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"An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials. The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery to his escape to the North in 1838. Douglass tells how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how...
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At a time when most communities' resources are stretched past the breaking point, how is it possible to deal with the enormous challenges that families, neighborhoods, cities, regions, and nations face today? This inspiring book takes readers to seven communities around the world where the people have walked out of limiting beliefs and practices that precluded solutions to major social problems, and walked on to discover bold new ways to meet their...
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"In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No...
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John Dewey (1859-1952) is an American philosopher and psychologist most notably remembered for his theories on progressive education. He grew up in the rapidly industrializing town of Burlington, Vermont, where he was able to witness increasing social and economic division of the classes. Although he displayed little vivacity or imagination as a child, he was immensely analytical and spent years teaching and writing on a wide range of philosophical...
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"Virtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how many African human beings were killed in the Black Holocaust - from the start of the European slave trade (c. 1500) to the Civil War (1865)? And how many were enslaved? The Black Holocaust, a travesty that killed millions of African human beings, is the most underreported major event in world history. A major economic event for Europe...
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#1 The word quantum is evocative, bewildering, and fascinating. It is a testament to the success of science, but it is also a symbol of the limited scope of human intuition as we struggle with the inescapable strangeness of the subatomic domain.
#2 The world around us is made up of atoms, and the more we understand about the elemental nature of the world, the simpler...
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#1 The author Kurt Vonnegut wrote a book in 1952 called Player Piano, which described a future where production was almost entirely carried out by machines, and where everyone was essentially superfluous from an economic perspective. But the society was rich enough to provide a comfortable life for all of them.
#2 To imagine a totally postscarcity world as a utopia,...
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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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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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#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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#1 Intelligence is the capacity to grasp and manipulate complex ideas. It is not enough to define intellect, as intelligence alone does not encompass intelligence in combination with judgment and care in selecting relevant explanatory factors. Wisdom is the rarest of all qualities: the ability to combine intellect, knowledge, experience, and judgment in a way that produces...
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Get the Summary of Malcolm Gladwell's Bomber Mafia in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary anmd not the original book. Original book introduction: In The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times best sellers including Talking to Strangers and host of the podcast Revisionist History, uses original interviews, archival footage, and his trademark insight to weave...
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#1 Daniela Nanau, a lawyer, was elated when she was pregnant. However, her happiness was short-lived when her superiors at her law firm turned on her irredeemably because of her illness and late arrivals to work.
#2 The way we treat expectant women is a symptom of how little American businesses and legislators care about care. Pregnancy discrimination cases have...
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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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#1 The life of a prostitute is as good or as bad as she wishes it to be. She has the choice to continue it or not, and if she changes her mind about the benefits, she can quit at any time. The momentum toward prohibition of prostitution does not come from the prostitutes themselves, but from the customers.
#2 The distinction between the pie and milk jokes and the...
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#1 I was the first to see my brother Leon coming through the tall grass in the dry riverbed. He had come a long way. I ran to meet him, and when I saw him, I was shocked. He looked exactly like his picture on the family wall.
#2 I met my brother, who had gone to fight a strange war in Europe, when I was five years old. He had returned to our barrio, in the farming town...
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#1 The future of work is being talked about a lot these days. It seems that almost every article, book, and video about the future of work focuses on the effects technology is having on all types of jobs and how artificial intelligence will eliminate many of them.
#2 It's not helpful or correct to frame the issue as job loss. It's really about job change and displacement,...
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#1 The racial narrative in America has created a presumption of guilt and dangerousness for people of color, which has been applied to the criminal justice system.
#2 The issue of racially motivated police violence or racial disparities in sentencing cannot be viewed as a consequence of bad police officers or racially biased judges. There are deep historical forces that...
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#1 We are what we move. When we move from people who walk to people who drive, we experience a change in mode, and this affects how we view others. We view people who walk as harmless polluters, while people who drive are seen as invincible monsters.
#2 The more we drive, the more we struggle to stay human. We become mute in traffic, and instead of complex vocabularies...
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La planificación urbana es un campo que aborda el diseño, desarrollo y gestión de las ciudades y áreas urbanas. En un mundo en permanente crecimiento y urbanización, esta disciplina se vuelve cada vez más importante para garantizar que las ciudades sean habitables, sostenibles y eficientes en el uso de los recursos.
La rápida urbanización y la concentración de población en las ciudades presentan desafíos como la expansión descontrolada,...
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