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#1 The United States has a very small elite that controls an increasing share of the economy, and a large and increasing bottom that has almost no resources. The three richest Americans are worth more than the bottom half of the US population combined.
#2 The sources of America's wealth are the productivity, creativity, and vitality of its people, the advances of science...
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#1 Trump, despite being unschooled in genetic mutation and viral transmission, still decided that the COVID-19 virus was not a big deal. As a result, America took totally inadequate protective measures, and became widely infected with the virus.
#2 The first known victim of the coronavirus was a Chicago woman who had traveled to Wuhan and become ill after returning...
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Published in 1901, this guidebook was intended to place "before teachers and others who have to do with children some facts concerning the bodily and mental lives of children." In the form of notes, Thorndike discusses topics such as "The Physical Growth of Children," "Learned Reactions," "The Emotional Life of Children," and "Adolescence."
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Le présent ouvrage offre un portrait contrasté et critique de l'offre de services en santé mentale au Québec en s'appuyant sur les données d'une recherche ethnographique portant sur l'expérience des personnes qui utilisent ces services. Afin de découvrir la manière dont l'identité du patient se transforme à travers le parcours de soins, l'auteure de ce livre a développé un cadre conceptuel (liant les théories «goffmanienne» et «foucaldienne»)...
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#1 Decolonization is the process of removing a country's colonial rule, and is always a violent process. It starts with the basic claims of the colonized, and is accomplished by changing the social fabric inside out.
#2 Decolonization, the process of changing the order of the world, is an agenda for total disorder. It cannot be accomplished by the wave of a magic wand,...
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#1 The story of the Republican Party starts in the late eighteenth century with Abraham Lincoln, who left his family to travel to the American West and settle there. He built a successful community but was killed by Indians in 1786.
#2 The West was a land of opportunity for everyone, but this was not the case for the Lincolns. Their father had done well in Kentucky,...
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Get the Summary of Voddie T. Baucham's Fault Lines in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the summer of 2020 shocked the nation. As riots rocked American cities, Christians affirmed from the pulpit and in social media that "black lives matter" and that racial justice "is a gospel issue."
But what if there is more to the social justice movement...
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#1 The life of Monroe, the original playgirl, followed a similar trajectory to that of her pin-up predecessor Bettie Page, who survived into old age but spent her final decades in a psychiatric institution. The most successful modern porn stars are also likely to have been sexually abused as children, to have been in foster care, and to have been victims of domestic...
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I had been a volunteer teacher for years 7-8 in the New Zealand public school system of 'Bible in School', but there was a move, as our country became more secular and multicultural, to eliminate Christian teaching from our schools. I had concentrated on the wisdom literature and parables of the Bible and applied it to the everyday life of my students - basically, situation ethics with the Christian Bible, as well as reason as the authority. On going...
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The word 'life' conjures the ordinary and the ordinary are experiences common to all humans except that their routineness, their repetition, their commonality make them invisible in the busy-ness of loaded days. This book tries to make them visible again. Human experiences are varied and many; the few in this bookstand for all that are not in it. Mythologies of Late is tell-tales of the extraordinary in the ordinary, a mirror onto societies of people...
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The concept of cultural insanity provides a better way of understanding much of what is wrong in our society and in the world today-and how it got that way-and some ways to improve it.
Where our own culture is involved, we and all other individuals in our society are party to it, yet largely blind to it, and to varying extents partake of at least some of its craziness. Accordingly, correctly grasping the idea of cultural insanity will...
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Get the Summary of Ryan & Stephen Hanselman Holiday's Lives of the Stoics 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Nearly 2,300 years after a ruined merchant named Zeno first established a school on the Stoa Poikile of Athens, Stoicism has found a new audience among those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. It's no wonder; the philosophy and its embrace of...
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Pourquoi. les messages qui nous plaisent nous plaisent-ils ? Derrière cette question simple se cache l'un des plus vieux problèmes théoriques de la communication, mais aussi l'un des plus importants dans le bouillonnement contemporain des contenus culturels, politiques, médiatiques et distractifs. Cett. recherche s'attaque à ce défi sous un angle nouveau, au moyen d'une approche interdisciplinaire et expose de façon très stimulante les ressorts...
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Get the Summary of Kamala Harris' The Truths We Hold in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth is informed by her upbringing. The daughter of immigrants, she was raised in an Oakland, California community that cared deeply about social justice; her parents--an esteemed economist from Jamaica and an admired cancer researcher from India--met as activists...
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The "Big Questions" for humans today surely must mirror these: What is the best hope for the survival of the human race? Can a state of existence be established that will satisfy our nature and maintain the best reality for humans and remain practical as well? Can this planet wide peace be accomplished and still propel us into the Cosmos questing knowledge and understanding? "FUTURE WORLD ORDER: THE BIG QUESTIONS FOR ALL" begins with overview of life...
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#1 The result of the civil unrest in Watts in 1965 was the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, which in a report released in 1967 largely blamed White racism and indifference for the despair plaguing African Americans.
#2 Following passage of the Voting Rights Act, federal examiners swept into Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia, where they...
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#1 There are many faces of London, depending on whom it is speaking to. For tourists, there is the pageantry and ceremony of the Changing of the Guards, which is for the tourists. For locals, there are the suburbs with their semi-detached houses, hedges, no-through-roads, and parks.
#2 The second place to go with this story is to look back at 2 Woodberry Grove and ask why Pompolo,...
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#1 The first step in any training is to identify the mission you will train for. Be sure it is something you can actually accomplish. Otherwise, you will get into trouble. Your chances of failure increase exponentially.
#2 Law enforcement must put the public first, since that is their job. They must train and equip themselves toward this objective.
#3 The sheepdog mentality...
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#1 I had a father who was strict, but also warm and loving. He instilled in me the difference between right and wrong at a young age, and had the courage to stand up for it. I didn't need any other moral compass.
#2 I was always independent, and I didn't care how long the journey took. I was elated when I saw the sea, and decided that if my parents didn't come back,...
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Le silence peut-il favoriser la rencontre entre deux individus ? L'originalité de cet ouvrage réside dans l'exploration de ce paradoxe. Il met en contraste le phénomène social du silence, déterminé par les codes du théâtre de la vie, et l'expérience phénoménale de celui-ci, vécue au plus intime de soi.
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