|
Showing 1 - 25 of
86 matches in All Departments
Isaac Odeniran is a Businessman, Author and Gospel Recording
Artist. He is the founder and Director of Abundant Life Housing
Association, Abundant Life Housing and Property Services Limited,
Zoe Gospel Promotions Limited and Abundant Life Recording and
Entertainment Company Limited (Zoe Records).
La periode coloniale etait caracterisee par la brutalite physique,
morale et psychologique. Personne ne doutait de ce que la chicote
nourrit le noir. C'est avec satisfaction que nos peres ont appris
que, desormais, c'est eux memes qui allaient presider aux destinees
d'une nation qui etait devenue desormais une republique. Cinquante
annees sont passees et le constat reste decevant. Au regard de la
situation quotidienne que vit le camerounais depuis lors, cette
independance fut une chimere. La colonisation est restee dans les
esprits; la brutalite, les humiliations, les spoliations, les
denigrements se sont faits plus insinueux et plus fructueux. La
seule course qui compte est la course au pouvoir
<<d'accummulation>>. On accumule le pouvoir comme on
accummule l'argent; le pouvoir, la raison et l'argent etant restes
sans partage dans les mains du plus fort. Ceci a cree un phenomene
social de corruption que seuls les discours, les actions
sporadiques et spectaculaires ne sauraient reduire, voire
eradiquer. Aujourd'hui, la societe camerounaise n'est pas un cadre
d'epanouissement oA' l'on trouve dans le gouvernement un partenaire
fiable. La corruption est la seule possibilite d'adaptation aurtour
de laquelle se joue le jeu d'existence et de survie. Vivre c'est
corrompre. Aux orties et a la mort celui qui ne veut ou ne peut
corrompre. Depuis les independances, le camerounais vit dans la
logique du <<on ne sais jamais>> . Il dois lecher les
bottes du prince, parce qu'on ne sait jamais; Meme les
intellectuels ont demissionne de leur devoir de douter pour
s'aligner a la queue leue leue derriere le prince; Des lors, le
meilleur verbe sert a lui formuler des motions de soutien. Il doit
etre citer dans tous les actes de la vie quotidienne par ce que son
coup de colere peut envoyer n'importe qui aller gouter la paille
humide et chaude des cachots insalubres et infestes. D'ailleurs,
ses sbires se retrouvent partout et sont prets a denoncer
l'heretique. Apres cinquante ans d'independance, arborer un titre
d'intellectuel au Cameroun ne vaut pas plus que celui d'un garde
champetre. Ceux de qui on etait en droit d'attendre la
conceptualisation du develloppement du pays sont devenus tous des
compteurs de monnaie de singe au seuil du palais du prince.
Personne n'osant lui demander de declarer ses biens pour une
transparence totale. L'orginalite du present travail, repose sur le
genie que Jean Robert Mbane a pu deployer pour mettre ensemble les
frustrations exprimees, les luttes quotidiennes, les aspirations
profondes de ceux des camerounais qui revent encore d'un avenir
liberee du sceptre de la corruption, de l'angoisse mortelle, de
l'ignorance, de la peur, de la pauvrete au Cameroun. En consacrant
ses publications aux questions de democratie et de gouvernance,
Jean Robert voudrait prouver a ses compatriotes que la situation
n'est pas desesperee et qu'en y mettant un peu de volonte
d'honnetete, on peut remedier a la situation. Il s'agit aussi d'une
question de liberte et d'independance.
Aristotle's Politics is widely acknowledged as a classic and one
of the founding texts of political theory and philosophy. Written
by a leading expert in ancient philosophical thought, Aristotle and
the Politics is a coherent guide that makes sense of an often
difficult and disorganized work, carefully explaining its key
themes. Jean Roberts introduces and assesses:
- Aristotle's life and the background to Politics
- the ideas and text of Politics
- the continuing importance of Aristotle's work to philosophy
today.
Aristotle is one of the most important figures in Western
thought and Politics contains some of our earliest ideas about
democracy. This is essential reading for all students of philosophy
and political thought.
This book presents the stream-tube method (STM), a method offering
computational means of dealing with the two- and three-dimensional
properties of numerous incompressible materials in static and
dynamic conditions. The authors show that the kinematics and
stresses associated with the flow and deformation in such materials
can be treated by breaking the system down into simple
computational sub-domains in which streamlines are straight and
parallel and using one or two mapping functions in steady-state and
non-steady-state conditions. The STM is considered for various
problems in non-Newtonian fluid mechanics with different
geometries. The book makes use of examples and applications to
illustrate the use of the STM. It explores the possibilities of
computation on simple mapped rectangular domains and
three-dimensional parallel-piped domains under different
conditions. Complex materials with memory are considered simply
without particle tracking problems. Readers, including researchers,
engineers and graduate students, with a foundational knowledge of
calculus, linear algebra, differential equations and fluid
mechanics will benefit most greatly from this book.
This book presents the stream-tube method (STM), a method offering
computational means of dealing with the two- and three-dimensional
properties of numerous incompressible materials in static and
dynamic conditions. The authors show that the kinematics and
stresses associated with the flow and deformation in such materials
can be treated by breaking the system down into simple
computational sub-domains in which streamlines are straight and
parallel and using one or two mapping functions in steady-state and
non-steady-state conditions. The STM is considered for various
problems in non-Newtonian fluid mechanics with different
geometries. The book makes use of examples and applications to
illustrate the use of the STM. It explores the possibilities of
computation on simple mapped rectangular domains and
three-dimensional parallel-piped domains under different
conditions. Complex materials with memory are considered simply
without particle tracking problems. Readers, including researchers,
engineers and graduate students, with a foundational knowledge of
calculus, linear algebra, differential equations and fluid
mechanics will benefit most greatly from this book.
Aristotle's Politics is widely acknowledged as a classic and one of
the founding texts of political theory and philosophy. Written by a
leading expert in ancient philosophical thought, Aristotle and the
Politics is a coherent guide that makes sense of an often difficult
and disorganized work, carefully explaining its key themes. Jean
Roberts introduces and assesses: Aristotle's life and the
background to Politics the ideas and text of Politics the
continuing importance of Aristotle's work to philosophy today.
Aristotle is one of the most important figures in Western thought
and Politics contains some of our earliest ideas about democracy.
This is essential reading for all students of philosophy and
political thought.
In principle, money illusion could explain the inertial adjustment
of prices after changes of monetary policy. Hence, money illusion
could provide an explanation of monetary non-neutrality. However,
this explanation has been thoroughly discredited in modern
economics. As a consequence, economists have ever since the 1970s
searched for alternative explanations for nominal rigidity. These
explanations are all based on the assumption of fully rational
economic agents, holding rational expectations. This book argues
that money illusion has been prematurely dismissed as an
explanation of monetary non-neutrality. Methods of experimental
economics are used to investigate the real aggregate effects of
money illusion. It is shown that money illusion in fact causes
(short-run) real income effects if strategic complementarity
prevails. Strategic complementarity is an important characteristic
of naturally occurring macroeconomies and is a recurrent theme in
most models explaining nominal rigidity.
Innovation is promoted to improve performance and increase the
quality of services provided by public service organisations.
Managing public services innovation provides the first in-depth
exploration of innovation and the management of innovation in the
housing association sector. Drawing on longitudinal case studies
and data sets, including the Housing Corporation's Innovation and
Good Practice database, Managing public services innovation:
indicates that housing associations have innovative capacity and
classifies innovation in the sector; identifies the 'innovative
housing association' and its key characteristics; explores the way
innovation has been managed in housing associations making
recommendations for best practice; develops techniques to develop
evidence-based policy in the housing association sector; discusses
the implications of innovating in regulated public service
industries. Managing public services innovation is essential
reading for housing industry and public management professionals,
policy makers and academics in housing, business and public
management departments.
The paper presents the results of an experiment in which a number
of high school students with Danish and Muslim names were recruited
to put letters in envelopes, paid on a piecework basis. They were
to work in pairs, and could choose to work with a person of the
same or a different ethnic origin as their own. They could earn
more if they worked together with a person of a different ethnic
background. How many would elect to discriminate according to
ethnicity in such a situation?
This we can be sure of: when a restaurant in the western world
is famous for its cooking, it is the tricolor flag that hangs above
the stove, opined one French magazine, and this is by no means an
isolated example of such crowing. Indeed, both linguistically and
conceptually, the restaurant itself is a French creation. Why are
the French recognized by themselves and others the world over as
the most enlightened of eaters, as the great gourmets? Why did the
passion for food -- gastronomy -- originate in France? In "French
Gastronomy," geographer and food lover Jean-Robert Pitte uncovers a
novel answer. The key, it turns out, is France herself. In her
climate, diversity of soils, abundant resources, and varied
topography lie the roots of France's food fame.
Pitte masterfully reveals the ways in which cultural phenomena
surrounding food and eating in France relate to space and place. He
points out that France has some six hundred regions, or
microclimates, that allow different agricultures, to flourish, and
fully navigable river systems leading from peripheral farmlands
directly to markets in the great gastronomic centers of Paris and
Lyon. With an eye to this landscape, Pitte wonders: Would the great
French burgundies enjoy such prestige if the coast they came from
were not situated close to the ancient capital for the dukes and a
major travel route for medieval Europe?
Yet for all the shaping influence of earth and climate, Pitte
demonstrates that haute cuisine, like so much that is great about
France, can be traced back to the court of Louis XIV. It was the
Sun King's regal gourmandise -- he enacted a nightly theater of
eating, dining alone but in full view of the court -- that made
food and fine dining a central affair of state. The Catholic Church
figures prominently as well: gluttony was regarded as a "benign
sin" in France, and eating well was associated with praising God,
fraternal conviviality, and a respect for the body. These cultural
ingredients, in combination with the bounties of the land,
contributed to the full flowering of French foodways.
This is a time of paradox for French gourmandism. Never has
there been so much literature published on the subject of culinary
creativity, never has there been so much talk about good food, and
never has so little cooking been done at home. Each day new
fast-food places open. Will French cuisine lose its charm and its
soul? Will discourse become a substitute for reality? French
Gastronomy is a delightful celebration of what makes France unique,
and a call to everyone who loves French food to rediscover its full
flavor.
|
|