VOLUME 1, ISSUE 5
NOVEMBER 2018
Two New Releases!
Baranzan’s People, An Ethnohistory of the Bajju of the Middle Belt of Nigeria, and
Bajju Christian Conversion in the Middle Belt of Nigeria
These companion books by Dr. Carol V. McKinney were developed from material collected during the time she, husband Norris McKinney, and their four children lived and worked among the Bajju in Nigeria, West Africa. Carol is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Applied Anthropology at Dallas International University, formerly GIAL.

Baranzan’s People, based on in-depth fieldwork, research, and personal interviews, is a comprehensive ethnographic study of the Bajju people of southern Kaduna State in Nigeria covering their origins, history, culture, religious beliefs, and practices.

Bajju Christian Conversion asks Why have large numbers of the Bajju people of the Middle Belt of Nigeria become Christians? The first conversions occurred in 1929 and today almost one hundred percent of the Bajju claim to be Christians, so this people movement happened within a relatively short period. McKinney details the various contexts in which religious change took place among the Bajju: in traditional Bajju culture, in their relations with the Hausa-Fulani, in the British colonial context, and in the missionary context.

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Waterstones buys Foyles ‘in face of Amazon's siren call’
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Frankfurt’s first conference on the evolving audio market
Audiobooks are the success story of the moment, and Michele Cobb of the US-based Audio Publishers Association had plenty of data to back this up.

The (not so) paperless future
Reader Advisory! This is pretty much just for fun (and includes a 4-minute Star Trek video mash up)

There are also links within the story to the history of the paperless movement and articles over the years. Here’s a snippet from one:

  • Each day, one billion photocopies are made (Source: Forrester Research)
  • The annual growth rate for the amount of paper produced by the average company is 25%. (Source: Gartner)
  • There are over four trillion paper documents in the US alone, and this number is growing at a rate of 22%, or roughly 880 billion paper documents a year. (Source: Coopers and Lybrand)

Quoted by GREG MILLIKEN, M-FILES CORPORATION in The Paperless Office: 30-Year Old Pipe-Dream?
Some science journals that claim to peer-review papers do not do so
One estimate puts the number of papers in questionable journals at 400,000. Read more here.
Heard at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018
Macmillan CEO John Sargent at the Frankfurter Buchmesse’s CEO Talk:
...In general, the questions put to him—by journalists whose news outlets sponsor the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry produced by Rüdiger Wischenbart—were relatively mild, and elicited predictions from Sargent that print will survive digital challenges, and that long-form reading and storytelling will weather the onslaught of electronic entertainment.

His message was that reading, while challenged by many distractions, is safeguarded in today’s culture by its unique activation of the consumer’s imagination . “We still have 250-to-400-page books on the shelf.”...
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