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#1 I moved to Iceland in 2003 when I was twenty-seven years old. I had been in graduate school at Oxford University in England, and I was the first Icelander to attend St. Antony's, one of the colleges there. I was attracted to Gudni, who was the first Icelander to attend St. Antony's.
#2 Gudni, who was the president of the student association, was also the first divorcee I knew....
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In this book the author has givenan idea about the various Population group of Assam and their socio-cultural bacground. He has critically examined the racial elements that have entreted into the population of Assam following the traditional approach of anthropology. The subject matter has been dealt with in a popular and non-technical manner so as to be of interest of the general readers and at the same time prove useful to the students of anthropology....
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Get the Summary of Clayborne Carson's The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Relevant and insightful, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. offers King's seldom disclosed views on some of the world's greatest and most controversial figures: John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Lyndon B. Johnson, Mahatma Gandhi, and Richard Nixon. It also paints a...
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We all say that we care about children. We all know that millions of children around the world, including in the United States, are suffering physically, materially, and emotionally and are unable to reach their full potential. Moreover, their material deprivation and physical ills often prevent them from responding to the gospel. Most of us conclude that we cannot do anything significant to help the impoverished children living in our own backyards...
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#1 The political impulse, similarly, must proceed from a universal urge to order social relations. Emotions may elevate practical partisan differences to the realm of the spiritual or doctrinal, which is to say, the irreconcilable.
#2 We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed...
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Get the Summary of Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than, when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified...
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Get the Summary of Walter Isaacson's Benjamin Franklin in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us -an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings.
In best-selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from...
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Una y otra vez se ha afirmado que México es un país mestizo, una singular síntesis de razas y culturas, pero ¿es verdad? ¿Qué intereses políticos y económicos se ocultan debajo de tales afirmaciones? ¿A quiénes beneficia y a quiénes agrede y discrimina el desgastado mito del mestizaje? A caballo entre la historia y la crítica cultural, este libro recorre las obras de cuatro escritores mexicanos fundamentales (Luis Alva, Ignacio Manuel...
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#1 After the Berlin Wall was torn down, the German government was faced with demands that the communist officials who had ordered, executed, and abetted crimes against their own people be prosecuted.
#2 The Stasi, the East German communist police force, had more spies than any other totalitarian government in history. The Soviet Union's KGB employed 480,000 full-time...
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Del avance de la globalización y la pugna del interés por lo más próximo, por lo que sucede en el ámbito local, está naciendo poco a poco una nueva forma de hacer periodismo. La Comunicación Glocal trata de englobar los intereses de los ciudadanos por lo que está sucediendo en el mundo con la codificación precisa para entenderlo desde cada uno de sus ámbitos locales de convivencia. Este libro trata de explicar las causas de esta nueva corriente...
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#1 On Yom Kippur, the 10th of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, Egypt attacked Israel. Syria followed suit a few minutes later. Israel was caught off guard as Egypt began its assault, crossing the Suez Canal, which had separated Egyptian and Israeli forces since 1967.
#2 On Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Israeli reservists and volunteers commandeer cars...
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#1 I was invited to speak at the Southbank Centre in London as a part of the celebration of International Women's Day. I was excited to be there, and was enjoying the bustle and excitement of the typical festival crowds.
#2 I remember the sense of vertigo I felt when one of the young women at the rally, a student from Italy, told me that her country was shutting down....
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Get the Summary of Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Drawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong,...
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#1 In 1975, the Mafia had influence over almost every corner of American society. The five families in New York City, the hub of organized crime worldwide, operated with grim efficiency.
#2 The Mafia, like any profitable organization, was focused on growing profits, eliminating competition, and dodging taxes or any other constraints that might stand in their way. They...
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Get the Summary of Richard Rhode's The Making of the Atomic Bomb in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: From nuclear power's earliest foreshadowing in the work of H.G. Wells to the bright glare of Trinity at Alamogordo and the arms race of the Cold War, this dread invention forever changed the course of human history, and The Making of The Atomic Bomb provides a panoramic backdrop for that...
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What a ride 2020 has been. And, we all know of the chaos and difficulty that it brought. But, in every tragedy, there is some silver lining, a station that seems like the end of the road that turns out to be only a pit stop on the way. So, perhaps we can start to look for ours. Because 2020 may have been a year of hardship and tragedy, but it's also been a year of growth, of learning, and of coming together to be the best we have ever been, not only...
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#1 The Fed is not insolvent, but it is highly leveraged, and its balance sheet is not marked to market. This makes it vulnerable to large swings in market value.
#2 The Fed's balance sheet lumps U. S. Treasury securities-Notes and Bonds, nominal into a single category and shows holdings of approximately $2. 3 trillion as of this writing. The Fed then breaks those holdings...
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This book is the omega of volume 1 titled Why Leaders Fail and Plunge the Innocent into a Sea of Agonies; hence, its justified designation as volume 2. Its purpose is to complete the marathon research expedition commenced by volume 1 (alfa) to search for the mysteries surrounding and being responsible for mans chronic failure in the art of leadership, which has consequently always plunged the innocent under a failed leader into a sea of various acute...
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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 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...