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#1 Acton's view of history as a morality tale in which liberty and truth unfold over time was unfashionable during his lifetime. It was only during the Second World War that his unyielding moral outlook came into its own and was seen as a prophetic warning against totalitarianism.
#2 Acton, like de Tocqueville, believes that history is the progress of increasing freedom....
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#1 The author's wife, Carol, was a sales representative who had been thinking about going back to work. She had earned extra money working in a bank at the beginning of their marriage, and the money helped furnish their honeymoon apartment. By mutual agreement, she stopped working when Julie was born.
#2 The couple was able to save up enough money to buy a boat...
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#1 Africa is a beautiful place, but it is also a dangerous one. The night is when the animals come out to play, and the locals rely on the night guards to keep them safe.
#2 The askari was guarding the boma, which was nestled under a large acacia tree a few hundred feet from the living quarters where Mother and Father were entertaining. The surrounding bush fell into...
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#1 The Way of Men is about being a man within a group of men. It is about what men want from each other, and it has always been about that. Men have always wanted to be accepted by other men, and The Way of Men is about that.
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This book deals with protected area-people interface in Bori Wildife Sanctuary and Melghat Tiger Reserve located in Satpura range of Central Indian Highlands. These forests are mostly inhabited by Gond, Korku, and Thatia tribes, a small population of agro-pastoral community and other backward classes, which have moved into these forests from adjoining areas in search of pastures for their large herds of livestock. Bori in northern Sutpura has moist...
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Esta investigación trata sobre la evolución de la pobreza y la desigualdad social en el marco territorial del Estado de Ceará (Brasil). Se inscribe en el contexto de una de las temáticas más estudiadas y debatidas en Ceará, el Brasil y en todo el mundo, tanto desde el punto de vista académico como en lo que se refiere a la implementación de políticas públicas de superación de la pobreza y la desigualdad.
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#1 The Senate chamber is not the most beautiful space in the Capitol, but it is imposing nonetheless. The dun-colored walls are set off by panels of blue damask and columns of finely veined marble. Overhead, the ceiling forms a creamy white oval with an American eagle etched in its center.
#2 I remember January 4, 2005, the day I and a third of the Senate were sworn...
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Dans les 25 dernières années, la croissance de la précarité d'emploi s'est accentuée du Nord au Sud à un tel point que le travail n'est plus un rempart contre la pauvreté, mais constitue bien souvent le chemin qui y conduit. Si les marchés du travail et de l'emploi se sont profondément transformés, l'action publique a aussi joué un rle ambivalent : d'un cté elle a facilité la précarisation de l'emploi en y adaptant les modes de régulation...
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#1 It was terrifying when Trump's followers began chanting Lock her up about a woman who ran for president, and it's just as terrifying to think of what they would do to a woman who tries to run for president again.
#2 Pauli Murray was the most important woman lawyer in American history. She was a trailblazer, an iconoclast, and an expert in constitutional law.
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#1 I was the US chief of protocol for the 2012 G20 global economic summit in Los Cabos, Mexico. I was tasked with making sure that every interaction between the presidents went exactly as planned. I was preoccupied with policy details and protocol checklists, but I was also nervous because this was diplomacy at its most intense.
#2 I loved arranging the room, and I...
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#1 The author Kurt Vonnegut wrote a book in 1952 called Player Piano, which described a future where production was almost entirely carried out by machines, and where everyone was essentially superfluous from an economic perspective. But the society was rich enough to provide a comfortable life for all of them.
#2 To imagine a totally postscarcity world as a utopia,...
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#1 The struggle many black women face is to figure out which way is up in a crooked room full of warped images of their humanity. Some black women tilt and bend themselves to fit the distortion.
#2 The play, For Colored Girls, was first produced Off-Broadway in 1975. It has sold more than a hundred thousand copies. It is a definitive artistic, visual, and poetic representation...
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#1 The birthplace of agriculture and the cities that followed, America is ancient, not a new world. The same human societies began domesticating animals in the American continents, while in Africa and Asia, animal husbandry was avoided in favor of game management.
#2 Indigenous American agriculture was based on corn, which was a sacred gift from their gods. It could not have grown...
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Originally published in pamphlet form, Martineau created a series which intended to teach readers the principles of political economy by means of fictional illustrative stories set in a variety of social communities. This particular volume contains the tale "For Each and For All," about the new wife of Lord F-, discussing social class, labor, capital, supply and demand, among other economic principles along the way.
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The story of a fish
Imagine a fish swimming in a small aquarium. Get the fish out, put it on the bottom. As the fish gasps for air, as well as, jumping around, you think, "It's funny how the fish behaves". The fish makes even bigger leaps, snaps even more energetically. They say, "There is something wrong with him." The fish is moving even more noticeably! You decide, "He has behavioral disorders, he needs therapy."
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The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn: intended as an appendix to "Observations on the corn laws" by Thomas Robert Malthus
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#1 The word quantum is evocative, bewildering, and fascinating. It is a testament to the success of science, but it is also a symbol of the limited scope of human intuition as we struggle with the inescapable strangeness of the subatomic domain.
#2 The world around us is made up of atoms, and the more we understand about the elemental nature of the world, the simpler...
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#1 The choice between World A, where you earn $110,000 a year and everyone else earns $200,000, and World B, where you earn $100,000 and everyone else earns $85,000, is difficult for many Americans to decide.
#2 In the housing market, as in the automobile market, top earners have initiated a process that leads to increased expenditures on down the line, even those...
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Get the Summary of Thomas Sowell's Social Justice Fallacies in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and disagree...
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