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  How Polarization Begets...

  Samuel Merrill III, Thomas L....

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  Extreme polarization in American politics is perhaps the most confounding political phenomenon of our time. This book binds together polarization in Congress and polarization in the electorate within an ever-expanding feedback loop. This loop is powered by the discipline exerted by the respective political parties on their Congressional members and district candidates and endorsed by the voters in each Congressional district who must choose between the alternatives offered. Tight national party discipline produces party delegations in Congress that are widely separated from one another but each ideologically narrowly distributed. 
   
   
   
  As district constituencies become more polarized and are egged on by activists, parties are further motivated to appeal to their respective bases rather than to voters in the ideological center. America has indeed acquired parties with clear platforms—once thought to be a desirable goal—but these parties are now feuding camps. What resolution might there be? Just as the progressive movement slowly replaced the Gilded Age, might a new reform effort replace the current squabble? Or could an asymmetry develop in the partisan constraints that would lead to ascendancy of the center, or might a new and over-riding issue generate a cross-cutting dimension, opening the door to a new politics? Only the future will tell.

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  Chopin's Concert in Rouen in 1838

  Nicolas Labatut, Renee Clancy

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  This original hour-long audio documentary will take you in the footsteps of the 19th century’s most beloved and most played piano composer in the world : Frederic Chopin !  His compositions are reconfigured or remixed in many popular songs and are often heard in cinema as well as in the theater.The music of Frederic Chopin is part of our soundscape. Its humanity, its refinement and its modernity have enabled it to successfully cross over centuries. This great composer lived only 39 short years, during which he gave only a few rare concerts (which he hardly appreciated).So here we are going to discuss a relatively undocumented musical event (rich in anecdotes) : Frederic Chopin's concert at the Hotel de Ville in Rouen on the evening of March 12, 1838. Whether you are a music lover, passionate about history or simply of a curious temperament, I invite you to immerse yourself in this fascinating story, alone or with your family. The music terms have been simplified to the maximum to make the story accessible to as many people as possible.Have a good sound journey to the 19th century, don’t hesitate to share this original episode produced by the Safeguarding of the Acoustic Heritage (Sauvegarde du Patrimoine Acoustique) !

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  The Way of Tenderness -...

  Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

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  In The Way of Tenderness, Zen priest Zenju Earthlyn Manuel brings Buddhist philosophies of emptiness and appearance to bear on race, sexuality, and gender, using wisdom forged through personal experience and practice to rethink problems of identity and privilege.  
  Manuel brings her own experiences as a lesbian black woman into conversation with Buddhism to square our ultimately empty nature with superficial perspectives of everyday life. Her hard-won insights reveal that dry wisdom alone is not sufficient to heal the wounds of the marginalized; an effective practice must embrace the tenderness found where conventional reality and emptiness intersect. Only warmth and compassion can cure hatred and heal the damage it wreaks within us.  
  This is a book that will teach us all.

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  Empire of Blood - The Rise and...

  Marcus J. Reyes

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  December 2, 1993. A rooftop in Medellín. The most dangerous man on earth just ran out of places to hide. 
  By twenty-six, Pablo Escobar had already stolen headstones, run cigarettes, and laid the foundations of an empire that would make him richer than governments, more feared than armies, and — for a while — more loved in his own city than the state itself. 
  He bombed a passenger plane to kill one man. He put a country's Congress on his payroll. He built a private zoo, a private army, and a private war against a nation that didn't understand what it was facing until the bodies numbered in the thousands. 
  This is not the sanitized version. This is not the show. 
  Empire of Blood is the meticulously researched, unflinching true story behind the myth — the real timeline, the real players, the real cost — told as narrative nonfiction that reads like a thriller, because the truth never needed embellishing. 
  Inside, you'll discover:How a boy with no electricity at home became a $25 billion traffickerThe assassination that turned a smuggling operation into a war on the Colombian stateThe bombing of Avianca Flight 203 — and the candidate who was never on boardLife inside La Catedral, the "prison" Escobar built and ran like a resortThe still-disputed truth about who fired the fatal shot on that rooftopWhat became of his family — and why Medellín still can't agree if he was monster or saint 
  This book is for the reader who finished Narcos and wanted the parts Netflix left out. For true crime readers who want nonfiction that hits as hard as fiction — without a single invented quote. 
  Some empires fall in a day. This one took a decade — and the country it nearly destroyed is still adding up the cost. 
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  James Dean: A short biography -...

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  James Dean, screen legend: 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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  Michael Jordan: A short...

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  Michael Jordan, basketball superstar and living legend: 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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