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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
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Crossing the Line in Africa
Author: Ambe Ngwa
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2019-01-07
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9956550787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores a collective understanding of the perception and treatment of borders in Africa. The notion of boundary is universal as boundaries are also an important part of human social organization. Through the ages, boundaries have remained the container by which national space is delineated and contained. For as long as there has been human society based on territoriality and space, there have been boundaries. With their dual character of exclusivism and inclusivism, states have proven to adopt a more structural approach to the respect of the former in consciousness of the esteem of international law governing sovereignty and territorial integrity. However, frontier peoples and their realities have often opted for the latter situation, imposing a more functionalist perception of these imaginary lines and prompting a border opinion shift to a more blurring form of representation and meaning in most African communities. This collective multidisciplinary effort of understanding how tangible and intangible borders have influenced Africas attitude and existence for ages is worthy in its own rights. The difference between what borders are and what they are not to a people is the mere product of their own estimations and practices, a disposition that leads the contributors to this book to study borders beyond states or nations and how borders are crossed or transferred from one point to the other for the convenience of their histories and being.
International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2008 (DCAI ́08)
Author: Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-09-16
Total Pages: 778
ISBN-13: 3540858636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence is an annual forum that brings together ideas, projects, lessons, etc. associated with distr- uted computing, artificial intelligence and its applications in different themes. This meeting has been held at the University of Salamanca from the 22th to the 24th of October 2008. This symposium has be organized by the Biomedicine, Intelligent S- tem and Educational Technology Research Group (http://bisite. usal. es/) of the Univ- sity of Salamanca. The technology transfer in this field is still a challenge and for that reason this type of contributions has been specially considered in this edition. This c- ference is the forum in which to present application of innovative techniques to complex problems. The artificial intelligence is changing our society. Its application in distr- uted environments, such as the Internet, electronic commerce, mobile communications, wireless devices, distributed computing, and so on is increasing and is becoming an element of high added value and economic potential, both industrial and research. These technologies are changing constantly as a result of the large research and technical effort being undertaken in both universities and businesses. The exchange of ideas between scientists and technicians from both academic and business areas is essential to facilitate the development of systems that meet the demands of today's society.
International African Bibliography
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHuman Blood Group Systems and Haemoglobinopathies
Author: Osaro Erhabor
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2021-02-17
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1838803130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe past decade has seen remarkable improvements and advances in the fields of blood transfusion and hematology, particularly with regards to advances in science, technology, method development, quality, standardization, and governance. This book provides more evidenced-based insight into the field of blood transfusion and the management of hemoglobinopathies.
Democracy and Meritocracy
Author: Godfrey B. Tangwa
Publisher: Galda & Wilch
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9783931397005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDissimilar Coffee Frontiers
Author: Sven Van Melkebeke
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-06-22
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9004428496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Dissimilar Coffee Frontiers Sven Van Melkebeke compares the divergent development of coffee production in eastern Congo and western Rwanda during the colonial period. The Lake Kivu region offers a remarkable case-study to investigate diversity in economic development. In Rwanda, on the eastern side of the lake, coffee was mainly cultivated by smallholder families, while in the Congo, on the western side of the lake, European plantations were the dominant mode of production. Making use of a wide array of largely untapped archival sources, Sven Van Melkebeke convincingly succeeds in moving the manuscript beyond a case-study of colonizers to a more nuanced history of interaction and in presenting an innovative new social history of labor and land processes.
Negotiating the Livelihoods of Children and Youth in Africa's Urban Spaces
Author: M. F. C. Bourdillon
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 2869785046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a collection of essays that draw attention to urban environments, such as high unemployment, inadequate housing, poor services, and often extreme poverty, in which children and youth have to live and survive. Looks at poor to middle-class communities in African cities (in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe), and illustrates how young people find ways not only of surviving, but also of enjoying themselves.
Conquest and Construction
Author: Mark DeLancey
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-06-21
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9004316124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Conquest and Construction Mark Dike DeLancey investigates the palace architecture of northern Cameroon, a region that was conquered in the early nineteenth century by primarily semi-nomadic, pastoralist, Muslim, Fulɓe forces and incorporated as the largest emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate. Palace architecture is considered first and foremost as political in nature, and therefore as responding not only to the needs and expectations of the conquerors, but also to those of the largely sedentary, agricultural, non-Muslim conquered peoples who constituted the majority population. In the process of reconciling the cultures of these various constituents, new architectural forms and local identities were constructed.
Boundaries and History in Africa
Author: Daniel Abwa
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2013-08-26
Total Pages: 658
ISBN-13: 9956791148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book compromises 26 well-researched essays in honour of Professor Verkijika G. Fanso, who retired in 2011 after over 36 years of distinguished service at universities in Cameroon. Contributors include colleagues, former students and close collaborators in Cameroon and beyond. Contributions cover a wide range of issues related to the contested histories, politics and practices of boundaries and frontiers in Africa. These are themes on which Fanso has researched, published and taught extensively, and earned international recognition as a leading scholar. The book explores, inter alia, indigenous and endogenous practices of boundary making in Africa; as well as colonial and contemporary traditions, practices and conflicts on and around frontiers. In particular focus, are disputed colonial boundaries between Cameroon and its neighbours. Issues of intra- and inter-disciplinary frontiers, politics and cultures are also addressed. The volume is crowned by a farewell valedictory lecture by Fanso. Like Fanso and his rich repertoire of publications, this bumper harvest of essays is without doubt, truly immortalising.
