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1) Terra
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"Terra" es una obra provocativa que desentraña con valentía las consecuencias devastadoras de las acciones humanas sobre el medio ambiente. A través de una narrativa corta y envolvente, el autor arroja luz sobre la explotación desenfrenada de los recursos naturales, la contaminación desmedida y el desdén por la biodiversidad. Desde los excesos industriales hasta la negligencia individual, cada página revela una crítica incisiva hacia una sociedad...
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"El Espejismo Americano" es un libro que explora las realidades y sueños entrelazados de ciudadanos americanos y latinoamericanos. A través de una narrativa profunda, reflexiona sobre las desventajas enfrentadas por ciudadanos americanos y las razones que motivan a los latinoamericanos a quedarse en sus países. Ofrece una mirada a la condición humana en su búsqueda de realización personal y colectiva. Este libro teje un tapiz complejo de desafíos...
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¿Cambió nuestra vida el internet? ¿Nos cambió a nosotros? ¿Emparejó el terreno en cuanto a la desigualdad social, o surgieron nuevos privilegios? ¿Fortaleció, enriqueció o cuestionó nuestro sentido de comunidad? ¿Creó nuevas formas de identidad? ¿Nos permite ser mejores?
El internet hoy está -o es- incorporado, personificado y cotidiano, y en su horizonte promete: computadoras portátiles de vestir; internet móvil a más gente y en...
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"La Sombra de la Educación" es un análisis profundo y revelador sobre las deficiencias en el sistema educativo latinoamericano. Desde la falta de recursos hasta las disparidades en la calidad de la enseñanza, el libro explora las raíces de estos problemas y propone soluciones innovadoras para impulsar un cambio significativo en la educación de la región. Con una mirada crítica y esperanzadora, esta obra desentraña los desafíos que enfrenta...
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Through relentless propaganda, cataclysmic climate change is indoctrinated into society. But the real threat to humanity is the powerful people who are pushing this message. UN Agenda 21, executed by the World Economic Forum's 'Great Reset', is building a global technocracy. Total control of population and resources is the end, the means justified by 'saving the planet'. By stealth, digital technology is enslaving the masses, who are lured by convenience,...
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The book "VAGABONDS IN POWER" by Sir Dr. Jolly Chi Nwagbo discusses a wide array of topics, including corruption, China's influence in Africa, racism, and the Muslim presence in Britain. The author highlights the pervasiveness of corruption in Nigeria, emphasizing its detrimental impact on the country's development and society. The document examines China's role in Africa, portraying it as a neocolonial power that exploits economically weak countries...
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Things You Didn't Learn in School aims to give the reader insight and understanding about recessions, depressions and panics that have occurred in the history of the United States of America. What factors cause economic recessions and depressions? How rare are they, and should we be scared that there are more to come? These are things history teachers and even the news do not tell you. This book provides that missing information into the causes, effects...
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Los Residentes de la Urbe" es un libro que explora las complejidades de la falta de vivienda y el vagabundeo en las grandes ciudades. A través de una narrativa social y política envolvente, el libro revela las historias de aquellos que luchan por sobrevivir en las calles, enfrentando la adversidad con coraje y esperanza. Desde las bulliciosas metrópolis hasta los rincones más olvidados de la sociedad, esta obra nos sumerge en un viaje emocional...
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Nightfall ushers in its own set of terrors. With every external light ablaze until dawn, I find solace in the illusion of visibility. But every creak, every rustle throws me into high alert, compelling me to scour the house for signs of the looming threat. The dining room becomes my vantage point, a silent sentinel observing the outdoors from three angles. The very shadows that were once familiar now become menacing.
Surprisingly, I find myself longing...
10) The Way We Are
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If you're feeling lost, unappreciated, or like you should have accomplished more in life, take a step back and appreciate yourself for the way you are. That's the overriding message in this book by Robert Paul Gwynne, who was a certified public accountant for many years, an occult student for some fewer years, a Reiki practitioner, friend to others, a father to three, and stepfather to another three. While he's navigated many turns and curves throughout...
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Essays in International Relations I and II are two volumes that cover the following essays or books:Volume IFortifying the Borders: Effective Strategies for Home SecurityGeopolitics in the 21st Century: A Scholar's PerspectiveLessons from COVID-19: International Cooperation in Global PandemicsChina's Economic Miracle: The Rise of a Global PowerThe Humanitarian and Political Dimensions of the Refugee Crisis: A Scholarly AnalysisGlobal Cybersecurity...
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Dans les pages de l'histoire, dans les anciennes terres de l'Asie occidentale, se trouve le lieu de naissance de la civilisation - l'Ancien Monde. S'étendant des rives de la mer Méditerranée aux vastes étendues de la mer Jaune, cette région a été témoin de la montée et de la chute des empires, du flux et du retrait des dynasties et du brassage des cultures et des civilisations.Dans « L'Ancien Monde et les cinq mers », nous voyageons à...
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In today's fast-paced environment, the speed at which communication travels and the resounding calls for police accountability demonstrate a need for purposeful communications embedded in a strategic mindset. When done right, strategic communication can increase transparency, build trust, and encourage active community participation. Chief Cook has distilled over thirty years of experience into timely lessons filled with practical solutions you can...
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The Ten Things You Can't Say in America struck a chord with eager readers across the country, exposing truths others have been too afraid to address. In his new book, Elder is out to slay entrenched and enmeshed special interest groups, government agencies with the capacity to meddle in Americans' lives and businesses, lawmakers who continue a pattern of outrageous overtaxation, and those who would hamstring this country with good intentions.
Showdown...
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Replace #2 proposes the Newtown Amendment, a replacement for the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. The book traces the origin of the gun culture in America and its connection to racism. Whites used guns to uphold slavery and expand the country. Replace #2 describes the growing obsession of America with guns in the nineteenth century. When modern America developed in the twentieth century, guns continued to play an important role...
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One issue could lead to a disastrous war between the United States and China: Taiwan. A growing number of Taiwanese want independence for their island and regard mainland China as an alien nation. Mainland Chinese consider Taiwan a province that was stolen from China more than a century ago, and their patience about getting it back is wearing thin. Washington officially endorses a "one China" policy but also sells arms to Taiwan and maintains an implicit...
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If you thought The Manchurian Candidate was fiction or John Farris's The Fury, which featured a CIA mind-control program run amok, was the stuff of an overheated imagination, you were sorely mistaken.
From behind the cloak of U.S. military secrecy comes the story of Star Gate, the project that for nearly a quarter of a century trained soldiers and civilian spies in extra-sensory perception (ESP). Their objective: To search out the secrets of America's...
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An urgent and essential assessment of the global contest between the US and China, and how looking to history will help us to navigate it, from former Director of Chatham House
"An illuminating book for the interested citizen as well as for those making policy" - Hillary Rodham Clinton
We have entered a new Cold War. The contest between America and China is global and unbridgeable, and it encompasses all major instruments of statecraft - economic,...
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The idea of an Almanac came to me in a cemetery. I was getting ready to bury William Gordon Wells, my church administrator. Gordon was unique and reminded me of Will Rogers or W.C. Fields. He was an avid turkey hunter, and he said there are five species of turkeys, and he'd gotten everyone of them. Now he was not a lawyer nor a prophet, but toward the end he sounded like one, as he told me: "I made a mistake, there are six species of turkeys; I forgot...
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For the better part of the last half century, the United States has been the World's Police, claiming to defend ideologies, allies, and our national security through brute force. But is military action always the most appropriate response? Drawing on his vast experience, from combat in Vietnam to peacekeeping in Somalia, to war games in Washington, DC and negotiations with former rebels in the Philippines, retired four-star General Tony Zinni argues...
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