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1) Unequal
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In a world where being different is against the law, Rue Logan lives in fear of being branded Unequal and getting disappeared like so many others. The Department of Equalization had other plans for her life, but she couldn't let that stop her. Now, she works her assigned job as a janitor by day and prowls the hospital's corridors at night, saving lives.Until she's caught.On the run from the DOE, Rue finds others like her, Unequals working in secret...
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2022.
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"Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality."--
The true story of racial inequality-- and resistance to it-- is the prologue to our present. Dyson and Favreau deliver a gripping chronicle of the struggles that shaped modern America through the stories of some of the many African American people...
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Unlike in the movies, the pursuit of justice has real consequences for real people. Sometimes the wrong people are arrested while criminals go free. In court trials, the innocent are sometimes wrongfully convicted or held responsible for a crime they didn't commit. Other times, people who actually are guilty of a crime are released or found not guilty. Some convicts may receive far more severe punishments than others who committed the same crime....
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From her early aspirations of being an accomplished pianist to her current job as a meteorologist, Morgan has found that life-much like forecasting weather patterns and tuning harpsichords-is far from an exact science. When her father, the famed painter Jon Tallis, dies unexpectedly, Morgan pushes away her husband, Rob, and the growing chasm threatens their marriage. Can Morgan find solace as an accompanist for the opera Peter Grimes? And if not in...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2016.
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Sixty years after the Supreme Court declared separate schools for black and white children unconstitutional, school segregation is making a comeback. What's behind the growing racial divide in American schools - and what's the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education? In part two, Omarina's Story, FRONTLINE revisits a student who made the most of her middle school moment.
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The Great Courses
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2015.
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Continue to enlarge your vocabulary with words relating to places, such as public venues and businesses. Then learn how to say formal commands, also known as imperatives, as well as negative commands, and practice using them in different contexts. Study ways to compare two things that are not the same. Finally, consider two effective approaches to remembering grammar rules..
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Mind-readers are being hunted, but none are more sought after than her.
Betrayed and abandoned at the altar, Casey King's trust doesn't come easily. But fleeing from small town Kentucky to the bustling city of Atlanta, Casey hopes her new job and sexy new boss, Matt Wilson will help her bounce back. Until, on her twenty-fourth birthday, she becomes a powerful mind-reader, and her promising new life turns into a desperate flight from a General...
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What if... the twins Ava and Zoe, who could hardly be distinguished from each other visually, and who could not have been more different in character, had to go through a hell of envy, jealousy, and malice?
Where does that trail lead to? To a total loss of their connection, or are they finding the lost path to each other again?
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The story is about an individual that was arrested and sentence to 25 years in prison. This person received the sentence because he did not have funds to hire an attorney. The court appointed attorney belong to a organization that paid funds for longer sentences. During the court proceeding a private eye decides to help the parents of the individual. After investigating the case they uncover the income for prison con. The con includes all phases of...
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What do equality and justice mean in the 21st century? How much importance do we give to freedom in a society sensitised to experiences of inequality? CONVOCO! discusses these and other questions under the headline Equality in an Unequal World with contributions by Paul Collier, Raji Jayaraman, Jonathan Wolff, Mathias Risse, Marietta Auer, Clemens Fuest, Francis Kéré and many more.
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Peter H. Lindert is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis. His books include Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century. He lives in Davis, California. Jeffrey G. Williamson is the Laird Bell Professor of Economics, emeritus, at Harvard University. His books include Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Both are research associates...
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"Every year, hundreds of thousands of young people pack their bags to study or volunteer abroad. Well-intentioned and curious Westerners-brought up to believe that international travel broadens our horizons-travel to low-income countries to learn about people and cultures different from their own. But while travel abroad can provide much-needed perspective, it can also be deeply unsettling, confusing, and discomforting. Travelers can find themselves...
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A development education resource designed and written by an international group of authors and educationalists. It explores inequalities and injustices in an accessible and understandable fashion, with infographics, figures, graphs, photographs and cartoons. Now in its seventh edition, it is extensively used in universities, schools, adult and youth groups and NGOs.
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Larry M. Bartels is the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs and director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University.
"We are the 99%" has quickly become the slogan of our political era as growing numbers of Americans express concern about the disappearing middle class and the ever-widening gap between the super-rich and everyone else. Has America really entered a New Gilded Age? What are...
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Samuel Bowles is Research Professor and director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, and professor of Economics at the University of Siena. He is the author of Microeconomics (Princeton); the coauthor, with Herbert Gintis, of Democracy and Capitalism; and the coeditor, with Kenneth Arrow and Steven Durlauf, of Meritocracy and Inequality (Princeton). Herbert Gintis is an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute and...
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When Elizabeth Bennet first knew Mr. Darcy, she despised him and was sure he felt the same. Angered by his pride and reserve, influenced by the lies of the charming Mr. Wickham, she never troubled herself to believe he was anything other than the worst of men-until, one day, he unexpectedly proposed.
Mr. Darcy's passionate avowal of love causes Elizabeth to reevaluate everything she thought she knew about him. What she knows is that he is rich, handsome,...
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The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. As state violations of political rights garnered attention, a commitment to material equality disappeared and market fundamentalism emerged as the dominant economic force. Samuel Moyn asks why we chose not to challenge wealth and neglected the demands of a broader social and economic justice--Provided by publisher.
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"The definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequality In Separate and Unequal, historian Steven M. Gillon offers a revelatory new history of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders--popularly known as the Kerner Commission. Convened by President Lyndon Johnson after riots in Newark and Detroit left dozens dead and thousands injured, the commission issued a report...
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This book is the first formal, empirical investigation into the law faculty experience using a distinctly intersectional lens, examining both the personal and professional lives of law faculty members. Comparing the professional and personal experiences of women of color professors with white women, white men, and men of color faculty from assistant professor through dean emeritus, Unequal Profession explores how the race and gender of individual...
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