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  How Polarization Begets...

  Thomas L. Brunell, Bernard...

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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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  Ideology and Ideological State...

  Louis Althusser

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  Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Louis Althusser
  A Marxist philosophical essay exploring how societal institutions like education, media, and religion reinforce dominant ideologies. Althusser argues that these "Ideological State Apparatuses" shape individual consciousness, maintaining power structures by subtly controlling beliefs and norms through cultural influence.

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  The Book of Runes Audio...

  Ralph H. Blum

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  AN ANCIENT ORACLE FOR CONTEMPORARY LIFE
   
  INSIGHT INTO THE PRESENT AND FUTURE — A SYSTEM FOR PRACTICAL DECISION-MAKING
   
  A recording of bestselling author Ralph Blum recounting his personal odyssey of discovery, and guiding you through a meditative exploration of the mystery and power of the Viking Runes. Also included is a guidebook to the interpretation of Isa and Sowelu, and illustrations of the Runic alphabet, its derivations and modern English equivalents.
   
  Ralph Blum received his degree in Russian studies at Harvard. Following a period in Italy as a Fulbright Scholar, he returned to Harvard, where he did graduate work in anthropology. He is an anthropologist, writer and publisher, and has been working with the Viking Runes as a tool for self-counseling since 1980.

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  Blame Changer: Understanding...

  Carmel O'Brien

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  Blame Changer by psychologist Carmel O'Brien, former head of Clinical Services at Victoria's Doncare, provides straight forward answers to common questions and aims to debunk pervasive myths around what Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull last year called "one of Australia's greatest shames" domestic violence. But Blame Changer is much more than the definitive rebuttal of some of society's most damaging, ill-informed and pervasive attitudes about domestic violence. It sounds a clarion call for a change in the way we talk - at the dinner table, on social media and in national conversation at the highest levels - about women and the violence they experience. What's more, it's also a practical guide that will help victims of abuse: Blame Changer also shows friends and family how to help a victim of abuse and challenges how the Family Court system responds to allegations of abuse. This is the definitive guide to domestic violence in Australia, by a woman who has worked with countless victims over many years.

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  Anguish The double secret

  Max Dorra

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  The words of others, as an unpleasant remark ("You’re not hardworking") or a medical diagnosis ("You’re bipolar"), have the power to plunge us into anguish whenever they show an image of ourselves that we do not recognize: "In a world where words become viruses, certain sentences can kill." 
  The reductive identity that is thus assigned to us creates the illusion that our life can be summed up by these few words, allowing others to exercise the tyrannical power of anxiety over us. 
  Max Dorra explains how this illusion, created temporarily by the gaze of others, is just a montage-effect of our memory—as in a movie—and that it is enough to understand the mechanisms of this illusion in order to free ourselves from it: "To become aware of the fact that one is held captive by a montage is to be freed from a false confinement."
  In virtuosic and sensitive language ("The affects—shapeless and promising, wonderful clouds"), the author journeys through music, painting and cinema, appealing to sociology, psychoanalysis and philosophy, while remaining firmly rooted in reality: "There are more things in a hospital elevator than in all of philosophy." 
  He shows us that trusting our imagination allows us to tame anxiety without fearing it, and understanding that "another montage is possible" allows us to go towards the other without losing ourselves.

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  Volunteer Work - A Trip to...

  Carson Bristol

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  Notes from an anti-child-prostitution volunteer in Thailand 
  If you have ever considered volunteer work abroad, it would be good to learn about it from someone who has actually done it. 
  In this story, a volunteer describes his first impressions of Thailand, the problems the country faces when it comes to ethnic minorities and child prostitution, the organization he worked for, and the happy and sad times he experienced in his six-month stay while diligently studying the Thai language and contributing to the community.  
  This short book will give you new insights. It will bypass the central tourists' route and take you to the unseen backroads of a country torn between financial disparity and sexual culture.

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