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  The Conspiracy to End America -...

  Stuart Stevens

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  “This is the first must-read of the 2024 election cycle if you want to understand the stakes.” –Nicole Wallace A former chief Republican strategist and bestselling author of It Was All a Lie offers an ominous warning that the G.O.P. is dragging our country towards autocracy, and if we don’t wake up to the crisis in our system, 2024 may well be our last free and fair election. Today’s Republican party is not a “normal” political party in the American tradition. It has become an autocratic movement masquerading as a political party. As Stuart Stevens argues in The Conspiracy to End America, if we look away from that truth, we greatly increase the likelihood that the America we love will slip away, never to return.    Whenever a democracy slides into autocracy, there are five critical elements at work: financers, propagandists, party support, legal theories to legitimize, and shock troops. The Conspiracy to End America examines each of these driving forces on the Right and makes clear how they are working in concert to end our democracy as we know it.    In the tradition of It Can’t Happen Here and On Tyranny, The Conspiracy to End America is a blinking red distress call about the dark intentions lurking within Stevens’ old party and a rallying cry to beat back this perilous threat and save the Republic. 

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  The Golden State Killer Case

  William Thorp

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  In 2018, police announced that they had finally arrested the "Golden State Killer," a man responsible for over 140 burglaries, fifty rapes, and at least thirteen murders committed in California throughout the 1970s and '80s. That man turned out to be a former California police officer, Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. 
   
   
   
  Just two months earlier, the publication of I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara had rocked the world of true crime. Published two years after her death, the book charts McNamara's obsessive search for the prolific criminal who had been known over the years as the East Area Rapist, the Original Night Stalker, and the Visalia Ransacker, among other epithets. McNamara is credited with coining the "Golden State Killer" moniker and heightening public awareness of the—at the time—still unsolved case. 
   
   
   
  William Thorp dives into the investigation, exploring the dark side of sunny California, the advances in forensic innovation that made solving this case possible, and the story inside the story—one of an amateur sleuth who dedicated the last years of her life to understanding how one of the country's worst criminals could have spent so many decades undetected.

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  Being Serious Without Belief -...

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

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  "Being serious without belief - 15 March 1970  
  • Can the intellect, a fragment, ever be serious? Serious in the sense of a 
  sustained observation without any distortion. 
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  • What is living? 
  • How does it happen that one can be completely harmonious? 
  • What does awareness mean?"

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  Modern Jungles

  Pao Lor

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  As a five-year-old boy, Pao Lor joined thousands of Hmong who fled for their lives through the jungles of Laos in the aftermath of war. After a difficult and perilous journey that neither of his parents survived, he reached the safety of Thailand, but the young refugee boy’s challenges were only just beginning.Born in a small farming village, Pao was destined to be a Hmong clan leader, wedding negotiator, or shaman. But the course of his life changed dramatically in the 1970s, when the Hmong faced persecution for their role in helping US forces fighting communism in the region. After more than two years in Thai refugee camps, Pao and his surviving family members boarded the belly of an “iron eagle” bound for the United States, where he pictured a new life of comfort and happiness. Instead, Pao found himself navigating a frightening and unfamiliar world, adjusting to a string of new schools and living situations while struggling to fulfill the hopes his parents had once held for his future. Now in Modern Jungles, Pao Lor shares his inspiring coming-of-age tale about perseverance, grit, and hope.

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  You Are a Data Person -...

  Amelia Parnell, Robert A. Schwartz

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  Internal and external pressure continues to mount for college professionals to provide evidence of successful activities, programs, and services, which means that, going forward, nearly every campus professional will need to approach their work with a data-informed perspective. But you find yourself thinking "I am not a data person." Yes, you are. Or can be with the help of Amelia Parnell. You Are a Data Person provides context for the levels at which you are currently comfortable using data, helps you identify both the areas where you should strengthen your knowledge and where you can use this knowledge in your particular university role. For example, the rising cost to deliver high-quality programs and services to students has pushed many institutions to reallocate resources to find efficiencies. In addition to programs, services, and pedagogy, professionals are constantly monitoring the rates at which students are entering, remaining enrolled in, and leaving the institution, as those movements impact the institution's financial position. From teaching professors to student affairs personnel and beyond, Parnell offers tangible examples of how professionals can make data contributions at their current and future knowledge level, and will even inspire listeners to take the initiative to engage in data projects.

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  Bedtime Stories For Kids - Sleep...

  Corie Herolds

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  Do you have trouble putting your kids to bed, and are you looking for a fun way to do it? 
  Are you looking for a children's book that is highly entertaining, great for early readers, and is jam-packed with bedtime stories?  
  Then this is the perfect audiobook for you. 
  “bedtime stories for kids” іѕ an еxсеllеnt listen for beginning and еаrlу listeners. Each ѕtоrу іѕ easy tо understand аnd rеlаxіng! Listen to the bеѕt frее children’s ѕtоrіеѕ and kіdѕ books аbоut drаgоnѕ, іnсludіng classic fairy tales аnd сhарtеr books about dragons here in this bооk. 
  Look forward to bedtime with this richly illustrated treasury of bedtime stories from around the world, each the perfect length to read aloud. 
  There’s always time for a bedtime story, so snuggle up and get ready to drift off to the land of nod with this collection of magical tales that includes both well-known classics and lesser-known treasures from Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania, North America, the Middle East and Latin America.  
  These folktales and legends, accompanied by enchanting and dream-like illustrations, are each the perfect length for a bedtime story, and will transport children around the world as well as into fantasy lands. 
  Thіѕ bedtime ѕtоrуbооk іѕ еѕресіаllу grеаt for traveling, bеdtіmе, аnd listening aloud аt hоmе. Please enjoy thеѕе grеаt ѕtоrіеѕ for kids, children, and toddlers. They hеlр kіdѕ learn to read аnd mаkе excellent bеdtіmе ѕtоrіеѕ! 
  Download now to start putting your kid to sleep with fantastic stories tonight!

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