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Foreclosures are hitting record highs; Americans are declaring bankruptcy at rates ten times that during the great Depression; more college students drop out because of debts than due to poor grades; reports of debtor suicides proliferate in the media. In other words, it's a great time to be in the banking business.
Maxed Out takes us on a road trip that is sometimes hysterical and often horrifying: from Las Vegas to the Bible Belt, from the backwoods...
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#1 Raisuddin worked at a mini-mart in Dallas, selling Americans three tamales for a dollar. The economy around the store was desolate, and it wasn't the economy of the legendary firms where third-world boys like him fantasized about working.
#2 Raisuddin grew up with America on his television screen, and thought of the place as a land of opportunity. But when he first...
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Connected-by Nature's Law presents a comprehensive picture of reality and the process that humanity is undergoing. The book offers tools for using the major personal and social shifts we're going through to our benefit. It also offers a "healthcare program for humanity" by solidifying the ties between us on all levels-family, community, national, and international. The sooner we implement the program, the sooner we will find ourselves enjoying tranquil,...
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Man has long searched for the cause and meaning of mental illness. This book attempts to answer those questions. The author/compiler has spent 47 years investigating these problems and his conclusion is that severe unconscious bisexual conflict and confusion lie at the root of all mental illness, as difficult to comprehend as this idea may be. The book itself consists of 639 quotations, from a variety of sources, all of which point to the unshakable...
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This early work by Beatrice Potter Webb was originally published in 1926 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'My Apprenticeship Vol. I.' is the second volume of fascinating work on Victorian society. Beatrice Potter Webb was born in Gloucester, England in 1858. Both her mother and brother died early in her childhood leaving her to be raised by her father, Richard Potter. He was a successful businessman with large...
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For more than fifty years, the revolutionary experience in Cuba was the stage for such re markable personalities as Che Guevara and for dramatic events like the missile crisis. All these 20th century historic icons are interwoven with the deep internal restructuring of the Cuban economy and society, and the related challenge to the United States' prior unopposed hegemony over Latin America. The complexities of these elements should not be dismissed,...
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There are moments when the normal flow of time catches, hesitates, and shifts direction.
2020 was one of these moments.
Now, at this critical juncture, a new generation is coming of age and demanding a reckoning: Generation Z. Three billion strong, they're at the center of the most pivotal issues of our time, from reimagining how we live on our changing planet to enacting a new mandate for racial equity. The following decade will bring unparalleled...
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Este libro es una crónica del funesto capítulo que está escribiendo Europa sobre la inmigración y de cómo el intento de conseguir una vida mejor por parte de los subsaharianos se ha convertido en el último holocausto europeo. En los últimos años más de 16.000 personas han muerto en el Mediterráneo cuando intentaban alcanzar Europa. El libro analiza los motivos que hacen que los inmigrantes se embarquen en un viaje de futuro incierto y por...
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Imagine places ideas in society and gets readers thinking critically about their most cherished beliefs and values. The topics are vast and varied: abortion, immigration, gay rights, love, mentorship, and sustainable development. There is no right answer. We must come to our own conclusions. If we can listen and learn from each other, we can accept our differences. Everyone has ideas on how to make the world a better place and fill humankind with...
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Nos encontramos actualmente en una especie de tránsito que nos está llevando a un abandono o revisión minuciosa de un paradigma, el de la Modernidad, hacia otro que aún no alcanzamos a vislumbrar a plenitud. Este tránsito solicita una comprensión del momento por el que estamos pasando en diversos ámbitos de nuestra realidad, para ello el mejor recurso con el que actualmente contamos es el de la hermenéutica, que ni está totalmente restringida...
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#1 The United States was founded on the principle of diversity, but that has always been an uphill battle in America. Americans have always struggled with unity in diversity, and it is draining to constantly have to check your ego.
#2 In the future, white people will be a minority in America. This has many people worried, as they don't know how the country will handle...
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This book urges respect for solitary dissent rather than censure. It equips a wide audience to understand what previously seemed unimaginable, much less comprehensible. It shows the reader how to reach beyond those first conclusions and into the heart of the matter.
The lone voice explains that something has been hidden away, something which the individual now dissenting can no longer acquiesce in. It raises the possibility that more may be seriously...
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What is CSR? Can there be a single definition possible?
What is CSR anyway?
Until, last few decades of twentieth century, there was no explicit mention of the term Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR anywhere, though it was present. So this book will give in-depth overview of the theoretical aspects such as definitions, evolution, and philosophical impetus of the term CSR.
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Este es un extenso estudio sobre las diversas juventudes que habitan y transitan amplios conglomerados urbanos y rurales, dividido en dos volúmenes: el primero se concentra en una muestra de las y los jóvenes de la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México (ZMVM); el segundo, abarca a otra muestra de jóvenes, mujeres y hombres que serían afectados por la construcción de un megaproyecto, a saber, el Nuevo Aeropuerto Internacional de México (NAIM)....
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Social organism (MEMES) surround us - Families, corporations, religions, nations. One of the specific tasks of our memes is to captivate each of us into surrendering to our role in the Meme thus abandoning our own soulful self. This is why as you read news accounts of a happening you respond "How could he do such a thing?" in the past our answer was "The devil made me," or "God did it." BUT it's not so, the Meme demanded it and we respond - ITS MEME...
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An era of vibrant diversity is rewriting our culture, schools, workplaces and history. But more than a decade into the twenty-first century, talent of color are not breaking into the top executive ranks in numbers proportionate to their achievements and demographic mass. To move past lingering bias and subtle exclusion, people of color need the powerful advocacy of sponsorship. This robust relationship capital drives engagement and retention, fostering...
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#1 The English Civil War was a conflict between the Parliamentarians and the Cavaliers. The Parliamentarians were loyal to King and Parliament, while the Cavaliers were loyal to Charles I. The conflict ended when Cromwell died in 1658, and a Parliament was created that restored Charles II to the throne.
#2 The English Civil War was the result of a system of government...
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This pathbreaking book examines the strategies, successes, and challenges of youth advocacy organizations, highlighting the importance of local contexts for these efforts. Working between social movements and the political establishment, these organizations occupy a special niche in American politics and civil society. They use their position to change local agendas for youth and public perceptions of youth, and work to strengthen local community...
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In challenging social science's established orthodoxies, this first in a series of books is a call for its disciplines to embrace new theoretical paradigms and research methods to better, understand the reality of life in a post-COVID world. By offering a detailed insight into the harmful effects of neoliberalism before the pandemic, as well as the intervallic period the world is currently living through, the authors show how it is more important...
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#1 When I was 11, my father was forced to retire from the Navy after 25 years, and we moved to La Grange, North Carolina. My father began drinking heavily, and he took his rage and frustration out on my mother. We never knew when he was going to explode in anger and bitterness.
#2 I lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, with my mother and two brothers after my father died....
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