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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
epub |eng | 2018-08-27 | Author:Anand Giridharadas [Giridharadas, Anand]

Even though Hinton could seem to be an archetype of what Ramdas was condemning, he would come to criticize the great business conquest that he acknowledged being part of and ...
( Category: Sociology August 30,2018 )
Cathedrals of Britain by Bernadette Fallon
epub |eng | 2018-09-18 | Author:Bernadette Fallon

Curious facts: the body in the tomb But is it the king’s body at all in the tomb? Or did he escape to end his remaining days as a hermit ...
( Category: Architecture August 30,2018 )
Not Quite Not White by Sharmila Sen
epub |eng | 2018-08-27 | Author:Sharmila Sen

* * * • • • I do not think my three children, all born in the long shadow of 9/11, will be able to recollect a time when they ...
( Category: Sociology August 30,2018 )
Content : Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future by Cory Doctorow
epub |eng | 2008-08-27 | Author:Cory Doctorow [Doctorow, Cory]

2.3 People are stupid Even when there's a positive benefit to creating good metadata, people steadfastly refuse to exercise care and diligence in their metadata creation. Take eBay: every seller ...
( Category: History & Philosophy August 28,2018 )
How to be a Happier Parent by KJ Dell'Antonia
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:KJ Dell'Antonia

Who Should Do the Talking? So far, we’ve focused on how parents can advocate for our children around homework—but there does come a point when our children should advocate for ...
( Category: Family Relationships August 27,2018 )
1989 by Clover Joshua;
epub |eng | 2009-08-26 | Author:Clover, Joshua;

BRIDGE Just a Stop Down the Line Grunge’s inward turn is replicated beyond the confines of the genre, most evidently in the adjacent but more capacious arena of “modern rock” ...
( Category: Poetry August 27,2018 )
The Idea of Progress by Bury J. B.;
epub |eng | 1932-08-26 | Author:Bury, J. B.;

2 The Encyclopaedia (1751–1765) has rightly been pronounced the central work of the rationalistic movement which made the France of 1789 so different from the France of 1715. It was ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources August 27,2018 )
Memes in Digital Culture by Limor Shifman
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Limor Shifman [Shifman, Limor]

Figure 10 Stock character macros: “Scumbag Steve,” “Success Kid,” and “Socially Awkward Penguin.” Source: http://www.quickmeme.com/. Rage Comics Rage comics are amateur-looking comics featuring “rage faces”—a set of expressive characters, each ...
( Category: Graphics & Design August 27,2018 )
Critical Thinking by Nardi Peter M
epub |eng | | Author:Nardi, Peter M.

CRITICAL THINKING TIP When reading a chart or graph, think about what it may look like with different units along the axes. Is the size of the visual image appropriate ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 27,2018 )
Women Who Were Sexually Abused as Children by Teresa Gil
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-08-25 | Author:Teresa Gil

Many of the mothers I interviewed said that their compassion and ability to love their children was learned from their interactions with their own mothers. Olivia stated, “I got my ...
( Category: Abuse August 26,2018 )
Weapons of Mass Deception by Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber
epub |eng | | Author:Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber

Arnold Gets a Hummer Politicians and terrorists are not the only propagandists who use fear to drive human behavior in irrational directions. A striking recent use of fear psychology in ...
( Category: Military August 26,2018 )
Oppression and Liberty by Weil Simone
epub |eng | | Author:Weil, Simone

SKETCH OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL LIFE It is impossible to imagine anything more contrary to this ideal than the form which modern civilization has assumed in our day, at the end ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 25,2018 )
Dopesick by Beth Macy
epub |eng | 2018-08-06 | Author:Beth Macy

I thought of Tess Henry, the young mom I met in late 2015. The daughter of a local surgeon and a hospital nurse (they divorced when she was ten), Tess ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 23,2018 )
The Deepest South by Horne Gerald;
epub |eng | 2007-08-22 | Author:Horne, Gerald;

10 Confederates to Brazil The post–Civil War South was not a congenial place for those who held the African Slave Trade dear. Inevitably this also had an impact on Brazil, ...
( Category: Americas August 23,2018 )
Small Animals by Kim Brooks
epub |eng | | Author:Kim Brooks

PART II THE COST OF FEAR 6 WHAT A HORRIBLE MOTHER Sometimes I think about how the story might have ended here. I came home from Virginia more than a ...
( Category: Memoirs August 23,2018 )

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