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Lessons from a Family Forged by History

by Rich Benjamin ...

**A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson’s account of the coup that ended his grandfather's presidency of Haiti, the secrecy that shrouded that wound within his family, and his urgent efforts to know his mother despite the past.“A brilliant, absorbing book...I couldn’t stop reading.” —Salman Rushdie, author of Knife**Rich Benjamin’s mother, Danielle Fignolé, grew up the eldest in a large family ... Read more

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**A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson’s account of the coup that ended his grandfather's presidency of Haiti, the secrecy that shrouded that wound within his family, and his urgent efforts to know his mother despite the past.“A brilliant, absorbing book...I couldn’t stop reading.” —Salman Rushdie, author of Knife**Rich Benjamin’s mother, Danielle Fignolé, grew up the eldest in a large family
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Searching for Whitopia

An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America

by Rich Benjamin ...

As America becomes more and more racially diverse, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less multicultural. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA -- and moved in.A journalist-adventurer, Benjamin packed his bags and embarked on a 26,909-mile journey throughout the heart of white America, to some of the fastest-growing and whitest locales in ... Read more

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As America becomes more and more racially diverse, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less multicultural. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA -- and moved in.A journalist-adventurer, Benjamin packed his bags and embarked on a 26,909-mile journey throughout the heart of white America, to some of the fastest-growing and whitest locales in
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Lessons from a Family Forged by History

by Rich Benjamin ...

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**A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson’s account of the coup that ended his grandfather's presidency of Haiti, the secrecy that shrouded that wound within his family, and his urgent efforts to know his mother despite the past.“A brilliant, absorbing book...I couldn’t stop reading.” —Salman Rushdie, author of Knife**Rich Benjamin’s mother, Danielle Fignolé, grew up the eldest in a large family ... Read more

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**A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson’s account of the coup that ended his grandfather's presidency of Haiti, the secrecy that shrouded that wound within his family, and his urgent efforts to know his mother despite the past.“A brilliant, absorbing book...I couldn’t stop reading.” —Salman Rushdie, author of Knife**Rich Benjamin’s mother, Danielle Fignolé, grew up the eldest in a large family
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Nightmare Magazine, Issue 85 (October 2019)

Nightmare Magazine, #85

by John Joseph Adams, Nathan Ballingrud, Carlie St. George, Gemma Files, Rich Larson, Benjamin Percy ...

Series Book 85 - Nightmare Magazine
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.Welcome to issue eighty-five of NIGHTMARE--and happy October! Every month is a great month to seek out literary scares, but an October horror story is just a little sweeter than usual. If you loved ... Read more

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NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.Welcome to issue eighty-five of NIGHTMARE--and happy October! Every month is a great month to seek out literary scares, but an October horror story is just a little sweeter than usual. If you loved
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause

The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

by Benjamin Nathans ...

Narrated by Rich Miller ...

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23 hours 55 min

A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR—and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s RussiaBeginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world’s imagination. Demanding that the Kremlin obey its own laws, an improbable band of Soviet citizens held unauthorized public gatherings, ... Read more

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A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR—and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s RussiaBeginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world’s imagination. Demanding that the Kremlin obey its own laws, an improbable band of Soviet citizens held unauthorized public gatherings,
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Religious Plurality at Princely Courts

Dynasty, Politics, and Confession in Central Europe, ca. 1555-1860

Edited by Daniel Riches, Sara Smart, Alexander Schunka, Benjamin Marschke ...

Series Book 30 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
Early modern European monarchies legitimized their rule through dynasty and religion, and ideally the divine right of the ruler corresponded with the confession of the territory. It has thus been assumed that at princely courts only a single confession was present. However, the reality of the confessional circumstances at court commonly involved more than one faith. Religious Plurality at Princely ... Read more

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Early modern European monarchies legitimized their rule through dynasty and religion, and ideally the divine right of the ruler corresponded with the confession of the territory. It has thus been assumed that at princely courts only a single confession was present. However, the reality of the confessional circumstances at court commonly involved more than one faith. Religious Plurality at Princely
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Cooperation in Economy and Society

by James Acheson, Matthew Bird, Gracia Clark, Bruce Dahlin, Malcolm Dow, E Anthon Eff, Katrina T. Greene, Julie Hogeland, Carolyn Lesorogol, Daniel Mazeau, Kathleen Millar, Rahul Oka, Benjamin Porter, Ronald Rich, Agustín Fuentes, Scott R. Hutson ...

Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings. Cooperation is examined in situations of market exchange, local and long-distance reciprocity, hierarchical relations, common property and commons access, and cooperatives. Not all of these analyses show stable and long-term results of successful cooperation. The ... Read more

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The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings. Cooperation is examined in situations of market exchange, local and long-distance reciprocity, hierarchical relations, common property and commons access, and cooperatives. Not all of these analyses show stable and long-term results of successful cooperation. The
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Christian Zionism in Africa

by Cynthia Holder Rich, Mark Braverman, Suraya Dadoo, John M. Hubers, Jonathan Kuttab, Modestus Lukonge, Faustin Leonard Mahali, Samwel Shanga Mhajida, Marthie Momberg0, Nehemia G. Moshi1, Benjamin J. Parsalaw2, Mark Rich3, Sara Ryan4, Jörg Zehelein5 ...

Christian Zionism—a movement based on the belief that support of Israel, and Israeli ownership of and residence in Jerusalem, is a prerequisite for Christ’s return—has been a significant substratum within theologies and ecclesiologies of many churches in the US and Europe for centuries. Since the 1970s, US-based Christian Zionism organizations, encouraged by and collaborating with the Israeli ... Read more

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Christian Zionism—a movement based on the belief that support of Israel, and Israeli ownership of and residence in Jerusalem, is a prerequisite for Christ’s return—has been a significant substratum within theologies and ecclesiologies of many churches in the US and Europe for centuries. Since the 1970s, US-based Christian Zionism organizations, encouraged by and collaborating with the Israeli
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Paris: A Love Story

by Kati Marton ...

Kati Marton’s New York Times bestselling, “enthralling” (Vogue) memoir is one “of love and painful loss” (Kirkus Reviews) as she grapples with a new stage of her life.In this remarkably honest and candid memoir, award-winning journalist and distinguished author Kati Marton narrates an impassioned and romantic story of love, loss, and life after loss. Paris is at the heart of this deeply moving ... Read more

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Kati Marton’s New York Times bestselling, “enthralling” (Vogue) memoir is one “of love and painful loss” (Kirkus Reviews) as she grapples with a new stage of her life.In this remarkably honest and candid memoir, award-winning journalist and distinguished author Kati Marton narrates an impassioned and romantic story of love, loss, and life after loss. Paris is at the heart of this deeply moving
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Governing the Commons

The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

by Elinor Ostrom ...

Series series Canto Classics
The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor ... Read more

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The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor
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In the Belly of the Congo

by Blaise Ndala ...

Translated by Amy B. Reid ...

A sweeping historical novel and an intergenerational family saga about the mysterious disappearance of a Congolese princess and the niece who is determined to uncover her fate more than four decades later, by the internationally acclaimed and award-winning Congolese Canadian author Blaise Ndala.April 1958. Princess Tshala Nyota, daughter of King Kena Kwete III of the Kuba people in Congo, is among ... Read more

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A sweeping historical novel and an intergenerational family saga about the mysterious disappearance of a Congolese princess and the niece who is determined to uncover her fate more than four decades later, by the internationally acclaimed and award-winning Congolese Canadian author Blaise Ndala.April 1958. Princess Tshala Nyota, daughter of King Kena Kwete III of the Kuba people in Congo, is among
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Speedboat

by Renata Adler, Guy Trebay ...

Series series NYRB Classics
When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent, curious, wry, the voice of Jen Fain, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban ... Read more

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When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent, curious, wry, the voice of Jen Fain, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban
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