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Revisit the Salem Witch Trials, the Underground Railroad, and other resistance movements of American history to get a bold new understanding of how resistance shaped our pastand how its principles can change our future.The United States was shaped by resistancebut not in the way weve been taught. The Revolution did not secure liberty; it opened the door to either liberty or oppression, where only white men enjoyed all of the benefits and protections of citizenship.In A Resistance History of the United States, public historian Tad Stoermer shows how from the very beginning, that tensionbetween the ideals of resistance and the realities of powerhas defined America more than the Enlightenment ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.Utililizing powerful storytelling to focus on keyand often lesser-knownmoments in American history, this book reveals the truth of how resistance movements from Colonial times have opposed the powers that be. Stoermer covers an impressive roster of pivotal movements, with each chapter identifying a key resistance movement and principle meant to inspire contemporary readers, including: Bacons Rebellion/Metacomets War (1676) Salem Witch Trials (1692) The Black Loyalists (1783) The Underground Railroad (1850) Through these and many more examples, Stoermer dismantles the mythologies that pass for American historyexposing the curated nostalgia, moral evasions, and institutional silences that have long protected abusive power. What emerges is an essential look at how we can take lessons from the past to understand, and effectively respond to, the injustices we face today.

This compelling and fast-paced memoir tells the story of one womans unlikely rise to becoming one of the best blackjack players in the world, creating multiple identities and leading an elite advantage play team that won millions beating casinos at their own games.From an early age, Gina Fiore wanted to win. Her desire was borne from her familys financial instabilitycountless evictions, living in a motel, learning to talk to debt collectors with a tightly rehearsed script dictated by her parents. After dropping out of college, Ginas mother taught her how to deal blackjack and she got her first job dealing in a Las Vegas casino. But when Gina saw the gamblers on the other side of the table win big, she wanted to learn how.Advantage Player follows Ginas journey to becoming one of the best advantage players in the world, beating casinos out of millions by playing the games they offer better than they do. After teaching herself how to count cards, Gina was introduced to advanced techniques to gain an edge in the casino like holecarding and edge sorting. Although legal, casinos didnt tolerate players gaining the upper hand, and Gina and the advantage-play team she formed were under constant threat of being detained in casino backrooms, chased and assaulted by casino employees.In this propulsive and captivating memoir, Gina pulls back the curtain on her years living on the edge and how her ability to reinvent herself allowed her to survive both in the casino and in life.

Pagar menos impuestos no es un truco: es conocer las reglasEn España pagamos impuestos por casi todo: sobre todo por trabajar, pero también por ahorrar, por invertir, por comprar una casa, por heredar y, en ocasiones, incluso por equivocarnos. Sin embargo, la mayoria de las personas desconoce cuanto paga realmente y, sobre todo, que alternativas legales existen para reducir esa carga fiscal. Este libro nace para cubrir ese vacio: explicar el sistema con claridad y enseñarte a defender tu patrimonio dentro de la ley.Andres Millan, abogado especializado en fiscalidad y conocido divulgador, conocido en redes como @lawtips, desgrana en este libro como funciona de verdad el sistema tributario español. A partir de ejemplos reales y situaciones cotidianas, el autor explica por que no es lo mismo ganar dinero trabajando que invirtiendo, como se estructuran los impuestos mas importantes IRPF, sociedades, sucesiones, patrimonio y que decisiones marcan la diferencia entre pagar de mas o pagar lo que es justo: desde como optimizar un salario o una actividad como autonomo, hasta como comprar, alquilar o vender una vivienda con inteligencia fiscal; desde la planificacion de herencias y donaciones, hasta el uso eficiente de sociedades, holdings y productos de inversion. Todo explicado sin tecnicismos innecesarios y con un enfoque claro: proteger lo que tanto cuesta ganar.Lejos de atajos ilegales o promesas milagro, esta es una guia para entender las reglas del juego y tomar decisiones informadas, pensada para quienes quieren dejar de vivir a ciegas frente a Hacienda y empezar a gestionar su dinero con criterio, responsabilidad y tranquilidad.

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A sweeping and revelatory history of the hidden tradition of Jewish thinkers who opposed Zionism from Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser. In Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, Benjamin Moser uncovers a suppressed tradition that has shaped Jewish thought for generations. Through a cast of artists, rabbis, poets, lawyers, activists, journalists and politicians from Europe and Africa and Asia and Latin America Moser traces a lineage of Jewish dissenters who confronted Zionisms moral and political stakes often at devastating personal cost, including censorship, exile and death. Their lives form a sweeping, global narrative that dismantles a powerful myth: that anti-Zionism is synonymous with antisemitism. Spanning continents and centuries, these voices people from the right and the left, Reform and Orthodox, Ashkenazic and Sephardic, men and women, gay and straight differ sharply in belief and background, yet converge on a shared warning about the consequences of a nationalist project built on exclusion. What emerges is not only a rediscovered tradition of Jewish moral thought, but a startling reappraisal of Zionism itself. Mosers work restores the full scale and depth of Jewish ethical imagination, affirming that Judaism is older and larger than any single political project. Lucid, unsparing and deeply humane, Anti-Zionism cements Mosers place as one of our foremost Jewish writers and presents a framework through which this history and its meanings will be understood for years to come.

What if you committed a crime that wasnt your fault?Its a cold, grey morning. You open the front door, slightly hungover and fairly exhausted, and stop in your tracks. Lying bloodied and beaten on the driveway is the motionless body of your father. He is dead killed in a violent frenzy. You dont remember what happened, and in fact you never will, but, you will soon discover, you are the one who killed him What happens when an ordinary person, one of us, commits an unspeakable act without any memory of it? How do we reconcile their perceived innocence with the heinous acts they have committed? In Any One of Us, barrister Ramya Nagesh reveals that the line between good and evil can be far more blurred than we care to admit. Through the lens of gripping real-life cases, Nagesh challenges our perceptions of conventional morality and culpability, reveals the limitations of the justice system, and invites us to ask the question: could it happen to me? Drawing on trial documents, personal experience, and expert testimony, Nagesh navigates the complexities of sleepwalking, hormonal imbalances, and other unforeseen circumstances that have led to tragic outcomes. Cases include a woman who was found by a court to have been suffering from severe pre-menstrual syndrome when she accelerated her car at her boyfriend and crushed him to death. Or a man who could never have predicted that his night terrors would make him unconsciously strangle to death the love of his life. From the courtroom to the crime scene, Any One of Us invites readers on a thought-provoking journey that confronts uncomfortable truths about human nature.

Reflections and Encounters in Development Research through APPEARThe overall objective of APPEAR is to strengthen scientific foundations and institutional capacities in higher education, research, and management at the participating institutions within the thematic framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Since the launch of the program in 2009, 98 preparatory funding projects, 63 academic partnerships, and 11 advanced academic partnerships have been implemented in 24 countries. In all, 174 APPEAR scholarship holders have successfully completed a masters or PhD program at an Austrian University. APPEAR is funded by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) as part of International Partnerships Austria and is implemented by OeAD Austrias Agency for Education and Internationalization.This reader reflects, in a free and formally diverse manner, collaborations in the field of development research be it through theoretical, biographical, research-technical, or philosophical considerations or through personal encounters, impressions, feelings, reservations, or experiences. APPEAR has amassed a rich treasure trove of academic work, results, and personal experiences. The contributions presented in this book are a well-chosen selection from the wealth of experience gained in recent years. They are intended to inspire and stimulate further discussion and reflection within the scientific community and beyond. They also highlight the immensely important social aspect of development research and the effort to contribute to a sustainable and, above all, peaceful future. This book gives a voice to encounters, reflections, and criticism, as well as everyday perceptions in research practice and a room for lasting impressions and narratives about APPEAR and the people who have brought the program and projects to life in many countries and regions.

A guerra é parte da trajetória humana, mas quando ela é justa? Por que ela ocorre? Dos primeiros sinais de violência intergrupal no Paleolítico até os drones do século XXI, João Paulo Charleaux nos c

" Je ne peux pas protéger les enfants ! "La pédopsychiatre Eugénie Izard a décidé de briser le silence et de dévoiler le système organisationnel qui protège les agresseurs, en laissant les profession

Twenty-four powerful voices from the frontlines of justice reveal how theyre revolutionizing a system that fails the innocent.Over the years, history has uncovered thousands of wrongful convictions in the United States, involving children and adults, men and women of all backgrounds and colors, and in countries throughout the world. Unimaginable to most, and truly terrifying for some, being convicted for a crime that one did not commit is a bizarrely tortuous and profoundly isolating experience. But a decades-long movement is gaining more traction and renown by the day for their efforts to seek justice for victims. Champions of Innocence showcases real-life stories from inside the innocence movement, from lawyers to forensic scientists, journalists and authors, and, most importantly, from exonerees themselves that work for life-changing reforms. Edited by Saul Kassin, who pioneered the scientific study of false confessions, and featuring an introduction by bestselling author and innocent activist John Grisham, contributors include:- Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld: Co-founders of the Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization founded in New York City in 1992 dedicated to using DNA technology to reexamine postconviction claims of innocence. - Jim McCloskey: Founder of the nonprofit Centurion Ministries in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1983, the first ever organization dedicated to freeing individuals who had been wrongfully convicted. Since then, Centurion Ministries has presided over the release of 70 innocent individuals from prison. - Elizabeth Loftus: A cognitive psychologist who pioneered research on eyewitness memoryand how misinformation can produce false accounts. As an expert in court, she challenged convictions that were based on implanted false memories.- Eric S. Lander: A mathematician, geneticist, and professor of biology at MIT and Harvard Medical School, he has devoted his career to deciphering the human genome. Since his 1989 expert testimony that then-current method of interpreting DNA evidence risked false positive matches, Lander became a principal leader of the Human Genome Project and founder of the Broad Institute. - Jarrett Adams: In 1999, 17-year-old Jarrett Adams was sentenced to 28 years in a maximum security prison for a crime he did not commit. After serving nearly ten years, he was exonerated, earned a law degree, co-founded the nonprofit Life After Justice, and wrote the memoir Redeeming Justice. - Erin Moriarty: A lawyer, Emmy Award-winning TV news reporter, correspondent for CBS 48 Hours, and founder of the true-crime podcast, My Life of Crime, Erin Moriarty investigates and reports on wrongful convictions.- Amanda Knox: In 2009, 20-year-old Amanda Knox was convicted of murder in Perugia, Italy, as a result of a coerced confession that witnesses later discredited and flawed forensic science. Although she was definitively acquitted in 2015, the social media frenzy that trailed her through the case. and many more. The twenty-four stories told in Champions of Innocence will simultaneously blow your mind, piss you off, break your heart, and, if youre lucky, fill you with a sense of relief that this did not happen to you.

A startling profile of one of the most prolific serial killers and the disturbing experience of the journalist who earned his trust for the sake of justice.When crime journalist Maria DiLorenzo mailed a letter to Gary Ridgway, she never expected him to reply. He refused to speak to reporters and would send only religious materials back to anyone who contacted him in prisonif he replied at all. But instead of silence or a boilerplate letter, Marias phone rangand it was the Green River Killer calling.Over the next several years, Ridgway would call Maria hundreds of times, using all of his free time in prison to speak with her. Her goal: to pry the details of his dozens of unidentified and unsolved murders from him. His motivation in speaking to her: unknowable. Through these hundreds of hours of phone calls, Ridgway revealed new details about his life, his crimes, and his motives and manipulated Maria much like he tormented his victims.An insightful and deeply personal profile of a dangerous mind, Confessions of the Green River Killer is the closest depiction of Gary Ridgway ever seen and a disturbing glimpse into what its like to truly know a killer. Readers of Ill Be Gone in the Dark and The Stranger Beside Me will be enraptured to experience Gary Ridgway through the eyes and ears of a woman he came to deeply trustand deeply covet.

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A deep exploration of the opportunities and risks a global digital economy poses for refugees.Digital Exiles opens a rare window into the world of refugees trying to survive and thrive in an increasingly digitalized and technological world of work. Often excluded from local employment and struggling to make ends meet, refugees are increasingly dependent on digital jobs and online work as a financial lifeline. Andreas Hackl offers a human-centered and global perspective to these struggles through his research into three of the most important refugee-hosting countries: Lebanon, Kenya, and Germany.The pursuit of a digital livelihoodfrom attending coding schools in Berlin to training datasets for AI in crisis-stricken Lebanon to online freelancing in Kenyas refugee campsrepresents an increasingly important income opportunity for refugees. Digital work programs by aid organizations and the private sector aim to help the forcibly displaced become self-reliant and successful workers, yet, for many, it creates new forms of exclusion, precarity, and risk. Combining human stories with insights from five years of multisited research and applied work with leading organizations, the author presents an alternative vision of an inclusive world of work that can help shape the fair digital economy of the future.

LHistoire offre des cas exemplaires de femmes qui échappèrent à leur condition en sévadant des murs qui les tenaient captives : esclaves en fuite, reines condamnées à mort, résistantes emprisonnées,

Former Ohio Attorney General crusades against wrongful conviction and shows how citizens can prevent this terrifyingly common miscarriage of justice. Wrongful criminal conviction is much more frequent than most Americans believe. The thought of imprisoned innocent people haunted me. I became determined to try to do something about it. Jim Petro, Former Attorney General of Ohio The flaws in Americas execution of justice lead to an unacceptable number of wrongful criminal convictions. Jim Petro was confronted with this issue when the guilt of several convicts serving life sentences was called into question. In False Justice, Jim and Nancy Petro detail and challenge eight myths of justice: Everyone in prison claims innocence. The conviction of an innocent person is extremely rare. Only the guilty confess. Wrongful convictions are accidental and unintentional. Eyewitness testimony is the best evidence. Conviction errors get corrected on appeal. Questioning a conviction dishonors the victim. The pros will fix the justice system. Forensic science is trustworthy. Juries are prepared and qualified to decide cases fairly. Innocent people never plead guilty. Our system delivers fair and equal justice for all. False Justice corrects these common misunderstandings with an important truth: true justice requires constant vigilance and is the responsibility of every citizen.

An essential look at how, throughout American history, the powerless have exercised their 1st Amendment right to free speech, informing how we can defend democracy today."Great storytelling about the history and importance of the 1st Amendment, from someone who has spent his life defendingand usingit." Mary Beth TinkerFrom the beginning of American history, free speech has been crucial for the pursuit of justice and expansion of democracy. Yet today, we are seeing growing attempts to roll back free speech protections in America: cultural warriors are banning books from library shelves at a level not seen in decades, and elected officials are attacking free speech principles to undermine other rights and consolidate their own power.Uncovering vivid and engaging stories about 1st Amendment pioneers throughout American history, historian and leading censorship expert Christopher Finan highlights how free speech has been used to advocate for change. In the 19th century, abolitionists, advocates for womens rights, and leaders of the labor movement had to fight for free speech. In the 20th century, the civil rights and anti-war movements expanded free speech, creating a shield for every protest movement that we have seen since.With sharp insight and page-turning storytelling, Finan demonstrates that the most effective antidote for the growth of hate speech, misinformation, political violence, and anti-democratic efforts by government officials is support for and cultivation of a free and robust marketplace of ideas.

From Attorney Ryan, the most well-known labor lawyer in America, the complete guide to workers rights that your boss doesnt want you to readLife for working people is getting harder and more expensive. While employers clamp down with return-to-office mandates, productivity trackers, and layoffs, employees are struggling to keep up with daily expenses. Meanwhile, workers are expected to make huge sacrifices "for the good of the company." But what do they get in return? A surprise meeting with HR followed by a swift and unceremonious termination.For too long, weve accepted the status quo. But you deserve better. In Get It in Writing, Attorney Ryan Stygar, a former firefighter who became a workers rights attorney, teaches you everything you need to know about how to get what youre owed at work. Each chapter is filled with practical, easy-to-understand advice. In plain English, he breaks down the answers to all your biggest questions around labor law, including: Does At Will employment really mean I have no rights? What do I do if my boss is bullying me? What if Im too injured to keep working? Am I getting paid correctly? What if I report my creepy manager and no one believes me? Most people are, understandably, afraid to deal with employment problems because their whole livelihood is at stake. But we cant let bad bosses use fear to control us. Armed with Get It in Writing, you will have the tools to claim your basic rights: fair pay, fair treatment, and the time and accommodations you need when life goes off script. With Attorney Ryans expertise, millions of working people are winning back what is rightfully theirs. Its time for you to join them.

The nations of the Global North are responding to the climate change emergency with emissions trading schemes and alternative sources of energy. Meanwhile, nations of the Global South, still emerging from historical exploitation under colonialism, face decisions about natural resource use that are, for traditional owners and inhabitants of resource-rich lands, often a matter of life or death. Environmental lawyer and legal scholar Arpitha Kodiveri has worked alongside many of Indias forest-dwelling communities and describes how they bear the cost of both rapacious mining development and increasing pressure for forest land to be set aside for environmental conservation. Despite these challenges, Kodiveri shows how the traditional owners and inhabitants of forest areas are driving creative solutions in forest law. Hope can be found here, in each communitys unique vision of co-governance, expressed in the language of care and repair.

How and why the current public engagement model has run its courseand how AI-assisted listening at scale can help.We often assume that citizen participation is the biggest barrier to effective representation. In fact, governments are sitting on mountains of civic data that they cannot effectively process.In How Institutions Listen, Eric Gordon shows how we can marshal this wealth of data with human-centered AImaking sense of the available civic data, acting upon it, and, in turn, restoring public trust.Bridging theory and practice, the book introduces the concept of listening at scalean institutional capacity to listen, which means to not only gather input, but to discern, respond, and evolve in dialogue with the public. It tracks trends in digital governance, from open data to civic tech dashboards, and critiques how contemporary tools can harm communities by reducing their participation to data extraction.Through richly researched case studiesfrom city governments deploying sentiment analysis to community-centered design effortsthe book shows how listening is being reshaped by digital infrastructures, and how those infrastructures, in turn, reshape the meaning of voice and representation. Rather than promoting more apps or surveys, the author urges a reorientation: designing institutions that can engage with complexity, ambiguity, and dissent without defaulting to control.

In How the Regime Rules, New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rufo delivers a bold, unflinching examination of how Americas founding spirit was transformedand, in his telling, betrayedby the rise of modern bureaucratic power.Christopher Rufo rose to prominence exposing the influence of Critical Race Theory and the corruption of DEI in Americas institutions. Now, in How the Regime Rules, he unveils the operations of The Regimean unofficial network of elite institutions that shapes opinion, allocates power, and quietly pulls the nation away from its founding ideals.For decades, politicians sold the expansion of Big Government, Big Business, and Big Academia as the natural evolution of democracy. Rufo dismantles this illusion, revealing how bureaucrats, corporate managers, and academic ideologues wield immense, unaccountable powerfar removed from the citizens they claim to serve. The faith in technocratic expertise has hardened into an ideology of control, eroding the independence of the American spirit. If left unchecked, he warns, this trajectory will hollow out the republic itself.Tracing the shift from FDRs New Deal to LBJs Great Society, Rufo shows how the state extended its grasp from the economic to the cultural realm. The New Lefts long march through the institutions became a stealth revolution, embedding new orthodoxies in media, universities, and government alike. It was not a coup of armies, but of meaningscontrol over the political software that governs how citizens think and speak.Rufos warning is clear: the emerging regime keeps the language of democracy while draining it of substance. True change, he argues, must be driven by the people