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1) Nomads
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A drama about a filmmaker working on a project about subway suicides.
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A.D. 41.832 Jael hat vergessen, wer sie ist. Vergessen, wie sie heißt. Vergessen, woher sie kommt. Sie kennt nur den Wunsch, den Ort zu finden, an dem das Licht von 1000 Sonnen den Boden berührt. Das ist ihr nicht gelungen. Eine Lüge führt sie zurück in ihre Heimat, zurück zu ihrer Familie, dem dunkelsten Ort im gesamten Universum. Um ihre Ideale nicht zu verraten, muss sie zu dem werden, was sie verabscheut: Matriarchin eines interstellaren...
5) Time Nomads
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In the blasted heart of the new America, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior-survivalists search for hidden caches of food, weapons and technology - the legacy of a pre-holocaust society - stashed in lonely outposts known as redoubts. When Ryan ingests bacteria-infested food, he lies near death - his body paralyzed but his mind traveling rapidly back to his early days in the Deathlands...moving through the southwest on post-nuke vehicles called warwags...and...
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NOMADS is a book that follows the life of Shirly and Sam Simmons a retired Snowbird couple that makes extra money buying items in Arizona and around the country to sell to people on homesteads in Idaho would want. They get embroiled in local issues in a small town in Idaho. They join with other retired couples and young working couples in Arizona as they struggle to escape the conflicts imposed on them by a fluid southern border to the small town...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
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Presents information on the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, various species, and life cycle of sea turtles, along with a discussion of their endangered status and the efforts being made to study and conserve them.
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Warri and Yatungka were believed to be the last of the Mandildjara tribe of desert nomads to live permanently in the traditional way. Their deaths in the late 1970s marked the end of a tribal lifestyle that stretched back more than 30,000 years. The Last of the Nomads tells of an extraordinary journey in search of Warri and Yatungka.
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Why work from home when you can work anywhere?
Not all who wander are lost! Digital Nomads For Dummies answers all your questions about living and working away from home, short term or long term. Become a globetrotter or just trot around your home country, with the help of experienced digital nomad Kristin Wilson. Millions of people have already embraced the lifestyle, moving around as the spirit takes them, exploring new places while holding down...
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Nomads and Commissars: Mongolia Revisited, which was first published in 1962, provides a lively description of modern-day Mongolia, combined with historical material.
Beginning with a geographical description, author Owen Lattimore narrates Mongolian history, both political and economic. He explains how and why Marxism succeeded in a country of nomads with almost no industry, capitalists, or middle class. His chapter on the revolution focuses on...
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"Emigrating to another country has not been a new and unique phenomenon in my family's history," she thinks, "as it may not have been in the history of other Jewish families, who decided, or worse, were forced, to do so."
The protagonist, a university professor, tries to understand through the stages of her own life, the role of luck. Thus, she discovers that the migrations from country to country that she and her relatives have experienced,...
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The remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history.
Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. The story of the shifting, umbilical connections between these two very different ways of living presents a radical new view of human civilization. From the Neolithic revolution to the twenty-first century via some of the...
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With a revealing memoir and striking photographs, Peter J. Marchand reflects on the Beja nomads of the Red Sea Hills and contemplates the fate of nomadic peoples the world over, as population growth and economic forces chip away at the edges of indigenous cultures everywhere. "Little by little," he writes, these encroachments exact their toll on the voiceless and invisible, sapping the life of their culture like an ancient tree silently dying one...
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Rollicking travel parody by George Shepard Chappell published in 1923 "with seventeen full page illustrations" ("from photographs taken for the Super-Feature Film of Dr. Traprock's story recently released by the All-for-Art Production Co. of Derby, Conn.) Excerpt: ""Allah! Allah! Bishmillah. El Traprock, Dhub ak Moplah!... Wullahy! Wullahy!" Long, long after their echoes have died away the cries of my desert men ring on my ears. Still do I see myself...
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Great Courses volume 3
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As you shift focus from the original homeland of the Indo-Europeans on the Pontic-Caspian steppes to Mongolia, examine how Iranian and Tocharian nomads came into contact with China, their interaction, and the repercussions this contact had across the central and western steppes, and the great bordering civilizations.
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Great Courses volume 16
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Go inside the steppe environment to learn about the role militarized pastoral nomads played in world history. As you see how these societies responded to climate pressures and influenced neighboring civilizations, you will also chart the rise of the horse, which played an important role in nomadic society.
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