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Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

Michele Norris - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project.. The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Story. Six Words. Please Send. The answers, though, have been challenging...
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Criminal Law Handbook, The: Know Your Rights, Survive the System

Paul Bergman J.D. - NOLO
Format: Paperback

The criminal justice system is complicated. Understand it and your rights. This book demystifies the complex rules and procedures of criminal law. It explains how the system works, why police, lawyers, and judges do what they do, and what suspects, defendants, and prisoners can expect....
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Renters' Rights

Janet Portman Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Sooner or later it will happen ... The landlord ignores your repair requests. Your roommates are once again late with their share of the rent. Your upstairs neighbors party all the time. The landlord won't return your security deposit. How can you deal with these problems - and others...
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti

Jake Johnston - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise and not a single elected leader holds office, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy...
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Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women's Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-first Century

Janet Dewart Bell - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author When Mary Ann Shadd Cary - the first Black woman publisher in North America - declared, "break every yoke . . . let the oppressed go free" to congregants...
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Remotely: Travels in the Binge of TV

David Thomson - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A leading film critic on the evolving world of streaming media and its impact on society The city at night under lockdown, a time of plague and anxiety. It is an exciting new age of television, the light that flutters in every cell in the city. But no one seems to be asking: What is the endless...
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The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers

Jim Morris - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the lawyer who sought justice on their behalf, and the shameful lack of protection our society affords all workers. A gripping narrative in the tradition of A Civil Action and Toms River. Working...
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Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few

Patrick Bet-David - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

What's the difference between your competitor and your enemy?. You know who your competitors are. You keep tabs on them regularly, and can list them calmly, along with their strengths and weaknesses.. But your enemies are a whole other matter. They're the haters and the doubters...
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Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

Benjamin Herold - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools. Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son....
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The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking: Leading Your Organization into the Future

Michael D. Watkins - Harper Business
Format: Hardcover

International bestselling author of The First 90 Days Michael D. Watkins presents an actionable new framework to help aspiring leaders learn to think strategically - a set of skills more necessary than ever in a world of constant change.Pattern recognition. Systems perspective. Mental agility....
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