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Blind Into Baghdad America’s War in Iraq


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English | 2006 | pages: 77 | ISBN: 0307277968 | PDF | 1,3 mb
In the autumn of 2002, Atlantic Monthly national correspondent James Fallows wrote an article predicting many of the problems America would face if it invaded Iraq. After events confirmed many of his predictions, Fallows went on to write some of the most acclaimed, award-winning journalism on the planning and execution of the war, much of which has been assigned as required reading within the U.S. military.

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The Country of the Blind A Memoir at the End of Sight [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BLB2Z7S2 | 2023 | 7 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 199 MB
Author: Andrew Leland
Narrator: Andrew Leland

A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own. We meet Andrew Leland as he’s suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: he’s midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from sightedness to blindness over years, even decades. He grew up with full vision, but starting in his teenage years, his sight began to degrade from the outside in, such that he now sees the world as if through a narrow tube. Soon-but without knowing exactly when-he will likely have no vision left.

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The Country of the Blind A Memoir at the End of Sight


Free Download Andrew Leland, "The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight"
English | ISBN: 1984881426 | 2023 | EPUB | 336 pages | 1 MB
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own

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The Case for Color-Blind Equality in an Age of Identity Politics


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English | September 7, 2021 | ISBN: 1510770216 | 143 pages | PDF | 1.97 Mb
In The Case for Color-Blind Equality in an Age of Identity Politics​, Alan Dershowitz-New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholars-analyzesthe current battles over issues of diversity and our rapidly changing ideas about what true diversity is.

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