Singer
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University of Michigan Press
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2020
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The Cultural Revolution was an emotionally charged political awakening for the educated youth of China. Called upon by aging revolutionary Mao Tse-tung to assume a "vanguard" role in his new revolution to eliminate bourgeois revisionist influence in education, politics, and the arts, and to help to establish proletarian culture, habits, and customs, in a new Chinese society, educated young Chinese generally accepted this opportunity for meaningful...
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Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and the recipient of the Berggruen Prize for ideas that shape human self-understanding. His books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, and The Life You Can Save.
Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopher
Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential...
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This book will change your lifeYou're Not Crazy: Living with Anxiety, Obsessions and Fetishes is designed to help those who suffer deeply from anxiety and its manifestations, especially in these times of escalating mental health concerns exacerbated by the devastating pandemic.Are you suffering from any of the following?Anxiety (a feeling of worry, nervousness or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome)Agoraphobia...
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It's 2050 and the planet Earth is in crisis because of the disastrous and ever increasing damage being done to the climate. Its population has been severely affected all over the globe. Professor John Thomas is attending the Davos Congress Centre to give a speech about the space industry. He will hijack his own talk to berate the prestigious audience of elite business people, shaming them for their disregard of our planet and announce to the world...
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Springer International Publishing
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2016
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English
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This open access Topical Survey offers a brief overview of the current state of research on and activities for mathematically gifted students around the world. This is of interest to a broad readership, including educational researchers, research mathematicians, mathematics teachers, teacher educators, curriculum designers, doctoral students, and other stakeholders. It first discusses research concerning the nature of mathematical giftedness, including
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In recent years, narratives about the music industry tend to hew to a common theme: it was humming along for decades until the Internet and Napster came along and disrupted it. Key Changes shows that this view is incorrect: the industry was actually shaken up not once in the 1990s, but ten times over more than 100 years. These ten disruptions came with the introduction of new formats for enjoying recorded music: starting with the cylinders and discs...
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The food is perfect, but nobody cooks it. It knows what you want, but nobody told it. It knows how many guests and who they are – even when you don't. Who is right and who is wrong, who is trustworthy and who is not, it always knows all of these things. Nobody knows how. Cook, mother, matchmaker and deal broker - The Cooking House has been many things, and this is its tale.
17) Otter Chaos
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Lon Ewing snowboarded in and turned economist Corey Levigne's life upside down, introducing him to a world he didn't know existed. Corey's still adjusting to a boyfriend who shifts into an otter and raids the koi pond-and now Lon says Corey's department chair is a werewolf? Wolves at the university, wolves in the bank-across Lon's desk sits Professor Melvin Vadas and his hench-wolves, demanding a construction loan for the pack's new lodge in the mountains....
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To keep the lands free from vampires, the Order has always crushed new Vampire Lords as soon as they appeared, using excessive force whenever possible. But this time, the Order has acknowledged the right of one man to handle matters in their place. Some things go beyond law or policy. Mardon will settle this alone.
19) Crimson
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Our deepest hunger and fiercest passion can lead to inescapable love. …Mia's journey continues as her undeniable attraction to Sorin deepens into love. As she learns how intricately their destinies are entwined, she realizes there is no life for her without Sorin. He becomes her reason to continue living, and she becomes his reason to start. Can life-and love-as a vampire transform her? The delicate line between pain and pleasure blurs as Mia discovers...
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A new Vampire Lord is attempting to rise, but the organization founded to destroy his kind chooses to watch while another man destroys him alone.A house owned by an unsuccessful inventor is possessed by a spirit that does what his inventions failed to achieve – with inhuman perfection.A selfless female magi is approached by a beast who is supposed to be a man – is this the karma of magic?And, perhaps most desperate and dramatic of all, Dr. Loonatik,...