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Get the Summary of Hua Hsu's Stay True in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Stay True" by Hua Hsu is a memoir that intertwines Hsu's college experiences, his friendship with Ken, and the immigrant narrative. Hsu reminisces about his college days at Berkeley, filled with late-night drives, music, and the search for identity. He reflects on the paradox of time, the significance of photographs, and the bond with his...
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Get the Summary of Jack Weatherford's Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World in the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade,...
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Get the Summary of Jared Kushner's Breaking History in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Now, Kushner finally tells his story-a fast-paced and surprisingly candid account of how an earnest businessman with no political ambitions found himself pulled into a presidency that no one saw coming.
Breaking History takes readers inside debates in the Oval Office, double-crosses at the United...
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#1 I have bad dreams about not having my parents with me. I'm the only one in first grade who doesn't have both parents with him. I tell my friends that one day, I'm taking a trip like a real-real game of hide-and-seek.
#2 I miss my friends and family back in La USA. I love my grandparents, but I miss my mom and dad. I want to be with them on Mother's and Father's Day,...
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#1 It's a book-length essay about Reagan's novels, which Byrne describes as insightful, thoughtful, and a valuable contribution to the literature of the American Dream. According to Byrne, these books were the first to argue that government should never intrude on the lives of Americans. They were also among the first to feature an African American family in a positive...
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#1 Your life is made up of many lifetimes, lived consecutively. You experience cruelty and kindness from both sides. The modern era is rare, because it is the only time in your life when you experience such dramatic population growth.
#2 The idea of longtermism is that positively influencing the longterm future is a key moral priority of our time. It is about taking...
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Get the Summary of David Graeber's “Bullshit Jobs” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences.
Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled "On the...
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Get the Summary of Kara Swisher's Burn Book in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Burn Book" by Kara Swisher is a personal narrative that delves into the author's extensive career in tech journalism, covering the lives and businesses of industry giants like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs. Swisher shares her journey from a young girl in Roslyn Harbor to a prominent journalist at the forefront of the digital...
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The New Yorker's Best Books of 2024 • A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year • An NPR 2024 "Books We Loved" Pick • An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 • A Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year • A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2024
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O livro pertence à linha de pesquisa Cultura e Poder do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História da PUC-SP. Os temas dos capítulos são os mais variados, mas todos estão relacionados, de um modo ou de outro, ao tema cultura e poder. São pesquisas acadêmicas, frutos de mestrados ou doutorados, em curso ou concluídas.
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Food markets will face many more months of uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, while most markets are braced for a major global economic downturn, the agri-food sector is likely to display more resilience to the crisis than other sectors.Food Outlook is published by the Trade and Markets Division of FAO under Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS). It is a biannual publication focusing on developments affecting global...
12) Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean 2020: Food Se
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The goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that are related to food security and nutrition will not be achieved as long as, in some territories in Latin America and the Caribbean, populations continue to live with malnutrition rates. Economic opportunities in these areas are often limited, public services are scant, and exposure to severe climate events is high. The public policies promoted in the region have had less impact in these...
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Ce livre offre une analyse complte et controverse de l'avortement, l'abordant non seulement comme une procdure mdicale, mais aussi comme un dilemme thique, psychologique et social. L'uvre prsente une perspective quilibre, intgrant connaissance technique et analyse biothique critique sur les impacts de l'avortement sur la sant des femmes. travers un regard dtaill sur avortement mdicamenteux, avortement chirurgical et ses complications, le livre offre...
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Divisor de águas na antropologia, este livro radicaliza a reflexão sobre o polêmico conceito de cultura, a partir da ideia de invenção: "Voltaire observou que se Deus não existisse teria sido necessário inventá-Lo. E eu acrescentaria [...] que se Deus existe isso torna ainda mais necessário inventá-Lo". O autor defende não só uma revisão dos modos de fazer antropologia, mas também uma reflexão sobre a ciência em geral que, assim como...
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Compte tenu de l'impact nfaste des systmes alimentaires actuels sur l'environnement, et des proccupations souleves quant la durabilit de ces derniers, il apparat comme urgent de promouvoir des rgimes alimentaires qui soient sains et aient de faibles impacts sur l'environnement. Ces rgimes alimentaires doivent galement tre socio-culturellement acceptables et accessibles tous sur le plan conomique.Reconnaissant l'existence d'opinions divergentes dans...
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Why do extreme inequality, poverty, and hunger persist in the 21st century? How do the marginalized billions in the Global South endure the failures of capitalism? And what can be done to build a fairer, more just world?In Transform the Inequitable System, Rahman delivers a powerful critique of global capitalism, exposing how it fuels child labor, modern slavery (forced labor, forced marriage, and sexual exploitation), gender and racial oppression,...
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Public support mechanisms for agriculture in many cases hinder the transformation towards healthier, more sustainable, equitable, and efficient food systems, thus actively steering us away from meeting the Sustainable Development Goals and targets of the Paris Agreement.This report sets out the compelling case for repurposing harmful agricultural producer support to reverse this situation, by optimizing the use of scarce public resources, strengthening...
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Worldwide media are talking a lot about climate change and the Earth warming up, caused by the maladministration of humans. And, of course, they have a point. Though... there is something else that is warming up our Earth, and not only the Earth, but all the planets of our solar system: a physical, astronomical event! These consequences are even worse, and nobody is talking about them.
Our ancestors knew that this moment would come. That's why...
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This book offers a comprehensive and controversial analysis of abortion, addressing it not only as a medical procedure but also as an ethical, psychological, and social dilemma. The work presents a balanced perspective, integrating technical knowledge and critical bioethical analysis on the impacts of abortion on women's health. Through a detailed look at medication abortion, surgical abortion, and its complications, the book provides an in-depth...
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Alguns dos principais textos fundadores da antropologia social estão reunidos neste livro póstumo de Marcel Mauss, publicado em 1950. Além do clássico "Ensaio sobre a dádiva", os capítulos sobre magia (em colaboração com Henri Hubert), técnicas corporais, noção de pessoa e ideias de morte tornaram-se leitura obrigatória na formação em ciências sociais. O impacto de suas ideias fez-se sentir, ainda, entre linguistas, psicólogos, filósofos...
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