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#1 My book is not a scholarly treatise with extensive citations and footnotes. It is a practical guide for the busy executive or professional who needs the bottom line up front. I deliver simple advice from an experienced insider, but I cannot cover every topic or circumstance in government contracting.
#2 Government contracting offers less freedom of contract than private sector...
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#1 The dark world calls to you constantly. You must learn how to resist it, or you will be swept up by it. This book is derived from many sources. The most important source is the burning desire to live that underpins everything a man must think, do, and be.
#2 The lessons above are your immediate entry into the dark world. They are skills with which you swim and lift...
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Book Preview: #1 In August 1914, four young British soldiers were lost in France. They had barely a clue as to their whereabouts, but knew that they were not supposed to be there. The war was not going according to plan.
#2 The British army was faced with a field-grey wave of three-quarters of a million Germans, who were chasing them down. The British fought with determination, then...
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Existe un poder adultocéntrico. Una forma particular de ejercer poder a partir de la negación de la coetaneidad, la precarización, la estigmatización y el aniquilamiento de la vida de las personas jóvenes. Contra toda obviedad, una sociedad adultocéntrica no es aquella que pone a "los adultos" en el centro, sino que se define por su funcionamiento: un sistema de enunciados y de prácticas sociales sedimentadas que relegan a las personas jóvenes...
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#1 Conventional wisdom states that coercion is rare, but I demonstrate that it is used frequently and to great effect. I define coercive engineered migration as the cross-border population movements that are deliberately created or manipulated to induce political, military, and economic concessions from a target state or states.
#2 Coercive engineered migration...
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He knew the earth experiment was still working even though the human-element component was running very much behind schedule. Tommy made a grumbling sound and slowly shook his furry head from side to side, crying, Wars, greed, jealousy, illnesses, unhappiness, dissatisfaction, obsessions for power - Its just not what I had expected! I know, but give it time. It will happen one day. The earth assignment is not as old as all the other projects we have...
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This book deals with protected area-people interface in Bori Wildife Sanctuary and Melghat Tiger Reserve located in Satpura range of Central Indian Highlands. These forests are mostly inhabited by Gond, Korku, and Thatia tribes, a small population of agro-pastoral community and other backward classes, which have moved into these forests from adjoining areas in search of pastures for their large herds of livestock. Bori in northern Sutpura has moist...
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Confessions of a Believer are colorful declarations put to words, describing my observations on a number of subject matters. It is an entertaining synopsis of my personal thoughts that may have the reader thinking outside of the box or challenging the way the reader views some aspects of life itself.
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#1 Churchill's speech was inspiring, but what he didn't mention was the struggle he had to get his plan accepted in the War Cabinet. It had been his plan to summon this extraordinary meeting of the Outer Cabinet, where his supporters were potentially vocal and actually numerous.
#2 The widespread perception is that Hitler was a fanatic who started a war and turned most...
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#1 Girl is a term of endearment between Black women that has always been present in my life. It is a greeting, exclamation, and rallying cry at once.
#2 I didn't recognize myself in the pantomimes of Black women, and I didn't want to play into the outdated stereotypes. I built up a network of Black friends in London, and the hashtag #BlackGirlMagic began to spread.
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What separates human beings from animals are the intellect, power to reason, and the mind - the greatest work of God. Human beings are the same in every part of the world. Their nature, instincts, feelings, emotions and desires are all the same. Yet a great barrier separates them bringing an amazing contrast between them - that of culture. It is this cultural aspect of life that is the inspiration behind the book.
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#1 Africa is a beautiful place, but it is also a dangerous one. The night is when the animals come out to play, and the locals rely on the night guards to keep them safe.
#2 The askari was guarding the boma, which was nestled under a large acacia tree a few hundred feet from the living quarters where Mother and Father were entertaining. The surrounding bush fell into...
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#1 The Way of Men is about being a man within a group of men. It is about what men want from each other, and it has always been about that. Men have always wanted to be accepted by other men, and The Way of Men is about that.
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#1 After the Second World War, Angus Sinclair was born in 1945. His family lived in Glasgow, and his father had been getting more and more tired over the course of the last few months, until he died of chronic leukemia two years later. Angus was bullied in school for being the smallest and slowest kid in class.
#2 When he became a teenager, he began to go through the...
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#1 On July 20, 2017, Trump went to the Pentagon to receive a briefing on America's military commitments around the world. Bannon, Trump's chief strategist, wanted to demonstrate how overextended and overcommitted the United States was overseas. Mattis, the secretary of defense, and Tillerson, the secretary of state, wanted to promote America's alliances.
#2 Bannon was...
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#1 The Williams sisters were unapologetic about their dominance, and the resentment that followed them was a result of the status quo being challenged.
#2 The myth of the Williams family was always one of difference. Their father, Richard, had decided that his daughters would become tennis players, and he trained them rigorously. They rose to the top of their age rankings,...
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#1 I was the US chief of protocol for the 2012 G20 global economic summit in Los Cabos, Mexico. I was tasked with making sure that every interaction between the presidents went exactly as planned. I was preoccupied with policy details and protocol checklists, but I was also nervous because this was diplomacy at its most intense.
#2 I loved arranging the room, and I...
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En este libro, Laurent Thévenot, uno de los sociólogos más reconocidos de la actualidad, retoma el interrogante central de las ciencias sociales: por qué estamos juntos en una sociedad, por qué colaboramos, por qué nos involucramos en acciones comunes. Para responderlo, propone un recorrido novedoso y apasionante, a la vez que una revisión radical de las categorías explicativas que son tradicionales en la disciplina, como colectivo/individuo,...
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SOUTH CENTRAL L.A. CRIPS is the story of why nearly 10,000 people were destined to get killed, during the 1970's, 80's and 90's in a social explosion that began in L.A. then spread across this nation and, indeed, the world.
This is the story of O.G. Jimmie Black (aka O.G. Bobby Johnson in the movie), who evolves during those explosive years in South Central L.A. from the Watts Rebellion (1965) to just prior to the days that sparked the L.A. Uprising...
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Get the Summary of Tarana Burke and Brené Brown's You Are Your Best Thing in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It started as a text between two friends.
Tarana Burke, founder of the 'me too.' Movement, texted researcher and writer Brené Brown to see if she was free to jump on a call. Brené assumed that Tarana wanted to talk about wallpaper. They had been trading home decorating inspiration...
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