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The story of how a biologically driven understanding of gender and sexuality became central to US LGBTQ+ political and legal advocacy.
Across protests and courtrooms, LGBTQ+ advocates argue that sexual and gender identities are innate. Oppositely, conservatives incite panic over "groomers" and a contagious "gender ideology" that corrupts susceptible children. Yet, as this debate rages on, the history of what first compelled the hunt for homosexuality's...
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A pesar de la expedición de leyes en materia del reconocimiento de los derechos de las mujeres a una vida digna, libre de agresiones físicas y psicológicas, dicha situación sigue presentándose especialmente en el entorno familiar poniendo en riesgo su integridad. Persisten las deficiencias en el diseño e implementación de políticas públicas para asegurar una vida libre de violencia para las mujeres.La situación contra las mujeres se ha agudizado,...
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2022, année électorale en France.
La France est lessivée.
Les projets politiques sont déprimants de platitude.
La rupture entre le Peuple et ses édiles est consommée.
Après avoir servi la France sans moufter pendant près de 40 ans en bon Hussard de la République, Gille en a marre.
Ce pamphlet est son cri de désespoir.
De révolte également.
D'espérance aussi.
Il exprime son ressenti de citoyen, sans artefact sociologisant....
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Can the West Be Saved? Liz Truss, the former Conservative prime minister of Great Britain, thinks that's an open question.
During her ten years at the highest levels of the British government, she often found that she was the only conservative in the room. She witnessed, first-hand, the machinations of globalists who would like nothing more than to impose corporate state-socialism on the world. Freedom is at risk, she warns, and the Conservative...
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This book offers a complete translation of the original work titled "Golem: metla Čechů...: rozklad českého nacionalismu," published in the Czech language in 1942. The author's original essay, "Golem...Geissel der Tschechen, die Zersetzung des Tschechischen Nationalismus," was originally written in German. While different translations of the title exist, such as "The Plague of the Czechs" or "The Scourge of the Czechs," the most common and chosen...
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Paradigm Shift is the story of the rise and fall of the American Empire as viewed within a psychosocial context. After eight years of Bush and Cheney, we were almost ready to turn our Titanic around before it hit the Iceberg from Wasilla. These are the rumors and legends about Sarah Palin that the mainstream media do not want you to know about their cash cow.
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In her New York Times bestsellers Going Rogue and America by Heart, Sarah Palin revealed the strong Christian faith that has guided her life and family. In Good Tidings and Great Joy she calls for bringing back the freedom to express the Christian values of the season. She asserts the importance of preserving Jesus Christ in Christmas-in public displays, school concerts, pageants, and our expressions to one another other-and laments the over-commercialization...
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Seasoned trends forecaster and consultant Annie Auerbach takes a fresh look at women's professional lives today by rethinking the 9 to 5 in this "no-nonsense guide to thinking and behaving more flexibly in order to have a happier, better, less frenetic life" (Marie Claire)-now widely available for American readers and updated with an author note addressing work in the post-Covid age.
The recent coronavirus outbreak has proven what Annie Auerbach...
9) Delhi
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Zeb and his team return to India.Their enemies are determined they don't leave it alive. Zeb and his crew weren't expecting fireworks when they arrived in Delhi. Joint training exercises with RAW, India's secretive counter-terrorism outfit, great company and good food ... they didn't have anything else planned. Until they were attacked and the shooters escaped leaving several dead behind. The Agency and RAW go into high alert but there is nothing...
10) Antisemitism
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The first volume of Arendt's celebrated three-part study of the philosophical origins of the totalitarian mind. This volume focuses on the rise of antisemitism in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Index.
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Although the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of the election itself has been overshadowed by other events: the war; Roosevelt's health and his death the following April; Truman's ascendancy; and the decision to drop the atomic bomb. Today, most people assume that FDR's reelection in 1944 was assured. Yet, as David M. Jordan's engrossing account reveals, neither the outcome...
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In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of Americans' lives. Again and again, historians have sought to explain the nation's profound political realignment from the 1960s to the 2000s, five decades that witnessed the fracturing of liberalism and...
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Christopher Ebbe, Ph.D., has written this book to inform the public about his goals for the country if he were elected President in 2024-most importantly, to return to viewing each other as basic equals, to accept those with different views, and to compromise to solve our mutual problems. Dr. Ebbe would act in accord with true equality (the government taking the needs of each citizen as being just as important as the needs of any other citizen), and...
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December 2014 marked a year since the passing of Nelson Mandela-a man who was as much myth as flesh and blood. Transition pays tribute to Mandela's worldly attainments and to his otherworldly sainthood. Featuring remembrances from Wole Soyinka, Xolela Mangcu, Pierre de Vos, and Adam Habib, this issue assembles Mandela's staunchest allies-for whom he approached saintliness-as well as his most entrenched critics. Other contributors consider the iconicity...
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At a time when female architects were still as rare as hen's teeth, a seemingly unlikely entrant to the profession, a middle-aged vicar's wife - Annabel Dott, was taking tentative steps on building projects in South Africa. A few years later she built ten houses in a North Yorkshire moorland village. Intended at first as holiday lets nine of the houses were then donated for the use of disabled officers of the First World War, which she claimed as...
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When the nightclub bombings begin in downtown Austin, a dear friend of Pastor Matt Hayden is arrested for the murders. Matt is forced to put on his old cop's hat to find the real killers and soon learns that the culprits are on a vendetta to hurt those he loves most. Matt is forced to enter the dangerous world of religious radicalism, political blackmail, and two power-hungry tycoons who will kill anyone who gets in their way-including Matt.
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An unsuspecting First Lady must rely on a Secret Service agent to discover who can be trusted-and who will do anything to keep control. When a shy, country girl from Virginia marries a prominent Georgetown attorney, her life is bound to change. But when that attorney is catapulted to the office of President of the United States, she is thrust into the position of First Lady-and uncovers a world of secrets and betrayals that alters everything she once...
18) Icarus
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Man versus machine. Anarchy versus order. Power versus love.Centuries of war have ravaged the world. Those left are sheltered under domed cities -- like the decrepit city of Kennedy -- but they're not really protected. Class warfare wages. The lower classes are kept down by the upper class that strives to eventually replace them with easily-controlled artificial intelligence. The man who created this AI is Jerrid Fieger, the most powerful man in Kennedy....
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This stimulating and insightful book reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production in theater, literature, and even museum construction. Dominic Thomas's analysis unravels the complex cultural and political realities of long-standing mobility between Africa and Europe. Thomas questions the attempt to place strict limits on what it means to be French or European and offers a sense of what must happen to bring...
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Those who have a deep affection for Britain's countryside will be totally absorbed by this extraordinary history of environmentalists' efforts to conserve the glorious South Downs. After describing the special qualities of the area and earlier attempts to safeguard it, the story of a twenty-year campaign to secure National Park status for this special part of England is recounted. Strong forces opposed, but the South Downs Campaign, which eventually...
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