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Tell Them My Name is an inspiring true story that explores how even the most impossible dreams can come true when unlikely friendships are built across cultures. In this offbeat travel memoir, four strangers from three countries, with barely a common language between them, decide to adopt each other as family and take on the world. Dar Kumari is an indigenous Gurung woman living in the Nepali Himalayas with her elderly husband, Nar Bahadur. Their mud-brick house is in a remote farming village that has no electricity and can only be reached on foot. Their lives are turned upside down when a local NGO sends the Australian author, Laura, and her French husband, David, to live with their family ...
In Chilam Balam of Ixil Laura Caso Barrera translates for the first time a Yucatec Maya document that resulted from the meticulous reading by the Colonial Maya of various European texts such as the Bible and the Poem of the Mío Cid, as well as various studies on astronomy, astrology, calendars, and medicine. The Maya, showing considerable astuteness and insight, appropriated this knowledge. With this study and facsimile, experts can further their knowledge of Mayan calendars or traditional medicine; and Mayan enthusiasts can discover more about the culture’s world view and history. En el Chilam Balam de Ixil Laura Caso Barrera traduce por primera vez un documento en maya yucateco, que resultó de la minuciosa lectura que realizaron los mayas coloniales de distintos textos europeos como la Biblia o el Cantar del Mío Cid, así como de diversos estudios de astronomía, astrología, calendarios y medicina. Con astucia y perspicacia, los mayas hicieron propio ese saber. Con esta edición, los expertos podrán ahondar en las anotaciones calendáricas o la medicina tradicional maya; y los amantes de esta cultura conocerán otros aspectos de su pensamiento e historia.
Many subjects relevant to life and living are not taught in school. One of them is 'How to Get Rich'. When you work for someone else, your salary is determined by that person; a portion of that salary will have to be used to pay annual taxes, another for rent, and another still for transportation and yet another for daily expenses. Eventually, you will he left with just enough for your food for the month. "Entrepreneurs, on the other hand think for themselves. They learn to maximize their manpower or facilities while they supervise to gain income from the work done by others, and enjoy the profits that this brings in. They work to build wealth and not just to earn an income." This book is me...
The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, focusing on the take up of smartphones by older people. Their research reveals that smartphones are technology for everyone, not just for the young. The Global Smartphone presents a series of original perspectives deriving from this global and comparative research project. Smartphones have become as much a place within which we live as a device we use to provide ‘perpetual opportunism’, as they are always with us. The authors show how the smartphone is mor...
Feisty radio sensation Laura Ingraham is tired of the Hollywood Left--and she has all the answers in this pugnacious, funny, and devastating critique of the liberals who hate America.
Learn how to set up, use and get the most out of Google My Business! With Google handling more than two trillion searches a year, and nearly half of those having local intent, it’s safe to say that having a local presence for your business is huge. And that all starts with a Google My Business listing. Well, here is an excellent opportunity to harness all the persuasive power of Google My Business Platform, claim your business on Google Maps, building your website’s authority and boost your business Local consumers are increasingly searching online for shops, grocery stores, restaurants, car dealers, realtors and other businesses in their local area. According to Google, four out of five...
"Reinventing Blogging with ChatGPT" is a comprehensive guidebook for bloggers and authors seeking to enhance their content creation workflow through the use of AI language model ChatGPT. The book provides a clear and concise overview of the entire process, from identifying target audiences and niches to sharing posts on social media and evaluating blog performance. What sets this book apart is its focus on writing from prompts. To aid bloggers in generating fresh and creative ideas, the authors provide various sentence, multiple sentence, and conversation prompts throughout the book. These prompts are designed to complement specific chapters, such as "Creating Your Blog's Mission Statement" ...
12 cold cases. 12 kidnapped women. One diabolical serial killer. In this riveting suspense thriller, a brilliant FBI agent faces a deadly challenge: decipher the mystery before each one is murdered. “Molly Black has written a taut thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat… I absolutely loved this book and can’t wait to read the next book in the series!” —Reader review for Girl One: Murder In the Maya Gray series (which begins with Book #1—GIRL ONE: MURDER), FBI Special Agent Maya Gray, 39, has seen it all. She’s one of BAU’s rising stars and the go-to agent for hard-to-crack serial cases. When she receives a handwritten postcard promising to release 12 kidnapped wo...
Google My Business (GMB) is an essential tool for businesses today and for the future. Although Google My Business has been around for a long time, it has grown in its importance as more users use search engines to find information about a local business, even more so during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is an excellent opportunity to learn how to use Google My Business to generate trust with your customers, increase customer expansion for your business, and help companies’ cash upon more ROI. Google My Business is a powerful tool that can transform how you drive customers to your local brick and mortar business and further develop trust with new and existing customers. If you have not claim...
How do you harness the power of social media and mobile interactivity to its fullest potential? Mobile internet enabled devices including iPad , smartphones, netbooks and Portable digital game player can offer engaging opportunities and add more value to the consumer personal experience whilst engaging them with exciting content that will allow them to share to their friends through Mobile social media. Today both Consumers and Marketers are increasingly surfing information and connecting with each other through the technological platform .They blog and are quick to share their views especially with easy access from their Mobile gadgets and Smartphones .The mobile technology has brought forth a revolutionary transformation in the way we communicate with each other.