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  Black Studium - A Tribute to...

  Ina Wudtke

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  Ina Wudtkes Publikation Black Studium. A Tribute to Fasia Jansen, Hilarius Gilges & Joseph Ekwe Bilé legt Spuren der Geschichte Schwarzer Menschen in Deutschland frei, die Teil der Arbeiter:innenbewegung gewesen sind und erinnert multidirektional an vergangene und gegenwärtige antirassistische Kämpfe. Die Publikation Black Studium dokumentiert Wudtkes Audioinstallation Black Lives Audio Triptych und aktiviert Archivmaterial, insbesondere Songs, Texte und Fotos zu der linken Liedermacherin Fasia Jansen (1929 – 1997) sowie Hilarius Gilges (1909 – 1933) und Joseph Ekwe Bilé (1892 – 1959), beide Agitpropschauspieler.

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  A City Owned

  OJ Modjeska

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  One after another, they appear by the sides of suburban roads and freeways - the naked, strangled bodies of women who have been raped, tortured and left for dead. 
  
   
  Police begin to suspect that their target is a rogue operator who has emerged from their own ranks. And then, all hell breaks loose in Los Angeles. 
  
   
  An arrest in the strangling murders of two co-eds across state lines finally leads to a break in the case, but the suspect is someone the investigators could have ever expected. 
  
   
  None of them are prepared for the dark journey through the mazes of the human mind it will take to unlock the door to justice. 
  
   
  From the author of the bestselling "Gone: Catastrophe in Paradise", "A City Owned" is the true story of the worst case of serial sex homicide in American history.

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  Fancies versus Fads

  G K CHESTERTON

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  The last volume of Chesterton's collected essays, Gathered from the London Mercury, the New Witness, and the Illustrated London News, it is the only volume from after WWI, and is most serious, philosophical, and socially direct collection. 
  "The problem is not so much Prohibition with a large P as prohibition with a small one. I mean, I am interested not so much in liquor as in liberty. I want to know on what principle the prohibitionists are proceeding in this case, and how they think it applies to any other case. And I cannot for the life of me make out. They…do not attack liquor; they do quite simply attack liberty. I mean that they are satisfied with saying about this liberty what can obviously be said about any liberty – that it can be, and is, abominably abused. If that had been a final objection to any form of freedom, there never would have been any form of freedom." 
  "So long as we combine ceaseless and often reckless scientific speculation with rapid and often random social reform, the result must inevitably be not anarchy but ever-increasing tyranny. There must be a ceaseless and almost mechanical multiplication of things forbidden. The resolution to cure all the ills that flesh is heir to, combined with the guesswork about all possible ills that flesh and nerve and brain-cell may be heir to – these two things conducted simultaneously must inevitably spread a sort of panic of prohibition. Scientific imagination and social reform between them will quite logically and almost legitimately have made us slaves."

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  Split from Reality - A...

  Edger W. Moore

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  What happens when you realize the foundation of everything you knew about yourself and life in general is shattered? How do you cope when it's found that your own mind, and even reality itself, is playing tricks on you? Is it even possible to adapt to a bizarre, unforgiving, and even horrifying mindscape? These challenging questions and others will be explored in this book. This autobiography tells a tale of a young man as he struggles to function in life while experiencing very unusual circumstances. The tale explains his experience while battling some of the most disturbing psychotic thoughts. This is a story of wonder, extreme challenges, and eventual plateau into some form of success. This book not only demonstrates the problems and stressors common with the illness called schizophrenia but also highlights methods, techniques, and useful solutions to some of the most challenging and slippery mental conundrums that one might encounter during psychosis.

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  Auschwitz Children And Mengele...

  Jack Stew Barretta

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Many doctors in Germany were convinced that they were the chosen people to create a healthy, racially pure Volkskörper (body of people) and by doing so, establish a racial utopia. As strong supporters of National Socialism, they welcomed the founding of the Third Reich. After Hitler acceded to power, German physicians joined the SS in particular. During the twelve years of the Nazi era, seven percent of German doctors became members of the SS. The average membership of the population was only 0.6 percent. Moreover, doctors were also overrepresented as a profession, with teachers consisting of less than half a percent and musicians only three percent. Only lawyers had a larger share in the SS than doctors. 
  The average income of German doctors increased extremely after 1933, even exceeding the income of lawyers. The Nazi doctors of the human experiments also joined the SS in large numbers. German doctors were far more reluctant to join the NSDAP than the SS. Before 1933, only seven percent of all German doctors joined the NSDAP (Nazi party). They joined the party when it seemed opportune to do so, in 1933, and particularly in 1937. In 1933, physicians made up almost a quarter of all academic professionals in the NSDAP. Most doctors joined the NSDAP in 1937, with a membership rate of 43 percent of the total profession. German physicians sat on the fence during the first years of the Nazi era, insecure about the effects of the new regime on their profession. By 1937, the Third Reich had won the trust of several reasons. The NSDAP had solved the economic crisis and had reorganized the medical profession. Moreover, the regime had solved “the Jewish question” in the medical sector.

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  Unsung Heroes and Everlasting...

  Andal Rajagopalan

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  Based on the experiences of a young lady who spent over 3 decades on the IIT Kharagpur campus. 
  A unique and rather unusual take on India's first IIT. It is history, biography, anecdotes and a story filled with emotion and can be marketed under al genres.

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