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We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky
Author | : Mara Kardas-Nelson |
Publsiher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2024-06-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781250817259 |
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A deeply reported work of journalism that explores the promises and perils of microfinance, told through the eyes of international lenders and women borrowers in West Africa In the mid-1970s, Muhammad Yunus, an American trained Bangladeshi economist, met a poor female stool maker who needed money to expand her business. In an act widely known as the beginning of microfinance, Yunus lent $27 to forty-two women, hoping small credit would help the women pull themselves out of poverty. Soon, Yunus’s Grameen Bank was born, and the idea of giving very small, high-interest loans to poor people took off. In 2006, Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize for “efforts to create economic and social development from below.” But there’s a problem with this story. There are mounting concerns that these small loans are as likely to bury poor people in debt as they are to pull them from poverty, with borrowers from India to Kenya facing consequences such as jail time and forced land sales. Reportedly hundreds have even committed suicide. What happened? Did microfinance take a wrong turn, or was it flawed from the beginning? Mara Kardas-Nelson’s We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky is about unintended consequences, blind optimism, and the decades-long ramifications of seemingly small policy choices. The book is rooted in the stories of women borrowers in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Their narratives, woven through a deep history of modern international development, are set against the rise of Yunus’s vision that tiny loans would “put poverty in museums.” Kardas-Nelson asks: What is missed with a single, financially focused solution to global inequity that ignores the real drivers of poverty? Who stands to benefit and, more important, who gets left behind?
They Live in the Sky
Author | : Trevor James |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2013-07 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1258776758 |
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Living the Sky
Author | : Ray A. Williamson |
Publsiher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0806120347 |
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Imagine the North American Indians as astronomers carefully watching the heavens, charting the sun through the seasons, or counting the sunrises between successive lumar phases. Then imagine them establishing observational sites and codified systems to pass their knowledge down through the centuries and continually refine it. A few years ago such images would have been abruptly dismissed. Today we are wiser. Living the Sky describes the exciting archaeoastronomical discoveries in the United States in recent decades. Using history, science, and direct observation, Ray A. Williamson transports the reader into the sky world of the Indians. We visit the Bighorn Medicine Wheel, sit with a Zuni sun priest on the winter solstice, join explorers at the rites of the Hopis and the Navajos, and trek to Chaco Canyon to make direct on-site observations of celestial events.
Gray Barker at Giant Rock
Author | : Gray Barker |
Publsiher | : Health Research Books |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0787300721 |
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1976 Gray Barker's account of George Van Tassel's 1970 Flying Saucer Convention at Giant Rock. Includes the "ten best" sightings of 1970.
They Live in the Sky
Author | : Trevor James Constable |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2016-09-20 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1585091529 |
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This book reveals otherwise hidden creatures and objects traversing our skies that were exposed with the author's groundbreaking infrared photo techniques. Maps out a serious scientific pursuit of hidden beings and objects in our atmosphere with the experience of strange, telepathic communications.
Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky
Author | : Elphinstone Dayrell |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0395539633 |
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Sun and Moon must leave their earthly home after Sun invites the Sea to visit.
I Could Read the Sky
Author | : Timothy O'Grady |
Publsiher | : Unbound Publishing |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2023-06-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781800182721 |
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'Think about a tune ... the unsayable, the invisible, the longing in music. Here is a book of tunes without musical notes ... It wrings the heart' John Berger 'A masterpiece' Robert Macfarlane 'O'Grady does not just respond to Pyke's stark, beautiful photographs: he gives voice to thousands' Louise Kennedy An old man lies alone and sleepless in London. Before dawn he is taken by an image from his childhood in the West of Ireland, and begins to remember a migrant's life. Haunted by the faces and the land he left behind, he calls forth the bars and boxing booths of England, the potato fields and building sites, the music he played and the woman he loved. Timothy O'Grady's tender, vivid prose and Steve Pyke's starkly beautiful photographs combine to make a unique work of fiction, an act of remembering suffused with loss, defiance and an unforgettable loveliness. An Irish life with echoes of the lives of unregarded migrant workers everywhere. Since it was first published in 1997, I Could Read the Sky has achieved the status of a classic.
Why Birds Live In The Sky Colours
Author | : Swetha Prakash |
Publsiher | : unisun publications |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 8188234214 |
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A journey through the bird kingdom to learn about the spectrum of colours. Written in rhyme and illustrated in the Gond folk art style, the book is sheer poetry