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    Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
    In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of capitalism and the left alike and propose a radical plan to address climate disaster and guarantee the good life for all. Consumption in the Global North can't continue unabated, and we must give up the idea that humans can fully control the Earth through technological "fixes" which only wreak further havoc.Rather than allow the forces of the free market to destroy the planet, we must strive for a post-capitalist society able to guarantee the good life the entire planet. This plan, which they call Half-Earth Socialism, means we must:rewild half the Earth to absorb carbon emissions and restore biodiversitypursue a rapid transition to renewable energy, paired with drastic cuts in consumption by the worlds wealthiest populationsenact global veganism to cut down on energy and land useinaugurate worldwide socialist planning to efficiently and equitably manage productionwelcome the participation of everyone even you!Accompanied by a climate-modelling website inviting readers to design their own 'half earth,' Vettese and Pendergrass offer us a visionary way forwardand our only hope for a future.
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    The State Strikes Back (eBook, ePUB)
    China's extraordinarily rapid economic growth since 1978, driven by market-oriented reforms, has set world records and continued unabated, despite predictions of an inevitable slowdown. In The State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reform in China?, the renowned China scholar Nicholas R. Lardy argues that China's future growth prospects could be equally bright but are shadowed by the specter of resurgent state dominance, which has begun to diminish the vital role of the market and private firms in China's economy.Lardy's book is a timely sequel to his path-breaking Markets Over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2014). This book mobilizes new data to trace how President Xi Jinping has consistently championed state-owned or controlled enterprises, encouraging local political leaders and financial institutions to prop up ailing, underperforming companies that are a drag on China's potential. As with his previous book, Lardy's perspective departs from conventional wisdom, especially in its contention that China could achieve a high growth rate for the next two decades-if it reverses course and returns to the path of market-oriented reforms.
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    The Naked Streets: The Shocking True Story of the Phoenix Sniper Murders and Baseline Killer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 299min
    From May, 2005 until August, 2006, Phoenix, Arizona, the fifth largest city in America, was gripped in terror. A series of random sniper attacks, sexual assaults, and murders continued at a relentless pace with no end in sight. The victims were both men and women, young and old, of all races and ethnicities. Most disturbingly, they had done nothing to place themselves in harm's way. They'd not visited the "bad" parts of town, frequented a gambling den, solicited prostitutes, or sought out drug dealers. They were assaulted and murdered as they went about the routine activities of their lives, the kinds of things we all do without a second thought. There was no reason for extraordinary diligence as they did so. They were gunned down walking along a street, kidnapped, raped, and murdered from the neighborhood carwash while talking on a cell phone. Throughout two long, hot summers the public had no assurance the criminal would ever be caught. Despite leads, despite increased vigilance, the crimes continued unabated. And when they at last mercifully ended, when the story of what had actually taken place become common knowledge, the public was shocked by the magnitude of the truth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Don Kline. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/019239/bk_acx0_019239_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Still Waters: Memoirs of the Human Wraiths, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 363min
    Promise, Michigan, is very much like every other small town across the state. Built on the edge of a lake, the homes sit in neat little rows in cute little neighborhoods. During the summer Promise bustles with tourists who come to spend their vacation dollars and enjoy the lake's refreshingly cold water. But Promise holds a terrible secret. In the center of the lake is an abandoned island where a curse is rumored to wait for victims, unabated, and deadly. Most think it's just a story, something used to keep kids out of trouble. Still, everyone gives it a wide berth. Everyone except Bret and Adam. They dare to venture out the night of Bret's birthday. When they declared their love and promise to get married, they believe no one else heard their whispered words - but they are wrong.Five years later Adam dies, and Bret returns to his family to heal. But someone is killing the people of Promise in random acts of violence. Bret, with the help of FBI agent Jeff McAllister, must discover the identity of a murderer with death on his mind and revenge in his heart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marek Montoya. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/141645/bk_acx0_141645_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Breaking the Promise of Brown (eBook, PDF)
    "A decision the Court and the Nation will come to regret." Ten years ago, the United States Supreme Court struck down two local school board initiatives meant to reverse extreme racial segregation in public schools. The sharply divided 5-4 decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District marked the end of an era of efforts by local authorities to fulfill the promise of racially integrated education envisioned by the Supreme Court in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. In a searing landmark dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer warned this was "a decision the Court and the Nation will come to regret." A decade later, the unabated resegregation of America's schools continues to confirm Justice Breyer's fears, as many schools and school districts across the country are more racially segregated today than they were in the late 1960s. Edited and introduced by Justice Breyer's former law clerk-and accompanied by a sobering update on the state of segregated schools in America today-this volume contains the full text of Justice Breyer's most impassioned opinion, a dissent that Justice John Paul Stevens called at the time "eloquent and unanswerable." The cautionary words of Justice Breyer should echo in classrooms across the country and in the hearts and minds of parents and schoolchildren everywhere.
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    Hybrid: Brier Hospital, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 453min
    Denise Berg, a professor of psychology, and her molecular biologist husband, Gabe, expected an intelligent child. When Denise gave birth to Zack, they were thrilled. They were not surprised to find that Zack had physical and mental gifts but were astounded by their magnitude. By every parameter Zack was extraordinarily gifted, and they took pride in their genes and their good fortune. What they didn't know was that Zack's gifts were the result of more than good luck and Berg family genes but depended on genetic material from an unusual source. Zack's abilities would ultimately attract others with less than benign interests. Professor Jorge Moneo had grown up in Basque Country, a place of violent confrontation between Spain and the Basque people's struggle for independence. When the Spanish security forces murder his parents, grandmother, wife, and child, Jorge swears revenge. He attacks the leader of the group responsible for the murders but fails to kill him. Subsequently Spain deports him to the United States, where his plans for retribution continue unabated. Jorge's obsession with revenge eventually involves Zack and his family. The novel interweaves the development of a gifted child and his family and the political intrigue of Basque, Spain. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Hempel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/029448/bk_acx0_029448_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Deadly Void: Logan Ryvenbark's Saga, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 89min
    A mercenary's work is never done, and Major Logan Ryverbark knows this all too well. In fact, the only thing he's surprised about these days is that he actually has a moment to rest amid all the madness. But despite everything he's already experienced, nothing can prepare him for the mission Belen Morganthal assigns him this time. Dark matter is spreading and expanding, and is actually causing the universe to shrink. If this continues unabated, it could mean widespread destruction and the loss of life on a scale never before seen. Armed with an Armageddon bomb, Major Ryverbark and his team are sent to investigate the apparent source of the expanding dark matter, a mysterious planet at the edge of their galaxy that has a strange pattern of orbit, and no apparent atmosphere.... Join Major Logan and his team of intergalactic mercenaries in a thrilling sci-fi adventure, with nail-biting suspense and action, mysteries and unexpected twists, and of course a bending of the limits of space and time in a futuristic adventure ride that pushes the boundaries of the sci-fi genre. Deadly Void is guaranteed to keep you utterly enthralled, from the very first word to the very last. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104269/bk_acx0_104269_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Space, Structures and Design in a Post-Pandemic World (eBook, ePUB)
    Pandemics have long-term effects on how we live and work, and the COVID-19 pandemic was no exception, accelerating us into a digital economy, in which people increasingly work, shop, and learn online, transforming how we use space in-person and remotely. Space, Structures, and Design in a Post-Pandemic World explores the rebalancing of our physical and digital interactions and what it means for the built environment going forward. This book examines the effect of the pandemic on our use of land, interior space, energy, and transportation, as well as on our approach to design, wealth, work, and practice. Author Thomas Fisher also discusses the plagues of institutional racism and climate change that coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic and how these were interrelated. At the same time as all of this, the automation of all or part of many jobs continued unabated, eliminating much of the work that people did before COVID-19 arrived. This text discusses how we might leverage the under-utilized human talent and material assets all around us to rebuild our communities and our economy in more creative ways for a more equitable, resilient future. Space, Structures, and Design in a Post-Pandemic World will influence anyone interested in how design thinking can transform how we see the world and those looking for new ways to understand what the COVID-19 pandemic means and what opportunities it creates for our environments.
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    Space, Structures and Design in a Post-Pandemic World (eBook, PDF)
    Pandemics have long-term effects on how we live and work, and the COVID-19 pandemic was no exception, accelerating us into a digital economy, in which people increasingly work, shop, and learn online, transforming how we use space in-person and remotely. Space, Structures, and Design in a Post-Pandemic World explores the rebalancing of our physical and digital interactions and what it means for the built environment going forward. This book examines the effect of the pandemic on our use of land, interior space, energy, and transportation, as well as on our approach to design, wealth, work, and practice. Author Thomas Fisher also discusses the plagues of institutional racism and climate change that coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic and how these were interrelated. At the same time as all of this, the automation of all or part of many jobs continued unabated, eliminating much of the work that people did before COVID-19 arrived. This text discusses how we might leverage the under-utilized human talent and material assets all around us to rebuild our communities and our economy in more creative ways for a more equitable, resilient future. Space, Structures, and Design in a Post-Pandemic World will influence anyone interested in how design thinking can transform how we see the world and those looking for new ways to understand what the COVID-19 pandemic means and what opportunities it creates for our environments.
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    The Seventh Vial: A Novel of the Great Tribulation: The Days of Elijah, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 384min
    The ultimate battle which will decide the fate of Heaven and Earth has finally come. Everett and Courtney Carroll have fared better than most through the past seven years of the Great Tribulation, but the eve of Armageddon refuses to let them live out the last hours of this present age without conflict, trouble, and persistent peril.  The Bible has prophesied of the Seven Vials of God's Wrath, the final judgments which will utterly destroy what's left of a decimated planet. These calamities will bring a plague of festering boils upon the followers of the Antichrist, rivers and seas will turn to blood, and a global earthquake will raze the cities of the earth to the ground. All of this in the midst of the war to end all wars.  Everett and Courtney must leave their sanctuary of relative safety, but there is nowhere left to turn. And getting anywhere in these last days means traversing wastelands patrolled by Global Republic drones or crossing hostile deserts infested by the violent jihadi armies of Caliph Marwan Bakr. It won't be the first time they've been trapped between a rock and a hard place, but it might be the last!  Don't miss the final chapter of the Days of Elijah, the end-times sensation which chronicles the lives of those who must endure the Great Tribulation and the unabated wrath of God! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/102004/bk_acx0_102004_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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