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Statues and Storms offers a gripping insider’s account of Max Price’s tenure as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town during a transformative period in South African higher education. In the wake of the Rhodes Must Fall protests, universities across the country were engulfed in sustained and often violent demonstrations, challenging institutional cultures and sparking a global movement. This book provides a unique perspective on the protests, delving into the reasons behind the decolonizing movement’s emergence at liberal universities two decades after the democratic transition.

A collection of hactivists, hobbyists, forum-users, and maverick leaders are leading a quiet but unstoppable revolution. They are sharing everything they know, and turning knowledge into action in ways that were unimaginable even a decade ago. Driven by technology, and shaped by common values, going open has transformed the way we live. It's not so much a question of if our workplaces, schools, and colleges go open, but when.

Sancerre and Cheetos go together like milk and cookies. The science behind this unholy alliance is as elemental as acid, fat, salt, and minerals. Wine pro Vanessa Price explains how to create your own pairings while proving you don’t necessarily need fancy foods to unlock the joys of wine. Building upon the outsize success of her weekly column in Grub Street, Price offers delightfully bold wine and food pairings alongside hilarious tales from her own unlikely journey as a Kentucky girl making it in the Big Apple and in the wine business.

Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look beyond the day's news, the willingness to be alone. The shelves of the world's great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Examining the wear and tear on the books that they contain, English professor Leah Price finds scant evidence that a golden age of reading ever existed.

Are you sick and tired of not being able to improve your physical and emotional well-being? Have you tried endless other solutions, but nothing seems to work for more than a few weeks? Do you finally want to say goodbye to feeling lousy and discover something which works for you? If so, then you’ve come to the right place. You see, balancing your energy doesn’t have to be difficult.

A provocative and much-needed book, Class Dismissed paints an intimate and unflinchingly candid portrait of the challenges of undergraduate life for disadvantaged students even in the elite schools that invest millions to diversify their student body. Moreover, Jack offers guidance on how to make students’ path to graduation less treacherous—guidance colleges would be wise to follow.

On May 7, 1945, journalist Edward Kennedy bypassed military censorship to be the first to break the news of the Nazi surrender executed in Reims, France. While, at the behest of Soviet leaders, Allied authorities prohibited release of the story, Kennedy stuck to his journalistic principles and refused to manage information he believed the world had a right to know. No action by an American correspondent during the war proved more controversial.

Discover the hidden costs of a digital childhood and reshape your influence, even if you're surrounded by tech-savvy turmoil. Is your child constantly tethered to their screens, leaving you worried about their emotional and mental development? Are you struggling to set tech boundaries and fear the long-term impact on their mental health? Do you find yourself doubting whether today’s technological world is nurturing the future well-being of young brains?

Welcome to Off The Tools… I am Will Price thank you for listening.

This book is a well-rounded introduction to the principles of critical thinking. The book provides tips and steps that are easy to follow, yet very effective in solving problems of all kinds. This guide is helpful to people of all walks of life. The techniques it provides are useful - cutting across careers, businesses, political and even the social arena. After listening to this book, you will be amazed at the amount of resources you can save just by making critical thinking part of your everyday life.

Despierta, que no te engañen. Así sufre la censura un periodista en España. Así te apartan por considerarte incómodo. Cloacas, bulos, intercambio de favores muy burdos, complots entre el poder político y el económico. Así controlan tus noticias. Así es como la propaganda se carga la información. Intoxican a la opinión pública, acceden a tus datos más íntimos, te subastan en el mercado de la mentira. Así te polarizan para distraerte.

Dr. Eric Maisel, one of the world's leading experts on the issues of childhood, shares a unique exploration of the teen problems adolescents face. Maisel guides us on what it's like to inhabit the racing, often troubled realm of teenage psychology, and he provides powerful strategies to help parents and smart teens alike. You'll find a comprehensive breakdown of teenage psychology, strategies and solutions to help your smart teen reach their full potential, and a uniquely crafted listening experience for both parents and teens.

Mind, Body, Clarity with Amber Price is a podcast to discover how to live with clarity and reclaim your personal power by developing your intuition and aligning to your authentic self. This show if for you if you want to live with clarity, show up for yourself unapologetically, share your purpose with the world, and take your intuition to the next level.

After fighting a protracted legal battle, James Meredith broke the color barrier in 1962 as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. The riot that followed his arrival on campus seriously wounded scores of U.S. marshals and killed two civilians; more casualties than any other clash of the civil rights era. To restore order, the Kennedy administration dispatched thousands of soldiers to Oxford. In The Price of Defiance, Charles Eagles shows that the stunning eruption of violence resulted from the "closed society's" long defiance of the civil rights movement and federal law.

Transforming Twisted Thinking reveals the illusions to which people cling as they live in ways that distort their relationships and cause harm to others. By applying biblical insights into God's mandate for healthy relationships, Jerry Price offers a path for reforming one's life by subjecting one's thinking to the honesty and integrity God desires.

If you want to learn about the possibilities of your Alexa device or maybe you’re just curious about some neat little hacks nobody else knows about, then keep listening. With this user guide, you’ll have the ability to do anything you want with Alexa and show your friends and family how awesome she is. The goal of this guide is simple: It will teach you everything you need to know about how to properly operate Echo devices and integrate them in your daily routine.

One of the most important parts of being human is our ability to learn. Since you were a child, learning is the first thing that you unconsciously do. What you know today is because of what your mind has been doing all along, and that is learning. However, sometimes, our mind or our memory fails us. Our brain is like a piece of diamond, the more we furnish it the more glorious it becomes. Our mind, when not being subjected to exercise, will eventually lose its strength.

There are many ways to elevate your wealth and almost infinite ways to squander it. With proven techniques from Warren Buffet and his mentor, Benjamin Graham, we can harness the power of the market.

This 14-part original series from LWC Studios explores how reparations should be paid and to whom. For all episodes, transcripts and supplemental materials visit StillPayingThePricePod.com. This series was funded by a grant from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Cover art: "Gemini" by Fitgi Saint-Louis

Have you ever wondered what separates the most successful people from the rest of us? Is it superior genetics or better education? Not at all! The real reason some people are able to reach top level of performance is their reliance on brain performance. They have learned and integrated systematic thinking. They can leverage this way of thinking to produce better than average results.