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Urban Nomads and Other Stories

Author : Odie Hawkins
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728339979
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Urban Nomads and Other Stories written by Odie Hawkins and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Urban Nomads and Other Stories” offers the reader the possibility of being able to experience lifestyles, different people, circumstances that he/she might not ever experience during the normal course of their daily lives. In the era of “Fake News” and attacks on journalists, you read about two journalists who immerse themselves with urban nomads to get the story their editors’ want for City Beat Magazine. Those familiar with barbershops know that there is a different vibe culturally in a shop that is in one area of town versus another area. This book gives you a chance to visit a barbershop in Compton, California where elders still get respect. Times of racial tension are not much different than they were years ago. 1960’s period piece of “Racial Stuff”, provides insights on what a Northern Black man experienced in the Deep South. Unique experiences of a Black boy’s with “Five Uncles and a Daddy”. All families, especially Black families are not the same. All poor families are not the same as all “po” families. There’s a “Honeymoon Tent” on St. Julien Street, which shows some people don’t surrender to their circumstances. Finally, there are photos that take you onto the streets, moments in time in “Urban Nomads”. There is a strong possibility that a close reading of this book will change their lives positively, forever.

Urban Nomads

Author : Winfried Baumann
Publisher : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
ISBN 13 : 9783777422183
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Urban Nomads written by Winfried Baumann and published by Hirmer Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The artist has created an emphatic and complex oeuvre at the interface of art, architecture and design. Since 2001 he has been building living systems for homeless people and other urban nomads

Buddhism and Postmodern Imaginings in Thailand

Author : James Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351954431
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Buddhism and Postmodern Imaginings in Thailand written by James Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a rethink on the significance of Thai Buddhism in an increasingly complex and changing post-modern urban context, especially following the financial crisis of 1997. Defining the cultural nature of Thai ’urbanity’; the implications for local/global flows, interactions and emergent social formations, James Taylor opens up new possibilities in understanding the specificities of everyday urban life as this relates to perceptions, conceptions and lived experiences of religiosity. Changes in the centre are also reverberating in the remaining forests and the monastic tradition of forest-dwelling which has sourced most of the nation’s modern saints. The text is based on ethnography taking into account the rich variety of everyday practices in a mélange of the religious. In Thailand, Buddhism is so intimately interconnected with national identity and social, economic and ethno-political concerns as to be inseparable. Taylor argues here that in recent years there has been a marked reformulation of important conventional cosmologies through new and challenging Buddhist ideas and practices. These influences and changes are as much located outside as inside the Buddhist temples/monasteries.

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Jessica Bruder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393249328
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century written by Jessica Bruder and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for Chloé Zhao's 2020 Golden Lion award-winning film starring Frances McDormand. "People who thought the 2008 financial collapse was over a long time ago need to meet the people Jessica Bruder got to know in this scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny) book." —Rebecca Solnit From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in RVs and modified vans, forming a growing community of nomads. Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy—one which foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time, it celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive, but have not given up hope.

The Timbuktu School for Nomads

Author : Nicholas Jubber
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
ISBN 13 : 147364528X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book The Timbuktu School for Nomads written by Nicholas Jubber and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sahara: a dream-like, far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, The English Patient and Star Wars, and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia. Today it's a teeth-janglingly dangerous destination, where the threat of jihadists lurks just over the horizon. Following in the footsteps of 16th century traveller Leo Africanus, Nicholas Jubber went on a turbulent adventure to the forgotten places of North Africa and the legendary Timbuktu. Once the seat of African civilization and home to the richest man who ever lived, this mythic city is now scarred by terrorist occupation and is so remote its own inhabitants hail you with the greeting, 'Welcome to the middle of nowhere'. From the cattle markets of the Atlas, across the Western Sahara and up the Niger river, Nicholas joins the camps of the Tuareg, Fulani, Berbers, and other communities, to learn about their craft, their values and their place in the world. The Timbuktu School for Nomads is a unique look at a resilient city and how the nomads pit ancient ways of life against the challenges of the 21st century.

Cities, Borders and Spaces in Intercultural American Literature and Film

Author : Ana M. Manzanas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136824898
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Cities, Borders and Spaces in Intercultural American Literature and Film written by Ana M. Manzanas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the spatial morphologies represented in a wide range of contemporary ethnic American literary and cinematic works. Drawing from Henri Lefebvre’s theorization of space as a living organism, Edward Soja’s writings on the postmetropolis, Marc Augé’s notion of the non-place, Manuel Castells’ space of flows, and Michel de Certeau’s theories of walking as a practice, the volume extends previous theorizations by examining how spatial uses, appropriations, strictures, ruptures, and reconfigurations function in literary texts and films that represent inhabitants of racial-ethnic borderlands and migrational U.S. cities. The authors argue for the necessity of an alternative poetics of place that makes room for those who move beyond the spaces of traditional visibility—displaced and homeless people, undocumented workers, hybrid and/or marginalized populations rendered invisible by the cultural elite, yet often disciplined by agents of surveillance. Building upon Doreen Massey’s conceptualization of liminal space as a sphere in which narratives intersect, clash, or cooperate, this study recasts spatial paradigms to insert an array of emergent geographies of invisibility that the volume traverses via the analysis of works by Chuck Palahniuk, Helena Viramontes, Karen Tei Yamashita, Gloria Anzaldúa, Alejandro Morales, and Li-Young Lee, among others, and films such as Thomas McCarthy’s The Visitor, Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal, and Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Babel.

Buddhism and Postmodern Imaginings in Thailand

Author : Jim Taylor
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754662471
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Buddhism and Postmodern Imaginings in Thailand written by Jim Taylor and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a rethink on the significance of Thai Buddhism in an increasingly complex and changing post-modern urban context, especially following the financial crisis of 1997. Defining the cultural nature of Thai 'urbanity'; the implications for local/global flows, interactions and emergent social formations, James Taylor opens up new possibilities in understanding the specificities of everyday urban life as this relates to perceptions, conceptions and lived experiences of religiosity. Changes in the centre are also reverberating in the remaining forests and the monastic tradition of forest-dwelling which has sourced most of the nation's modern saints. The text is based on ethnography taking into account the rich variety of everyday practices in a mélange of the religious. In Thailand, Buddhism is so intimately interconnected with national identity and social, economic and ethno-political concerns as to be inseparable. Taylor argues here that in recent years there has been a marked reformulation of important conventional cosmologies through new and challenging Buddhist ideas and practices. These influences and changes are as much located outside as inside the Buddhist temples/monasteries.

Urban Nomads Building Shanghai

Author : Ulrike Bronner
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839433444
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Urban Nomads Building Shanghai written by Ulrike Bronner and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a close look at the interrelated phenomena of international business migrants and rural migrant workers in Shanghai. Through separate case studies it observes them in parallel and sheds light on the spatial implications of both groups' migrant status. The authors' uncovering of harsh and inadequate living and working conditions affecting rural migrant workers in the construction industry in Shanghai leads to the development of a concept of »Fair Building«, a socially-conscious architecture that calls for accountability in ensuring that stakeholders involved in the construction process contribute to a sustainable urbanization.

Digital Nomads

Author : Rachael A. Woldoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190931787
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Digital Nomads written by Rachael A. Woldoff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Goodbye to All That: Escape Stories -- Practical Magic: Welcome to Silicon Bali -- Paradise Paradox: Constructing a Digital Nomad Community -- Not on Holiday: Making Money and Building Dreams -- Stages of Nomadism: Honeymooners, Visa Runners, and Resident Nomads -- Conclusion: In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work.

Making Room for People

Author : Lei Qu
Publisher : Techne Press
ISBN 13 : 908594032X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Making Room for People written by Lei Qu and published by Techne Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Room for People elaborates on preferences in housing. It explores how users, occupants, and citizens can express their needs, searching for the enhancement of individual choice and control over their residential environment, and the predicted positive spin-off"s for urban collectives. The central question is: What are the conditions under which an increase of people"s choice and voice over the places they inhabit contribute to more liveable urban areas? The options to make choices and to have a say in urban design and housing matters are used as a conceptual framework. "Choice" and "voice" are the main concepts that structure the empirical material.

Becoming Urban

Author : Ellen Elizabeth Boccuzzi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Urban written by Ellen Elizabeth Boccuzzi and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Story of Us Humans, from Atoms to Today's Civilization

Author : Robert Dalling
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595391176
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Us Humans, from Atoms to Today's Civilization written by Robert Dalling and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Us Humans explains human nature and human history, including the origins of our species, emotions, behavior, morals, and society. It explains what we are, how we got here, and where we are today by describing the origin, history, and current ways of our neighborhoods, religion, government, science, technology, and business. Written in plain language, it explains what astronomy, physics, geology, biology, chemistry, anthropology, history, religion, social science, and political science tell us about ourselves. Most everyone feels that human success is measured in terms of healthy and happy children and communities. Human thoughts and actions involve little besides love and children, spouse and family, community and justice because we are parenting mammals and social primates. Each of us simply wants to laugh and joke with our family and friends, pursue life, raise children and strive to be a valued and contributing member of our community. We have made incredible progress building civilization in just a few hundred generations using nothing except our animal minds. Have you wondered: * What are the laws of nature and how many laws are there? * How did molecular life begin and then evolve into worms fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, primates, and humans? * What are the differences between these animals? * How did we get from the Big Bang to bacteria and on to Christianity, democracy, and globalization? * What is life like for gatherer-hunters? * When did we first become farmers and first build cities, and what was life like at those times? * What was life like in Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Athens, 13th-century Cahokia, Medieval China and Europe, 19th-Century New England, Yoruban villages, and in the U.S. during the 1920s? * What was the Industrial Revolution and how has it changed our lives? * What are the Hindu, Muslim, Confucian, Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, and Humanist religions and world views? * How have our wages, infant mortality rates, lifespans, crime rates, and poverty and inequality rates varied through the ages? * What are the biggest economic and social secrets in the U.S. today? * What are some meaningful goals and priorities for our civilization and how can we measure the success of our attempts to reach those goals? Includes questions, index, bibliography, and 1,200 internet links taking you to images, videos, and discussed documents.

Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001

Author : Edward J. Ahearn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317003977
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001 written by Edward J. Ahearn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an innovative contribution to the challenging of disciplinary boundaries, Edward J. Ahearn juxtaposes works of literature with the writings of social scientists to discover how together they illuminate city life in ways that neither can accomplish separately. Ahearn's argument spans from the second half of the nineteenth century in Western Europe to the present-day United States and encompasses a wide range of literary genres and sociological schools. For example, Charles Baudelaire's essays on the city are viewed alongside the work of Emile Durkheim and Georg Simmel; Bertolt Brecht's Jungle of Cities heightens the arguments of Louis Wirth and Robert Park; Richard Wright's Native Son and Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March are re-visioned in tandem with works by William Julius Wilson and others; Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" poses a challenge to James Q. Wilson's Bureaucracy; Toni Morrison's historical novel Jazz is buttressed by the career of Robert Moses and the revisionist work of historians Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson; and Don DeLillos's Cosmopolis comes into brilliant focus in the light of arguments on world cybercities by David Harvey, Saskia Sassen, and Manuel Cassels. Resisting the temptation to ignore contradictions for the sake of interpretation, Ahearn instead offers the reader a view of the modern city as complex as his subject matter. Here the methodologies and knowledge generated by the social sciences are both complemented and subverted by the experience of city life as portrayed in literature. With its diverse narrative tactics and shifting points of view, which can be as disorienting to the reader as a foreign city is to an arriving immigrant, literature reinforces the importance of method and outlook in the social sciences. Ultimately, Ahearn suggests, neither literature nor the social sciences can capture the experience of urban misery.

The Horror Movie Guide (2022)

Author : Steve Hutchison
Publisher : Tales of Terror
ISBN 13 : 177887150X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book The Horror Movie Guide (2022) written by Steve Hutchison and published by Tales of Terror. This book was released on 2023-03-05 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in this book are detailed analyses of 2687 horror movies released between 1919 and 2021, listed in chronological order. Each evaluation consists of a picture of one or multiple major antagonists, a release year, a synopsis, and eight ratings: Stars, Story, Creativity, Acting, Quality, Gimmick, Rewatch, and Creeps.

The Horror Movie Guide: 20th Century (2022 Edition)

Author : Steve Hutchison
Publisher : Tales of Terror
ISBN 13 : 1778871550
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book The Horror Movie Guide: 20th Century (2022 Edition) written by Steve Hutchison and published by Tales of Terror. This book was released on 2023-03-08 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in this book are detailed analyses of 1121 horror movies released between 1919 and 2000, listed in chronological order. Each evaluation consists of a picture of one or multiple major antagonists, a release year, a synopsis, and eight ratings: Stars, Story, Creativity, Acting, Quality, Gimmick, Rewatch, and Creeps.

Learning the City

Author : Hari Sacré
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331946230X
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Learning the City written by Hari Sacré and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a cultural understanding of cities and processes of civic learning by scrutinizing urban educational topics from a cultural studies perspective. This book approaches the city as a cultural fabric that consists of social, material and symbolic dimensions, and describes how civic learning is not an accidental outcome of cities but an essential component through which citizens coproduce the city. Through a combination of theoretical development and methodological reflection the chapters in the book explore three interrelated questions addressing the relationships between culture, learning and the city: How does civic learning appear in urban spaces? How does civic learning take place through urban spaces? How are urban spaces created as a result of civic learning?

The F Word: A Fiancee Shares Her Story, From "I Will" To "I Do"

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Author : Kelly Bare
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0806536101
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The F Word: A Fiancee Shares Her Story, From "I Will" To "I Do" written by Kelly Bare and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cancel your subscription to that bridal magazine! The F Word is the perfect marriage of personal insight and original advice you'll actually use." --Hilary Black, Editor in Chief, Tango Magazine "With humor and warmth, Kelly Bare's book helps couples bypass the pressures of planning a wedding without sacrificing the romance. --Susan Piver Author, The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say "I Do." He Asked! You Said Yes! So. . .Now What? The moment you get engaged is one you'll never forget, as you begin your journey on an obstacle-free path to decades of wedded bliss. Right? Not necessarily. That one little question can spawn a one of big questions. Kelly Bare has been there. In The F Word, she shares first hand experiences of navigating the premarital minefield, providing reassuring and helpful information that will help you worry less about what a bride is supposed to be, and more about who you really are: How fighting can be good for you Why everyone in your family--and his--is acting like a lunatic Why etiquette truly is important When--and how--to arrange a "meet the parents" get-together Alternatives to cringe-worthy bachelorette parties The real scoop on how to register for gifts How to let go of perfection and plan a wedding that's really "you" Why marriage education classes could be the best investment you ever make Whether you're recently engaged, planning your wedding or preparing to take your relationship to a new level, The F Word will help you get from "I Will" to "I Do" with your relationship--and your sanity--intact. "A poignant, candid memoir. Brides-to-be will find a true friend here with Kelly Bare." --Rachel Greenwald, author of the New York Times Bestseller Find a Husband After 35 Using What I Learned at Harvard Business School." Kelly Bare is a writer and editor in New York City.