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  Parables of the Lord Jesus...

  St. John Chrysostom

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  Homilies 44 though 64 of St John Chrysostom's commentary on the Holy Gospel according to St Matthew, which include the parables and teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. - Summary by  The Reader

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  The Future of the Gun

  Frank Miniter

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  The history of the American gun is intricately entwined with the history of America itself, and the potential future developments in gun technology could change the world. However, the radical anti-gun lobby stands between innovation and the American people. Bestselling author Frank Miniter describes amazing breakthroughs waiting to happen in gun technology-and how gun grabbers threaten to stop progress in its tracks.In The Future of the Gun, you will learn about:Integrated electronic optics systems embedded in firearms are making them accurate in a novice shooter's hands beyond ten football fields.Controlled-expansion bullets are now being engineered to perform through bone, cinder blocks, and a lot of other mediums. Beginning with the AccuTrigger, a revolution has taken over gun trigger designs that's making rifles much more accurate.  In the last two decades, over-the-counter rifles have become as accurate as custom rifles. This is due to consumer demand and new machining capabilities. Simple, ultra-reliable, cost-efficient designs from pistol makers like Glock and Beretta have made it possible to make smaller, lighter, more powerful handguns at prices (when adjusted for inflation) the world has never seen.

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  The Communist Manifesto -...

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

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  The Communist Manifesto (originally Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London just as the revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and then-present) and the problems of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms. The Communist Manifesto summarizes Marx and Engels' theories about the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles". It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism.

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  Plenty Good Room - Co-creating...

  Andrew Wilkes

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  Plenty Good Room lays out in clear terms the hope of democratic socialism for a country ravaged by intensifying capitalism. If economic inequality, racial injustice, and liberatory spirituality compel you, this book will unleash your political and economic ingenuity for systems that offer plenty good room--not for just a few but for all. Economic inequality yawns as wide as ever. Capitalism is working as it was designed: replicating an uneven balance of power, constraining life chances, and limiting imaginations. Those of us concerned about injustice often confine ourselves to issue-by-issue activism. The end result? Owners and investors win. But what if there's another way to organize our common life? What if we could become moral engineers who co-create the world we all deserve? Plenty Good Room helps readers understand democratic socialism from the perspective of a Brooklyn pastor and political scientist's civic awakening. As the former director of the Drum Major Institute, founded by America's most famous democratic socialist, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Andrew Wilkes mounts a challenge to the endless growth, greed, and profiteering that surround us. Tugging on the threads of history and the Black radical tradition, Wilkes weaves a narrative of "plenty good room moments": times in communities and movements in which everyone had sufficient resources, human rights, and beauty. Through research, story, and accessible theology, Wilkes then introduces efforts pushing for reparations, public banks, community land trusts, and equitable policies. These stories show us that we can create a beloved community and cooperative commonwealth by envisioning an economy of enough for all--one rooted in antiracism, gender equity, and the God whose spirit falls on all flesh.

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  Parliamentary America - The...

  Maxwell L. Stearns

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  Americans face increasingly stark choices each presidential election and a growing sense that our government can't solve the nation's most urgent challenges.  Our eighteenth-century system is ill-suited to our twenty-first-century world. Information-age technology has undermined our capacity to face common problems together and turned our democracy upside down, with gerrymanders letting representatives choose voters rather than voters choosing them. In Parliamentary America, Maxwell L. Stearns argues that the solution to these complex problems is a parliamentary democracy.Stearns considers such leading alternatives as ranked choice voting, the national popular vote, and congressional term limits, showing why these can't solve our constitutional crisis. Instead, three amendments—expanding the House of Representatives, having House party coalitions choose the president, and letting the House end a failing presidency based on no confidence—will produce a robust multiparty democracy.Stearns takes listeners on a world tour—England, France, Germany, Israel, Taiwan, Brazil, and Venezuela—showing what works in government, what doesn't, and how to make the best features our own. Genuine party competition and governing coalitions, commonplace across the globe, may seem like a fantasy in the United States. But we can make them a reality.

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  British Army of the Rhine - The...

  Paul Chrystal

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  The nervous geopolitical tension between East and West, the Cold War, emerged before the end of the Second World War and lasted until 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The British Army of the Rhine was born in 1945 out of the British Liberation Army at the close of the war as the military government of the British zone of occupied Germany. As the Soviet threat increased, so BAOR became less of an occupational army and assumed the role of defender of Western Europe, and as a major contributor to NATO after 1949.This book traces and examines the changing role of BAOR from 1945 to its demise in the 1993 Options for Change defence cuts. It looks at the part it played in the defence of West Germany, its effectiveness as a Cold War deterrent, the garrisons and capabilities, logistics and infrastructure, its arms and armour, the nuclear option and the lives of the thousands of families living on the front line.

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