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Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
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""Political correctness" has taken politeness and turned it into a weapon of censorship and intimidation. In the workplace, on social media, and even at the dinner table, Americans are confronted daily with a laundry list of words they're "not allowed" to say--and that list is updated constantly and without warning. How did so absurd a concept become so dangerous--and come to dominate our public discourse over the last quarter-century? In Speechless,...
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ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"According to the American Library Association (ALA), there were more attempts to ban books in 2021 than at any time since the group began tracking three decades earlier. The latest, unprecedented wave of book banning is driven mainly by conservative parents and politicians, who are also behind extreme new censorship laws in many states that restrict what teachers and students can read and discuss in the classroom. Free speech defenders say the laws...
6) The tapping solution for pain relief: a step-by-step guide to reducing and eliminating chronic pain
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Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
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"Over 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. Lower back pain alone accounts for more than $50 billion of lost work time and worker's compensation claims annually. And let's consider the fact that there are 600,000 knee replacement surgeries performed each year in the United States, and sadly, 20 percent of those patients end up with chronic pain after surgery. The normal "solutions" we've been taught involve seeking out more doctors, surgeries,...
7) Moon
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Throughout her busy days, Moon wonders what it would be like to be wild and free until the day she meets a wolf and learns his "wolfy ways."
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities...
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From the only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Iraq, here is a riveting account of ordinary people caught between the struggles
of nations
Like her country, Karima-a widow with eight children-was caught between America and Saddam. It was March 2003 in proud but battered Baghdad. As night drew near, she took her son to board a rickety bus to join Hussein's army. "God protect you," she said, handing him something she could...
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Understanding the role of combat in the Iraq war is essential for both the American people and the U. S. military. Recognizing the objectives of both sides and the plans developed to attain those objectives provides the context for understanding the war. The Surge is an effort to provide such a framework to help understand not only where we have been, but also what happens as we move forward.
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A consistent effort to destroy the natural environment, with a cultural influence that clashed with the Native American way of life, presently continues from European arrival. When we see land "developers," supported by government-funded contracts and zoning laws that accommodate turning land into urban sprawl, we are still witnessing today the European take-over of Native America. Sharing the same destiny with the Indians and the buffalo, large unaltered...
14) The Strange Tale of Eegor, the Fleetwinged Filagreed Flyspecker, and His Virtual-Guided Tour Thro
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This booklet describes the conflict between individual freedom (good) and collective force (evil). The author defines the Collective to be an assembly of elitists-people at the top of their fields in politics, academia, media, and the arts and sciences. Two characteristics define these elitists: greed and need-greed for never enough wealth and need for never enough power.
Their prominence and prestige makes them feel entitled to rule. They write...
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We-the-people have been lied to and led astray by the Predator Class. Our future depends on the truth in The People's Hope. It's time to take back our narrative. In our story, we identify who the bad guys are, what values we are fighting for, and how to carry on that fight. In this narrative, we see through the billionaire's propaganda, and see the true People's Hope. 1. The Predator Class. The Predator Class is destroying the planet and their dictators/billionaires...
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Since the end of the Cold War, transnational non-state forces have been a major source of global instability, with many ominous and disruptive flows of people, goods, and services moving readily across international boundaries. And because these activities are so multifaceted and so intertwined within the fabric of society, they remain largely invisible until the intrusion is well-advanced and difficult to reverse. Thus, the threat posed by transnational...
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Si 1789 iniciaba el siglo de la burguesía, 1917 lo clausuraba: la revolución burguesa era sustituida por su sepulturera, la revolución proletaria. Un siglo corto, el XX, que fue en gran medida el siglo de las izquierdas hasta que el hundimiento del comunismo en 1991 zanjó de un plumazo la oposición entre izquierda "proletaria" e izquierda "burguesa".
La recomposición de la izquierda, hoy en día, ¿es una posibilidad real o una quimera? Este...
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Suid-Afrikaners onthou toe beurtkrag in 2008 die land tot stilstand gebring het. Daar was 'n stormloop vir opwekkers en eiendom in Perth, Australi?. 'n E-pos vanaf Alan Knott-Craig wat Suid-Afrikaners herinner aan die positiewe dinge verbonde aan 'n lewe in Suid-Afrika het soos blits versprei en reaksies van duisende Suid-Afrikaners ontlok. So het Don't Panic! tot bestaan gekom - 'n boek wat 'n oomblik in SA geskiedenis vasgel? het. Beweeg aan na...
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An in depth partial pictorial book depicting the decades from 1940 to 2018 leading to Brexit. A born and bred Londoner. An Atheist, Darwinian and Freudian and his deep analysis covering Despots, global Genocide, ethnic cleansing and Demographic shifts in populations. Analyzing and concentrating on mainly Europe, London and the UK in particular; It goes on to explain the prolific changes from one decade to another and the ramifications of the UK joining...
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Beautiful Trouble brings together dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best practices into a toolbox for creative action. Sophisticated enough for veteran activists, accessible enough for newbies, this compendium of troublemaking wisdom is a must-have for aspiring changemakers. Showcasing the synergies between artistic imagination and shrewd political strategy, Beautiful Trouble is for everyone who longs...
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