Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9780340978504
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author : Margaret Canovan
Publisher : Polity
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2005-09-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780745628219
This groundbreaking study sets out to clarify one of the most influential but least studied of all political concepts. Despite continual talk of popular sovereignty, the idea of the people has been neglected by political theorists who have been deterred by its vagueness. Margaret Canovan argues that it deserves serious analysis, and that it's many ambiguities point to unresolved political issues. The book begins by charting the conflicting meanings of the people, especially in Anglo-American usage, and traces the concept's development from the ancient populus Romanus to the present day. The book's main purpose is, however, to analyse the political issues signalled by the people's ambiguities. In the remaining chapters, Margaret Canovan considers their theoretical and practical aspects: Where are the people's boundaries? Is people equivalent to nation, and how is it related to humanity - people in general? Populists aim to 'give power back to the people'; how is populism related to democracy? How can the sovereign people be an immortal collective body, but at the same time be us as individuals? Can we ever see that sovereign people in action? Political myths surround the figure of the people and help to explain its influence; should the people itself be regarded as fictional? This original and accessible study sheds a fresh light on debates about popular sovereignty, and will be an important resource for students and scholars of political theory.
Author : Erin Brockovich
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0525434593
From the environmental activist, consumer advocate, and renowned crusader comes a riveting book that is "part memoir, part non-fiction report, and part call-to-action—a plea to readers to engage with the water crisis in America because no one else is going to do the work for you" (InStyle Magazine). Clean water is as basic to life on planet Earth as hydrogen or oxygen. In her long-awaited book—her first to reckon with the condition of water on our planet—Erin Brockovich shows us what’s at stake. She writes powerfully of the fraudulent science disguising our national water crisis: Cancer clusters are not being reported. People in Detroit and the state of New Jersey don’t have clean water. The drinking water for more than six million Americans contains unsafe levels of industrial chemicals linked to cancer and other health issues. The saga of PG&E continues to this day. Yet communities and people around the country are fighting to make an impact, and Brockovich tells us their stories. In Poughkeepsie, New York, a water operator responded to his customers’ concerns and changed his system to create some of the safest water in the country. Local moms in Hannibal, Missouri, became the first citizens in the nation to file an ordinance prohibiting the use of ammonia in their public drinking water. Like them, we can each protect our right to clean water by fighting for better enforcement of laws, new legislation, and stronger regulations.
Author : Franz Boas
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Cathlamet dialect
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1502 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Law
ISBN :
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 2372 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0310440149
How do you live out God’s redemptive story in everyday life? It can seem hard to do – how to first connect the pieces and stories of the Bible with your life and then to apply them and live them out through your actions, words, and thoughts. Yet your life is connected to every other story in history and the God who loves you. The Story: Going Deeper reveals this connection through insights into the Bible’s stories about God and his people. Pick up this NIV Bible today, and discover how the sweeping saga of God’s redemptive story transforms your story.
Author : Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807047422
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
Author : Matthew Coleman
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,60 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1481706845
It's a race to seek the truth as Cathy Jurkovich, John Bush, and Carl Bennet travel the world to unravel one of mankind's greatest mysteries. But a dark foreign government organization is bound to stop the three at all costs. The closer that Cathy, John, and Carl are to the truth the more dangerous the journey becomes as each must not only battle the terror hunting them down but also their personal fears and shortcomings. With the backing of a secret organization known as the Twelve the three must overcome the greatest lie in human history.
Author : United States. President
Publisher :
Page : 1244 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Presidents
ISBN :
"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Author : Johnny Napier
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,73 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1483627713
A Ghost in the Coal Mine is a mixture of past and present good against evil. It pushes the limit on the supernatural and what we feel could exist, giving us a look inside the coal mines and the dangers that even today the men working the mines face with cave-ins and explosions. The mines are dark, dangerous places to work or even to walk into. When you add the unthinkable, unnatural evils of demons and ghosts and our everyday fight with good and evil, it sends chills down your spine. Would you put your life on the line to go into the darkness of the underground to bring men dead or alive back to their families? Could you fight the unthinkable to do what is right?
