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Cops, Cameras, and Crisis: The Potential and the Perils of Police Body-Worn Cameras
Michael D. White - NYU Press
Format: Paperback
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2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineThe first expert and comprehensive analysis of the surprising impact of body-worn cameras . Following the tragic deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and others at the hands of police, interest in body-worn cameras for local, state, and federal... |
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Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade
Nathaniel Rich - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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We live at a time in which scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and multinational corporations conspire to poison the blood of every living creature. No rock, leaf,... |
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Looking for Miss America: A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood
Margot Mifflin - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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From an author praised for writing "delicious social history" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals -- and how the pageant, nearing its one hundredth anniversary, serves as an unintended indicator... |
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Finding Joy on Death Row: Unexpected Lessons from Lives We Discarded
Dewey Williams - Dexterity
Format: Paperback
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Based on the sermon series that garnered top honors from Yale Divinity School, Finding Joy on Death Row is the powerful story of a broken preacher's transformative experience learning about joy from Death Row prisoners, combined with dramatic handwritten responses from more than twenty... |
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The Weirdest People in the World
Henrich, Jospeh - FARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX
Format: Hardcover
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Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, youre rather psychologically peculiar.
Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented,... |
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