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They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers. The empire's most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges. Their public rituals drew dense crowds from Montreal to Madras. The Ancient Free and Accepted Masons were quintessential builders of empire, argues Jessica Harland-Jacobs. In this first study of the relationship between Freemasonry and British imperialism, Harland-Jacobs takes readers on a journey across...
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Let your Shoes take you on a journey. Through universal experiences, and the many Shoes that you put on over the course of time, the passion and excitement for living life reveals itself! The challenges of growing up, trusting yourself, and being a witness to the world outside of your home, will teach invaluable lessons of equality, fairness, and acceptance found through our differences. Proving that despite the places and faces, we are more connected...
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The complex relationship between violence and nonviolence in social movements. We are living in a time of uprisings that routinely involve physical confrontation-burning vehicles, barricades, vandalism, and scuffles between protesters and authorities. Yet the Left has struggled to incorporate rioting into theories of change, remaining stuck in recurring debates over violence and nonviolence. Civil resistance studies have popularized the term "strategic...
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124 questions-réponses que l'on se pose au quotidien sur nos relations avec les autres
"Mon regard, certes, ne prétend absolument pas arriver au niveau de la recherche sociologique. Mais c'est ma passion pour l'être humain dans tous ses états qui est à l'origine de mon intérêt pour ces questions de vie sociale, et ma démarche n'est pas loin de celle qui m'a, naguère, amenée à écrire quelques romans.
Car le savoir-vivre est loin de...
13665) Counselors
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Counselors are careful listeners! They use this skill to ask questions, set goals, and help people improve their lives. In this title for young readers, low-level text and bright photos combine to introduce the important work of counselors both in schools and in other settings. Special features highlight the gear and skills of successful counselors, and a picture glossary illustrates important terms.
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El objetivo de Derechos de la infancia y educación inclusiva en América Latina es aportar una herramienta útil no sólo para abordar teóricamente esta temática, sino también para ayudar a comprender las prácticas educativas. En América Latina la educación está en el primer plano de las políticas públicas, razón por la cual las aportaciones que se hacen en este libro pueden ayudar a esclarecer los debates, siempre desde la perspectiva...
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A case study of why Third World countries are still poor, the premise of this book is that while some progress has been made in transforming the political economy of Ecuador, certain behaviors, beliefs and attitudes have kept the country from developing in ways that otherwise would have been possible. As the author asserts, for almost five centuries the cultural habits of Ecuadorian citizens have constituted a stumbling block for individual economic...
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Journalist and poker fanatic Andy Bellin takes readers on a raucous journey into the shut-up-and-deal world of professional poker. From basement games to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, you'll look over his shoulder as he learns to count cards, read a legendary player's body language, hang in there when the chips are down, and take his beatings like a man. Even if you don't know the difference between a flop and a river card, Bellin keeps...
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The snow flurries and Christmas carols in the air were a sure sign that Christmas was just around the corner! But those weren't the things Christian was so excited about. To him, they signaled that Grandpa would soon be getting out his special Christmas cane! Christian would never have a Christmas like this...
Starting from when he was just knee-high to a grasshopper, little Christian had always wondered why Grandpa's Christmas cane was so special,...
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"Almond draws on everything from The Grapes of Wrath to the voting practices of his babysitter to dismantle the false narratives about American democracy." -Cheryl Strayed, international-bestselling author of Wild
Like a lot of Americans, Steve Almond spent the weeks after the 2016 election lying awake, in a state of dread and bewilderment. The problem wasn't just the election, but the fact that nobody could explain, in any sort of coherent way,...
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This unique critical sociolinguistic ethnography explores alternative migrant-regulated institutions of resistance and subversive communication technology: the locutorios or ethnic call shops. These migrant-owned businesses act as a window into their multimodal and hybrid linguistic and communicative practices, and into their own linguistic hierarchies and non-mainstream sociolinguistic orders. Here, socially displaced but technologically empowered...
13672) From AmeriCon to AmeriCan
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From AmeriCon to AmeriCan is a non-fictional account that exposes the con that have convinced Americans for centuries that those who born with White skin are racially superior to those with Black and Brown skin; a con indoctrinated strategically and propagated for centuries through the media, schools, families, religion, politicians, literature, and other institutions in American society. This malicious con of White supremacy became viral, metastasizing...
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Cuts through the mass confusion surrounding abortion and lays out solid common ground
The abortion debate in the United States is confused. Ratings-driven media coverage highlights extreme views and creates the illusion that we are stuck in a hopeless stalemate. In this book Charles Camosy argues that our polarized public discourse hides the fact that most Americans actually agree on the major issues at stake in abortion morality and law.
Unpacking...
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S'il y a toujours eu des mensonges dans le discours public, ceux-ci occupent aujourd'hui un nouvel espace, notamment à la faveur des réseaux sociaux. La volonté de contrler les outils l'emporte de plus en plus sur une réflexion de fond quant à l'effacement des frontières qui séparent le mensonge de la vérité. On tend à organiser la surveillance d'internet au risque de réduire les libertés de tous, alors qu'il faudrait rechercher les racines...
13675) All Together Healthy
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Never before have individuals faced so much conflicting information about how to be healthy: a constant rotation of fad diets, extreme workout regimens and celebrity-endorsed supplements are regularly hyped as the latest cure for all modern ills. We also maintain a massive health care system that absorbs a steadily growing share of public spending. As health has increasingly come to occupy a prominent role in our lives and headlines, however, we've...
13676) Liberating the Enclave
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One of the unfortunate by-products of our current approach to diversity has been the creation of an enclave society. Since the benefits of diversity are apportioned by group identity, diversity encourages us to find our own group and then "stick with our own kind." The result is inter-group rivalry and a deeply-divided society, one based on separate enclaves of identity that rarely if ever interact. If diversity is supposed to provide a way for us...
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There can be no doubt that discrimination based on sex, race, ethnicity, religion or beliefs should not be tolerated in academia. Surprisingly, however, in recent years, policies of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE), officially introduced to counteract discrimination, have increasingly led to quite the opposite result: the exclusion of individuals who do not share a radical 'woke' ideology on identity politics (feminism, other gender activisms,...
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In this trailblazing anthology, more than fifty self-identified sex workers from all walks of the industry (survival and trade, past and present) explore their lived experience through the expressive nuance and beauty of poetry. In a variety of forms ranging from lyrics to list poems to found poetry to hybrid works, these authors express themselves with the complexity, agency, and honesty that sex workers are rarely afforded. Contributors from Canada,...
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Esta crónica narra las historias de las víctimas y de los sobrevivientes de uno de los peores incendios en la historia del Perú. En el año 2017, Jorge Luis Huamán y Jovi Herrera perdieron la vida al no poder escapar del siniestro, pues permanecían encerrados en un contenedor donde trabajan de manera habitual, sin contrato y sin seguridad en el conglomerado comercial llamada Las Malvinas ubicado en el cercado de Lima.
Sobre este episodio trágico,...
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This fascinating book deserves a place on the bookshelf of anybody with an interest in natural healing. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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