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The Best American Essays 2022

The Best American Essays 2022

Alexander Chee; Robert Atwan

HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INC
2022
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A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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Why Did They Kill?

Why Did They Kill?

Alexander Laban Hinton; Robert Jay Lifton

University of California Press
2004
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Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation that took place in Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979 under the Khmer Rouge in order to explore why mass murder happens and what motivates perpetrators to kill. Basing his analysis on years of investigative work in Cambodia, Hinton finds parallels between the Khmer Rouge and the Nazi regimes. Policies in Cambodia resulted in the deaths of over 1.7 million of that country's 8 million inhabitants - almost a quarter of the population - who perished from starvation, overwork, illness, malnutrition, and execution. Hinton considers this violence in light of a number of dynamics, including the ways in which difference is manufactured, how identity and meaning are constructed, and how emotionally resonant forms of cultural knowledge are incorporated into genocidal ideologies.
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The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights

The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights

Alexander Leslie Klieforth; Robert John Munro

University Press of America
2004
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The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights is a history of liberty from 1300 BC to 2004 AD. The book traces the history of the philosophy and fight for freedom from the ancient Celts to the creation of America, asserting the roots of liberty originated in the radical political thought of the ancient Celts, the Scots' struggle for freedom, John Duns Scotus and the Arbroath Declaration (1320), a tradition that influenced Locke and the English Whig theorists as well as our Founding Fathers, particularly Jefferson, Madison, Wilson and Witherspoon. Author Alexander Klieforth argues the Arbroath Declaration (1320) and its philosophy was the intellectual foundation of the American Revolution and Declaration of Independence (1776). Thus, the work is a revolutionary alternative to the traditional Anglocentric view that freedom, democracy and human rights descended only from John Locke and England of the 1600s. The work is the first historical analysis to locate and document the origin of the doctrine of the "consent of the governed" in the medieval scholar, John Duns Scotus (c.1290s), four centuries before Locke and the English Whigs, and in the evolutionary progress of mankind. The work contends that the Arbroath Declaration (1320) and its philosophy was the intellectual foundation of the American Revolution and Declaration of Independence (1776). After showing the Scottish influence on the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the new Federal government, the Braudelian-style work traces the development of Scottish-style freedom and human rights through the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen influenced by Jefferson, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address that transformed Jefferson's Declaration, and Eleanor Roosevelt's role in creating the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the foundation of the modern human rights struggle. More information about this book is available at the authors website www.braveheartsoul.com.
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Lenten Resources for Worship L

Lenten Resources for Worship L

Alexander H Wales; Robert L Linder; Ralph Dessem

CSS Publishing Company
1997
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These field-tested materials represent the creative effort of many denominations. Each includes ideas for preparation, items needed, suggestions for use, number of parts, and the time for best use. This complete Lenten volume for busy ministers includes: - Shadows Around The Cross: A Tenebrae - A Good Friday Vigil - The Service Of Diminishing Lights -- for Sundays in Lent - Justified By Greed: Monologue Of A Pharisee -- for Lent - The Passover Haggadah: A Traditional Seder Service - Litany For Forgiveness - Litany For Palm Sunday - Litany For Easter - Meditation: Forgiveness Is Peace - Meditation: You Make The Difference - Litany Of Confession - Litany For Peace
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Mieres Reborn

Mieres Reborn

Alexander F. Robertson

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS
2023
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Mieres Reborn reveals how patient observation and an analysis of one small community have much to tell us about human progress more generally.Not long ago Mieres, a village in the eastern foothills of the Pyrenees, seemed destined to die. As in countless thousands of rural communities around the world, young people in Mieres over the years have moved to the towns and cities, leaving behind abandoned fields and meadows, derelict houses, and their aging and disconsolate parents and grandparents.Close observation of this social microcosm over two decades reveals the capacity of ordinary people in a locality to reinvent themselves, reconstruct relationships with the wider world, and confront new threats to their collective survival. A. F. Robertson describes how the determination that Mieres should survive is most evident in a vigorous round of fiestas, fairs, and other public events in which natives, exiles, and newcomers work to create a lively sense of belonging. Since the 1980s, Mieres has been enlivened by a reverse flow of migrants from the cities, new settlers who have brought an infusion of youth to the community, devised new livelihoods, revitalized the village school, energized the native ”Mierencs,” and provided the impetus for a rediscovery of historical roots and political identity.The regeneration of life in the countryside, in part a reaction to urban expansion and decay, is a global phenomenon of increasing political, economic, and social significance.
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Messages About Me

Messages About Me

Kyle Robertts; Dina Alexander

Rising Parent Media
2017
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We live in a great big world where we receive and send messages every day. Some of these messages are about our bodies and can alter the way we see ourselves. Join Wade on his quest as he first struggle and then--with the help of parents and friends--comes to understand that he is happy to be himself and is truly beautiful the way he is.Our kids receive hundreds, possibly thousands of messages every day from friends, family members, acquaintances, advertisements, social media, TV, and elsewhere. So many of these messages are about our bodies and can alter the way we see ourselves. It is so important for us to teach our kids to filter out negative messages and develop a healthy body image. And that is the purpose of Wade's Story This fun, extremely relatable story helps kids see they are not alone in feeling confused and sometimes bombarded by "messages" all around them. Written by parents and professionals who have struggled with body image issues themselves and understand the magnitude of cultural, familial and media messaging, this book is a great way to combat the barrage of negative messages continually saturating our kids.Be sure to read Messages About Me more than once with your child and check out the highly useful workbook section at the end of the story. With meaningful discussion questions, activities, and tips, it provides parents and teachers ample opportunities to teach and reinforce positive body image practices. These resources focus on messages we receive from peers, adults and media, how to combat unhealthy messages, and how to develop a truly healthy body image.Parents can pick and choose from various discussion questions, reread the books during different phases of life and engage in other important discussions when their child is ready.Helpful Features for Parents and Teachers include: -Conversation starters-Workbook questions-Simple, meaningful activitiesAlso available in ebook format.Feel free to check out Messages about Me for girls, Sydney's Story: A Journey to Healthy Body Image. For free lessons and helpful resources look for us online, Educate and Empower Kids.
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