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  Does anything eat bankers?

  Andy Zaltzman

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  The global economy has fallen to pieces like a cheap jigsaw puzzle in an earthquake. Now it is time for the financial world to pick up the baton of change, hold it proudly above its head, and club some sense into itself with it.
  
  Luckily Andy Zaltzman -- comedian and economi novice extraordinaire - is here to help. In this much-needed and hilarious companion to the crisis, he confronts the big issues side-on. Questions answered and/or dodged include:
  
  Is human life still economically viable?
  
  What face should a politician pull whilst discussing the economy?
  
  If you put an infinite number of monkeys in the London Stock Exchange, would the markets go up or down?

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  Learn Urdu - Level 3: Beginner...

  Innovative Language Learning

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  Had some experience in Urdu? Up the challenge with Beginner! Welcome to Beginner Urdu. Master the basics of Urdu conversation! Start speaking Urdu in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Beginner Urdu. Our native Urdu hosts break down all the sentences, grammar and more in a simple, easily understandable way! Here are a few topics covered in this audiobook:• Talking About Your Nationality• Asking Simple Urdu Questions• Expressing Likes and Dislikes• Plural Articles in Urdu• Pakistani Cultural Tips and More!This isn't stale textbook material - it's fun, effective, and practical! You learn beginner Urdu conversation that you can use immediately! What you get in Beginner Urdu:• 250+ pages of Urdu learning material• 25 Urdu lessons: dialog transcripts with translation, vocabulary, sample sentences and a grammar section• 25 Audio Lesson Tracks (over 3 hours of Urdu lessons)• 25 Audio Review Tracks (practice new words and phrases)• 25 Audio Dialog Tracks (read along while you listen)  Interactive. Effective. And FUN! Discover or rediscover how fun learning a language can be with the future of language learning. Buy this now and start speaking Urdu instantly!Download the PDF and read along:https://bit.ly/31YkSxC

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  Plasticity and Pathology - On...

  David Bates, Nima Bassiri

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  Two leading neuroscientists examine the current paradigm of the “neural subject” and what we can learn from neurological trauma, pathology, and adaption.   With the rise of cognitive science and the revolution in neuroscience, the study of human subjects—thinking, feeling, acting individuals—ultimately focuses on the human brain. In both Europe and the United States, massive state-funded research is focused on mapping the brain in all its remarkable complexity. The metaphors employed are largely technological, using a diagram of synaptic connectivity as a path to understanding human behavior. But alongside this technologized discourse, we find another perspective, one that emphasizes the brain’s essential plasticity, both in development and as a response to traumas such as strokes, tumors, or gunshot wounds.   This collection of essays brings together a diverse range of scholars to investigate how the “neural subject” of the twenty-first century came to be. Taking approaches both historical and theoretical, they probe the possibilities and limits of neuroscientific understandings of human experience. Topics include landmark studies in the history of neuroscience, the relationship between neural and technological “pathologies,” and analyses of contemporary concepts of plasticity and pathology in cognitive neuroscience.   Central to the volume is a critical examination of the relationship between pathology and plasticity. Because pathology is often the occasion for neural reorganization and adaptation, it exists not in opposition to the brain’s “normal” operation but instead as something intimately connected to our ways of being and understanding.

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  To Catch a Dictator - The...

  Reed Brody

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  What does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? Hissène Habré, the former despot of Chad, terrorized, tortured, and killed on a horrific scale over eight years in power—while enjoying full American and Western support. After Habré’s overthrow, his victims and their supporters were determined to see him held responsible for his atrocities. Their quest for justice would be long, tense, and unnerving, but they would not back down.To Catch a Dictator is an insider's account of the hunt for Habré and his momentous trial. The human rights lawyer Reed Brody recounts how he and an international team of investigators, legal experts, and victims worked across three continents to unearth evidence and witnesses, petition courts and skeptical governments, and rally public opinion. They faced many obstacles and constant threats. Habré fought back bitterly, drawing on secret bank accounts and extensive political connections to preserve his life of luxurious exile. Yet Brody and his allies ultimately triumphed: Habré became the first former head of state to be convicted of crimes against humanity in the courts of another country. This fast-paced, suspenseful book shows that there is nothing inevitable about the impunity that too often protects the powerful and that even the worst tyrants can be brought to justice.

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  Murderers' Row Volume Three -...

  John Ferak, Chris Russo...

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  Three bestselling true crime books for the price of one—from the Steven Avery case to a brother’s quest for justice to an international conspiracy.  Wrecking Crew: While working for USA Today’s Investigative Team, John Ferak wrote dozens of articles on Steven Avery, who was charged with the murder of Teresa Halbach. In Wrecking Crew, Ferak lays out high-profile lawyer Kathleen Zellner’s post-conviction strategy to free Avery.   “Whatever you thought you believed about this infamous case, get ready to change your mind or be more convinced than ever . . . Fascinating.” —Steve Jackson, New York Times bestselling author  My Brother’s Keeper: The moment he found out his brother Gary was missing and presumed dead, Ted Kergan launched a relentless effort to bring two suspected killers to justice and find Gary’s body. Little did he know his quest would consume a fortune and take thirty years to reach its dramatic conclusion.  An International Book Awards Finalist!   “A thirty-year search for the truth . . . a story of persistence, determination, and deep brotherly love.” —Denise Wallace, author of Daddy’s Little Secret  Summary Execution: On June 1, 1981, two young activists, Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, were murdered in Seattle in what was made to appear like a gang slaying. But the victims’ families and friends suspected they were considered a threat to Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his regime’s relationship to the United States.   “Remarkable . . . The story has so many twists—as well as amazing turns—that prove the point that conspiracy theories aren’t necessarily fiction.” —Eric Nalder, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist

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  Ray Anthony

  Wink Martindale

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  For his fifth birthday, Ray Anthony’s father bought him a trumpet. It wasn’t until the age of 12 when his trumpet was hidden as a punishment that he realized he couldn’t live without it.Anthony opened up to Wink Martindale in this interview from 1978 about joining the Al Donahue Orchestra at the age of 17, getting fired from the Glenn Miller Band and the popularity of the Bunny Hop. He also talks about the sound of Glenn Miller and what makes it so special.  Anthony goes on to discuss what it was like starting his own orchestra and having his brother join him.

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