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We the Eaters by Ellen Gustafson
epub |eng | 2014-08-17 | Author:Ellen Gustafson

A medium order of McDonald’s french fries has 380 calories, 19 grams of fat, and 270 milligrams of sodium. When we add 3 tablespoons of Heinz regular bottled ketchup to ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 18,2018 )
The House of Islam by Ed Husain
epub |eng | | Author:Ed Husain

Ibn Abbas greeted them, and they welcomed him. Their first question to him was: ‘What is this cloak you are wearing?’ Ibn Abbas’s choice of clothing was not whimsical, nor ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 18,2018 )
Controversial Essays by Thomas Sowell
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Sowell

THE WAR AGAINST BOYS The old saying, “Boys will be boys,” has long since become obsolete in schools across the length and breadth of this country. Unknown to most parents, ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 18,2018 )
Good Citizens by Thich Nhat Hanh
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Thich Nhat Hanh

THE FIFTH SET OF CRITERIA: APPEARANCE AND SUBSTANCE The final set of criteria is appearance and substance. Sometimes it doesn’t look like we’re transgressing an ethical guideline when in fact ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 18,2018 )
Rendezvous with Oblivion by Thomas Frank
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Frank

The Animatronic Presidency It is a good thing that politicians concern themselves with their legacy and the scrutiny of generations to come. In fact, I wish they worried about it ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 18,2018 )
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal
epub |eng | | Author:Gore Vidal [Vidal, Gore]

From Newsweek, March 9, 2001: [Justice Antonin] Scalia is regarded as the embodiment of the Catholic conservatives. . . . While he is not a member of Opus Dei, his ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 16,2018 )
Future Scenarios by David Holmgren
epub |eng | 2011-01-29 | Author:David Holmgren

Brown Tech: Top-Down Constriction Slow energy-decline rates, severe climate-change symptoms The brown-tech world is one in which the production of oil declines after its peak between 2005 and 2010 at ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 16,2018 )
Gigged by Sarah Kessler
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Kessler

CHAPTER 11 UBER FOR POLITICS Politicians noticed the gig economy and its promise to shape the future of work sometime around 2015. That September, I met Mark Warner, the senior ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 15,2018 )
World 3.0 by Ghemawat Pankaj
epub |eng | 2010-03-08 | Author:Ghemawat, Pankaj. [drucker]

Developing Concerns Free trade enjoys stronger public support in poorer countries than in rich ones, yet that hasn't stopped intellectuals on the left from arguing that “neoliberal” free-trade agreements pursued ...
( Category: International August 15,2018 )
Three Guineas (Annotated) by Virginia Woolf
epub |eng | | Author:Virginia Woolf

WHETHER THE daughters of educated men who have enough to live upon and read and write their own tongue for their own pleasure will listen to this request or not, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 14,2018 )
Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists: The Revolutionary Union Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980 by Leonard Aaron J
epub |eng | 2015-02-26 | Author:Leonard, Aaron J. [Leonard, Aaron J.]

Victor Riesel was one of those “friends.” Riesel was a New York journalist who covered the labor beat as a syndicated columnist from the 1940s till the early 1980s. At ...
( Category: Americas August 14,2018 )
Daoism and Anarchism by Rapp John A.;
epub |eng | 2012-08-13 | Author:Rapp, John A.;

Notes 1For example, see Kalpana Misra, From Post-Maoism to Post-Marxism: The Erosion of Official Ideology in Deng’s China, passim. 2For the most prominent and recent versions of this view, see ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 14,2018 )
Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire by Morris Berman
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:Morris Berman [Berman, Morris]

An Israeli officer pumped the body of a thirteen-year-old girl full of bullets, then announced that he would have done the same thing if she had been three years old; ...
( Category: Americas August 14,2018 )
Dancing Bears by Antonia Lloyd-Jones & Witold Szablowski
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Antonia Lloyd-Jones & Witold Szablowski

The Lady’s kingdom Long, long ago, the Lady lived in an old cottage outside Pabianice, a town in central Poland, and her only knowledge of large train stations and foreign ...
( Category: Russia August 14,2018 )
Suicide Pact by Andrew P. Napolitano
epub |eng | 2014-08-31 | Author:Andrew P. Napolitano

At one point, Comey said he couldn’t find a legal basis for the program. Yoo’s original memo, he explained, was specious on its face. “Others see it differently,” a scowling ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 13,2018 )

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