As the old axiom goes: "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime." But teach a woman to fish, and everyone eats for a lifetime. In this firsthand account, Ritu Sharma shares how women can, and are, overcoming the forces that keep them in poverty. She chronicles her travels through four countries―Sri Lanka, Burkina Faso, Honduras, and Nicaragua―and the intimate interactions she had with the women living there. Sharma's story not only details her experiences, but also looks at the broader systems that prevent women from leaving poverty behind. From lack of property rights and government corruption to the scarcity of basic infrastructure like roads, these women are restricted by the external limitations placed upon them. Sharma draws from her experiences to frame a larger exploration of how Americans can be instrumental in helping women break free of restrictive systems and begin to facilitate women's upward mobility. Written in her engaging personal voice, Teach a Woman to Fish provides an insider's look at women in poverty, how Washington works, and how change really happens―from the United States to the rest of the world.

Teach a Woman to Fish: Overcoming Poverty Around the Globe

Biographies & Memoirs

Sharma, Ritu

Community & Culture

St.Martin's Press

As the old axiom goes: “Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.”But . . . teach a woman to fish, and everyone eats for a lifetime. In this firsthand account, Ritu Sharma shares how women can, and are, overcoming the forces that keep them in poverty. She chronicles her travels through four countries — Sri Lanka, Burkina Faso, Honduras, and Nicaragua — and the intimate interactions she had with the women living there. Sharma’s story not only details her experiences, but also looks at the broader systems that prevent women from leaving poverty behind.

Center Point

An empowering anthology featuring 33 women from 5 continents sharing their phenomenal stories of transformation. The stories within this book illustrate how the women became broken and in their journey of repair, they have found golden threads that have made them whole again. As they transform, they are even more beautiful and have learned to know their value, just like the increased beauty and value of the Kintsugi bowls.\nFeaturing: Ritu Sharma, Illa Khagram, Tiffany Henkel, Andrea Malam, Hafiza Khatun, Jenni Harris, Azmina Jiwa, Donna Joseph, Mirabel Ngong, Maureen A Lewis, Nina N, Sangeeta Patel, Ruth Cyster-Stuettgen, Samantha Pearce, Poonam Karwal, Sonal Dave, Jaswinder Challi, Yvette Pearce, Sophie Kemoko, Suman Manghra, Saboohi Gill, Bal Heer, Jemma Rosenthal, Susanne Virtanen, Maxine Palmer-Hunter, Diksha Chakravarti, Delcie Hopley, Rajee S, Shazia Nawaz, Raj Rana, Sandhya, Jayasri Banala and Monika Bammi.

The New Woman: Stories of Kintsugi Experiences

Religion & Spirituality

Book Brilliance Publishing

Spiritual Experimentation for Buddhism in the West: A Study of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

Bhargav, Astha

Vats, Smriti

LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing

Charles Bukowski's Ham on Rye and Women: A Study in Autobiographical Undercurrents

Design and Development of MEMS based Guided Beam Type Piezoelectric Energy Harvester (Energy Systems in Electrical Engineering)

Science & Math

Saxena, Shanky

Pant, B. D.

Technology

Springer

This book presents device design, layout design, FEM analysis, device fabrication, and packaging and testing of MEMS-based piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters. It serves as a complete guide from design, FEM, and fabrication to characterization. Each chapter of this volume illustrates key insight technologies through images. The book showcases different technologies for energy harvesting and the importance of energy harvesting in wireless sensor networks. The design, simulation, and comparison of three types of structures - single beam cantilever structure, cantilever array structure, and guided beam structure have also been reported in one of the chapters. In this volume, an elaborate characterization of two-beam and four-beam fabricated devices has been carried out. This characterization includes structural, material, morphological, topological, dynamic,&nbsp;and electrical characterization of the device. The volume is very concise, easy to understand, and contains colored images to understand the details of each process.

Rich Man’s Rich Daughter

Memoirs

Independently published

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