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  Academic Dependency and...

  Fernanda Beigel, Hanan Sabea

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  Since 1960, an unequal international structure is recognized in terms of production and circulation of knowledge in the international science system. This phenomenon is called academic dependency and motivated actions towards promoting the education of scientist and stimulating the bond between institutions and scholars of the periphery. This, considering that the peripheral knowledge-production structures were compromised by colonialism and its lasting effects.

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  A Plane and Simple Connection

  Eskay Kabba

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  Ryan D. Ryder meets Mr. Deep Strokez 
  Rion Matthews is an up-and-coming indie author under the pen name Ryan D. Ryder, named for his favorite sexual position. For research on his newest steamy story, Rion gets on a plane for the first time in his life. 
  Across the aisle is Nicholas Highton, a rich playboy who runs a magazine called Deep Strokez, focusing on sex news, stories, and gossip. 
  During the seven-hour redeye to Heathrow, they instantly connect while sharing life stories, deepest fears, and airplane snacks. When Nick invites Rion to stay with him at his hotel, their new friendship quickly blossoms into a steamy, erotic affair. 
  Rion and Nick explore London-and each other's bodies-for one summer month until the reality of family issues and their very different social standing and economic class pulls them apart. Both have to decide: Is their magnetic connection worth fighting for?

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  Wovoka: The Life and Legacy of...

  Editors Charles River

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  Wovoka (1867-1932), the Ghost Dance Prophet, was a member of the Walker River band of Paiutes, in western Nevada. The Walker River Reservation was established in 1859 and was Wokova’s home off and on for years. Wovoka was also known as Jack Wilson, a name he acquired while he was, for some years, employed on the David Wilson family ranch in the Mason Valley. At that time in Nevada, Indians not living on a reservation often lived on a ranch. Wovoka was exposed to the pious Wilson family’s daily Bible readings, and that may have helped shape his own beliefs. 
  His father was a traditional medicine man, himself a devotee of an earlier prophet. In 1889, Wovoka followed his father in also becoming a medicine man. The year, Wovoka had a series of visions that led to what is sometimes called the Ghost Dance religion, which spread like wildfire across much of the West in 1889 and 1890. 
  Wovoka’s 1889 visions grew into a new religion that gripped the hopes and imaginations of dozens of tribal groups, and it eventually extended over much of the West. It was a kind of antidote for defeat and cultural dislocation. The Lakota Sioux in particular were so caught up in the Ghost Dance and their adaptation of Wovoka’s revelations that they remain strongly associated with the Ghost Dance more than a century later. 

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  Tango 1-1 - 9th Infantry...

  Jim Thayer

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  LRPs were all volunteers. They were in the spine-tingling, brain-twisting, nerve-wracking business of Long Range Patrolling. They varied in age from eighteen to thirty. These men operated in precision movements, like walking through a jungle quietly and being able to tell whether a man or an animal is moving through the brush without seeing the cause of movement. They could sit in an ambush for hours without moving a muscle except to ease the safety off the automatic weapon in their hand at the first sign of trouble. These men were good because they had to be to survive. 
   
   
   
  Called LRPs for short, they were despised, respected, admired, and sometimes thought to be a little short on brains by those who watched from the sidelines as a team started out on another mission to seek out the enemy. They were men who can take a baby or small child in their arms and make them stop crying. They shared their last smoke, last ration of food, last canteen of water. They were kind in some ways, deadly in others. They were men who believed in their country, freedom, and fellow men. They were a new kind of soldier in a new type of warfare. 
   
   
   
  LRPs stand out in a crowd of soldiers. It's not just their tiger fatigues but the way they walk, talk, and stand. They were proud warriors because they were members of the Long Range Patrol.

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  The Social Construction of...

  Fred Grandsen

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  The concept of social construction challenges the idea that reality exists independently of human perception. Instead, it argues that much of what people take for granted as "real" is actually the result of social interactions, shared meanings, and cultural influences. This perspective does not deny the existence of a material world but emphasizes that human understanding of this world is shaped by society. From values and norms to institutions and identities, social construction theory suggests that reality is not simply discovered but created through collective human agreement. 
  One of the foundational aspects of social construction is the distinction between objective reality and socially constructed reality. Objective reality refers to things that exist independently of human beliefs, such as gravity or biological processes. In contrast, socially constructed reality consists of meanings, categories, and interpretations that humans assign to objects, actions, and relationships. For example, money has no intrinsic value beyond the materials it is made from; its worth comes from a collective belief in its function as a medium of exchange. Similarly, concepts like race, gender, and even time are shaped by cultural and historical contexts rather than existing as fixed, natural categories.

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  How to Stop a Conspiracy - An...

  Sallust, Josiah Osgood

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  In 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Republic, the aristocrat Catiline tried to topple its elected government. Backed by corrupt elites and poor, alienated Romans, he fled Rome while his associates plotted to burn the city and murder its leading politicians. The attempted coup culminated with the unmasking of the conspirators in the Senate, a stormy debate that led to their execution, and the defeat of Catiline and his legions in battle. In How to Stop a Conspiracy, Josiah Osgood presents a brisk, modern new translation of the definitive account of these events, Sallust's The War with Catiline. 
   
   
   
  In a taut, jaw-dropping narrative, Sallust combines juicy details about Catiline and his louche associates with highly quotable moral judgments and a wrenching description of the widespread social misery they exploited. Along the way, we get unforgettable portraits of the bitter and haunted Catiline, who was sympathetic to the plight of Romans yet willing to destroy Rome; his archenemy Cicero, who thwarts the conspiracy; and Julius Caesar, who defends the conspirators and is accused of being one of them. Complete with an introduction that discusses how The War with Catiline has shaped and continues to shape our understanding of how republics live and die, this volume makes Sallust's gripping history more accessible than ever before.

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