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We Only Come Here to Struggle

Stories from Berida's Life

By: Berida Ndambuki,Claire Cone Robertson

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Stories from Berida's Life

By: Berida Ndambuki,Claire Cone Robertson

Here is the life history of Berida Ndambuki, a Kenyan woman trader born in 1936, who speaks movingly of her experiences under the turbulences of late British colonialism and independence. A poverty survivor, Berida overcame patriarchal constraints to reclaim the rights to her labor, her body, and her spirit. She invokes a many-faceted picture of central Kenyan life in this compelling narrative.

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Indiana University Press

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0253213665

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9780253213662

Trouble Showed the Way

Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890 - 1990

By: Claire C. Robertson

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Trouble Showed the Way

Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890 - 1990

By: Claire C. Robertson

Robertson's book represents a powerful contribution to African social, economic, and women's history. Highly recommended." --Choice "An important resource for anyone interested in the history of women and trade in modern Kenya...." --International Journal of African Historical Studies "... a landmark study, meticulously executed and written.... it will have a wide impact on some of the most significant questions facing the disciplines of history, anthropology, political science, and development economics." --Gracia Clark Herskovitz Award-winner Claire Robertson employs a variety of approaches to analyze and weave together this wide-ranging study. Her book provides an extensive case study of historical transformations in gender, agriculture, residence, and civil society. Based on archival documents, library sources (fiction and nonfiction, primary and secondary), surveys and oral histories, participant observation, and quantitative and qualitative analysis, Robertson breaks new ground by focusing on traders in one commodity, dried staples, and comparing and contrasting the evolution of women's trade with men's trade.

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362

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Indiana University Press

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0253211514

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9780253211514

Under Glass

By: Claire Robertson

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Under Glass

By: Claire Robertson

In 1857 a young Englishwoman arrives in Port Natal from India to make a new life for her family among settlers, homesteaders, and sugar-cane farmers. She is with her daughter and the child’s ayah, and has been travelling for eleven months to join her husband, already deep in the hinterland. Her father-in-law has staked them their passage, a sum for settlement and an arrangement for the purchase of land, but there are conditions to his generosity that will have a lasting effect on the pair, and particularly on their fifth child, Cosmo, born years later. It is on the family’s sugar-cane farm that the reader begins to understand that there is something peculiar about young Cosmo, something that must be kept secret. At once an intriguing mystery and a meditation on the region’s colonial history, Under Glass is a high-stakes narrative of deception and disguise by one of South Africa’s finest novelists.

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180

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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1415209634

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9781415209639

Fat Chemistry

The Science behind Obesity

By: Claire S Allardyce

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Fat Chemistry

The Science behind Obesity

By: Claire S Allardyce

Currently, the health of over half the adult population in the UK suffers because of fat. The UK is not alone: obesity is a global problem, but the populations of some countries are heavier than others. This book probes the chemistry of fat in our bodies, providing a unique insight into understanding obesity, and how this material becomes accumulated to cause obesity with particular emphasis on the contribution of nutrition beyond calories. It visits the current hot topic of the genetic origins of obesity and progresses through to the relatively under publicised field of epigenetics, emphasising its importance to understanding the current epidemic. Coming in the wake of the establishment of international collaborations, the book aims to quantify the extent of the contribution of nutritional deficiencies to body weight gain. Yet even before these studies begin some important links have been identified and the molecular mechanisms by which they induce obesity have been mapped. This information reveals a serious problem for the next generation, but it is expected to provide the necessary information to tackle the obesity epidemic. Based on an extensive review of scientific literature, this topical book is written in a way that is accessible to the non-specialist. Suitable for the general public, the principal focus of the book is to advance the public understanding and awareness of science through the high interest subject of obesity. However, many universities recommend public understanding of science texts to students as a means of broadening general knowledge and as a means to emphasise to students the importance of communicating their research to the public. This book will be instrumental in developing this knowledge.

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341

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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178262581X

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9781782625810

Loving God, Loving Neighbor

Ministry with Searching Youth

By: Peggy Kendall; Claire Smith; Tim Ke

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Loving God, Loving Neighbor

Ministry with Searching Youth

By: Peggy Kendall; Claire Smith; Tim Ke

In almost every congregation, there is a searching youth who is somehow different from the rest, one who thinks more deeply, asks more questions, and wants to make a difference in the world. This young person may be seen as a loner, an upstart, or someone who does not fi t. Youth workers may not know what to do with these inquisitive youth, and a youth program that meets the congregation’s expectations probably won’t connect with the needs and interests of searching youth. Eventually, searching youth turn into searching adults who continue to “stir things up” and enrich the life of our congregations with their questions, insights, witness, and service. These young people have the capacity and ability to provide signifi cant leadership in our congregations now and in the future. Because of their unique gifts, we are offering this book as a resource for pastors, teachers, and youth leaders who work with them. In this book, faculty members, students, and recent graduates of Saint Paul School of Theology look through the eyes of their academic disciplines and ministry experience to explore the foundations for ministry with searching youth and to offer designs for your ministry.

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205

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Xlibris Corporation

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1453506713

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9781453506714

We Only Come Here to Struggle

Stories from Berida's Life

By: Berida Ndambuki,Claire Cone Robertson

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Stories from Berida's Life

By: Berida Ndambuki,Claire Cone Robertson

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Indiana University Press

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We Only Come Here to Struggle

We Only Come Here to Struggle

Trouble Showed the Way

Trouble Showed the Way

Under Glass

Under Glass

Fat Chemistry

Fat Chemistry

Loving God, Loving Neighbor

Loving God, Loving Neighbor

We Only Come Here to Struggle

We Only Come Here to Struggle

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