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L’aide humanitaire en Haïti

La grande escroquerie

by Timothy T. Schwartz ...

Depuis des décennies, des organisations humanitaires parmi les plus respectées au monde dénaturent la réalité en Haïti dans le but de collecter des dons. Des organes de presse tout aussi prestigieux, avides de reportages sensationnalistes sur la misère et la violence, sont suspendus à leurs lèvres. Cette convergence d’intérêts et les surenchères catastrophistes qu’elle provoque ont atteint leur ... Read more

$8.99 CAD

Depuis des décennies, des organisations humanitaires parmi les plus respectées au monde dénaturent la réalité en Haïti dans le but de collecter des dons. Des organes de presse tout aussi prestigieux, avides de reportages sensationnalistes sur la misère et la violence, sont suspendus à leurs lèvres. Cette convergence d’intérêts et les surenchères catastrophistes qu’elle provoque ont atteint leur
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Humanizing Business

Logotherapy and Management

by Henri Gillet ...

In the business world of the twenty-first century, absenteeism due to mental illness and related to work continue to grow, millennials and other new generations refuse to accept the pressures of the traditional work place and demand respect and decency in their work environment. We do not see much success in the responses to the current de-huminization of employees in business or in society. ... Read more

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In the business world of the twenty-first century, absenteeism due to mental illness and related to work continue to grow, millennials and other new generations refuse to accept the pressures of the traditional work place and demand respect and decency in their work environment. We do not see much success in the responses to the current de-huminization of employees in business or in society.
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Unrestricted Warfare

China's Master Plan to Destroy America

by Qiao Liang, Wang Xiangsui ...

A sobering and fascinating study on war in the modern era, Unrestricted Warfare carefully explores strategies that militarily and politically disadvantaged nations might take in order to successfully attack a geopolitical super-power like the United States. American military doctrine is typically led by technology; a new class of weapon or vehicle is developed, which allows or encourages an ... Read more

$10.50 CAD

A sobering and fascinating study on war in the modern era, Unrestricted Warfare carefully explores strategies that militarily and politically disadvantaged nations might take in order to successfully attack a geopolitical super-power like the United States. American military doctrine is typically led by technology; a new class of weapon or vehicle is developed, which allows or encourages an
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PARfessionals Peer Recovery Workforce Development Supervision Training

Facilitator Manual

by Trudi Griffin, MS, LPC, NCC, Contract Researcher, Julie Cotton, MLIS, MSW, Contract Operations Manager, PARfessionals ™ Signature e-Books by Jorea M. Kelley, Nationally Certified Psychiatric Technician, Level 4, Free Little Library Pre-Selected Title Charter #M69352 ...

Series series Cultural Intelligence in Addictions
The PARfessionals Peer Recovery Supervisor classroom curriculum set was designed with assistance from PARfessionals' contract workers, Trudi Griffin, MS, LPC, NCC, Julie Cotton, MLIS, MSW. and Graphic Designer Muhammad Hirebee.The classroom kit includes: Presentation, Facilitators Guide and Student Manual. ... Read more

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The PARfessionals Peer Recovery Supervisor classroom curriculum set was designed with assistance from PARfessionals' contract workers, Trudi Griffin, MS, LPC, NCC, Julie Cotton, MLIS, MSW. and Graphic Designer Muhammad Hirebee.The classroom kit includes: Presentation, Facilitators Guide and Student Manual.
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100 of the Best Museums In Europe

by alex trostanetskiy ...

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the Best Museums In Europe, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating 100 of the Best Museums In Europe did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy and foundation before ... Read more

$3.68 CAD

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the Best Museums In Europe, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating 100 of the Best Museums In Europe did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy and foundation before
... Read more
Russian Nazi Troll Bots!

The Busy Person’s Guide to How Trump’s Trolls Won the Internet, What’s Ahead, and What You Can Do

by Eric Saeger ...

IT WASN'T JUST THE RUSSIANS.It's beyond dispute that trolls and automated "bots" helped Donald Trump win the White House in 2016. Some of the troll operations involved were based in Russia, but domestic interests also participated in the invasion. In fact, trolls of all types, from all corners of the internet, came together in a perfect storm of propaganda, disinformation, and political dissent ... Read more

$4.32 CAD

IT WASN'T JUST THE RUSSIANS.It's beyond dispute that trolls and automated "bots" helped Donald Trump win the White House in 2016. Some of the troll operations involved were based in Russia, but domestic interests also participated in the invasion. In fact, trolls of all types, from all corners of the internet, came together in a perfect storm of propaganda, disinformation, and political dissent
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Crooning

by John Gregory Dunne ...

“Funny, outrageous, cynical, and spellbinding.”—People magazine.In this first-ever digital edition of John Gregory Dunne’s acclaimed collection Crooning, readers find evidence from the get-go confirming the writer’s reputation as one of the most clear-seeing, incisive observers of the American cultural and political scene. In sixteen sharp, distinctively voiced essays, Dunne profiles a blacklisted ... Read more

$8.09 CAD

“Funny, outrageous, cynical, and spellbinding.”—People magazine.In this first-ever digital edition of John Gregory Dunne’s acclaimed collection Crooning, readers find evidence from the get-go confirming the writer’s reputation as one of the most clear-seeing, incisive observers of the American cultural and political scene. In sixteen sharp, distinctively voiced essays, Dunne profiles a blacklisted
... Read more
The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State

by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich ...

We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize ... Read more

$9.37 CAD

We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize
... Read more
Quintana & Friends

by John Gregory Dunne ...

“Dunne has a wicked eye for the telling details, an uncanny ear for the revealing phrase.”—The New York Times. Quintana & Friends gathers thirty-three brilliant essays written by a pioneer of New Journalism between 1963 and 1978. John Gregory Dunne's gifts for keen reportage, subtle storytelling, and articulate opinion on full display, he covers topics ranging from the Hollywood machine to ... Read more

$8.09 CAD

“Dunne has a wicked eye for the telling details, an uncanny ear for the revealing phrase.”—The New York Times. Quintana & Friends gathers thirty-three brilliant essays written by a pioneer of New Journalism between 1963 and 1978. John Gregory Dunne's gifts for keen reportage, subtle storytelling, and articulate opinion on full display, he covers topics ranging from the Hollywood machine to
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Welcome to Hell

One Man's Fight for Life inside the Bangkok Hilton

by Colin Martin ...

Written from his cell and smuggled out page by page, Colin Martin’s autobiography chronicles an innocent man’s struggle to survive inside one of the world’s most dangerous prisons. After being swindled out of a fortune, Colin was let down by the hopelessly corrupt Thai police. Forced to rely upon his own resources, he tracked down the man who conned him and, drawn into a fight, he accidentally ... Read more

$8.09 CAD

Written from his cell and smuggled out page by page, Colin Martin’s autobiography chronicles an innocent man’s struggle to survive inside one of the world’s most dangerous prisons. After being swindled out of a fortune, Colin was let down by the hopelessly corrupt Thai police. Forced to rely upon his own resources, he tracked down the man who conned him and, drawn into a fight, he accidentally
... Read more
The Bicycle Reader

Number 1: Summer 2012

by Jack Thurston, Tim Dawson ...

This is the first issue of the Bicycle Reader, a new collection of quality writing about cycling. Two thoughts inspired us to start this collection.The first is that there is a great deal of brilliant article and essay-length writing about cycling that remains inaccessible to most readers. Some of it languishes out of print. Other pieces appeared in publications read by only a tiny minority of ... Read more

$3.05 CAD

This is the first issue of the Bicycle Reader, a new collection of quality writing about cycling. Two thoughts inspired us to start this collection.The first is that there is a great deal of brilliant article and essay-length writing about cycling that remains inaccessible to most readers. Some of it languishes out of print. Other pieces appeared in publications read by only a tiny minority of
... Read more
Writing Jamaica: People, Places, Struggles

by Diana McCaulay ...

Diana McCaulay’s newspaper columns, collected in Writing Jamaica: People, Places, Struggles, deliver a fascinating look at Jamaica, far beyond the island’s image as a tourist paradise. From the white sand beaches of Jamaica’s north coast – Negril, Montego Bay, Oracabessa, Portland – to the sprawling capital city of Kingston, McCaulay fearlessly tackles politics, the environment, relationships ... Read more

$2.59 CAD

Diana McCaulay’s newspaper columns, collected in Writing Jamaica: People, Places, Struggles, deliver a fascinating look at Jamaica, far beyond the island’s image as a tourist paradise. From the white sand beaches of Jamaica’s north coast – Negril, Montego Bay, Oracabessa, Portland – to the sprawling capital city of Kingston, McCaulay fearlessly tackles politics, the environment, relationships
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Obama vs. Romney: "The Take" on Election 2012

by Dan Balz, The Washington Post ...

The Inside Story of the 2012 Presidential CampaignThe presidential campaign of 2012 was one of the closest and most fierce, expensive, and unpredictable in our history, and Washington Post senior political correspondent Dan Balz chronicled every twist.Obama vs. Romney is a collection of 50 dispatches from the campaign trail, by one the preeminent political journalists of our times. Balz recounts ... Read more

$3.36 CAD

The Inside Story of the 2012 Presidential CampaignThe presidential campaign of 2012 was one of the closest and most fierce, expensive, and unpredictable in our history, and Washington Post senior political correspondent Dan Balz chronicled every twist.Obama vs. Romney is a collection of 50 dispatches from the campaign trail, by one the preeminent political journalists of our times. Balz recounts
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What Lies Across the Water

The Real Story of the Cuban Five

by Stephen Kimber ...

Is the man who blows up an airplane and kills dozens of civilians a murderous terrorist... or a valiant freedom fighter? Is the man who tries to stop the bomber a threat to national security... or a hero of the people? It depends. What Lies Across the Water is a narrative nonfiction thriller. About terrorists who blow up airplanes and try to overthrow governments. About intelligence agents who try ... Read more

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Is the man who blows up an airplane and kills dozens of civilians a murderous terrorist... or a valiant freedom fighter? Is the man who tries to stop the bomber a threat to national security... or a hero of the people? It depends. What Lies Across the Water is a narrative nonfiction thriller. About terrorists who blow up airplanes and try to overthrow governments. About intelligence agents who try
... Read more
First Dollars

Pipelines, Ports, Prisons and Private Property

by Alex Rose ...

MAKING MILLIONS — BOLD ABORIGINAL ENTREPRENEURS — KIM BAIRD, CLARENCE LOUIE, TEWANEE JOSEPH, MANNY JULES — ARE REINVENTING CANADA’S ECONOMY A growing number of aboriginal leaders – especially those blessed by geography – are unlocking the value of their lands in order to enter the economic mainstream,” says author Alex Rose in the eBook, First Dollars: Pipelines, Ports, Prisons and Private ... Read more

$7.19 CAD

MAKING MILLIONS — BOLD ABORIGINAL ENTREPRENEURS — KIM BAIRD, CLARENCE LOUIE, TEWANEE JOSEPH, MANNY JULES — ARE REINVENTING CANADA’S ECONOMY A growing number of aboriginal leaders – especially those blessed by geography – are unlocking the value of their lands in order to enter the economic mainstream,” says author Alex Rose in the eBook, First Dollars: Pipelines, Ports, Prisons and Private
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Timothy Mcveigh (The home grown terrorist)

by John McCoist ...

What turned Iraq war veteran Tim McVeigh from patriotic soldier to a man who considered his own government, Americas biggest enemy. He commited the worst home terror act in American history, which shook the nation to its core. Waco and Ruby ridge were catalysts which pushed Mcveighs conceptions that his government was out of cotrol and he needed to act. This book covers the background of Mcveigh, ... Read more

$4.42 CAD

What turned Iraq war veteran Tim McVeigh from patriotic soldier to a man who considered his own government, Americas biggest enemy. He commited the worst home terror act in American history, which shook the nation to its core. Waco and Ruby ridge were catalysts which pushed Mcveighs conceptions that his government was out of cotrol and he needed to act. This book covers the background of Mcveigh,
... Read more
Discours de la servitude volontaire

by Etienne De La Boétie ...

Edition Complète de " Discours de la servitude volontaire - Etienne De La Boétie ", entièrement relu, revu et corrigé avec mise en page étudiée et table des Matières pour navigation aisée.Ce texte consiste en un court réquisitoire contre l'absolutisme qui étonne par son érudition et par sa profondeur, alors qu'il a été rédigé par un jeune homme d'à peine dix-huit ans. Ce texte pose la question de ... Read more

$1.22 CAD

Edition Complète de " Discours de la servitude volontaire - Etienne De La Boétie ", entièrement relu, revu et corrigé avec mise en page étudiée et table des Matières pour navigation aisée.Ce texte consiste en un court réquisitoire contre l'absolutisme qui étonne par son érudition et par sa profondeur, alors qu'il a été rédigé par un jeune homme d'à peine dix-huit ans. Ce texte pose la question de
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Sandy Hook Slaughter: The Newtown Shooting and Massacre in Connecticut - Adam Lanza. Thoughts and Lessons on a Tragedy and the Coming Paradigm Shift.

by Conrad Powell ...

"As much as it is the right of citizens to bear arms, so too is the right of parents to bear their children in their arms." - Conrad Powell, Dec 16, 2012, quoting from "Sandy Hook Slaughter..." Our hearts go out to the families devastated by the Newtown tragedy. We as a nation are left with broken hearts and a reality that public policy on gun control or lack thereof is broken as well."Sandy Hook ... Read more

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"As much as it is the right of citizens to bear arms, so too is the right of parents to bear their children in their arms." - Conrad Powell, Dec 16, 2012, quoting from "Sandy Hook Slaughter..." Our hearts go out to the families devastated by the Newtown tragedy. We as a nation are left with broken hearts and a reality that public policy on gun control or lack thereof is broken as well."Sandy Hook
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Zero Day: The Threat In Cyberspace

by Rober O'Harrow, The Washington Post ...

Will the world�s next war be fought in cyberspace???"It's going to happen," said former National Defense University Professor Dan Kuehl.?So much of the world�s activity takes place on the internet now � including commerce, banking and communications -- the Pentagon has declared war in cyberspace an inevitability. For more than a year, Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow has explored the ... Read more

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Will the world�s next war be fought in cyberspace???"It's going to happen," said former National Defense University Professor Dan Kuehl.?So much of the world�s activity takes place on the internet now � including commerce, banking and communications -- the Pentagon has declared war in cyberspace an inevitability. For more than a year, Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow has explored the
... Read more
War, murder & human nature: Why people kill

by Steve Bareham ...

Why do people kill? Is violent behaviour part of human nature? These are important social questions. And while murder and war are grim subject matters, they are difficult to ignore. There are 468,000 murders every year around the world, and that number would be quadrupled were it not for fast ambulances and modern emergency units. If you count the war dead in the past two centuries, the number ... Read more

$4.49 CAD

Why do people kill? Is violent behaviour part of human nature? These are important social questions. And while murder and war are grim subject matters, they are difficult to ignore. There are 468,000 murders every year around the world, and that number would be quadrupled were it not for fast ambulances and modern emergency units. If you count the war dead in the past two centuries, the number
... Read more
Réflexions sur les causes de la liberté et de l'oppression sociale

by Weil Simone ...

Simone Weil (1909-1943) professeur agrégée de philosophie. Après avoir enseigné au Puy, elle quitte la France, en 1942, allant d’abord aux Etats-Unis puis à Londres où elle travaille pour le Général de Gaulle. Atteinte de la tuberculose, elle meurt dans un sanatorium britannique, le 24 août 1943, à l’âge de 34 ans. Le livre : Réflexions sur les causes de la liberté et de l’oppression sociale, e... ... Read more

$3.70 CAD

Simone Weil (1909-1943) professeur agrégée de philosophie. Après avoir enseigné au Puy, elle quitte la France, en 1942, allant d’abord aux Etats-Unis puis à Londres où elle travaille pour le Général de Gaulle. Atteinte de la tuberculose, elle meurt dans un sanatorium britannique, le 24 août 1943, à l’âge de 34 ans. Le livre : Réflexions sur les causes de la liberté et de l’oppression sociale, e...
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On a Short Leash

Detained in Burma

by Ron Zakreski ...

On March 24, 2011 Ron Zakreski was detained by the Burmese army fifty meters from the border of Thailand. He was held at Kheenyalee command center by Light Infantry Battalion 356 when it came under fire from the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army. Transported through conflict areas to Myawaddi he was charged and put on trial. He faced five years in notorious Insein prison. Both prisoner and guest, ... Read more

$2.69 CAD

On March 24, 2011 Ron Zakreski was detained by the Burmese army fifty meters from the border of Thailand. He was held at Kheenyalee command center by Light Infantry Battalion 356 when it came under fire from the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army. Transported through conflict areas to Myawaddi he was charged and put on trial. He faced five years in notorious Insein prison. Both prisoner and guest,
... Read more
Conspiracy Theories

by Dee Van Dyk ...

Who killed JFK? Was Jack the Ripper a member of the Freemasons? Is Skull and Bones a secret society placed to form a sinister shadow government, or is it a gathering of wealthy kids performing bizarre adolescent rituals? Are we alone in the universe? Van Dyk’s Conspiracy Theories takes a look at some of the most provocative stories of our time, and the conspiracies that shroud them. ... Read more

$5.39 CAD

Who killed JFK? Was Jack the Ripper a member of the Freemasons? Is Skull and Bones a secret society placed to form a sinister shadow government, or is it a gathering of wealthy kids performing bizarre adolescent rituals? Are we alone in the universe? Van Dyk’s Conspiracy Theories takes a look at some of the most provocative stories of our time, and the conspiracies that shroud them.
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Dog-Heart

by Diana McCaulay ...

Told in two voices, educated Jamaican English and the nation-language of the people, this dramatic novel tells the story of a well-meaning, middle-class woman and a young boy from the ghetto whom she desperately wants to help. Alternating between the perspectives of the woman and the boy, the story engages with issues of race and class, examines the complexities of relationships between people of ... Read more

$4.28 CAD

Told in two voices, educated Jamaican English and the nation-language of the people, this dramatic novel tells the story of a well-meaning, middle-class woman and a young boy from the ghetto whom she desperately wants to help. Alternating between the perspectives of the woman and the boy, the story engages with issues of race and class, examines the complexities of relationships between people of
... Read more

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