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Tue, 20/03/2012

An anonymous alumnus has redeemed a pledge of £10.
 
We are now 535 books & journals away from hitting our target of 1000 books & journals.
 
Donation Summary

  1. Total cash donation: £2,447.12
  2. Total spent on 117 books: £2,405.87 (includes cost of shipping to Makurdi)
  3. Cash balance: £41.25
  4. Total books donation: 131 (includes 1No. Enthalpy – Entropy Diagram for Steam)
  5. Total journals/magazines donation: 217

Presentation Summary

Wed, 14/03/2012

The following 22 books were delivered to Ben Jila in Makurdi yesterday.

  1. Foundation of Engineering Geology by Tony Waltham (2 copies)
  2. Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice by Paul T. Thomas & John C. Warner (2 copies)
  3. Introduction to Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology by Victoria Aspinall & Melanie Capello (2 copies)
  4. Data and Computer Communications by William Stallings
  5. Principles of Financial Economics by Stephen F. LeRoy & Jan Werner
  6. Peer Review and Manuscript Management in Scientific Journals by Irene Hames
  7. Marketing Plans by Malcolm McDonald
Mon, 12/03/2012

Gabriel Ataguba  has donated the following books.

  1. FISH: Processing and Preservation by Charls L. Cutting
  2. Modern Fishing Gear Technology by M. Shahul Hameed and M. R. Boopendranath
Mon, 27/02/2012

Hardy Ikechukwu Okei has donated 2 brand new books to the project. They are:

  1. Surveying for Engineers by J. Uren & W.F. Price - 5th edition (17 Mar 2010)
  2. The New Penguin Dictionary of Civil Engineering  by David Blockley - (26 May 2005)

We are now 538 books & journals away from hitting our target of 1000 books & journals.

Sat, 25/02/2012

Abraham Atotse has redeemed his pledge of N50,000 and this came to £199.08 after conversion.

Following this donation, we've bought the following 25 books for the project:

  1. Chemistry: The Central Science by Theodore E. Brown, H. Eugene H LeMay & Bruce E. Bursten - 10th Edition (2009)    - £9.99
  2. Chemistry by Catherine E. Housecroft & Edwin C. Constable - 3rd Edition (2006) - £3.99
  3. Cell Signalling by John T. Hancock - 2nd Edition (2005)    - £5.99
  4. Biology: Concepts & Application without Physiology by Cecie Starr, Christine Evers & Lisa Starr - 8th Edition (2011) - £9.99
  5. Biology: Concepts & Application by Cecie Starr, Christine Evers & Lisa Starr - 8th Edition (2011) - £9.99
  6. Environmental Analytical Chemistry edited by FW Fifield & PJ Haines - 2nd Edition (2000) - £3.99
Fri, 24/02/2012

Boniface Umale has made another donation, this time he has donated the manual “Avoiding Danger from Underground Services”

We’ve also bought the following used books for the project.

Tue, 21/02/2012

Abraham Atotse has pledged N50,000 to the UAM Alumni "Donate a Book" project.

Thu, 16/02/2012

Boniface Umale has donated another textbook, The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery by Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley & Kristin Tolle, bringing the number of books donated by him to 7.
 
The 2 books donated by Umoru Sunny Odey were delivered to Ben Jila on Monday 13th February.
 
A set of 25 books from the UK were delivered to Ben Jila on Tuesday 14th February. The 25 books weighed 24.58kg and at £4.50 per kg, the cost of shipment to Makurdi came down to £110.61.
 

Sat, 11/02/2012

Mr G. Herd, a former expatriate Lecturer at Auchi Polytechnic, has donated the following books to the project.

Though some of the books are dated, the principles contained in them are still very relevant when using the latest versions of the software the books are about.

Thu, 09/02/2012

The following new books  have been bought for the project.