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Politics and sports: they're two of America's greatest passions. And George Allen-former U.S. Senator, former Virginia Governor, and son of the great NFL coach George Allen, Sr.-brings these two worlds together in his new book, What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports. Having spent his life with one foot in the sports arena and the other in the political arena, Allen brings his unique perspective and experiences to What Washington Can Learn...
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Klassisches Heldentum steht im Widerspruch zur Gleichheitsideologie.
Der klassische Held, also der, der für andere oder eine Idee die Schädigung seiner Gesundheit zumindest billigend in Kauf nimmt und den Tod einkalkuliert, ist für den hedonistischen Mainstream eine suspekte Figur. In der Gegenwart hat der klassische Held nichts mehr zu suchen, ein solcher Widerspruch zur Gleichheitsideologie kann nicht geduldet werden. Denn in dieser soll trotz...
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This inspiring memoir is about working for a more just, compassionate, and sustainable world, while cultivating the wisdom that supports and deepens this work. Everyone who is trying to make waves – to bring about needed social and institutional change – will enjoy this real-world guide to effectively navigating the currents to achieve success while also maintaining balance, compassion, and hope. Charles Halpern, one of America's most distinguished...
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Aquesta publicació reuneix les tesis defensades a la jornada celebrada al 2015 entre la Universitat de Valencia i el collectiu d'instituts d'estudis comarcals i municipals, centrada en un tema clau i d'actualitat com és l'anàlisi i debat al voltant dels resultats de les eleccions locals de 2015 i les seues repercussions territorials en l'escala local valenciana. El llibre recull les reflexions territorials dels instituts i docents participants...
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La hegemonía neoliberal que se impuso hasta la crisis financiera de 2008 es mucho más que políticas de austeridad, financierización de la economía a expensas de la economía productiva, gobierno de expertos y brecha cada vez mayor entre élites privilegiadas que toman las decisiones y una sociedad que sólo se despierta cuando ve afectada su capacidad de consumo. Esa hegemonía trajo consigo la posdemocracia, la indiferencia política, la sospecha...
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It's About Time.
America has been craving leadership-and at last a gun-slinging, mega-rock star, deer slayer, and patriot has stepped forward to provide it. Make way for Ted Nugent. Cocked, locked, and ready to rock, the Motor City Madman, the thinking man's Abraham Lincoln, has unleashed the ultimate high-octane political manifesto for the ages in Ted, White, and Blue-the most important patriotic statement since the Constitution. In Ted, White,...
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The Struggle for the Independence of Puerto Rico (La lucha por la independencia de Puerto Rico) is an essay on the history of Puerto Rico's attempts at liberation from colonial rule from Spain, in the 19th century, and from United States colonialism from 1898 to the present. Written in 1949, not only is it an outline for historians, but it is also an eyewitness account of Puerto Rican history that has been purposely excluded from the country's official...
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"La Lucha Por La Independencia de Puerto Rico" es un ensayo histórico de la historia de los intentos de liberación de Puerto Rico del dominio colonial de España, en el siglo XIX; del colonialismo estadounidense desde 1898 hasta la actualidad.
Este libro fue escrito en 1949, como un esquema para los historiadores. Pero lo que es más importante, es el relato de un testigo presencial de la historia de Puerto Rico que se ha mantenido fuera de los...
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Unified separatism is not at all a normal book. This book uses stories, metaphor, humor, anecdotes, and a little dystopian fiction to guide the reader into a new and constructive way of thinking about our political classifications, purposes, histories, visions and paradigms. It is a rough outline of a very large body of political ideas, both original and familiar. It describes a vision, and a possible architecture for implementing and supporting it....
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Écrit dans un style clair, accessible, cet ouvrage brosse le portrait des principaux mouvements sociaux actifs au Québec ainsi que de pratiques et de groupes émergents. Dans une perspective aussi bien historique que « cartographique », il propose un panorama complet de différents secteurs qui ont marqué le Québec contemporain – syndical, étudiant, féministe, de locataires, antiraciste, animaliste, communautaire, autochtone et environnemental,...
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Get the Summary of Sheri Fink's Five Days at Memorial in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Five Days at Memorial (2013) is a two-part investigation of the controversial events and decisions that took place at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina's landfall. The narrative recounts the harrowing days during which the hospital's staff, patients,...
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No era un fantasma lo que recorría la universidad durante 2017 y 2018; era algo mucho menos temible: dos ilustres efemérides rondaban sus aulas y pasillos. La primera era el centenario de la Revolución de Octubre; la segunda, los doscientos años del nacimiento de Marx. Si bien ninguno de estos acontecimientos tenía la importancia que habrían desatado hace algunas decenas de años atrás, de todas maneras requerían un alto en el camino.
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In Grace Canceled, popular talk radio host and political activist Dana Loesch confronts the Left's zero-tolerance, accept-no-apologies ethos with a powerful call for a return to core American principles of grace, redemption, justice, and empathy. Diving deep into recent cases where public and private figures were shamed, fired, or boycotted for social missteps, Loesch shows us how the politics of outrage is fueling the breakdown of the American community....
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El capitalismo financiero muestra su cara más despiadada: destruye la industria y condena a las clases trabajadoras a un estrés creciente y una salud menguante, a la segregación y la inseguridad social, mientras aumenta la deuda pública y resquebraja la vida comunitaria, alentando la competencia y el resentimiento. En medio de esta crisis global, muchas personas ya no creen en los partidos políticos y buscan nuevas opciones, sean de derecha o...
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El Cabildo Ciudadano es la primera aplicación y adaptación en Colombia de las Conferencias de Consenso, metodología participativa ampliamente usada en el mundo. La guía es resultado de la experiencia adquirida con la ejecución del proyecto "Prototipo de metodología de participación en política pública: conferencia ciudadana en eutanasia infantil (niños, niñas y adolescentes)" (2019-2020). Encontrará en esta guía los fundamentos teóricos,...
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Milt was instrumental in founding DSA's Atlanta chapter in 2006 and rooting it in the workplace and community struggles of poor and working class Atlantans, whether through anti-forclosure, anti-gentrification, or workplace struggles, using tactics from public education, to electoral organizing, to direct action. In his memoir, Milt details how the chapter's work contributed to the building of a vibrant progressive movement in Atlanta.
-Maria Svart,...
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The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is not mainly about politics, nor religion, nor even geo-politics. It is about pathology. The traumas of the 20th century have driven millions of intelligent, capable people into active psychological pathologies, which they experience as ideological realities. Some of the cult-like groups associated with Christian evangelicals and the national-religious settlers in Israel will settle for nothing less than an apocalyptic...
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More than sixty million people have been victims of genocide in the twentieth century alone, including recent casualties in Bosnia and Rwanda. Herbert Hirsch studies repetitions of large-scale human violence in order to ascertain why people in every historical epoch seem so willing to kill each other. He argues that the primal passions unleashed in the cause of genocide are tied to the manipulation of memory for political purposes. According to Hirsch,...
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What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should we interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In originalism: a quarter-century of debate, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who continue to shape the legal structure of our country.
This is a lively and fascinating discussion of an issue that has occupied the greatest legal minds in America, and one that continues to elicit strong reactions...
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