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  Unbuild Walls - Why Immigrant...

  Silky Shah, Amna A. Akbar

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  Drawing from over twenty years of activism on local and national levels, this striking book offers an organizer's perspective on the intersections of immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition. 
   
   
   
  In the wake of post-9/11 xenophobia, Obama's record-level deportations, Trump's immigration policies, and the 2020 uprisings for racial justice, the US remains entrenched in a circular discourse regarding migrant justice. As organizer Silky Shah argues in Unbuild Walls, we must move beyond building nicer cages or advocating for comprehensive immigration reform. Our only hope for creating a liberated society for all, she insists, is abolition. 
   
   
   
  Unbuild Walls dives into US immigration policy and its relationship to mass incarceration, showing how the prison-industrial complex and immigration enforcement are intertwined systems of repression. Incorporating historical and legal analyses, Shah's personal experience as an organizer, as well as stories of people, campaigns, organizations, and localities that have resisted detention and deportation, Shah assesses the movement's strategies, challenges, successes, and shortcomings. Featuring a foreword by Amna A. Akbar, Unbuild Walls is an expansive and radical intervention, bridging the gaps between movements for immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition.

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  Who killed Napoléon? 10 New...

  Gérard Lucotte, Philippe Bornet

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  “Let the muse of history be silent, and make way for genetics.” Jean Tulard. 
  “Fascinating.” Jean-Noël Fabiani, Professor Emeritus, Chair of the History of Medicine. 
  
  Until recent years, many mysteries and rumors have surrounded Napoleon. Was Napoleon's body taken by the British and placed in Westminster Abbey? Was he poisoned with arsenic? Did he die of hereditary stomach cancer, as the English claimed, or of hepatitis and dysentery rampant on that unhealthy island? Was Napoleon III descended from the Emperor? Did the Emperor's physician remove Napoleon's penis after his death on St. Helena in 1821?
  To answer these and many other questions, Professor Gérard Lucotte spent twelve years working on this subject. He was commissioned by Prince Charles Napoléon (a descendant of the Emperor, through the branch descended from Jérôme Bonaparte, the Emperor's youngest brother) and Count Walewski (a descendant of Napoleon the First’s natural son) to work on Napoléon's DNA. Thanks to his genetics laboratory and electron microscope, he has achieved a gigantic feat that will astound all Napoleon enthusiasts.

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  Preparing for War - The...

  Bradley Onishi

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  The insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not a blip or an aberration. It was the logical outcome of years of a White evangelical subculture's preparation for war. Religion scholar and former insider Bradley Onishi maps the origins of White Christian nationalism and traces its offshoots in Preparing for War. 
   
   
   
  Combining his own experiences in the youth groups and prayer meetings of the 1990s with an immersive look at the steady blending of White grievance politics with evangelicalism, Onishi crafts an engrossing account of the years-long campaign of White Christian nationalism that led to January 6. How did the rise of what Onishi calls the New Religious Right, between 1960 and 2015, give birth to violent White Christian nationalism during the Trump presidency and beyond? What propelled some of the most conservative religious communities in the country—communities of which Onishi was once a part—to ignite a cold civil war? 
   
   
   
  Through chapters on White supremacy and segregationist theologies, conspiracy theories, the Christian-school movement, purity culture, and the right-wing media ecosystem, Onishi pulls back the curtain on a subculture that birthed a movement and has taken a dangerous turn.

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  Diana - A Tribute to the...

  Peter Donnelly

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  Born with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth, the Honorable Diana Frances Spencer attained wealth, power, and title with her marriage to Charles, Prince of Wales. But her ultimate triumph owed nothing to those circumstances and everything to her inner qualities: an innate ability to understand and connect with ordinary people, particularly the desperately sick, the rejected, the "unloved." Biographer and journalist Peter Donnelly recounts the remarkable story of Diana's unhappy childhood, her fairy tale marriage, and the recriminations and unhappiness surrounding her divorce—and in particular, how Diana captured hearts all over the world to become the people's princess.

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  Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -...

  Alex C. Wolf

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  Are you ready to Overcome Anxiety, Depression and Negative Thoughts? And take control of your mind? 
  If you are looking for a way to deal with your mental issues once and for all, then Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the book you have been looking for. 
  Anxiety and depression are things that you will always have to deal with, but thanks to CBT you will learn the techniques that you require in order to help deal with the negative emotions that are associated with anxiety and depression. 
  When it comes to your phobias, thanks to the techniques you will learn with CBT, you will be able to overcome them and eventually forget that you ever had them! It will take time, and you may not overcome them while you are in cognitive behavioral therapy but if you stick to the techniques that you learn, you can continue to help yourself overcome your phobia. 
  The most important thing that you have to remember is that you have to keep going no matter how hard it gets! You cannot give up and you cannot back down. Giving up means that you are okay with how you react to things right now and you would not have looked into CBT if that was the truth. 
  No matter how hard things get, you have to keep going! 
  In this audiobook you will learn:What cognitive behavioral therapy is How cognitive behavioral therapy can help you with your anxietySolutions to dealing with your depression, anxieties, and phobias And so much more! 
  CBT is extremely helpful as long as you are willing to put the work in! 
  So, what are you waiting for? Get ready to change your life for the better once and for all, buy this audiobook today and start your healing journey!

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  Greatest Criminals in the History

  Introbooks Team

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  In ordinary language, crime is referred to as an unlawful act that is punishable by law. In the modern scenario, the term criminal law has been universally accepted to be the proper definition of the crime. However, there are various statutory definitions that have been provided for various specific purposes. Amongst all of the accepted views and beliefs, the most popular belief with respect to crime is that it is a category created by law. In other words, any act is considered to be a crime if it is declared as such by any applicable or relevant body of law. Another proposed definition of a crime or criminal offense is referred to as an act of harmful activity or deed that is harmful not only to the human beings but it could also be harmful to some community, society or even animals. The criminal acts, in general, are prohibited by the act of law and are also punishable under the act of law. 
  The various notions such as murder, theft, rape and several others are considered to be prohibited as these exist worldwide. The precise definition of the criminal offense as defined by the criminal law of each country states that with several criminal catalogs that are referred to as the criminal code, there is no comprehensive existence of any statute. 
  The government has the ultimate power to restrict the liberty for the commitment of a crime in a severe manner of any person. In the modern scenario, there are several procedures that might lead to investigations and trials that must be adhered to by the individuals. If an offender is found guilty, then he or she might be subjected or sentenced to several forms of reparations like a community sentence. The severity of the punishment might depend on the nature of the offense and might range from life imprisonment, execution and several forms of jurisdictions. 
  A crime can be anything that can be classified as an act of doing something criminal or offensive with certain motives that could be accompanied with the intention of harming someone or something. As every crime is associated with the violation of the law, they must be properly implemented and given punishment under the acts of law. 
  The human civilization has observed several cases of crime in its history. We aim to enlighten you about the same through the article. You can gain an insight into some of the most deadly and notorious criminals the world has ever observed in history.

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