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Avec son bonheur de façade et ses émotions fabriquées, la culture de l'illusion étend son emprise sur les États-Unis. D'un salon de l'industrie de la pornographie à Las Vegas aux plateaux de la télé-réalité, en passant par les campus universitaires et les séminaires de développement personnel, Chris Hedges enquête sur les mécanismes qui empêchent de distinguer le réel des faux-semblants et détournent la population des enjeux politiques...
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We have all been swept up by the momentum of the Occupy movement. We have seen the results of years of organizing in different communities come together in ways that few could have imagined, bolstered by the scores of people who have left the comfort of their daily routine behind and taken to the streets. Yet as a movement so overflowing with new social and political actors, we lack the framework we need to help us all to understand what a social...
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The Turning Point for the U.K. and Iran, Spiritual Interviews with the Guardian Spirits of Johnson, Rouhani, Khamenei and Trump is a record of exclusive interviews with the guardian spirits of the British prime minister, Iranian president, Iranian supreme leader, and American president, conducted via religious journalism. A guardian spirit is a part of what is, known as the subconscious in psychology; it speaks the real thoughts or the hidden but...
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The must-read summary of Diane Ravitch's book: "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How testing and Choice are Undermining Education".
This complete summary of "The Death and Life of the Great American School System" by Diane Ravitch, one of America's best-known education experts and former assistant secretary of education, presents her explanation of why ideas for restructuring schools have had no positive impact on the quality...
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"Winner of the American Political Science Association Best Book Award" Diana C. Mutz is the Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics. Her books include In-Your-Face Politics (Princeton) and Hearing the Other Side. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
From acclaimed political scientist Diana Mutz,...
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Extrait: "Ce ne serait pas remplir le but que je me propose, et ce serait laisser croire peut-être que je n'ai pas bien compris tout l'intérêt qui s'attache à ces documents, si je n'en donnais que le texte. Je l'accompagnerai donc d'éclaircissements et de commentaires, toutes les fois qu'il en sera besoin; je tâcherai seulement de n'en pas faire abus..."
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It is possible to eliminate death and serious injury from Canada's roads. In other jurisdictions, the European Union, centres in the United States, and at least one automotive company aim to achieve comparable results as early as 2020. In Canada, though, citizens must turn their thinking on its head and make road safety a national priority. Since the motor vehicle first went into mass production, the driver has taken most of the blame for its failures....
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An economist's take on "why the world's efforts to curb the carbon dioxide emissions behind global warming have gone so wrong, and how it can do better" (Financial Times).
Despite commitments to renewable energy and two decades of international negotiations, global emissions continue to rise. Coal, the most damaging of all fossil fuels, has actually risen from 25% to almost 30% of world energy use. And while European countries congratulate themselves...
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"Winner of the Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association" David Vogel is professor emeritus in the Haas School of Business and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include The Politics of Precaution (Princeton) and The Market for Virtue.
A political history of environmental policy and regulation in California,...
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The Israel-Palestine conflict has captured global attention and stirred passionate debates for decades. "Unraveling the Knot" offers a comprehensive and accessible exploration of the conflict's historical roots, evolution, and the intricate web of factors contributing to its intractability. Whether you are a newcomer seeking to grasp the basics or a seasoned observer looking for fresh insights, this book provides a balanced and insightful perspective.Key...
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Climate change in Asia and the Pacific is deadly and impacts communities now. Regional climate litigation seeks relief in increasingly urgent ways and judges need a tool kit to respond. Report Two of this four-part series is a comprehensive review of the growing number and variety of climate lawsuits in Asia and the Pacific. It underscores the unique flavor and voice of regional jurisprudence and compares it with global approaches. No one can solve...
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More fascinating and harrowing accounts of the volunteer professionals who risk their lives to help those in desperate need. Doctors Without Borders (aka Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) was founded in 1971 by rebellious French doctors. It is arguably the most respected humanitarian organization in the world, delivering emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics and natural disasters as well as to many others who lack reliable health...
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Yossi Harpaz is affiliated with Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow at the Weatherhead Center, in addition to his role as assistant professor of sociology at Tel Aviv University.
Citizenship 2.0 focuses on an important yet overlooked dimension of globalization: the steady rise in the legitimacy and prevalence of dual citizenship. Demand for dual citizenship is particularly high in Latin America and Eastern Europe, where more than three million...
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Religious conversion is often associated with ideals of religious sincerity. But in a society in which religious belonging is entangled with ethnonational citizenship and confers political privilege, a convert might well have multilayered motives. Over the last two decades, mass non-Jewish immigration to Israel, especially from the former Soviet Union, has sparked heated debates over the Jewish state's conversion policy and intensified suspicion of...
24515) On Poets and Others
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The Nobel Prize—winning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to Alexander Solzhenitsyn; and from Charles Baudelaire...
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Jerusalem's formal political borders reveal neither the dynamics of power in the city nor the underlying factors that make an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians so difficult. The lines delineating Israeli authority are frequently different from those delineating segregated housing or areas of uneven service provision or parallel national electoral districts of competing educational jurisdictions. In particular, the city's large number of...
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This complete summary of "The Global Achievement Gap" by Tony Wagner outlines the author's argument that there is a disconnect between what schools are providing students - passive learning experience and what employers are looking for - critical thinkers and problem solvers. He also recommends ways to motivate the future generation to succeed in today's world.
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G. K. Chesterton seemed to have something to say about almost anything. A cultural critic and writer of the highest degree, he utilized both wit and paradox as he sought to not only to challenge bad philosophy but promote the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. Although best known for classics such as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man, Chesterton was also a prolific poet, essayist, and storyteller. This volume is a celebration of Christmas, one of...
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This thematic third volume of the Asia Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Monitor 2021 focuses on the digitalization of microfinance in Bangladesh. The MSME sector provides much of the income in rural Bangladesh, but its growth is constrained by limited access to affordable finance. This volume reports on a 2021 baseline study carried out in Bangladesh to pilot a randomized controlled trial to determine whether a digitalized group-based credit scheme...
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How were social media posts, scripted speeches, traditional news media and political cartoons used and understood during the Brexit campaign? What phrases and metaphors were key during and after the 2016 Brexit referendum? How far did the Remain and Leave campaigns rely on metaphor to engage with supporters in communicating their political positions? These questions, and many others, can be answered only through a systematic analysis of the actual...
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