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Wedding Dress
₦2,500.00 ₦2,500.00Breaking down every detail of wedding dresses and suggesting which styles suit different body shapes, this title covers all components of the dress in addition to offering advice for essential accessories such as veils, shoes and bags. Advice for the larger bride, pregnant brides, bridesmaids and attendants is also included. Additional sections offer advice on what to consider when buying your dress. There are tips for wearing and looking after your dress on the big day as well as a comprehensive glossary.
Nollywood
₦8,000.00 ₦8,000.00The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres
Nigeria’s Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the World’s largest film Industries, rapidly altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora. It has also become one of Afican culture’s most consequential expressions, powerfully shaping how Africans see themselves and are seen by others.
Sorrow’s Joy
₦4,500.00 ₦4,500.00This is a compelling narrative, not only about the onslaughts of cancer but of the courage required to face it. Promise’s relentless quest for life and meaning, her penetrating gaze, deep understanding of human emotions, fears and strengths and her consistent reaching for the power of the mind to transcend life’s vicissitudes resonate in this brilliant work.
Hope’s Wristwatch
₦3,500.00 ₦3,500.00whether in poetry or prose, the primary preoccupation of Tony Marinho’s art has always been to highlight, and to comment on the numerous ills that plague our contemporary world. Not for him, it seems, the luxury or indulgence, of ‘art for art’s sake, when everywhere you look, we are assailed by a multitude of problems-HIV/AIDS, war, poverty, corruption, prostitution, child slavery, etc….
Salutations To The Gut
₦3,000.00 ₦3,000.00“…the Yoruba…is the true hedonist who has felt in every morsel the soul of the open kitchen.”
African Proverbs III
₦2,000.00 ₦2,000.00A child who Is not taught well at home by his mother will be taught badly outside.
Ibadan Mesiogo
₦4,500.00 ₦4,500.00At last, a book, which edifies the effortless grace of the Harlem of Africa!. Ibadan mesiogo…is a major collection of some of the most significant creative writers who have lived in and drawn their imaginative energies from the largest ancient city south of the Sahara within the past five decades of Nigeria’s history.
The Seven Signposts
₦3,000.00 ₦3,000.00“…STUDY THE SPIRITUALITY OF THIS CONTINENT…
SELECTIVENESS is the key. The religion of the ORISA does not permit in tenet, liturgy, catechism or practice, that pernicious dictum: “I believe, therefore I am…it is not weakness in the character of this religion; it is simply UNDERSTANDING.
Granny’s Special Cookery Book
₦2,000.00 ₦2,000.00Granny’s cookery book with its combination of Nigerian and Brazilian recipes is the realization of the ninety year old author’s dream of hoping to share and pass on her culinary experiences to “young modern-day homemakers and wives who may not have been privileged to grow up around the cooking pot.” This handy book, creatively wand attractively designed will help popularize African cuisine.
Things Fall Apart
₦3,000.00 ₦3,000.00“…In the writing of the two essays in this book, I went to great lengths to press my readings of Achebe’s first novel, things Fall Apart, into service in an effort to see hopeful signs in otherwise quite bleak circumstances in Nigeria and Africa…in each of the respective readings of Achebe’s novel in these two essays, I was writing under very great pressure of one and of discursive context….I was also constrained by the pressure of etiquette, the celebration of the anniversary of Achebe’s novel being a festive occasion in which one could not afford to be seen as being too sanguine in expressing one’s bitterness about the state of things in Nigeria, Africa and the world.”
Ake
₦4,500.00 ₦4,500.00Itan iriri olokiki onkewe nni, Wole Soyinka Nigba ti o want omode ni Agbi ile iwe ati ni igboro Abeokuta ni o wa Bubu iwe yii. Eko pataki ni a ri ko nipa ooo omode lawujo yoruba ati nipa itan Abeokuta nigba ogun agbaya Keji ati nipa Ajah ara awon obinrin Egbo lo so iwe yii di koseemaka fun gbogbo omo Yoruba.
NIGERIA – A New History Of A Turbulent Century
₦5,000.00 ₦5,000.00A new history of a turbulent century
Known as the African giant, Nigeria’s story is complex and often contradictory. How, despite the ravages o colonialism, civil war, ongoing economic disappointment and most recently the Biko haram insurgency, has the country managed to stay together for a hundred years? Why, despite an abundance of oil, mineral and agricultural wealth, have so many of its people remained in poverty? These are the key questions explored by Richard Bourne in this remarkable and wide-ranging account of Nigeria’s history, from its creation in 1914 to the historic 2015 elections and beyond.
Revolution of Ideas
₦3,500.00 ₦3,500.00This is my fifth book. It’s a collection of some of my best economic ideas over time. It is focused on Nigeria to a large extent and encompasses my thoughts for our country and people. This book is named REVOLUTION OF IDEAS because the ideas herein are indeed out-of-the-box and revolutionary. I believe that the ideas that will transit Nigeria people of color out of the current state of pity, lie in the mind. I have put my perspective together here. I assure that you’ll find it indeed interesting. Let’s get going
Nigeria’s Story Is My Story
₦3,500.00 ₦3,500.00This is my sixth book and one in which I’ve been a bit more revealing. It should make very interesting reading because it is not a boring rant about economic and financial issues, but interesting dialogues on matters of mostly Nigeria’s sociopsychology and aspects of history. I personally enjoy such discourses better than the drone on the stiff subject of money and how it is made.
I think this is a more important aspect of the development quest of African people because from a systems point of view we should interrogate our lifeviews, our paradigms and of perspectives. Once the sociopsychological aspects are dealt with, development and progress becomes fairly easy and sustainable. The writings here reflect my mindset and perspective which fuses into my understanding of the larger issues towards ensuring that my people attain a better existence in this present world where no nation waits for another.
Loud Whispers
₦4,000.00 ₦4,000.00A rabid believer in shomolu as a symbol of today’s Nigeria. Edgar is widely known as the duke of shomolu. He continues to push the boundaries of common sense with his often acerbic but witty column.
Consistent Cash Flow
₦4,000.00 ₦4,000.00Business is a game and like any game, you’ve got to keep score to know whether you are winning or losing. Unfortunately, all too many people in business lose track of the scoreboard… which leads to big problems in and around the business.
Burden Of Service
₦5,000.00 ₦5,000.00In recounting my five-year experience in government, I offer the tiniest details of the billion-dollar oil deal and unveil the web of local and international intrigues, deceit, lies and conspiracy around an avoidable scandal
Money
₦4,000.00 ₦4,000.00In a world which increasingly feels like it revolves around money, it’s easy to feel like the gap between the money you earn and the money you need to live the life you want is just too great.
Crucible Of The Ages
₦8,500.00 ₦8,500.00A truly unique compendium, the essayists include three African leaders, three Nobel laureates, distinguished playwrights, novelists, literary critics, historians, academics and public policy practitioners from around the world
Managing In Turbulent Times
₦5,000.00 ₦5,000.00This book the author explains is concerned with action rather than understanding, with decisions rather than analysis. It deals with the strategies, needed to transform rapid changes into opportunities to turn the threat of change into productive and profitable action that contributes positively to our society, the economy and the individual.
Honour For Sale-An Insider Account Of The Murder Of Dele Giwa
₦5,000.00 ₦5,000.00The murder of Dele Giwa remains on the infamous list of Nigeria’s unsolved murders. More than twenty-five years after Nigeria’s first ever parcel bomb ended the life of one of the country’s most colourful investigative journalists, the case has refused to be laid to rest.
The Essentials
₦4,500.00 ₦4,500.00Change is the one constant in business, and we must adapt or face obsolescence. Yet certain challenges never go away. That’s what makes this book a “must read”
Outsider Inside
₦5,000.00 ₦5,000.00Outsider inside offers a unique perspective on our Nigerian society and offers one of the more intelligent analyses of our culture and economy. Keith successfully demonstrates the idiosyncrasies and frustrations of our daily life, the pervasiveness of corruption in our society
The Millionaire Fastlane
₦4,500.00 ₦4,500.00There is a fast lane to millions, a short cut paved by mathematics, where you can live rich now versus dying rich later. Instead, you have been brainwashed by an army of financial gurus who pitch a dream killing dogma known as get rich slow, their suffocating plan promises elderly riches by recklessly gambling your financial future to the stock market, the job market and the housing market. Reject hope and pray as a financial plan, switch lanes, go fast lane and awaken your dreams to reality
Driving Change
₦4,000.00 ₦4,000.00UP’s century-long success is about more than driving trucks and sorting packages and wiring mainframes and flying airplanes. Maybe it’s also about simple values founder Jim Casey embraced, about a singular culture of never being satisfied, about the willingness of tens of thousands of like-minded people to pull together and transform an organization.
Grow To Be Great
₦4,500.00 ₦4,500.00No company ever shrank to greatness, conclude Dwight Gertz and Joao Baptista. Drawing upon their new study of more than 1000 large companies, the authors argue that managers must move beyond the current wave of downsizing, restructuring and reengineering. Contrary to current management fads, they contend that companies must grow to be great. Managers now involved in downsizing must consider long term goals for growth alongside short term measures for slimming. Gertz and Baptista shatter population corporate myths by revealing that growth opportunities are everywhere across all business sectors even in stable industries and in companies too big to grow.
Bubble Man
₦3,500.00 ₦3,500.00Bubble Man tells the story of the great American stockmarket bubble, its bursting and the role of the man who made it all possible – Alan Greenspan. Peter Hartcher provides a fascinating account of one of the biggest speculative frenzies in history, and how Alan Greenspan has managed to evade the blame for its fall-out. With Greenspan’s public retirement planned for January 2006 this will get a lot of media attention both in the business and general pages.
Giants of Enterprise
₦6,500.00 ₦6,500.00Masterfully combining his understanding of business and America history, Harvard business school professor Richard S Tedlow illuminates the professional and personal lives of these nineteenth and twentieth century titans, men with penetrating insight whose need to fulfill their destiny outweighed their fear of failure
Party Coalitions In Nigeria
₦4,000.00 ₦4,000.00This book is a comprehensive appraisal of the political history of Nigeria since colonization, with emphasis on political parties. The author argues that party coalitions in Nigeria can be explained by the factors of heterogeneity as well as political systems the country has experimented with. He asserts the influence of the institution of the presidency in the current trend towards a two-party system.
“A panaromic nugget book for students in Political Science and History—it will serve well the public interest who are trying to find answers to the maze I the political landscape
On Wollstonecraft
₦4,000.00 ₦4,000.00Get inside the minds of great thinkers in history. Each volume in the Wadsworth Philosophers series provides a brief and accessible insight into the ideas of major philosophers throughout history. Each of the authors in the series is a scholar writing with expert knowledge and understanding of the philosopher under discussion.
Series editor Daniel Kolak, Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at The William Peterson University New Jersey; oversees each volume, helping to ensure that each book achieves its goal of empowering the reader to better understand the original works of these influential thinkers.
Flawed Diplomacy
₦6,500.00 ₦6,500.00There have been numerous attempts to engage the united nations in a meaningful campaign against state supported and other terrorist activities. But the inherently political nature of terrorism has made it exceedingly difficult to obtain global consensus on who even qualifies as a terrorist, much less agreement on counterterrorism measures to pursue
Histories Of Nations
₦4,000.00 ₦4,000.00How do writers and citizens in the different countries of the world view their own past? What key events and influences shaped those perspectives? And how accurate arevthe views of foreing commentators? Here, leading writers and scholars from twenty-eight countries give thoughtful, engaging accounts of their won nation’s history. The diverse and wide-ranging narratives offer a unique lens through which to view the modern world
The Fountain
₦3,000.00 ₦3,000.00Northfolk, 1920. Barbara Bosgrove has lived in the market town of Melsham all her life, and is looking forward to the annual Harvest Supper dinner ball- the first since the dark days of the First World War.
George Kenneth, a fiercely ambitious man, had his eye on Barbara since spotting her with her great friend Penny, and Penny’s brother Simon. He begins a slow and steady courtship and Barbara is eventually won over, agreeing to marry a man she believes can rely on.
Little does she realise how wrong she can be. Worn down by George’s unfaithfulness during their marriage, Barbara feels she has lost all the vitality of her youth.
But Simon is not prepared to let Barbara lose sight of the woman she really is-the woman he has always loved. Her reawakens Barbara’s passion and fighting spirit, but at what cost?
Britney: Inside The Dream
₦3,500.00 ₦3,500.00Britney Spears – the princess of pop – is making a comeback, and there isn’t a person out there who hasn’t heard about it. In this fully up-to-date and authoritative biography, Steve Dennis reveals all there is to know about the much-loved star.
Hitting our radios for the first time in 1998 with ‘…Baby One More Time’, Britney Spears quickly became a pop idol. Now, at just 27 years of age, she has racked up five number one albums, seven top-ten singles and seven sell-out world tours, as well having performed on stage with both Madonna and Michael Jackson. Just a decade after breaking onto to scene, she has become nothing short of a pop legend.
Her private life, however, has not been so easy. In 2004 Britney famously married a childhood friend at The Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas; since then her personal life has seemingly been thrown into turmoil. In the last five years she has had numerous failed relationships and endured a very public divorce and custody battle – all in the full glare of the international media.
Drawing on exclusive interviews with those closest to the superstar, Britney: Inside the Dream is a engrossing portrait of fascinating star. A frank biography, with no detail spared, it reveals the real Britney Spears, like you’ve never known her before.
Winning
₦7,500.00 ₦7,500.00‘Reading Jack Welch’s plain-language, high-energy book WINNING is like getting the playbook of the Super Bowl champions before the game. It’s a big head start on how to master the corporate game from the entry level to the corporate suites. He is the master’
-TOM BROKAW, former anchor and managing editor, NBC Nightly News
Erasure
₦3,000.00 ₦3,000.00Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison is an erudite but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers and avant-garde fiction rather than the writing obscure the ‘ghetto prose’ that would buy him commercial success. After witnessing, with horror, the runaway success of the latest novel in the genre, We’s Lives in Da Ghetto, he sits back with a parody called My Pafology (later retitled Fuck) which he submits, to the dismay of his agent, under pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh.
Managing For Result
₦3,500.00 ₦3,500.00The effective business, Peter Drucker observes, focuses on opportunities rather than problems. How this focus is achieved in order to make the organization prosper and grow is the subject of this companion to his classic work, THE PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT. Managing for Results shows what the executive decision maker must do to move his enterprise forward. Drucker again employs his particular genius for breaking through conventional outlooks and opening up new perspectives for profits and growth.
Kotler On Marketing – How To Create, Win And Dominate Markets
₦3,500.00 ₦3,500.00This book is about WINNING profitably; optimally creating and managing demand from various customers’ focused needs
The Practice Of Management
₦3,500.00 ₦3,500.00A classic since its publication in 1954, THE PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT was the first book to look at management as a whole and being a manager as a separate responsibility. THE PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT created the discipline of modern management practices. Readable, fundamental, and basic, it remains an essential book for students, aspiring managers, and seasoned professionals.
An Introduction To Bond Market – Third Edition
₦5,000.00 ₦5,000.00The bond markets have grown in importance in recent years and witnessed significant advances in design structure. The third edition of Professor Moorad Choudhry’s benchmark reference text An Introduction to Bond Markets brings readers up to date with latest developments and market practice. It offers a detailed yet accessible and reader-friendly look at the main instruments, and is aimed specifically at newcomers to the market or those unfamiliar with modern fixed income products. The author capitalizes on wealth of experience in the bond markets to present this concise yet-in-depth coverage of bonds and associated derivatives.
Dork Diaries – Skating Sensation
₦3,000.00 ₦3,000.00When Nikki discovers that Brandon volunteers at an animal shelter, she isn’t surprised-he’s super sweet! So when he tells her that the shelter is closing and the animals will soon be homeless Nikki wants to help too!
The school charity skating competition seems like the perfect way to raise the money they need, the only problem is that Nikki can’t skate…will she be able to transform from dork-on-ice to ice princess in time to save the day?!
Egyptian Myths
₦2,500.00 ₦2,500.00The land of Egypt gave rise to one of the first great civilizations on Earth. Over the course of three-and-a-half-thousand years the Ancient Egyptians created a rich and epic mythology to express their religion. Read the stories of Ra, Osiris and Isis, and how Horus Fights Seth.
The Odyssey Homer
₦2,500.00 ₦2,500.00THE ODYSSEY HOMER
The ancient Greek hero Odysseus fought for nine long years in the terrible siege of Troy. Now all he wants is to go home to his wife and son. But the voyage is long and perilous, and the god of the sea is his enemy. Will he ever see his home and family again?
Aztec And Mayan Myths
₦2,500.00 ₦2,500.00Mesoamerica was a vast area that included Mexico and Central America, it was home to Aztec, and Mayan civilizations. Although these cultures have long since disappeared read about their creation myths and the Hero Twins.
The Sicilian
₦4,000.00 ₦4,000.00“One of the 10 best books of the year… A Grandiose tale of treachery and violence”. – People
“An offer of evil and romance that cannot be refused. Mario Puzo Remains one of America’s best popular storytellers”. – Time
Just A Matter Of Time
₦2,000.00 ₦2,000.00All greedy: an ex- convict, a beautiful woman, a broke young man and a very rich old woman are just the perfect recipe for a table of blackmail, love and deception.
A House Of War
₦3,000.00 ₦3,000.00The long-awaited sequel to Jean Marsh’s The House of Elliott. Still courted by the rich and influential, the House of Eliott is thriving. The triumphant 1936 season allows Bea and Evie time to nurture their neglected families. The onset of World War II brings the House of Eliott under threat, and forces the sisters to confront hard truths about their lives.
Fools Die
₦3,000.00 ₦3,000.00“An epic novel about and fortune in contemporary America…Puzo is a gifted writer…a lusty chronicler of our times whose writing style bulldozes its way through pretense and hypocrisy.”