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  Corporations Are Not People -...

  Jeffrey D. Clements, Bill Myers

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  A revised and updated edition of the definitive guide to overturning Citizens United. 
   
   
    
  Since the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that the rights of things—money and corporations—matter more than the rights of people, America has faced a crisis of democracy. In this timely and thoroughly updated second edition, Jeff Clements describes the strange history of this bizarre ruling, its ongoing destructive effects, and the growing movement to reverse it. 
   
    
    
  He includes a new chapter, "Do Something!," showing how—state by state and community by community—Americans are using creative strategies and tools to renew democracy and curb unbalanced corporate power. Since the first edition, sixteen states, one-hundred-sixty members of Congress, and five hundred cities and towns have called for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, and the list is growing. This is a fight we can win! 
   
   
    
  "More relevant than ever, this updated edition of Corporations Are Not People chronicles the remarkably vibrant, nationwide grassroots movement to 'get money out and voters in.' " —Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher, The Nation

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  Between Crown and Enlightenment:...

  5 Minutes, 5 Minute Biographies,...

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  The 17th century was a time of great contrasts. While powerful rulers expanded their empires and established magnificent courts, scientists, philosophers, and explorers revolutionized our understanding of the world. Art and culture flourished impressively during the Baroque era.This audiobook tells the fascinating life stories of 15 extraordinary figures—from Louis XIV, the Sun King, to Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, to Rembrandt, Rubens, and William Shakespeare. Their ideas, discoveries, and works shaped Europe and laid the foundation for the modern world.An exciting journey through the century of kings, scholars, artists, and explorers—and to the people who made history.

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  The Prince of Evolution

  David R. Wood

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  The Prince of Evolution is the evolutionary reframing of one of the most important and 
  controversial political texts in history. It reframes Machiavelli’s The Prince as a text expressing a revolutionary political theory that expresses an evolutionary ‘best practice’ framework for political competition. 
   
  By applying the two patterns of evolution, natural and artificial, discovered by Charles Darwin and David R. Wood. In doing so it reveals new insights and value to be derived from Machiavelli’s original text. Most importantly, by providing an evolutionary framework for every human
   relationship that has ever existed, and reframes Machiavelli, the man, to be just as human as you or I.
   
  The Prince of Evolution is a groundbreaking work that will disrupt the entire field of political 
  science. And the way we all look at organizations, communities, and ourselves.

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  How Not to Be a Political Wife:...

  Sarah Vine

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  ‘You think you’ve married a journalist, then, horrors, he becomes a politician.' 
  How Not to Be a Political Wife is an unflinching account of life at the heart of politics, and what it's like to have politics rip the heart out of your life. It’s a story of high hopes and dirty tricks, broken friendships and divided loyalties, laughter and glamour. 
  Recollections, as a great woman once said, may of course vary, but this is my story, the way I remember it, written with no fear, no favour – and no fucks left to give. 
  Buckle up. 
  I thought long and hard about writing this memoir. I’ve done so not to settle old scores or plead my case, but more because I hope it’s a tale worth telling, not just for those who are interested in the political events of the past few years, but also because it’s about the people and characters behind those events, and why things ended up the way they did. 
  For nearly 20 years I was inside the rooms of government, a sanctioned eavesdropper on the rise – and fall – of the Cameroon style of Conservatism. At the same time I was building a career in journalism, raising two children and doing my best to support my own husband, Michael Gove, on his political journey. I was both an insider and an outsider; an observer – via my journalism – as well as a participant in the cut and thrust (mainly cut, if I’m honest) of frontline politics. 
  After my divorce from Michael and the demise of the Conservatives’ Old Guard, that all came to an end. I’m no longer officially a Westminster WAG, but you won’t find me mourning. Politics trampled my health, my happiness, my marriage, my sanity; it placed intolerable pressure on my loved ones, especially my children; it twisted my sense of self, and others’ sense of me; it tainted everything I did or said. I can’t say I miss it. I do, however, miss the life and the relationships I had before it all. These are the recollections of a survivor, but they are also a love letter to all that was lost in the wreck. 
  'Sarah Vine is the Bridget Jones of politics.' Plum Sykes 
  'Everyone in Westminster is talking about it.' The London Standard 
  'I take it all back; she's fabulous. Nobody in Westminster can afford not to buy this book.' Rachel Johnson 
  Part autobiography, part memoirs, it’s a non-fiction account of elections and campaigns seen up close, where the social process of power shapes every relationship. A bestseller in the making, it turns those stories into a sharp piece of sociology about what Westminster does to the people caught in its wake. 
  HarperCollins 2025

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  The Ideology of Hypocrisy - Why...

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 
  Ever feel like modern systems reward loud posturing while punishing actual competence? You’re not imagining it. 
  From modern corporate performance reviews to tech platform monopolies and ancient empires, society runs on an unspoken rule: preach virtue, practice self-interest, and manipulate the rules to hoard power. 
   
  Human hypocrisy isn’t a modern moral defect, it is an ancient, hardwired survival mechanism. In The Ideology of Hypocrisy, you will discover how the instinct to disguise self-serving motives behind performative ethics evolved from our Pleistocene ancestors into the sophisticated institutional games of today. 
   
  Inside this unvarnished deep dive, you’ll uncover: 
  The Primal Windfall: Why tactical deception and self-deception evolved as cognitive survival tools—and why the most convincing liars believe their own rhetoric. 
  The Civilizing Mask: How empires and ruling classes historical weaponized "moral duty" to rationalize ruthless extraction. 
  The Frictionless Trap & Ethical Illusions: How Big Tech and modern corporate greenwashing engineer cognitive surrender to conceal harsh supply chains. 
  The Myth of Absolute Meritocracy: An unvarnished teardown of corporate hierarchy, the performative theater of job interviews, and the institutional gaslighting that insulates the top. 
  Radical Strategic Endurance: A concrete blueprint to decode manipulated metrics, survive rigged corporate games, and build localized, high trust autonomy outside the corporate enclosure. 
  This is not an abstract philosophical lecture. It is an analytical decoder ring for anyone tired of playing by rules that were designed to keep them docile. 
   
  If you are ready to decode the hidden architecture of power and reclaim strategic control over your career and mind, get your copy today.

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  Economic Recovery Program

  Ronald Reagan

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  On February 18, 1981, Reagan laid out his economic recovery program before a Joint Session of Congress. Reagan had previously outlined his recovery program in an Oval Office address on February 5, 1981, in which he displayed a dollar bill and 36 cents to show how inflation had reduced the value of a dollar since 1960.  
  Reagan made a further plea for enactment of his recovery program on April 28, 1981, following the assassination attempt on his life. Many economists credit this recovery program for reducing the inflation rate and igniting one of the longest and most robust economic expansions in U.S. history. 
  Reagan paints a grim picture of inflation, the national debt, and lagging productivity plaguing the economy. $41.4 billion of reduced spending is proposed with no reduction for “the poverty stricken, the disabled, the elderly, [and] all those with true need”. Subsidies of the synthetic fuel program, the Export-Import Bank, and the Economic Development Administration are targeted.  
  Block grants to states are proposed, along with changes to Medicaid, the space program, the Postal Service, and the Department of Energy. To counter the Soviet Union’s military build-up, defense is the one department with an increased budget. 
  A 10-percent tax cut for individual taxpayers is proposed for each of the next 3 years, along with increased depreciation allowances to allow business the capital needed to modernize.  
  We “must come to grips with inefficient and burdensome regulations, eliminate those we can and reform the others.”  
  To reduce inflation and interest rates, we need to slow the growth of our money supply. 
  This is our proposal for America’s new beginning. “I'm here tonight to ask you to join me in making it our plan.” Government “must not be used to regulate the economy or bring about social change.” 
  Audio recording courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. 
  AspenLeafMedia.com

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