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Master storyteller Rosanne Hawke effortlessly interweaves ancient Mughal history and settings, fables and traditional story threads to bring to life a magical fantasy. Told over two books – the second book, The Leopard Princess out in October 2016. Daughter of Nomads contains a sample chapter from The Leopard Princess.First Moon of Summer, 1662: Fourteen-year-old Jahani lives peacefully in the village of Sherwan. But havoc is brewing in the Mughal Empire with tyrants and war lords burning villages in their quest to rule the northern kingdoms.After an assassin strikes in a bazaar, Jahani discovers her life is not as it seems. Before long, she is fleeing with her mysterious protector Azhar.Will their journey to the Qurraqoram Mountains lead Jahani to danger or to her destiny?
A remarkable and inspiring true story that "stuns with raw beauty" about one woman's resilience, her courageous journey to America, and her family's lost way of life. Winner of the 2022 Gold Nautilus Award, Multicultural & Indigenous Category Born in Somalia, a spare daughter in a large family, Shugri Said Salh was sent at age six to live with her nomadic grandmother in the desert. The last of her family to learn this once-common way of life, Salh found herself chasing warthogs, climbing termite hills, herding goats, and moving constantly in search of water and grazing lands with her nomadic family. For Salh, though the desert was a harsh place threatened by drought, predators, and enemy clans, it also held beauty, innovation, centuries of tradition, and a way for a young Sufi girl to learn courage and independence from a fearless group of relatives. Salh grew to love the freedom of roaming with her animals and the powerful feeling of community found in nomadic rituals and the oral storytelling of her ancestors. As she came of age, though, both she and her beloved Somalia were forced to confront change, violence, and instability. Salh writes with engaging frankness and a fierce feminism of trying to break free of the patriarchal beliefs of her culture, of her forced female genital mutilation, of the loss of her mother, and of her growing need for independence. Taken from the desert by her strict father and then displaced along with millions of others by the Somali Civil War, Salh fled first to a refugee camp on the Kenyan border and ultimately to North America to learn yet another way of life. Readers will fall in love with Salh on the page as she tells her inspiring story about leaving Africa, learning English, finding love, and embracing a new horizon for herself and her family. Honest and tender, The Last Nomad is a riveting coming-of-age story of resilience, survival, and the shifting definitions of home.
The true story of an ordinary woman living an extraordinary existence all over the world. “Gelman doesn’t just observe the cultures she visits, she participates in them, becoming emotionally involved in the people’s lives. This is an amazing travelogue.” —Booklist At the age of forty-eight, on the verge of a divorce, Rita Golden Gelman left an elegant life in L.A. to follow her dream of travelling the world, connecting with people in cultures all over the globe. In 1986, Rita sold her possessions and became a nomad, living in a Zapotec village in Mexico, sleeping with sea lions on the Galapagos Islands, and residing everywhere from thatched huts to regal palaces. She has observed orangutans in the rain forest of Borneo, visited trance healers and dens of black magic, and cooked with women on fires all over the world. Rita’s example encourages us all to dust off our dreams and rediscover the joy, the exuberance, and the hidden spirit that so many of us bury when we become adults.
The Rise of the Global Nomad by Jim Matthewman Pdf
There is an urgent need for new thinking - a clear mind shift - in terms of leadership and people management as the focus of world recovery switches from US/Western best practices to recovery and growth centred on developing and emerging markets. A cadre of global professional is appearing who will drive both the recovery and future growth of international organizations - The Global Nomad. The Rise of the Global Nomad explains how this new workforce is the engine room of the modern organization. Promoting recovery and driving growth by operating in the new markets. The global nomad, predominantly Generation Y, is characterised by a new set of principles and attitudes; embracing change, up for the challenge, they are not loyal to any one organization. Recognising that they are the key to unlocking the potential in these new markets, the author describes how organizations need to restructure and change their ideas to embrace the global nomad and maximise their power in the new economy.
Nomadism as a way of life was a logical, valid and productive mode of existence. Pastoral nomads proved to be resistant to external forces. Their land, culture, lifestyle could not overrun by modern civilization. As the world economy is changing drastically, and pastoral nomads everywhere are facing the impact. The book contains interesting portraits of the life and livelihood of the various nomadic groups of the world. From marriage to religion, from animal husbandry to popular justice, all aspects of the culture and daily life of nomads are elaborately described. It also provides authentic information about the existing patterns of nomadic settlements and the challenges confronted by nomads from modern reforms.
You see them as faceless shapes on the median or in city parks. You recognize them by their cardboard signs, their bags of aluminum cans, or their weathered skin. But you do not know them. In Nomads of a Desert City Barbara Seyda meets the gazes of our homeless neighbors and, with an open heart and the eye of an accomplished photographer, uncovers their compelling stories of life on the edge. Byrdy is a teenager from Alaska who left a violent husband and misses the young daughter her mother now cares for. Her eyes show a wisdom that belies her youth. Samuel is 95 and collects cans for cash. His face shows a lifetime of living outside while his eyes hint at the countless stories he could tell. Lamanda worked as an accountant before an act of desperation landed her in prison. Now she struggles to raise the seven children of a woman she met there. DorothyÑwhose earliest memories are of physical and sexual abuseÑlives in a shelter, paycheck to paycheck, reciting affirmations so she may continue Òto grace the world with my presence.Ó They live on the streets or in shelters. They are women and men, young and old, Native or Anglo or Black or Hispanic. Their faces reflect the forces that have shaped their lives: alcoholism, poverty, racism, mental illness, and abuse. But like desert survivors, they draw strength from some hidden reservoir. Few recent studies on homelessness offer such a revealing collection of oral history narratives and compelling portraits. Thirteen homeless women and men open a rare window to enrich our understanding of the complex personal struggles and triumphs of their lives. Nomads of a Desert City sheds a glaring light on the shadow side of the American DreamÑand takes us to the crossroads of despair and hope where the human spirit survives.
From the author of The Walled City comes a fast-paced and innovative novel that will leave you breathless. Her story begins on a train. The year is 1956, and the Axis powers of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan rule. To commemorate their Great Victory, they host the Axis Tour: an annual motorcycle race across their conjoined continents. The prize? An audience with the highly reclusive Adolf Hitler at the Victor's ball in Tokyo. Yael, a former death camp prisoner, has witnessed too much suffering, and the five wolves tattooed on her arm are a constant reminder of the loved ones she lost. The resistance has given Yael one goal: Win the race and kill Hitler. A survivor of painful human experimentation, Yael has the power to skinshift and must complete her mission by impersonating last year's only female racer, Adele Wolfe. This deception becomes more difficult when Felix, Adele's twin brother, and Luka, her former love interest, enter the race and watch Yael's every move. But as Yael grows closer to the other competitors, can she be as ruthless as she needs to be to avoid discovery and stay true to her mission?
Out There by Russell Ferguson,Martha Gever,Trinh T. Minh-Ha,Cornel West Pdf
Out There addresses the theme of cultural marginalization - the process whereby various groups are excluded from access to and participation in the dominant culture. It engages fundamental issues raised by attempts to define such concepts as mainstream, minority, and "other," and opens up new ways of thinking about culture and representation. All of the texts deal with questions of representation in the broadest sense, encompassing not just the visual but also the social and psychological aspects of cultural identity. Included are important theoretical writings by Homi Bhabha, Helene Cixous, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and Monique Wittig. Their work is juxtaposed with essays on more overtly personal themes, often autobiographical, by Gloria Anzaldua, Bell Hooks, and Richard Rodriguez, among others. This rich anthology brings together voices from many different marginalized groups - groups that are often isolated from each other as well as from the dominant culture. It joins issues of gender, race, sexual preference, and class in one forum but without imposing a false unity on the diverse cultures represented. Each piece in the book subtly changes the way every other piece is read. While several essays focus on specific issues in art, such as John Yau's piece on Wilfredo Lam in the Museum of Modern Art, or James Clifford's on collecting art, others draw from debates in literature, film, and critical theory to provide a much broader context than is usually found in work aimed at an art audience. Topics range from the functions of language to the role of public art in the city, from gay pornography to the meanings of black hair styles. Out There also includes essays by Rosalyn Deutsche, Richard Dyer, Kobena Mercer, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Gerald Vizenor and Simon Watney, as well as by the editors. Copublished with the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Distributed by The MIT Press.
Examining the rapid transition in Iran from a modernizing, westernizing, secularizing monarchy (1941-79) to a hard-line, conservative, clergy-run Islamic republic (1979-), this book focuses on the ways this process has impacted the Qashqa’i—a rural, nomadic, tribally organized, Turkish-speaking, ethnic minority of a million and a half people who are dispersed across the southern Zagros Mountains. Analysing the relationship between the tribal polity and each of the two regimes, the book goes on to explain the resilience of the people’s tribal organizations, kinship networks, and politicized ethnolinguistic identities to demonstrate how these structures and ideologies offered the Qashqa’i a way to confront the pressures emanating from the two central governments. Existing scholarly works on politics in Iran rarely consider Iranian society outside the capital of Tehran and beyond the reach of the details of national politics. Local-level studies on Iran—accounts of the ways people actually lived—are now rare, especially after the revolution. Based on long-term anthropological research, Nomads in Postrevolutionary Iran provides a unique insight into how national-level issues relate to the local level and will be of interest to scholars and researchers in Anthropolgy, Iranian Studies and Middle Eastern Studies.
Author : Daniel G. Bates Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY Page : 269 pages File Size : 45,6 Mb Release : 1973-01-01 Category : Electronic ISBN : 9780915703647
The Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays (Vol. 1&2) by E. Lynn Linton Pdf
"The Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays" in 2 volumes is a collection of essays upon various social subjects written by the British journalist Eliza Lynn Linton, who was a severe critic of early feminism. Her most famous essay on this matter, The Girl of the Period, was published in Saturday Review in 1868 and was a vehement attack on feminism. Linton is a leading example of the fact that the fight against votes for women was not only organised by men. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ The Girl of the Period_x000D_ Modern Mothers_x000D_ Modern Mothers_x000D_ Paying One's Shot_x000D_ What is Woman's Work?_x000D_ Little Women_x000D_ Ideal Women_x000D_ Pinchbeck_x000D_ Affronted Womanhood_x000D_ Feminine Affectations_x000D_ Interference_x000D_ The Fashionable Woman_x000D_ Sleeping Dogs_x000D_ Beauty and Brains_x000D_ Nymphs_x000D_ Mésalliances_x000D_ Weak Sisters_x000D_ Pinching Shoes_x000D_ Superior Beings_x000D_ Feminine Amenities_x000D_ Grim Females_x000D_ Mature Sirens_x000D_ Pumpkins_x000D_ Widows_x000D_ Dolls_x000D_ Charming Women_x000D_ Apron-strings_x000D_ Fine Feelings_x000D_ Sphinxes_x000D_ Flirting_x000D_ Scramblers_x000D_ Flattery_x000D_ La Femme Passée_x000D_ Spoilt Women_x000D_ Dovecots_x000D_ Bored Husbands_x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ Gushing Men_x000D_ Sweet Seventeen_x000D_ The Habit of Fear_x000D_ Old Ladies_x000D_ Voices_x000D_ Burnt Fingers_x000D_ Désœuvrement_x000D_ The Shrieking Sisterhood_x000D_ Otherwise-minded_x000D_ Limp People_x000D_ The Art of Reticence_x000D_ Men's Favourites_x000D_ Womanliness_x000D_ Something to Worry_x000D_ Sweets of Married Life_x000D_ Social Nomads_x000D_ Great Girls_x000D_ Shunted Dowagers_x000D_ Privileged Persons_x000D_ Modern Man-haters_x000D_ Vague People_x000D_ Arcadia_x000D_ Strangers at Church_x000D_ In Sickness_x000D_ On a Visit_x000D_ Drawing-room Epiphytes_x000D_ The Epicene Sex_x000D_ Women's Men_x000D_ Hotel Life in England_x000D_ Our Masks_x000D_ Heroes at Home_x000D_ Seine-fishing_x000D_ The Discontented Woman_x000D_ English Clergymen in Foreign Watering-places_x000D_ Old Friends_x000D_ Popular Women_x000D_ Choosing or Finding_x000D_ Local Fêtes
The Global Nomad's Guide to University Transition by Tina L. Quick Pdf
Children who grew up interacting with two or more cultures during their developmental years often have an inability to connect with their home-country peers. This guide addresses the common issues students face when they are making the double transition of not only adjusting to a new life-stage, such as college, but to a cultural change as well.
Have you ever dreamt of starting your own business so that you can travel the world? Who hasn't? Think about it for a second. Imagine that you can ✓ start your own business, ✓ follow your passion, and ✓ work from anywhere in the world. Would you be able to create a successful career or business around your passion? Would your office be a tropical beach, tent in the woods, 5-star resort, or an RV? Would you work a 9-5 schedule, 3 days a week, or 2 hours a day? There isn't one right answer. There isn't one path that you have to follow. And that is what this book is all about. In Nomads: Adventurous Businesswomen who are Changing the World while Traveling, you will read inspiring chapters written by 16 diverse, seasoned, female travelers. You will find women from different nationalities, races, backgrounds, industries, religions, and ages. They are successful: Entrepreneurs Business owners Influencers Educators Volunteers Each author has managed to create a lifestyle where she can have it all. One where she can work how and when she chooses. One where she calls all the shots. One where travel is the rule, and not the exception. The authors in this book have been traveling long before the phrase digital nomad even existed. They began their journeys years before COVID and remote work became the norm. Now, they are sharing their stories to help inspire other women and girls who are looking for something more in their lives. In Nomads: Adventurous Businesswomen who are Changing the World while Traveling, you will read about: A Panamanian-born immigrant who started her own travel agency after a life-changing visit home to visit her father after years apart. An independent, expert, female business traveler who is challenging the ideas surrounding business travel and safety as a solo female traveler. A single mother who found her confidence, and a new career path helping others move abroad, when she hit the road to travel with her infant daughter. An El Salvador-born wanderluster that found her purpose while raising two world children and jumping between continents. A calculated risk-taker who paid for her college education with her poker winnings, determined to create a successful life for herself after watching her parents sacrifice everything to immigrate to the U.S. And 11 more unique chapters that will change the way that you view remote work and business travel. Are you ready to be inspired? Click the BUY NOW button, and you can begin reading right away!
Kyrgyzstan. A Land of Nomads by Виктор Кадыров Pdf
The Book «Kyrgyzstan. Land of nomads» was published with the support of the Department of tourism under the Ministry of culture, information and tourism. It presents the customs, traditions and way of life of the Kyrgyz people, it tells the story of the Kyrgyz, it is as a nomadic people. The book is intended for foreign guests, as well as for those who want to learn more about Kyrgyzstan.
