In this illuminating new work on the geography of poverty, David Rain dispels the notion that relentless human mobility is a byproduct of Western technological advances like superhighways and airports. Instead, it is much older and more deeply ingrained in the human spirit. Every year after the rainy season ends in the arid West African Sahel, hundreds of thousands of men and women leave their villages to work in the informal economies of West African cities. The seasonal flux of peasants swells urban markets and neighborhoods, as it has for centuries. These migrants, called masu cin rani in...

Book Of Mind is a text to help explain your minds relationship with reality and its own existence. It is written for a lay audience, having its foundations in science, mathematics, old wisdom and fresh insight. It covers many practical topics such as love, values, religion, happiness, purpose and personal freedom in a limited world. It questions the way religions entrap the mind. The book does rejects materialist view and explains what the mind fundamentally is and its role in the universe and creation as a whole. Some knowledge in science and mathematics helps reading this book, however it...