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A history of American white male identity by the author of "So You Want to Talk About Race" imagines a merit-based, non-discriminating model while exposing the actual costs of successes defined by racial and sexual dominance. What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? Oluo shows how, throughout the last 150 years of American history, white male supremacy has wrought devastating consequences...
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Funny, perceptive, and deeply personal, Mediocre Monk follows Grant Lindsley's rocky journey toward spiritual growth, one that ultimately leads him to places he never imagined.
After the sudden death of a friend, Grant Lindsley abandons his corporate job to train as a monk in one of the strictest Buddhist traditions on earth. Lost and bereft, he believes he can find answers in the mountains of Thailand. He shaves his head and eyebrows, eats one bowl...
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El hombre mediocre está integrado por las lecciones sobre psicología del carácter que dio José Ingenieros en la cátedra de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de Buenos Aires, durante el año 1910.
En ellas se proponía comprender cómo funcionan las sociedades humanas. Para ello establecía y describía tres tipos o caracteres que según él era posible reconocer en cualquier comunidad de seres humanos:
-el idealista,
-el hombre mediocre
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This book is a compilation of stories, anecdotes, and experiences I have been the cause of, the result of, the victim of, a witness to, and a part of. They are all true. Some are unbelievable, some are unrealistic, and some are just a part of everyday life. However, every one of them, in some way, shape, or form, gave me the lessons, the knowledge, and experience I have hopefully passed on to others. This is not a self-help book or success manual....
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"If you are the kind of mom who shapes your kiddo's organic quinoa into reproductions of the Mona Lisa, do not read this book ... But if you are the kind of parent who accidentally goes ballistic on your rugrats every morning because they won't put their shoes on and then you feel super guilty about it all day so you take them to McDonald's for a special treat but really it's because you opened up your freezer and panicked because you forgot to buy...
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Get the Summary of Ijeoma Oluo's Mediocre in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments?
Through the last 150 years of American history - from the post-reconstruction South and...
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Is your life filled with bad choices, weaknesses, fears, wishes, failures, mistakes, good and bad relationships, good days and bad days all rolled into one?
Are you wishing to file down the jagged and bitter edges of your past and get rid of the gerbil ball that you're running on? Does your exhausted body still daydream about adventure?
Readers will grow spiritually in a fast-paced and confrontational world while traveling to Alaska racing with huskies...
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Mama of ten Abbie Halberstadt helps women humbly and gracefully rise to the high calling of motherhood without settling for mediocrity or losing their minds in the process.
Motherhood is a challenge. Unfortunately, our worldly culture offers moms little in the way of real help. Mamas only connect to celebrate surviving another day and to share in their misery rather than rejoice in what God has done and to build each other up in hard times. There...
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Are you having trouble finding your way to live the best version of your life?
Are you:
• stuck in your head?
• unsatisfied?
• burned out?
• bored?
• complaining a lot?
• intrigued in becoming your best version?
Well, I have designed a roadmap for you!
I went through my journey and discovered how to live my version of life. Which is way more exciting than the mediocre one I had before.
I have created this book for you so you can...
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Average is extraordinary.
What if we, stopped measuring ourselves by the world's yardstick? What if we, pursued our own dreams and not the dreams we have been, fed by this culture? What if we, decided our lives are extraordinary just as they are?
This manifesto is Kirsten Wreggitt's reminder to stop striving for the world's goals and dreams. It is, filled with touchstones that are her mental prompts to end her feelings of lack and get on with living....
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Do you crave SUSPENSE?
Do you seek ACTION?
Do you love a MYSTERY?
Do you long for ROMANCE?
Do you yearn for VIOLENCE?
Do you have a lust for GORE?
Or...
Do you just want to LAUGH?
Detective Joseph Quincy Kingly brings it all in shovels.
Except for the gore. And there's not much romance. Some mystery. A little violence here and there. The suspense is the time between picking up this book and reading it. So … don't let the suspense continue....
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Normally, we come to the world from parents who are not educated in the way they raise us. Often, our parents dump their pathology on us, and keep us struggling in our lives to free ourselves from such burdens. Following that, we enter the outside world and we observe a lot of dysfunctions in society. We then continue to sail through the journey of our lives with painful dysfunctions. We become confused, frustrated, less happy, and disappointed in...
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Join Flex on His Quest to Be Cool
Like most middle schoolers, Flex's mind is on a million different things-school, sports, friends, girls (of course), and yeah, he's thinking about God too. More than any of these thoughts, Flex is obsessed with one thing-being cool.
But, how can Flex attain awesomeness when he's so amazingly average at, well...EVERYTHING?
Football could be his ticket out of seventh-grade obscurity, but then Coach sticks him with a...
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Whiffy Newton, dont le vrai prénom est Alfred, ne ressemble guère à un super détective amateur.
Ses vêtements sont trop courts et trop serrés, il n'est jamais choisi en premier pour former une équipe de sport et sa vision est nulle.
Mais il peut toujours compter sur ses deux meilleurs amis Doreen et Paz pour former une équipe de detectives nommée l'Agence.
Jusqu'à maintenant, l'Agence n'a mené que de petites enquêtes discrètes pour venir...
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Disciple. Beyond Mediocrity addresses the problem of mediocrity found in many churches that are locked into the status quo. In this book Dr. Byrne portrays the life of a disciple in strict accordance with what the scriptures teach and as an essential element in the renewal of our faith before the Lord returns
At the heart of Dr. Byrne's examination is the question of mediocrity as it has plagued churches and Christians without number. Dr. Byrne exposes...
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Don't ever settle! When you don't settle, you live a life of fulfilling purpose. You don't waste any time because you understand you might not have the next hour, minute, or second. You may not get it the next day. Your mind is made up to living a life of satisfaction to the point where when God gives direction, that's where you go, without hesitation.
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Hay verdades que dichas en un momento inoportuno provocan incendios. Así piensa Nino González, que prepara el relevo generacional en la empresa familiar que dirige. Todos consideran a Carmen, la menor de sus dos hijos, la más adecuada para sustituirlo, hasta que la muerte de Iluminado Arlaiz, suegro de Nino, trunca los planes y pone al descubierto una venganza que mueve a Carmen a indagar en la historia familiar. Los secretos que todos ocultan...
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Si los de arriba no cuestionan ni imaginan nada, ¿a qué podemos aspirar?
El político ambivalente afín a progresistas y conservadores; el profesor de universidad que ya no investiga, sino que rellena formularios burocráticos; el reportero que encubre los escándalos fiscales y hace ruido en la prensa amarillista o el artista revolucionario, pero subvencionado.
El rigor y la exigencia han dejado paso al esquema carente de referentes que inspira...
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