Odds are that as you read this, an iPhone is within reach. But before Steve Jobs introduced us to "the one device," as he called it, a cell phone was merely what you used to make calls on the go.How did the iPhone transform our world and turn Apple into the most valuable company ever? Veteran techno..
“Combines the gritty toughmindedness of the best coaches with the gentle-but-insistent inspiration of the most effective spiritual advisers” (Fast Company).This groundbreaking New York Times bestseller has helped hundreds of thousands of people at work and at home balance stress and recove..
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, one of the most eminent scholars of Islam in the contemporary Muslim world, draws on original Arabic sources to correct misconceptions about Islam's early history and to establish that the revolution brought about by the Prophet was entirely bloodless. In fact, the Prophet M..
Rumi's inspiring and deceptively simple poems have been called ecstatic, mystical, and devotional. To writer and activist Melody Moezzi, they became a lifeline. In The Rumi Prescription, we follow her path of discovery as she translates Rumi's works for herself - to gain wisdom and insight in t..
In the Nigerian city of Enugu, young Nwabulu, a housemaid since the age of ten, dreams of becoming a typist as she endures her employer's endless chores. She is tall and beautiful and in love with a rich mans son.Educated and privileged, Julie is a modern woman. Living on her own, she is happy to c..
Nurallah arrives in the village of Kalkalla and is astonished to find that people have not had Eid festivities for years. He finds out from the villagers that a terrible jinn keeps spoiling their Eid festivities. Nurallah decides to make a bargain with the jinn, but the frightened villagers beg him ..
If your diets invariably last only until Friday night then this is the plan for you. Diet Monday to Friday, then take the weekend off - and still lose weight. With no banned foods, no hunger pangs and no tricky foods to cook or buy, its the easiest diet plan you've ever tried. It's easy to lose 2kgs..
A collection of three plays crafted for the pleasure of readers and actors of various levels. With morals, themes, characters and settings suitable for the ordinary African, it is a suitable introduction to drama in Secondary Schools and Colleges of Education...
Welcome to a new term at the River School!Jummy and Caro are thrilled to be working with their Nile House friends on the school corn-planting competition. But as they try to grow the biggest crops, they realize the beautiful Shine-Shine River is running low – why, and what does it have to do with th..
How was matter and time created from nothingness? What does the Big Bang theory signify about the creation of the universe? How can a time slice of centuries in our view be a single "moment" in another dimension? What is the parallelism between Einstein's Theory of Relativity and the Qur'anic verses..