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  Faces Behind These Systems - 3...

  Nk Yahushua

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  True story of how the government single handedly stole NK's identity. For NK, life has been anything but a walk in the park. 
  When NK Yahushua set out with her friend and her dog for a sunset hike in L.A.’s famous Griffith Park, she set out toward her own demise. Before the night was over, N.K would be racially profiled by a park ranger, arrested without cause, and falsely imprisoned miles away from her Los Feliz home. And that would only be the beginning. 
  For the next decade and a half, NK finds herself swirling helplessly in the merciless grip of a prideful and discriminatory judicial system. Despite her doctoral degree, she loses her ability to secure gainful employment due to her criminal record's unnamed dark mark with her home in foreclosure and her future hanging precariously in the balance. NK sets out to determine exactly who placed her on California’s blacklist and why. What she discovers is the shocking evidence of nefarious activity within America’s insidious injustice system.  
  Will she live to see her record cleared and her life restored?

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  Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust

  Michael J Bazyler, Frank M...

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  Legal scholars shed light on the enormous impact of the Holocaust through analysis of ten important yet underreported Nazi trials. In the wake of the Second World War, the Allies faced the dilemma of how to respond to the unimaginable crime of the Holocaust. Even in an ideal world, it would have been impossible to bring all the perpetrators to trial. Nevertheless, an attempt was made to prosecute some. This book uncovers ten “forgotten trials” of the Holocaust, selected from the many Nazi trials that have taken place over the decades. It showcases how perpetrators of the Holocaust were dealt with in courtrooms around the world, revealing the different strategies of trial lawyers and the concerns and decision of various judges. Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust provides a graphic picture of the genocidal campaign against the Jews through eyewitness testimony and incriminating documents. It then traces how these trials factored into—or were emitted from—the formation of our public memory concerning the Holocaust.

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  Last Call for Liberty - How...

  Os Guinness

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  The hour is critical. The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Conflicts, hostility, and incivility now threaten to tear the country apart. Competing visions have led to a dangerous moment of cultural self-destruction. This is no longer politics as usual, but an era of political warfare where our enemies are not foreign adversaries, but our fellow citizens. Yet the roots of the crisis are deeper than many realize.Os Guinness argues that we face a fundamental crisis of freedom, as America's genius for freedom has become her Achilles' heel. Our society's conflicts are rooted in two rival views of freedom, one embodied in "1776" and the ideals of the American Revolution, and the other in "1789" and the ideals of the French Revolution. Once again America has become a house divided, and Americans must make up their minds as to which freedom to follow. Will the constitutional republic be restored or replaced?This grand treatment of history, civics, and ethics in the Jewish and Christian traditions represents Guinness's definitive exploration of the prospects for human freedom today. He calls for a national conversation on the nature of freedom, and poses key questions for concerned citizens to consider as we face a critical chapter in the American story. He offers readers a checklist by which they can assess the character and consequences of the freedoms they are choosing.In the tradition of Alexis de Tocqueville, Guinness provides a visitor's careful observation of the American experiment. Discover here a stirring vision for faithful citizenship and renewed responsibility for not only the nation but also the watching world.

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  The Utopia of Rules - On...

  David Graeber

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  From the author of the international best-seller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives.From where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence?To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeber — one of our most important and provocative thinkers — traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice...though he also suggests there may be something perversely appealing — even romantic — about bureaucracy.Leaping from the ascendance of right-wing economics to the hidden meanings behind Sherlock Holmes and Batman, The Utopia of Rules is at once a powerful work of social theory in the tradition of Foucault and Marx and an entertaining reckoning with popular culture that calls to mind Slavoj Zizek at his most accessible.An essential work for our times, The Utopia of Rules is sure to start a million conversations about the institutions that rule over us — and the better, freer world we should perhaps begin to imagine for ourselves.

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  Understandable Economics -...

  Howard Yaruss

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  In this entertaining and informative guide, author Howard Yaruss breaks down our economic system in a straightforward way, avoiding jargon, formulas, graphs, and other technical material so common in books on this subject. Instead, he creates a compelling and comprehensive picture of our economy using accessible analogies, real-world observations, and entertaining anecdotes.Understandable Economics will enable listeners to answer questions such as: Why is inequality soaring and what can we do about it?; Do tax cuts for the wealthy create jobs or just create more inequality?; Where does money come from, why does it have value, and who controls it?; What does the Fed do and how does it affect our lives?; Could alternative currencies like Bitcoin replace the dollar?; Is our national debt a threat?; Why do so many people believe free trade is good if it causes some people to lose jobs?; Why does the economy regularly turn down and how can we get it back on track?; and many more.Understandable Economics provides the context, tools, and foundational knowledge listeners need to thoroughly understand our economy, determine which policies would work best, and champion those policies effectively.

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  Because I Have To - The Path to...

  Jewher Ilham

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  When Jewher Ilham's father, Ilham Tohti, an internationally known advocate for peaceful dialogue between his Uyghur people and Han Chinese, was detained at the Beijing airport in February 2013 on charges of "separatism," and later sentenced to life in prison, Jewher was forced to begin a new life apart from her family in a new country. There, she found her voice as an advocate for her father, and for Uyghur people being forced into concentration camps by the Chinese government.In Because I Have To: The Path To Survival, The Uyghur Struggle, Jewher shares an intimate account of how she maintained the strength and courage to fight for her father, the sometimes emotional toll it took on her, and the inspiration and loss of her mentor. With the inclusion of testimonials of Uyghur camp survivors and others affected by the crackdown on Uyghurs in China, Because I Have To:The Path to Survival, The Uyghur Struggle tells the story of one person, and of an entire culture under threat.

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