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American Disgust shows how perceptions of disgust and fears of contamination are rooted in the country's history of colonialism and racism. Drawing on colonial, corporate, and medical archives, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer argues that microbial medicine is closely entwined with changing cultural experiences of digestion, excrement, and disgust that are inextricably tied to the creation of whiteness.
Ranging from nineteenth-century colonial encounters with Native people to John Harvey Kellogg's ideas around civilization and bowel movements to mid-twentieth-century diet and parenting advice books, Wolf-Meyer analyzes how embedded racist histories of digestion and disgust permeate contemporary debates around fecal microbial transplants and other bacteriotherapeutic treatments for gastrointestinal disease.
At its core, American Disgust wrestles with how changing cultural notions of digestion-what goes into the body and what comes out of it-create and impose racial categories motivated by feelings of disgust rooted in American settler-colonial racism. It shows how disgust is a changing, yet fundamental, aspect of American subjectivity and that engaging with it-personally, politically, and theoretically-opens up possibilities for conceptualizing health at the individual, societal, and planetary levels.
In the newly revised third edition of The Leadership Pipeline, a team of veteran leadership practitioners delivers a practical and essential framework for identifying future leaders, assessing their competence, planning their development, nurturing their talents, and analyzing the results of your efforts. The work to be done, the required skills, time application, and the necessary work values for each leadership layer are clearly defined for the digital age. The book explains how to integrate your organization's leadership development process with a succession plan that provides your company with a ready supply of capable leaders.
You'll discover the tools and techniques you need to knit together your succession and leadership development programs and constantly renew your leadership pipeline. You'll also: explore anecdotes and stories drawn from the authors' extensive experience with top companies that illustrate the principles discussed in the book; find ways to eliminate bias and tunnel vision when identifying leadership candidates; and learn to objectively consider the efficacy of individual leadership candidates.
A powerful resource for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders at firms of all sizes, The Leadership Pipeline is an effective and insightful blueprint to future-proofing your company.
The call to make the world a better place is inherent in the Christian belief and practice. But why have efforts to change the world by Christians so often failed or gone tragically awry? And how might Christians in the twenty-first century live in ways that have integrity with their traditions and are more truly transformative? In To Change the World, James Davison Hunter offers persuasive answers to these questions.
Hunter begins with a penetrating appraisal of the most popular models of world-changing among Christians today, highlighting the ways they are inherently flawed and therefore incapable of generating the change to which they aspire. Because change implies power, all Christian eventually embrace strategies of political engagement. Hunter offers a critique of the political theologies of the Christian Right and Left and the Neo-Anabaptists. Hunter argues that all too often these political theologies worsen the very problems they are designed to solve. What is really needed is a different paradigm of Christian engagement with the world. He offers real-life examples, large and small, of what can be accomplished through the practice of 'faithful presence.' Such practices will be more fruitful, Hunter argues, more exemplary, and more deeply transfiguring than any more overtly ambitious attempts can ever be.
Americans lived in a different reality in 1980: Vermont was the only state that let residents carry a concealed firearm without a permit. Twenty-four states now allow this-and numerous other gun laws have fallen by the wayside. When police were accused of wrongdoing, the default answer from society's arbiters was: 'The police wouldn't lie.' Editors steered clear of stories about rape and sexual violence. The word 'homeless' wasn't in common use. The fabric of the middle class had not yet begun fraying.
America of the 2020s is living with cultural shapeshifting rooted in the 1980s. American Doom Loop chronicles the first part of that moving picture, then brings the story forward.
As a newspaper journalist, Dale Maharidge had a front-row seat to this decade. He was in the Philippines during the last days of Dictator Ferdinand Marcos, witnessing the US lose a critical piece of its empire dating to the Spanish-American War; he embedded with a group that was a precursor to the Oath Keepers; and he investigated police, who kept trying to get him fired.
Through it all, Maharidge gained an invaluable view of a complicated decade that offers insight into our society today.
Learn How to Lead Interesting, Engaging and Funny Conversations by Following These 7 Easy Steps!
Do you find yourself stuck in conversations without an obvious escape more often than you'd like? Do you know that you're much more interesting than you appear to other people because you don't exactly know how to share your personality?
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It will give you clear guidelines on how to approach people, how to start the conversation and, most importantly, how to lead it. With a bunch of examples, tips and tricks and theoretical background, this book is bound to give you all the necessary skills you need in order for your conversations to be fluid and flawless!
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- How to prepare and have the right mindset to have a conversation with the desired person
- How to learn to listen to the other person, take their hints and signals and know how to lead the conversation into topics that will be interesting and engaging for both sides
- How to ask the right questions, when to ask them, and how to design them to achieve what you want
- How to talk about yourself and share your personality with the person you're talking to in the best way possible
- How to master body language
- How to build a trusting relationship with the other person and increase your chances of having other engaging conversations with him/her
- Some neat practices on how to improve your conversational skill without too much investment
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Learn How to Get the Right Answers by Asking the Right Questions with This Simple Guide!
Do you have trouble or take a lot of time and effort to communicate and get the information you're interested in from the person you're talking to? Do you often find yourself struggling to make your questions concise and understandable to the person you're communicating with?
If you found the above questions intriguing or well-made, learn how to ask similar, or completely new ones with this new awesome book - 'How to Ask Questions: The Right Way, The Only 7 Steps You Need to Master Inquiry Communication Skills, Solving Problems, and Getting the Right Answers Today' is a guide that will take you on a journey that will benefit your communication and problem solving skills substantially!
Asking questions, and communicating in general, can sometimes seem very complex and hard to master. However, once you get the ropes of it, it becomes incredibly easy and natural.
Here's What You'll Learn:
- How to plan out your conversation in advance and prepare for it
- How to logically formulate your questions so that they make sense and are relevant with the flow of the conversation
- How to understand the emotions that your questions might evoke in the person you're talking to
- How to ask the questions themselves so that it sounds good and attractive
- How to prepare for the ensuing discussion that is inevitable if the questions were well-asked
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Persuade, Manipulate and Impact People with These 7 Easy Steps!
Do you admire all those cool and mysterious characters from movies and comic books that can easily manipulate anyone into doing what they want them to do? Would you like to be like them, but can't seem to succeed no matter how hard you try?
You definitely shouldn't despair, because this new amazing guide 'How to Influence People: The Right Way - The Only 7 Steps You Need to Master Persuasion, Manipulation, and Impacting People Today' will provide you with all the necessary tips, tricks and information that you need to start being a true Loki in any social interaction! Apart from the more trivial and everyday applications, being able to influence others effectively is crucial in many professions.
Here's What You'll Learn:
- How to use your body language to assert dominance and make the first steps towards being able to influence a person
- How to make the people you speak to like you, which will make manipulation that much easier
- Some tips and tricks on how and where to guide the conversation to increase your influence over the other person
- How to make emotional connections and exploit them to your advantage
- Some final tips and tricks along with a very well-structured conclusion that will encompass everything else that you've learned along the way
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8 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: How to Flirt, How to Start a Conversation, How to Talk to People, How to Ask Questions, How to Be Funny, How to Influence People, How to Attract Men and How to Attract Women!
Book 1)
How to Flirt: The Right Way - The Only 7 Steps You Need to Master Flirting, Seduction and Sexual Tension Whilst Dating Today
Book 2)
How to Start a Conversation: The Right Way - The Only 7 Steps You Need to Master First Impressions, Talking to Strangers and Small Talk Today
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How to Talk to People: The Right Way - The Only 7 Steps You Need to Master Conversation Skills, Effective Communication and Conversation Tactics Today
Book 4)
How to Ask Questions: The Right Way - The Only 7 Steps You Need to Master Inquiry Communication Skills, Solving Problems and Getting the Right Answers Today
Book 5)
How to Be Funny: The Right Way - The Only 7 Steps You Need to Master Comedy, Conversational Humor and Making People Laugh Today
Book 6)
How to Influence People: The Right Way - The Only 7 Steps You Need to Master Persuasion, Manipulation and Impacting People Today
Book 7)
How to Attract Men: The Right Way - The Only 7 Steps You Need to Master What Men Want, Attraction Techniques and How to Pick Up Today
Book 8)
How to Attract Women: The Right Way - The Only 7 Steps You Need to Master What Women Want, Attraction Techniques and How to Pick Up Today
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In October 1997, the town of Ringgold, Georgia, was shaken by reports of a murder in its midst. A dead woman was found in Alvin Ridley's house-and even more shockingly, she was the wife no one knew he had.
McCracken Poston had been a state representative before he lost his bid for US Congress and returned to his law career. Alvin Ridley was a local character who once sold and serviced Zenith televisions. Though reclusive and an outsider, the 'Zenith Man,' as Poston knew him, hardly seemed capable of murder.
Alvin was a difficult client, storing evidence in a cockroach-infested suitcase, unwilling to reveal key facts to his defender. Calling on medical experts, testimony from Alvin himself, and a wealth of surprising evidence gleaned from Alvin's house, Poston presented a groundbreaking defense that allowed Alvin to return to his peculiar lifestyle, a free man.
Years after his trial, Alvin was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, a revelation that sheds light on much of his lifelong personal battle. Part true crime, part courtroom drama, Zenith Man is also the moving story of an unexpected friendship between two very different men that changed-and perhaps saved-the lives of both.
In 1987, E. L. Doctorow celebrated the Constitution's bicentennial by reading it. 'It is five thousand words long but reads like fifty thousand,' he said. Distinguished legal scholar Garrett Epps disagrees. It's about 7,500 words. And Doctorow 'missed a good deal of high rhetoric, many literary tropes, and even a trace of, if not wit, at least irony,' he writes.
In American Epic, Epps takes us through a complete reading of the Constitution to achieve an appreciation of its power and a holistic understanding of what it says. In this book he seeks not to provide a definitive interpretation, but to listen to the language and ponder its meaning. He draws on four modes of reading: scriptural, legal, lyric, and epic. The Constitution's first three words, for example, sound spiritual-but Epps finds them to be more aspirational than prayer-like. He turns the Second Amendment into a poem to illuminate its ambiguity. He notices oddities and omissions. The Constitution lays out rules for presidential appointment of officers, for example, but not removal. Should the Senate approve each firing? Can it withdraw its 'advice and consent' and force a resignation? And he challenges himself, as seen in his surprising discussion of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in light of Article 4, which orders states to give 'full faith and credit' to the acts of other states.
Appointments to the United States Supreme Court are now central events in American political life. However, this has not always been the case. As late as the middle of the twentieth century, presidents invested little time and effort in finding and vetting nominees. Media coverage was desultory, public opinion was largely non-existent, and the justices often voted independently and erratically.
In Making the Supreme Court, Charles M. Cameron and Jonathan P. Kastellec show how the growth of federal judicial power from the 1930s onward inspired a multitude of groups struggling to shape judicial policy. Over time, some groups moved beyond lobbying the Court to changing who sits on it. Other groups formed expressly to influence appointments. These activists and organized groups penetrated the national party system so that after about 1980, presidential candidates increasingly pledged to select and confirm nominees who conformed to specific policy and ideological litmus tests. Once in office, these presidents reshaped the executive selection system to deliver on their promises. As Cameron and Kastellec argue, the result is a new politics aimed squarely at selecting and placing judicial ideologues on the Court. They make the case that this new model gradually transformed how the Court itself operates, turning it into an ideologically driven and polarized branch.
In the popular literature of the Civil War, the days immediately after the surrender at Fort Sumter are overshadowed by the battles and changes in American life.
Tony Silber's account starts on April 14, 1861, with President Lincoln's call for seventy-five thousand militia troops. Washington, a Southern slaveholding city, was the focal point. The capital was barely defended, by about two thousand local militia troops of dubious training and loyalty. In Charleston, the Confederates had an organized army that was larger and ready to fight.
Maryland's eastern sections were reeling in insurrection, and within days Virginia would secede. For half of the twelve days after Fort Sumter, Washington was severed from the North. The United States had a tiny standing army. The federal government's only defense would be state militias.
A Confederate success in capturing Washington would have changed the course of the Civil War. Instead, Lincoln emerged as the master of his cabinet, a communications genius, and a strategic giant. Twelve Days alternates between the four main scenes: Washington, insurrectionist Maryland, the advance of Northern troops, and the Confederate planning and military movements.
