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How the Other Half Lives was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle class. How The Other Half Lives quickly became a landmark in the annals of social reform.

Dive into a captivating collection of 16 short stories that explore the myriad ways love can unfold. Each tale offers a unique perspective on romance, revealing both the joys and complexities of love affairs. - Summary by Carolin

In Black Utopias, Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking.

Hi, I'm Claire Ratcliffe, a Psychotherapist, Couples & Relationship Therapist and host of Healing Relationships. This podcast is your guide to understanding and healing your relationships - starting with the one you have with yourself, so you can feel a deeper sense of peace, trust and security in yourself and your life. Each week, I'll share insights, tools and real conversations about how to break and heal from old patterns, improve communication, and create connection that feels good, whether that's with a partner, friends, family, or within yourself. If you've ever wondered why you keep...

From YouTube's Head of Culture and Trends, a rousing and illuminating behind-the-scenes exploration of Internet video's massive impact on our world. Whether your favorite YouTube video is a cat on a Roomba, 'Gangnam Style', the 'Bed Intruder' song, an ASAPscience explainer, Rebecca Black's 'Friday', or the 'Evolution of Dance', Kevin Allocca's Videocracy reveals how these beloved videos and famous trends - and many more - came to be and why they mean more than you might think.

Including pieces from The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, this collection is Bowden at his best. The titular article, "The Three Battles of Wanat", tells the story of one of the bloodiest days in the war in Afghanistan and the extraordinary years-long fallout it generated within the United States military. In "The Killing Machines", Bowden examines the strategic, legal, and moral issues surrounding armed drones.

It goes unappreciated by modern Egyptologists, but it is embraced by those who savor the concept of a “hidden history” of humanity, and those who approach all human knowledge from the perspective of the esoteric. Gerard Massey’s massive Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World–first published in 1907 and the crowning achievement of the self-taught scholar–redefines the roots of Christianity via Egypt, proposing that Egyptian mythology was the basis for Jewish and Christian beliefs.

Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history. The witch came to prominence - and often a painful death - in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early modern state.

Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it. Here, Bornstein bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival in an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, Hello, Cruel World is a much-needed unconventional approach to life for those who want to stay on the edge, but alive.

Engaging and transforming, The Happiest Man in the World provides a unique and compelling insight into the life and legacy of a man who found true happiness in relinquishment and selfless service.

A GenX aunt and GenZ nephew discuss culture, trends and current events to better understand what's happening around us, why we think the way we do, and what we can do to help each other get along in an increasingly complicated world. Published semi weekly until junior heads off to uni, then we'll see! For links mentioned in the podcast visit us on Bluesky @xwhyz-cad.bsky.social. And check out our carefully curated X?Z Podcast Playlist updated episodically on Spotify.

Writer and director David Hare is one of England's leading political dramatists, celebrated for his many award-winning plays analysing the morality of contemporary Britain. This collection comprises some of his most acclaimed pieces, as well as a fascinating radio interview with Hare himself.

For many centuries the figure of the witch has haunted our imagination and our nightmares. There have been many attempts to quash our fascination with these wielders of forbidden powers, but all have failed. We invite you now on a journey through a moonlit world, where every shadow tells a tale of magic, persecution and persistence. In this fascinating volume, discover witches real and legendary, who once terrorized, devoured, helped or empowered their communities, but who are now largely forgotten.

All over the world, people have reported encounters with a race of tiny people who are neither human nor deity. This book reclaims that lost, rich heritage of working with faery folk that our Pagan ancestors took for granted. Edain McCoy teaches how to work with faeries in a mutually beneficial way. Practice rituals and spells in which faeries can participate, and discover tips to help facilitate faery contact.

Helping Ninjas Podcast: Inspiring others to help the world! This is a podcast to inspire others to help the world! We want inspire kids like us to learn how to help the planet, each other and ourselves and to learn about others who are helping the world right now. Our guests are going to be activists, scientists, world leaders, celebrities and just every day people —like you & me— who are doing things to change the world! Whether you are helping the planet, each other or yourself — every little act of help makes a difference. Learning how to help the world is important! We like helping, ...

Recent Chinese policies have fueled concerns that the country seeks to overturn the post–Cold War geopolitical order. But China is not the only revisionist power in Asia. Just as Chinese revisionism alarms Washington, the United States’ promotion of the liberal order stokes fear in Beijing and beyond.

"As Some Iranians Register Dislike at Polls, Others Do so by Staying In" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Thomas Erdbrink and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"‘Mad Tiger’ and Other Films Join a New Wave of Punk Documentaries" is from the Arts section of The New York Times. It was written by Robert Ito and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

Contestation in Iran is not just between the regime and the people, or the old generation and a protesting young generation. Rather, the regime itself is conflicted over its very nature and what its future should look like.