Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians by Halliday G. Sutherland (6 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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The War on Christians by Will Clark (Motivation Basics) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Nearly all Americans in our past worshiped God to give thanks for the creation of our country and for its great blessings. Through Obama's leadership and influence, God's name now has been cast out and unwelcome from many institutions in America. How far will these exclusions go; perhaps to the point of total exclusions and even persecution? This U.S. war on Christians grows more ominous each day. Does not evil and persecution left unchecked become more acceptable and normal; does it not often lead to tyranny? How can evil be recognized and judged in a society not influenced by the respect for God's creation? Will Obama's influence create a condition that one day will cause Christians and Jews to flee to the wilderness as they escape the Abomination of Desolation when the beast sits on the thrown in Jerusalem? Christians are now being attacked in every segment of our American society. The foundation of our society, and perhaps existence, is fast eroding. The 'War on Christianity' is a war on America. If Christianity falls, America falls with it. The evildoers in the world have already set examples of what the world is like without God and Christianity guiding their course. In many countries even the mention of God and Christianity brings harassment and exclusion. In the more intolerant cultures and nations, the mention of God and Christ brings instant death. Will America one day join the attitudes of those Godless and intolerant nations; or will America return to its founding course to the acceptance and guidance of God's graceful and loving hand? Presently, we are not on that course. This book explains how and why.

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Porteiros do Fascismo: Um debate contra o MBL (Portuguese Edition) by Henry Bugalho (44 Reviews)    Price verified 47 minutes ago

É possível debater contra agitadores habituados a espetacularizar a política? Em fevereiro de 2023, o youtuber e deputado cassado Arthur do Val desafiou Henry Bugalho para um debate. Após aceito, o tema proposto foi "o liberalismo é a porta de entrada para o fascismo?" Meses depois, negociações sobre a publicação atravancadas, um debatedor surpresa que só foi revelado ao fim do debate e declarações inaceitáveis de Mamãefalei, Bugalho enfim apresenta seus argumentos neste debate.

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Dare to Fail: Next Generation Leadership by James Hwang (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Failing is not an end state. Rather, it should be viewed as feedback and a unique invitation to try again. The mindset of accepting failures as feedback combined with perseverance prepares you for ultimate success. In Dare to Fail, James Hwang blends his personal experiences with leadership lessons for a one of a kind business fable that proves failure is just another means to the successful end. Through these personal experiences and lessons, a framework of ACTIONABLE LEADERSHIP is formed. The purpose of this framework is to provide aspiring leaders a way to understand how to move from the lowest levels of influence to the pinnacle by building relationships that minimize barriers and invite both leaders and followers to expand trust in pragmatic ways. Finally, Dare to Fail explains the importance of mentorship and coaching to achieve the ultimate level of success. JAMES HWANG has been the CEO of multiple companies backed by Private Equity. He has extensive expertise in people management, technology, finance, and change management associated with mergers & acquisitions and company turnarounds. Educated at the U S Military Academy at West Point and Dallas Baptist University, his disciplined approach and analytical skills combined with faith and moral compass are his proclaimed foundation to his success.

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Life Beyond Motherhood: Childless by Circumstances Not by Choice: Empowering Childless Women to Live Their Best Lives: A Guide to Thriving Without ... by Lilian Chudey Pride (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Purpose of the Book: Lilian Chudey Pride wrote this book to help empowered childless women break free from the shame and stigma that often accompanies childlessness. Lilian emphasizes the need to redefine the societal narrative that equates a woman's worth with motherhood. Empowerment and Support: This book is described as a journal/devotional designed to uplift and empower childless women who may be feeling lonely and emotional due to societal pressures and personal circumstances. The author expresses empathy, especially for African women who face humiliation due to their childlessness. Reframing Self-Worth: The author wants to remind women that their value and purpose extend far beyond the role of motherhood. The book aims to showcase the strength, resilience, and beauty inherent in each woman, regardless of their parental status. Acknowledging Emotions: This book creates a safe space for women to explore and honor their feelings related to not having children. Through self-reflection, it aims to guide women toward self-compassion, self-acceptance, healing, and personal growth. Rediscovering Purpose: "Beyond Motherhood" encourages women to rediscover their passions, dreams, and aspirations. It promotes a life filled with purpose and fulfillment, emphasizing that worth is not solely defined by societal expectations but also by personal fulfillment and the love of God. Nurturing Relationships: The importance of nurturing meaningful relationships with one's husband, family, friends, and the wider community is highlighted. This book explores the impact women can have on others' lives and emphasizes the love and connections that surround them. Self-Care and Well-Being: This book places a strong focus on self-care and well-being, guiding women to prioritize their emotional and physical health. It suggests practices like prayer, establishing a personal relationship with God, nourishing the body, and connecting with nature to cultivate self-care and ...

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The Reluctant Belligerent: American Entry Into World War II by Robert A. Divine (12 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

How did America's passive foreign policy in the 1930s contribute to the onset of the Second World War? Would early, sustained American support have contained the expansive thrust of the Axis? Was the nation's security jeopardized by a disastrous lack of leadership? Could Pearl Harbor have been prevented? These are just some of the thought-provoking questions explored in this detailed examination of American entry into World War II. Drawing on the latest research findings of noted historians, Robert A. Divine focuses on day-by-day diplomacy rather than the military aspects of war. He confronts the reasons why the U.S. was hesitant to apply its rightful role of world leader. He shows how Americans retreated behind the facade of neutrality legislation in an attempt to isolate themselves from the conflict. And he considers how the U.S. may have actually added to the severity of World War II by waiting until the nation was forced into the fighting. Robert A. Divine joined the faculty of the University of Texas in 1954 as a professor of history. He served as Chairman of the Department of History and the Committee on International Studies, and a member of the interim committee that helped with the organisation of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University. In addition, he served as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and authored eleven books. He retired in 1996.

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A Secular Political Perspective by William Sanchez Price verified 8 hours ago

A Secular Political Perspective is my first book focusing on topics including the rise of democracy, a non-religious moral framework, how science explains our place in the universe, how to form reliable beliefs, what socialism in America would look like, and how government corruption and tyranny threaten peace around the world. Each chapter contains important quotes from a wide range of politicians, scientists, and philosophers as well as some informative graphs adding context to my ideas.

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The Euro is to Blame. Economics for Spanish people. by Luke Fog (1 Review)    Price verified 36 minutes ago

The book explains that the crisis got worst due to the "fiscal consolidation" as did in 1929 after the measures of Hebert Hoover. It compares US vs. Europe and the different ways of fighting the crisis. It also talks about the future problems specially in the Euro-zone regarding the unemployment rates in Southern Europe. And the effect this long-term unemployment has in the politics of the country and the future of the Economy. It advise about the problems of excessive monetary easing due to the lack of fiscal policies, specially regarding investments in public debt of core European Monetary Union countries and mention the possibility of a bubble. Moreover, it is not only a neo-keynesian reading. It explains how neoclassical economics are more accurate in the long-run. After talking about the effect of the measures implemented in Europe and specially Spain it develops a theory about the wealth of nations for the long term where free markets are the main reason. However, it also tackles the issue of unfair markets and the impact it could have in its economies, like in Latin America. Furthermore, tries to think openly about the future of the Euro and Spain. What measures Spain (and any Southern Europe country) should implement to reduce the unemployment rates. From a serious Economics background, Luke Fog explains the importance of education and research and development, low taxation for exports and other issues to generate long-term growth and wealth. Also talks about the geographical location as a indirect reason for wealth of nations, thinking openly about the wealth in the north of Spain and the south, as in the ex-yugoslavian regions, something that could be also applied to Italy. Finally, explains the importance of achieving the right point between free markets and political intervention, fairness and growth. How free markets tend to increase growth till a point where they can destroy it. However, for Spain it explains that although ...

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Minimalist Living: 3 Manuscripts: A Step By Step Guide With Tips On How To Live A Minimalist Lifestyle (Simple Living, Living Off The Grid, Tiny ... by Kathy Stanton (16 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

3 BOOK BUNDLE! Book 1: Tiny House Living And Loving It: 50 Creative Ways To Maximize Your Small Living Space, Declutter And Get Organized Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... • Separating the Trash From the Treasures • Decluttering • How to Get Organized • How to Arrange Your Furniture • How to Use the Space You Have! • Helpful Hints • Making it Happen! • Much, much more! Book 2: Preppers Guide for Busy People: 50 Quick And Easy Tips To Prepare Your Home For A Disaster In This Book You Will Learn... • How to Prepare for Outside Damage • How to Prepare for Natural Disasters • How to Prepare for Appliance Failure • The Trick to Preparing for Utility Problems • Preparing for Other Unthinkable Circumstances • Knowing That You Have the Proper Tools at Hand • Responding When Something Does Happen • Much, much more! Book 3: Living Off The Grid And Loving It: 40 Creative Ways To Living A Stress Free And Self-Sustaining Lifestyle Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn Inside This Book... • What is Living Off of the Grid? • Why it Doesn't Have to Be Hard • Choosing Productive Hobbies • It's All About Your Mindset • How to Make the Changes Now! • Living Off the Grid in Stages • Give Up on the Myths • Much, much more!

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Frequency Wave Theory: Expands on Terrence Howard’s Theories by Drew Ponder Price verified 17 minutes ago

Unlock the mysteries of the universe with "Frequency Wave Theory: Expands on Terrence Howard's Theories" by Drew Ponder. This groundbreaking book delves into a revolutionary framework that redefines our understanding of reality, bridging the gap between science, philosophy, and everyday life. Discover the Power of Frequencies In this comprehensive exploration, Drew Ponder takes you on a journey through the foundational principles of Frequency Wave Theory, revealing how all matter and energy are manifestations of underlying waveforms. From subatomic particles to cosmic structures, this theory offers a unified perspective that explains the complex dynamics of the natural world. Transformative Applications Learn how Frequency Wave Theory can revolutionize technology, medicine, and sustainable living. Discover advanced communication systems, targeted cancer treatments, and energy-efficient technologies that harness the principles of frequency interactions to enhance our quality of life and promote environmental stewardship. Philosophical Insights Reflect on the profound philosophical implications of Frequency Wave Theory. Explore how this holistic perspective reshapes our understanding of consciousness, ethics, and interconnectedness, encouraging a sense of responsibility and stewardship for our planet and each other. Practical Integration Find practical strategies for integrating Frequency Wave Theory into your everyday life. From personal health and wellness practices to fostering innovation and community resilience, Drew Ponder provides actionable insights that can help you align with your natural frequencies and create a more harmonious and sustainable future. Join the Journey "Frequency Wave Theory: Expands on Terrence Howard's Theories" is an invitation to open your mind to new possibilities and embark on a journey of discovery and transformation. Whether you are a scientist, philosopher, or curious reader, this book offers valuable insights ...

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The Indigo Diary: How to Be Indigo by Ethan Indigo Smith (The Fourth Initiate Publications) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Ethan Indigo Smith shares insights on Indigos, The Indigo Approach and numerous different thoughts on spirituality, philosophy, metaphysics, politics, and activism in the postmodern world. Ethan Indigo explores what it means to be an Indigo through his observations, ideas developing thought and theses challenging the status quo, contemporary thinking, and the bullies thereof.

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Detroit: A Tale of Crime and Corruption by Jeff Zimmerman (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

After escaping a decades worth of mental, physical and spiritual torment in Detroit's Correctional Facility, ex-detective Frank Mercer decides to go on a blood fueled quest for revenge with faces, names and numbers on his mind. Dive into Frank's world of ever increasing hostile madness as chaos and corruption rain down on all sides around him and turn the city of motors into a flaming heap of metal wreckage!

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Journey to Axiom by Saeed Aslam (3 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

As a five year old boy, I witnessed the horrors of war first hand during the 1965 war between India and Pakistan. Because my father was assigned to the Headquarters of Pakistan army, we lived on the base and faced relentless air attacks from the Indian air force. Seeing the devastation and death caused by war made me develop a deep rooted hatred for Indians. I wanted to grow up and join the Pakistani army and kill as many Indians as I could. Fate would have it that I never joined the military and ended up coming to the US for higher education instead. When I arrived in America, I met a Sikh from India named Kulbir Singh who did everything possible to be my friend, while I did my best to not like him due to the hatred I had in my heart towards Indians. But Kulbir made it impossible for me to hate him because he was such a wonderful person; so selfless, loving and a true friend. I was forced to reevaluate my feelings towards the Indians and I realized that our military was killing them at the same time they were killing us. I understood how wrong I was in my hatred and how this man's unconditional love as a friend forced me to see the light. I consider him one of my best friends until this day and he taught me such wonderful lessons in life; not only in the futility of hatred, but also the power of unconditional love. Now if the whole world can somehow see each other with a burning love for humanity, we will be able to end wars and bring peace to mankind.

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Lunatics! by Jeff Zimmerman (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Insanity. What does that word truly mean? After the mentally mangled mind of Sienna Caiman intertwines with the twisted urges and outlooks of Jeff Zimmerman, the two figure out they can cause more carnage upon civilized society when they're together instead of apart. Devolving into demented demons of wicked madness, the two wage a dogmatic war with the powers that be and decide to display psychological and physical damage that'll, in their heads, heal their wounds that the New World Order has inflicted upon them and their fellow countrymen's souls!

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The Metaphysics of Monotheism by Ethan Indigo Smith (The Fourth Initiate Publications) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

The Metaphysics of Monotheism begins with The Spiritual Golden Rule. The Spiritual Golden Rule: Thou shall not force one form of spirituality or religion on others. Do not read this if you are not a seeker. Believers have stopped seeking and this is for seekers. Ethan Indigo Smith began writing this book with a simple yet profound question, "Why is there war and terrorism?" This question led to only more questions, including those in reference to God, spirituality, religion and ultimately monotheism specifically. Political and religious monochromatic belief systems are celebrated and psychologically problematic. The Metaphysics of Monotheism is an exploration of Godliness, spirituality, religion and monotheism in esoteric and psychological terms.

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The Evolution of Gods: The Scientific Origin of Divinity and Religions by Ajay Kansal (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This book explains why, when and how humanity invented various religions and gods. The process began around 100,000 years ago; during this epoch, many nomadic human bands, all over the world, invented primitive languages and began to decipher each happening around them. Whatever they could not comprehend, their chiefs or priests attributed to some unseen power. At some point in time, we do not know exactly when it happened, humans invented an activity: they began to worship each seen or unseen power, which was beyond their control, but could either harm or help them. They invented almost identical methods of worship, such as folding their hands, bowing, kneeling, floral offering, prayers and sacrifices. For example, anthropologists believe that during the last Ice Age, humans had largely inadequate protection against cold; their survival depended largely upon available sunlight -- something beyond their control. In that scenario, solar worship was a logical outcome. In a similar manner, they found thunder and lightning inexplicable and frightening; gradually, they began to worship the sky as a god. There is enough historical evidence to assert that the ancestors of Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Christians and Muslims worshiped the sun and the sky, before their religions came into practice. The ability to speak and share their ideas helped humans invent many useful devices such as hearths, stitching needles, leathers and footwear. With their aid, they began to lead an easier, healthier and safer life. Consequently, their population began to increase: approximately 10,000 years ago, it exploded to such an extent that they faced a food crisis. Since necessity is the mother of inventions, several human bands invented the technique of cultivation. Farming necessitated them to settle down near fields and ultimately gave rise to homes, villages, cities and civilizations. Gradually, farmers began to face famine caused by droughts and floods. The priests of several places in the ...

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THE History of Gaza: Echoes of Gaza: Palestine by CARMEN CONSTANTIN Price verified 47 minutes ago

Description: Discover the captivating history of Gaza in this thrilling and insightful book, The History of Gaza. Dive into the heart of the ancient city and explore the rich tapestry of civilizations that have shaped its identity. Uncover the story of Gaza's origins, from its ancient Canaanite roots to its pivotal role in the Palestinian conflict. Delve into the fascinating accounts of notable historical events and learn about the diverse cultures that have influenced Gaza through the ages. From the magnificent architectural heritage to the struggles and triumphs of its people, this book is a captivating journey through time. Book Summary: Step into the intriguing world of Gaza's history, from its ancient beginnings to the present day. This concise and engaging book offers a captivating exploration of the key events and civilizations that have shaped Gaza, providing an essential understanding of its rich heritage.

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ON WHAT LANGUAGE IS: And how it is possible by Fred Jaeger (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

An original review of how verbal meaning is effected (through the iterative uses of sounds and marks) as that relates to conceptions of the world, to human behaviour and to the human self. That leads to the disappearance of language understood as a self-standing entity (as this or that language). Language is possible only as wholly and thoroughly integrated with the conduct of human life. A massively rich understanding of language then emerges, akin to the ancient concept of the Logos. On What Language Is sets out a wide range of basic ways in which the integration of language with the conduct of human life is realised, illuminating the nature of both. Further details are given in The perspective and Table of contents viewable in Look inside.

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Theorising Justice: A Primer for Social Scientists by Johanna Ohlsson (Bristol University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Bringing together divergent approaches to justice theorising, this volume connects normative and philosophical theories with the more empirically focused approaches emerging today in the social and political sciences and policy scholarship. The chapters overview a variety of mainstream approaches and radical critiques of justice to illustrate their value in addressing the pressing problems of climate change and economic development. Stressing the value of assessing justice theories in light of the material conditions of our changing world, the book concludes with an in-depth synthesis of how these wide ranging approaches to justice will be useful for students, scholars and practitioners concerned with realising justice.

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Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico by Veronica Herrera (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Most of the world's population lives in cities in developing countries, where access to basic public services, such as water, electricity, and health clinics, is either inadequate or sorely missing. Water and Politics shows how politicians benefit politically from manipulating public service provision for electoral gain. In many young democracies, politicians exchange water service for votes or political support, rewarding allies or punishing political enemies. Surprisingly, the political problem of water provision has become more pronounced, as water service represents a valuable political currency in resource-scarce environments. Water and Politics finds that middle-class and industrial elites play an important role in generating pressure for public service reforms.

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Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1766-71 by Earl of Chesterfield Philip Dormer Stanhope (11 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature (Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment) by Matthias Klestil (Palgrave Macmillan) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten's journals, Booker T. Washington's autobiographies, and Charles W. Chesnutt's short fiction. The volume highlights how literary forms of environmental knowledge in the African American tradition were shaped by the histories of slavery and race, mainstream environmental writing traditions, and African American forms of expression and intertextuality. Turning to the Underground Railroad, debates over education and home-building, and the aesthetics of the pastoral and the georgic, Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature provides an original perspective on the African American ecoliterary traditionthat uncovers new facets of canonical and understudied texts and offers new directions for ecocriticism and African American studies.

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The Italian Diaspora in South Africa: Nostalgia, Identity, and Belonging in the Second and Third Generations (Routledge Studies in Development, ... by Maria Chiara Marchetti-Mercer (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This book investigates the experiences of second- and third-generation Italians living in South Africa, exploring how nostalgia for Italy influences their sense of identity and belonging. The Italian community in South Africa is a unique diaspora, with a complex history, including roots in Italian colonial activities in Africa, and in World War II. This book looks at how the descendants of these early migrants take pride in being Italian and value the Italian language. They also ascribe much importance to their family roots, and have often created a romanticized image of Italy, mostly based on childhood vacation visits. The longing for an imaginary idealized version of Italy is closely linked to their wider search for a sense of identity and belonging against the backdrop of South African society, currently still grappling with its own multicultural identity. Interdisciplinary by design, this book draws on insights from both cultural studies and psychology in order to shine a light on an important and under-studied diasporic community. The book will be of interest to scholars from across migration studies and the Humanities in general. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Benjamin Taylor (3 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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West African Agriculture and Climate Change by Abdulai Jalloh (International Food Policy Research Institute) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

The first of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa -- Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo -- and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. West Africa's population is expected to grow at least through mid-century. The region will also see income growth. Both will put increased pressure on the natural resources needed to produce food, and climate change makes the challenges greater. West Africa is already experiencing rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasing extreme events. Without attention to adaptation, the poor will suffer. Through the use of hundreds of scenario maps, models, figures, and detailed analysis, the editors and contributors of West African Agriculture and Climate Change present plausible future scenarios that combine economic and biophysical characteristics to explore the possible consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources management to 2050. They also offer recommendations to national governments and regional economic agencies already dealing with the vulnerabilities of climate change and deviations in environment. Decisionmakers and researchers will find West African Agriculture and Climate Change a vital tool for shaping policy and studying the various and likely consequences of climate change.

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Yield Gaps and Potential Agricultural Growth in West and Central Africa by Jordan Chamerlin (International Food Policy Research Institute) Price verified 9 hours ago

The authors identify a set of development priorities for agriculture that cut across West Africa at both the country and regional levels to achieve economywide growth goals in the region. To do this we adopt a modeling and analytical framework that involves the integration of spatial analysis to identify yield gaps determining the growth potential of different agricultural activities for areas with similar conditions and an economywide multimarket model to simulate ex ante the economic effects of closing these yield gaps. Results indicate that the greatest agriculture-led growth opportunities in West Africa reside in staple crops (cereals and roots and tubers) and livestock production. Contributing the most to agricultural growth in the Sahel are livestock, rice, coarse grains, and oilseeds (groundnuts); in Coastal countries, staple crops such as cassava, yams, and cereal seems to be relatively more important than other subsectors; and in Central Africa livestock and root crops are the sources of growth with highest potential. Results also point toward an essential range of policies and investments that are needed to stimulate the productivity growth of prioritized activities. These include developing opportunities for regional cooperation on technology adaptation and diffusion, strengthening regional agricultural markets, exploiting opportunities for greater regional cooperation and harmonization, diversifying traditional markets, and enhancing linkages between agricultural and nonagricultural sectors.

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Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development: Revealing agriculture's place in Africa by Kate Sebastian (International Food Policy Research Institute) (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

The work of agricultural researchers and development workers in Africa has the potential to significantly improve the lives of the poor. But that potential can only be realized with easy access to high-quality data and information. The Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development highlights the ubiquitous role of smallholder agriculture in Africa; the many factors shaping the location, nature, and performance of agricultural enterprises; and the strong interdependencies among farming, natural-resource stocks and flows, and the well-being of the poor. Organized around 7 themes, the atlas covers more than 30 topics, each providing mapped geospatial data and supporting text that answers four fundamental questions: What is this map telling us? Why is this important? What about the underlying data? Where can I learn more? The atlas is part of a wide-ranging eAtlas initiative that will showcase, through print and online resources, a variety of spatial data and tools generated and maintained by a community of research scientists, development analysts, and practitioners working in and for Africa. The initiative will serve as a guide, with references and links to online resources to introduce readers to a wealth of data that can inform efforts to improve the livelihoods of Africa's rural poor. To learn more about the eAtlas initiative, visit http://agatlas.org.

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Flight From Syria: Refugee Stories by Hugh Eakin (Pulitzer Center) (75 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Flight from Syria: Refugee Stories features the writing and photography of nine Pulitzer Center grantees- journalists who reported on Syrian refugees between 2012 and 2015. Their travels took them from Syria to Sweden, and from crowded camps to cramped apartments in city suburbs. Each of the journalists- Hugh Eakin, Lauren Gelfond Feldinger, Stephen Franklin, Joanna Kakissis, Alia Malek, Holly Pickett, Alisa Roth, Alice Su, and Selin Thomas- lends a unique perspective. Originally published in Al Jazeera, BBC News, Guernica, In These Times, Marketplace, NPR, The Atlantic and The New York Review of Books, these stories tell of an abandoned homeland, an indifferent world, and an uncertain future. They trace the history of one of the biggest displacements of modern times- providing a testament to the suffering and courage of those who fled. Edited by Kem Knapp Sawyer Designed by Evey Wilson

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Silent Hill: The Terror Engine (Landmark Video Games) by Bernard Perron (University of Michigan Press) (130 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, the second of the two inaugural studies in the Landmark Video Games series from series editors Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, is both a close analysis of the first three Silent Hill games and a general look at the whole series. Silent Hill, with its first title released in 1999, is one of the most influential of the horror video game series. Perron situates the games within the survival horror genre, both by looking at the history of the genre and by comparing Silent Hill with such important forerunners as Alone in the Dark and Resident Evil. Taking a transmedia approach and underlining the designer's cinematic and literary influences, he uses the narrative structure; the techniques of imagery, sound, and music employed; the game mechanics; and the fiction, artifact, and gameplay emotions elicited by the games to explore the specific fears survival horror games are designed to provoke and how the experience as a whole has made the Silent Hill series one of the major landmarks of video game history.

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Not Another Average Guy: An Exemplar For The Modern Man by A.P. Hovsepian (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Every boy needs a strong male figure in their life. Especially in the formative years. And yet, it's no secret that most of us were deprived of this very thing. No one was there to guide, shape and mold us into men. Our fathers may have been around, but few took it upon themselves to teach us what it meant to be a man. As a result, we've all suffered -- both directly and indirectly -- a great deal of unnecessary pain and frustration in adulthood; where life demanded the price of ignorance be paid (with interest!) While time travel is not a viable solution (yet), the next best thing is to learn these lessons now. Not Another Average Guy is an amalgamation of decades of wisdom, forged by trial and error in the midst of life's most difficult struggles; Struggles one too many men had to personally endure. It offers a gift most males crave from a young age: the gift of direction.

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Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America (Nation of Nations Book 23) by Helen Heran Jun (NYU Press) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Helen Heran Jun explores how the history of U.S. citizenshiphas positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political relationships since the mid nineteenth century. Rejecting the conventional emphasis on 'inter-racial prejudice,' Jun demonstrates how a politics of inclusion has constituted a racial Other within Asian American and African American discourses of national identity. Race for Citizenship examines three salient moments when African American and Asian American citizenship become acutely visible as related crises: the 'Negro Problem' and the 'Yellow Question' in the mid- to late 19th century; World War II-era questions around race, loyalty, and national identity in the context of internment and Jim Crow segregation; and post-Civil Rights discourses of disenfranchisement and national belonging under globalization. Taking up a range of cultural texts -- the 19th century black press, the writings of black feminist Anna Julia Cooper, Asian American novels, African American and Asian American commercial film and documentary -- Jun does not seek to document signs of cross-racial identification, but instead demonstrates how the logic of citizenship compels racialized subjects to produce developmental narratives of inclusion in the effort to achieve political, economic, and social incorporation. Race for Citizenship provides a new model of comparative race studies by situating contemporary questions of differential racial formations within a long genealogy of anti-racist discourse constrained by liberal notions of inclusion.

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Reclaiming Socialism, or: Economic Democracy (Recovering a Stolen Word) by Brian Rush (37 Reviews)    Price verified 17 minutes ago

Imagine getting up in the morning and going to work for a company that, just by virtue of the fact that you work for it, you own part of. Imagine that the company's president and other officers have to stand for election every year or two years, and you and all the other employees of the company vote them in or out. Imagine getting an accounting on a quarterly basis of the company's profitability and receiving a payout of your share of those profits - your due as a worker-owner. Imagine that you get tired of working for the company you own part of and decide to strike out on your own. Imagine that there are on-line services readily available where your skills demand high pay from independent clients, so that being self-employed and entirely your own boss is a matter only of doing the work. Or let's say that you and a number of friends have an idea for a new business. Imagine a non-profit organization or perhaps a government agency set up just for that purpose, ready to provide you and your friends a low-interest loan, free advice, and lots of other assistance so you can do that - as long as your new business is a workers' cooperative. Imagine a world in which nobody is obscenely rich and nobody is poor, and the average person makes about double - maybe triple - what most people make today. I can imagine that easily enough. Can you? Would you like to live in a world like that? I sure would. We're ready for it. We just have to believe it and reach for it, and reclaim the word that stands for it. That word is "socialism." It's being misused today to describe something it's not, a world of giant bureaucracies, stagnant economies, and secret police. That's not what it means. It means a world in which ordinary people - probably people like you - own the businesses that provide your livelihood, instead of the economy being owned by a few hogs on Wall Street who see you as their peon. That's what socialism is about. It's about finally freeing ourselves from the ...

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American Bloodlust: The Violent Psychological Conditioning of Today's Young People (A Christian Response to America’s Mental Health Crisis Book 1) by Roger Ball (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Are today's young people being psychologically conditioned to violence, sexual perversion, and suicidal hopelessness? Will mass shootings continue? Is the rise in same-sex attraction a closely related problem? Will violence continue to increase? Will deaths of despair continue to rise? Will America destroy itself from within? This book is a truncated version of Liberalism and Mass Shootings REVISED AND UPDATED VERSION. America is now facing the worst psychological crisis in its history. What has changed over the past fifty-sixty years that would produce such an outcome? How long will mass shootings (and school shootings) continue? Why do so many young people struggle with murderous and suicidal impulses (not to mention depression, anxiety, and same-sex attraction)? This book exposes the psychological conditioning responsible for today's mental health crisis and reveals how it can be reversed if the necessary changes are made. If you like exploring human nature and the psychological effects of a profane worldview, then you'll love this revealing book. CONTENTS: Introduction Chapter 1: The Missing Structural Necessity of Today's Child Development Chapter 2: Necessary Cognitive Development Chapter 3: Intensive Parenting Chapter 4: The Origin of Today's Childrearing Practices Chapter 5: Self-pity, Escapism, Loneliness and Same-Sex Attraction Chapter 6: Social Media and Safe Places Chapter 7: Anger, Pride, Envy and Vengeance Chapter 8: Consumerism Chapter 9: Stubborn Pride and Ingratitude Chapter 10: Marriage and Envy and School Shootings Chapter 11: Entitlement, Disrespect and the Pride of Self-pity Chapter 12: Disrespect, Bullying, Sadism and Feminism Chapter 13: Is Liberalism to Blame? Chapter 14: The Breakdown of the Traditional Family Chapter 15: Natural Laws of Human Flourishing Chapter 16: Founding Principles for a Healthy Nation Chapter 17: Political and Cultural Reinforcement of Envy and Entitlement Chapter 18: Identity Politics Chapter 19: Is There Any ...

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Liberalism and Mass Shootings (A Christian Response to America’s Mental Health Crisis) by Roger Ball (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Are today's young people being psychologically conditioned to violence, sexual perversion, and suicidal hopelessness? Will mass shootings continue? Is the rise in same-sex attraction a closely related problem? Will violence continue to increase? Will deaths of despair continue to rise? Will America destroy itself from within? REVISED AND EDITED: America is now facing the worst psychological crisis in its history. What has changed over the past fifty-plus years that would produce such an outcome? How long will mass shootings (and school shootings) continue? Why do so many young people struggle with murderous and suicidal impulses (not to mention depression, anxiety, and same-sex attraction)? "I want to show how the problem of mass shootings, and America's mental health crisis in general, can be attributed to three primary causes: 1) the psychological effects of today's passive childrearing practices (producing low self-worth, insecurity, depression, self-doubt, anger, envious resentment, self-loathing, entitlement, loneliness, vindictive behavior, and same-sex attraction). Kids today are hurting on a much deeper level than anything seen in recent generations. They are also more unbridled than ever and likely to act upon distorted emotional urges and impulses. 2) the breakdown of the traditional family structure which produces these same psychological effects only worse. This has been accomplished primarily by extending sexual permissiveness throughout society, which has produced countless fatherless and dysfunctional homes. The majority of mass shooters and other violent offenders come from these environments. 3) the uncivilized means by which we bring about change in society (radical politics). This third element is what brings it all together. It is also a product of the first two. As most are aware, the spiritual seekers of the sixties (hippies) that brought us the sexual revolution were predominantly the children of gross neglect. This revolution is where ...

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The Granite Key (Arkana Archaeology Mystery Thriller Series Book 1) by N. S. Wikarski (1,037 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

If you liked THE DA VINCI CODE, you'll love this series! During the untold millennia before patriarchy was conceived, the world was a very different place... • Series Finale Award Nominated as Best Mystery of the Month • For Fans of Archaeology Adventure, Historical Thrillers, and Treasure Hunt Mysteries THE ARKANA SERIES A myth-shattering treasure hunt that spans continents, centuries, and lost civilizations, pitting a secret society against a ruthless fundamentalist cult. The prize is a cache of hidden artifacts that could rewrite history or end it completely. With the world hanging in the balance, only one faction can win. More importantly, only one can survive. Volume 1 - The Granite Key In THE GRANITE KEY, an antique dealer is murdered for a mysterious cipher stone that reveals the location of a collection of ancient artifacts. The victim's sister Cassie is stunned when she learns about her sibling's double life as an Arkana agent. She's even more stunned to discover the role she's about to play in helping the Arkana recover the cache. Along with two field agents, she travels to Crete to hunt for clues, unaware that ruthless foes are only steps behind. Cassie and her new team have only hours to find what they seek before a Minoan crypt buries them along with their quest.

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The Rise of Trump: America's Authoritarian Spring by Matthew C MacWilliams (Amherst College Press) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

The ascendance of Donald Trump to the presidential candidacy of the Republican Party has been both remarkable and, to most commentators, unlikely. In The Rise of Trump: America's Authoritarian Spring, Matthew MacWilliams argues that Trump's rapid rise through a bewildered Republican Party hierarchy is no anomaly; rather, MacWilliams argues, it is the most recent expression of a long-standing theme in American political life, the tendency and temptation to an ascriptive politics -- a political view that builds its basic case on ascribing to any relatively disempowered group (whether defined by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, or other identifying category) a certain set of qualities that justify discriminatory treatment. The ascriptive tradition in American politics, though longstanding, has generally been kept to a relatively small minority -- a minority whose rights, perhaps paradoxically, have been protected by the principles of Madisonian democracy, even though central to its worldview is the need and urgency of limiting the rights of some. It has found champions in years past in such figures as Andrew Jackson, Huey Long, Joseph McCarthy, and Pat Buchanan. But in Donald Trump this tradition has found a significant new voice, one emboldened by deeper shifts in the American political landscape. Trump's swift and unsettling rise to the pinnacle of presidential politics may point toward the emergence of more significant and substantial questions about the future course of a democratic government committed to principles of equality and the freedom of expression, association, and conscience.

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The Fall of White City: Revised 2020 Edition (GILDED AGE CHICAGO MYSTERY SERIES Book 1) by N. S. Wikarski (474 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

To solve baffling crimes in turn-of-the-century Chicago, you only need to know a single fact. Bygone sins in the White City cast the longest shadows. • Revised 2020 Edition. Nominated for Reader's Choice Awards as Best First Novel and Best Historical Mystery • For Fans of Cozy Mysteries, Amateur Sleuths, and Gilded Age Chicago History GILDED AGE CHICAGO MYSTERY SERIES Gilded Age Chicago is the fastest growing metropolis in America, rivaling New York as the City of the Century. This melting pot of thieves and corrupt politicians, robber barons and immigrants, is rife with scandal and social injustice. An eccentric heiress and a star reporter find themselves repeatedly drawn into the hidden world of intrigue and murder that lurks within the shadows of the White City. Volume One - The Fall of White City Wealthy spinster Evangeline LeClair leads a paradoxical life. By day, she fends off marriage-minded suitors. By night, she teaches English to factory workers at a social settlement in the slums. Evangeline is quite satisfied with the status quo until murder disrupts her routine. One of her students, a penniless immigrant, has been stabbed to death in Chicago's most exclusive hotel. The girl's brother, a known anarchist, is accused of the crime. Evangeline wheedles her admirer, Freddie Simpson, into helping her track down the real killer. Their list of possible suspects is long: a captain of industry, a denizen of the slums, a shady doctor who mixes his own drugs, and a teenage prostitute from a sporting house in the Levee District. The gleaming surface of the World's Fair casts many shadows, and THE FALL OF WHITE CITY exposes the darkness at its core.

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Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche (4,934 Reviews)    Price verified 7 minutes ago

The revolutionary philosophical text that denounces traditional dogma and calls on individuals to find meaning in their own moral systems. One of the most important works in the history of Western philosophy, Beyond Good and Evil consists of 296 sections and a final "aftersong." Expounding on the ideas first introduced in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche articulates his views on philosophy, philosophers, morality, religion, society, people, and culture. Nietzsche's central purpose throughout is to push the boundaries of moral philosophy beyond simplistic laws and the notion that all moral judgments can be reduced to a strict binary. First published in 1886, this trailblazing work has lost none of its power to confront and provoke. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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Congo's Children by Kem Knapp Sawyer (Pulitzer Center) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo have seen their lives threatened, their families torn apart, their schools destroyed, and their futures compromised. Many are homeless -- abandoned street children, some accused of witchcraft, others born of rape or orphaned by war. But while children are the most vulnerable segment of a broken society, they are also among the most resilient. Congo's Children tells their stories, accompanied by vivid photography and video and drawing on reporting that has appeared in PBS NewsHour, The Washington Post, TruthAtlas, and other outlets. "The stunning photographs and deeply moving text of this book offer a fine introduction to the suffering -- and hopes -- of people in a part of the world we know far too little about." -- Adam Hochschild, author, King Leopold's Ghost "Here's the Congo that doesn't make the news clips or TV screens. The everyday Congo, with people managing to organize, create art, and educate each other despite the odds. A touching paean to the country's resilience." -- Jason Stearns, author, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa "The Sawyers' book on Congo's Children is a powerful tool for students of all ages to begin to understand complex issues of poverty and conflict through seeing how knowing people as individuals is a first step in protecting human rights and resolving disputes." -- John B. Hardman, president and chief executive of the Carter Center

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Macroeconomics, Agriculture, and Food Security: A Guide to Policy Analysis in Developing Countries by Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla (International Food Policy Research Institute) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Why write a book on macroeconomic policies and their links to agriculture and food security in developing countries? The food price spikes of the years just prior to 2010 and the economic, political, and social dislocations they generated refocused the attention of policymakers and development practitioners on the agricultural sector and food security concerns. But even without those traumatic events, the importance of agriculture for developing countries -- and for an adequate functioning of the world economy -- cannot be denied. First, although declining over time, primary agriculture still represents important percentages of developing countries' overall domestic production, exports, and employment. If agroindustrial, transportation, commercial, and other related activities are also counted, then the economic and social importance of agriculture-based sectors increases significantly. Furthermore, large numbers of the world's poor still live in rural areas and work in agriculture. Through the links via production, trade, employment, and prices, agricultural production is also crucial for national food security. Second, it has been shown that agriculture in developing countries has important growth and employment multipliers for the rest of the economy, and agriculture seems to have larger positive effects in reducing poverty than growth in other sectors. Third, agriculture is not only important for individual developing countries, but it has global significance, considering the large presence of developing countries in world agricultural production and the increasing participation in international trade of those products (these three points will be covered in greater detail in Chapter 1).

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Inane Interpolations In Bhagvad-Gita : (An Invocation for their Revocation) by BS Murthy (Amazon Digital Services) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Why is This Book Now? The Manusmriti, the social doctrine of yore, and the Bhagvad-Gita, the spiritual tomein vogue that lay down the discriminatory dharma (duties) of the four social classes (castes) have been the bugbears of the Hindu backward classes. However, to their chagrin, of late, as the latter is beingmindlessly promoted even though the former was constitutionally debunked, they began advocating that it too should be dumped in a dustbin. Ironically, the improbability of their progenitor Krishna, the architect of the Gita, relegating his own ilk to the social margins failed to dawn upon these that Gita supposedly slights, even to this day! Thus, their intellectuals, instead of seeking to reclaim their priceless heritage, albeit after ridding its interpolative garbage, tend to rubbish it a la throwing the baby with the bathwater, and needless to say they must ponder. Also, it is high time that the Gita-class stop laying store by the self-aggrandizing verses in this Vy?sa's classic, evidently inserted by their progenitors that came to bedevil the Hindu spiritual integrity and social harmony. Likewise, the grumblers of the dalit desertions must see the need for setting the Hindu house in order to prevent the fractious poaching by the Church, if not to facilitate the 'hoped for' return of the prodigals. So also those who take pride that Hinduism is the only religion that reckons all faith as true, should be concerned about the 'in vogue' Gita that belittles some of their caste fellows. Besides, this work beckons the feminists to reckon the second of the two interpolations from it cited in the cover image that degrades them in unspeakable terms. It is hoped that this 'overdue' work, may lead the 'denied' castes as well as the favoured folks for an objective approach to the Gita 'as it is' which could dispel the misgivings of the former and the delusions of the latter, thereby bridging the Hindu emotional gulf with its abridged book that restores its original ...

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Foliage: An International Banking Spy Thriller (A Louise Moscow Novel Book 1) by Lorraine Evanoff (230 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARD FINALIST, HISTORICAL FICTION NEW APPLE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE SHELF UNBOUND BEST INDIE BOOK, NOTABLE INDIE AWARD READERS' FAVORITE BOOK AWARD FINALIST Investment banker Louise Moscow is sexy, brazen and fearless in business and in love. With a high-profile dream job wooing rich clientele in late 1980s Paris, she enjoys a lavish lifestyle in a glamorous city. When she stumbles upon criminal activity at her company, the FBI and CIA force her to cooperate and bring down the underhanded bankers in what turns out to be one of the greatest scandals of the twentieth century. Perfect for fans of Erik Larson, Jack Slater and Kathy Reichs, Foliage: An International Banking Spy Thriller (A Louise Moscow Novel Book 1) is the first installment in this highly addictive, suspenseful thriller series by award-winning author Lorraine Evanoff. Buy Foliage today and discover an exciting new mystery you won't be able to put down. What readers are saying about Foliage: - "Great read, beautifully written, I highly recommend." ~ Matthew J. Dowd, Chief Political Analyst, ABC News - "It starts off fast and keeps you hooked." ~ Nelle L'Amour, New York Times Bestselling Author - Evanoff does her homework, and is able to deliver complex material in a light and readable fashion." ~ Patrick "Ubercritic" McDonald, Hollywood Chicago Magazine

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Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal​ Bangladesh (Culture, Place, and Nature) by Camelia Dewan (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Perilously close to sea level and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top recipients of development aid earmarked for climate change adaptation. Yet to what extent do adaptation projects address local needs and concerns? Combining environmental history and ethnographic fieldwork with development professionals, rural farmers, and landless women, Misreading the Bengal Delta critiques development narratives of Bangladesh as a "climate change victim." It examines how development actors repackage colonial-era modernizing projects, which have caused severe environmental effects, as climate-adaptation solutions. Seawalls meant to mitigate against cyclones and rising sea levels instead silt up waterways and induce drainage-related flooding. Other adaptation projects, from saline aquaculture to high-yield agriculture, threaten soil fertility, biodiversity, and livelihoods. Bangladesh's environmental crisis goes beyond climate change, extending to coastal vulnerabilities that are entwined with underemployment, debt, and the lack of universal healthcare. This timely book analyzes how development actors create flawed causal narratives linking their interventions in the environment and society of the Global South to climate change. Ultimately, such misreadings risk exacerbating climatic threats and structural inequalities. Misreading the Bengal Delta is available in an open access edition through the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749624

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Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress Price verified 9 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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On The Human Species: A Philosophy on Reason and the Emergence of Civilized Humanity by Anthony Pellegrino (14 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

On the Human Species is a philosophical and psychological discourse that charts the origin and evolution of our species. The book is an inspired combination of science and philosophy, a brilliant canvas of intellectual thought and discerning anthropology. In this work, Mr. Pellegrino delves within the origin of our species from the conception of reason to the creation of religion. The book also explains human emotions, the origin of vice, and an illusory morality that manifests itself as accountability, but also differentiates our species from the remainder of the animal kingdom.

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Putting Federalism in Its Place: The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited by Scott L. Greer (University of Michigan Press) Price verified 5 hours ago

What does federalism do to welfare states? This question arises in scholarly debates about policy design as well as in discussions about the right political institutions for a country. It has frustrated many, with federalism seeming to matter in all sorts of combinations with all sorts of issues, from nationalism to racism to intergovernmental competition. The diffuse federalism literature has not come to compelling answers for very basic questions. Scott L. Greer, Daniel Béland, André Lecours, and Kenneth A. Dubin argue for a new approach -- one methodologically focused on configurations of variables within cases rather than a fruitless attempt to isolate "the" effect of federalism; and one that is substantively engaged with identifying key elements in configurations as well as with when and how their interactions matter. Born out of their work on a multi-year, eleven-country project (published as Federalism and Social Policy: Patterns of Redistribution in Eleven Countries, University of Michigan Press, 2019), this book comprises a methodological and substantive agenda. Methodologically, the authors shift to studies that embraced and understood the complexity within which federal political institutions operate. Substantively, they make an argument for the importance of plurinationalism, changing economic interests, and institutional legacies.

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A Moment of Clarity by Cliff Lengkono (1 Review)    Price verified one minute ago

Have you been having trouble coping with loss? Do you want to be prepared for marriage and family? Are you wondering how you are going to deal with parenting? Is it hard for you to start and maintain a relationship? Could it be that there is more about love that you are yet to learn? You have found the book that cover all of those issues and many more. It takes no more than one book for you to have knowledge of and the solution to various problems that everybody faces in their life. A Moment of Clarity gives you the opportunity to see stages of life all at once because there are as many as six distinct sections in it, which are self, dating, relationship, marriage, parenthood, and farewell. It shows you what you can learn from the past, it enables you to make sense and deal with what is happening in your life, and it allows you to know and prepare for what is ahead. After looking inside life and yourself, you will be able to choose or tell what you want, to find ways and to do whatever it takes to get it, to overcome difficulties and tests, and to deal with things greater than yourself. It is easy to understand, it is useful for many people and occasions, it is filled with things you can learn, teach, suggest, and advise. There are many things this book offers you including, but not limited to truth, comfort, solutions, reminder, advice, warning, hope, answers, alternatives, knowledge, signs, ideas, insights, confidence, certainties, explanations, help, courage, strength, motivation, changes, and lessons. To read this book is to see life, humans, and the world like you have never seen before.

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Step One: Save the World: The Journey of a Water Protector by DJ Rankin (3 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

??This is a cookbook. This is an adventure novel. This is a love story. This is a tale of survival. This is a spiritual journey. This is a catalog of the oppressions and destructions perpetrated by the machine of mankind. This is a handbook on standing up to the tyranny enacted by a corrupt government through the mechanism of fear. This is a recruitment manual for a global movement of resistance. We are winning. It is time to stand up. Enough is enough. Do what feels right. ??Last winter I was called to Standing Rock to protect the water and my entire world was flipped upside down. I lived in the most amazing, love based, frozen tipi utopia, where I connected with the greatest human beings imaginable, and connected to myself and the universe through the ceremonies of the Lakota people, and through science. I was simultaneously exposed to not only the long list of evils unleashed on our species and planet in the name of money, but witnessed this first hand through a cloud of tear gas and militarized police. It was the greatest experience ever. I mean, I was grilling steaks in a forty below lightening blizzard. You should come over for dinner sometime.

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Essays on Suffering-Focused Ethics by Magnus Vinding Price verified 8 hours ago

Essays on Suffering-Focused Ethics is a collection of 34 essays that explore various questions related to the reduction of suffering. Some of the essays provide novel arguments in favor of suffering-focused moral views, while others explore urgent practical questions about how we can best reduce the torment of sentient beings. Taken together, these essays make the case for a principled yet nuanced approach to the prevention of extreme suffering.

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The Politics of India under Modi: An Introduction to India’s Democracy, Economy, and Foreign Policy (ASIANetwork Books) by Vikash Yadav (Lever Press) (1 Review)    Price verified one minute ago

Since the right-wing, Hindu-nationalist government of Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power at the national level in 2014, and with its consolidation of power in the 2019 general election, India has witnessed a significant realignment of its national politics and a shift toward the right of the political spectrum. The Politics of India under Modi provides a detailed overview of India's political trends, economic prospects, and international relations in the twenty-first century. This book is designed as a supplement and update for existing syllabi that trace India's political economy from the birth of the republic to the quest for economic liberalization and great power status. Undergraduates and scholars interested in India's foreign policy and political reform will find value in this timely book. "The subject of this book is extremely compelling and important, as well as timely. BJP rule and the Modi regime, it is now clear, represent some critical turning points in Indian politics, which have yet to be analyzed in depth academically by experts. I see this book as a key first step in this process." -Rina Verma Williams, School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Cincinnati

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The Disarticulate: Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity (Cultural Front Book 8) by James Berger (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Language is integral to our social being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language? The mentally disabled, "wild" children, people with autism and other neurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificial intelligences, have all engaged with language from a position at its borders. In the intricate verbal constructions of modern literature, the 'disarticulate' -- those at the edges of language -- have, paradoxically, played essential, defining roles. Drawing on the disarticulate figures in modern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury, Nightwood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others, James Berger shows in this intellectually bracing study how these characters mark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, and scientific discourses converge. It is also the place of the greatest ethical tension, as society confronts the needs and desires of "the least of its brothers." Berger argues that the disarticulate is that which is unaccountable in the discourses of modernity and thus stands as an alternative to the prevailing social order. Using literary history and theory, as well as disability and trauma theory, he examines how these disarticulate figures reveal modernity's anxieties in terms of how it constructs its others.

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European Strategic Autonomy and Small States' Security: In the Shadow of Power (Routledge Studies in European Security and Strategy) by Giedrius Česnakas (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This book analyses whether the EU's drift towards European strategic autonomy presents a challenge or a window of opportunity for its small member states to advance their security interests. The volume presents small states' perceptions of European strategic autonomy, highlighting their expectations and concerns. The chapters focus on the depth and breadth of European strategic autonomy, national security considerations, assessment of the impact on transatlantic relations, the expected outputs, and its potential impact on the EU's institutional structure. It also shows how systemic circumstances and the interests of powerful states, either belonging to the EU (France, Germany, and Poland) or having a significant say in European security architecture (the US), establish opportunities and constraints for the small states to shape European strategic autonomy. In particular, the study focuses on the diverging interests of the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, and the Netherlands. It demonstrates that, in most cases, European strategic autonomy is perceived not as an alternative to NATO but as a supplementary element that could facilitate the development of national military capabilities, indigenous defence industries and resilience to non-military threats. Ultimately, the book suggests that national approaches towards European strategic autonomy mainly stem from pragmatic national security and foreign policy considerations, while largely ignoring grand strategic ideas. This book will be of much interest to students of European politics, security studies, and international relations. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Foreigners in Their Own Country: Identity and Rejection in France by Lawrence M. Martin (Berghahn Books) Price verified 36 minutes ago

Based on in-depth interviews with people throughout France who trace their origins to non-European countries, Foreigners in Their Own Country reports on the experience of not being seen as "French" because of one's physical appearance. Paying close attention to how individuals speak about themselves and their feelings of acceptance or rejection, this book provides an intimate account of the challenges faced by the millions of people in France -- and throughout Western Europe -- who fully participate in the life of their country but are often not seen as belonging there.

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How To Save Jobs: Reinventing Business, Reinvigorating Work, and Reawakening the American Dream by David Gewirtz (4 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

A shocking and disturbing look into how changes worldwide have created enormous disruption in the very nature of jobs in America. Ideas, strategies, and innovative approaches for policy change that could make a real difference and help save and create jobs in America. Powerfully effective hands-on tips, techniques, and strategies that you personally can take to keep and create jobs, without waiting for politicians to get their act together.

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Diamonds and War: State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine by David De Vries (Berghahn Books) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

The mining of diamonds, their trading mechanisms, their financial institutions, and, not least, their cultural expressions as luxury items have engaged the work of historians, economists, social scientists, and international relations experts. Based on previously unexamined historical documents found in archives in Belgium, England, Israel, the Netherlands, and the United States, this book is the first in English to tell the story of the formation of one of the world's main strongholds of diamond production and trade in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s. The history of the diamond-cutting industry, characterized by a long-standing Jewish presence, is discussed as a social history embedded in the international political economy of its times; the genesis of the industry in Palestine is placed on a broad continuum within the geographic and economic dislocations of Dutch, Belgian, and German diamond-cutting centers. In providing a micro-historical and interdisciplinary perspective, the story of the diamond industry in Mandate Palestine proposes a more nuanced picture of the uncritical approach to the strict boundaries of ethnic-based occupational communities. This book unravels the Middle-eastern pattern of state intervention in the empowerment of private capital and recasts this craft culture's inseparability from international politics during a period of war and transformation of empire.

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An Accidental God: The Evolution of Religion, or How a Boy from the Dawn of Civilization Became the God of Jews, Christians, and Muslims by Aleron Zemplin (Double Triangle Press LLC) (87 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

An Accidental God tells how, through a series of accidents, a person who lived at the dawn of civilization became God. It is a fictionalized but historically plausible interpretation of the story of the biblical patriarch Abraham, focusing on how coincidental events and human misperceptions lead him to believe a particular ancestor, named Yehhi, is a powerful god. An earthquake shakes the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur; amid the devastation, Abraham sees that all the family idols have toppled over, all except for the statue of Yehhi, a revered ancestor. He is convinced that Yehhi has shown his power by remaining upright amid the collapse of the other gods, and he believes that this is Yehhi's call for his clan to abandon Ur. Abraham's young nephew Lot is swindled by a wily merchant into squandering the family fortune on a smelly herd of sheep and goats tended by slave boys, named Ishmael and Isaac. Abraham must now become a nomadic shepherd wandering in a strange wilderness. Ishmael, who was stolen from his family, secretly guides them back towards his home in Canaan. Along the way, events challenge Abram to think differently about his relationship with his god Yehhi. Abraham has been unable to conceive children due to a disease that he does not understand, so he develops a fatherly affinity for Ishmael and Isaac. Nevertheless, Abram becomes increasingly obsessed by his inability to produce children of his own. He bargains with his god Yehhi, and he seizes upon a local custom of genital mutilation to improve fertility. He engages in increasingly gory animal sacrifices and eventually resorts to human sacrifice.

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Mission AI: The New System Technology (Research for Policy) by Haroon Sheikh (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book offers a strategic perspective on AI and the process of embedding it in society. ?After decades of research, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now entering society at large. Due to its general purpose character, AI will change society in multiple, fundamental and unpredictable ways. Therefore, the Netherlands Scienti?c Council for Government Policy (WRR) characterizes AI as a system technology: a rare type of technologies that have a systemic impact on society. Earlier system technologies include electricity, the combustion engine and the computer. The history of these technologies provides us with useful insights about what it takes to direct the introduction of AI in society. The WRR identifies five key tasks to structurally work on this process: demystification, contextualisation, engagement, regulation and positioning. By clarifying what AI is (demystification), creating a functional ecosystem (contextualisation), involving diverse stakeholders (engagement), developing directive frameworks (regulation) and engaging internationally (positioning), societies can meaningfully influence how AI settles. Collectively, these activities steer the process of co-development between technology and society, and each representing a different path to safeguard public values. Mission AI - The New System Technology was originally published as an advisory report for the government of the Netherlands. The strategic analysis and the outlined recommendations are, however, relevant to every government and organization that aims to take up 'misson AI' and embed this newest system technology in our world.

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A Treasury of Eskimo Tales by Clara Kern Bayliss (8 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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The Concierge Class: How an unseen army of fixers is undermining democracy on behalf of corporations and the rich. And what we can do about it. by Kit Sadgrove (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Every day, an unseen army is working to advance the aims of corporations and the rich. From accountants to trade associations, and from scientists to think tanks, the members of the concierge class serve their masters diligently, devising ways to help them evade taxes, change legislation, and sway public opinion. And the result is more profit for the rich, a widening of inequality, and a weakening of democracy. The Concierge Class is the first book to explain the inner workings of concierge capitalism. It shows how the affluent co-opt skilled professionals into hiding their cash, pushing their agenda, and whispering in the ears of politicians. The book reveals who is doing the wealthy's dirty work, how they do it, and the steps we can take to stop it.

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Work and Livelihoods: History, Ethnography and Models in Times of Crisis (Routledge Studies in Anthropology) by Susana Narotzky (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Work book prize 2017 This volume presents a global range of ethnographic case studies to explore the ways in which - in the context of the restructuring of industrial work, the ongoing financial crisis, and the surge in unemployment and precarious employment - local and global actors engage with complex social processes and devise ideological, political, and economic responses to them. It shows how the reorganization and re-signification of work, notably shifts in the perception and valorization of work, affect domestic and community arrangements and shape the conditions of life of workers and their families.

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Urban Living Lab for Local Regeneration: Beyond Participation in Large-scale Social Housing Estates (The Urban Book Series) by Nele Aernouts (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book provides an integrated overview of the challenges and resources of large-scale social housing estates in Europe and outlines possible interdisciplinary approaches and tools to promote their regeneration. It especially focuses on the tool of urban living labs, as promising in promoting new and more effective local governance and in including the different actors into the planning process. The book combines theory and practice, since it is the result of action-research conducted in different social housing estates all over Europe. Building on the results of the SoHoLab project (2017-2020), the book benefits from a multidisciplinary perspective, since the researchers involved belong to the fields of anthropology, urban planning, architecture, urban sociology. The project combined theoretical reflections with the installation and/or the consolidation of Urban Living Labs, run by universities, in large social housing estates in three European cities: Brussels, Milan and Paris.

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Chasing Greatness: On Russia's Discursive Interaction with the West over the Past Millennium (Configurations: Critical Studies Of World Politics) by Anatoly Reshetnikov (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Over the last two decades, it has become clear that Russia insists on its great power status, even at considerable cost. Chasing Greatness provides an interpretive explanation of the tacit rules that shape Russia's great power identity today. Anatoly Reshetnikov argues that this never-ending chase for greatness is a result of how Russia and its predecessors -- including the USSR, Russian Empire, Muscovy, and Kievan Rus' -- historically interacted with its neighbors to the east, the south, and particularly the west. By analyzing an extensive amount of original source material, including primary sources that have not been previously translated into English, he is able to reconstruct a millennial history of the Russian concepts that express political greatness. He also traces numerous encounters between Russia and the West, as well as Russia's troubled integration into the European society of states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to show how these concepts have affected Russia's interaction with international society. Despite its substantive historical depth, Chasing Greatness is not a book of history. Rather, it is a synthesizing social science work inspired by the continental tradition of the critical history of modernity. As such, the book is more about the present than about the past. Its main aim is to expose and explain the rich conceptual baggage behind Russia's unceasing great power rhetoric (domestic and international) and how this rhetoric drives the current international crises involving Russia.

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The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume I (of II) by Andrew Steinmetz (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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New Social Mobility: Second Generation Pioneers in Europe (IMISCOE Research Series) by Jens Schneider (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book comparatively analyses intergenerational social mobility in immigrant families in Europe. It is based on qualitative in-depth research into several hundred biographies and professional trajectories of young people with an immigrant working-class background, who made it into high-prestige professions. The biographies were collected and analysed by a consortium of researchers in nine European countries from Norway to Spain. Through these analyses, the book explores the possibilities of cross-country comparisons of how trajectories are related to different institutional arrangements at the national and local level. The analysis uncovers the interaction effects between structural/institutional settings and specific individual achievements and family backgrounds, and how these individuals responsed to and navigated successfully through sector-specific pathways into high-skilled professions, such as becoming a lawyer or a teacher. By this, it also explains why thesetrajectories of professional success and upward mobility have been so exceptional in the second generation of working-class origins, and it tells us a lot also about exclusion mechanisms that marked the school and professional careers of children of immigrants who went to school in the 1970s to 2000s in Europe - and still do.

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Social Policies and Institutional Reform in Post-COVID Cuba by Bert Hoffmann (1 Review)    Price verified 7 minutes ago

Die tiefe Wirtschaftskrise in Folge der Corona-Pandemie stellt Kubas Sozialismus vor eine ungeahnte Belastungsprobe. Die Regierung in Havanna hat eine grundlegende Reform von Wirtschaft, Institutionengefüge und Sozialsystem auf die Agenda gesetzt. Der Band vereint Beiträge führender internationaler Experten und von der Insel selbst, die aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven die Herausforderungen analysieren, vor denen Kuba heute steht.

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Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body (Cultural Front) by Lennard J. Davis (4 Reviews)    Price verified 47 minutes ago

With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the legal system, and global economies. Bending Over Backwards reexamines issues concerning the relationship between disability and normality in the light of postmodern theory and political activism. Davis takes up homosexuality, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the legal system, the history of science and medicine, eugenics, and genetics. Throughout, he maintains that disability is the prime category of postmodernity because it redefines the body in relation to concepts of normalcy, which underlie the very foundations of democracy and humanistic ideas about the body. Bending Over Backwards argues that disability can become the new prism through which postmodernity examines and defines itself, supplanting the categories of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.

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Equal Part 1: The Confrontation by W.J. Costello (30 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Janus is a lawman who enforces society's sacred law that every citizen must be Equal in every way. Physically. Mentally. Emotionally. But when Janus falls in love with a woman who broke that law he begins a transformative journey of self-discovery that makes him question the society in which he lives. Now he must choose between love and duty. Will he bring the woman to justice? Or will he join her and become a lawbreaker himself?

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Love the Least (A Lot) by Michael Spielman (46 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Abort73.com founder and director, Michael Spielman, explains why abortion-vulnerable children are as qualified to wear the "least of these" label as any victim class in the world. Whatever we fail to do in their defense, we fail to do for Christ.

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Judicial Governance and Democracy in Europe (SpringerBriefs in Law) by Pablo Castillo-Ortiz (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This is an Open Access book. Amid the growing debate about models of judicial governance and their relationship to democratic quality, this book offers a systematic and empirical study of this relationship. The book thereby contributes to filling in this gap for the European continent. Taking an interdisciplinary politics and law perspective, and combining empirical and theoretical considerations, the book addresses the important link between democracy and judicial governance. In particular, it provides for three interconnected contributions. First, the book provides for a comprehensive classification of European countries into different models of judicial governance. Second, the book analyses empirically the relationship between the design of judicial governance and the quality of democracy. Third, building on those findings, the book presents policy reflections for the reform and improvement of mechanisms for judicial governance in European countries. The book seeks to refine our knowledge about the relationship between judicial governance and democracy, making an important academic and social contribution. In an era in which many democracies backslide and deconsolidate, it assesses to what extent existing mechanisms for judicial governance have contributed to the stability and quality of democratic systems in which they are implemented. Furthermore, the book puts forward reflections to improve the role of organs for judicial governance in fostering the quality of democracy. Since the book introduces in an accessible form key concepts of Judicial Governance, it will be of interest for the general public as well as academics and students in the fields of Law and Political Science. The book also addresses policy makers, as based on our empirical knowledge about the interaction judicial governance and democracy it puts forward ideas for a design of judicial governance that is more capable of protecting democratic systems of government.

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Integrationism and the Self: Reflections on the Legal Personhood of Animals (Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory) by Christopher Hutton (Routledge) Price verified 3 hours ago

In recent years a set of challenging questions have arisen in relation to the status of animals; their treatment by human beings; their cognitive abilities; and the nature of their feelings, emotions, and capacity for suffering. This ground-breaking book draws from integrational semiology to investigate arguments around the rights of certain animals to be recognized as legal persons, thereby granting them many of the protections enjoyed by humans. In parallel with these debates, the question of the legal personality of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has moved to the forefront of legal debate, with entities such as robots, cyborgs, self-driving cars, and genetically engineered beings under consideration. Integrationism offers a framework within which the wider theoretical and practical issues can be understood. Law requires closure and categorical answers; integrationism is an open-ended form of inquiry that is seen as removed from particular controversies. This book argues that the two domains can be brought together in a challenging and productive synthesis. A much-needed resource to examine the heart of this fascinating debate and a must-read for anyone interested in semiology, linguistics, philosophy, ethics, and law. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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I Am Vietnamese by Huy Pham (11 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Think Pho Ga for the Vietnamese soul. This is an edgy collection of 70+ English short stories from Vietnamese people across the world about our struggles with cultural identity, failure, parents, expectations, and life itself. Contributing authors include best-sellers Madeline Truong, Andrew Pham, Andrew Lam, and MasterChef Christine Ha, and many talented amateurs. Author proceeds go to charity! Within these 300 pages, you will find 70+ English short stories of a Vietnamese generation full of optimism and angst. These edgy stories run the gamut from quirky parents, cultural confusion, child abuse, bi-cultural marriage, and sexuality. This book will make you laugh and cry. The Vietnamese living overseas are a special group of people. We are a people without a land. But, that doesn't mean we don't have a culture. Regardless of our varying grasps of the Vietnamese language and our cultural heritage, we are bounded by our struggles, our values, and our parents' quirkiness. In our hearts, if nowhere else, we are Vietnamese. The I Am Vietnamese anthology aims to inspire and connect those like us to provide a sense of community while we struggle on own personal journeys, and to remind to us that we are not alone. We share the same hardships -- overprotective parents, the inability to communicate, the struggle to incorporate western and eastern ideals, and the fear of disappointing others. As we read personal accounts of those like us, we feel inspired, connected, and like we belong. DISCLAIMER: Media content will be available only on restricted kindle devices/applications.

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All sciences. №9, 2023: International Scientific Journal by Aliyev Ibratjon Xatamovich (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

The international scientific journal "All Sciences", created at Electron Laboratory LLC and the Scientific School "Electron", us a scientific publication that published the latest scientific results in various fields of science and technology, which is also a collection of publications on the above topics by a board of authors and reviewed by the editorial Board (academic Council) of the Scientific School "Electron" and on the Ridero platform monthly.

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A caress for the soul: Love and Wisdom from the Guides to Manifest your own Essence (Stazione Celeste eBook Book 12) by Bruno Scattolin (8 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This book is a true caress for the soul. It is a book of spiritual messages which are the result of a friendship between a Man and his Divine aspect. It is an intimate and deep dialogue between two friends, friends always. What is Life? What is its aim and how can we live it at its best? What is freedom? Who is the Creator? What does it mean "to Be"? And Love? How can we allow this force to lead us? Beyond time and space, a Man and a Voice speak of life as seen from two different perspectives. These are old ideas and, somehow, also new. They are told with the fresh words of our time. As we listen to them our consciousness expands inspiring us to see a little more beyond, beyond the walls of our certainties, along the path leading to the true essence. This is where this book brings us, to the most intimate revelation of ourselves. And it does it with love, and yet it does it calling "a spade a spade", using a simple language, easy to understand. It is a book to keep nearby all the time, to read again and again. It will be like finding an old friend and meeting him will bring peace and joy to your heart. So, don't be surprised if, while reading it, you will feel a caress in your soul...

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Beyond Bars: A Path Forward from 50 Years of Mass Incarceration in the United States by Kristen M. Budd (Policy Press) Price verified 3 hours ago

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The year 2023 marks 50 years of mass incarceration in the United States. This timely volume highlights and addresses pressing social problems associated with the US's heavy reliance on mass imprisonment. In an atmosphere of charged political debate, including tough on crime rhetoric, the editors bring together scholars and experts in the criminal justice field to provide the most up-to-date science on mass incarceration and its ramifications on justice-impacted people and our communities. This book offers practical solutions for advocates, policy and lawmakers, and the wider public for addressing mass incarceration and its effects to create a more just, fair and safer society.

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The Theory of Everybody by Robert Fuller (21 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

The Theory of Everybody explores, in a variety of genres, the advent of robots that do everything we do as well or better. Jennifer and God on Mount Palomar is a conversation between a young astrophysicist and God--as He faces retirement. Genomes, Menomes, Wenomes: Neuroscience and Human Dignity traces the development of mechanistic models of the body and the mind. When Robots Reign: Getting Along with Robo Sapiens is an interview with one of humanity's new overlords, Robo Sapiens, who is more agreeable than we might expect. The Epic of Gilbert Mesh is a retelling of Gilgamesh.6 Reasons You Can't Win (and 3 Reasons You Can Anyway) is a "listicle" that enumerates the limitations of our concept of self and shows how reconceiving selfhood can change the game so everyone wins. Interstellar Wormhole Tweets (How to Dodge Extinction) imagines how more advanced beings might help us navigate the transition from a predatory to a dignitarian civilization. The Moral Arc of History explains why Martin Luther King, Jr. was right when he said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." A New Age of Enlightenment proposes a sequel to the 18th century Age of Enlightenment.

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Overcome Yourself: How to Be Human pt. 2 by Jacob Kilgore (10 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This second installment to the How to Be Human series includes insights that will help you to refine yourself even further. In order to help you overcome false efficiency, Jacob Kilgore has provided alphabetically ordered essays with insights gained from pushing off our primordial impulses to do no more than remain simple and survive. A must read for any who aim to put into the world the beauty that humans are capable of.

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Europeanization in Sweden: Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations (Studies on Civil Society Book 10) by Anna Meeuwisse (Berghahn Books) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Notwithstanding its many successes since 1945, the project of European integration currently faces major difficulties, from financial crises and mass immigration to the departure of the UK from the European Union. At the same time, these challenges have spurred civil society organizations within and across Europe, revealing a shared public sphere in which citizens can mobilize around refugee rights, opposition to austerity policies, and other issues. Europeanization in Sweden assembles new empirical research on how these processes have played out in one of the continent's wealthiest nations, providing insights into whether, and how, the "Swedish model" can guide European integration.

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2011 Global Hunger Index: The Challenge of Hunger: Taming Price Spikes and Excessive Food Price Volatility by Klaus von Grebmer (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

The Global Hunger Index is a comprehensive measure of hunger worldwide and by country and region. Although the proportion of hungry people around the world has declined since 1990, global hunger remains at a level characterized as "serious." Global Hunger Index scores vary greatly across regions and countries. This year's report gives special attention to the issue of food prices. In recent years, world food markets have been characterized by rising and more volatile prices that leave many poor people unable to pay for all the goods and services they need. Price increases can also lead poor people to shift to cheaper, less nutritious foods. Addressing the problem of food price spikes and excessive volatility requires action both to reduce volatility and to buffer the most vulnerable people from the worst effects of higher and more variable prices. By drawing attention to the countries and regions most severely affected by hunger, the Global Hunger Index, published by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe, aims to trigger action to reduce hunger.

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Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos: Building Collaboration for Action by Amelie G. Ramirez (Springer) Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book is a collection of articles based on presentations from the 2020 Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos conference that gives an overview of conference outcomes. The vision of the conference has been to unite researchers, scientists, physicians and other healthcare professionals, patient advocates, and students from across the world to discuss research advancements, identify gaps, and develop actionable goals to translate basic research findings into clinical best practices, effective community interventions, and professional training programs to decrease cancer risks and eliminate cancer disparities for Latinos. This conference comes at an especially important time when Latinos - the largest and youngest minority group in the U.S. - are expected to face a 142% rise in cancer cases in the coming years. Disparities continue to impact this population in critical areas: access to preventive and clinical care, changeable risk behaviors, quality of life, and mortality. Each chapter summarizes the presentation and includes current knowledge in the specific topic areas, identified gaps, and opportunities for future research. Topics explored include: • Applying an Exposome-Wide (ExWAS) Approach to Latino Cancer Disparities • Supportive Care Needs and Coping Strategies Used by Latino Men Cancer Survivors • Optimizing Engagement of the Latino Community in Cancer Research • Latino Population Growth and the Changing Demography of Cancer • Implementation Science to Enhance the Value of Cancer Research in Latinos • A Strength-Based Approach to Cancer Prevention in Latinxs • Overcoming Clinical Research Disparities by Advancing Inclusive Research Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos: Building Collaboration for Action will appeal to a wide readership due to its comprehensive coverage of topics ranging from basic science and community prevention research to clinical practice to policy. The book is an essential resource for ...

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The Logic of Causation by Avi Sion Price verified 7 hours ago

The Logic of Causation is a treatise of formal logic and of aetiology. It is an original and wide-ranging investigation of the definition of causation (deterministic causality) in all its forms, and of the deduction and induction of such forms. The work was carried out in three phases over a dozen years (1998-2010), each phase introducing more sophisticated methods than the previous to solve outstanding problems. This study was intended as part of a larger work on causal logic, which additionally treats volition and allied cause-effect relations (2004).

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