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Leon Trotsky and Victor Serge represent the great and tragic oppositional figures to Stalin's dictatorial grip on the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and 1930s. Written during this period, the letters exchanged between these two friends, published here in translation for the first time together with other material from both the Trotsky Archive at Harvard and the Serge Archive in Mexico, present a unique first-hand account of the alternatives and arguments...
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Quel est le rle, dans la Cité, des chercheurs, des intellectuels, des professeurs, des universitaires en général? Qui sont-ils et que font-ils exactement? Quel a été leur parcours intellectuel? La collection « Profession » répond à ces questions. Marcel Fournier est professeur titulaire au Département de sociologie de l'Université de Montréal. Spécialiste de l'histoire de la sociologie, il est l'auteur des biographies de Marcel Mauss...
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La Gran Política de Nietzsche busca reponer en su lugar a un autor capital del pensamiento contemporáneo y someter a crítica gran parte de las lecturas actuales que se hacen del mismo. Así como en la Segunda Guerra Mundial se buscó falsear a Friedrich Nietzsche para acercarlo al régimen nazi, en la posguerra se intentó rescatarlo en forma a-política como un supuesto autor humanista (Walter Kaufmann, Bernard Williams, Alexander Nehamas) y desde...
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Human Tissue Authority New Draft Code: Supporting Child Donors or Supporting Parents? by Lisa Cherkassky
The Underprivileged See No light in LASPO Act 2012 by Gina Heung
Jurisprudence and Structural Realism by Kevin Lee
Regulating MNCs and International Norms: Challenges in Focusing on a Human Rights Approach in Emerging Markets and Possible Alternatives by Samuel E. Ojogbo
Whole Life Orders in Hutchinson v UK: A Counter-Revolution,...
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Colleges organize many social clubs for anything. Here in this book, we will review how to organize a creativity club for your school and college. It is a place to explore inventing, creative thinking, and how to be creative in your own personal life. It is a club for fun, friends, and exploring your creative self.
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Get the Summary of Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How Far the Light Reaches" by Sabrina Imbler is a collection of personal essays that intertwine the author's experiences with broader environmental and societal themes. Imbler reflects on their youth, activism, and the transformation of landscapes, drawing parallels between their life and the adaptability of species...
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Legal Issues Journal (LIJ) publishes original research on all legal matters affecting justice, equality and other pressing issues for societies. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary work at the intersection of law and other disciplines, such as genetics, biosciences, philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, medicine, and business. The Journal publishes original papers, case comments, short reports, debates and book reviews. The Journal also provides...
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I seek to demonstrate that in the evolution and growth of science, the 'underdetermination thesis' of some prominent philosophers and scientists (like Quine, Kuhn, or Feyerabend), that there are always a large number or possibly an infinite number of theories to fit the data or explain empirical patterns, is false. The 'underdetermination thesis' has been debated by physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers for several centuries, and I seek to...
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"Unveiling the Secrets: The Truth About Genetically Modified Foods" is a comprehensive and insightful exploration into the world of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food supply. This book delves into the science, politics, and economics surrounding GMOs, aiming to provide a balanced and factual perspective on one of today's most contentious and misunderstood topics.The narrative begins by unpacking the science behind genetic modification,...
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Freire y Piaget en el siglo XXI: personalidad autónoma, praxis y educación es una nueva mirada sobre la construcción del conocimiento desde el sentimiento moral y la educación en el pensamiento y trabajo de dos grandes intelectuales.
El trabajo de Dongo-Montoya es un ensayo minucioso, de ágil lectura y, a su vez, especializado que se centra en la pedagogía activa y pedagogía problematizadora como un movimiento de transformación de la escuela...
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Beginning with Thoreau, nature writers not only have influenced our appreciation of the natural world but also have helped to preserve the American wilderness, from the Maine Woods to Yosemite and the Sierra. Writer and activist Paul Brooks presents narrative portraits of great literary naturalists, offering a 200-year history of the country's movement toward conservation. Profiles of leaders in the fight to protect the environment and safeguard
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Travel Tales: Toilet Stories is all about taking care of your daily business as best you can - doing your daily duty, so to speak… finding and using toilets and the like - in your travels. No matter where you are traveling to, no matter what you are doing, and no matter who you are when Nature calls, you had better answer.Talking about your bathroom needs is, indeed, one of the top ten daily topics discussed by fellow travelers among one another...
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Travel Tales: Pickpockets & Other Thieves is the next book in the True Travel Tales series of very scary travel stories of pickpocketing and theft in travel. If you are pickpocketed or robbed we hope you manage to escape in your travels with only minor consequences. This book is a collection of the fearful and potentially dangerous sorts of things that can and do happen to travelers on occasion, but mostly these will not happen to you. You'll read...
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From everyone's favorite TikTok oracle, Devrie Donalson (aka @devriebrynn), comes a hearty dose of her sometimes jaded, always funny, and surprisingly soulful wisdom. For fans of Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson and Everything's Trash, But It's Ok by Phoebe Robinson.
Through her TikTok videos, Devrie has chronicled only a small part of her journey as a single woman-leaving her unsatisfying life behind and flying to Scotland in pursuit of a version...
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Le territoire – parent, amant, esprit, mère, tante – a façonné le corps autochtone. Joshua Whitehead cartographie avec sensualité et joie
la relation entre corps et territoire, bouleversant les idées reçues sur l'identité autochtone, les traumatismes de l'histoire, la santé mentale et la guérison. Voyage intérieur, auto-enracinement, Joshua Whitehead creuse son corps et ses angoisses. Émerge une nouvelle narration o la perte et la souffrance...
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Get the Summary of Helen Macdonald's Vesper Flights in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Helen Macdonald's "Vesper Flights" is a collection of essays that weave together personal memories, reflections on nature, and observations of wildlife. Macdonald's childhood fascination with birds and their nests leads her to explore the concept of home and the interconnectedness of humans and nature. She delves into the history...
17) First Logic
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First Logic is an introductory text covering numerous topics in logic. This third edition includes expanded exercise sets for all chapters, updated examples, and extended discussion of concepts such as inductive reasoning, truth trees, and natural deduction. Chapter one presents some of the core concepts of logic, including validity, soundness, argument recognition, and the distinctions between deduction and induction. Chapter two outlines some of...
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What is stopping us from practicing our human future now?Beyond the old paradigm of false narratives and party politics, we walk in natural law of nature, culture, spirit.An empowering deep dive for free thinkers, righteous rebels, and awaking activists, Nowick Gray's essays from The New Agora (2020-21) paint visions of our creative sovereignty.
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Get the Summary of Dolly Alderton's Dear Dolly in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Dear Dolly" by Dolly Alderton is a collection of advice and reflections on various aspects of life, particularly focusing on relationships, self-esteem, and personal growth. Alderton shares her experiences as a tall woman in the dating world, discussing the challenges and insecurities that come with it, as well as the importance of...
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