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  Taking On the Big Boys - Or Why...

  Ellen Bravo

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  A manifesto for the workplace feminist that moved Oscar winner Jane Fonda to exclaim “Please, please, please. All working women must read this book!”   Enough about “breaking the glass ceiling.” Here are blueprints for a redesign of the entire building, ground up, to benefit women and men—as well as the bottom line.   In Taking on the Big Boys, longtime labor activist Ellen Bravo explores workplace environments in both business and government. She recounts women’s testimonies from offices, assembly lines, hospitals, and schools, unmasking the patronizing, trivializing, and minimizing tactics employed by “the big boys” and their surrogates, such as portraying feminism as women against men, and dismissing demands for pay equity, family leave, and flex time as outrageous.   Also included are practical tips on everything from dealing with a sexual harasser to getting family members to share chores—and build equal relationships.   In this “smart, kind, funny, and very effective” Gold Medal Winner of ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award for Women’s Issues, Bravo argues for feminism as a system of beliefs, laws, and practices that value women and work associated with women, while detailing activist strategies to achieve a society where everybody—women and men—reach their potential (Gloria Steinem, feminist icon).

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  Juno Beach - Canadian 3rd...

  Tim Saunders

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  By June 1944, Juno Beach was a key part of Hitler's vaunted Atlantic Wall, with no less than four major strong points along its length. German pillboxes were sited to sweep the beaches with machine gun fire and were surrounded by belts of barbed wire and mines. Leading the attack were the 3rd Canadian Division, supported by the specialist assault tanks of the 79th Armoured Division (Hobart's 'Funnies'). Despite careful planning, poor D-Day weather led to a piecemeal landing and heroic individual battles in the streets of the seaside towns.

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  The Mariner of St Malo : A...

  Stephen Leacock

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  The Mariner of St. Malo : A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques Cartier by Stephen Leacock. Edited by H. H. Langton and George McKinnon Wrong
  
  libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. 
  Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

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  In the Light of Truth - The...

  Christoph Quarch

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  "In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message" is a classic work that offers
  clear and perceptive answers to questions which challenge every human
  being. Written between the years 1923–1937, it is a collection of 168
  essays addressing all spheres of life ranging from God and the Universe
  to the Laws in Creation, the meaning of life, responsibility, free will,
  intuition and the intellect, the ethereal world and the beyond, justice
  and love. It answers eternal questions such as what does it mean to be
  human, what is the purpose of life on Earth, and what happens to "me"
  when I die. In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message explains the causes
  and significance of the unprecedented crises facing humanity, and our
  responsibilities to the future. Concerning In the Light of Truth: The
  Grail Message, Abd-ru-shin writes: "I wish to fill in the gaps which
  have so far always remained unanswered in the souls of men as burning
  questions, and which never leave any serious thinker in peace, if he
  honestly seeks the Truth." Throughout the Grail Message readers are
  urged to weigh questions and answers intuitively, to confront them
  within their own life experiences, and only to believe that which they
  can perceive inwardly. Only through this process can one reach true
  conviction in one's life.

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  Badass Teachers Unite! -...

  Mark Naison

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  An academic exposes how dominant education reform policies destabilize low-income communities. 
   
  In this incisive collection of essays, educator and activist Mark Naison draws on years of research on Bronx history and his own experience on the front lines of the education wars to unapologetically defend teachers and students from education “reform” policies that undermine their power and creativity. 
   
  Naison shows how dominant education policy systematically hurts the very children it claims to support and instead forces them to “race to the top.” He exposes the Duncans, Rhees, and Gateses for schemes that intensify racial and economic inequality. And he refocuses the conversation on teaching and organizing strategies that should be implemented in communities everywhere. 
   
  Praise for Badass Teachers Unite! 
   
  “Mark Naison has woven a series of provocative essays into a powerful book. No traditional scholarly treatise, Badass Teachers Unite! is an education manifesto for the people’s school reform movement. With clarity, verve, and passion, Naison outlines the challenges we face in transforming public schools and he forges a guide to our actions. This book is must reading for anyone concerned about the plight of public schools in the USA today.” —Henry Louis Taylor Jr., director, UB Center for Urban Studies, University at Buffalo 
   
  “Mark Naison is a badass?and it took one to write this rousing pronouncement to the militancy emerging among today’s schoolteachers . . . . Mark Naison’s Badass Teachers Unite! brings back the attitude we need to confront the corporate reform bullies and reclaim our schools.” —Jesse Hagopian, history teacher, Garfield High School, Seattle, Washington, and associate editor for Rethinking Schools magazine

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  Artificial Intelligence...

  Joanna Penn

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  Artificial Intelligence is already embedded in much of our daily lives and it's increasingly moving into realms that impact authors and the publishing industry. We need to embrace the opportunities and engage in conversations around possible threats in order to reinvent our industry for a very different future. 
  The pandemic of 2020 has accelerated converging technologies and changed human behavior across the globe to favor digital business models. In this book, I discuss current technological and societal trends and consider the opportunities for authors and the publishing industry over the next decade.Writing in the age of AI, including Natural Language Generation models like GPT-3Copyright law, Blockchain for smart contracts, and micro-paymentsAI-assisted translationVoice technologies, streaming and subscriptionVirtual worlds and augmented realityGlobal, digital, mobile. A wave of new writers. 
  It’s time to change our business model.  
  If we embrace this wave of converging technology, we can create abundance in our industry, enabling new forms of creativity, growing the market with new products and experiences, and expanding revenue for the entire supply chain. 
  We are creators. We turn ideas in our heads into books in the physical realm. We can use these technologies to surf the wave of change and invent the decade ahead — together.  
  I hope you will join me on the journey.

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