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This collection features engaging readings that resonate more with young teens aged 12 and up rather than younger children. Each piece is infused with an idealistic spirit, offering a captivating glimpse into the socialist ideals that were shaping the working class during the early 20th century. - Summary by KevinS

On “Reading the Middle East with Gilles Kepel,” the latest Al-Monitor podcast, renowned French scholar Gilles Kepel interviews the ground-breaking authors and thought leaders who are both shaping and explaining the complex trends in the Middle East and Islamic world. Kepel, one of Europe's leading experts on Islamism, the Middle East and North Africa, is a professor at the Institute of Political Studies, Paris (Sciences Po). His numerous books — which include "Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam," "The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West," "Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of...

Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to absolutes does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Obama's commitments to deliberation and experimentation derive from sustained engagement with American democratic thought.

Houston area Urban League Center for Social Justice presents The Arc of Democracy - Reading Between the Lines.

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FOR ANGIE’S EARS ONLY!!!this is for my BABY to play when you miss me or just need a good bedtime story. “The Tale of Despereaux” was my comfort book when i was younger, and comfort is all i wanna give you when i can’t be next to you. the episodes will be a couple chapters at once, around half an hour long, so you have enough time to fall asleep! i hope you love it as much as i love you, cuz i do!Merry Christmas, Baby. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This podcast offers a refuge for those intellectual hedonists who are in constant search of knowledge and alternate viewpoints that add to the expansion of their own worldview - enhancing their mental fortitude in an age of misinformation, willful ignorance and deliberate disregard for our history as a nation and the lessons that history provides for the future.

In 1987, E. L. Doctorow celebrated the Constitution's bicentennial by reading it. "It is five thousand words long but reads like fifty thousand," he said. Distinguished legal scholar Garrett Epps disagrees. It's about 7,500 words. In American Epic, Epps takes us through a complete reading of the Constitution to achieve an appreciation of its power and a holistic understanding of what it says. In this book he seeks not to provide a definitive interpretation, but to listen to the language and ponder its meaning.

More than 2,000 years ago the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu advised us to know our enemies. The question has always been how. In A Sense of the Enemy, the historian Zachary Shore demonstrates that leaders can best understand an opponent not simply from his pattern of past behavior, but from his behavior at pattern breaks. Meaningful pattern breaks occur during dramatic deviations from the routine, when the enemy imposes costs upon himself. It's at these unexpected moments, Shore explains, that successful leaders can learn what makes their rivals truly tick.

“We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history a­fter finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy Connor Towne O’Neill’s journey onto the battlefield of white supremacy began with a visit to Selma, Alabama, in 2015...

In the thought-provoking short story Leader, first published in 1960, renowned science fiction author Murray Leinster (the pen name of William F. Jenkins) delves into the complexities of power and influence. The narrative unfolds through a series of letters between two scientists Professor Albrech Aigen, who is exploring the dark legacy of a former despotic ruler known as The Leader, and Dr. Karl Thurn, who investigates the unsettling realm of psionic abilities, including mind control. With The Leader echoing the persona of Adolf Hitler, this tale serves as an allegorical critique, examining ...

What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics? The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances...

Cybersecurity incidents make the news with startling regularity. Each breach makes headlines, inspires panic, instigates lawsuits, and is then forgotten. The cycle of alarm and amnesia continues with the next attack, and the one after that. Cybersecurity expert Josephine Wolff argues that we shouldn't forget about these incidents, we should investigate their trajectory, from technology flaws to reparations for harm done to their impact on future security measures. We can learn valuable lessons in the aftermath of cybersecurity breaches.

A reading of the January 6th Committee Final Report Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jan6thpodcast/support

An accessible and balanced account, Food Politics laid the groundwork for today's food revolution and changed the way we respond to food industry marketing practices. Now, a new introduction and concluding chapter bring us up to date on the key events in that movement. This pathbreaking, prize-winning book helps us understand more clearly than ever before what we eat and why. This book is published by University of California Press.