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  Sunk Cost - Who's to Blame for...

  Jillian Berman

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  Student-loan horror stories are a dime a dozen. But students today are faced with a seemingly insurmountable paradox: Research consistently shows that the clearest viable option to financial stability is a college degree. But if and when Americans decide to pursue diplomas, student loan payments quickly follow, and even after securing full-time employment, many borrowers struggle to make ends meet for years. In Sunk Cost, journalist Jillian Berman explores how the nation's student loan program went from a well-intentioned initiative aimed at helping low- and middle-income students afford college to one that traps borrowers in long-term debt. 
   
   
    
  Berman interviewed dozens of borrowers and policymakers and dug into the archives to unearth the true causes of the student loan problem. A couple of generations ago, policy makers generously subsidized Americans' college educations because they knew it would be advantageous for the entire country: a more educated population meant better quality of life for all. But today, higher education is viewed as an individual goal, so students and their families are expected to be on the hook for it themselves. Berman explains how this enormous shift happened, which industries benefit from it, and what it means for college-going Americans today.

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  HR Like a Boss - Your Guide to...

  John Bernatovicz

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  HR Like a Boss offers HR professionals all the tools they need to help employees feel more connected to their organization and ensure the organization’ s success. Written by a creative entrepreneur who has devoted his career to the HR community, this book combines real-life stories of HR professionals who embody the characteristics of a “ boss”—meaning a skilled business leader—with actionable insights for making an impact on their people, organization, and community. 
  ©2024 John Bernatovicz (P)2023 John Bernatovicz

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  Against Decolonization - Taking...

  Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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  Decolonization has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West's direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing "morality" or "authenticity;" it suffocates African thought and denies African agency. 
   
   
   
  Olúfemi Táíwò fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of 'decolonization' to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that the decolonization industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming scholarship on and in Africa. He finds 'decolonization' of culture intellectually unsound and wholly unrealistic, conflating modernity with coloniality, and groundlessly advocating an open-ended undoing of global society's foundations. Worst of all, today's movement attacks its own cause: "decolorizers" themselves are disregarding, infantilizing and imposing values on contemporary African thinkers. 
   
   
   
  This powerful, much-needed intervention questions whether today's 'decolonization' truly serves African empowerment. Táíwò's is a bold challenge to respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors, appropriators and synthesizers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant.

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  A Dangerous Mission

  Onofre Quezada

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  In a world where every decision can mean the difference between life and death, a group of brave men face a mission that will test not only their strength but also their loyalty, intelligence, and courage. A Dangerous Mission immerses you in a story filled with tension, mystery, and action, where nothing is what it seems and danger lurks in every shadow. 
  With unexpected twists, fragile alliances, and a relentless enemy, this work will captivate readers from the first page, keeping them on the edge of their seats until they discover if the protagonists will survive... or if the price to pay will be too high. 
  Are you ready to embark on a mission that will change destinies forever?

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  Colonization and Decolonization...

  Editors Charles River

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  The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismark, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event—known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885—galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa. The first of these was that no recognition of annexation would granted without evidence of a practical occupation, and the second, that a practical occupation would be deemed unlawful without a formal appeal for protection made on behalf of a territory by its leader, a plea that must be committed to paper in the form of a legal treaty. 
  This began a rush, spearheaded mainly by European commercial interests in the form of Chartered Companies, to penetrate the African interior and woo its leadership with guns, trinkets and alcohol, and having thus obtained their marks or seals upon spurious treaties, begin establishing boundaries of future European African colonies. The ease with which this was achieved was due to the fact that, at that point, traditional African leadership was disunited, and the people had just staggered back from centuries of concussion inflicted by the slave trade. Thus, to usurp authority, to intimidate an already broken society, and to play one leader against the other was a diplomatic task so childishly simple, the matter was wrapped up, for the most part, in less than a decade. 
  This audiobook examines the turbulent history of imperialism across Africa and the consequences it has had.

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  Learning techniques & learning...

  Lukas Glaser

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  Are you about to start studying and are you already feeling a good dose of creeping overwhelm in addition to anticipation at the thought of it? Have you just started and need some guidance on how to balance your studies and your free time as well as possible? Have you been wishing for a fresh start for a long time because the recurring cycle of motivation, procrastination and stressful learning is draining you? Do you no longer know what your real problem is and how to tackle it? Don't despair yet, because the knowledge you'll gain in this book can turn your entire studies upside down.

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