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Work And Worship: Selected Speeches of Sir Ahmadu Bello KBE
₦3,000Sardauna was regarded by many, especially from the southern part of the country as vain, arrogant, haughty dictatorial and dubious. Someone to be feared and someone to be avoided at all times, but to us who were close to him. He was a simple man of warmth and affection, open and giving, generous ever too generous, fair, compassionate and loyal.
If you happen to visit him everyday or every week or every month, if you fail to turn up twice, the Sardauna would send someone or go himself personally to find out what was wrong. He was very easily affronted but always quick to make amends. He was no less humble for his failings and always put the fear of God and God’s blessings in all his undertakings.
The Sardauna had a wonderful capacity for serving the people. He was never tired of traveling either by road or by air in order to render services to the people. In one of his speeches he said, “I personally dedicate myself to work untiringly for the progress and happiness of the new North. I swear in the name of Allah that if I die today, I would leave nothing but a legacy of a struggle for the liberation, welfare and dignity of the masses of this country”.
ALHAJI ISA KAITA
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Albert Schweitzer by Patricia Morris
₦4,000Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) was already famous as a musician, philosopher and theologian when he qualified as a medical doctor and forsook Europe’s comforts to live ethically, with what he called “Reverence for Life”. In pursuit of this aim, in a jungle in equatorial Africa, he built a hospital and a leper village for isolated hunter-gatherers. His achievements were recognized with international awards, honorary degrees and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. In his last years Schweitzer was a vehement protester against the development of nuclear arms and against foreign interference in the Congo. Suddenly he became an easy target for criticism. Schweitzer’s biography reminds us of the sacrifice required to live a moral life, including that our well-intended actions are as likely to arouse excoriation as admiration.
In Part One the author takes a fresh look at Schweitzer’s life story, acknowledging the often grinding toil and emotional demands that interrupt, even preclude, success. Her account illuminates Part Two, the brief diary kept by her father, the orthopedic surgeon Cecil Morris, on his working visit to Schweitzer.
Patricia Morris is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is the author of Freud, Politics and Civilization, and Love & Sex: 50 therapy lessons, the latter about problems in relationships that bring people into therapy.
In a review of Albert Schweitzer: The Difficulty of Doing Good, Martin Birdseye of Christian CND wrote, “The characters are very human and portrayed sometimes in what seems like a hard light, so you may feel disappointed if you are hoping for a hagiography or even just a feel-good story. But the story is about how hard it is to do good and not just to be good. . . . A man with a profound and ultimately prophetic view of the world could not in the end maintain an apolitical stance. From his overwhelming “reverence for life” [Schweitzer] felt compelled to condemn nuclear weapons and to engage with this and some other issues on a world stage. This book is not just an encouragement but also an elemental and tangible part of the story towards nuclear weapons abolition.”
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How To Get Rich by Felix Dennis
₦6,000Making money is a knack, a knack that can be acquired. And if someone like me can become rich, then so can you – no matter what your present circumstances. Here is how I did it and what I learned along the way.’ So writes Felix Dennis, who believes that almost anyone of reasonable intelligence can become rich, given sufficient motivation and application. “How To Get Rich” is a distillation of his business wisdom. Primarily concerned with the step-by-step creation of wealth, it ruthlessly dissects the business failures and financial triumphs of ‘a South London lad who became rich virtually by accident’. Part manual, part memoir, part primer, this book is a template for those who are willing to stare down failure and transform their lives. Canny, infuriating, cynical and generous by turns, “How To Get Rich” is an invaluable guide to ‘the surprisingly simple art of collecting money which already has your name on it.
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
₦28,000The inspirational tale of eight women who defied the confines of life in revolutionary Iran through the joy and power of literature.
‘That room for all of us, became a place of transgression. What a wonderland it was! Sitting around the large coffee table covered with bouquets of flowers…We were, to borrow from Nabokov, to experience how the ordinary pebble of ordinary life could be transformed into a jewel through the magic eye of fiction.’
For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Azar Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; several had spent time in jail. Shy and uncomfortable at first, they soon began to open up and speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Their stories intertwined with those they were reading – ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ‘Washington Square’, ‘Daisy Miller’ and ‘Lolita’ – their Lolita, as they imagined her in Tehran. Nafisi’s account flashes back to the early days of the revolution when she first started teaching at the University of Tehran amid the swirl of protests and demonstrations. In those frenetic days, the students took control of the university, expelled faculty members and purged the curriculum.
Azar Nafisi’s luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women’s lives in revolutionary Iran. It is a work of great passion and poetic beauty, written with a startlingly original voice.
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Machiavelli by Alexander Lee
₦9,000Synopsis
‘A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and place. A monumental achievement.’ – Jessie Childs, author of God’s Traitors.
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The Biography of Imam Ibn Maajah
₦13,000Imam Ibn Majah (209H – 273H), may Allah have his mercy upon his soul, lived during the Abbasid caliphate while scientific studies had begun taking hold in the Abbasid dynasty. During this time literary aspects greatly influenced writing and works about Islam, thus protecting Islam from these things had become of foremost importance to Imam Ibn Maajah and other scholars of this time.
Ibn Majah also traveled extensively to verify the authenticity of the ahadith he was narrating. His quest of knowledge left him with many teachers and students. Like other scholars of hadith, to avoid showing off, he did not write down his stories of traveling, otherwise, we would have invaluable resources to learn from.
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Trailblazers: 33 Women In Science Who Changed The World by Rachel Swaby
Original price was: ₦3,500.₦3,150Current price is: ₦3,150.Florence Nightingale. Sally Ride. Ada Lovelace. These names and others are etched in history and included here as part of an awe-inspiring collection of profiles of thirty-three of the most influential women in science–women whose vision, creativity, passion, and dedication have changed the world.
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Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources- by Martin Lings
₦8,000- Includes important additions about the prophet’s spread of Islam into Syria and its neighboring states
- Contains original English translations from 8th and 9th century biographies, presented in authoritative language
- Represents the final updates made on the text before the author’s death in 2005
Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings’ biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the prophet. Based on the sira, the eighth- and ninth-century Arabic biographies that recount numerous events in the prophet’s life, it contains original English translations of many important passages that reveal the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life.
Scrupulous and exhaustive in its fidelity to its sources, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources is presented in a narrative style that is easily comprehensible, yet authentic and inspiring in its use of language, reflecting both the simplicity and grandeur of the story it tells. This revised edition includes new sections detailing the prophet’s expanding influence and his spreading of the message of Islam into Syria and its neighboring states. It represents the final updates made to the text before the author’s death in 2005. The book has been published in 12 languages and has received numerous awards, including acknowledgment as best biography of the prophet in English at the National Seerate Conference in Islamabad.