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A Fistful of Rice

Author : Vikram Akula
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422171620
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book A Fistful of Rice written by Vikram Akula and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the globe, poverty has held too many people in its grip for too long. While microfinance - small loans to impoverished individuals - initially attracted attention in the press, it didn't achieve the scale, scope, and profitability necessary to substantially combat poverty. All that changed with Vikram Akula's creation of SKS Microfinance. In this highly personal narrative, A Fistful of Rice, Akula reveals how he pieced together the best of both philanthropy and (to his surprise) capitalism to help millions of India's poor transition from paupers to customers to business owners. As thoughtful as Barack Obama's personal journey in Dreams from My Father, as harrowing as Paul Farmer's battle against infectious disease in Mountains Beyond Mountains, and as gripping as Greg Mortensen's fight for education in Three Cups of Tea, Akula's story shows how traditional business principles can be brought to bear on global problems in new ways. A Fistful of Rice offers not only inspiration but also lessons for anyone seeking to transform tenacity, creativity, and innovation into potent tools for fighting even the most seemingly intractable human burdens.

Lessons from Carrying the Tortoise

Author : Kit Nongkhlaw
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Lessons from Carrying the Tortoise written by Kit Nongkhlaw and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this life, people encounter many unique, beautiful and exotic things. Parents, siblings, mother nature, animals (wild and tamed), and countless other things can change and mold people's lives if they take the time to observe and learn. Inside these true stories, there are miracles, hidden gems, and unique lessons in life. These stories taught the author how to have a meaningful Christian life while traversing the ever challenging valley of sorrow and joy. The lessons from these stories are universal despite being unique. Life is beautiful if one takes the time to learn from its lessons.

A Fistful of Love

Author : Om Swami
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 8184957920
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book A Fistful of Love written by Om Swami and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man was sitting with his friends in a local inn. After a couple of drinks, he asked his friends, “Do you love me?” “Of course, we do,” they replied. “So do you know what I need?” No one answered. “If you don’t know what I need then how can you say you love me?” To love and to be loved is the most basic human need. No wonder we are attracted to people who give us attention, care about us, and love us. Yet, love also remains the greatest challenge in most relationships. Why? A Fistful of Love is a collection of insightful, thought-provoking nuggets of wisdom appreciated by millions around the world. This book is full of humour and narratives most beautifully woven into learnings of life that will make you stop and think. A must read. Om Swami is a mystic living in the Himalayan foothills. He has a bachelor’s degree in business and an MBA from Sydney, Australia. Prior to renunciation, he founded and ran a multi-million dollar software company successfully. He is the author of the best-seller If Truth Be Told: A Monk’s Memoir, and a soon-to-be-released book on Kundalini.

A Fistful of Lentils

Author : Jennifer Felicia Abadi
Publisher : Harvard Common Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558322189
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book A Fistful of Lentils written by Jennifer Felicia Abadi and published by Harvard Common Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intimate culinary food album features 125 Syrian-Jewish recipes, warm family anecdotes, and little-known stories of Syrian-Jewish culture. Syrian-Jewish cooking features meats simmered with cumin, allspice or cinnamon; savory vegetables stuffed or roasted; sweet and sour sauces; and lemony dressings.

A Fistful of Shells

Author : Toby Green
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022664474X
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book A Fistful of Shells written by Toby Green and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning its west coast had traded with Europeans since the fifteenth century. Until at least 1650, this was a trade of equals, using a variety of currencies—most importantly, cowrie shells imported from the Maldives and nzimbu shells imported from Brazil. But, as the slave trade grew, African kingdoms began to lose prominence in the growing global economy. We have been living with the effects of this shift ever since. With A Fistful of Shells, Toby Green transforms our view of West and West-Central Africa by reconstructing the world of these kingdoms, which revolved around trade, diplomacy, complex religious beliefs, and the production of art. Green shows how the slave trade led to economic disparities that caused African kingdoms to lose relative political and economic power. The concentration of money in the hands of Atlantic elites in and outside these kingdoms brought about a revolutionary nineteenth century in Africa, parallel to the upheavals then taking place in Europe and America. Yet political fragmentation following the fall of African aristocracies produced radically different results as European colonization took hold. Drawing not just on written histories, but on archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters, Green lays bare the transformations that have shaped world politics and the global economy since the fifteenth century and paints a new and masterful portrait of West Africa, past and present.

A Fistful of Lentils

Author : Jennifer Abadi
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 1558322191
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book A Fistful of Lentils written by Jennifer Abadi and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-12-21 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on Syrian-Jewish cooking, a cuisine featuring meats simmered in spices, vegetables stuffed or roasted, sweet and sour sauces, lemony dressings, and rich sugar-dusted pastries. Including all the classic dishes and four generations of one family's favorites, this delightfully personal book is a complete exploration of Syrian-Jewish history, culture, family, and food.

The Liu Seong Kuntao Broken Mirror System

Author : Reginald McKissick and Dexter Parker
Publisher : Via Media Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1689032189
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Liu Seong Kuntao Broken Mirror System written by Reginald McKissick and Dexter Parker and published by Via Media Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the martial art system derived from Willem Reeders (1917-1990) and his uncle Liu Seong. The hybrid system inherited much from Liu Seong since he was of Chinese royalty and received specialized training while living in China. In addition, Reeders had moved to Indonesia and studied a number of the indigenous silat arts. Alejandro Rooney assembled this book through research and interviews with Grandmaster Reginald McKissick and Master Dexter Parker. The result is a detailed overview that includes the historical background and the theory and practice of Liu Seong's art, reflecting like a "broken mirror" all of the arts embodied in the martial system.

The Keeper of the Land

Author : Bun Phuong
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1457556693
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book The Keeper of the Land written by Bun Phuong and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 1970, the peaceful country of Kampuchea (now Cambodia) gradually began to change by the force of political power and corruption. At the same time, many parts of the world became influenced by the Communist system. The Communist party called the Red Khmer (also known as the Khmer Rouge) began to form. They spent years in the jungle recruiting and brainwashing anyone who joined. They believed they could change the country for the better by taking over the current government and changing everything to a system where everyone could become equal. They spent years fighting and claiming each region of the country until they successfully took over the entire country. Their main purpose was to eliminate anyone who’d caused the corruption and those who’d embraced the political powers. No one knew their main purpose until they began to execute their scheme. Tragically, they didn’t just eliminate their initial targets. They went far beyond their original plans, and millions of innocent civilians also became their victims. My family lived through this gruesome and horrifying ordeal, and this book is our story of how we all managed to survive the Red Khmer and remain together.

Critical Axis

Author : Inely Cássia Cesna Esq. D.S.S.
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982250372
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Critical Axis written by Inely Cássia Cesna Esq. D.S.S. and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are entities capable of creativity, beauty, choice, courage, and intelligence, as well as entities capable of almost unimaginable capacity for self- destruction, both individually and collectively. Which side of our nature will define us turns on the edge of the axis. Like a coin spinning in the air, not knowing whether it will land on heads or tails, in our search for ourselves in time, we are mystical travelers whose destiny may turn on the edge of a dime. The challenge and choices we face in this task as co-creators of the world around us is to learn to read and interpret the signs of change, just as the reflections of stars in the evening sky are signs of energy that echoes the very origins of the cosmos itself, and even as the strata of our earth entomb a fossil record recording the history of life on earth—all of our world becomes a text—teaching us the grammar of energy, space and matter which led to the birth of a universe. Critical Axis explains this text written in the phenomenon of the Cosmos as we move toward its revelation, and as such, Critical Axis is a guidebook to the text of our lives.

Muslims through Discourse

Author : John R. Bowen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691221588
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Muslims through Discourse written by John R. Bowen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich account of a Muslim society in highland Sumatra, Indonesia, John Bowen describes how men and women debate among themselves ideas of what Islam is and should be--as it pertains to all areas of their lives, from work to worship. Whereas many previous anthropological studies have concentrated on the purely local aspects of culture, this book captures and analyzes the tension between the local and universal in everyday life. Current religious differences among the Gayo stem from debates between "traditionalist" and "modernist" scholars that began in the 1930s, and reveal themselves in the ways Gayo discuss and perform worship, sacrifice, healing, and rites of birth and death, all within an Islamic framework. Bowen considers the power these debates accord to language, especially in arguments over spells, rites of farming, hunting, and healing. Moreover, he traces in these debates a general conception of transacting with spirits that has shaped Gayo practices of sacrifice, worship, and aiding the dead. Bowen concludes by examining the development of competing religious ideas in the highlands, the alternative ritual forms and ideas they have pro-mulgated, and the implications of this phenomenon for the emergence of an Islamic public sphere.

The Other Country

Author : Mr̥ṇāla Pāṇḍe
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0143418254
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Other Country written by Mr̥ṇāla Pāṇḍe and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on some of the most vexing issues troubling Indian society today.--

A Sociological Study of the Khasi Religion

Author : Sharalyne Khyriemmujat
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1036404757
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book A Sociological Study of the Khasi Religion written by Sharalyne Khyriemmujat and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-26 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Khasi religion, at the levels of both belief and practice (rites and rituals), traditionally, was neither codified nor elaborated uniformly across the Khasi Hills. The Khasi religion is neither church-based nor does it have an established priesthood. This means that, traditionally, it was not an organised religion that could give uniform and standardised rituals to society. Life-cycle events were marked by the performance of rites by an individual’s mother’s brothers. Their absence presents a situation of crisis. The book explains the ways in which such situations of crisis have been resolved. There are events other than life-cycle events that threaten an individual’s life. The book explains the rites performed to thwart evil influences on individuals. The book also highlights the role of the Ka Seng Khasi in preserving and perpetuating the Khasi belief and rites, and the historical conditions leading to its formation.

The Best of Luck

Author : A M Murray
Publisher : Andrew Murray
ISBN 13 : 1452356246
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book The Best of Luck written by A M Murray and published by Andrew Murray. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A satirical short story that tells the tale of how a monster was formed and came to devour, as in eat, the entire city of Cleveland.

Transactions in Taste

Author : Manpreet Janeja
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100008387X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions in Taste written by Manpreet Janeja and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a radical departure from previous ethnographies of food, this book asks how and why food is pivotal to social relations and forms of identity that emerge as normal and not-normal. It does so by describing the production, consumption, distribution, and disposal of ‘normal Bengali food’ in middle-class households that employ cooks from poor classes, and in Bengali restaurants, in contemporary Calcutta (India) and Dhaka (Bangladesh). In a rare comparative foray into Bengali Hindu and Muslim food-ways on both sides of the border, the book includes addas (‘idle-talk’) and interviews with both men and women. It initiates a dialogue that links issues of agency, place, hospitality, and ownership with a new field that places food as an ‘artefact’ at the centre of its inquiry. It invites the reader throughout to approach food afresh, as the key that unlocks the complexities of what is mundane yet profound — the everyday. The book thus analyses the constant and fraught negotiations that feed into definitions of normality, class and identity in the deeply intimate yet intensely public domain of food. Food transactions here provide a window into shifting configurations of trust, power, and conflict integral to social relationships, shaped by events such as the 1943–44 Bengal famine, the 1947 partition of India, and the 1971 Bangladesh War.

Amkoullel, the Fula Boy

Author : Amadou Hampâté Bâ
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478021497
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Amkoullel, the Fula Boy written by Amadou Hampâté Bâ and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1900 in French West Africa, Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ was one of the towering figures in the literature of twentieth-century Francophone Africa. In Amkoullel, the Fula Boy, Bâ tells in striking detail the story of his youth, which was set against the aftermath of war between the Fula and Toucouleur peoples and the installation of French colonialism. A master storyteller, Bâ recounts pivotal moments of his life, and the lives of his powerful and large family, from his first encounter with the white commandant through the torturous imprisonment of his stepfather and to his forced attendance at French school. He also charts a larger story of life prior to and at the height of French colonialism: interethnic conflicts, the clash between colonial schools and Islamic education, and the central role indigenous African intermediaries and interpreters played in the functioning of the colonial administration. Engrossing and novelistic, Amkoullel, the Fula Boy is an unparalleled rendering of an individual and society under transition as they face the upheavals of colonialism.

The Gazetteer of Sikhim

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Gazetteer of Sikhim written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Life of Krishna

Author : Vanamali
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594776903
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Life of Krishna written by Vanamali and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to cover Krishna’s entire life, from his childhood pranks to his final powerful acts in the Mahabharata war • Draws from the Bhagavad Purana, the Bhagavad Gita, the Mahabharata, and India’s sacred oral tradition • Shows how the stories of Krishna’s life are expressed with such simplicity and humor that they enable anyone--man, woman, or child--to see the wisdom of his teachings • Provides a valuable meditative tool that allows the lessons of these stories to illuminate from within Krishna, one of the most beloved characters of the Hindu pantheon, has been portrayed in many lights: a god-child, a prankster, a model lover, a divine hero, an exemplary ruler, and the Supreme Being. In The Complete Life of Krishna, Vanamali, a leading Krishna expert from a long line of prominent Krishna devotees, provides the first book in English or Sanskrit to cover the complete range of the avatar’s life. Drawing from the Bhagavad Purana, the Bhagavad Gita, the Mahabharata, and India’s sacred oral tradition, Vanamali shares stories from Krishna’s birth in a dungeon and early days as a merry trickster in Vrindavana, through his time as divine ruler at Dwaraka, to his final powerful acts as the hero Arjuna’s charioteer and guru in the Kurukshetra war. She explains how Krishna became a mahayogi, the greatest of all yogis, and attained complete mastery over himself and nature. By integrating the hero-child with the mahayogi, the playful lover with the divine ruler, Vanamali shows how the stories of Krishna’s life are expressed with such simplicity and humor that they enable anyone--man, woman, or child--to see the wisdom of his teachings. This complete biography of the man who was also a god provides a valuable meditative tool allowing Krishna’s lessons to illuminate from within.