Social Movements

No margin--no mission! What does it take to bring financial justice to communities of color? Cliff Rosenthal, shaped by the movements of the 1960s, fought for decades against government indifference and systemic bias finally seeing change come after the death of George Floyd. Michael McCray, a renowned whistle-blower, led an unprecedented court challenge to the unjust federal termination of his fraternity's Kappa Alpha Psi Federal Credit Union.

Dark psychology is used to describe a variety of techniques and tactics people use to control others, such as manipulation, mind control, and persuasion. Narcissists and sociopaths are incredibly subtle in their manipulative ways. They can persuade you to do something that will benefit them, and they prey on your weaknesses to get what they want.

Before Lawrence v. Texas tells the story of the long, troubled, and ultimately hopeful road to constitutional change. Wesley G. Phelps describes the achievements, setbacks, and unlikely alliances along the way. Over the course of decades, and at great risk to themselves, gay and lesbian Texans and their supporters launched political campaigns and legal challenges, laying the groundwork for Lawrence. Phelps shares the personal experiences of the people and couples who contributed to the legal strategy that ultimately overturned the states discriminatory law.

In Wholistic Feminism, you will see how the American women’s movement has defined success in a way that keeps us striving, yet never fully arriving. You will learn to see female contributions in a new light and realize that you are not inadequate. You, and your female body were never the problem.

En Kant en 90 minutos, Paul Strathern expone de manera clara y concisa la vida e ideas del autor de la Crítica de la razón pura. El audiolibro incluye una selección de sus escritos, una breve lista de lecturas sugeridas y cronologías que sitúan a Kant en su época y en una sinopsis más amplia de la filosofía.

В мире, полном хаоса и неопределенности, поиск счастья часто кажется невозможной задачей. Но что, если существует вечная философия, которая может показать вам путь к настоящему удовлетворению и наполненной жизни? Стоицизм—это не просто философия—это образ жизни.

Schopenhauer, el «filósofo del pesimismo», ve el mundo y nuestra vida en él como un mal chiste. Pero si bien el mundo es indiferente a nuestro destino, no es su propósito fastidiarnos adrede. La fachada del mundo se apoya en lo que Schopenhauer llama la voluntad universal, ciega y sin propósito. La voluntad nos acarrea toda nuestra miseria y todo nuestro sufrimiento. la única esperanza es la de liberarnos de su poder y de los atavíos superficiales del individualismo y el egoísmo, que están a su merced.

Manipulation is a powerful tool, and it's only becoming more prevalent in our modern world. That's why it's important to learn how to protect yourself from manipulation and understand the techniques that manipulators use. With this audiobook, you'll learn how to analyze people, read their body language, and use NLP and hypnosis to get inside their minds. You'll also learn how to protect yourself from emotional influence and mind control! Once you've learned these skills, you'll be able to spot manipulation attempts from a mile away—and avoid them with ease.

Since the 2016 election, college campuses have erupted in violent protests, demands for safe spaces, and the silencing of views that activist groups find disagreeable. Who are the leaders behind these protests, and what do they want? In Panic Attack, libertarian journalist Robby Soave answers these questions by profiling young radicals from across the political spectrum.

Part memoir, part manifesto, Radical is this fearless advocate's incisive, intensely personal call-to-arms. Rhee combines the story of her own extraordinary experience with dozens of compelling examples from schools she's worked in and studied-from students from unspeakable home lives who have thrived in the classroom to teachers whose radical methods have produced unprecedented leaps in achievement. Radical chronicles Rhee's awakening to the potential of every child, her rage at the special interests blocking badly-needed change, and her recognition that it will take a grassroots movement to create outstanding public schools.

Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from AD 161 to 180, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. It is possible that large portions of the work were written at Sirmium, where he spent much time planning military campaigns from 170 to 180.

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If you want to master the techniques for negotiation, persuasion, manipulation, and mind control, then pay attention...Although we do not want to, the world is full of manipulation and deception today. This means that it gets more and more important to understand the techniques that are used. You must be able to detect if you are being manipulated and you must know how to defend yourself from manipulation and deception. Imagine how your close friends and family will react when they see you reading people with accuracy.

If you want to know your Freud from your Jung and your Milgram from your Maslow, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of psychology. This illuminating little book will introduce you to the key thinkers, themes and theories you need to know to understand how the study of mind and behaviour has sculpted the world we live in and the way we think today.

In A Biblical Analysis — LGBT Alert: Why Religious Leaders Say No to the LGBT Movement, author Alvaro Roberson dares to step into one of the most emotionally charged topics of our time, not as a cold academic, but as a fellow human being longing for clarity, healing, and hope.

Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right. In The Choice We Face, scholar Jon Hale reveals what most fail to see: school choice is grounded in a complex history of race, exclusion, and inequality. Through evaluating historic and contemporary education policies, Hale demonstrates how reframing the way we see school choice represents an opportunity to evolve from complicity to action.

The women's rights movement grew out of the women's suffrage movement of the mid-1800s and also addressed other women's legal rights issues. The second wave of the movement, which promoted economic, political, and social equality, gained momentum in the 1960s and '70s, when such groups as the National Organization for Women fought for equal pay and laws banning employment discrimination.

In this sweeping look at American politics from the Depression to the present, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos argue that party politics alone is not responsible for the mess we find ourselves in. Instead, it was the ongoing interaction of social movements and parties that, over time, pushed Democrats and Republicans toward their ideological margins, undermining the post-war consensus in the process.

What is truth? As humans, how can we know what is real? How can the philosophies of science, cosmology, and biology help us understand the mysteries of our existence? In this compelling audio series, Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, creator and host of the hit PBS series Closer to Truth, probes the nature of truth and other heady philosophical questions in intimate conversations with 13 of the world’s greatest thinkers.

¿Qué es una teoría? ¿Qué es la ley natural? ¿Puedes tener la filosofía de la filosofía? ¿Qué es “SE DEBE”? ¿Qué es la filosofía natural? ¿Qué significa filosofía natural? ¿De qué sirve un conocimiento olvidado? ¿Existe alguna diferencia entre creer en Dios y en la filosofía natural? ¿Por qué no enseñan filosofía en las escuelas? La sociología no se conoce como Física o Filosofía; ¿Por qué? ¿Importa?