Download or read book Daughter of Nomads written by Rosanne Hawke and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?
Download or read book Tales of a Female Nomad written by Rita Golden Gelman and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Nomad written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally bestselling author Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells the stirring story of her search for a new life in America, recounting dramatic stories of her family and the challenges they faced adapting to Western society as Muslim immigrants. Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world’s attention with Infidel, her compelling coming-of-age memoir, which spent thirty-one weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, in Nomad, Hirsi Ali tells of coming to America to build a new life, an ocean away from the death threats made to her by European Islamists, the strife she witnessed, and the inner conflict she suffered. It is the story of her physical journey to freedom and, more crucially, her emotional journey to freedom—her transition from a tribal mind-set that restricts women’s every thought and action to a life as a free and equal citizen in an open society. Through stories of the challenges she has faced, she shows the difficulty of reconciling the contradictions of Islam with Western values. In these pages Hirsi Ali recounts the many turns her life took after she broke with her family, and how she struggled to throw off restrictive superstitions and misconceptions that initially hobbled her ability to assimilate into Western society. She writes movingly of her reconciliation, on his deathbed, with her devout father, who had disowned her when she renounced Islam after 9/11, as well as with her mother and cousins in Somalia and in Europe. Nomad is a portrait of a family torn apart by the clash of civilizations. But it is also a touching, uplifting, and often funny account of one woman’s discovery of today’s America. While Hirsi Ali loves much of what she encounters, she fears we are repeating the European mistake of underestimating radical Islam. She conveys an urgent message and mission—to inform the West of the extent of the threat from Islam, both from outside and from within our open societies. A celebration of free speech and democracy, Nomad is an important contribution to the history of ideas, but above all a rousing call to action.
Download or read book Nomad Girl written by Niema Ash and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-06-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nomad Girl is a memoir, it is about the 60s, the decade that wanted to change the world, and it did. It is about 'The Finjan', a folk/blues music club I ran with my partner in Montreal — the coffee house/music club culture being at the heart of the 'changing times'.
Download or read book The Last Nomad written by Shugri Said Salh and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Divine Daughter written by Andrew Gilchrist and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever feel swept up in a sea of novelty? When did the new become more important than the true? Andrew Gilchrist found a remedy to today's nausea of novelty in the most familiar elements of narrative and music. He has composed a new arrangement from the ideas of Marshall McLuhan, Northrop Frye, Bernard Lonergan, and Jordan Peterson, weaving together a promising relationship between what we believe and how we live. This book starts a conversation at the crossroads of art, literature, religion, and psychology. And it begins with the oldest of stories. A boy fell in love with a girl and sung her a song. Each chapter in this book charts a series of helpful symbols and sounds, drawing attention to the melodies, rhythms and tempos that make up our most common experiences. The scientific revolution gave birth to a new understanding of the relationship between observer and observed, lover and beloved. That birth has changed the song. However, we have not welcomed this new daughter into the family with a proper name or fully recognized her part in our spiritual development. With her wisdom, we too might find hope and delight in the back and forth journey between tradition and innovation. Could her compelling voice and playful character help us prepare for the greatest roles of our lives?
Download or read book Information Bulletin written by Soviet Union. Posolʹstvo (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Out There written by Russell Ferguson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1992-02-11 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Daughter of Kastallon written by Matthew Blackburn and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in the days of the White Lamb, when an eEnemy of the wWest shall be upon us, Tthe One Who Unites will be born, and a decade of tribulation shall be wrought. Only when they return to Kastallon will the divided become one, and the eEnemy shall be thwarted. A blade gifted by the ancestor shall be wielded; a winged being of white shall fly. Signs of restoration will be seen: the desert becomes saturated, and the dark becomes light. Such is the prophecy of Skeef, our Llord and Pprotector. The Gilded Caliph reigns supreme. Kastallon, or Tthe Land Where Castles Lie, is a realm in its infancy. At its inception, it iwas a world full of wonder and magnificent sights. But in the final days of its first era, it wais invaded by the Gilded Caliphate, a faction of warmongering soldiers bent on total domination and the spread of their deity's influence. Since then, the land has been cursed, and the only way to restore it to its former glory is to make two thrones from one. Two must rule, not one. Willow Dennings is an orphan from New York in the early 20 twentieth century. She has known naught else except the orphanage, its teachers, and its loving headmaster, Mr. Linmer. One day, Willow is visited by a strange bird just outside her bedroom window. When the bird finds its way inside, it leads Willow to the revelation of a lifetime! Thus begins her journey to Kastallon and the adventure therein to restore the Two Thrones from one. Along the way, she meets friendly and frightful creatures, a mystical being, and a test of pure willpower. Will she become everything she iwas destined to be? Or will the Caliphate prove too much for the young chosen one?
Download or read book Nomad written by Lois Beck and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-12-19 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 1970 to 1971, Borzu and his people were faced with many difficulties. When the expected winter rains did not fall, pastures and crops shriveled. Unable to sell their starving livestock for any profit, Borzu's people saw their debts to urban merchants and moneylenders increase. At the same time, Iran exercised more bureaucratic control over the Qashqa'i by applying new policies over migratory schedules and the allocation of scarce pastures, and by introducing non-Qashqa'i agriculturalists and livestock investors as legitimate land users. All these measures threatened the nomad's way of life and eventually undermined the role of headmen such as Borzu. Lois Beck details the vicissitudes endured by Borzu's people and the strategies he devised to cope with them.
Download or read book The Global Nomad s Guide to University Transition written by Tina L. Quick and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Star Nomad Fallen Empire Book 1 written by Lindsay Buroker and published by Lindsay Buroker. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alliance has toppled the tyrannical empire. It should be a time for celebration, but not for fighter pilot Captain Alisa Marchenko. After barely surviving a crash in the final battle for freedom, she's stranded on a dustball of a planet, billions of miles from her young daughter. She has no money or resources, and there are no transports heading to Perun, her former home and the last imperial stronghold. But she has a plan. Steal a dilapidated and malfunctioning freighter from a junkyard full of lawless savages. Slightly suicidal, but she believes she can do it. Her plan, however, does not account for the elite cyborg soldier squatting in the freighter, intending to use it for his own purposes. As an imperial soldier, he has no love for Alliance pilots. In fact, he's quite fond of killing them. Alisa has more problems than she can count, but she can't let cyborgs, savages, or ancient malfunctioning ships stand in her way. If she does, she’ll never see her daughter again. Fans of Firefly and Star Wars should enjoy this fun, fast-paced space opera series from USA Today best-selling author, Lindsay Buroker. If you like to wait and binge-read, the series is now complete at eight novels.
Download or read book Shabanu written by Suzanne Fisher Staples and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.
Download or read book USSR Information Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Passionate Nomad written by Jane Fletcher Geniesse and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book • Finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction “Highly readable biography . . . The woman who emerges from these pages is a complex figure—heroic, driven . . . and entirely human.”—Richard Bernstein, The New York Times Passionate Nomad captures the momentous life and times of Freya Stark with precision, compassion, and marvelous detail. Hailed by The Times of London as “the last of the Romantic Travellers” upon her death in 1993, Freya Stark combined unflappable bravery, formidable charm, fearsome intellect, and ferocious ambition to become the twentieth century’s best-known woman traveler. Digging beneath the mythology, Geniesse uncovers a complex, controversial, and quixotic woman whose indomitable spirit was forged by contradictions: a child of privilege, Stark grew up in near poverty; yearning for formal education, she was largely self-taught; longing for love, she consistently focused on the wrong men. Despite these hardships, Stark’s astonishing career spanned more than sixty years, during which she produced twenty-two books that sealed her reputation as a consummate woman of letters. This edition includes a new Epilogue by the author that, citing newly discovered evidence, calls into question the circumstances of Stark’s birth and adds new insight into this adventurous and lively personality. Praise for Passionate Nomad “Passionate Nomad is a work of nonfiction that reads and sings with the drama and lilt of a fine novel. The story of Freya Stark is stunning, inspiring, sad, funny, unique, and moving. Jane Fletcher Geniesse tells it straight, but with a care for delicious detail and a sympathy for the characters that make this a truly special book.”—Jim Lehrer “Passionate Nomad supplies a fascinating individual thread in the tapestry of twentiethcentury Middle Eastern history. . . . [Geniesse] has achieved, in the end, an admirable focus, at once critical and sympathetic. . . . For all Stark’s unresolved contradictions, . . . her distinction as a latter-day woman of letters survives.”—The New York Times Book Review “Compulsively readable . . . [Geniesse] has done a thorough job re-creating the life of a woman many consider to be the last of the great romantic travelers.”—The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
Download or read book The Girl of the Period and Other Social Essays Vol 1 2 written by E. Lynn Linton and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
Download or read book My Hubby Is a Doting CEO written by Mei CongCong and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mu Yu threw the money back and said her farewells. "Mr Lu loves people, but I don't care about it!" But Mr. Lu was addicted. To help her care for her, to help her turn into a berserk wife, to be spoiled to heaven and earth!
