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  Civics for the World to Come -...

  Antero Garcia, Nicole Mira

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  Help students use their voices to build an equitable and just society. 
   
   
   
  Years of political violence and protests against injustice have revived interest in teaching civics in schools. The problem? Civic education—as it currently exists—privileges systems, not students. It promotes incremental change within a broken democracy rather than responding to the youth-led movements that call for the abolition of inequitable social structures. What will it take to prepare young people for the just future they are fighting for? 
   
   
   
  Civics for the World to Come offers educators a framework for designing the critical civic education that our students deserve. Synthesizing perspectives on democratic life from critical race theory, ethnic studies, Afrofuturism, and critical literacy, the book presents key practices for cultivating youth civic agency grounded in equity and justice. The authors explore five world-building civic skills (Inquiry, Storytelling, Imagination, Networking, and Advocacy) and introduce listeners to real learning communities where students and educators are transforming themselves and society.

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  Mr Vic’s X-Rated Television:...

  VIC VITALE

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  "Lesbians Without Consent!" 
  While investigating a murder, Miss Phryne Fisher, along with Dot Williams and Doctor Mac, go to a seedy downtown bar to seek information.  
  It's at this place of shady repute where the three women fall prey to the sapphic element that frequents the establishment. 
   

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  The Heat and the Fury - On the...

  Peter Schwartzstein

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  As a journalist on the climate security beat, Peter Schwartzstein has been chased by kidnappers, badly beaten, detained by police, and told, in no uncertain terms, that he was no longer welcome in certain countries. Yet these personal brushes with violence are simply a hint of the conflict simmering in our warming world. 
   
   
    
  Schwartzstein has visited ravaged Iraqi towns where ISIS used drought as a recruiting tool and weapon of terror. And he has heard the fear in the voices of women from around the world who say their husbands' tempers flare when the temperature ticks up. 
   
   
    
  In The Heat and the Fury, he not only puts listeners on the frontlines of climate violence but gives us the context to make sense of seemingly senseless acts. As Schwartzstein deftly shows, climate change is often the spark that ignites long smoldering fires, the extra shove that pushes individuals, communities, and even nations over the line between frustration and lethal fury. What, he asks, can ratchet down the aggression? 
   
   
    
  Schwartzstein's incisive analysis of geopolitics, unparalleled on-the-ground reporting, and keen sense of human nature offer the clearest picture to date of the violence that threatens us all.

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  Madame Q’s Dolly Mops

  Dorian Shellan

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  Sometimes, a gentleman may not want the company of one of the fine ladies at The Nunnery, but rather a pretty young thing to use as a toy. Madame Q must therefore hire dolly mops to fulfill her client's requirements. 
  A dolly mop is a girl, usually a domestic like a maid, who seeks to earn extra money by occasional prostitution. However, most of these girls have no idea what they're getting themselves in to, imagining dolly mopping as some sort of romantic adventure. This means Madame Q needs a trusted accomplice to introduce prospective dolly mops to the realities of what will be expected of them. When she learns of Dr. Onan's predilections, she realizes that he is the perfect person to break them in. 
  This is the story of how Mary and Gertie became dolly mops at The Nunnery.

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  Mind Set! - Reset Your Thinking...

  Anonymous

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  In his seminal works Megatrends and Megatrends 2000, John Naisbitt proved himself one of the most far-sighted and accurate observers of our fast-changing world.  
  Mind Set! goes beyond that—Mind Set! discloses the secret of forecasting. John Naisbitt gives away the keys to the kingdom, opening the door to the insights that let him understand today's world and see the opportunities of tomorrow. He selected his most effective tools, 11 Mind Sets, and applies them by guiding the reader through the five forces that will dominate the next decades of the 21st century.  
  Ilustrated by stories about Galileo and Einstein to today's icons and rebels in business, science, and sports, Mind Set! opens your eyes to see beyond media headlines, political slogans, and personal opinions, to select and judge what will form the pictures of the future.  
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  Praying in the Pine Straw - The...

  Robert C. Morgan

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  Step into the South's brush arbors and piney woods where faith runs deep, stories run wild, and the old-time camp meeting was anything but quiet. 
   
  Praying in Pine Straw immerses listeners in the raw, rollicking, and deeply human world of Alabama's camp meetings—a Southern tradition where fire-and-brimstone preaching echoed through pine forests and where faith was often accompanied by contradiction. From "treeing the Devil" to "holy laughter," these revivals blended heartfelt worship with all the complications of human nature. Mule-drawn wagons brought the faithful to rustic camps, where gospel fervor mingled with whiskey traders, local politicians, and opportunists of every kind. Preachers thundered against sin—even as they sometimes flirted with it themselves. 
   
  Robert C. Morgan offers a textured portrait of camp meetings as both spiritual experience and cultural spectacle, reviving a Southern tradition that flourished from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. With a blend of humor and keen insight, Praying in the Pine Straw unveils the enduring contradictions of "old-time religion" and its significant influence on Southern culture and faith—a legacy that is both treasured and complex.

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