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A Rush to Injustice How Power, Prejudice, Racism, and Political Correctness Overshawdowed Truth and Justice in the Duke

A Rush to Injustice How Power, Prejudice, Racism, and Political Correctness Overshawdowed Truth and Justice in the Duke
R. Stephanie Good, "A Rush to Injustice: How Power, Prejudice, Racism, and Political Correctness Overshawdowed Truth and Justice in the Duke"
English | ISBN: 1595551182 | 2007 | 260 pages | EPUB | 627 KB
A behind-the-scenes account of the Duke lacrosse rape case from primary sources sheds light on the real victims in the case and highlights the wrongful actions made by the Durham District Attorney, including keeping exculpatory DNA evidence a secret.

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A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality (A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality)

A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality (A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality)
A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality (A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality) by Molly Muldoon
English | August 9th, 2022 | ISBN: 1620108593 | 74 pages | True PDF | 394.38 MB
Asexuality is often called the "invisible orientation." You don't learn about it in school, and you don't hear "ace" on television. So it's kinda hard to be ace in a society so steeped in sex that no one knows you exist. Too many young people grow up believing that their lack of sexual desire means they are broken, so writer Molly Muldoon and cartoonist Will Hernandez-both in the ace community-are here to shed light on society's misconceptions of asexuality and what being ace is really like. This book is for anyone who wants to learn about asexuality, and for ace people themselves to validate their experiences.

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A Policy History of Standards-Based Education in America (History of Schools and Schooling)

A Policy History of Standards-Based Education in America (History of Schools and Schooling)
A Policy History of Standards-Based Education in America (History of Schools and Schooling) By Boyce Brown
2015 | 207 Pages | ISBN: 1433127415 | PDF | 7 MB
A Policy History of Standards-Based Education in America is a narrative history of the development of standards-based education in the United States over the last several decades, from the perspective of anarchist cultural studies. There have been other books on the evolution of federal education policy, but few have struck the right balance between describing how it actually happened while still providing a theoretical framework, and none have kept the focus specifically on standards-based education. These related books have also rightly noted the great diversity of players, factions, interest groups, and organizations that helped move federal education policy from «equity», to «excellence», to «accountability» over the last four decades. This book goes on to make the original claim (using a rigorous analysis of the historical record) that big business was the primary empirical driver behind standards-based education and «global economic competitiveness» was the primary ideological driver. Finally, the book concludes by interrogating the implicit claims embedded within global competitiveness ideology; that the present international economy will continue as it has indefinitely, which is mathematically impossible. Unless things change quickly, this planet is heading toward economic, environmental, and geostrategic shocks of the very first order of magnitude. An eco-pedagogy for anarchist bioregions might be part of the solution. The leading markets for this book will be major public and Division 1 research university libraries and university courses in education policy, education law, education history, political science, and public policy.

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A Love Affair with Europe The Case for a European Future

A Love Affair with Europe The Case for a European Future
Giles Radice, "A Love Affair with Europe: The Case for a European Future "
English | ISBN: 191037699X | 2019 | 96 pages | EPUB | 249 KB
From his earliest childhood, Giles Radice has held Europe close to his heart. Ten years after the end of World War II, at the age of 18, he set off to cycle across the continent. Meeting his European contemporaries, Radice discussed the prospects of building a new and better Europe, in which war might be ended forever and prosperity assured for all. It was clear to him that Europe should unite, and that Britain could not stay on the margins. Elected to Parliament, Radice did his part, pushing Britain to become and remain officially a part of Europe, and asking why the British always remained reluctant Europeans, forever skeptical about the benefits of greater union. Now, post-Brexit, he confronts those questions anew. Why have the underlying forces of the EU not pulled Britain closer to the continent? How much should we blame the negative influence of the media? From Thatcher's Euroscepticism to Blair's soundbites and the half-hearted campaign from both main parties in the referendum of 2016, Radice ultimately places the blame squarely on the political class itself.

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A Historical Guide to Roman York

A Historical Guide to Roman York
A Historical Guide to Roman York by Paul Chrystal
English | December 23, 2021 | ISBN: 152678128X | True PDF | 328 pages | 15.5 MB
Considering that York was always an important Roman city there are few books available that are devoted specifically to the Roman occupation, even though it lasted for over 300 years and played a significant role in the politics and military activity of Roman Britain and the Roman Empire throughout that period. The few books that there are tend to describe the Roman era and its events in date by date order with little attention paid either to why things happened as they did or to the consequences of these actions and developments.

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A Field Guide to Digital Transformation

A Field Guide to Digital Transformation
A Field Guide to Digital Transformation
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0137571844 | 288 Pages | MOBI EPUB (True) | 48 MB
A Field Guide to Digital Transformation is the definitive book on digital transformation. Top-selling IT author Thomas Erl and long-time practitioner Roger Stoffers combine to provide comprehensive, yet easy-to-understand coverage of essential digital transformation concepts, practices, and technologies in the format of a plain-English tutorial written for any IT professionals, students, or decision-makers.

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A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying, and Civil Engineering

A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying, and Civil Engineering
A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying, and Civil Engineering by Christopher Gorse, David Johnston, Martin Pritchard
English | March 6, 2020 | ISBN: 0198832486 | 624 pages | MOBI | 3.93 Mb
This new edition of A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying, and Civil Engineering is the most up-to-date dictionary of its kind. In more than 8,000 entries it covers the key areas of civil and construction engineering, construction technology and practice, construction management techniques and processes, as well as legal aspects such as contracts and procurement.

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A Dance of Assassins Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo

A Dance of Assassins Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo
A Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo By Allen F. Roberts
2012 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0253007437 | PDF | 6 MB
A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880s. While Lusinga participated in the east African slave trade, Storms' secret mandate was to meet Henry Stanley's eastward march and trace "a white line across the Dark Continent" to legitimize King Leopold's audacious claim to the Congo. Confrontation was inevitable, and Lusinga lost his head. His skull became the subject of a sinister evolutionary treatise, while his ancestral figure is now considered a treasure of the Royal Museum for Central Africa. Allen F. Roberts reveals the theatricality of early colonial encounter and how it continues to influence Congolese and Belgian understandings of history today.

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A Critical Decade China's Foreign Policy (2008-2018)

A Critical Decade China's Foreign Policy (2008-2018)
Zhiqun Zhu, "A Critical Decade: China's Foreign Policy (2008-2018) "
English | ISBN: 9811200777 | 2019 | 320 pages | EPUB | 810 KB
China emerged as a major economic, diplomatic, and military power during the critical decade from 2008 to 2018. As a result, China's foreign policy has become more active and dynamic. This book provides a unique perspective to understand Chinese foreign policy during this decade by examining continuities and changes in both internal and external factors that have shaped China's development. The book focuses on key challenges in China's diplomacy such as US-China relations, the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, Japan, India, Chinese investment overseas, the Belt and Road Initiative, global and regional cooperation, soft power, etc. It also includes an extensive annotated bibliography of major recent publications on various aspects of Chinese foreign policy. This is the first scholarly book that studies the evolution and key challenges of China's foreign relations during the critical decade (2008-2018) when China grew into a crucial, sometimes assertive, power in international affairs.

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