Tag: Theft

Rooted The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CKM2M93Y | 2024 | 8 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Brea Baker
Narrator: Brea Baker

Why is less than 1% of rural land in the U.S. owned by Black people? An acclaimed writer and activist explores the impact of land theft and violent displacement on racial wealth gaps, arguing that justice stems from the literal roots of the earth. To understand the contemporary racial wealth gap, we must first unpack the historic attacks on Indigenous and Black land ownership. From the moment that colonizers set foot on Virginian soil, a centuries-long war was waged, resulting in an existential dilemma: Who owns what on stolen land? Who owns what with stolen labor? To answer these questions, we must confront one of this nation’s first sins: stealing, hoarding, and commodifying the land. Research suggests that between 1910 and 1997, Black Americans lost about 90% of their farmland.

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Grand Theft AI [Audiobook]


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English | July 23, 2024 | ASIN: B0BWFR1179 | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 32m | 585 MB
Author: James Cox | Narrator: Troy Baker
San Francisco, 2051. Rising like neo-Shanghai over the Bay, a labyrinth of quantum accelerators, hologram dreams, and fiercely regulated androids. Forget powder, pills, or bud-kids get high slotting wafers of data under the ear, and they’ll pay fat rypto for the best. At the hottest nightclub in the city … the Fang.
Baz Covane is a battle-scarred thief who sticks to small-time bots. Ria Rose is the underworld "fixer" with a big-time score that could easily get ’em both killed. ‘Cuz the Fang’s psychotic kingpin Otto Rex has a vault with more security than a fusion reactor. And the glass inside is priceless-enough to set up Baz, Ria, and their crack team of cyber-misfits on the white sands of Tahiti forever.

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Grand Theft AI


Free Download Grand Theft AI by James Cox
English | July 23, 2024 | ISBN: 9798200682133, ASIN: B0BVF6DT2J | True EPUB | 378 pages | 4.6 MB
San Francisco, 2051. Rising like neo-Shanghai over the Bay, a labyrinth of quantum accelerators, hologram dreams, and fiercely regulated androids. Forget powder, pills, or bud-kids get high slotting wafers of data under the ear, and they’ll pay fat ¢rypto for the best. At the hottest nightclub in the city … the Fang.

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Grand Theft Jesus The Hijacking of Religion in America


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English | 2009 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0307395804, 0307395782 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
"Jesus never wrote a book, but I recognize his handwriting in Grand Theft Jesus. Like Jesus, McElvaine uses lively illustrations and a serious sense of humor to cleanse the temple of exclusive and exploitative religion."

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Plunder Napoleon’s Theft of Veronese’s Feast [Audiobook]


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English | June 08, 2021 | ASIN: B09581KQK6 | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 54m | 581 MB
Author: Cynthia Saltzman | Narrator: Suzanne Toren
Cynthia Saltzman’s Plunder recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese’s "Wedding Feast at Cana," a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of the young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797. Painted in 1563 during the Renaissance, the picture was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. In 1801, the Veronese went on exhibition at the Louvre, the new public art museum founded during the Revolution in the former palace of the French kings.
As Saltzman tells the larger story of Napoleon’s looting of Italian art and its role in the creation of the Louvre, she reveals the contradictions of his character: his thirst for greatness – to carry forward the finest aspects of civilization – and his ruthlessness in getting whatever he sought. After Napoleon’s 1815 defeat at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington and the Allies forced the French to return many of the Louvre’s plundered paintings and sculptures. Nevertheless, "The Wedding Feast at Cana" remains in Paris to this day, hanging directly across from the Mona Lisa.

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Identity Theft Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0C7RJTR4T | 2023 | 8 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 246 MB
Author: Debra E. Meyerson, Danny Zuckerman
Narrator: Julia Whelan

Identity Theft centers on Debra’s experience: her stroke, her extraordinary efforts to recover, and her journey to redefine herself. But she also draws on her skills as a social scientist, sharing stories from several dozen fellow survivors, family members, friends, colleagues, therapists, and doctors she has met and interviewed. By sharing this diversity of experiences, Debra highlights how every person is different, every stroke is different, and every recovery is different. She provides a valuable look at the broad possibilities for successfully navigating the challenging physical recovery-and the equally difficult emotional journey toward rebuilding one’s identity and a rewarding life after a trauma like stroke.

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