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"I grew up with Oumou Sangaré's music. Oumou is the youngest icon that we have that the world knows. She's the one that really took this tradition to the world. I'm very proud of her because I'm following what she started. It's important to share what we have - our culture, and the image of a female on stage. She's beautiful, so elegant, and also has such a great voice. She sings deeply and in a traditional style, and to reach the world with this style of music, it wasn't easy. The fact that she's singing in Bambara, and also using this traditional instrument - which is the Kamele Ngoni - maybe she wouldn't be understood. But she did it. So today we follow the same path. Because after her you don't have any doubt, you know that it's possible."

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Chinese Medicinal Plants, Herbal Drugs and Substitutes: An Identification Guide

Christine Leon and Lin Yu-Lin

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This is the first botanically authoritative and practical illustrated identification guide to...

The Infertility Cure: The Ancient Chinese Programme for Getting Pregnant

Randine Lewis

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This highly effective programme for women struggling to become pregnant draws on the proven,...

Nisha Gill (1 KP) rated 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four in Books

Sep 30, 2017

Ahead of its time, and basis for a lot of things we can see now (0 more)

Eye opening classic

This book is light years ahead of its time and whilst it’s written in a traditional style for the forties it hits on key issues. The censorship and the control that it describes is not so far fetched yet abhorrent to the reader - and thus sucks you straight in

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Griffin (480 KP) rated Chess in Tabletop Games

Dec 15, 2018

Chess

1800 | Abstract Strategy

7.6

(33 Ratings)

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No luck, randomness, or otherwise game mechanics that would overthrow skill. (0 more)

White has a slight advantage (3 more)

The game has been plagued with books on strategy and "best openings," so much so that playing a traditional game just feels pointless unless you are avidly reading such books

An epitome of the phrase "thought paralysis"

Games can take a while unless you are playing timed.

The true classic

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Deborah (162 KP) rated The Boleyn King (Boleyn Trilogy, #1) in Books

Dec 21, 2018

An historical entertainment more than a traditional historical novel, this imagines that Anne Boleyn had a son, ergo she wasn't discarded and her son became king on the decease of Henry VIII. Potentially I thought this might be very, very bad, but actually it was pretty well written and entertaining, A few odd Americanisms in there ("visit with" etc.), but overall better than I expected.