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"Blessed Unrest is a beautiful, soulful, crucial book. It is a manifesto of hope for the
21st century grounded squarely in the hearts of engaged people around the planet."--Terry Tempest Williams,
author of The Open Space of Democracy
"In this chronicle of the groundswell with no name, we have found our Tocqueville, our Twain, and our Sinclair."
--Janine Benyus, author of Biomimicry
"Blessed Unrest is exciting, compelling, and very important....It will inspire and encourage millions
more to take action."--Jane Goodall, United Nations Ambassador for Peace
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From bestselling author and Emmy® Award-winning journalist Jorge Ramos comes a pivotal new book that explores the current and future power of the Latino vote in American politics.
The face of the American voter is about to change -- dramatically. With the growth of the number of Latinos in the United States, there has never been a voting block with the potential to determine the outcome of so many elections, both nationally and locally. Hispanics in America, native-born as well as newly arrived immigrants, will forever alter the way this country votes, and even how the nation views itself.
With a staggering population of more than 38 million and growing quickly, Latinos became the largest minority in America in 2003. The monumental effect Hispanics will have on all areas of American culture, especially politics, will be acutely felt as the 2004 presidential election heats up.
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The "Call to Conscience" series features Never-Before-Collected, Original Recordings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. --- Edited by Clayborne Carson and Kris Shepard.
This selection from the collection is "The Birth of a New Nation", which ignited the modern civil rights movement. Introduction written and read by Rev Leon H Sullivan.
Presented by the Grammy-winning Producers of
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Power is the strength required to bring about social, political, and economic change.... Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love." ---
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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in this, the first prose history in European
civilization. Herodotus tells the heroic tale of the Greeks' resistance
to the vast invading force assembled by Xerxes, King of Persia.
Here are not only the great battles - Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis - but also penetrating human insight and a powerful sense of epic destiny at work.
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We think of science as a way of discovering certainty in an unpredictable world;
experiments are designed to objectivity measure cause and effect. Yet, science often produces
more new questions than answers and all scientific theories can change with new and better
observations. Scientific philosophers say that "objective" observations actually depend heavily
on the observer's intuition and point of view. This audio presentation explores the power and
limitations of this special type of knowledge called science.
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This Sceptred Isle
The story of Britain from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, specially written for BBC Radio 4 by Christopher Lee, narrated by Anna Massey and featuring extracts from Sir Winston Churchill's A History of the English-speaking Peoples read by Paul Eddington.
2. The Making of the Nation - 1087-1327
Hoerbuecher fuer Kinder
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When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite "special tactics" team in the late 1970s to work with special-operations forces, John T. Carney was the man they turned to. Since then Carney and the U.S. Air Force Special Tactics units have circled the world on clandestine missions. They have combated terrorists and overthrown dangerous dictators. They have suffered eighteen times the casualty rate of America's conventional forces. But they have gotten the job done.
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