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Methlahoma explains how the methamphetamine epidemic has adversely affected various people in Oklahoma. The opioid crisis has been well covered but the meth crisis may be worse. To better understand how a man-made drug like meth is destroying communities Methlahoma describes the history of the drug trade and how the United States uses the criminal justice system to fight the "war on drugs." Methlahoma describes how modern narcotics trafficking is...
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There are moments when the normal flow of time catches, hesitates, and shifts direction.
2020 was one of these moments.
Now, at this critical juncture, a new generation is coming of age and demanding a reckoning: Generation Z. Three billion strong, they're at the center of the most pivotal issues of our time, from reimagining how we live on our changing planet to enacting a new mandate for racial equity. The following decade will bring unparalleled...
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Social organism (MEMES) surround us - Families, corporations, religions, nations. One of the specific tasks of our memes is to captivate each of us into surrendering to our role in the Meme thus abandoning our own soulful self. This is why as you read news accounts of a happening you respond "How could he do such a thing?" in the past our answer was "The devil made me," or "God did it." BUT it's not so, the Meme demanded it and we respond - ITS MEME...
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This book is a compendium of commentaries on twelve contentious topics that intersect in a perplexing social matrix. These are complex issues that impact directly on the lives of all Australians in the 21st century. Each essay attempts to unravel the complex array of those interactions into a common-sense blueprint of their interactive nature and their inevitable influence on every citizen. This book is a compendium of twelve essays that offer perspicacious...
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Today people more than ever are overwhelmed by worry about current events. Why are some people devoured by hatred and bigotry? Can we avoid the next economic crisis? Can we prevent the next global war? Will computers take over our civilization any time soon? Even though Vertical Progress does not have all answers, it provides readers with plenty of new ideas to open the debate. Vertical Progress offers a hypothesis and rationale that provides not...
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El libro digital, Shopping en Puerto Rico: Prácticas, significados y subjetividades de consumo (2013), de la autoría de la Dra. Laura L. Ortiz-Negrón, presenta los resultados de una investigación seminal en torno a la cultura del consumo como fenómeno social. Puerto Rico es el estudio de caso, que le permite a la investigadora producir una mirada interdisciplinaria y reflexiva sobre este tema. La autora presenta un análisis comprensivo y meticuloso...
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This new and compelling book by Harrie Salman is a manifesto in which he analyzes the ills of our times, calls out those persons and institutions he sees as responsible for those ills, and issues a call to action. He addresses that call to action to all of us who believe that individuals and groups working together can renew and liberate our society. He calls on us to become fully human and enrich our social lives-impoverished by the lockdowns of...
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Safe Landings is filled with lessons and anecdotes from Bartholomew's decades of experience being a pilot and demonstrates timeless techniques pertinent to all for effective decision-making under pressure.
In the air, division among colleagues can lead to disastrous outcomes. Bartholomew believes that only in a connected society can we truly find solutions. Safe Landings applies proven flying strategies to global issues and offers new perspectives...
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It was 2017, and Rand Bishop's heart was breaking. With post-election America turning mean, the Grammy-nominated songwriter and author couldn't sit idly by. Inspired by the woman called Peace Pilgrim, ignoring his bad knees, arthritic feet, scant camping experience and lack of knowledge about long-distance hiking, and with his friends and family questioning his sanity, he set out on a 900-mile trek from Southern California to the central Oregon coast...
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If you're interested in developing or enriching community as part of your living or part of your work, this handbook will be an invaluable guide.
It will help you answer questions like...
- What is 'community', and why does it matter?
- What can we do to strengthen community in different settings?
- What is the connection between personal wellbeing and community wellbeing, and how do we maximise both?
- How do we develop healthier relationships between...
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"The [New] New Patriotism" takes the reader on a journey of American history, circumstance, and perspective. Stunning events of early 2020 provide context for an American culture that has required redirection for decades. Our society is slowly abdicating liberty to the very outlets promoting fear and division. Explore the dark truths Americans have struggled with for centuries and how a bold generation is redefining American culture and a new patriotism.
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We are hurling toward a catastrophic collapse.
Without exaggeration, we are presently facing four massive problems, any of which could cause our demise as a nation and as a species. They are issues that supersede conflicting ideologies that exist all over the world and are playing out in the United States between the Left and the Right, between compassion and freedom, between education and faith, and between full disclosure and privacy.
Those that...
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The papers in this collection are concerned with identifying and developing theoretical and conceptual insights into UK-based sports development policy and practice, at a time when policy towards the development of sport in England has taken a turn away from what has been termed 'sport for good' to 'sport for sport' - resulting in a shift from promoting physical activity to a focus on sport for sport. This significant change of strategic direction...
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When I wrote Authoritarians & Propaganda The Puppet Master Tools, I wanted to create a different type of book. In other words, have the freedom to write something in my own unique style. That is why in the end I decided to self-publish. The more I researched about the publishing process the more I realized that for this project in particular there was a potential (likely unintentional) that my words could be taken out of context or editorialized under...
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In recent years, bullying has become pervasive in schools-but many teachers, school administrators, Boards of Education and even parents fail to recognize it when it happens. But Charlena Jackson has firsthand experience: her three children, and the children of other families, have all been victims of bullying. In "I'm Speaking Up But You're Not Listening!" she explores bullying and how other children are not always the only perpetrators. Adults can...
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The chapters for this volume were prepared over a period of six years at the Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU), Japan. When APU was established in April 2000, the founding President, Professor Sakamoto Kazuichi (1998), established the vision of promoting a body of knowledge that has come to be known as Asia Pacific Studies. With the establishment of the Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies in 2004,...
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It has been my great honor to serve more than thirty years as a trusted counselor, coach, and consultant for a wide socio-economic spectrum of students, staff, administrators, and community members who live and work in multi-cultural settings. A few common threads that have surfaced in my interactions have been that of:
(1) An individual coming to me for assistance in dealing with a complex situation that is discriminatory in nature.
(2) Individuals...
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I wrote this book to explain how easily someone can get trapped in a controlling group or relationship. This book is not about religion, it is about the organizational structure and emotional manipulation. It is about finding yourself after losing yourself. Isabelle was in university when she entered a Christian group called University Bible Fellowship. During the following years, she acquired her experience on cults while spending three years in...
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The Religious Studies Edition Contains the same Social Science as the Secular edition, but additionally, it associates all 55 Meme Laws with either Historical or Teaching Scriptures from as distant as 1500 B.C. Taken from Christian and Jewish scripture; we also tap Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism. Also throughout the book highlights many ways that Meme Law affects local congregations and denominational ministries and creates clericalism and child abuse....
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