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"Our Hidden Conversations is a unique compilation of stories, richly reported essays, and photographs providing a window into America during a tumultuous era. This powerful book offers an honest, if sometimes uncomfortable, conversation about race and identity, permitting us to eavesdrop on deep-seated thoughts, private discussions, and long submerged memories."--
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"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...
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Freemasons have been connected to the all-seeing eye on the dollar bill, the French Revolution, the Knights Templar, and the pyramids of Egypt. They have been rumored to be everything from a cabal of elite power brokers ruling the world to a covert network of occultists and pagans intent on creating a new world order, to a millennia-old brotherhood perpetuating ancient wisdom through esoteric teachings. Their secret symbols, rituals,...
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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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While sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices have become more repressive in many nations, partly as a result of the ascendancy of interest groups committed to the total abolition of the sex industry. At the same time, however, several other nations have recently decriminalized prostitution.
Legalizing Prostitution maps out the current terrain. Using...
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Una de las principales tendencias contemporáneas en el manejo del territorio, sobre todo en la región latinoamericana, se ve expresada en la dedicación de grandes áreas a un solo cultivo, así lo expresa el escritor y político cubano José Martí, para quien la dependencia de un pueblo a un solo producto acarrea consecuencias negativas que se ven reflejadas en las condiciones sociales y en su medio físico natural. En el marco de explotación...
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Get the Summary of Omid Scobie's Endgame in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Queen Elizabeth II's death ruptured the already-fractured foundations of the House of Windsor-and dismantled the protective shield around it. With an institution long plagued by antiquated ideas around race, class and money, the monarchy and those who prop it up are now exposed and at odds with a rapidly modernizing...
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Auguste Forel (1848-1931) was a Swiss neuroanatomist, psychiatrist, and entomologist who made significant contributions to various fields, including the study of sexual ethics. While Forel is best known for his work in the natural sciences, his thoughts on sexual ethics are also notable. Auguste Forel, a multifaceted scientist, ventured into the realm of sexual ethics, advocating for informed, consensual, and emotionally fulfilling sexual relationships....
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Despite unprecedented technological developments and material bounty, our nation and the rest of the world face ever-growing moral quandaries. We are still beset with continuous warfare and religious strife along with a litany of other past transgressions. These are all exaggerated by our population growth along with the growing complexity of life. In addition, our technological progress has created even more severe morality quandaries than our ancestors...
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A New Kind of Dialogue is a landmark in understanding the pervasive challenges of modern society.
It is a serious but easy read, written as a first-hand narrative that encourages dialogic thinking.
This is the story of how a new kind of Dialogue was conceived by the author and theoretical physicist David Bohm, and their eight years of participatory research until Bohm's death in 1992. Their seminal paper, "Dialogue - A Proposal", laid the foundation...
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La imaginación creadora afrodiaspórica es el segundo volumen de la Biblioteca Afrocolombiana de las Ciencias Sociales. Es una obra ensayística que refleja un proceso de desalienación psíquica y de descolonización que pone en cuestión los estereotipos dominantes, para construir una visión del ciudadano lúcido y creador con una mente curiosa y con un interés profundo por entender la existencia desde la perspectiva política,jurídica, sociológica...
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Competencias del directivo de instituciones de educación superior es producto del proyecto de investigación titulado "Análisis al directivo universitario en Colombia: estudio desde la perspectiva del comportamiento organizacional y la gestión del conocimiento" con código de proyecto 8126, desarrollado en el Grupo de Investigación Humanismo y Gestión de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Administración de la Universidad del Valle. Esta investigación...
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Desde la antigüedad, la ciudad ha sido representada por sus artistas y escritores con el propósito de reconstruirla para la retina del ojo. No basta con habitar la ciudad real, con sus bloques de hormigón que se levantan verticalmente y su enjambre de automóviles corriendo sobre sus avenidas. El ser humano necesita representarla con su imaginación para así poder conservarla en el centro de la memoria. A partir de Homero y Virgilio, quienes cantaron...
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A highly entertaining, scurrilous and fascinating book on Australian con men (and women) and all their dirty, devious tricks.
There are con men you fear and con men you hate, and con men with amazing stories who take your breath away with their dirty tricks and sheer brazen effontery. How do they get away with it?
Written by bestselling author Matthew Benns, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a rollicking rollcall of all the worst and most outrageous scammers...
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Sostiene el profesor Alfonso Rubio que el paisaje de los estudios históricos colombianos dedicados a la "cultura escrita", es decir, al campo de lo manuscrito y lo impreso, y al universo de las prácticas de escritura y lectura, es minúsculo y plural y todavía carece de orientaciones conceptuales y metodológicas claras, pero –afirma también– es necesario conocerlo para dimensionar las líneas de trabajo existentes y encontrar cómo se abren...
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Este es el informe de tiempo y esfuerzo colectivo de trabajo que como profesionales del campo de la salud iniciamos para tratar de comprender una problemática psicosocial: Manifestaciones de la violencia en las relaciones de noviazgo entre adolescentes matriculados en instituciones educativas de la ciudad de Quito 2019-2020. Fue un reto y motivo de compromiso, encontrarnos frente a un proyecto binacional interuniversitario, sin duda, ello implicaba...
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A menudo se dice que las "querellas sobre la mujer" comenzaron en Francia en 1402 con la crítica que Christine de Pisan le dirigió a Jean de Meun por su poema misógino "Romance de la rosa", pero en nuestro continente podríamos decir que las contiendas sobre género comenzaron en el siglo XVI, cuando varias culturas originarias se enfrentaron con el desprecio europeo hacia las mujeres. Por su parte, los europeos tendían a trasladar ese desprecio...
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Higiene, salud y ambiente en perspectiva histórica: Cali a comienzos del siglo XX, estudia las características relativas al panorama higiénico y sanitario de la realidad nacional y regional del Valle del Cauca, a partir de un ejercicio historiográfico que abarca diferentes momentos históricos, para luego situarse, con especial énfasis, en el análisis del contexto urbano caleño en el período comprendido entre fines del siglo XIX y comienzos...
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Get the Summary of Stephanie Land's Class in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples...
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With All the Trouble in the World, P. J. O'Rourke once again landed on best-seller lists around the country, confirming his reputation as the pre-eminent political humorist of our time. Attacking fashionable worries-all those terrible problems that are constantly on our minds and in the news, but about which most of us have no real clue-P. J. crisscrosses the globe in search of solutions to today's most vexing issues, including overpopulation, famine,...
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