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We have lost the plot when it comes to migration. In our collective consciousness, the term 'migration' conjures up images of hordes of refugees fleeing 'their' country, escaping on rafts and coming to invade 'ours'. When we think of migration, we think of (largely unwanted) immigration and its ills.
We've got it all wrong.
Far from being abnormal, the act of going in search of a better life is at the core of the human experience. And now a new kind of nomad is emerging. What used to be a movement largely from east to west, south to north, developing to developed country is becoming more of a multilateral phenomenon with each passing day. Young people from everywhere are moving everywhere. Or rather, they are moving to where they expect to improve their lives and are turning the world into a beauty contest of cities and regions and companies vying to attract them. They are doing so because movement has become a key to their emancipation. After centuries of becoming sedentary, the future of humanity and the key to its enlightenment in the 21st century lies in re-embracing nomadism. Migration fosters the qualities that will allow our children to flourish and succeed. Our times require more migration, not less.
Part memoir, part generational manifesto, The New Nomad is both the chronicle of this revolution and a call to embrace it.
The richest prize in racing. The perfect motive to commit a crime
... Jeff Hinkley, a British Horseracing Authority investigator, has
been seconded to the US Federal Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency
(FACSA) where he has been asked to find a mole in their
organisation, an informant who is passing on confidential
information to fix races. Jeff goes in search of answers, taking on
an undercover role as a groom on the backstretch at Belmont Park
racetrack in New York. But he discovers far more than he was
bargaining for, finding himself as the meat in the sandwich between
FACSA and corrupt individuals who will stop at nothing, including
murder, to capture the most elusive and lucrative prize in the
world - the Triple Crown.
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Moonlight Serenade (DVD)
Amy Adams, Alec Newman, Scott G Anderson, JB Blanc, Moon Bloodgood, …
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Musical drama in which a pair of aspiring musicians with
unglamorous day jobs team up in a bid to find success. Nate (Alec
Newman) works in the financial services industry during the day,
identifying struggling companies in order to bet against them on
the stock market and bring home profit. Aware of the job's inherent
unpleasantness, he seeks refuge at night playing the piano and in
his dreams of life as a professional musician. One night, while
playing his music, he hears someone singing along on the street
outside. It turns out to be Chloe (Amy Adams), a cloakroom worker
from the nearby jazz club who also dreams of a better life.
Recognising the beauty of Chloe's voice, Nate suggests that the
pair marry their talents and become a musical duo. Will their
musical relationship develop into something more?
Instant New York Times bestseller "Howard Zinn on acid or some
bullsh*t like that." -Tim Heidecker The creators of the cult-hit
podcast Chapo Trap House deliver a manifesto for everyone who feels
orphaned and alienated-politically, culturally, and economically-by
the lanyard-wearing Wall Street centrism of the left and the
lizard-brained atavism of the right: there is a better way, the
Chapo Way. In a guide that reads like "a weirder, smarter, and
deliciously meaner version of The Daily Show's 2004 America (The
Book)" (Paste), Chapo Trap House shows you that you don't have to
side with either sinking ships. These self-described "assholes from
the internet" offer a fully ironic ideology for all who feel
politically hopeless and prefer broadsides and tirades to reasoned
debate. Learn the "secret" history of the world, politics, media,
and everything in-between that THEY don't want you to know and
chart a course from our wretched present to a utopian future where
one can post in the morning, game in the afternoon, and podcast
after dinner without ever becoming a poster, gamer, or podcaster. A
book that's "as intellectually serious and analytically original as
it is irreverent and funny" (Glenn Greenwald, New York Times
bestselling author of No Place to Hide) The Chapo Guide to
Revolution features illustrated taxonomies of contemporary liberal
and conservative characters, biographies of important thought
leaders, "never before seen" drafts of Aaron Sorkin's Newsroom
manga, and the ten new laws that govern Chapo Year Zero (everyone
gets a dog, billionaires are turned into Soylent, and logic is
outlawed). If you're a fan of sacred cows, prisoners being taken,
and holds being barred, then this book is NOT for you. However, if
you feel disenfranchised from the political and cultural nightmare
we're in, then Chapo, let's go...
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