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  Private Government - How...

  Elizabeth Anderson

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  Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can't see it 
   
   
   
  One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. Many employers minutely regulate workers' speech, clothing, and manners on the job, and employers often extend their authority to the off-duty lives of workers, who can be fired for their political speech, recreational activities, diet, and almost anything else employers care to govern. In this compelling book, Elizabeth Anderson examines why, despite all this, we continue to talk as if free markets make workers free, and she proposes a better way to think about the workplace, opening up space for discovering how workers can enjoy real freedom.

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  The Little History of Glasgow

  Neil Robertson

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  Glaswegians are talkers, blaggers and storytellers. They love to wind each other up and to trigger a debate. They are friendly, no question, but it's more than just friendliness behind that desire for a good blether. Throw in some nosiness, eternal empathy and no shortage of opinions begging to be unleashed. Because Glasgow has a big heart, and with it a moral compass.
  Join travel writer and Glaswegian Neil Robertson as he delves into what makes his hometown tick. From the early origins of the city destined to become the Second City of the Empire, to the factory of the world in its industrial heyday and beyond, it's been a tumultuous journey encompassing plagues, penury, bombings and plenty of religious and political tension.
  Approachable reading for locals and visitors alike, The Little History of Glasgow salutes the great Glaswegians who have left their mark on the city's story alongside the modern-day industries and pastimes that continue to power the engine of Scotland's biggest city.

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  Debunking 20 Bitcoin Myths:...

  Miguel Thornton

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Debunking 20 Bitcoin Myths: Unlocking America's Crypto Future cuts through bubble headlines and doomsday climate takes to ask what this code actually does for US money, power and policy. From "it's a Ponzi" and "has no real use" to "will be banned" and "kills the planet", Miguel Thornton tests each viral claim against SEC filings, Fed speeches, ETF flows, mining data and real world case studies of savers, migrants and miners. In twenty sharp, tightly sourced chapters he explains how Wall Street, regulators and media built comforting myths that protect the old system, and what the numbers really say about volatility, regulation, inequality and national security. If you want to argue or invest in Bitcoin with factsinstead of memes, start here.

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  Free Exercise - Religion the...

  Chris Beneke

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  CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF. Those words, scratched on parchment in 1789, open the US Constitution's First Amendment. From them, countless interpretations have been drawn. As a consequence, an astonishing variety of activities in modern America—prayer after football games, Bible reading in classrooms, company healthcare policies, the baking of wedding cakes, and Ten Commandment displays around courthouses—have been alternately authorized, prohibited, or modified. 
   
   
   
  In this compelling historical account, Chris Beneke explains how the religion clauses came into existence and how they were woven into American culture. He brings prominent early national figures to life, including George Washington, James Madison, and Thomas Paine, while chronicling the First Amendment's relationship to defining social conditions like slavery, civility, family life, and the free market. 
   
   
   
  Going beyond traditional church-state scholarship, Beneke also demonstrates how white women, African Americans, Roman Catholics, Jews, and nonbelievers widened religious liberty's application and illuminated its boundaries. In doing so he makes a groundbreaking contribution to both constitutional history and the history of American pluralism.

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  Tides of Fortune - The Rise and...

  Zack Cooper

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  An ambitious look at how the twentieth century's great powers devised their military strategies and what their implications mean for military competition between the United States and China 
   
   
   
  How will the United States and China evolve militarily in the years ahead? Many experts believe the answer to this question is largely unknowable. But Zack Cooper argues that the American and Chinese militaries are following a well-trodden path. For centuries, the world's most powerful militaries have adhered to a remarkably consistent pattern of behavior, determined largely by their leaders' perceptions of relative power shifts. By uncovering these trends, this book places the evolving military competition between the United States and China in historical context. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on a decade of research and on his experience at the White House and the Pentagon, Cooper outlines a novel explanation for how militaries change as they rise and decline. Tides of Fortune examines the paths of six great powers of the twentieth century, tracking how national leaders adjusted their defense objectives, strategies, and investments in response to perceived shifts in relative power. All these militaries followed a common pattern, and their experiences shed new light on both China's recent military modernization and America's potential responses.

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  William Stanek's The Living...

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  Every arch is temporary.
  
  Long before stone opened into windows and spans, buried salt moved beneath layers of rock. Fractures widened. Water entered. Frost worked. Gravity waited. What appears monumental is part of an unfinished process of collapse.
  
  William Stanek's The Living Arches Biography tells the larger story behind that beautiful impermanence: desert geology, biological life, water, Indigenous presence, settlement, extraction, roads, tourism, protection, and the growing human pressure placed upon fragile ground.
  
  The story changes the way an arch is seen. It is not an object carved once and preserved forever. It is a moment inside a much longer transformation.
  
  This is Arches as a living desert-opening, changing, and ultimately disappearing.

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