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Book Preview: #1 In certain circumstances, statues are more than just stone and metal. They are symbols of individuals, and their symbolism often crosses between the secular and religious.
#2 The culture war binary surrounding the statues issue is a short-hand way for the media to cover the issue, but it overlooks the complex history of how societies around the world have chosen to...
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#1 The Nazi International had a comprehensive, coordinated agenda with long-range goals. It intended to exercise significant influence over the fields of exotic physics and technologies, space, economics, and global finance, and the exploitation of conflict.
#2 The grand design of Nazi Party Reichsleiter Martin Bormann was to transform National Socialism into...
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Book Preview:#1 I became interested in the government's racial policies in the San Francisco Bay Area during World War II, when the area was home to the most extensive shipbuilding complex in the nation.
#2 During World War II, the influx of workers in Richmond, California, resulted in the city's black population soaring from 270 to 14,000.
#3 The federal government built public...
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#1 We are all shift workers. We follow different bedtime schedules on weekdays and weekends. The statement that we are all shift workers isn't just an idea; data points to this fact.
#2 A single night shift has cognitive effects that can last a week. These lapses in memory or attention can make us vulnerable to bad habits. The effects on our health are also troubling,...
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#1 The Dark Side of the Light Chasers is about revealing the part of ourselves that destroys our relationships, kills our spirit, and prevents us from fulfilling our dreams. It is what the psychologist Carl Jung called the shadow.
#2 When you make peace with your shadow, you will no longer have to pretend to be someone you're not. You will no longer have to prove...
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#1 Picasso and his friend Carles Casagemas arrived in Paris from Barcelona in mid-October 1900. They were tasked with seeing the Exposition Universelle, which was scheduled to close on November 12. They had little time to dally if they wanted to see it.
#2 In Paris, the engineers and construction workers were working on the city's new underground Métro system....
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#1 The art of living is the outcome of the use or abuse of the imagination. To use the imagination constructively, we must build a room where we can do nothing but relax. As Americans, we have a tendency to indulge in all sorts of pastimes, and one of them is building a room by ourselves.
#2 I went to dinner with my nephew and his wife. The children, eight and seven,...
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#1 The modern American evangelicalism that so many people are abandoning was a brilliant social construction that over decades yielded something like a real religious community. The fallout of the invention of this evangelical identity has been profound.
#2 The term evangelical was not created out of whole cloth in 1942 when the National Association of Evangelicals was...
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#1 The premise of psychological debriefing is that when people have experienced a traumatic event, they should air their feelings as soon as possible so that they don't develop post-traumatic stress disorder. But is this really helpful.
#2 The writing technique, which people do in private weeks after the event, is more effective than CISD. It helps people heal, and it...
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#1 Zoning is the American Dream in action: it allows cities to grow up and out, and it was developed in response to the rise of noxious urban industries and mounting infrastructure pressures.
#2 Zoning is the practice of regulating the use of land to control urban growth. It has been used to prop up property values, slow the growth of cities, and segregate the United...
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Get the Summary of Valerie Young's The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: If you are a working woman, chances are this internal monologue sounds all too familiar. And you're not alone. From the high-achieving Ph.D. candidate convinced she's only been admitted to the program because of a clerical error to the senior executive who worries others will...
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#1 I visited Georgia to speak with Valerie, a mother of two who was very proud of both her children going to college. But she was also desperate for them to have better options for financial aid.
#2 The root of ambition is the desire for something more. We rarely think about what we want and how to get it until we're adults, and even then, we typically edit our desires...
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#1 Ben-Gurion International Airport is a brash, beautiful, and strikingly confident construction that serves as a testament to Israel's self-ascribed position as a bastion of social and technological advancement amid a sea of inchoate enemies.
#2 I visited the village of Um al-Nasr in northern Gaza, which was flooded when Israel refused to allow the importation of pumps,...
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#1 The human brain is capable of comparing and abstracting patterns, even those that have nothing to do with each other. People are able to identify and compare domains that have nothing to do with each other except for a common, abstract intellectual scaffolding that they themselves construct.
#2 Analogy is a fundamental part of human decision making. We are capable...
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#1 We hired Bridget, even though she had never designed a vegetable garden, because she had made an impression on Anne as well. We wanted something more than the usual boring rectangular beds. We wanted a little pizzazz with our parsley.
#2 We had a garden installed in our backyard, and we were excited to start growing vegetables. We wanted to have the garden completed by fall, because...
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#1 We are what we move. When we move from people who walk to people who drive, we experience a change in mode, and this affects how we view others. We view people who walk as harmless polluters, while people who drive are seen as invincible monsters.
#2 The more we drive, the more we struggle to stay human. We become mute in traffic, and instead of complex vocabularies...
57) Summary of Professor Dr.-Ing. Klaus Schwab & Thierry Malleret's The Great Narrative (The Great Re
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#1 The Great Narrative addresses the first two questions: What future do we want. and What must we do to get there. The pandemic was one such thing that forced us to address these questions.
#2 History shows that pandemics are typically a shock that divides and traumatizes. They can also be a force for lasting and often radical change. Today's world is being shaped by...
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#1 Kim Byers, a teenager working at Nisson Pharmacy in Des Plaines, Illinois, had used a brief lull in customer traffic to process an order. She had planned to give the prints to her sister for Christmas.
#2 When Phil Torf's brother, Larry, remodeled the drugstore two years before, he had employed P. E. Systems, a firm specializing in pharmacy design and construction....
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#1 It is important to break out of the boxes society constructs for you to discover your self. This requires practicing an audacious form of bravery, and often requires you to go against the grain of what is considered normal.
#2 I had been searching for a spiritual practice that spoke to who I was as a Black African woman, and in the Islamic faith, I found one that...
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#1 You've decided it's time for you to be free. You've stopped trying to construct a life you hope other people will accept, and instead you've decided to embrace the life that God has in store for you. Nothing has happened to you that God can't use to restore you.
#2 You are only as free as your mind will allow you to be. Taking control of your life will require you...
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