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  The Scandal of Cal - Land Grabs...

  Tony Platt

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  The University of California, Berkeley—widely known as "Cal"—is admired worldwide as a bastion of innovation and a hub for progressive thought. Far less known are the university's roots in plunder, warfare, and the promotion of white supremacy. As Tony Platt shows in The Scandal of Cal, these original sins sit at the center of UC Berkeley's history. Platt looks unflinchingly at the university's desecration of graves and large-scale hoarding of Indigenous remains. He tracks its role in developing the racist pseudoscience of eugenics in the early twentieth century. He sheds light on the school's complicity with the military-industrial complex and its incubation of unprecedented violence through the Manhattan Project. And he underscores its deliberate and continued evasions about its own wrongdoings, which echo in the institution's decision-making up to the present day. This book, above all, illuminates Cal's culpability in some of the cruelest chapters of US history and sounds a clarion call for the university to undertake a thorough and earnest reckoning with its past. It is a must-listen for Cal alumni, students, faculty, and staff, and for anyone concerned with the impact of higher education in the United States and beyond.

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  The Art of Forgiveness

  Rachael Coopes

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  A how-to on letting go, and finding peace.  
   
  Are you suffering from anger, bitterness or regret? Or are you simply yearning to live a calmer and more connected life? 
   
  By exploring a range of winning philosophies – from the Stoics to Zen Buddhism – author Rachael Coopes shares how to properly let go and find peace. 
   
  Combining personal stories and advice mixed with solid, expert-based research, anecdotal evidence and case studies, The Art of Forgiveness is a compassionate guide underpinned by sensible philosophies to help you live a calmer, happier life.

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  US Citizenship Test Study Guide...

  Andrew Pendleton

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  Are you ready to take the next step towards becoming a proud US citizen? Look no further than our comprehensive "US Citizenship Test Study Guide"! Packed with official USCIS questions and answers, this guide is your ultimate companion to ace the naturalization test with confidence. 
  Do you struggle with understanding crucial documents? 
  Our guide breaks down essential documents, making them easy to comprehend and ensuring you're fully prepared for the citizenship process. 
  Are you worried about what to expect from the language and civics exams? 
  We provide detailed insights into what to expect from both the language and civics exams, helping you navigate the test with ease. 
  Do you make common mistakes during practice tests? 
  Learn from common mistakes highlighted in our guide, empowering you to avoid pitfalls and excel in your citizenship journey. 
  Not sure if you qualify for exemptions? 
  Fear not! Our guide clarifies exemptions and eligibility criteria in a fun and engaging way, ensuring you have all the information you need. 
  Key Benefits of Our Guide: 
  •	Access to 100 practice questions and answers meticulously curated to reflect the actual citizenship test. 
  •	Detailed explanations for each question, helping you understand concepts thoroughly. 
  •	Tips and strategies to boost your confidence and improve your test-taking skills. 
  •	Insights into common mistakes and how to avoid them, ensuring a smoother test experience. 
  •	Comprehensive coverage of crucial documents, language exam expectations, and civics exam insights. 
  Did you know? Our guide has helped thousands of aspiring citizens achieve their dream of US citizenship. 
  Our content is regularly updated to reflect the latest USCIS guidelines and requirements. 
  Don't wait any longer to embark on your citizenship journey.  
  Buy the "US Citizenship Test Study Guide" today and take the first step towards realizing your American dream!

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  A Rare Recording of HG Wells

  H G Wells

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  Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer most famous today for his science fiction novels The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Dr Moreau. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced works in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary.

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  The Poverty of the World -...

  Sheyda F. A. Jahanbani

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  In The Poverty of the World, Sheyda Jahanbani brings together the histories of United States foreign relations and domestic politics to explain why, during a period of unprecedented affluence, Americans rediscovered poverty and supported major policy initiative to combat it. Revisiting a moment of triumph for American liberals in the 1940s, Jahanbani shows how the United States's newfound role as a global superpower prompted novel ideas among liberal thinkers about how to address poverty and generated new urgency for trying to do so. Their sense of responsibility about deploying American knowledge and wealth as a beneficent force in the world, produced such foreign aid programs as the Peace Corps. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on a wide variety of archival material, Jahanbani reinterprets the lives and work of prominent liberal figures in postwar American social politics to show the global origins of their ideas. By tracing how American liberals invented the problem of "global poverty" and executed a war against it, The Poverty of the World sheds new light on the domestic impacts of the Cold War, the global ambitions of American liberalism, and the way in which key intellectuals and policymakers worked to develop an alternative vision of United States empire in the decades after World War II.

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  Moctezuma II and Tupac Amaru II:...

  Editors Charles River

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  From the moment Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortés first found and confronted them, the Aztecs have fascinated the world, and they continue to hold a unique place both culturally and in pop culture. Nearly 500 years after the Spanish conquered their mighty empire, the Aztecs are often remembered today for their major capital, Tenochtitlan, as well as being fierce conquerors of the Valley of Mexico who often engaged in human sacrifice rituals.  
  	Ironically, and unlike the Mayans, the Aztecs are not widely viewed or remembered with nuance, in part because their own leader burned extant Aztec writings and rewrote a mythologized history explaining his empire’s dominance less than a century before the Spanish arrived. Naturally, Cortes and other Spaniards depicted the Aztecs as savages greatly in need of conversion to Catholicism. While the Mayans are remembered for their astronomy, numeral system, and calendar, the Aztecs have primarily been remembered in a far narrower way, despite continuing to be a source of pride to Mexicans through the centuries. 
  	As a result, even though the Aztecs continue to interest people across the world centuries after their demise, it has fallen on archaeologists and historians to try to determine the actual history, culture, and lives of the Aztecs from the beginning to the end, relying on excavations, primary accounts, and more. 
  	The Incas had consolidated their empire only a century before Pizarro and his Spanish conquistadores took control of Inca lands in the 1530s. The Incan heartland was the Andes Mountains from Ecuador down through Peru into parts of northern Chile, including what is now Bolivia, some of Argentina, and in the north, bits of what is now Colombia. It covered about 770,000 square miles, far larger than Spain, and held an estimated 14 million people, more than in Spain, comprised of many different indigenous groups.

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