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  Change They Can't Believe In -...

  Christopher S. Parker, Matt A....

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  “Offers valuable empirical data on the Tea Party, and its focus on supporters’ antagonism toward Obama is critical to understanding the movement.” —Michael O’Donnell, The New Republic 
   
  Winner of the Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association 
   
  Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he’s not white? Change They Can’t Believe In offers an alternative argument—that the Tea Party is driven by the reemergence of a reactionary movement in American politics that is fueled by a fear that America has changed for the worse. Providing a range of original evidence and rich portraits of party sympathizers as well as activists, Christopher Parker and Matt Barreto show that the perception that America is in danger directly informs how Tea Party supporters think and act. 
   
  In a new afterword, Parker and Barreto reflect on the Tea Party’s recent initiatives, including the 2013 government shutdown, and evaluate their prospects for the 2016 election. 
   
  “A scathing analysis of the Tea Party movement, linking it in spirit to the Ku Klux Klan and the John Birch Society. . . . Based on research and interviews, they suggest racism, desire for social dominance . . . drives the Tea Party.” —Publishers Weekly

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  Moving Against the System - The...

  David Austin

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  In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of Black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their brothers and sisters. For the first time since 1968, David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of Black radicals of the era.
  		 
  Against a backdrop of widespread racism in the West, and colonialism and imperialism in the “Third World,” this group of activists, writers, and political figures gathered to discuss the history and struggles of people of African descent and the meaning of Black Power.
  		 
  With never-before-seen texts from Stokely Carmichael, Walter Rodney, and C.L.R. James, Moving Against the System will prove invaluable to anyone interested in Black radical thought, as well as capturing a crucial moment of the political activity around 1968.

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  Extraordinary Learning For All -...

  Jeff Wetzler, Aylon Samouha,...

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  Proven methods, hard-won lessons, and practical tools to create a better future of education 
   
   
   
  Extraordinary Learning for All delivers a hopeful, humane, realistic, and compelling portrait for how we must reinvent schooling for a new century, drawing on the voices and experiences of real school communities who are on that journey and illuminating the specific actions that school and system leaders can take to spark these journeys in their communities. 
   
   
   
  Written by the cofounders and Chief Learning Officer of Transcend, a leading nonprofit in school innovation, this book provides solutions to the major problems we face in education, including approaches that: 
   
   
   
  ● Reverse declining enrollment rates and chronic truancy, especially in large urban districts, through better student engagement 
   
   
   
  ● Mitigate our national mental health crisis through school designs that address higher-than-ever-rates of boredom, stress, and chronic anxiety 
   
   
   
  ● Engage and collaborate with parents and communities to improve local schools 
   
   
   
  ● Uplift the voices and expertise of teachers, 300,000 of whom left the profession between 2020-2022

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  Mothercare - On Obligation Love...

  Lynne Tillman

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  Brilliantly original novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman became one of nearly 53 million Americans who care for a sick family member when her mother developed an unusual and little understood condition called Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. 
   
   
   
  Instantly, Tillman's independent and spirited mother went from someone she knew to someone else, a woman entirely dependent on her children—an eleven-year process through which her mother underwent many surgeries and some misdiagnoses, while the family navigated consultations and confrontations with doctors, adjusting to the complexity of her cognitive issues, including memory loss. 
   
   
   
  With her notoriously exquisite writing style and reputation as a "rich noticer of strange things" (Colm Toíbín), Tillman describes, without flinching, the unexpected, heartbreaking, and frustrating years of caring for a sick parent. 
   
   
   
  Mothercare is both a cautionary tale and sympathetic guidance for anyone who suddenly becomes a caregiver, responsible for the life of another—a parent, loved or not, or a friend. This story may be helpful, informative, consoling, or upsetting, but it never fails to underscore how impossible it is to get the job done completely right.

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  Lotus Lake Dragon Pool - Further...

  Trevor Leggett

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  Collected by the author over many years, these stories from the yoga and Zen traditions are the flint and steel that strike a spark that lights up the mind with insights that one should ponder daily to bring to light ever deeper meaning. They may be similar in intent to Zen koans - but they are rather different in content. 
  In many Zen koans, someone says or does something extraordinarily inappropriate, which catches your attention just because it's extraordinary - but afterwards the light from them has to be applied to daily life. In contrast, the stories here are often ordinary incidents from ordinary lives (not that there aren't some extraordinary ones too!) that nevertheless open the mind's eye to the vast potential for realisation and inspiration to be found in daily life.

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  KGB History: 100 Years Of Soviet...

  HISTORY FOREVER

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  ★ Did you know that the first KGB was called Cheka and formed in 1917? ★ 
  ★ Did you know that the KGB once was the largest secret police and foreign-intelligence organization in the world? ★ 
    
  ★ BUY THIS BOOK NOW AND LEARN ABOUT THE LARGEST SECRET POLICE TODAY! ★ 
  In this book you will discover; 
  ·       Why KGB is so feared 
  ·       The Early Years of KGB - Cheka 
  ·       The Early Years of KGB - GPU 
  ·       The Early Years of KGB - OGPU 
  ·       OGPU & The Soviet State 
  ·       The NKVD and the Forming of KGB 
  ·       The new KGB: FSK & FSB 
  ·       How Stalin's NKVD Spies Took Down Trotsky       
  ·       The end of a superpower - The collapse of the Soviet Union 
  ·       How Novichok used as Political Instrument 
  ★ BUY THIS BOOK NOW AND LEARN ABOUT THE LARGEST SECRET POLICE TODAY! ★

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