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  A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits -...

  Frank L. Holt

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  As the world recently commemorated the hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, our fascination with the pharaoh begs for a balanced view. Most recovered mummies have not escaped the modern trafficking in ancient bodies and body parts. The story of Ankh-Hap, a Ptolemaic-era mummy seized in the nineteenth century from the infamous mummy-pits of Egypt, provides a salutary example of what most mummies have endured. 
   
   
   
  Frank Holt makes use of a robust combination of scientific tools and archival research to tell the story of Ankh-Hap's life, death, and his mummified remains, which ended up in the back of an American college classroom. A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits takes the listener into a forgotten world of mummy trafficking by an American entrepreneur named Henry Augustus Ward. His company's shelves were stocked with mummies, coffins, and even ancient body parts. Customers could piece together their own "Frankenmummy" with authentic wrappings and amulets. 
   
   
   
  A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits contextualizes this information by surveying the history of similar mummies from antiquity to the twentieth century, moving from ancient tomb robbers and medieval apothecaries to modern dime museums, traveling shows, pulp fiction, films, and pop culture. The book offers listeners a glimpse inside a dark chapter of mummy history.

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  Requiem for the American Dream -...

  Noam Chomsky

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  NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! 
   
  "During the Great Depression, which I'm old enough to remember, it was bad—much worse subjectively than today. But there was a sense that we'll get out of this somehow, an expectation that things were going to get better …"—from Requiem for the American Dream 
   
  In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today? They're simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle classes, attack the solidarity of the people, let special interests run the regulators, engineer election results, use fear and the power of the state to keep the rabble in line, manufacture consent, marginalize the population. In Requiem for the American Dream, Chomsky devotes a chapter to each of these ten principles, and adds readings from some of the core texts that have influenced his thinking to bolster his argument. 
   
  To create Requiem for the American Dream, Chomsky and his editors, the filmmakers Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, and Jared P. Scott, spent countless hours together over the course of five years, from 2011 to 2016. Chomsky considers these to be his final, long-form interviews. After the release of the film version, Chomsky and the editors returned to the many hours of tape and transcript and created a document that included three times as much text as was used in the film. The book that has resulted is nonetheless arguably the most succinct and tightly woven of Chomsky's long career, a beautiful vessel in which to carry Chomsky's bold and uncompromising vision, his perspective on the economic reality and its impact on our political and moral well-being as a nation.

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  Dooro Vekhe Sant Jarnail Singh

  Harpal Singh Pannu

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  The book "Duron Vekhe Sant Jarnail Singh Ji Bhindranwale" is written by Prof. Harpal Singh Pannu. He mentions in the beginning that he wrote exactly what he saw with his own eyes. He says, "It felt like Sant Jarnail Singh was my friend." But Sant Jarnail Singh was not anyone’s friend—he was a saint. A saint has no enemies or friends. I saw him as a great Sikh whose role in the Akali Dal was growing.

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  Modernising Irish Government -...

  Neil Collins, Terry Cradden

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  Modernising Irish Government presents the major historical turning points in the development of Irish public services with a particular focus on the civil service, covering the mid-nineteenth-century reforms, the foundations of the State and the Lemass-Whittaker economic initiative. It introduces the Strategic Management Initiative, its origins and its impact, discussed in terms of efficiency, responsibility and democracy.
  Authors Neil Collins, Terry Cradden and Patrick Butler examine the current, key issues within the Civil Service, including the contentious issue of decentralisation. Providing reviews of the institutional framework for regulating monopolies in such sectors as telecommunications, aviation and retail competition, they present a critique of the new kinds of relationships between government and the people by reviewing Social Partnership, the Citizen Charters of government departments and other similar instruments.
  This textbook at once examines the scale, scope and structure of the delivery of services to the public and their relationship to the civil service, government departments, commercial semi-state companies and other public bodies, while identifying a number of significant failures in service delivery in detail and offering an analysis for their reasons.

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  Residual Governance - How South...

  Gabrielle Hecht

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  In Residual Governance, Gabrielle Hecht dives into the wastes of gold and uranium mining in South Africa to explore how communities, experts, and artists fight for infrastructural and environmental justice. Hecht outlines how mining in South Africa is a prime example of what she theorizes as residual governance—the governance of waste and discard, governance that is purposefully inefficient, and governance that treats people and places as waste and wastelands. She centers the voices of people who resist residual governance and the harms of toxic mining waste to highlight how mining's centrality to South African history reveals the links between race, capitalism, the state, and the environment. In this way, Hecht shows how the history of mining in South Africa and the resistance to residual governance and environmental degradation is a planetary story: the underlying logic of residual governance lies at the heart of contemporary global racial capitalism and is a major accelerant of the Anthropocene.

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  Dark Psychology and Manipulation...

  Leo Sanders

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  2 Books Box SetThis book includes: 
  - How to Analyze People with Dark Psychology 
  - Secret Manipulation TechniquesDo you want to learn to defend yourself against Mental Manipulation? 
  Do you want to learn body language basics, detect manipulative and toxic people? 
  Do you often feel people take advantage of you or control you in order to "help you"? 
  What do they think? How do they feel? Are they lying? 
  Have you always wanted to learn about dark psychology, but you never knew where to begin? 
  Dark psychology is the art and science of manipulation and mind control, and through its studies, you will learn to control how other people think as well as how to control their actions and interactions. It may seem like a difficult feat at first, but you will achieve all of that, and much more! 
  Reading this book you’ll learn the most powerful principles in the world of Dark Psychology. Not sure if you'll be able to use them in practice? Don’t worry! Each chapter explains an aspect of Dark Psychology in a way that is easily accessible and readily understandable for all. 
  Here’s just a little of what you’ll discover inside: 
  - Dark Side of the Idea of Human Consciousness 
  - Techniques to Read People 
  - The Psychology of Dreams 
  - Psychology of the Insane 
  - The Benefits of Meeting Our Dark Side 
  - Secret Manipulation Techniques 
  - Neuro-Linguistic Programming 
  - Reverse Psychology 
  - Emotional Intelligence 
  - Body Language 
  - The Psychology of Death 
  - Exploring Yourself with Psychology 
  - Techniques to Control and Influence Minds 
  - Control Your Mind Thoughts 
  - Master Your Emotions 
  - Simple Methods to Avoid Brainwashing 
  - How to Become an Effective Communicator 
  - Dark Psychological Tricks 
  - Gain Control of Your MindAre you ready to delve into the secrets of our minds?

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