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  I Dream with Open Eyes - A Memoir

  George Prochnik

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  Whatever the ideological slant of our information feeds, nowadays we all share a sense of binge-watching the apocalypse. Facing so much uncertainty, we need a language for thinking about the unknown not simply as a threat but also as a space of fertile possibility. George Prochnik has chosen to reflect on these urgent themes through the lens of a personal narrative: an account of his own family's decision to leave the United States. 
   
   
   
  I Dream with Open Eyes begins with an exploration of Prochnik's ancestral past: the pilgrimage of his mother's family, who were among the first English settlers in the New World. In the aftermath of the 2016 election, a parallel migration unfolds as Prochnik, along with his wife and their son, makes the decision to uproot their lives in New York to move to England. 
   
   
   
  A deep critique of this current moment, Prochnik takes the words of nineteenth-century poet Heinrich Heine, "I dream with open eyes, and my eyes see," as an inspiration to ask how, as a society, we might use art and literature to refract and expand our vision of the future, while simultaneously generating a new focus on present realities.

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  Warring Souls - Youth Media and...

  Roxanne Varzi

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  With the first Fulbright grant for research in Iran to be awarded since the Iranian revolution in 1979, Roxanne Varzi returned to the country her family left before the Iran-Iraq war. Drawing on ethnographic research she conducted in Tehran between 1991 and 2000, she provides an eloquent account of the beliefs and experiences of young, middle-class, urban Iranians. As the first generation to have come of age entirely in the period since the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran, twenty-something Iranians comprise a vital index of the success of the nation’s Islamic Revolution. Varzi describes how, since 1979, the Iranian state has attempted to produce and enforce an Islamic public sphere by governing behavior and by manipulating images—particularly images related to religious martyrdom and the bloody war with Iraq during the 1980s—through films, murals, and television shows. Yet many of the young Iranians Varzi studied quietly resist the government’s conflation of religious faith and political identity.Highlighting trends that belie the government’s claim that Islamic values have taken hold—including rising rates of suicide, drug use, and sex outside of marriage—Varzi argues that by concentrating on images and the performance of proper behavior, the government’s campaign to produce model Islamic citizens has affected only the appearance of religious orthodoxy, and that the strictly religious public sphere is partly a mirage masking a profound crisis of faith among many Iranians. Warring Souls is a powerful account of contemporary Iran made more vivid by Varzi’s inclusion of excerpts from the diaries she maintained during her research and from journal entries written by Iranian university students with whom she formed a study group.

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  Whispers of a Wiser Mind -...

  Moonlight Whispers

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  Whispers of a Wiser Mind by Moonlight Whispers is a tranquil meditation on awareness — a journey through stillness where curiosity and calm walk hand in hand. Each affirmation opens a quiet door to thought, inviting wisdom to bloom without haste. This is not learning as effort, but understanding as peace — the gentle unfolding of insight within silence. Let your mind rest, expand, and remember the joy of simply knowing.

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  Social Justice Fallacies: Book...

  Briefly Summaries

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  This is a concise summary and analysis of Social Justice Fallacies, by Thomas Sowell.
   
  It is not the original book and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Thomas Sowell.
   
  Ideal those seeking a quick and insightful overview.
   
  
   
  What if the pursuit of fairness and justice was leading us down a path of unintended harm? In Social Justice Fallacies, the author dismantles the myths and misconceptions that dominate modern social justice narratives, offering a bold, evidence-based critique that will challenge the way you think about fairness, equality, and progress.
   
  This thought-provoking audiobook explores how well-intentioned policies—aimed at correcting historical wrongs and creating equal outcomes—often backfire, perpetuating dependency, resentment, and inefficiency. With clarity and rigor, the author dissects key social justice fallacies, from the misinterpretation of group disparities to the misuse of historical narratives. Through real-world examples and data-driven insights, the book reveals how cultural values, individual choices, and economic principles play a greater role in shaping outcomes than popular narratives suggest.

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  Chippewa Falls World War II Hero...

  John E. Kinville

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  Chippewa Falls' First World War II Casualty Young Harry Wellington Kramer was looking for adventure and a leg up in Depression-era Wisconsin. He found both aboard the Navy battleship USS California . Traveling across the western United States and the Pacific Ocean, Harry was quick to share his experiences with family and friends in Chippewa Falls. As he realized his dreams and served his country, his parents anxiously followed the developments that would lead to America's involvement in World War II. All of these events converged with the attack on Pearl Harbor, in which Harry was tragically killed fulfilling his duties. Though gone, Harry W. Kramer is not forgotten. Compiling thirty-three letters between Harry and home, local author and history teacher John E. Kinville tells the story of a life cut short but well lived.

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  Corpse Care - Ethics for Tending...

  Cody J. Sanders, Mikeal C. Parsons

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  Corpse Care relates the history of death care in the US to craft robust, constructive, practical ethics for tending the dead. It specifically relates corpse care to economic, environmental, and pastoral concerns. 
   
   
   
  Death and the treatment of the dead body loom large in our collective, cultural consciousness. The authors explore the materiality and meaning of the dead body and the living's relationship to it. All the biggest questions facing the planetary human community relate in one way or another to the corpse. Surprisingly, Christian communities are largely missing in the discussion of the dead, having abdicated the historic role in care for the dead to the funeral industry. Christianity has stopped its reflection about the body once that body no longer bears life. Corpse Care stakes a claim that the fact of embodiment, this incarnational truth, this process of our bodily becoming, is a practical, ethical, and theological necessity.

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