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This landmark treatise by the great economist Henry George was first published in 1879. George's work became the seminal analysis of the political economy which inspired most, if not all, the prominent thinkers of the Progressive Movement and many others of great influence: Upton Sinclair, John Dewey, George Bernard Shaw, Friedrich Hayek, H. G. Wells, Clarence Darrow, and Leo Tolstoy, to name but a few. His analyses and proposals are referred to as "Georgism".

During Covid, host Meike Kopp purchased a lone house on a hill, filled with the contents of another person’s life. The house was overflowing with a thousand books, photos, old love letters, oracle decks, and all the artifacts of a life lived from the now deceased owner, the mysterious George. Intent on discovering who George was, and why, as she peels back layer upon layer of his life, from books on ritualistic magic to the occult, suddenly strange occurrences and phenomena begin to happen. How did George make the journey from God to UFO's? Did he lead her here?

In If I Had a Father, Arthur Gervaise, a talented sculptor from London, grapples with the realization of his deep love for a woman, only to discover it too late. Unbeknownst to him, his estranged father is secretly striving to support him from the shadows. Meanwhile, an elderly man desperately searches for his missing daughter, convinced that Arthur holds the key to her disappearance. The unwavering devotion of these two fathers to their adult children forces everyone around them to confront and redefine their own perceptions of fatherhood. - Summary by Devorah Allen

Am 25. Mai 2020 ging ein Video um die Welt, das den Mord an George Floyd zufällig festhielt: Ein Polizist kniet neun Minuten und 29 Sekunden auf Floyds Hals und lässt auch nicht davon ab, als Floyd mehrmals ruft: "I can’t breathe" – "Ich kann nicht atmen!" Der Mord an George Floyd hat die Welt erschüttert und globale Black-Lives-Matter-Proteste gegen Rassismus und Polizeigewalt ausgelöst. In der ersten Biographie Floyds rekonstruieren die preisgekrönten Reporter Robert Samuels und Toluse Olorunnipa von der Washington Post die großen Zusammenhänge.

Dipo Naziggala (I Closed the Depot): Addiction and Recovery in Kampala is a podcast about addiction and recovery in Kampala Uganda. The stories told in this podcast were drawn from a four-year collaborative research study of the techniques Ugandans living in the suburbs of Kampala use to respond to alcohol related problems. While approximately 58 percent of Ugandans claim that they abstain from alcohol entirely, the WHO estimates that those who do drink have an exceptionally high estimated per capita consumption rate of 23.7 liters of pure alcohol per year. For comparison, the WHO 2014 report ...

The Mysteries of London – Volume I, Part 1 introduces readers to a thrilling world of crime, poverty, and corruption in mid-19th-century London. Serialized as a Penny Dreadful, this wildly popular novel reveals the dark secrets lurking behind the city’s wealth and power.

The Mysteries of London – Volume I, Part 2 continues the serialized novel that captivated Victorian England. Packed with scandal, deception, and intrigue, this gripping tale exposes the hidden lives of London’s rich and poor, weaving together shocking mysteries and dramatic twists.

hi! this podcast is about me, jackson, going throughout high school whilst making an album while having a job, being in varsity show choir, playing lacrosse, and just to top everything off, being gay. to be honest my friends told me that i talk so much that i should make a podcast so here i am. the album i am working on is called letters i wish i sent so from there you can see where the name comes from lol.

1984 by George Orwell.Written more than 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever…A startling and haunting novel, 1984 creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://...

Adventures of Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins. Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of sequels. In the preface to the books, T. P. O'Connor said that "Bindle is the greatest Cockney that has come into being through the medium of literature since Dickens wrote Pickwick Papers". The stories are based on the comedic drama of life at work, at home and all the adventures that take place along the way. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/...