map” that organizes core principles of healthy eating into an easy-to-follow journey, showing how daily decisions and long-term habits work together to produce steady results.Early chapters establish a shared language for the journey...

A design handbook to orchestrate and manage flexible process-driven systems with Oracle BPM and SOA Suite 12cKey FeaturesLearn key principles to model business processes with BPMN and BPEL, and execute them in an SOA environment.Use best practices for composite applications, including service design and human interactions, and apply them in your daily projects.Design, implement, and optimize business processes with real-world examples illustrat...

What is youth? How do we understand youth in its social and cultural context?Mark Cieslik and Donald Simpson here provide a concise and readily accessible introduction to the interdisciplinary field of youth studies. Drawing upon the latest research and developments in the field, as well as discussing the fundamental ideas underlying the discipline as a whole, it offers a comprehensive yet unpacked understanding of youth as a social phenomenon.Illuminating the many abstract...

Little Round Top, the Railroad Cut, Pickett’s Charge—these are the turning points within the most important battle of the Civil War. Even careful students of Gettysburg, however, can find themselves disoriented when visiting the site itself. Here, finally, is a convenient guide for serious student and casual visitor alike that makes plain the sweep of events and the geography of the battlefield.This invaluable guidebook was created by scholars who have walked the battlegrounds, con...

Why do we think about and interact with other people in the particular ways that we do? Might these thoughts and actions be contemporary products of our long-ago evolutionary past? If so, how might this be, and what are the implications? Research generated by an evolutionary approach to social psychology issues profound insights into self-concept, impression formation, prejudice, group dynamics, helping, aggression, social influence, culture, and every other topic that is fundamental to so...

Alastair Sim was an enigmatic character both on and off the screen. His idiosyncratic style of acting in films such as The Belles of St Trinian's endeared him to a cinema-going audience desperate to escape the day-to-day dreariness of an invasive, bureaucratic post-war Britain. In private, he was a curiously contradictory character, prejudiced and yet tolerant, thoughtful but sometimes inconsiderate. To examine the life of this extraordinary man, this bio...

At a time when authentic words of wisdom are in short supply, there is one single clear, wise voice. It is the voice of our own heart.Light Up the World is a collection of poetry and prose to inspire new ways of being in ourselves and in the world. It is a timely contemplation that points to the truth of who we are and what that means for each of us and for humanity as a whole. It explores themes of love, silence, courage, nature, body, mind and spirit as ...

No one meant to do it. But much of the church in the West has become quite narrow in its thinking. Parts of Scripture don’t fit into its framework. Exciting parts. But they are left largely unexplored. What a shame, when they reveal so much of the wonders of God.Many people in the fast-changing Western society are becoming interested in the spiritual significance of things like governments, earth-connection, evil forces, healing, wholeness—even dragons! But many Christians don’t se...

Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda have figured prominently in the post- Cold War relations between Western donors and Sub-Saharan Africa. Their ‘new leaders’ were embraced by Western countries as the antithesis of former Cold War-era African strongmen, and their countries became ‘donor darlings’, benefitting from regular and significant inflows of Western development assistance. To the dismay of African democracy activists and human rights defenders, such aid enabled the regimes in these countri...

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At a time when authentic words of wisdom are in short supply, there is one single clear, wise voice. It is the voice of our own heart.Light Up the World is a collection of poetry and prose to inspire new ways of being in ourselves and in the world. It is a timely contemplation that points to the truth of who we are and what that means for each of us and for humanity as a whole.Both visionary and lucid, it is a reflection on a universal process of emergence and comi...