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  Leland Stanford: A short...

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  Leland Stanford, railroad king: 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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  Other Kingdom An - Departing the...

  Peter Block, John McKnight,...

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  Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need to depart a kingdom that creates isolation, polarized debate, an exhausted planet, and violence that comes with the will to empire. The abbreviation of this empire is called a consumer culture. 
   
   
   
  We think the free-market ideology that surrounds us is true and inevitable and represents progress. We are called to better adapt, be more agile, more lean, more schooled, more, more, more. Give it up. There is no such thing as customer satisfaction. 
   
   
   
  We need a new narrative. An Other Kingdom takes us out of a culture of addictive consumption into a place where life is ours to create together. This way depends upon a neighborly covenant—an agreement that we together, will better raise our children, be healthy, be connected, be safe, and provide a livelihood. 
   
   
   
  The authors invite you on a journey of departure from our consumer market culture. Discover an alternative set of beliefs that have the capacity to evoke a culture where poverty, violence, and shrinking well-being are not inevitable. An Other Kingdom outlines this journey to construct a future outside the systems world of solutions.

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  The Truth About Conspiracy...

  Sebastian Brunow

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  THE TRUTH About CONSPIRACY THEORIES
  
  From the power, danger, and fascination of conspiracy theories: Why people believe what they shouldn't believe. What makes a conspiracy theory? Where do the myths come from, who spreads them, and why? Why are some people susceptible to obviously absurd things, and what mechanisms keep conspiracy believers so firmly in their grip? Dive into the world of outrageous stories, discover the most popular theories, and find out what really matters when confronting invented and unprovable things!

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  Cincinnatus: The Life and Legacy...

  Charles River Editors

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  Among the figures of early Roman history, few stand out quite like Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, a man who to his contemporaries stood as the very image of the Roman Vir Bous (the Good Man). His life, whether viewed through the lens of ancient writers or treated as something of a foundational myth, has shaped Western thought surrounding civic duty and the restraint of power for more than 2,000 years.  
  	Cincinnatus lived during the precarious infancy of the Roman Republic, a time when the people had recently overthrown the monarchy and created a new system designed to balance power between competing interests. Naturally, the fear of an oppressive or incompetent monarchy had not yet fully diminished, and to make things worse, the period was plagued by the existential threat of invasions at the hands of neighboring Italic tribes. Internally, the Republic was not entirely stable, because its institutions were still in a process of evolution and social tensions between the patrician elite and the plebeian population often resulted in disorder. At any moment, the pressure might have forced the Republic itself to collapse.  
  	Despite the tensions, or because of them, it was within this atmosphere of uncertainty that the core ideals of Rome started to take shape: personal sacrifice, duty to the state, and an unwavering commitment to the common good. These are the very traits that Cincinnatus came to embody as a citizen-soldier who took up arms in defense of the state, and once the danger had passed, he returned without complaint to his modest life. In the 5th century BCE, he is described as toiling away on a small plot of land after a series of personal misfortunes drew him away from public life, and it was from this setting that he was summoned when a great crisis struck Rome. The Republic, left with no other option, turned to Cincinnatus and appointed him dictator.

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  Crimes against History

  Antoon De Baets

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  Crimes against History takes a global approach to the extreme forms of censorship to which history and historians have been subjected through the ages. 
   
  The book opens by considering the varieties of censorship, from suppression, dismissal, and defamation to persecution and murder. Part I, "Kill switch," tells the tragic story of how the censorship of history has sometimes turned into deadly crimes against history, with chapters looking at topics such as historians and archivists being killed for political reasons, attacks by political leaders on historians, iconoclastic breaks with the past, and fake news. Part II, "Fragile freedom," reverses the perspective and examines how the censorship of history has backfired. Chapters consider the subversive power of historical analogies and resistance to the censorship of history. The book also contains a "Provisional memorial for history producers killed for political reasons (from ancient times until 2017)". It is a double tribute: to the history producers who were killed and to those who mustered the courage to resist the blows of censorship.

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  My Life My Own Melody

  Sumi Jo

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  Korea's Own 'Voice from Above' Tells Her Story
  
  INCLUDES THE SINGLE 'LIFE IS A MIRACLE' by Giovanni Allevi, Federico Paciotti and Sumi Jo
  
  World's best bel canto soprano Sumi Jo tells the story of her own dramatic life in this candid autobiography. Out now both in Korean and English (*The Korean language version is narrated by the prima donna herself, and the English version by Erin Lee, a professional narrator.)
  
  Storytel Korea exclusively brings you this fascinating story of the top class opera singer who celebrated the 35th anniversary of her international debut in 2021.
  
  Hailing from Seoul, and having studied and secured international success in Italy, which she now calls her second home, Sumi Jo has been travelling around the world to share her songs with audiences everywhere for over 30 years, until coronavirus-19 made it impossible for her to do so in 2020. So she turned to writing and recording her first ever audio-autobiography with Storytel. In this story, she shares her perspective seasoned with her unparalleled international music career spanning over decades, as well as intimate personal stories about her family and encounters with other virtuosos - among them Herbert von Karajan, Lorin Maazel, and Zubin Mehta.
  
  Chapters info:
  Prologue
  1. From Seoul With Love
  2. To Rome With Love
  3. Maestro, Maestra
  4. Around the World in 8,000 days
  5. Top of the World
  6. Standing on Shoulders of Giants
  7. Everyday Is Like Monday
  8. Dogs and Humans
  Epilogue
  
  Author : SUMI JO
  
  Sumi Jo has established herself as one of her generation's most sought-after sopranos, praised for her outstanding musicianship and the remarkable agility, precision and warmth of her voice. She is the highest selling Classical singer in the world, with over 50 recordings to her credit, including a Grammy-winning Die Frau ohne Schatten with Sir Georg Solti for Decca London and Un Ballo in Maschera for Deutsche Grammophon under Herbert von Karajan. Her most recent disc, Mother (Universal Records), a collection of classical, crossover and folksongs dedicated to her mother, received Platinum Award certification in November 2019.
  
  Now best known for her Grammy award-winning interpretations of the bel canto repertoire, Sumi made her European operatic debut as Gilda Rigoletto at the Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste in 1986. There followed a series of impressive house and role debuts, including Oscar Un ballo in maschera opposite Placido Domingo at the Salzburg Festival in 1987; Thetis Fentone at Teatro alla Scala, Barbarina Le nozze di Figaro at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 1988; debuts at the Wiener Staatsoper and the Metropolitan Opera as Gilda in 1989 and the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Queen of the Night and Olympia Les Contes d'Hoffmann at the Royal Opera House in 1990. Sumi has since been greeted consistently with exceptional accolades, by public and press alike, for performances in opera houses and concert halls throughout the world.
  
  Sumi Jo is in constant demand as a performer and as special guest artist at gala concerts and events across the world, with recent appearances including the World Cup, the 2011 Asian Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Sochi, the International Olympic Games in Beijing and at the PyeongChang Paralympics Winter Games, where as an Honorary Ambassador she performed their official song "Here as One". Sumi was also invited to sing for Pope Francis's papal visit to South Korea in 2014.
  
  Sumi celebrated the 30th anniversary of her international opera debut in the 2016-17 season, with performances across Australia (Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne), Manila, at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Athens, Toulouse, Taipei and Pingtung with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, a series of Maria Callas Tribute concerts with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and recitals in Clermont-Ferrand and Montreal.

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