That book delineated her childhood and the nomadic life of her semi-homeless, semi-crazy parents.

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Employees, now 20 people strong, live a nomadic life--hopping from, say, New York to Tel Aviv to Nicaragua every six months.

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Even though the people of Mecca had left the nomadic life behind, they still regarded the Bedouin as the guardians of authentic Arab culture.

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Simone says her background and the almost nomadic life she has lived have shaped her music immensely (her 2007 debut album was appropriately titled Placelessness).

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The nomadic way of life has disappeared almost everywhere else in the world but remains alive in Kyrgyzstan partly because of extreme economic hardship.

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Nomadic (badawah) life was a grim, relentless struggle, because there were too many people competing for too few resources.

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When the Soviets took control of Kyrgyzstan in 1918 they impacted the traditional life of nomadic herders by establishing collective farms and interbreeding the horses.

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