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The U.S. Constitution and the Separation of Powers


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English | 2018 | ISBN: 1538301741, 1538301733 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 7.7 mb
Putting the three branches into historical context is important for understanding them, but equally important is illuminating the testing ground for their formation and solidification as current rules and regulations. Governments are fluid entities, and even written documents can be amended and changed out of careful consideration, observation, and sometimes necessity. More closely than the rest of the books in this series, this text shines a light on previous, documented changes to the written record underpinning the U.S. government, the U.S. Constitution, and how they came to be made.

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This Supergirl Has No Powers


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English | 2017 | ISBN: 1543061400 | EPUB | pages: 302 | 0.5 mb
In a school for super powered, supernatural students, one doesn’t fit in. She comes from the most prestigious family well known for their superpowers, yet Winter Mangalow is a normal girl. Her family all keep telling her that one day her powers would shine through. Now at the age of seventeen almost eighteen she no longer believes them. Her school life is hell with everyone looking down on her because of her lack of powers. With her Dad the Principal, it meant she couldn’t even attend a different school. Both the bane of her existence and the only joy in her day is one Caspian Anderson, the most powerful student in the school. When at school he acts like the biggest, most arrogant jerk she had ever known, but Winter has a secret, she knows Caspian very well. He may not acknowledge her at school, but every afternoon he was all hers. Caspian was the best friend that any girl could want. He was sweet, kind and funny. He never let the fact she had no powers bother him then at all. With the arrival of Zeke Worthington, her life turned into disarray. He understood her; he knew what it felt like to be the outsider. He told her he had come from a place where everyone misunderstood him. Zeke seemed immensely happy to meet Winter, even though he befriended Caspian too. Why Caspian had a problem with it, Winter doesn’t understand. It wasn’t like he went out of his way to be friends with her during school hours. Even as Winter and Zeke move closer, Caspian becomes unhappy and agitated with her. She can’t change things, after all, in the long run, all she can prove is that she has no powers, but maybe she will be surprised.

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Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1947


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English | ISBN: 1498551955 | 2018 | 206 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
What has been the role of rising powers in the Arab-Israeli conflict? What does this tell us about rising powers and conflict management as well as rising powers’ behavior in the world more generally? This book studies the way that five rising powers-Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, the BRICS countries-have approached the conflict since it first became internationalized in 1947.

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Powers, Parts and Wholes


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English | ISBN: 1032288566 | 2023 | 260 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This volume offers a fresh exploration of the parts-whole relations within a power and among powers. While the metaphysics of powers has been extensively examined in the literature, powers have yet to be studied from the perspective of their mereology.

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Other Powers the Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull


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English | 1999 | pages: 560 | ISBN: 0060953322, 0394555368 | EPUB | 14,6 mb
Barbara Goldsmith’s portrait of suffragette Victoria Woodhull and her times was hailed by George Plimpton as "a beautifully written biography of a remarkable woman" and by Gloria Steinem as "more memorable than a dozen histories."

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The Powers of the False Reading, Writing, Thinking beyond Truth and Fiction


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English | 2014 | ISBN: 0810130041 | 278 pages | PDF | 1.35 Mb
Can literature make it possible to represent histories that are otherwise ineffable? Making use of the Deleuzian concept of "the powers of the false," Doro Wiese offers readings of three novels that deal with the Shoah, with colonialism, and with racialized identities. She argues that Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated, Richard Flanagan’s Gould’s Book of Fish, and Richard Powers’s The Time of Our Singing are novels in which a space for unvoiced, silent, or silenced difference is created. Seen through the lens of Deleuze and his collaborators’ philosophy, literature is a means for mediating knowledge and affects about historical events. Going beyond any simple dichotomy between true and untrue accounts of what "really" happened in the past, literature’s powers of the false incite readers to long for a narrative space in which painful or shameful stories can be included.

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