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  100 Facts About Being an...

  Science-Based Language Learning Lab

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  Introduction to the 100 Somethings Language Learning Series 
   
  Welcome to a revolutionary approach to language learning! This series helps you master Spanish by intertwining it with compelling topics like Being an Informed Voter. Each book centers on a theme (art, science, history) and presents 100 carefully chosen facts in both English and Spanish. 
   
  How It Works: 
   
  - Each fact is first introduced in Spanish, encouraging you to interpret it. 
   
  - The following page provides the fact in English and then repeats it in Spanish, aiding comprehension and memorization. 
   
  - The second half flips this order—English first, then Spanish, and English again—helping you practice translation in both directions for better mastery. 
   
  Benefits: 
   
  - Concise Learning: Focuses on one-sentence facts to ensure every word learned is impactful and directly related to your interests, making them easier to remember. 
   
  - Reinforcement: Alternating languages for each fact naturally strengthens vocabulary and grammar. 
   
  - Engagement: Learning vocabulary through topics you're passionate about keeps the process dynamic and relevant. 
   
  - Dual Knowledge: You enrich your understanding of a specific subject while learning a new language. 
   
  This series is tailored for learners who thrive on clear, targeted information, making it both educational and enjoyable. Whether you’re a beginner or expanding your linguistic skills, this series promises an effective and engaging educational journey. Embrace these 100 facts and let your passions drive your progress in mastering a new language!

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  Democracy Rules

  Jan-Werner Müller

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  A much-anticipated guide to saving democracy, from one of our most essential political thinkers. 
   
   
   
  Everyone knows that democracy is in trouble, but do we know what democracy actually is? Jan-Werner Müller, author of the widely translated and acclaimed What Is Populism?, takes us back to basics in Democracy Rules. In this short, elegant volume, he explains how democracy is founded not just on liberty and equality, but also on uncertainty. The latter will sound unattractive at a time when the pandemic has created unbearable uncertainty for so many. But it is crucial for ensuring democracy's dynamic and creative character, which remains one of its signal advantages over authoritarian alternatives that seek to render politics (and individual citizens) completely predictable. 
   
   
   
  Müller shows that we need to re-invigorate the intermediary institutions that have been deemed essential for democracy's success ever since the nineteenth century: political parties and free media. Contrary to conventional wisdom, these are not spent forces in a supposed age of post-party populist leadership and post-truth. Müller suggests concretely how democracy's critical infrastructure of intermediary institutions could be renovated, re-empowering citizens while also preserving a place for professionals such as journalists and judges.

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  The Poverty of Philosophy

  Karl Marx

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  Marx started work on this book in January 1847, as can be judged from Engel's letter to Marx on January 15, 1847. By the beginning of April 1847, Marx's work was completed in the main and had gone to the press. On June 15, 1847, he wrote a short foreword. 
   
  Published in Paris and Brussels in 1847, the book was not republished in full during Marx's lifetime. Excerpts from section five of Chapter Two appeared in different years, mostly between 1872 - 1875 in papers such as La Emancipacion, Der Volksstaat, Social-Demokrat, and others. In 1880 Marx attempted to publish the Poverty of Philosophy in the French socialist newspaper L'Égalité, the organ of the French Workers' Party, but only the foreword and section one of Chapter One were published. 
   
  This translation is from the original 1847 French edition. It has been updated to also include the changes/corrections Marx made in the copy of the book he presented to N. Utina in 1876, as well as the corrections made by Frederick Engels in the second French edition and the German editions of 1885 and 1892. The first English edition of this work was published in 1900 by Twentieth Century Press. 

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  Born This Way - Science...

  Joanna Wuest

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  The story of how a biologically driven understanding of gender and sexuality became central to US LGBTQ+ political and legal advocacy. 
   
  Across protests and courtrooms, LGBTQ+ advocates argue that sexual and gender identities are innate. Oppositely, conservatives incite panic over “groomers” and a contagious “gender ideology” that corrupts susceptible children. Yet, as this debate rages on, the history of what first compelled the hunt for homosexuality’s biological origin story may hold answers for the queer rights movement’s future. 
  Born This Way tells the story of how a biologically based understanding of gender and sexuality became central to LGBTQ+ advocacy. Starting in the 1950s, activists sought out mental health experts to combat the pathologizing of homosexuality. As Joanna Wuest shows, these relationships were forged in subsequent decades alongside two broader, concurrent developments: the rise of an interest-group model of rights advocacy and an explosion of biogenetic and bio-based psychological research. The result is essential reading to fully understand LGBTQ+ activism today and how clashes over science remain crucial to equal rights struggles.

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  The Greatest Evil is War

  Chris Hedges

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  In fifteen short chapters, Chris Hedges astonishes us with his clear and cogent argument against war, not on philosophical grounds or through moral arguments, but in an irrefutable stream of personal encounters with the victims of war, from veterans and parents to gravely wounded American serviceman who served in the Iraq War, to survivors of the Holocaust, to soldiers in the Falklands War, among others. Hedges reported from Sarajevo, and was in the Balkans to witness the collapse of the Soviet Union. 
   
   
    
  In 2002 he published War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, which the Los Angeles Times described as "the best kind of war journalism . . . bitterly poetic and ruthlessly philosophical" and the New York Times called "a brilliant, thoughtful, timely, and unsettling book." In the twenty years since, Hedges has not wanted to write another book on the subject of war—until now, with the outbreak of war in Ukraine. It is important again to be reminded who are the victors of the spoils of war and of other unerring truths, not only in this war but in all modern wars, where civilians are always the main victims, and the tools and methods of war are capable of so much destruction it boggles the mind. This book is an unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondents.

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  World War III: Humanity...

  Murat Aibassov

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  World War III: Humanity Sacrificed is a chilling yet deeply analytical exploration of how the modern world collapsed into global conflict — and why it was inevitable. Written by Murat Aibassov, an engineer who predicted the war more than a decade before it began, the book exposes the hidden architecture of global systems, the cyclic nature of civilizational collapse, and the elite mechanisms that shape history behind the scenes. 
  Blending geopolitics, economics, technology, and ritual dynamics, Aibassov reveals why global crises unfold with mathematical precision — and what humanity must understand to survive what comes next. 
  This is not a book of fear. 
  This is a book of patterns, truth, and the last chance to prepare for the world after the catastrophe.

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