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STUFF HAPPENS The Far From Humdrum Life Of A Photojournalist


Free Download Tor Eigeland, "STUFF HAPPENS: The Far From Humdrum Life Of A Photojournalist"
English | ISBN: 1839524073 | 2022 | 304 pages | EPUB | 32 MB
Magical, but down-to-earth, a life of adventurous travel wreathed in curiosity and friendliness. Modestly presented, a wonderful way to experience the world, and full of charm. Kate Adie, former Chief News Correspondent for BBC News

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Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama How to Reduce Stress and Make Extraordinary Progress Wherever You Lead [Audiobook]


Free Download Janice Fraser (Author, Narrator), Jason Fraser, "Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama: How to Reduce Stress and Make Extraordinary Progress Wherever You Lead"
English | ASIN: B0BXTYDX8K | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~08:16:00 | 226 MB
Everyone wishes life could be simpler in this fast-paced world, but that often feels impossible.
It doesn’t have to.

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The Far Land 200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific


Free Download The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific by Brandon Presser
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1785788922 | 352 pages | PDF | 3.59 Mb
A thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at the edge of the worldIn 1808,an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing their vessel, had disappeared into the night with their Tahitian companions.Pitcairn Island was the perfect hideaway from British authorities, but after nearly two decades of isolation its secret society had devolved into a tribalistic hellscape; a real-life Lord of the Flies, rife with depravity and deception.Seven generations later, the island’s diabolical past still looms over its 48 residents; descendants of the original mutineers, marooned like modern castaways. Only a rusty cargo ship connects Pitcairn with the rest of the world, just four times a year. In 2018, Brandon Presser rode the freighter to live among its present-day families; two clans bound by circumstance and secrets. While on the island, he pieced together Pitcairn’s full an operatic saga that holds all who have visited in its mortal clutch-even the author.Told through vivid historical and personal narrative, The Far Land goes beyond the infamous mutiny on the Bounty ,offering an unprecedented glimpse at life on the fringes of civilization, and how, perhaps, it’s not so different from our own.

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Muslim Merit-making in Thailand’s Far-South


Free Download Muslim Merit-making in Thailand’s Far-South By Christopher M. Joll (auth.)
2012 | 236 Pages | ISBN: 9400724845 | PDF | 4 MB
This volume provides an ethnographic description of Muslim merit-making rhetoric, rituals and rationales in Thailand’s Malay far-south. This study is situated in Cabetigo, one of Pattani’s oldest and most important Malay communities that has been subjected to a range of Thai and Islamic influences over the last hundred years. The volume describes religious rhetoric related to merit-making being conducted in both Thai and Malay, that the spiritual currency of merit is generated through the performance of locally occurring Malay adat, and globally normative amal ‘ibadat. Concerning the rationale for merit-making, merit-makers are motivated by both a desire to ensure their own comfort in the grave and personal vindication at judgment, as well as to transfer merit for those already in the grave, who are known to the merit-maker. While the rhetoric elements of Muslim merit-making reveal Thai influence, its ritual elements confirm the local impact of reformist activism.

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Digital Civil War Confronting the Far-Right Menace


Free Download Digital Civil War: Confronting the Far-Right Menace by Peter Daou, Jonathan Yen, HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
English | 2019 | ISBN: B07R238KCR | Format: MP3 / 6 hours and 38 minutes | 138 Mb
The Far Right’s rise to power has ignited a digital civil war that rages across multiple fronts and multiple platforms. It is waged with words and images that are designed to inflict psychological harm, to injure through verbal violence, to intimidate and incite, to wreak havoc with rhetoric. The combatants are citizens, activists, politicians, pundits, coders, conspiracists, trolls, agitators, hackers, and journalists. At stake are the nation’s bedrock principles: equal rights, fair elections, freedom of speech, racial justice, and the rule of law.
In Digital Civil War: Confronting the Far-Right Menace, Peter Daou, a veteran digital media adviser to major political figures, provides a firsthand account from the war’s front lines. He explains that the unceasing toxicity of social media – often treated as an aberration – is a feature, not a bug, of digital warfare.
A better understanding of how the underlying value systems and moral arguments of the warring parties play out online, Daou argues, aids us in confronting the Far Right’s takeover of the Republican Party and the consequent assault on truth, facts, and the foundations of our democracy.

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Bodies Under Siege How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global [Audiobook]


Free Download Sian Norris, Naomi Madelin (Narrator), "Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global"
English | ASIN: B0CC6CGMHZ | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:15:00 | 291 MB
Think today’s anti-abortion ideas are rooted in religious prohibitions or arguments about where life begins? Wrong: today’s anti-abortion movements is largely financed and planned by far-right extremists. Many of them are avowedly fascist and white supremacist, afraid of a "great replacement" of the world’s white population by other races, who are working hard to reshape governments and policies across Europe, North America, and around the world. Much of this far-right organizing and funding network, however, has been overlooked by today’s feminist and left movements.
As investigative journalist Sian Norris uncovers here, it is through attacking abortion rights that fascist ideas from the dark web, incel chat boards, and fringe organizations comes to enter mainstream debate-and to then shape governmental policy across Europe, from authoritarian regimes like Hungary’s to liberal democracies like Britain. As Norris goes undercover at anti-abortion activist meetings, and pieces together the money trail linking American think tanks to far-right fascist groups, she maps out the pipeline by which fascism has become respectable across the Global North by taking away women’s reproductive rights and autonomy.

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God, Guns, and Sedition Far-Right Terrorism in America (A Council on Foreign Relations Book)


Free Download God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America (A Council on Foreign Relations Book) by Bruce Hoffman, Jacob Ware
English | January 2nd, 2024 | ISBN: 0231211228 | 448 pages | True EPUB | 1.87 MB
Shocking acts of terrorism have erupted from violent American far-right extremists in recent years, including the 2015 mass murder at a historic Black church in Charleston and the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These incidents, however, are neither novel nor unprecedented. They are the latest flashpoints in a process that has been unfolding for decades, in which vast conspiracy theories and radical ideologies such as white supremacism, racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, and hostility to government converge into a deadly threat to democracy.

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