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Trust, The Process: A Guide To Using Trust As A Tool To Protect and Build Wealth In Minority Communities

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Report copyright infringementby Shannon R. Wright (Author)In a world where wealth is too often lost at the intersection of confusion, grief, and legal red tape, Trust, The Process is a timely and powerful guide that reclaims the narrative around legacy building, especially within the Minority communities. Written by attorney Shannon R. Wright, this book offers more than just legal explanations, it delivers a culturally conscious, emotionally grounded roadmap to protecting what matters most: y...

Greater Mekong Subregion Gender Strategy Implementation Plan 2025-2030

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Report copyright infringementby Asian Development Bank (Author)This report shows how improving gender mainstreaming via the Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation Program Strategic Framework 2030 (GMS-2030) can bolster inclusivity and ensure women benefit equally from regional cooperation initiatives.Highlighting common barriers hindering women's participation, it explains how the Gender Strategy Implementation Plan (GSIP) 20252030 aims to develop innovative new ways to mainstream gend...

Capitalism Reloaded: The Rise of the Authoritarian-Financial Complex

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Bloom (Author)Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND license. In Capitalism Reloaded, Peter Bloom charts a pivotal shift from the well-known military-industrial complex to a new 'Authoritarian-Financial Complex'. Unlike its predecessor, which centred on armaments and defence, this emerging power structure fuses financial interests with advanced surveillance and digital control, turning social repression into a lucrative industry. Bloom introduc...

Accounting Fables: Tales of Race and Racism in the Borderlands of Business

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Report copyright infringementby Anton Lewis (Author)Blending both fact and fiction the tales in Accounting Fables repeatedly reiterates that race and racism are an enduring malevolence in accounting and commerce, because it is part of a society in which both race and racism are central tenets to existence. Accounting Fables utilizes the Critical Race Theory methodology of Counter storytelling, where the reader is immersed in a differing world view of what is meant by Black/White/Me and Other....

Ethics of Virtual Reality: Technology and Experience

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Report copyright infringementby Michael J. Grabowski (Author)In this book, Michael Grabowski uses established theories of ethics to evaluate the benefits and risks of using virtual reality (VR). By examining and imagining use cases of VR and related technologies, Grabowski questions how rules should govern VR to address issues of control, access, privacy, bias, deception, and abuse.Author BiographyMichael Grabowski is professor of communication, sound, and media arts and director of the Game ...

Spectacular Speculation: Thrills, the Economy, and Popular Discourse

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Report copyright infringementby Urs Stäheli (Author), Eric Savoth (Translator)Spectacular Speculation is a history and sociological analysis of the semantics of speculation from 1870 to 1930, when speculation began to assume enormous importance in popular culture. Informed by the work of Luhmann, Foucault, Simmel and Deleuze, it looks at how speculation was translated into popular knowledge and charts the discursive struggles of making speculation a legitimate economic practice. Noting that t...

The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Rentier Capitalism: The Political Economy of the 20th and 21st Centuries

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Report copyright infringementby Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira (Author)The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Rentier Capitalism is an account of the political economy of capitalism in the 20th and 21st centuries. Capitalism is an unjust form of economic organisation; it is a culture of exacerbated individualism justified by the glorification of individual competition. Today, after 40 years of neoliberalism, capitalism faces again a legitimation crisis. The book discusses capitalism after two revolutio...

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Report copyright infringementby Roderick Campbell (Author)This Element constitutes a systematic attempt to preliminarily reconstruct the Shang economy based on contemporary archaeological and textual evidence. At the same time, the rapid pace of Chinese archaeological discovery and the increasing deployment of archaeological science means that there is a wealth of new information making a new synthesis both challenging and necessary. This synthesis was written from the perspective that the st...

Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750 - Hardcover

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by Diana Berruezo-S?nchez (Author) Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 1.04 x 9.37 x 6.44 IN Publication Date: December 05, 2024

Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran - Paperback

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by Pamela Karimi (Author)Women, Art, Freedom offers an insightful look at the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran, sparked by the tragic murder of Jina Mahsa Amini at the hands of the "morality police" for violating hijab rules. Beyond its feminist undertones and the remarkable courage of the young protesters, what sets this uprising apart from previous ones is the abundant and diverse art it has inspired. This book, rather than merely analyzing the artworks that garnered attention on ...

Earth Medicine: Ancestor's Ways of Harmony for Many Moons - Paperback

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by Jamie Sams (Author)The true spirit of Native American ways of knowing shines through in these heartfelt meditations, poems, and stories. In 364 daily offerings organised according to the cycles of the moon, Jamie Sams offers stirring and poetic insights into the spirituality of the earth, connecting with our communities, and our own soul journeys. Based on Native American creeds and legends, these meditations cut to the heart with their honesty, beauty, and authenticity. Sams teaches such...

Extracting Development: Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia

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Report copyright infringementby Oliver Tappe (Editor), Simon Rowedder (Editor)Resource extraction is currently shaping Southeast Asian landscapes and people's lives to an unprecedented degree. This volume explores old and new resource frontiers, their effect on local economies and social relations, and questions of (contested) resource control and governance. Case studies from Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia, illustrate the predicament of globalized extractivism processes in the region,...

The Vagina Business: The Innovative Breakthroughs That Could Change Everything in Women's Health

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Report copyright infringementby Marina Gerner (Author)This tech could change everything for women--here's how.Women make over 80% of healthcare decisions in everyday life, yet only 4% of all medical research and development is focused on women's health issues. From periods and childbirth to menopause, female pain has been normalized, as society shrugs and says "Welcome to being a woman" instead of coming up with better solutions. But it doesn't have to be this way. In The Vagina Business, awa...

Commercial Intimacy: Affinity and the Marketplace

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Popp (Editor), Brenton Malin (Editor), Wendy A. Woloson (Editor)Explores how marketers have leveraged feelings of personal familiarity in modern consumer capitalism Our wired world connects us with corporations in ways that, just a generation ago, would have been hard to imagine. Marketers track users' habits down to the swipe and scroll; brand influencers reach out to followers in ever more personal ways. Yet, however much we may feel individually reco...

The Joy of Feminist Leadership! Connection and Creativity for Peacekeepers, Bridge Builders, Communal Weavers, and Cosmic Healers

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Rachel Aviva (Author)The Joy of Feminist Leadership! is a research-based resource for gender-inclusive, intersectional feminist leaders-current and aspiring-who are reimagining leadership and facilitating transformation in academia, organizations, communities, and movements worldwide. Readers of The Joy of Feminist Leadership are invited to: Dream wildly, expansively, and unapologetically about the possibilities that feminist leadership liberates Disma...

Awkward Communication: Mastering Communication Through Life's Uncomfortable Moments

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua E. Bishop (Author)Awkward Communication is a practical guide to transforming awkward conversations into powerful opportunities for growth. Whether you're navigating difficult discussions at work, in your personal life, or with strangers, this book shows you how to embrace discomfort and use it as a stepping stone toward better communication.In this engaging and relatable book, you'll learn how to approach those inevitable moments of miscommunication with...

The Imagineering Pyramid: Using Disney Theme Park Design Principles to Develop and Promote Your Creative Ideas

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Report copyright infringementby Louis J. Prosperi (Author)Learn from the Disney ImagineersCreativity. Innovation. Success. That's Disney Imagineering. It was the Imagineers who brought Walt Disney's dreams to life. Now you can tap into the principles of Imagineering to make your personal and professional dreams come true.Even if you're not building a theme park, the Imagineering Pyramid can help you plan and achieve any creative goal. Lou Prosperi designed the pyramid from the essential build...

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria A. Greenfield (Author), Tobias Sytsma (Author), Amanda Kerrigan (Author)This report discusses methods of evaluating the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's impact on forced labor globally, presents findings on the department's efforts, and provides recommendations for strengthening enforcement. Number of Pages: 196 Dimensions: 0.42 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: April 01, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Lirone Glikman (Author)This bestselling book will help you use the power of connections to achieve your professional goals: land a job you love, gain clients, secure investors, or connect with influential mentors.Just meeting people isn't enough. What enables highly successful people to stand out, seize opportunities, and turn every relationship into a catalyst for success is building authentic, strategic connections. That means making lasting impressions, crea...

Admission and Emergency Assessments: A Handbook for Clinicians - Paperback

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by David Houvenagle (Author), John Schmanski (Author)Admission and Emergency Assessments: A Handbook for Clinicians provides a conceptual framework and concrete practice examples to conduct effective assessments for mental health crises and psychiatric admissions. Behavioral health treatment starts with an accurate and thorough assessment of a client's daily functioning, level of risk, and needs. This assessment serves as the clinician's lens for conceptualizing the patient's presentation and...

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again - Hardcover

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by Johann Hari (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back. "The book the world needs in order to win the war on distraction."--Adam Grant, author of Think Again "Read this book to save your mind."--Susan Cain, author of Quiet WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD - ONE OF...

The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy - Hardcover

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by J. Russell Hawkins (Author)Why did southern white evangelical Christians resist the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s? Simply put, they believed the Bible told them so. These white Christians entered the battle certain that God was on their side. Ultimately, the civil rights movement triumphed in the 1960s and, with its success, fundamentally transformed American society. But this victory did little to change southern white evangelicals' theological commitment to segregation. Ra...

The State Must Provide: The Definitive History of Racial Inequality in American Higher Education - Paperback

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by Adam Harris (Author)"A book that both taught me so much and also kept me on the edge of my seat. It is an invaluable text from a supremely talented writer." --Clint Smith, author of How the Word is PassedThe definitive history of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher educationAmerica's colleges and universities have a shameful secret: they have never given Black people a fair chance to succeed. From its inception, our higher education system was not built on equality or...

Children Under Fire: An American Crisis - Paperback

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by John Woodrow Cox (Author)Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction * Winner of the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social JusticeBased on the acclaimed series--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--an intimate account of the devastating effects of gun violence on our nation's children, and a call to action for a new way forwardIn 2017, seven-year-old Ava in South Carolina wrote a letter to Tyshaun, an eight-year-old boy from Washington, DC. She asked hi...

If They Come in the Morning...: Voices of Resistance - Paperback

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by Angela Y. Davis (Editor)With race and policing once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America's giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power One of America's most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Davis, and including contributions from numerous radicals such as Black Panthers George Jackson, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Erica Huggins, this book is not only an account of Dav...

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by Dale Peterson (Author), Richard Wrangham (Author)"Remarkable and utterly fascinating" (Jane Goodall), author Dale Peterson and Harvard University biological anthropology professor Richard Wrangham's Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence is a groundbreaking study on human violence.Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than women. Why do men kill, rape, and wage war, and what can we do about it? Based on human evolution studies and about our closest living relatives, t...

A History of the American People - Paperback

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by Paul Johnson (Author)Paul Johnson's prize-winning classic, A History of the American People, is an in-depth portrait of the American people covering every aspect of U.S. history--from politics to the arts."The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson's remarkable work. "No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind."In A History of the American People, hist...

Contemporary Economic Geographies: Inspiring, Critical and Plural Perspectives

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Report copyright infringementby Faith MacNeil Taylor (Contribution by), Caitlin Henry (Contribution by), Jennifer Clark (Contribution by)The subdiscipline of economic geography has a long and varied history, and recent work has pushed the field to diversify even further. This collection takes this agenda forward by showcasing inspiring, critical and plural perspectives for contemporary economic geographies. Highlighting the contributions of global scholars, the thirty chapters showcase fresh...

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Report copyright infringementby Bertrand De Jouvenel (Author)The Art of Conjecture clearly explains what the "study of the future" can mean. De Jouvenel emphasizes the logical and political problems of forecasting and discusses methods in economics, sociology, and political science by which the future can be studied Number of Pages: 326 Dimensions: 0.68 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 08, 2012

Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression Under Gentrification

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Report copyright infringementby Augustus Wood (Author)Between 1966 and 2015, the city of Atlanta was transformed. In the late 1960s, Black politicians ascended to the top of the power structure for the first time thanks to newly enfranchised Black working-class voters. Through the early 1970s, the demographics of the city shifted, and the combination of Black empowerment and white flight produced a growing Black working-class majority that increasingly demanded Black Power policies that often...

Slow Down or Die: The Economics of Degrowth

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Report copyright infringementby Timothée Parrique (Author), Claire Benoit (Translator)A Publishers Weekly Most Ancitipated Book of Spring 2025A bold call to abandon the myth of endless economic growth and embrace a sustainable, just, and thriving future. One of the most deeply ingrained beliefs of our age is that perpetual economic growth is the solution to most, if not all, of society's problem. In Slow Down or Die, French economist Timothée Parrique brilliantly challenges this myth, demonst...

Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America

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Report copyright infringementby Margot Canaday (Author)A masterful history of the queer workforce in America Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as "straight spaces" in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job. Queer Career rectifies this, offering an expansive historical look at sexual minorities in the modern American workforce. Arguing that queer workers were more visible than hidden and, against ...