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  • Crime and No Punishment

    Wealth, Power, and Violence in America

    How concentrated economic and political power in America protects elites and fosters violence of all kindsThe United States is an exceptionally violent country, increasingly unable or unwilling to stem violence in its many forms. A growing corporate crime wave has gone unprosecuted and unpunished, with those in the C-suites largely escaping accountability. Meanwhile, the country has doubled down ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Sabbath Bee

    Love Songs to Shabbat

    Series series The Jewish Poetry Project
    “Shabbat arrives as usual,dressed in silkwith her hair and make-upbeautifully arranged.”So begins The Sabbath Bee by Wilhelmina Gottschalk, which updates the millenia-old genre of Jewish Sabbath poetry for today's world.“Torah, say our sages, has seventy faces. As these prose poems reveal, so too does Shabbat. Here we meet Shabbat as familiar housemate, as the child whose presence transforms a ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rolling Away the Stone

    Mary Baker Eddy's Challenge to Materialism

    "Gottschalk distinguishes himself by placing Christian Science in the larger context of American religion . . . sheds new light on Eddy's life and work." — Publishers WeeklyThis richly detailed study highlights the last two decades of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, a prominent religious thinker whose character and achievement are just beginning to be understood. It is the first book-length ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding White-Collar Crime

    A Convenience Perspective

    Understanding White-Collar Crime develops the concept of convenience as the main explanation for crime occurrence. Examining all three dimensions of crime—economic, organizational, and behavioral—the book argues that when white-collar crime becomes less convenient, crime rates will go down. By applying convenience theory to an empirical sample of convicted white-collar criminals, the text teaches ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Crime and No Punishment

    Wealth, Power, and Violence in America

    Narrated by Christina Delaine ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 27 min

    The United States is an exceptionally violent country, increasingly unable or unwilling to stem violence in its many forms. A growing corporate crime wave has gone unprosecuted and unpunished. Meanwhile, the country has doubled down on pursuing people accused of street and drug crimes and immigration offenses. Corporate impunity, the financialization of the economy, militarized policing, the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Caught

    The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics

    A major reappraisal of crime and punishment in AmericaThe huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated have been remarkably modest. Meanwhile, an ever-widening carceral state has sprouted in the shadows, extending its reach far beyond the prison gate. It sunders families and communities and reworks conceptions of democracy, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    Episode 3: Hansel and Gretel

    Series Audiobook 3 - Opera and Ballet as Audio Drama with Music

    Unabridged

    1 hour 7 min

    "Hansel and Gretel" is a full-cast audio drama featuring famous melodies, exquisite arias and outstanding voice actors. When Hansel and Gretel, in disgrace for mucking about, are sent into the woods, they fall into the hands of an evil witch. She enchants the two children and plans to roast and eat them. The siblings, Hansel and Gretel, save their lives by outwitting the witch and pushing the old ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Notes of a Pianist

    Experience the life and thoughts of a musical prodigy through the captivating memoir, "Notes of a Pianist," by Louis Moreau Gottschalk. This extraordinary book offers a rare glimpse into the mind of one of the 19th century's most celebrated pianists and composers, providing readers with an intimate portrait of his artistic journey and the vibrant world of classical music.Louis Moreau Gottschalk, a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deep Neural Networks and Data for Automated Driving

    Robustness, Uncertainty Quantification, and Insights Towards Safety

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This open access book brings together the latest developments from industry and research on automated driving and artificial intelligence.Environment perception for highly automated driving heavily employs deep neural networks, facing many challenges. How much data do we need for training and testing? How to use synthetic data to save labeling costs for training? How do we increase robustness and ... Read more

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  • Fraud Investigation

    Case Studies of Crime Signal Detection

    Investigating white-collar crime is like any other investigation concerned with past events. However, a number of characteristics require a contingent approach to these investigations. This book describes the process of conducting private internal investigations by fraud examiners and presents a number of reports from the United States, Sweden and Norway.It evaluates a number of internal ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Experimental Music Since 1970

    What is experimental music today? This book offers an up to date survey of this field for anyone with an interest, from seasoned practitioners to curious readers. This book takes the stance that experimental music is not a limited historical event, but is a proliferation of approaches to sound that reveals much about present-day experience. An experimental work is not identifiable by its sound ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Gender Gap in White-Collar Crime

    A Multi-Country Study of Women Offenders in Economic Crime

    In recent years, women’s involvement in business is more frequent, leading to an interesting question: Does this increase in economic participation by women lead to an increased proportion of women committing white-collar crime?Employing a variety of theoretical perspectives and empirical works to explain women’s white-collar crimes from an international perspective, this new book helps to answer ... Read more

    $160.00 USD