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#1 The status of women has always been different from the status of men, and this has been enforced by law. The legal constraints on women in the modern West were not much short of de facto slavery until the eighteenth century.
#2 Second-wave feminism, which was based on the idea that women are not born but rather become women, was born in the 1950s. It argued that...
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#1 The Italian government has declared a state of emergency, and has imposed severe restrictions on freedom in order to combat the SARS epidemic. But according to the National Research Council, the infection actually causes mild/moderate symptoms in 80 to 90 percent of cases.
#2 The CNR's response to the flu is absurd. The state of precarity and fear that has been systematically...
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#1 I had written an article titled How white women use strategic tears to silence women of color that was shared on Facebook by Lisa Benson, an Emmy-winning African-American television journalist in Kansas City. She was fired soon thereafter for creating a hostile working environment based on race and gender.
#2 Black and brown women are often the victims of gendered...
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Esta Cartilla constituye una apuesta por una ruta académica y científica para realizar con rigor y vigor, como lo afirman sus autores, un trabajo de investigación capaz de expresar en él la formación y los conocimientos adquiridos sobre los fenómenos y los problemas de gobierno, los avatares de la gobernanza democrática, la acción pública, la gestión gubernamental y sus relaciones con la sociedad, todo ello reflejado en la claridad en la...
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Samuel Tadros provides a clear understanding of Copts-the native Egyptian Christians-and their crisis of modernity in conjunction with the overall developments in Egypt as it faced its own struggles with modernity. He argues that the modern plight of Copts is inseparable from the crisis of modernity and the answers developed to address that crisis by the Egyptian state and intellectuals, as well as by the Coptic Church and laypeople.
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#1 The Bretton Woods conference was held in 1944 and was responsible for creating the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The Americans were in charge of the Allied side of the war, and they were the only ones who wanted these institutions.
#2 The Americans had a navy that was the most powerful...
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In today's conformist, censorious, politically-correct world we are not allowed to speak our minds for fear of being called a racist, a sexist or a bigot - and yet, when somebody does buck the trend and says what we all - or at least the majority of us - are really thinking, we often applaud it.
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Surely if the majority of people think in a certain way, then that should be the way that our democracy is run. We should not have a silent...
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Drawing upon Lewis Cass's voluminous private papers, correspondence, and published works, Willard Carl Klunder provides the first comprehensive biography of the man who was the Democratic spokesman for the Old Northwest for more than half a century. A champion of spread-eagle expansionism and an ardent nationalist, Cass subscribed tot he Jeffersonian political philosophy, embracing the principles of individual liberty; the sovereignty of the people;...
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This book was not written for everyone but for those that can accept the truth about what life in America has been like. The masses of the people in this country were led to believe in a dream, the American dream. The oppression by political leaders and exploitation by big businesses has created a life where the dream is difficult to achieve. The common people were told that education will be the key to economic success, that believing in God and...
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#1 The supermom advertisement image is the same woman, but she is presented in different ways in different advertisements. She has that working-mother look as she strides forward, briefcase in one hand, smiling child in the other.
#2 The rise in mothers working outside the home has led to a rise in fathers doing housework and childcare. Men and women still feel strongly...
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Together: Building Better, Stronger Communities is about our communities and how we need them to work at their best in today's political environment. This environment is extremely challenging and is likely to remain so for some time. In meeting these challenges, communities that work democratically work best, and they become stronger because a democracy engages the energies of everyone, and everyone is needed to combat today's problems.
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92) Rockefellerocracy: Kennedy Assassinations, Watergate and Monopoly of the "Philanthropic" Foundations
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Rockefellerocracy: Kennedy Assassinations, Watergate, and Monopoly of the Philanthropic Foundations is a portal to a universe of political and economic supremacy, revealing links to the crimes of the century. Kennedy had a dream for the nation, but Nelson Rockefeller, a ruthless megalomaniac, had his own selfish scheme to become president. After a ten-year-long course of wrongdoing to steal American democracy, his nomination to the vice presidency...
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#1 This book is about what philosophers are and who cares about them. It's a collection of essays and arguments by The New York Times' philosophy series, The Stone.
#2 There is a lot of philosophy being done. It's being done by people who care about it and are willing to defend it. It's not going anywhere any time soon.
#3 The Stone is a collection of essays by professional...
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No one on the planet can deny the Physical Signs of the Era in which we live. We see them every day on television, the internet or in newspapers. But, the Real Signs are "unseen and are Spiritual in nature. In the King James Bible, Deception is not only mentioned four times in Matthew chapter twenty-four, but Jesus mentions it first among the signs of the end. Certainly it must be among the most significant and perhaps the most powerful sign before...
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#1 When I came home from Rome, I wanted to be managed by millionaire William Reynolds. In fact, when I returned, I found that Reynolds had been praised across America for what he was about to do for me.
#2 I had been sent to meet with Billy Reynolds, a millionaire fighter who wanted to become my manager. I had never been able to afford the proper boxing equipment or...
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Book Preview: #1 The real battle we are facing is with the laws of economics, and it's a war we can't win. We are on the verge of stamping out ourselves.
#2 The laws of economics say that when expenses are higher than revenues for a prolonged period of time, there will be repercussions.
#3 The past predicts the future. America's past financial superpower status has gotten us into...
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This highly controversial book is going to change the political and cultural direction and scene of America in the 21st Century. It will do this by providing Americas Compatriots the tools they've been searching for to stop Americas Government, Supreme Court Judges, and Politicians from continuing to push this great Republic into the Abyss of a Borderless and lawless nation. By analyzing key words and the US Constitution, this book shows Americas...
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Winner of the 2010 Akron Poetry Prize, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie is "a tender anti-epic, a grunge-tinged love song to America's benighted post-industrial heartland." Harmon's Poughkeepsie shimmers just beyond the borders of banal recognition. "If you're not part of the problem, / you're part of the lengthening / tragedy," Harmon writes in an introductory pastoral, seeking out "the stray / detours and workarounds of the secret / city inside the more...
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Scholars from the Brookings Institution's Energy Security Initiative and the Hoover Institution's Task Force on Energy Policy offer recommendations for ensuring the security and sustainability of our electricity system now and for future generations through the greater deployment of distributed power systems (DPS). Their report provides a comprehensive survey of the current technology and policy landscape of DPS and offers suggestions for its most...
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