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"The color of one's skin and passport have long dictated the conditions of travel. For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures. Habib threads the history of travel with her personal story as a child on family vacations in India, an adult curious about the world, and an immigrant for whom roundtrips are an annual fact of life. Tracing the power dynamics that underlie tourism, this ... debut parses who gets to...
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A trailblazing activist's passionate and incisive look at why she started a movement to ensure that 26 million Americans have access to the IDs they need to escape poverty and live healthy and productive lives
American Identity in Crisis weaves together three remarkable stories: the making of an activist in the wake of the 2016 presidential election; the fight against the onerous rules that are being used to keep vulnerable and targeted populations...
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Este libro analiza el proceso de descentralización en el Perú, iniciado en 2003, en la producción, la distribución, el empleo, el bienestar y el desarrollo humano con el fin de verificar si ha contribuido a la solución de los tres problemas estructurales en las regiones: la débil integración, la divergencia en el crecimiento y las desigualdades entre regiones y dentro de ellas. En consecuencia, el autor evalúa no solo los resultados de las...
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Crisis events hold the seeds of great wisdom. This is the story of two congressmen; an independent and a Republican, who wait out an insurrection in the bowels of the Capitol and find a way forward for the country. Through a day of personal conflict, and potential attacks from the Insurrectionists, they discover the danger to democracy of party politics. Further they uncover what could have happened to avoid the insurrection, why it didn't and where...
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In "The Future of Agriculture," the author delves into the multifaceted repercussions of global warming on the agricultural landscape. Through rigorous research, field studies, and predictive models, this compelling work paints a picture of a world where the changing climate has upended traditional farming paradigms and where new opportunities and challenges await farmers, policymakers, and consumers alike.The author begins with a comprehensive overview...
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"La nouvelle Germanie2 royale" explore la relation complexe qui lie les Anglais à la monarchie, eux qui se moquent à la limite de ce système de gouvernance qui fait pourtant partie de leur mode de vie. Bien plus, de manière singulière, l'ouvrage nous situe sur le fondement de la foi chrétienne ainsi que sur les croyances religieuses prises globalement. En outre, nous y trouverons une analyse des évènements politiques à venir qui vont certainement...
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Was macht die Ukraine aus? Erst mit der russischen Annexion der Krim entwickelte sich ein Bewusstsein für die Eigenständigkeit dieses Landes, das nach dem Willen der Aggressoren nun von der Landkarte verschwinden soll. Seit vielen Jahren ist Karl Schlögel in der Ukraine unterwegs, seine ukrainischen Lektionen von 2015 ergänzt er nun um einen großen Essay über den Krieg, der sich gegen die Idee der Freiheitlichkeit überhaupt richtet. Lemberg,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker's I Alone Can Fix It
In I Alone Can Fix It (2021), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig deliver an authoritative behind-the-scenes account of Donald Trump's last year in office and reveal what really happened in the White House during the catastrophic 2020 election campaign. Rucker and Leonnig expose the inner workings of a broken and incompetent administration...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Andy Ngo's Unmasked.
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1) Due to America's race sensitivities, police shootings of African Americans have been used by radical left-wing groups such as antifa to further the false narrative of "bloodthirsty" police against "innocent" black bystanders. George Floyd's death presented the greatest opportunity for this narrative to spark uprisings against the state.
2) The riots and looting that...
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Summary of Ann Coulter's In Trump We Trust is conservative pundit Ann Coulter's wholehearted endorsement of Donald Trump in his bid for the presidency in 2016. While Coulter acknowledges that Trump may not be the polished candidate of the Republican Party's dreams, she supports him as the only person who can save conservative America and bring its values into the White House.
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In The Poverty of the World, Sheyda Jahanbani brings together the histories of United States foreign relations and domestic politics to explain why, during a period of unprecedented affluence, Americans rediscovered poverty and supported major policy initiative to combat it. Revisiting a moment of triumph for American liberals in the 1940s, Jahanbani shows how the United States's newfound role as a global superpower prompted novel ideas among liberal...
14) La tête haute
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De la contemplation existentielle au coup de gueule cinglant, Maurice Henrie se dévoile comme jamais, vagabondant d'un sujet à l'autre au gré des idées qui lui viennent, scrutant jusqu'à plus soif des thèmes qui lui sont chers dans ce recueil d'une vingtaine d'essais. Ici, l'auteur écrit pour se prononcer, pour être entendu, pour dompter la mort.
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"Imperialism and Social Classes" is a seminal work by Joseph Alois Schumpeter, a renowned economist and political theorist. In this book, Schumpeter explores the relationship between imperialism, economic structures, and social classes. He delves into the dynamics of imperialism as a phenomenon rooted in capitalism and examines its impact on different social classes within societies. Schumpeter's analysis sheds light on how imperialism influences...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative
The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) by Barry Goldwater defines the basis of the American conservative spirit. Goldwater's manifesto, which reinvigorated the conservative movement in the 1960s, details its stance on vital issues such as education, farming, labor unions, states' and civil rights, taxes, and most importantly freedom. It also offers conservative...
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Die Mordserie des NSU (2000-2006), der Terroranschlag von Anders Breivik (2011), das Attentat in München (2016), das Massaker von Christchurch, der Mord an Walter Lübcke (2019), die Anschläge von Halle (2019) und Hanau (2020): Rechtsextreme Gewalt beschäftigt uns schon lange - und in den letzten Jahren besonders massiv. Mit Wahlerfolgen radikaler Parteien, wie zuletzt in Schweden und Italien, droht der Rechtsextremismus mehrheitsfähig zu werden;...
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Summary of The Arbinger Institute's The Anatomy of Peace is an expanded version, including additional appendices, of a successful 2006 publication by the Arbinger Institute. The book, which uses fictional characters to illustrate its points, details strategies for defusing political, personal, and business conflicts…
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A powerful new history of the idea of race, forcing us to rethink today's culture wars.
Is white privilege real? How racist is the working class? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? Who benefits most when anti-racists speak in racial terms?
The 'culture wars' have generated ferocious argument, but little clarity. This book takes the long view, explaining the real origins of 'race' in Western thought, and tracing its path from those beginnings...
20) The Individualization of War: Rights, Liability, and Accountability in Contemporary Armed Conflict
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The rights and responsibilities of the individual are at the center of today's armed conflicts in a way that they have never been before. This process of "individualization," which challenges the primacy of the sovereign state, is driven by normative developments related to human rights that have elevated human-centric conceptions of security and created a new class of international crimes, as well as by technological and strategic developments that...
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