Freedom House

In 1958, Ahmad Chalabi’s wealthy Shiite family was exiled from Iraq after a revolution that ultimately put Saddam Hussein in power. The young Chalabi devoted his life to restoring his family to prominence. His first coup attempt was in 1963 at age nineteen, while on a school break from MIT. His next was aided by Iranian intelligence. But as the years passed and Saddam stayed in power, Chalabi made an audacious decision: he needed the support of both Iran and its powerful archenemy, the United States.

Our lives are being choreographed by forces that want something from us. Everything from ingrained family values to mind-altering algorithms create our foundations, warp how we see the world, manipulate our decisions, and dictate our beliefs. Yet rarely do we question these everyday influences of our modern times even as we go further down the path of unwell, unhappy, and unhinged.

My journey is one of soaring to heights of ecstatic experience and diving to devastating depths, exploring the caverns of my soul, and shedding much of what I knew to be myself along the way. I share what I have learned from my own experience. Ever since I can remember I have wanted to know why human beings suffer, what causes this ache in the soul and the longing to be free. I have come to recognize that as human beings, we are on an evolutionary journey. I call it the “Alchemy of Awakening.” Each one of us goes through rites of passage, times of initiation by Life itself, testing ...

A finales de marzo de 1944, a medida que las tropas soviéticas se adentran en Ucrania, Emil y Adeline Martel se ven obligados a tomar una agónica decisión: ¿deben esperarlas y arriesgarse a ser enviados a Siberia? ¿O seguir a regañadientes a los peligrosos oficiales nazis que han jurado protegerlos? Los Martel son una de las muchas familias de ascendencia alemana cuyos antepasados han trabajado la tierra en Ucrania durante más de un siglo. Pero tras vivir bajo el régimen de terror de Stalin, la joven pareja decide que su mejor opción es huir en retirada junto a los nazis.

Peace is UN’s raison d’être, the UN Secretary-General Guterres said - around the globe, “peace is the missing piece” as conflicts rage, divisions grow and polarization deepens. Very good news: UN Secretary-General António Guterres; Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi; Pope Francis; Indonesian President Joko Widodo; King Abdullah II of Jordan; Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva; President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa; Prince Albert II of Monaco; President of the Republic of Senegal Macky Sall; Chairperson of the African Union and President of the Comoros, Azali ...

A memoir and a call to action, this intimate look at America’s long-standing struggle to adequately educate vulnerable children offers valuable insights for effecting change in families, communities, and nationwide.

Conservative shock-mistress Ann Coulter continues her pillorying of American liberals with a follow-up to Slander. In an argument that poses a challenge to conventional interpretations of the First Amendment, she argues that because liberals are wrong on every issue concerning political analysis or policy prescription, their politics amount to treason.

Do you know what your money story is - your personal set of beliefs and experiences around money that directly influence how you earn, save and spend? Could your story be holding you back from the financial life you dream of? Meet 25 incredible real-life Money Diarists who are digging deep, opening up and sharing their intimate money stories with finance expert Victoria Devine - to lift the lid on how money really works in our lives so we can all understand it better.

From acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis and Dissent and the Supreme Court a history of affirmative action from its beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to the first use of the term in 1935 with the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act (the Wagner Act) to 1961 and John F. Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925, mandating that federal contractors take "affirmative action" to ensure that there be no discrimination by "race, creed, color, or national origin" down to today’s American society.

In the summer of 2011, Meghan McCain and Michael Ian Black embarked on a balls-out, cross-country tour. Along the way, they spoke to politicians, gun lovers, abortion-rights advocates and opponents, gay parents, flag burners, Muslims, poker players, Tea Partiers, Minutemen, veterans, teen moms, bikers, fast-food workers, and a hooker or two. They toured the White House. They fired semiautomatic weapons. They stopped and ate at every Olive Garden along the way. But mostly they talked to each other.

In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African-American seamstress, had no idea she was changing history when, fed up and tired, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a bus in segregated Alabama. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail and triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr. into the national spotlight. Who was she, before and after her historic act, and how did that act sound the death knell for Jim Crow?

Life is not easy. For many of us, the daily struggle has been constant throughout our lives. Our society teaches us to cope with our realities by avoiding, distracting, numbing or simply changing ourselves and accepting what it promises will make us happy. The “Fake World”.

Finding that higher understanding and appreciation of what makes us, fundamentally us, will provide the tools required for transformational growth in our existence and pave the way for supreme happiness every day. Taking a deep look into the personal and sacred story of the author Jessica Tietjen, Fiercely Cherished Beings describes her arduous journey, how she was aided by the insights of the divine, and how these messages evolved into powerful lessons we all can learn from

Highly Sensitive, Understanding your Gift of Spiritual Sensitivity speaks to five areas of difficulty for highly sensitive people: 1. Difficulties with the design 2. Difficulty hearing God and being confident in that hearing 3. Trust 4. Boundaries 5. Sense of worth and belonging It gives practical guidelines to sort through a jumble of sensory data--helps you sort "me from thee!" It gives strategies to build or repair inner structures It provides help to rein life in so it becomes manageable It takes you from A-Z in scripture to show how God sees the believer Companion volume to The Mystery...

Veteran White House reporter April Ryan thought she had seen everything in her two decades as a White House correspondent. And then came the Trump administration. In Under Fire, Ryan takes us inside the confusion and chaos of the Trump White House to understand how she and other reporters adjusted to the new normal. She takes us inside the policy debates, the revolving door of personnel appointments, and what it is like when she, as a reporter asking difficult questions, finds herself in the spotlight, becoming part of the story.

In January 2007, Deval Patrick became the first Black governor of the state of Massachusetts, one of only two Black governors elected in American history. But that was just one triumphant step in an improbable life that began in a poor tenement on the South Side of Chicago, taking Patrick from a chaotic childhood to an elite boarding school in New England, from a sojourn doing relief work in Africa to the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies, and then to a career in politics.

21 Days to a Stronger, Happier You! If there’s one thing you need to know in this world, it’s who you are in Jesus. It’s not enough just to know who you are because on your own you face limitations. You may even be tempted at times to feel overwhelmed, unworthy, and defeated. So take 21 Days to Discover Who You Are in Jesus! Author and teacher Connie Witter shares 21 short devotions that will encourage and inspire you with truths from God’s Word. You’ll daily be reminded that because of Jesus you are loved, forgiven, healed, accepted, victorious, favored, and blessed.

Bartlett, el impune, está armado con entrevistas, documentos reveladores, datos duros amargos, testimonios de personalidades cercanas a Bartlett y confidencias periodísticas. El libro muestra el autoritarismo, complicidades y corruptelas de este político ultranacionalista que, con AMLO, quien lo escucha sumiso y lo obedece, son actores principales de la ruina política y económica que soporta México.

La década de 1933 a 1943 marcó el capítulo más triste de la Europa moderna. En medio del horror, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Ayn Rand y Hannah Arendt, cuatro de las figuras más influyentes del siglo XX, mostraron lo que significa llevar una vida verdaderamente emancipada y, al mismo tiempo, desarrollaron sus ideas visionarias sobre la relación entre el individuo y la sociedad, el hombre y la mujer, el sexo y el género, la libertad y el totalitarismo y Dios y la humanidad.

El primer título de esta nueva e interesante colección, Destino, libertad y alma: ¿Cuál es el sentido de la vida?, explora preguntas tales como: ¿existe realmente algo como el alma? Y si es así, ¿en que consiste? ¿Dónde encajaría el concepto de karma? ¿Tiene mi vida un sentido o una finalidad especial?