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  Desert Places - A Woman's...

  Robyn Davidson

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  From the bestselling author of Tracks: A travel writer’s memoir of her year with the nomadic Rabari tribe on the border between Pakistan and India.    India’s Thar Desert has been the home of the Rabari herders for thousands of years. In 1990, Australian Robyn Davidson, “as natural a travel writer as she is an adventurer,” spent a year with the Rabari, whose livelihood is increasingly endangered by India’s rapid development (The New Yorker). Enduring the daily hardships of life in the desert while immersed in the austere beauty of the arid landscape, Davidson subsisted on a diet of goat milk, roti, and parasite-infested water. She collided with India’s rigid caste system and cultural idiosyncrasies, confronted extreme sleep deprivation, and fought feelings of alienation amid the nation’s isolated rural peoples—finding both intense suffering and a renewed sense of beauty and belonging among the Rabari family.   Rich with detail and honest in its depictions of cultural differences, Desert Places is an unforgettable story of fortitude in the face of struggle and an ode to the rapidly disappearing way of life of the herders of northwestern India. “Davidson will both disturb and exhilarate readers with the acuity of her observations, the sting of her wit, and the candor of her emotions” (Booklist).  

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  Good Talk Dad - The Birds and...

  Bill Geist, Willie Geist

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  Bill Geist--the beloved, award-winning, long-time special correspondent for "CBS: Sunday Morning," whose debut Little League Confidential was a New York Times bestseller in hardcover and paper--and Willie Geist, the Today Show host, popular member of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," and author of the best-selling American Freak Show--have begun an extended conversation between father and son on areas of mutual interest, agreement, and disagreement.Told in a unique back-and-forth banter style, the hilarious father-son team will laugh together at the shared journey of their relationship. They'll riff on fatherhood, religion, music, sports, summer camp disasters, driving lessons gone horribly wrong, being on TV, and their wonderfully odd family life. Think Big Russ and Me (May 2010, 345,829 net per bookscan) meets S*** My Dad Says, with humorous observations about professional wrestling as a worldview, raising a kid with television cameras in the kitchen, and anything and everything else that comes to their witty minds.The Geists decided to write this book so their children and grandchildren would have a record of their unusual father-son relationship. The book is remarkably funny, as well as poignant and sincere, especially in light of Bill's announcement that he's been diagnosed with Parkinson's. With its lighthearted look at the crazy things fathers and sons go through and the unique bond those experiences forge, the book is sure to be a must-have gift for Father's Day.

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  Everybody Wins - Four Decades of...

  James Wallis

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  Ever wondered when board games got so good?The last forty years have seen nothing short of a revolution in the world of tabletop games. No longer synonymous with family arguments over a game of Monopoly or Trivial Pursuit, board games and the once niche hobby of tabletop gaming have moved into the mainstream over the last four decades, with modern classics like CATAN, Ticket to Ride and Carcassonne becoming established household names.In this informative and entertaining volume, this revolution in tabletop gaming is revealed and reviewed by one of the most knowledgeable commentators there is. James Wallis explores the evolving world of board games through the lens of the Spiel des Jahres, Germany’s prestigious Game of the Year award, looking at a host of past winners catapulted to worldwide popularity, once lauded games now sadly forgotten, and a few popular hits that somehow missed out. Alongside this, Wallis expertly chronicles the increasing sophistication in the design of modern board games and their ever growing variety. Everybody Wins is a book for anyone who loves games, wonders what all the fuss is about or just wants to know what to play next—the essential, hugely readable study of the modern board game.

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  Some Topics in Immigration...

  Dr. Hidaia Mahmood Alassouli

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  This report covers some topics in immigration, refugees and exchange programs applications as it is important topic nowadays and people needs more clear idea among all confusing information published in internet. The report is composed from the following sections:1.The UN refugee agency UNHCR offices2.Refugee Application to European Countries  3.Green Card lottery application in https://www.dvlottery.state.gov4.Travelling to United State in easy ways5.Refugee application in United State6.Scholarship programs in some countries 7.Visa information for any country8.. Some job search websites to look for work contract9.Getting visa online to turkey10..Refugee Application to Canada11..Immigration to Canada12.. Immigration to Australia through skilled independent immigration visa13.Information about seeking asylum outside of Australia14.Refugee application to Australia15.Some Australian lawyers answers to my queries about immigration process in Australia  16.Immegration to Newzealand17.Visa information for South Korea18.Website to look for conferences 19.Websites to look for study opportunity in France and Czech Republic and Germany

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  The Ladies' Room Reader...

  Alicia Alvrez

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  A new volume of trivia for women from the author of The Ladies’ Room Reader, “full of fascinating fun facts” (Chicago Tribune).Did you know that . . . September is the month with the highest birthrate? Eighty percent of women think a vacation is the best way to rekindle romance? The divorce rate is 23 percent lower in cities with major league baseball teams than in those without? In ancient Egypt, between 3500 and 2500 BC, the only career not open to women was judge?The Ladies’ Room Reader Revisited picks up where its popular predecessor, The Ladies’ Room Reader, left off. In this wildly entertaining volume, Alicia Alvrez provides even more fascinating female facts about women throughout history and from around the world.

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  Alphonse Mucha

  Victoria Charles, Patrick Bade

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  Born in 1860 in a small Czech town, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was an artist on the forefront of Art Nouveau, the modernist movement that swept Paris in the 1910s, marking a return to the simplicity of natural forms, and changing the world of art and design forever. In fact, Art Nouveau was known to insiders as the “Mucha style” for the legions of imitators who adapted the master’s celebrated tableaux. Today, his distinctive depictions of lithe young women in classical dress have become a pop cultural touchstone, inspiring album covers, comic books, and everything in between. Patrick Bade and Victoria Charles offer readers an inspiring survey of Mucha’s career, illustrated with over one hundred lustrous images, from early Parisian advertisements and posters for Sandra Bernhardt, to the famous historical murals painted just before his death, at the age of 78, in 1939.

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