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Birth Control and the State: A Plea and a Forecast by C.P. Blacker is a seminal work that explores the intersection of population control, public policy, and social reform in the early 20th century. Blacker's book presents a compelling argument for the implementation of birth control measures as a means of addressing the social, economic, and moral challenges posed by overpopulation. Drawing on extensive research and statistical data, Blacker highlights...
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El Doctorado en Humanidades con especialidad en Patrimonio y Cultura para la Paz, albergado en la Unidad Académica de Estudios de las Humanidades de la Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas "Francisco García Salinas", nace en un contexto de transformación de los modelos educativos, donde, de los esquemas de educación tradicional se transita a campos problématicos del conocimiento. Dado que en el presente es apremiante una toma de conciencia y de...
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A highly entertaining, scurrilous and fascinating book on Australian con men (and women) and all their dirty, devious tricks.
There are con men you fear and con men you hate, and con men with amazing stories who take your breath away with their dirty tricks and sheer brazen effontery. How do they get away with it?
Written by bestselling author Matthew Benns, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a rollicking rollcall of all the worst and most outrageous scammers...
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What has happened to America? Over the past several years, our nation has seen a drastic decline in general civility, connection, and culture. Collectively, we are tired, angry, anxious, defensive, enraged, and alone. Suicide is up. Confidence is down. Morale is depleted. Solving this problem is a personal and societal issue. As near-peer competitors continue to rise in global power and prestige, it is also a major national security concern.
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Excerpt: "The subject dealt with in this book is one of great, and one may say growing, importance. Whether it is that the present period is one of large increase in the numbers of men and women of an intermediate or mixed temperament, or whether it merely is that it is a period in which more than usual attention happens to be accorded to them, the fact certainly remains that the subject has great actuality and is pressing upon us from all sides....
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En este libro, la autora explora los orígenes del concepto de desarrollo sustentable y va más allá de los lugares comunes en que se ha convertido la sostenibilidad en el ámbito urbano. Presenta una propuesta para revolucionar la actual planeación con enfoque sustentable, hacia la práctica de una planeación para la sustentabilidad. Es decir, hacia un proceso de gestión del cambio que permita direccionar una transición culturalmente integrada...
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Immigration: A World Movement and Its American Significance by Henry Pratt Fairchild is a seminal work that explores the complex dynamics of immigration and its profound impact on American society. In this comprehensive study, Fairchild examines the global phenomenon of immigration, tracing its historical roots and analyzing its various causes and consequences. From the waves of European immigrants who arrived in the United States during the 19th...
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Le parcours des personnes judiciarisées de 16 à 35 ans vers le désistement du crime et la (ré)intégration sociocommunautaire est généralement complexe et parsemé d'embuches. En plus de faire face à l'impact cumulatif de plusieurs adversités vécues tout au long de leur vie, beaucoup de ces jeunes sont confrontés à de multiples transitions : de l'adolescence à l'âge adulte, de la « délinquance » à l'« ex-délinquance »,...
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"Authority" and "A Prisoner's Story" come from the writing collection, Essays & More Straight from the Pen, available in print and as an eBook. The essays show the reality of prison life, the danger and insanity of life inside some of America's most violent prisons, and one man's struggle to keep the peace and survive without resorting to violence.
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Tribal North American Indians are drowning in an ocean of bad information,on one hand. On the other hand they endure divisive government policies, poverty, isolation, substance abuse and indifference...two severe struggles for a fragile minority in a powerful and modern society. The author has spent his life as a teacher and student of American Indian ceremonies. Part one of a series.
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This study of the invasion of compulsory sexual morality into human society, written in 1931, was Reich's first step in approaching the answer to the problem of human mass neuroses, preceding The Mass Psychology of Fascism and The Sexual Revolution. Growing out of Reich's involvement with the crucial question of the origin of sexual suppression, this attempt to explain historically the problem of sexual disturbances and neuroses draws upon the ethnological...
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Ce n'est pas d'hier que l'artiste voit sa pratique entravée au motif qu'elle contreviendrait aux normes que le droit encadre et légitime. Il semble toutefois que ces frictions ressurgissent aujourd'hui avec une acuité nouvelle. Des artistes se voient poursuivis en justice pour atteinte à la vie privée, représentation pornographique ou incitation à la haine ; d'autres sont mis en cause pour des propos jugés intolérables. Ces événements témoignent...
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Bruno Latour, the French sociologist, anthropologist and long-established superstar in the social sciences is revisited in this pioneering account of his ever-evolving political philosophy. Breaking from the traditional focus on his metaphysics, most recently seen in Harman's book Prince of Networks, the author instead begins with the Hobbesian and even Machiavellian underpinnings of Latour's early period encountering his shift towards Carl Schmitt...
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Crime forms only a small and often insignificant amount of the harm experienced by people. While custom and tradition play an important role in the perpetuation of some types of harm, many forms of harm are rooted in the inequalities and social divisions systematically produced in - and by - contemporary states.
Exploring a range of topics including violence, indifference, corporate and state harms, murder, children, asylum and immigration policies,...
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From broadsheet newspapers to television shows and Hollywood films, capitalism is increasingly recognised as a system detrimental to human existence. Colin Cremin investigates why, despite this de-robing, capitalism remains a powerful and seductive force.
Using materialist, psychoanalytic and linguistic approaches, Cremin shows how capitalism, anxiety and desire enter into a mutually supporting relationship. He identifies three ways in which...
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Decay is a collection of poetry by Jofrin Pezzati. The collection is about environmental degradation, humanity, and personal transformation.
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Get the Summary of Lyn Slater's How to Be Old in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How to Be Old" by Lyn Slater is a reflective journey through the author's experiences as she navigates the intersections of aging, fashion, and identity. Slater, a professor turned fashion blogger, explores the dynamics of her classroom and the corporatized academic environment while also delving into the world of fashion. She finds...
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Get the Summary of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander explores the evolution of racial caste in America, particularly focusing on the transition from explicit systems of segregation to more covert mechanisms of racial control. The book traces the historical lineage from slavery to the Jim Crow laws, and ultimately to the modern criminal...
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This book lifts the lid on the reality of Afghanistan's growing drug trade and the role played by the US military in its trajectory.
Where conventional accounts blame the Taliban for the expansion of drug production, Cruel Harvest shows that the US shares responsibility by supporting drug lords, refusing to adopt effective drug control policies and failing to crack down on drug money laundered through Western banks.
Julien Mercille argues...
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Five years into capitalism's deepest crisis, which has led to cuts and economic pain across the world, Against Austerity addresses a puzzling aspect of the current conjuncture: why are the rich still getting away with it? Why is protest so ephemeral? Why does the left appear to be marginal to political life?
In an analysis which challenges our understanding of capitalism, class and ideology, Richard Seymour shows how 'austerity' is just one...
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