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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Cover and edges may have some wear. Mild to Moderate creasing / bending to covers and pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover in VG condition: light edge wear, slight endpaper pencil erasure, otherwise unmarked. 306 pages. [15oz]. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardback, 1st edition, Near Fine in a Fine Minus DJ; front board of book has 2 to 3 very small shallow indentations, light wear to DJ and DJ edges, very small closed tear with minor amount of creasing to back bottom edge of DJ, no names or markings to text, 8vo., 201 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Bundus - Strategies and Application are real-life foundational anchorages, the unwritten but effective curriculum that prepares and ensures that the village boys and girls are mentally prepared for the modern-day life and living, and sifts some to move from Grass To Grace, from grass to glass. The most important lessons, resilience, tenacity, discipline, and self-reliance, are never taught in certain modern schools, colleges, and Universities. This book uncovers the 'unwritten curriculum' of a village upbringing and shows how to use its timeless wisdom to thrive in the modern world. This book reveals the specific, repeatable principles that turn a barefoot village boy into a global leader, proving that grace follows grit, and your starting point is irrelevant. Your underprivileged background isn't a weakness; it's a secret weapon, a treasure, an advantage. The resourcefulness you learned from having nothing is the one skill that guarantees success when you have everything to lose in the corporate world. Your real education begins when you leave the lecture hall. This book shows how to turn every trip, every cultural encounter, and every unexpected journey, from Senama to Samfya to Serengeti to Sentosa to Sinda to Sarasota to Smyrna, into a masterclass in resilience, adaptability, and leadership. The moment has arrived to stop seeing your complicated past as something to overcome and start recognizing it as your greatest competitive advantage in a world that desperately needs people who can create solutions from nothing, build relationships that endure even in conflict, and maintain integrity even when external pressures encourage compromise. Your unwritten curriculum was not a punishment but preparation for opportunities that comfortable backgrounds cannot handle and challenges that privileged educations never teach you to solve. Every barefoot step to school was building mental toughness that cushioned feet will never know. Every night without electricity was teaching you to see in darkness that stops others cold. Every meal that depended on your family's farming success developed an urgency and a work ethic that abundance cannot replicate. Every problem you solved with scraps and creativity was training your brain for innovation that business schools spend fortunes trying to simulate through case studies and theoretical frameworks. The bundus gave you an education that no university can provide and no amount of money can purchase. While others learned about resilience from textbooks, you lived it daily. While others studied leadership theory, you practiced it by necessity when survival required taking initiative without permission or external validation. While others memorized business principles, you developed them organically through experiences that demanded results, not just good grades or impressive presentations. This is your Bundu Advantage, and the time has come to deploy it strategically rather than hiding it apologetically. Your background is not a scar to cover but armor that protects you in battles that others cannot win. Your difficult beginning is not a limitation to overcome, but specialized training that prepared you for opportunities that conventional paths could never access.Your Past is Not a Scar; It is Your Armor. Armor protects you in battles where others fall because they never learned to withstand the impact of real adversity or to navigate uncertainty without the panic and paralysis that come from growing up protected from every discomfort and shielded from every challenge that could have built the mental toughness that professional success actually requires. Your complicated past created protective layers of resilience, adaptability, and resourcefulness that become invisible shields when you face obstacles that defeat people who learned t Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Maybe you've sat across from someone you love and felt completely alone. Maybe you've been the one working late, paying bills, building a life, and quietly wondering why none of it felt like enough. From Mansa To Manhattan is a story about two good people who stopped seeing each other, and the slow, quiet cost of that invisibility.Zondi is not a villain. He's a man who loved his wife the only way he knew how: by working harder, providing more, and building something stable. He grew up in a smaller Town, where men showed love through sacrifice, not sentiment, not a bouquet of flowers. Where a roof over your family's head was the deepest declaration of devotion a man could make. He followed that blueprint faithfully. He genuinely believed it was enough. Claudine is not a villain either. She's a woman who wanted to be chosen, not just provided for. She wanted to feel seen inside the life her husband built, not ungrateful for it. She stayed. She endured. She shrank herself to fit the shape of the marriage. Later, something in her moved. Not because she stopped loving her husband. But because she had stopped feeling loved by him in the ways that mattered most to her.This story takes no sides. Both of them were lonely and were responsible for the distance between them. You will look at your own life and consider whether the same quiet erosion might already be happening in your own home.The book goes into the spaces most love stories refuse to enter: the breakfast table where two people sit three feet apart and feel three continents away, the bedroom where silence has become so familiar that it no longer feels strange. The house where one partner is slowly disappearing, and the other hasn't noticed yet.If you've ever confused stability with love, this book will challenge you. It won't shame you. It will show you what you couldn't see. If you've ever been the partner who felt invisible inside a full house, this book will name the loneliness that you've been carrying alone because you didn't want to seem ungrateful for everything you had. The story resonates deeply with many Africans in the diaspora. Couples navigating migration, Readers who appreciate emotional realism. It is modern, culturally rich, and globally relevant. Told from two perspectives with equal weight and equal honesty. Zondi gets his voice. Claudine gets hers. Neither is crowned the hero. Neither is condemned as the villain. Both are held with the kind of fairness that most stories about betrayal refuse to offer. The dual perspective structure is not a stylistic choice. It's a moral one. Two people failing each other in different ways, at different times, with different levels of awareness. You'll see what emotional neglect actually looks like before it becomes irreversible. Not the dramatic version where someone is clearly being cruel or dismissive. Looks like a perfectly normal couple.You'll also see how migration reshapes a marriage in ways that neither partner anticipates. Moving from Africa to America stripped away every support system: the extended family, the community of people who shared their cultural reference points and understood their values without explanation. In the USA, they were alone in a way they had never been in Africa. And that aloneness, pressed against the daily demands of building a new life in a new country, created a pressure that the marriage was never designed to hold.Then COVID arrived. The pressure had nowhere left to go. The lockdown will feel familiar in a way that might be uncomfortable. Because what the pandemic did to the Zulu household is exactly what it did to millions of households: it removed every escape route. No office to retreat to. No happy hour with friends. No social gatherings to give the day structure and the relationship breathing room. Just people quarantined Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What if the less-than-ideal environment you grew up in was actually the most expensive education money can't buy? Many people from humble beginnings spend their entire lives running from their past. Hiding it. Downplaying it. Feeling like it's a stain they can't wash off. That's completely unnecessary. What if the barefoot walks to school, and the nights with no electricity, were quietly building something inside you that no Ivy League degree, no privileged upbringing, and no corporate training program can replicate? The Author walked that path from barefoot to boardrooms in Nairobi, Johannesburg, Harare, Singapore, London, New Orleans, Cleveland, and Charlotte. He didn't just survive the journey. He thrived in rooms where people like him were never supposed to sit.Your past is not a scar to cover up. It is armor that protects you in battles that others cannot win. Kunda pulls back the curtain on a life lived across continents, cultures, and crises. This is not a polished motivational speech. This is raw, honest, and deeply personal. It is the real story of a man who used every hardship as fuel, every setback as a lesson, and every moment of scarcity as specialized training for life ahead. It will change the way you see your own story forever. Inside you will find.The Scar Mark of Endurance - how the physical and emotional hardships of your childhood quietly built mental calluses that make corporate rejection, workplace politics, and high-stakes pressure feel completely manageable.The Grit Dividend - the hidden competitive edge that only people who grew up with nothing truly possess, and exactly how to deploy it in social and professional settings.The Advanced Loss Aversion Advantage - how the memory of having absolutely nothing transforms into a fierce, laser-focused drive to protect and maximize every single career opportunity that comes your way. How to transform silent family sacrifices and humble parental hopes into an unstoppable internal engine that keeps you moving when everyone else quits. Homegrown innovation that translates directly into problem-solving skills that no MBA program teaches. How growing up around real danger develops a gut-level threat detection system that makes you a fearless, intuitive decision-maker in high-stakes social and business environments.How exposure through travel broadens horizons and builds a rare cultural intelligence that makes people valuable in any multicultural team. The Meritocracy Mindset - How to apply ruthless efficiency, zero tolerance for shortcuts, and discipline to build a personal brand that earns respect in competitive markets.The Art of Leaving Well - the often-ignored leadership skill of knowing when to move on, how to hand over with grace, and why how you leave a role is just as powerful as how you led it. Never burn bridges. Resign with Grace, not friction. The Full Circle Principle - how to stop seeing your starting point as the beginning of a disadvantage and start seeing it as the foundation of a world-class life, proving once and for all that grace always follows grit.This book is not just a memoir. It is a practical, actionable guide written for every person who grew up with less, worked twice as hard, and still wonders whether their background is holding them back. It will walk you through the entire journey, from the bundus to the boardroom, with real stories, hard-won insights, and concrete steps you can apply immediately. It will help you get unstuck from the shame of your past and step fully into the power of your story. Your complicated history is not a liability. It is the most valuable professional armor you will ever own. And this book will show you exactly how to wear it. If you want to turn your humble beginnings into your greatest competitive edge and finally stop feeling like your Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No dj. First Edition. Text block sound, covers worn and grubby. 200pp Dover 1964 otg. Size: 4to.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 106 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

hardcover. Condition: Used; Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Tight, clean and crisp. A touch of light shelf wear to dustjacket, otherwise a gently read book in excellent condition now protected in a new Mylar cover. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; reference number taped to spine; bar code taped to front cover; fading and shelf wear to ext erior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Edition 1967. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Edition 1967. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.…

Hardcover. Condition: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Edition 1969. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Edition 1969. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.…

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+ condition. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1974. 6.25" wide by 9" tall. A square, tight copy. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Flat, uncreased spine. Bound in the original silver and black wrappers. Three appendices. Bibliographical references. Index. From the rear cover: "System Identification problems are basic problems in many fields of the physical, engineering, biological and other sciences. These are problems in which one wishes to determine the structure of the system which produced a given set of observations. While the underlying fundamental equation may be a partial differential equation, integral differential equation, differential difference equation, or only approximately known, the book emphasizes that it may be reduced to an initial value problem for ordinary difference equations which is readily solved on a digital or analog computer." Keywords: Systems Analysis. Inverse Problems. Applied Mathematics. . Trade Paperback. Very Good+ condition. xix, 293pp. …

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no jacket visible. This hardcover book is in good condition with typical ex-library markings, including a call number on the spine. The cover shows minor wear, and there is no dust jacket present. The binding is firm, and the pages are clean, making it a suitable copy for study or collection.…

Condition: sporadic markings. White cover is lightly soiled/faded.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Illustrated Edition. As new; possible minor shelf wear.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Very good condition. Previous owners name discreetly on front free endpaper. No date on the title page. Copyright page dated 1997. 262 pages. Pages are crisp and clean. We are a real brick and mortar bookstore and ship books everyday. This listing was written by an actual person with the book in front of them for inspection. Please email with questions or to request photographs.…

Condition: good. This book is in Good condition. There may be some notes and highligting but otherwise the book is in overall good condition.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 200 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As New in Hardcover. 262pp 8vo. Pink spine with white titles.

Wraps. Condition: Good. 8vo, 333 pp.Wrappers rubbed and worn at edges, page edges tanned, number in ink on halftitle, otherwise unmarked.

Condition: New.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:0306408473.…