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This book uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty and the powerful and the dispossessed. In it the author challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. He begins with the real story of what happened...
14) A Possible life
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2012
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In World War II Poland, a prisoner closes his eyes and pictures a sunlit cricket ground. Across the yard of a Victorian poorhouse, a man is too ashamed to acknowledge the son he gave away. In a 19th-century French village, a servant understands the meaning of the Bible story her master is reading. In 1971, a girl steps out of a Chevy with a song . A few years from now, in Italy, a scientist discovers links between time and the human brain, and her...
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2021.
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Foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness Fiona Hill reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia--and shows how we can return hope to our forgotten places. In this deeply personal account, she shares what she has learned, and explains that only by expanding opportunity can we save our democracy.
Fiona Hill grew up in a world of terminal decay. The last of the local mines had closed, businesses were shuttering,...
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c2012
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Sometimes it takes hundreds of years to make a single connection. Five stories transport the reader into the lives of people desperate for human connection, ranging from World War II Poland to a near-future Italy where a scientist learns how time and the human brain are connected. While not all human connections are successful, each attempt affects countless lives over the course of the centuries that pass within these pages.
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