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The 'stache is back! After decades of being much maligned in Western culture, the mustache is enjoying a cultural renaissance, thanks to the annual phenomenon of Movember (the international campaign in which men grow facial hair during the month of November to raise funds for prostate cancer research; in 2011, 1. 8 million men in fourteen countries participated), and the retro/modern mo's sported by the likes of Ryan Gosling, Ashton Kutcher, and James...
16382) Le Louvre
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Que nous apprennent les œuvres d'art de leur époque de création? Que nous apprennent-elles des interactions entre les hommes, des groupes sociaux?
Le Conseil de l'Europe est un acteur clé du combat pour le respect des droits et l'égalité de traitement des Roms et des Gens du voyage. À ce titre, il met en œuvre différentes actions visant à lutter contre la discrimination, à faciliter l'accès des Roms et des Gens du voyage aux services publics...
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A powerful examination of soulful journeys made to recover memory and recuperate stolen pasts in the face of unspeakable histories.
Survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 took refuge across the globe. Traumatized by unspeakable brutalities, the idea of returning to their homeland was unthinkable. But decades later, some children and grandchildren felt compelled to travel back, having heard stories of family wholeness in beloved homes and of cherished...
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Energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting technologies and designs can cut energy costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Asian Development Bank, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Indonesia, and the country's state-owned electric utility have collaborated on the implementation of a pilot LED retrofit project. This report describes the applied methodologies, measured results, and lessons learned from the project,...
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"Winner of the 2005 Cultural Studies Award, The Association for Asian American Studies" "Honorable Mention for the 2006 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005" Colleen Lye is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an editorial board member of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies and Representations.
What explains the perception of Asians both as economic exemplars...
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The must-read summary of Ann Coulter's book: "How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter".
This complete summary of "How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)" by Ann Coulter, a controversial conservative social and political commentator, provides the reader with Coulter's beliefs as to how liberals have "got it all wrong". Her scathing and blatant observations on subjects ranging from the Democratic Party to 9/11 and...
16387) Remaking Virginia Politics
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In this political history, go behind the scenes with never-before-reported stories of intrigue from some of the most colorful characters in Virginia politics. The story unfolds over the last half century, from Henry Howell's legendary gubernatorial run in the 1970s through Governor Youngkin's upset 2021 victory. Along the way, see how visionaries challenged Virginia to overcome its legacy of segregation and how that history still affects our destiny...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la Résistance durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale en moins d'une heure!
Le 1er septembre 1939, l'Allemagne envahit la Pologne, déclenchant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Loin de s'arrêter là, la Wehrmacht continue son avancée à travers l'Europe et se rend maître de nombreux pays européens. La population y est presque asservie et doit se résoudre à respecter de très nombreux règlements sous peine...
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From 1894 to 1934, a span of forty years that saw its parent company go from coal mining to oil drilling, the Texas Pacific Mercantile and Manufacturing Company operated and managed the various commercial and service enterprises essential to life in Thurber, Texas.
Thurber was a company town, wholly owned by the Texas and Pacific Coal Company, and the inhabitants viewed the "company store" with suspicion before and after unionization in 1903, believing...
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"Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize, Lionel Gelber Foundation" "Winner of the Juan Linz Best Book Prize, Democracy & Autocracy section of the American Political Science Association" "A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Steven Levitsky is the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies, professor of government, and director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. His books include...
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This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and poverty-is the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency? Drawing on experience of poor people all over the world, the author gives voice to those whose views are rarely sought and shows how we all need to live more modestly to make poverty history.
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In Harrier Boys, Volume One: Cold War Through the Falklands, 1969-1990, Robert Marston, who flew Harriers for many years, draws together accounts from others who worked with this unique jet through its history. The excitement, camaraderie and pride of Harrier operators shine through in the personal stories of those whose lives were changed by their experience of this iconic aircraft, both on land and at sea. In this first volume, events of the Cold...
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Este libro resume de una manera excepcional más de un siglo de desarrollo del movimiento obrero revolucionario mundial. Pese a que han pasado varios años desde que vio la luz por primera vez, su lectura y estudio siguen siendo de una utilidad extraordinaria para la formación de las nuevas generaciones de socialistas revolucionarios.
Los autores analizan la historia, las experiencias y las lecciones de la lucha de clases a partir de los avances...
16394) The Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia's New York
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For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings-portending Black "thugs" throwing rocks at police and plundering private property-to undermine complaints of police violence. Liberal mayors like Fiorello H. La Guardia have often been the deftest practitioners of this strategy. As the Depression and wartime conditions spurred youth crime, white New Yorkers'...
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War Ukraine and Russia invasion, Refugees crises, Humanitarian crises, When deciding to engage in conflicts, This pre-existing crisis was not taken into account at the time It got worse, It just got more complicated, This is not taking into account the existence of a refugee crisis. Can you imagine that the number of refugees has doubled exponentially in a few days. The gains from this were putting countries in a dilemma and putting pressure on them....
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Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease, once thought to be near-eliminated, affects miners at rates never before recorded.
Digging Our Own Graves sets this epidemic in the context of the brutal assault, begun in the 1980s and continued since, on the United Mine Workers of America and the collective power of rank-and-file coal miners in the heart of the Appalachian...
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The must-read summary of Richard J. Elkus, Jr.'s book: "Winner Take All: How Competitiveness Shapes the Fate of Nations".
This complete summary of "Winner Take All" by Richard J. Elkus, Jr., a prominent business expert, presents his argument that over the last 30 years America has become the world's largest debtor nation. Therefore he highlights how to be competitive and recover the successful thinking this nation had in the past.
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War Trials tells the gripping and in-depth true story of a British soldier's role in the drowning of an Iraqi teenager in May 2003, the devastating investigation and resulting court martial. This narrative non-fiction tracks the soldier's life from a tight-knit broken family home in Merseyside through deadly urban conflict in the Middle East, to a different battle fought against PTSD while he awaited a military tribunal back in the UK. The military...
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Do cities work anymore? How did they get to be such sprawling conglomerations of lookalike subdivisions, mega freeways, and "big box" superstores surrounded by acres of parking lots? And why, most of all, don't they feel like real communities? These are the questions that Alex Marshall tackles in this hard-hitting, highly readable look at what makes cities work.
Marshall argues that urban life has broken down because of our basic ignorance of the...
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