Life Beyond Bullets: Memoir of Life in Rural Afghanistan and West Africa, Hardcover - Ankur Mahajan

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Publisher: TROPZAMAuthor(s): G. C. CookIllustration(s): illustratedNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 237 x 165 x 17Cover type: ...

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Reducere. Bronnie Ellis Stroud left Indianapolis for Bawku. There in the sahel, in the northeastern corner of the Gold Coast, now Ghana, and later along the ...

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From a diagnosis of advanced stage cancer, to competing in a triathlon at the age of 68Dr. Gilkis' unique memoir and life-changing message is: phys...

DescriptionA digital anthropologist examines the online lives of millions of people in China, India, Brazil, and across the Middle East--home to mo...

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World-renowned Christian philosopher. Beloved professor. Author of the classic Lament for a Son. Nicholas Wolterstorff is all of these and more. Hi...

An electrifying memoir that braids together the urgent issues of Indigenous rights and environmental policy, from a nationally and internationally ...

DescriptionAn intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in Calif...

Reducere. Declining or plateauing rural churches do not have to die They can live and become an influence for good in their communities.Unfortunately, many r...

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A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean to understand bioluminescence--the language of light that helps life communicate in...

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A journalist and author of Loving Women recreates the hard-drinking Brooklyn-Irish lifestyle that informed every aspect of his childhood and early ...

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When cowboys were workers and battled their bossesIn the pantheon of American icons, the cowboy embodies the traits of "rugged individualism, " ind...

Reducere. Chad Alan Butrum traversed the Earth for twenty-six years. To honour the moments of his Life, his artist mother Arista takes us on a journey of Lov...

Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa...

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There is so much more to the Vietnam War than just the war itself. The Vietnam War was a complicated mixture of events and characters that eventual...

His love affair with pop music blossomed alongside the music itself, which exploded into being in the mid-1950s and came to embody the iconoclastic...

A weight loss solution designed specifically for women in perimenopause and menopause. Taking an in depth look at the specific nutrition and exerci...

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DescriptionFrom legendary wrestling announcer Jim Ross comes a candid, colorful memoir about the inner workings of the WWE and the personal crises ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ian McMillanNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 138 x 198 x 20Cover type: Hardback...

This is a new, revised edition of the universally acclaimed and best-selling account of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban movement - the most radi...

A lifelong awareness of one's place, and an accompanying sense of permanence within that place when set amid the context of the ecology, history an...

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Part memoire, part ethnography, readers are taken through moments of life, death, and midwifery in the Gurage lands of Ethiopia.Publisher: Pinter &...

Imagine a man fascinated with the history and cultures of the world, who spoke multiple languages, and who could express his passion in virtually a...

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Dr Waheed ArianNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 39Cover type: Paper...

DescriptionThe long-awaited, deeply personal story of one of American music's greatest icons, a remarkable tale of the utmost heights of fame and s...

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DescriptionAn endurance athlete and coach reveals how the marathon transforms the lives of everyone who attempts it--and how it has helped his own ...

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