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Practicing Peace in Times of War by Pema Chodron
azw3 |eng | 2006-08-29 | Author:Pema Chodron

Compassionate Abiding WHEN SOMETHING we find unpleasant occurs, our conditioning automatically clicks in and we have a strong reaction. There is a practice we can do right then to help ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
Democracy and Political Ignorance
mobi |eng | 2013-06-25 | Author:Somin, Ilya [Somin, Ilya]

CHAPTER SIX Political Ignorance and Judicial Review [J]udicial review is a deviant institution in the American democracy. —ALEXANDER BICKEL1 LIMITING AND DECENTRALIZING government power can mitigate the problem of political ...
( Category: General January 21,2015 )
The Enigma of Japanese Power by Karel van Wolferen
epub |eng | 1989-04-10 | Author:Karel van Wolferen [Wolferen, Karel van]

Avoiding distinctions Some post-war Japanese intellectuals such as political theorist Maruyama Masao and his followers seem to be bothered by the continued refusal to apply universal principles by which the ...
( Category: Asian January 21,2015 )
Wrapped in the Flag by Claire Conner
epub |eng | | Author:Claire Conner

Pizza and beer helped my attitude but did nothing to change my problem: Dr. Kendall did not like me. Ironically, my brother—as much a Birch baby as I was—escaped Kendall’s ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism January 20,2015 )
A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Carson Clayborne & Shepard Kris
epub |eng | 2001-01-15 | Author:Carson, Clayborne & Shepard, Kris [Carson, Clayborne]

ADDRESS AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE SELMA TO MONTGOMERY MARCH My dear and abiding friend, Ralph Abernathy, and to all of the distinguished Americans seated here on the rostrum, my ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 20,2015 )
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Lewis Bernard
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-03-24 | Author:Lewis, Bernard [Lewis, Bernard]

CHAPTER V SATAN AND THE SOVIETS America’s new role—and the Middle East’s perception of it—was vividly illustrated by an incident in Pakistan in 1979. On November 20, a band of ...
( Category: Islam January 20,2015 )
The Biafra Story by Frederick Forsyth
mobi, epub |eng | 1969-06-01 | Author:Frederick Forsyth

By the time they had finished the Biafrans had regrouped. Further north Achuzie with his crack 29th Battalion had been off on his own, marching 92 miles and taking from ...
( Category: African January 19,2015 )
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Lasch Christopher
epub, azw3 |eng | 1991-05-17 | Author:Lasch, Christopher [Lasch, Christopher]

Education as a Commodity The resulting split between general knowledge and the specialized knowledge of the experts, embedded in obscure journals and written in language or mathematical symbols unintelligible to ...
( Category: Personality January 19,2015 )
Black Sunday by Thomas Harris
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1957-01-02 | Author:Thomas Harris

Officer John Sullivan was not a dead cop, not yet, but he was close to death. Kneeling in the elevator, ear against Sullivan’s chest, his partner could hear a confused ...
( Category: Terrorism January 19,2015 )
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
epub, mobi |eng | 1807-01-18 | Author:Thomas Paine [Paine, Thomas]

Table of the Prophets, with the time in which they lived before Christ, and also before the books of Kings and Chronicles were written: Name: Isaiah Years before Christ: 760 ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2015 )
The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee.1
mobi | | 2015-01-15 | Author:Unknown

47 An ensemble of anti-terrorist legislation passed a few months after September 11th. 48 A temporary protrusion of the surface of an amoeba for movement and feeding. 39 The starting ...
( Category: Cultural Policy January 19,2015 )
JFK: History in an Hour by Sinead Fitzgibbon
epub |eng | 2012-07-29 | Author:Sinead Fitzgibbon [Fitzgibbon, Sinead]

But amid the optimism and ceremony on that bitter cold January day in 1961, neither Kennedy nor the US people could have known just how soon these lofty ideals would ...
( Category: Leadership January 18,2015 )
GEORGE WASHINGTON: History in an Hour by David B. McCoy
epub |eng | 2012-07-29 | Author:David B. McCoy [McCoy, David B.]

Washington leading troops during the Whiskey Rebellion Jefferson and his allies in the Southern States were rooted in the centuries-old agricultural culture. They saw the adoption of Hamilton’s three-pronged plan ...
( Category: Leadership January 18,2015 )
Killing Machine : The American Presidency in the Age of Drone Warfare (9781595589439) by Gardner Lloyd C
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gardner, Lloyd C. [Gardner, Lloyd C.]

The Lead-in to Neptune’s Spear The compound at Abbottabad, a midsize city only an hour’s drive from Islamabad, was where Osama bin Laden had lived in secret for six years. ...
( Category: Executive Branch January 18,2015 )
Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof;Sheryl WuDunn
mobi |eng | 2009-08-22 | Author:Nicholas D. Kristof;Sheryl WuDunn

Studies on the impact of abstinence-only programs aren’t conclusive and seem to depend to some extent on the ideology of those conducting the study. But on balance, the evidence suggests ...
( Category: Political Advocacy January 17,2015 )

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