Mazi
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English
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The novel is set in an outback town in NSW Australia during the period from 1952 until 1976. The story is about the challenges which are faced by two families in a time when gossip was rife in small towns. The main character is Elizabeth who goes to great lengths to protect her family by keeping a deep dark secret. Disclosure could mean the end of family life as she knows it. This period of time finds women at home and men as breadwinners. Illegitimacy...
10) Unwanted
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English
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UNWANTED is a story that brings to the fore discrimination and stigmatization towards people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Set in the bustling city of Port Harcourt, it narrates the story of three youthful girls and a young man whose paths are more intertwined than they can imaginemade stronger and weaker by their experiences of stigmatization. It is a tale of struggles, successes and human frailties.
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English
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Corruption in Nigeria addresses the effects of corruption in Nigeria and provides a concise overview for a lasting solution. Offering insight from the authors' original thinking and experiences, the book traces corruption from colonial rule through nearly fifty years of successive civilian and military government, counter coupes, and ethical reform programs that were launched using Mazi A. Kanu Oji's ideas. The experience of Nigeria, as the most populous...
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English
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"Mazie Hirono is one of the most fiercely outspoken Democrats in Congress, but her journey to the U.S. Senate was far from likely. Raised poor on her family's rice farm in rural Japan, Hirono was seven years old when her mother left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder children to the United States, crossing the Pacific in steerage in search of a better life. Though the girl then known as "Keiko" did not speak English when she entered...
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The J. Paul Getty Museum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Scholarship on photography's earliest years has tended to focus on daguerreotypes on metal or on the European development of paper photographs made from glass or paper negatives. But Americans also experimented with negative-positive processes to produce photographic images on a variety of paper formats in the early decades of the medium. Paper Promises: Early American Photography presents this rarely studied topic within photographic history. The...
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ARI research note volume 84-136
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U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Science
Pub. Date
December 1984.
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English
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Series
Technical report volume 621
Publisher
U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Pub. Date
February 1984.
Language
English
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Series
Study report volume 2002-05
Publisher
U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English