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Dans le domaine de la littérature, il existe une œuvre rare qui transcende les simples mots sur une page, offrant plutt un guide profond pour l'âme. Tel est le cas de l'œuvre majeure de Benak, « Le Citoyen Patriote ». En tant qu'écrivain estimé, doté d'une compréhension aiguë de l'écriture, du style et de l'engagement, l'on se sent à la fois humble et inspiré par la profondeur et l'acuité contenues dans ce remarquable ouvrage. Au cœur...
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"A fast-paced, compelling narrative that goes far beyond the headlines." - KEVIN DONOVAN, author of The Billionaire Murders
For Joey Philion, surviving the fire was only the beginning.
On the morning of March 10th, 1988, in Orillia, Ontario, a house fire engulfed fourteen-year-old Joey Philion in flames. He suffered third degree burns on 95 percent of his body. Doctors didn't think he would make it through the night.
After the Flames is about...
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Para un país que ha presumido desde hace mucho ser "de clase media", donde ciertas expresiones públicas son caracterizadas como "clase media", y, aún más, la "clase media" es objeto de invocación frecuente, su estudio sistemático a través de diferentes disciplinas se ha tornado crucial si se espera trascender tanto el sentido común como los discursos más evaluativos y normativos. Esta es la pretensión principal de este libro: ofrecer un...
4) Ghostbread
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When you eat soup every night, thoughts of bread get you through.
One of seven children brought up by a single mother, Sonja Livingston was raised in areas of western New York that remain relatively hidden from the rest of America. From an old farming town to an Indian reservation to a dead-end urban neighborhood, Livingston and her siblings follow their nonconformist mother from one ramshackle house to another on the perpetual search for something...
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Manufacturing in the Northeast and the Midwest pushed the United States to the forefront of industrialized nations during the early nineteenth century; the South, however, lacked the large cities and broad consumer demand that catalyzed changes in other parts of the country. Nonetheless, in contrast to older stereotypes, southerners did not shun industrial development when profits were possible. Even in the Appalachian South, where the rugged terrain...
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"Leçons de vie apprises" explore le tissu social et les relations humaines dans le but de nous guider vers leur amélioration. En puisant dans sa culture, l'auteure partage avec nous des réflexions et des pistes pour remédier au malaise social croissant, tandis que les valeurs semblent se diluer dans notre société.
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Gloire Sanghoud utilise l'écriture pour exprimer ses pensées les plus profondes. La littérature lui offre...
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Aujourd'hui en Belgique, au moins 93 000 personnes sont surendettées. 93 000 vies en faillite. Et le chiffre ne fait qu'augmenter. La majorité d'entre elles vivent leur déchéance financière dans un silence honteux. Avec un Belge concerné sur cent, il y a pourtant beaucoup de chances pour que vous connaissiez un surendetté. Vos voisins, vos amis, peut-être votre famille. Personne n'est à l'abri.
Les surendettés sont-ils avant tout des flambeurs...
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An enlightening and entertaining inside look at the lifestyles of America's extremely wealthy from the bestselling author of "Our Crowd" It's no secret that the rich are different from the rest of us. But the rich, as author Stephen Birmingham so insightfully points out, are also different from the very rich. There's Society, and then there's Real Society, and it takes multiple generations for families of the former to become entrenched in the latter....
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Celebrated ad man Richard Kirshenbaum, the original New York observer, reveals the fashions, foibles, and outrageous extravagances of the private-jet set Paid friends. Pot dealers draped in Dolce. Divorce settlements that include the Birkins at their current retail price. Air kisses, landing strips, and lounge-chair bribery. For most of us, the idea of life inside the golden triad of Park Avenue, Sagaponack, and St. Barths is just as exotic as the...
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A look at the damage abuses of power inherent with rank due to private relationships and public institutions and how to prevent it.
In his groundbreaking book Somebodies and Nobodies, Robert Fuller identified a form of domination that everyone has experienced but few dare to protest: rankism, or abuse of the power inherent in rank. Low rank, signifying weakness, marks people for abuse and discrimination in much the same way that race, religion, gender,...
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The biggest challenges facing human wellbeing today-widening income inequality, continuing global poverty, and environmental degradation-may be simple to solve in theory. But, because we are required to come up with solutions that are acceptable to a political majority in the rich world, they are much harder to solve in practice. Most of the commonly proposed "solutions" are simply not acceptable to most people. Many of these proposed solutions-like...
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Peter Edelman has worked as an aide to Robert F. Kennedy, a lawyer, a children's advocate, and a policymaker. He has devoted his life to the cause of justice and to ending inequality. But, in 1996, while serving in the Clinton administration as an expert on welfare policy and children, he found himself in an untenable position. The president signed a new welfare bill that ended a sixty-year federal commitment to poor children, and as justification...
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