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#1 On July 27, 2016, Trump publicly asked Russia to hack his opponent's emails and release them to the press. He knew this would help him win the election. With the narcissistic intensity that passes for a soul, he revealed to the world that whatever it takes would not just be a mantra but the modus operandi for his team.
#2 After Trump betrayed his country, he enjoyed...
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#1 Freedom is one of the most important concepts in political philosophy. For many, the primary purpose of a legitimate political system is to protect the freedom of its citizens. But first we must determine what freedom is. Is it simply the ability to make choices without external interference. Or does freedom require particular circumstances.
#2 The idea of liberty...
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Le présent ouvrage offre un portrait contrasté et critique de l'offre de services en santé mentale au Québec en s'appuyant sur les données d'une recherche ethnographique portant sur l'expérience des personnes qui utilisent ces services. Afin de découvrir la manière dont l'identité du patient se transforme à travers le parcours de soins, l'auteure de ce livre a développé un cadre conceptuel (liant les théories «goffmanienne» et «foucaldienne»)...
84) Les pratiques en maison d'hébergement pour femmes victimes de violence conjugale: 40 ans d'histoire
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C'est au milieu des années 197O que des Québécoises, décidées à sortir le phénomène de la sphère privée, ont mis sur pied les premières maisons d'hébergement pour femmes victimes de violence conjugale. Levant le voile sur la violence des hommes à l'endroit des femmes dans les couples, problème longtemps compris comme étant d'ordre familial, elles ont développé des ressources permettant d'accueillir celles qui désiraient se soustraire...
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#1 Decolonization is the process of removing a country's colonial rule, and is always a violent process. It starts with the basic claims of the colonized, and is accomplished by changing the social fabric inside out.
#2 Decolonization, the process of changing the order of the world, is an agenda for total disorder. It cannot be accomplished by the wave of a magic wand,...
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The word 'life' conjures the ordinary and the ordinary are experiences common to all humans except that their routineness, their repetition, their commonality make them invisible in the busy-ness of loaded days. This book tries to make them visible again. Human experiences are varied and many; the few in this bookstand for all that are not in it. Mythologies of Late is tell-tales of the extraordinary in the ordinary, a mirror onto societies of people...
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The concept of cultural insanity provides a better way of understanding much of what is wrong in our society and in the world today-and how it got that way-and some ways to improve it.
Where our own culture is involved, we and all other individuals in our society are party to it, yet largely blind to it, and to varying extents partake of at least some of its craziness. Accordingly, correctly grasping the idea of cultural insanity will...
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Get the Summary of Voddie T. Baucham's Fault Lines in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the summer of 2020 shocked the nation. As riots rocked American cities, Christians affirmed from the pulpit and in social media that "black lives matter" and that racial justice "is a gospel issue."
But what if there is more to the social justice movement...
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#1 The life of Monroe, the original playgirl, followed a similar trajectory to that of her pin-up predecessor Bettie Page, who survived into old age but spent her final decades in a psychiatric institution. The most successful modern porn stars are also likely to have been sexually abused as children, to have been in foster care, and to have been victims of domestic...
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Get the Summary of Ryan & Stephen Hanselman Holiday's Lives of the Stoics 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Nearly 2,300 years after a ruined merchant named Zeno first established a school on the Stoa Poikile of Athens, Stoicism has found a new audience among those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. It's no wonder; the philosophy and its embrace of...
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#1 The Egyptians who visited Belgrade in 2009 were planning a revolution against their own dictator, Hosni Mubarak. They weren't aspiring politicians, but college kids like me, who shared the same passions as college kids all over the world: staying up late, drinking a lot, and trying to get a date.
#2 I loved Rimtutituki, a Serbian punk band, because they were anti-war and spoke...
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#1 On July 20, 2017, Trump went to the Pentagon to receive a briefing on America's military commitments around the world. Bannon, Trump's chief strategist, wanted to demonstrate how overextended and overcommitted the United States was overseas. Mattis, the secretary of defense, and Tillerson, the secretary of state, wanted to promote America's alliances.
#2 Bannon was...
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#1 The Williams sisters were unapologetic about their dominance, and the resentment that followed them was a result of the status quo being challenged.
#2 The myth of the Williams family was always one of difference. Their father, Richard, had decided that his daughters would become tennis players, and he trained them rigorously. They rose to the top of their age rankings,...
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Get the Summary of Shomari Wills' Black Fortunes in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The astonishing untold history of America's first Black millionaires-former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring '20s-self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such...
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Get the Summary of Patty McCord's Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: When it comes to recruiting, motivating, and creating great teams, Patty McCord says most companies have it all wrong. McCord helped create the unique and high-performing culture at Netflix, where she was chief talent officer. In her new book, Powerful: Building...
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#1 Biden's border policy has been a complete and total disaster.
#2 Biden's been a disaster for the rule of law.
#3 2. 1 million people illegally crossed our borders in Biden's first year.
#4 Biden's border policy has been a complete and total disaster.
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Este libro está dirigido fundamentalmente a aquellas personas
que por distintas razones se han visto involucradas en procesos de
cambio, ya sea como parte de sus labores profesionales, académicas
o investigativas. Es una invitación a reflexionar sobre las
distintas concepciones de cómo se produce lo social, ya que estas
concepciones, sin duda alguna, influyen en las formas de
vinculación, así como en las estrategias y prácticas concretas
que...
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#1 Environmental justice did not become common vernacular until the early 1980s, but it has been around since the 1960s. In 1982, when a landfill was proposed in Warren County, North Carolina, to accept PCBs, a highly toxic by-product of the chemical industry, it sparked a massive protest.
#2 As the EJ movement grew, so did the research. However, the predominant...
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Buried beneath today's Midwestern towns, under several layers of earth and the accumulated debris of two thousand years, are the clues to an ancient mystery. A Native American people, now known as the Hopewell, lived and worked these lands, building earthworks which in some instances dwarf the ruins at Stonehenge. More significantly, these mammoth earthworks were built in different geometric shapes, using a standard unit of measure and aligned to...
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En Los Nueve Principitos - Una Gua Prctica para la Realizacin de tus Proyectos, Germn Escobar Silva nos cambia completamente la visin sobre la Gestin de Proyectos, pues nos involucra a todos cuando afirma con buenos argumentos que la vida es una sucesin de proyectos y que en el ciclo de los proyectos, el punto de inicio es el mismo punto del final y as van encadenndose los proyectos. La perspectiva de que la Gestin de Proyectos es algo que no est...
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