Tag: Promise

Free Download Frederick E. Hoxie, "A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920"
English | 2001 | pages: 377 | ISBN: 0803273274 | PDF | 0,9 mb
"This is an important book. In the latter nineteenth century, diverse and influential elements in white America combined forces to settle the ‘Indian question’ through assimilation. . . . The results were the essentially treaty-breaking Dawes Act of 1887, related legislation, and dubious court decisions. Schoolteachers and missionaries were dispatched to the reservations en masse. Eventual ‘citizenship’ without functional rights was given Native Americans; the Indians lost two-thirds of reservation land as it had existed before the assimilationist campaign. . . . With insight and skill that go well beyond craft, Hoxie has admirably defined issues and motives, placed economic/political/social interaction into cogent perspective, brought numerous Anglo and Indian individuals and organizations to life, and set forth important lessons."-Choice. "This significant study of Indian-white relations during a complex time in national politics deserves close attention."-American Indian Quarterly. "Important and intellectually challenging . . . This volume goes far to fill a large gap in the history of United States Indian policy."-Journal of American History. Frederick E. Hoxie is director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library. He coedited (with Joan Mark) E. Jane Gay’s With the Nez Percés: Alice Fletcher in the Field, 1889-92 (Nebraska 1981).

Free Download Matt Bennett, "The Promise: The Families of Sandy Hook and the Long Road to Gun Safety"
English | 2013 | ASIN: B0BL8473BX | EPUB | pages: 27 | 0.3 mb
Bennett chronicles the attempts of the families with children who were shot at Sandy Hook Elementary to change gun laws and explains why it is so difficult to pass effective legislation to limit gun sales. THE BROOKINGS ESSAY: In the spirit of its commitment to high-quality, independent research, the Brookings Institution has commissioned works on major topics of public policy by distinguished authors, including Brookings scholars. The Brookings Essay is a multi-platform product aimed to engage readers in open dialogue and debate. The views expressed, however, are solely those of the author. Available in ebook only.

Free Download From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech by Payal Arora, Charles Hayes
English | September 3, 2024 | ISBN: 0262049309 | 200 pages | PDF | 2.85 Mb
A radical paradigm shift in the way we think about AI and tech, taking hope and inspiration from the aspirational users of new technologies around the world.

Free Download Beyond Efficiency: The Spiritual Promise of the Digital Revolution by Anelly Aya
English | July 8, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CBHNH46Z | 89 pages | EPUB | 0.13 Mb
Beyond Efficiency – The Spiritual Promise of the Digital Revolution" explores the intersection of technology and spirituality, unveiling the transformative potential of the digital age in fostering personal growth, collective evolution, and the realization of our spiritual essence. In an era characterized by rapid technological advancements and a relentless pursuit of efficiency, this book invites readers to transcend the materialistic paradigm and embrace a deeper understanding of the digital revolution – one that aligns technology with our highest values and aspirations. Through its exploration of diverse themes such as mindful engagement, expanded consciousness, ethical considerations, and digital empowerment, the book illuminates the path towards a harmonious future where technology becomes a catalyst for spiritual awakening and the realization of our interconnectedness.

Free Download We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D6WKB1LZ | 2024 | 17 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 494 MB
Author: Mara Kardas-Nelson
Narrator: Nene Nwoko
In the mid-1970s, Muhammad Yunus, an American-trained Bangladeshi economist, met a poor female stool maker who needed money to expand her business. In an act known as the beginning of microfinance, Yunus lent $27 to forty-two women, hoping small credit would help them to pull themselves out of poverty. Soon, Yunus’s Grameen Bank was born, and very small, often high-interest loans for poor people took off. But there are mounting concerns that these small loans are as likely to bury poor people in debt as they are to pull them from poverty, with borrowers facing consequences such as jail time and forced land sales. Hundreds have even reportedly committed suicide.

Free Download Unstuck: 90 Days of Inspiration, Encouragement, and the Promise of New Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNDDZZ8L | 2024 | 4 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 231 MB
Author: Kimberly Jones, Real Talk Kim
Narrator: Real Talk Kim
Wake Up, Get Unstuck, and Go Where God Is Leading You. Pain and regret tell you that you can’t move forward in life. The truth is, you’re only stuck if you stop moving-and Unstuck is the book you need to keep moving. In Unstuck pastor and life coach Real Talk Kim reminds you-as only she can-that staying stuck takes as much energy as moving forward. So why not move forward? Packed with hope, inspiration, and Real Talk Kim’s pithy wisdom, Unstuck gives you a daily dose of encouragement to take one more step toward the incredible future God has for you.

Free Download This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CXKPZHP4 | 2024 | 25 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 646 MB
Author: Matthew Lockwood
Narrator: Mark Meadows
How have those who arrived on Britain’s shores shaped its history? Refugees seeking to reach Britain today often face perilous journeys, impossible bureaucracy and acidic public opinion. But this hasn’t always been the way. For most of our history, Great Britain cherished its outward image as a safe haven for those displaced by religious persecution, political violence or economic crisis – an island of stability in the midst of a violent world. In This Land of Promise, migration scholar Matthew Lockwood overturns many popular modern-day misconceptions about Britain’s history of immigration. Exiles and refugees have been not only a constant presence in Britain across the centuries but also intrinsic to shaping Britain as it is today.

Free Download Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D9WTY6LS | 2024 | 17 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 510 MB
Author: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Narrator: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde. We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde’s teachings on "the creative power of difference" may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today. Lorde’s understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a planet in transformation.

Free Download Urs Gasser, "Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0465021972 | PDF | pages: 308 | 34.2 mb
In Interop, technology experts John Palfrey and Urs Gasser explore the immense importance of interoperability – the standardization and integration of technology – and show how this simple principle will hold the key to our success in the coming decades and beyond.

Free Download David Naguib Pellow, "Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement"
English | ISBN: 0816687773 | 2014 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 552 KB
When in 2001 Earth Liberation Front activists drove metal spikes into hundreds of trees in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, they were protesting the sale of a section of the old-growth forest to a timber company. But ELF’s communiqué on the action went beyond the radical group’s customary brief. Drawing connections between the harms facing the myriad animals who make their home in the trees and the struggles for social justice among ordinary human beings resisting exclusion and marginalization, the dispatch declared, "all oppression is linked, just as we are all linked," and decried the "patriarchal nightmare" in the form of "techno-industrial global capitalism."