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  The Party and the People -...

  Bruce Dickson

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  Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivalled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people. Yet the party does not sustain dominance through repressive tactics alone—it pairs this with surprising responsiveness to the public. The Party and the People explores how this paradox has helped the CCP endure for decades, and how this balance has shifted increasingly toward repression under the rule of President Xi Jinping. 
   
   
   
  Delving into the tenuous binary of repression and responsivity, Bruce Dickson illuminates numerous questions surrounding the CCP's rule: How does it choose leaders and create policies? When does it allow protests? Will China become democratic? Dickson shows that the party's dual approach lies at the core of its practices—repression when dealing with existential, political threats or challenges to its authority, and responsiveness when confronting localized economic or social unrest. With the CCP's greater reliance on suppression since Xi Jinping’s rise to power in 2012, Dickson considers the ways that this tipping of the scales will influence China's future.

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  Pythagoras: A short biography -...

  5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies,...

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  Pythagoras, Greek mathematician and philosopher: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

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  Summary: Chaos - Charles Manson...

  Brooks Bryant

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  Disclaimer: This book is not the official, but a summary & it does not accompany the official. 
  Dive into the murky depths of one of America's most baffling and haunting criminal cases. Our summary of 'CHAOS' by Tom O’Neill and Dan Piepenbring peels back the layers of the Manson murders, revealing a web of governmental intrigue, CIA mind-control experiments, and a turbulent era that reshaped the nation. 
  Originally planned as a simple retelling of the infamous Manson Family murders, O’Neill’s research led him down a rabbit hole of dark and disturbing truths, challenging the official narrative that has been accepted for decades. Our summary distills years of meticulous investigation into a gripping read that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about this iconic case. 
  Are the Manson murders just the tip of a malevolent iceberg? Who were the real puppet masters behind the scenes? Explore these questions and more as you navigate through a labyrinth of conspiracies, cover-ups, and chilling secrets. You'll never look at the '60s—or the American justice system—the same way again.

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  The Wild West - History myth &...

  Frederick Nolan

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  On 14 May 1804, one Captain Meriwether Lewis and his companion William Clark led a thirty-three-man expedition to the new lands of Louisiana. 8,000 miles and two years later, after rafting up the Missouri and crossing the Rocky Mountains, they reached the far side of the world, the Pacific Ocean. 
   
  Fredrick Nolan explores the first US settlers of the American West, including the remarkable stories of unsung heroes and heroines, the bloody battles between settlers and the native American inhabitants, the crimes committed by corrupt Sheriffs, and the occasions when citizens had to take the law into their own hands. This is the story of the men and women who answered the call of the West.

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  The Love Jones Cohort - Single...

  Kris Marsh

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  Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, The Love Jones Cohort centers on the voices and lifestyles of members of the Black middle class who are single and living alone (SALA). While much has been written about both the Black middle class and the rise of singlehood, this book represents a first foray into bridging these two concepts. In studying these intersections, The Love Jones Cohort provides a more nuanced understanding of how race, gender, and class, coupled with social structures, shape five central lifestyle factors of Black middle-class adults who are SALA. The book explores how these Black adults define family and friends and decide on whether and how to pursue romantic relationships, articulate the ebbs and flows of being Black and middle class, select where to live and why, accumulate and disseminate wealth, and maintain overall health, well-being, and coping mechanisms.

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  Lost in Automatic Translation -...

  Vered Shwartz

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  The last decade has seen an exponential increase in the development and adoption of language technologies, from personal assistants such as Siri and Alexa, through automatic translation, to chatbots like ChatGPT. Yet questions remain about what we stand to lose or gain when we rely on them in our everyday lives. As a non-native English speaker living in an English-speaking country, Vered Shwartz has experienced both amusing and frustrating moments using language technologies: from relying on inaccurate automatic translation, to failing to activate personal assistants with her foreign accent. English is the world's foremost go-to language for communication, and mastering it past the point of literal translation requires acquiring not only vocabulary and grammar rules, but also figurative language, cultural references, and nonverbal communication. Will language technologies aid us in the quest to master foreign languages and better understand one another, or will they make language learning obsolete?

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