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Book Preview: #1 Uncle Vili was a proud Italian who had served in the Italian army during World War I. He was always bragging about his service, and he took credit for everything, down to the unforeseen brilliance of his most hapless schemes.
#2 Uncle Vili knew how to convey that intangible though unmistakable feeling that he had lineage, which came with the suggestion of wealth....
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#1 Capitalism has had an extraordinary run in the United States, and it is responsible for catapulting Britain's former colony to its status as a global economic, political, and cultural superpower. However, the costs of the journey were huge and widely distributed, and the gains were also huge but less widely distributed.
#2 The two key dimensions of capitalism are...
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#1 The arrival of LAN-Chile Airlines flight 142 from Santiago was announced. Minutes later, a tall, fair-haired man in his thirties handed his passport to a U. S. Immigration official. The immigration official matched the traveler's name with a listing in the lookout book, and arrested him.
#2 The traveler, who was actually named Michael Townley, met with Captain...
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#1 The complexity of oral traditions has been recognized only recently. Indigenous cultures were seen as intellectually inferior and primitive, but they were actually very complex and advanced. They memorized a great deal of information and used it to navigate their environment.
#2 The need to know the animals and plants that live in a specific area is common among Indigenous...
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#1 We Love Our Country was translated by women at a feminist gathering in Copenhagen. The reading generated a discussion on the effects of the domestication of the witch and the concealment of the extermination of thousands of women in European history and culture.
#2 The sixteenth and seventeenth-century witch hunts serve as a reminder that capitalist development was...
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#1 The Poetry Foundation, a prestigious literary organization, was called out for not doing enough to uplift the Black community. They responded by saying they would resign their president and board chairman, and that they were committed to uplifting Black people.
#2 The Republican Party engaged in sanctimonious judgmentalism and moral preening, and it was right-wing...
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#1 The goal of burlesque parties is to look fuckable. At such parties, students are often completely shitfaced.
#2 The first step in hooking up is to get shitfaced. Party-oriented students believe that drinking enhances their experience. They believe that alcohol improves their personality, and that getting drunk brings out their intoxicated self, which is freer and...
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Get the Summary of David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant...
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Buried beneath today's Midwestern towns, under several layers of earth and the accumulated debris of two thousand years, are the clues to an ancient mystery. A Native American people, now known as the Hopewell, lived and worked these lands, building earthworks which in some instances dwarf the ruins at Stonehenge. More significantly, these mammoth earthworks were built in different geometric shapes, using a standard unit of measure and aligned to...
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#1 Minnesota's Early Childhood Family Education program is extremely popular and unique to the state. It allows parents to leave their kids with professionals for 60 blissful minutes, when they become grown-ups again.
#2 Parenthood is the least happy period of adult life, according to studies. The autonomy that parents once took for granted has deserted them, and they...
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#1 The term hate speech is used to describe a wide variety of controversial speech. It is typically used to condemn and silence expressions that the attackers dislike and want to suppress.
#2 Despite the varying definitions that have been adopted in hate speech laws, they all share two fundamental First Amendment flaws: they violate the cardinal viewpoint neutrality...
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Get the Summary of Michelle MiJung Kim's The Wake Up in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: As we become more aware of various social injustices in the world, many of us want to be part of the movement toward positive change. But sometimes, our best intentions cause unintended harm, and we fumble. We might feel afraid to say the wrong thing and feel guilt for not doing or knowing enough....
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#1 Environmental justice did not become common vernacular until the early 1980s, but it has been around since the 1960s. In 1982, when a landfill was proposed in Warren County, North Carolina, to accept PCBs, a highly toxic by-product of the chemical industry, it sparked a massive protest.
#2 As the EJ movement grew, so did the research. However, the predominant...
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Este libro está dirigido fundamentalmente a aquellas personas
que por distintas razones se han visto involucradas en procesos de
cambio, ya sea como parte de sus labores profesionales, académicas
o investigativas. Es una invitación a reflexionar sobre las
distintas concepciones de cómo se produce lo social, ya que estas
concepciones, sin duda alguna, influyen en las formas de
vinculación, así como en las estrategias y prácticas concretas
que...
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#1 Trump, despite being unschooled in genetic mutation and viral transmission, still decided that the COVID-19 virus was not a big deal. As a result, America took totally inadequate protective measures, and became widely infected with the virus.
#2 The first known victim of the coronavirus was a Chicago woman who had traveled to Wuhan and become ill after returning...
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#1 The United States has a very small elite that controls an increasing share of the economy, and a large and increasing bottom that has almost no resources. The three richest Americans are worth more than the bottom half of the US population combined.
#2 The sources of America's wealth are the productivity, creativity, and vitality of its people, the advances of science...
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El rastreo de terror que presenta esta investigación solo puede servir de alerta para comprender por qué hay puntos a los que una sociedad no puede permitirse llegar.
Y lo que se pretende es demostrar que el compromiso de cada persona, adulto, educador y gobernante es educar a las nuevas generaciones en la contención de la ambición, porque la ambición tiene que tener límites.
El antioqueño, tan proclive al dinero, tiene que erradicar de su...
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#1 Hillary Clinton was very familiar with the perks and pitfalls of being a political superstar. For more than a decade, she had been in the spotlight, and in the process, came detested and beloved.
#2 In the White House, Clinton had been a polarizing figure from the start. Yet, she became a more resonant figure after the Lewinsky scandal. Her decision to run for the...
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Ce livre met en récit les histoires orales de travailleuses et travailleurs sociaux ayant travaillé dans tous les domaines de la discipline depuis les années 1950 au Québec. Certains témoins sont des personnes très connues du grand public, d'autres sont connues de la grande famille du travail social québécois, et d'autres encore ont fait une carrière loin des feux de la rampe. Mais tous peuvent témoigner de l'évolution de la discipline...
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