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Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?

Police Violence and Resistance in the United States

Edited by Maya Schenwar, Joe Macaré, Alana Yu-lan Price ...

Essays and reports examining the reality of police violence against Black and brown communities in America.What is the reality of policing in the United States? Do the police keep anyone safe and secure other than the very wealthy? How do recent police killings of young Black people in the United States fit into the historical and global context of anti-blackness?This collection of reports and ... Read more

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Essays and reports examining the reality of police violence against Black and brown communities in America.What is the reality of policing in the United States? Do the police keep anyone safe and secure other than the very wealthy? How do recent police killings of young Black people in the United States fit into the historical and global context of anti-blackness?This collection of reports and
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Locked Down, Locked Out

Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better

by Maya Schenwar ...

An analysis of the U.S. prison system through real-life stories, and a look at the complex work of community-based social justice projects.Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family's experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans and decimates poor communities of color is shredding the ties that, if nurtured, could ... Read more

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An analysis of the U.S. prison system through real-life stories, and a look at the complex work of community-based social justice projects.Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family's experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans and decimates poor communities of color is shredding the ties that, if nurtured, could
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Prison by Any Other Name

The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

by Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law ...

With a new afterword from the authors, the critically praised indictment of widely embraced "alternatives to incarceration"Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But in a searing, "cogent ... Read more

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With a new afterword from the authors, the critically praised indictment of widely embraced "alternatives to incarceration"Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But in a searing, "cogent
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We Grow the World Together

Parenting Toward Abolition

Edited by Maya Schenwar, Kim Wilson ...

A vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolitionAbolition has never been a proposal to simply tear things down. As Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks, “What if abolition is something that grows?” As we struggle to build a liberatory, caring, loving, abundant future, we have much to learn from the work of birthing, raising, caring for, and loving future generations.In We Grow ... Read more

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A vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolitionAbolition has never been a proposal to simply tear things down. As Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks, “What if abolition is something that grows?” As we struggle to build a liberatory, caring, loving, abundant future, we have much to learn from the work of birthing, raising, caring for, and loving future generations.In We Grow
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Prison by Any Other Name

The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

by Maya Schenwar ...

With a new afterword from the authors, the critically praised indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration”Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But in a searing, “cogent ... Read more

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With a new afterword from the authors, the critically praised indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration”Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But in a searing, “cogent
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Locked Down, Locked Out

Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better

by Maya Schenwar ...

Narrated by Siiri Scott ...

Unabridged

7 hours 1 min

An analysis of the US prison system through real-life stories, and a look at the complex work of community-based social justice projects.Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family's experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans and decimates poor communities of color is shredding the ties that, if nurtured, could foster ... Read more

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An analysis of the US prison system through real-life stories, and a look at the complex work of community-based social justice projects.Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family's experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans and decimates poor communities of color is shredding the ties that, if nurtured, could foster
... Read more

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Prison by Any Other Name

The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

by Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law ...

Narrated by Emily Durante ...

Unabridged

9 hours 19 min

Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data-driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost-effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But many of these so-called reforms actually widen the net, weaving in new strands of punishment and control, and bringing new populations, who would ... Read more

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Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data-driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost-effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But many of these so-called reforms actually widen the net, weaving in new strands of punishment and control, and bringing new populations, who would
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How to Sell a Poison

The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT

by Elena Conis ...

Narrated by Casey Turner ...

Unabridged

12 hours 18 min

The story of an infamous poison that left toxic bodies and decimated wildlife in its wake is also a cautionary tale about how corporations stoke the flames of science denialism for profit.The chemical compound DDT first earned fame during World War II by wiping out insects that caused disease and boosting Allied forces to victory. Americans granted it a hero’s homecoming, spraying it on everything ... Read more

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The story of an infamous poison that left toxic bodies and decimated wildlife in its wake is also a cautionary tale about how corporations stoke the flames of science denialism for profit.The chemical compound DDT first earned fame during World War II by wiping out insects that caused disease and boosting Allied forces to victory. Americans granted it a hero’s homecoming, spraying it on everything
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How to Love the Universe

A Scientist’s Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World

by Stefan Klein ...

Narrated by Charles Constant ...

Unabridged

3 hours 57 min

An eye-opening celebration of the marvels of space, time, the cosmos, and moreHow to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In ten short chapters of lyrical prose—each one an ode to a breathtaking realm of discovery—Stefan Klein uses everyday objects and events as a springboard to meditate on the beauty of the underlying science ... Read more

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An eye-opening celebration of the marvels of space, time, the cosmos, and moreHow to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In ten short chapters of lyrical prose—each one an ode to a breathtaking realm of discovery—Stefan Klein uses everyday objects and events as a springboard to meditate on the beauty of the underlying science
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The True History of Merlin the Magician

by Anne Lawrence-Mathers ...

Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon ...

Unabridged

8 hours 41 min

A medieval historian examines what we really know about the man who was "Merlin the Magician" and his impact on Britain.The historical Merlin was no rough magician: he was a learned figure from the cutting edge of medieval science and adept in astrology, cosmology, prophecy, and natural magic, as well as being a seer and a proto-alchemist. His powers were convincingly real—and useful, for they ... Read more

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A medieval historian examines what we really know about the man who was "Merlin the Magician" and his impact on Britain.The historical Merlin was no rough magician: he was a learned figure from the cutting edge of medieval science and adept in astrology, cosmology, prophecy, and natural magic, as well as being a seer and a proto-alchemist. His powers were convincingly real—and useful, for they
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The End of Empire

Attila the Hun & the Fall of Rome

by Christopher Kelly ...

Narrated by Michael Page ...

Unabridged

9 hours 19 min

History remembers Attila, the leader of the Huns, as the Romans perceived him: a savage barbarian brutally inflicting terror on whoever crossed his path. Following Attila and the Huns from the steppes of Kazakhstan to the court of Constantinople, Christopher Kelly portrays Attila in a compelling new light, uncovering an unlikely marriage proposal, a long-standing relationship with a treacherous ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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History remembers Attila, the leader of the Huns, as the Romans perceived him: a savage barbarian brutally inflicting terror on whoever crossed his path. Following Attila and the Huns from the steppes of Kazakhstan to the court of Constantinople, Christopher Kelly portrays Attila in a compelling new light, uncovering an unlikely marriage proposal, a long-standing relationship with a treacherous
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The Black Church

This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...

Narrated by Dominic Hoffman ...

Unabridged

7 hours 1 min

**From the New York Times-bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices on the African-American experience, a powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community's abiding rock and its fortress.The companion book to the upcoming PBS series.**For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, segregated West Virginia town, the church was ... Read more

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**From the New York Times-bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices on the African-American experience, a powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community's abiding rock and its fortress.The companion book to the upcoming PBS series.**For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, segregated West Virginia town, the church was
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