Comments and Criticism

A brief, simple, and solid disproof, by contradiction, of Dr. Einstein’s Special Relativity is presented.

This book, Transitional Justice and After by Nzau Mumo, set out to examine Kenya’s transitional justice since the 2007/2008 post election violence. It provides an insight into whether resettlement was the best solution to the IDP problem in the Rift Valley and Kenya as a whole. In so doing, the book puts into perspective the peacebuilding processes undertaken in the Rift valley of Kenya as a result of Post Election Violence, the challenges faced and the contributions of IDPs resettlement programmes to peacebuilding in Kenya. A critical analysis of the book indicates that the author, to a greater extent, achieves the stated purpose of the book. This book is well researched and written in easy English to understand and therefore should be recommended for scholars at various levels in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies as a resource book. The author of this book, Dr. Mumo Nzau is a Fulbright scholar who holds MA and Ph.D degrees in Political Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. He is a senior lecturer in Political Science at the Catholic University of East Africa (CUEA) and Adjunct Faculty at the United States International University (USIU). The book is arranged thematically into resettlement and peacebuilding, retrogressive account of internal displacement phenomenon in Kenya, resettlement and peacebuilding in the rift valley region since 2008 and critical analysis of Kenya’s experience with IDP resettlement as a transitional justice mechanism. All these are elaborately discussed in an easy-to-understand language.

The book under review is an outcome of the author’s successful completion of post-graduate studies hence the title, “Family Influences on Creativity of School Children” is perfect chioce shared by both the thesis and this book . Written against a background of empirical research conducted in Eldoret Municipality, Kenya, the book provides authoritative and incisive analysis of factors ingrained in the family that influence the development of creative talents in children. The first set of factors are those that parents and/or those significant others in the family can readily execute toward the child. Secondly are factors that are naturally predetermined. Factors in the first set include parental love; parent-child interaction; socio-economic status of parents; quantity and quality of time spent with child; home-based activities; and language. The second consists of gender, and a child’s position of birth in relation to other siblings. These factors are discussed in detail in Chapter Three. Save for a few misgivings such as substituting painting and drawing for arts and craft and vice versa, this book qualifies to make profound academic mileage among scholars especially those inclined towards early childhood education and development. Also, it can make good educative piece among the general public.

The impact of changing economics on British subsidized theatres, during Margaret Thatcher’s time raises crucial questions about the role of theatre in society and the relationships between the artist and the ruling political party.

On the electrodynamics of moving bodies by Albert Einstein is based on Trickeries (Open letter to Professors, Teachers, Researchers and Students of Physics)

The China is performing better than India in research. The status of research on medicinal plants in both the countries was studied using Science Citation Index (SCI) database. In this communication, we present a bibliometric analysis of Indian and Chinese research papers published on medicinal plants. The scientometics revealed that in spite of the poor performance in overall science-research, India is doing better in medicinal plant research.

Reply to the Note of Jeremy Danning-Davies Reported Under ‘Further Comments on Khan’s So-Called ‘Equation of Trickery’

Comments on the electrodynamics of moving bodies by Albert Einstein is based on Trickeries (Open letter to Professors, Teachers, Researchers and Students of Physics)

Research on food science and technology is necessary to fuel food industries, it will leads to generation of employment, growth of agriculture, increase in export and improvement of economy. During last five years, Indian food processing sector show 8.4% growth but country is dependent on import of technologies. India needs domestic technologies for agro-based rural industries, value addition, food preservation and processing, nutrition enhancement and management of food wastage (Economic Survey 2013-2014).