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Gaslight The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America’s Energy Future [Audiobook]


Free Download Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America’s Energy Future (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D6WLH1NX | 2024 | 11 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 306 MB
Author: Jonathan Mingle
Narrator: Daniel Henning

Imagine one day you receive a letter in the mail that informs you that a large energy company is planning to build a massive pipeline through your property. That they have the legal right to do so, whether you like it or not, because this project is in the "public interest"-because the pipeline will be carrying natural gas, the so-called "bridge fuel" that politicians have been peddling for decades as the path to a clean, green energy future. This was the gist of the letter that Dominion Energy sent to thousands of residents living along the path of its proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline in 2014, setting off an epic, six-year battle that eventually led all the way to the Supreme Court.

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Represent The Unfinished Fight for the Vote


Free Download Represent: The Unfinished Fight for the Vote by Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Favreau
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 0759557063 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 24.75 MB
Read about the electrifying and continuing fight for voting rights-and discover your place in it-in this dramatic exploration of American democracy, from renowned thought leader Michael Eric Dyson and widely celebrated author Marc Favreau.

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Moynihan’s Moment America’s Fight Against Zionism as Racism


Free Download Gil Troy, "Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight Against Zionism as Racism"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0199920303 | PDF | pages: 386 | 24.1 mb
On November 10, 1975, the General Assembly of United Nations passed Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism a form of racism. Afterward, a tall man with long, graying hair, horned-rim glasses, and a bowtie stood to speak. He pronounced his words with the rounded tones of a Harvard academic, but his voice shook with outrage: "The United States rises to declare, before the General Assembly of the United Nations, and before the world, that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act."

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By the Fire We Carry The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land


Free Download By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 0063112043 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 21.1 MB
A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation’s earliest days, and a small-town murder in the 1990s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land more than a century later

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Among Enemies A Young Woman’s Fight for Survival in Nazi Germany Based on the Writings of Marguerite Kirchner


Free Download Marguerite Kirchner, "Among Enemies: A Young Woman’s Fight for Survival in Nazi Germany: Based on the Writings of Marguerite Kirchner"
English | ISBN: 1449090567 | 2010 | 224 pages | EPUB | 254 KB
This first-person narrative tells the true story of Marguerite Kirchner, whose multicultural family was living in Germany when WWII began. We have remained as true as possible to Marguerite’s account which reveals to readers the cruelty of war and the innocence of past generations. As a child, her family lived a luxurious life. Her mother was a French aristocrat, and her father a wealthy Austrian diplomat, and so her story begins. Always defiant, Margie was forced into a labor camp for dissident teenagers. She attended the University of Berlin during the Berlin bombings, became a young teacher in the Polish war zone, was captured as a prisoner of war and escaped, and after the war, worked for the Allied Forces, helping repatriate those who had been displaced. Her story demonstrates cunning and great courage. She went from affluence to poverty and survived the war on her wits alone, dependent on only herself and the skills she’d acquired from traveling with her family. Only after the war does she reflect on what her single-minded struggle for survival cost her, and a new journey, of a very different kind, begins.

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Unseen Enemies The Fight to Control Mosquitoes, Lice, Flies and Other Deadly Insects in World War II


Free Download Emory C. Cushing, "Unseen Enemies: The Fight to Control Mosquitoes, Lice, Flies and Other Deadly Insects in World War II"
English | 2020 | ASIN: B083NJBJML | EPUB | pages: 160 | 2.1 mb
Unseen Enemies: The Fight to Control Mosquitoes, Lice, Flies and Other Deadly Insects in World War II, first published in 1958 as Entomology in World War II, is the fascinating, little-told story of the vital role played by scientists to control insects and insect-related diseases during the Second World War. In both the European and Pacific theaters of the war, insect-related diseases were a constant danger to soldiers and civilian, ranging from skin irritations to severe, life-threatening fevers of dengue or malaria, to potentially epidemic-causing plagues. Unseen Enemies provides a look at the nature of the most common insects affecting humans – mosquitoes, lice, mites, flies, and fleas, and discusses the often new and innovative compounds and measures developed during the war for control. Fortunately, there are many success stories discussed in the book which aided the Allied war effort, and countless veterans would give thanks for the work done by these researchers to make their grim task safer and more comfortable.

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The Skinny My messy, hopeful fight for full recovery from anorexia


Free Download The Skinny: My messy, hopeful fight for full recovery from anorexia by Sheri Segal Glick
English | June 20th, 2023 | ISBN: 1738670244 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 0.46 MB
The Skinny challenges our beliefs about diet culture, body image and eating disorders as we follow Sheri in her fight to fully recover from anorexia with her signature wit, wry humour, and unflinching honesty.

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The Power of Black Excellence HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy (Studies in Postwar American Political Development)


Free Download The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy (Studies in Postwar American Political Development) by Deondra Rose
English | September 3, 2024 | ISBN: 0197776590 | 344 pages | EPUB | 1.75 Mb
A powerful and revealing history of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), which have been essential for empowering Black citizens and for the ongoing fight for democracy in the US.

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