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    Solving the Practical and Policy Challenges

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  • Solving Procrastination

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  • Writers and Missionaries

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    Solving Procrastination

    The Science of Why We Put Things Off and How to (Finally!) Stop

    Narrated by Itamar Shatz Ph.D. ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 27 min

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  • The Rebel's Clinic

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  • Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy

    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    Statism and Anarchy is a complete English translation of the last work by the great Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin, written in 1873. Then he assails the Marxist alternative, predicting that a 'dictatorship of the proletariat' will in fact be a dictatorship over the proletariat, and will produce a new class of socialist rulers. Instead, he outlines his vision of an anarchist society and ... Read more

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  • The Education of English Language Learners

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    Series series Challenges in Language and Literacy
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