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1) Children, Not Widgets: How to Fight and Fix the Willful Miseducation of Students and the Dismantlin
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Through the analysis of congressional debates and hearings, presidential speeches, public opinion polls, and eighty-three interviews with administrators and teachers, Children, Not Widgets shows how policymakers willfully unraveled many public services, like education. The framing of government as the problem, rather than the solution, and citizens as consumers, rather than community members, justified allotting public resources to an unregulated...
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This report assesses how Indonesia is implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the subnational government (SNG) level, identifies gaps and good practices, and outlines ways to speed up progress. It assesses the funding mechanisms and robust legal frameworks governing Indonesia's SNGs and tracks a consistent pattern of progress across its provinces towards most of the SDGs. The report shows why Indonesia needs to find...
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Regnery Publishing a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Big Intel recounts the dramatic story of the rise and Cold War heroics of the CIA and the American intelligence apparatus followed by its unfortunate slide into Marxist-influenced Deep State dysfunction as BIG INTEL became BAD INTEL. How the Left Subverted the CIA and FBI Once upon a time, the FBI and the CIA fought America's enemies at home and abroad. Now they are tools of a growing police state, attacking the left's political enemies and spying...
4) Cold threat
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Ryland and St. Clair volume 2
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English
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"Twenty years ago, several people were murdered in Des Moines, and the only evidence left behind was a snowman ornament hanging ominously on a tree in the victims' front lawns. With a suspect behind bars, the killings have come to an end -- or so everyone thought. But now crimes with a similar MO are happening in a small Iowa town, and a local detective believes the killer is back and ready to strike again. With little time left on the clock before...
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Quinn and Costa thriller volume 5
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English
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Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker, finally moving past the case that upended her life. But when the accused is shot in broad daylight, the chaotic scene of the crime turns up few reliable bystanders. And one witness, a whistleblower who might be the key to everything, has disappeared. After another person close to the case is killed, it's clear that anyone who knows too much is in danger, and...
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The sudden passing of Justice Antonin Scalia shook America. After almost thirty years on the Supreme Court, Scalia had become as integral to the institution as the hallowed room in which he sat. His wisecracking interruptions during oral arguments, his unmatched legal wisdom, his unwavering dedication to the Constitution, and his blistering dissents defined his leadership role on the court and inspired new generations of policymakers and legal minds.
Now,...
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In War on Woke: Why the New McCarthyism Is More Dangerous Than the Old, Alan Dershowitz-#1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America's most respected legal scholars-warns of the danger to the future of civil liberties and equality in America.
Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America" by Politico and "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one...
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Danny Ryan trilogy volume vol 3
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman - a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny...
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Harlequin intrigue volume 2208
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Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Reviewing a murder from twenty years ago, FBI Special Agent Scott Lynley needs the last person to see the victim alive. Still haunted by her aunt's death, FBI Victim Specialist Abby Zhang is eager to help. Yet even two decades later, someone is keeping clues hidden, putting Abby in the cross fire of the Kolton Lake killer. Scott's mission is to solve the case but Abby's quickly becoming his first--and only--priority.
11) A forgotten kill
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"FBI Special Agent Daniela "Dani" Vega was seventeen when her mother murdered her father. Ten years after Dani's own damning eyewitness testimony sealed her mother's fate, she's starting to have doubts. What if she got it all wrong? A veteran NYPD homicide detective agrees to reopen the closed case on one condition-Dani must help him find a serial killer who's been operating throughout New York City for the past decade. If anyone can decipher his...
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