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Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
Michael Eric Dyson · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Antiracist demonstrations have been like love notes to the martyrs of racist terror and anti-Blackness. Michael Eric Dyson writes out these love notes in this powerfully illuminating, heart-wrenching, and enlightening book. Long Time Coming is right on time." "Crushingly... |
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Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice
Ellen McGarrahan · Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In 1990, Ellen McGarrahan was a young reporter for the Miami Herald when she covered the execution of Jesse Tafero, a man convicted of murdering two police officers. When it later emerged that Tafero may have been innocent, McGarrahan was appalled by her unquestioning acceptance of the state's... |
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Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
Ethan Kross · Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Tell a stranger that you talk to yourself, and you're likely to get written off as eccentric. But the truth is that we all have a voice in our head. When we talk to ourselves, we often hope to tap into our inner coach but find our inner critic instead. When we're facing a tough... |
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Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
Maurice Chammah · Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American FamilyWINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARDIn 1972, the United States Supreme Court made a surprising ruling: the country's death penalty system violated the Constitution. The backlash was swift, especially in Texas,... |
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The Mission: A True Story
David W Brown · Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful, genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep-space mission to Europa - the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our solar system - powered by a motley team of obsessives and eccentrics.When scientists discovered... |
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Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
Roy Richard Grinker · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma.For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist... |
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Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
Tom Vanderbilt · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Why do so many of us stop learning new skills as adults? Are we afraid to fail? Have we forgotten the sheer pleasure of being a beginner? Or is it simply a fact that you can't teach an old dog new tricks?Inspired by his young daughter's insatiable need to know how to do almost everything,... |
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Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five Oceans
Josh Young · Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Humankind has explored every continent on earth, climbed its tallest mountains, and gone into space. But the largest areas of our planet remain a mystery: the deep oceans. At over 36,000 feet deep, these areas closest to earth's core have remained nearly impossible to reach - until... |
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