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Book Return to Nisa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marjorie Shostak
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-01
  • ISBN : 0674043588
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Return to Nisa written by Marjorie Shostak and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of two women--one a hunter-gatherer in Botswana, the other an ailing American anthropologist--this powerful book returns the reader to territory that Marjorie Shostak wrote of so poignantly in the now classic Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. Here, however, the ground has perceptibly shifted. First published in 1981, Nisa served as a stirring introduction to anthropology's most basic question: Can there be true understanding between people of profoundly different cultures? Diagnosed with breast cancer, and troubled by a sense of work yet unfinished, Shostak returned to Botswana in 1989. This book tells simply and directly of her rediscovery of the !Kung people she had come to know years before--the aging, blunt, demanding Nisa, her stalwart husband Bo, understanding Kxoma, fragile Hwantla, and Royal, translator and guide. In Shostak's words, we clearly see !Kung life, the dry grasslands, the healing dances, the threatening military presence. And we see Shostak herself, passionately curious, reporting the discomforts and confusion of fieldwork along with its fascination. By turns amused and frustrated, she describes the disappointments--and chastening lessons--that inevitably follow when anthropologists (like her younger self) romanticize the !Kung. Throughout, we observe a woman of threatened health but enormous vitality as she pursues the promise she once discovered in the !Kung people and, above all, in Nisa. At the core of the book is the remarkable relationship between these two women from different worlds. They are often caught off guard by the limits of their mutual understanding. Still, their determination to reach out to each other lingers in the reader's mind long after the story ends--providing an eloquent response to questions that Nisa so memorably posed. It was not that we had become the best of friends or like close family. It was simply that she and I had the most straightforward connection I had ever had with anyone, before or since. It was as if the !Kung culture and my talks with Nisa touched something beyond reason in me. Even though I didn't necessarily like everything Nisa said, nor everything about her, my heart had been captured. But how often I wished Nisa had been more noble, more selfless, and more philosophical. Nisa had to be known well to be appreciated, for she was complex and difficult. She probably would say much the same about me. We both wanted things from each other, and neither of us got as much as we hoped for. That we both got some of what we wanted--well, that made our friendship extremely valuable. --from the Epilogue

Book Nisa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marjorie Shostak
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-01-21
  • ISBN : 1134157665
  • Pages : 413 pages

Download or read book Nisa written by Marjorie Shostak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Married at twelve, then separated, divorced and widowed, Nisa is the mother of four children, none of whom survived. She is strong, capable of foraging on her own in one of the world's most hostile environments, not dependent on any man for her daily sustenance and ready to talk to anyone as her equal. Wise, full of humour at the absurdities of life and courageous in the face of its defeats, she is bawdy, practical and incurably romantic. She is a woman of the !Khung people who live by means of humanity's oldest survival strategy - gathering and hunting. This book is the remarkable story of Nisa's life, told in her own words to Marjorie Shostak. It is a story full of echoes from a female past that we can never know directly. But it is also Nisa's unique story, her own voice, her own dignity. In anyone's culture, she is a remarkable woman.

Book Return of the Cartier Cartel

Download or read book Return of the Cartier Cartel written by Nisa Santiago and published by Melodrama Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooklyn empress Cartier knows the streets of Brooklyn like nobody's business. In fact, she successfully built her Cartier Cartel drug ring on the code of the streets, hustling and stacking paper. However, the life of crime is wearing her down, and she's ready to quit the game when two of her Cartel soldiers are gunned down in the same streets that fattened her bankroll. Now she's hell bent on seeking revenge for her friends, and she and her most loyal set out to solve the hood's whodunit. Along the way, tempers flare and love is tested as her prince steps out of line and sleeps with the enemy. Devastation reigns supreme in the streets of Brooklyn, while Cartier is constantly looking over her shoulder, wondering who will be the next to stab her in the back.

Book Cartier Cartel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nisa Santiago
  • Publisher : Melodrama Publishing
  • Release : 2010-09-14
  • ISBN : 1934157341
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Cartier Cartel written by Nisa Santiago and published by Melodrama Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartier GG Timmons and Monya Money White were born to teenage mothers who were also best friends. The two young neglectful mothers allowed Moneys alcoholic grandmother to raise their daughters. At 15, GG formed her own crew aptly named the Cartier Cartel. The main and only vision of the crew GG, Money, Bam, Lil Mama, and Shanine was to do petty crimes in order to wear the flyest gear. While Money loves boys, clothes, and cash (in that order), GG is tired of the petty boosting to keep a few dollars in her pockets. Always wise beyond her years, GG observes how the corner boys hustle drugs and figures her crew could do the same. Can they compete with rival dealers and avoid taking the fall when the block gets hot with 5-0? Or will they find themselves spiraling out of control as sex, drugs and money deepen tensions between the crew.

Book Guard the Throne

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nisa Santiago
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9781934157503
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Guard the Throne written by Nisa Santiago and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When kingpin Curtis Byrne is dethroned, he passes down the family business to his three kids. Once the king is murdered, however, the Byrne siblings are met with vicious opposition.

Book Kitchenability 101

Download or read book Kitchenability 101 written by Nisa Burns and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College is a time of discovery - including cooking for yourself for the first time. Explore your kitchenability with this beginner's cookbook as you learn to become best friends with your kitchen and feed yourself for life. This book overflows with simple, satisfying, and sensational recipes, such as: Banana Cinnamon Waffles Avocado Lettuce Wraps Chunky Chicken Chili Strawberry and Goat Cheese Salad Nutella Peanut Butter Brownies Many recipes include QR codes that link to Nisa's easy-to-follow demonstration videos. Kitchenabilty 101 also includes basic cooking techniques and recommendations for everything you need for a dorm room, quad, or apartment kitchen. With recipes tailored to your independent lifestyle, this book will give you the foundation and confidence to cook through your college years and on into life. Book jacket.

Book Wtf Is Happening

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nisa Amoils
  • Publisher : Lioncrest Publishing
  • Release : 2019-03-28
  • ISBN : 9781544502892
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Wtf Is Happening written by Nisa Amoils and published by Lioncrest Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological innovation is exploding, and venture capitalists are continually looking to invest in the next big thing. But while female pioneers are making remarkable strides across a wide range of emerging tech fields-from robotics to virtual reality to drone technology and autonomous flight-they are receiving only a small fraction of the available funding, an inequity that harms both innovator and investor alike.In WTF, tech investor Nisa Amoils profiles a dozen female founders whose remarkable work will make a profound difference in the way we live tomorrow. This eye-opening volume provides a new appreciation of the extraordinary strides being made in disruptive technology by female entrepreneurs who are building a new world.Whether you're a VC searching for new investment opportunities in cutting-edge technology or a young woman who's considering entering the STEM fields, here is your invitation to help shape the future.

Book Being There

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah H. Davis
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2011-09-19
  • ISBN : 9780674049277
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Being There written by Sarah H. Davis and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can an academic who does not believe evil spirits cause illness harbor the hope that her cancer may be cured by a healer who enters a trance to battle her demons? Whose actions are more (or less) honorable: those of a prostitute who sells her daughter’s virginity to a rich man, or those of a professor who sanctions her daughter’s hook-ups with casual acquaintances? As they immerse themselves in foreign cultures and navigate the relationships that take shape, the authors of these essays, most of them trained anthropologists, find that accepting cultural difference is one thing, experiencing it is quite another. In tales that entertain as much as they illuminate, these writers show how the moral and intellectual challenges of living cross-culturally revealed to them the limits of their perception and understanding. Their insights were gained only after discomforts resulting mainly from the authors’ own blunders in the field. From Brazil to Botswana, Egypt to Indonesia, Mongolia to Pakistan, mistakes were made. Offering a gift to a Navajo man at the beginning of an interview, rather than the end, caused one author to lose his entire research project. In Côte d’Ivoire, a Western family was targeted by the village madman, leading the parents to fear for the safety of their child even as they suspected that their very presence had triggered his madness. At a time when misunderstanding of cultural difference is an undeniable source of conflict, we need stories like these more than ever before.

Book Coca Kola  The Baddest Chick

Download or read book Coca Kola The Baddest Chick written by Nisa Santiago and published by Melodrama Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steady Schemin'. Harlem honey's Apple and Kola are back and cutthroat as ever, and serving The City That Never Sleeps with a wakeup call. Now permanently disfigured, the once beautiful Apple's future isn't looking bright as the empire she worked so hard to build begins to crumble, brick by brick. The tables are turned, and Apple finds out that the ultimate betrayal cuts that much deeper when it's perpetrated by blood. Meanwhile, Kola is lying in wait for Queen Apple to be dethroned. She stacks her paper and assembles her plan to take her twin out once and for all. But Apple isn't bowing out gracefully.

Book Killer Dolls   Part 1

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nisa Santiago
  • Publisher : Melodrama Publishing
  • Release : 2015-10-13
  • ISBN : 1620780313
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Killer Dolls Part 1 written by Nisa Santiago and published by Melodrama Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful Menace (or Viral Violence) Half Japanese and half Jamaican, Aoki is young, beautiful, and known throughout her Brooklyn neighborhood as a menace to local authorities. On the eve of a brutal murder that hits close to home, Aoki needs her friends more than ever. Her ride-or-die besties, Tisa and Ri-Ri, are down to help by any means necessary, even if it puts their own freedom at risk. While coming up in the drug game, AZ gets into a situation he can't handle on his own. When he reaches out to Aoki - an unlikely ally - the girls agree to handle his problem for a small fee. When surveillance video of the conquest goes viral, the Brooklyn hood chicks are transformed into Killer Dolls. This overnight fame brings heat to the Killer Dolls, with jealousy, envy, and a dark secret threatening to destroy everything.

Book Mafioso   Part 2

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nisa Santiago
  • Publisher : Melodrama Publishing
  • Release : 2018-01-16
  • ISBN : 1620780941
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Mafioso Part 2 written by Nisa Santiago and published by Melodrama Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blast from the Past Payback is a bitch named Maxine. She’s a once-demure law student who’s finally free after serving time for a murder she didn’t commit. Maxine has a score to settle, and she’s now driven to return the favor of destruction. Her kill list, unknowingly financed by her frenemy, Layla, is steadily shrinking with bodies dropping all over NYC. Scott and Layla West have buried their children one-by-one from what appears to be random accidents. With the top Mafioso distracted by grief and territory battles, a traitor has infiltrated the tight-knit organization. Scott and Layla’s misfortunes only multiply when they realize they’ve been targeted all along.

Book Understanding LED Illumination

Download or read book Understanding LED Illumination written by M. Nisa Khan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding LED Illumination elucidates the science of lighting for light emitting diodes. It presents concepts, theory, simulations, and new design techniques that shine the spotlight on illumination, energy efficiency, and reducing electrical power consumption. The text provides an introduction to the fundamentals of LED lamp design, and highli

Book Baddest Apple   The Baddest Chick 7

Download or read book Baddest Apple The Baddest Chick 7 written by Nisa Santiago and published by Melodrama Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Off with Her Head Even with South Beach in her rearview, Apple is still unable to settle down and focus on being a mom. Not when the streets keep talking about Queenie, an enigmatic sista who is calling herself the Queen of New York. Queenie, a hardcore former drug mule, has seen and done it all in her young life. She doesn't scare easily, if at all. When it's time for her to step up to her newfound adversary, Apple, her heart skips no beats. Apple refuses to give up her title after just reclaiming it. She's determined to snatch the crown from Queenie and see her bow down to the real queen.

Book Invitation to Anthropology

Download or read book Invitation to Anthropology written by Luke Eric Lassiter and published by AltaMira Press. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lassiter's accessible introduction to anthropology encourages students to evaluate its relevance in our increasingly complex world. Part I focuses on the underlying assumptions and concepts that have driven anthropological theory and practice since its modern inception. Part II explores cross-cultural human issues showing how anthropological studies offer relevant insight into human beings and valuable models for thinking and acting. Invitation to Anthropology is an ideal text for undergraduate students, easily supplemented with case studies in anthropology.

Book The Art of Lizzat Al Nisa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Palatino Press
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2014-03-28
  • ISBN : 9781495946639
  • Pages : 58 pages

Download or read book The Art of Lizzat Al Nisa written by Palatino Press and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An album of 52 full page color plates Lizzat Al-Nisa' or 'Pleasures of Women' was written by Ziya' al-Din Nakhshabi, a Persian physician living in India in the 14th century. The book is derived from the Sanskrit treatise on sex Ratirahasya or 'Secrets of Love', and comprises 10 parts, covering such topics as the types of intercourse and foods and medicines with aphrodisiac effects. The miniatures in this collection are from an 1824 manuscript held by the Wellcome Library, London.

Book Mother s Milk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernice L. Hausman
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-02-04
  • ISBN : 1135208271
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Mother s Milk written by Bernice L. Hausman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother's Milk examines why nursing a baby is an ideologically charged experience in contemporary culture. Drawing upon medical studies, feminist scholarship, anthropological literature, and an intimate knowledge of breastfeeding itself, Bernice Hausman demonstrates what is at stake in mothers' infant feeding choices--economically, socially, and in terms of women's rights. Breastfeeding controversies, she argues, reveal social tensions around the meaning of women's bodies, the authority of science, and the value of maternity in American culture. A provocative and multi-faceted work, Mother's Milk will be of interest to anyone concerned with the politics of women's embodiment.

Book Noor un nisa Inayat Khan

Download or read book Noor un nisa Inayat Khan written by Jean Overton Fuller and published by Suluk Press. This book was released on 2019-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944) was SOE's first woman wireless transmitter in German Occupied Paris during World War II. Posthumously awarded the George Cross MBE and Croix de Guerre with Gold Star for her outstanding wartime service and heroism on behalf of the Allied cause, Noor's remarkable and inspiring life have been commemorated in numerous war memorials, WWII histories, and several films. Born in 1914 to an American mother, Ora Ray Baker, and an Indian Sufi father, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Noor was raised in France, studying musical composition, piano, and harp under Nadia Boulanger at the Ecole Normale de Musique, and child psychology at the Sorbonne. Her stories for children appeared in Le Figaro and were broadcast over Radiodiffusion Francaise, and her first book Twenty Jataka Tales was published in London. Her career as a writer was interrupted by the German invasion of France in 1940. The Inayat Khan family sought refuge in England, and Noor enlisted in the WAAF where she trained as a wireless transmitter. Her Parisian background and wireless skills led to her recruitment by the SOE (Special Operations Executive). After further training, in June, 1943, she was secretly flown back to France where she began her undercover work for the Allied cause under the code name "Madeleine." Constantly on the move between multiple locations and using false identities, Noor transmitted messages for the SOE's French and RF (R publique Fran aise) sections, and for De Gaulle's Free French network. Betrayed by an acquaintance, she was captured by the Gestapo in October, 1943, and held for prolonged interrogation at the Sicherheitsdienst headquarters in Paris. After repeated escape attempts, she was considered to be a dangerous prisoner and was transferred to Pforzheim prison in Germany, where she was held in maximum security and solitary confinement. As the war drew to an end in the fall of 1944, Noor was transported to Dachau. Her last word before execution was "Libert " This new edition of Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan: Madeleine includes previously unpublished material including a retrospective by Noor's brother, Vilayat Inayat Khan, the friendship of Noor and the author, and further research on Noor's life and the SOE.