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International human rights came into existence bottom-up, from the efforts of ordinary people to ally with each other in solidarity and demand their rights through civil resistance campaigns in support of democracy, an end to slavery and child labor, women's rights, labor rights, and tenant rights, among other rights. Yet international law recognizes only states as the ultimate source of law. This monograph develops a novel, people-powered or "demos-centric"...
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Un lunes 15 de abril de 2019 el mundo se detenía mirando fijamente pantallas de televisión, celulares, tablets y computadores, mientras ardía la catedral francesa de Notre Dame. Una palabra, en medio de la debacle, resonaba más que las otras: patrimonio. ¿Qué podrían tener en común una famosa catedral francesa, un paisaje único de América y las costumbres de un pueblo originario? ¿Qué dicen de nosotros? Son ejemplos de patrimonio cultural...
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Le Big Data (ou mégadonnées) suscite des discours porteurs de visions économiques prometteuses: efficience du microciblage, meilleurs rendements par gestion prédictive, algorithmes et intelligence artificielle, villes intelligentes...bref, toute une économie des données qui trouverait son achèvement véritable dans une créativité enfin libérée de tout joug disciplinaire, idéologique et politique. L'éclatement des individualités «émancipées»...
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#1 The Cojots were waiting in line to check in at Ben-Gurion Airport's Terminal 1, which had replaced the original whitewashed terminal built by the British in the 1930s. The flow of people reminded Michel Cojot of an Oriental bazaar.
#2 Air France Flight 139 was one of the recently introduced Airbus A300B4s, a comfortable twin-engined jetliner capable of carrying 272...
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Get the Summary of Bob Woodward's Fear in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president's first years in office. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.
Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews...
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Get the Summary of Isabel Wilkerson's Caste in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy...
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#1 When Matthew Shepard was tortured and left to die on the high plains of Wyoming, his murder was followed by outpourings of anger and grief from editorial pages and political pulpits across the country.
#2 The Matthew Shepard killing was used by the left to rally behind society's victims, and the absence of conservatives and libertarians in the Capitol protesters...
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Book Preview: #1 The author's personal and professional journey leads him to Urzaiz's Eugenia, and the eugenic project of early twentieth-century Mérida. While focused on a particular writer and his work, the reading explodes outward to take on not only the question of historical context, but the far-reaching resonance of disability and eugenic discourse across time and space.
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Professor Cory is not just a scientist: she is a humanist, an environmentalist, and an unremitting optimist. Cory's Boyer Lecture series reflects her hope for a bright future.
In the Promise of Science: A vision of hope, Professor Cory explores what Australian science has given the nation and the world, and how it might help set to rights some of our biggest problems. Climate change, continuing gender inequity, the possibilities for a sustainable...
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#1 The internet meme about an audio experiment that played a single word to test subjects is an example of a perceptually ambiguous stimulus that can be seen in two ways.
#2 I have had a conversation with this country for about 30 years. I have written many books, which have polarized people, but I continue to explore ideas and provoke discussion. The alternative...
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These essays, or "pamphlets," published in 1850, are a vehement denunciation of what Thomas Carlyle believed to be the political, social, and religious injustices of the era. The collection's best known essay is "Hudson's Statue," an attack on plans to erect a monument in honor of the bankrupted financier and "railway king" George Hudson.
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#1 I was drawn to the psychiatric units at Spring Grove State Hospital, because I realized that the majority of the women there had been victims of sexual assault. They had been attacked, and then forced to manage the trauma on their own, silently, or face the likely consequence of being blamed for instigating their own assault.
#2 I began interviewing patients...
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#1 After the Berlin Wall was torn down, the German government was faced with demands that the communist officials who had ordered, executed, and abetted crimes against their own people be prosecuted.
#2 The Stasi, the East German communist police force, had more spies than any other totalitarian government in history. The Soviet Union's KGB employed 480,000 full-time...
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#1 Equatorial Guinea gained its independence in 1968, and was ruled by a dictator named Francisco Macias Nguema. His regime was brutal, and he allegedly killed his main electoral opponent. Teodorin's father, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, was in charge of the National Guard and Black Beach prison, and he was tasked with torturing any dissidents.
#2 Obiang's regime...
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The book analyzes U.S economy, construction industry, and residential market crisis and recovery from 2000 to 2019. The motivation emanated from the need to document the unprecedented housing market crisis (and recovery) and its negative effects on the hitherto seeming formidable U.S economy. The expectation is that analysis of the data and findings should yield some policy recommendations and suggestions on how to ameliorate the impacts of weak economy...
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#1 The Army Special Forces have a proud history of service to the nation. They were established in the mid-1700s, and their roots can be traced back to the mid-1960s. They were formed to fight the Vietcong in Vietnam, and they had to manage the tension between the small contingent of the Vietnamese army and the Montagnards.
#2 The work of modern Special Forces is a classic...
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Will our life ever be the same? Will the death of Osama Bin Laden bring closure, peace, a chance to move forward? World Trade Center survivor Nicole B. Simpson searches for an answer by interviewing other survivors almost ten years after the fateful day 9/11/2001. The United States of America was permanently scarred as a country, but what about the individuals who were in the building? What happened to the first responders that survived? Where are...
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#1 The story of the villager who kidnapped and locked up vandals in his basement to prevent crime is a short political story that illustrates the difference between a government and a non-government person. Most people support the government's imprisonment of criminals, feel obligated to pay their taxes, and consider punishment of tax evaders both desirable and within...
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#1 The young man in the new suit was trying to look purposeful, but his composure was a bluff. He needed to pick up a ticket and get to the small airport outside town, but he knew he might not make it. The war was barely six weeks old, but the distance between alive and dead had already become negligible.
#2 The National Council is doing everything it can to help the...