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  • Jailhouse Informants

    Psychological and Legal Perspectives

    Series series Psychology and Crime
    Offers a new understanding of jailhouse informants and the role they play in wrongful convictionsJailhouse informants—witnesses who testify in a criminal trial, often in exchange for some incentive—are particularly persuasive to jurors. A jailhouse informant usually claims to have heard the defendant confess to a crime while they were incarcerated together. Research shows that such testimony ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Counter Intelligence

    Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles

    by Jonathan Gold ...
    Jonathan Gold has eaten it all. Counter Intelligence collects over 200 of Gold's best restaurant discoveries--from inexpensive lunch counters you won't find on your own to the perfect undiscovered dish at a beaten-path establishment. He reveals the hidden kitchens where Los Angeles' ethnic communities feed their own, including the best of cuisine from Argentina, Armenia, Brazil, Burma, Canton, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice

    Series series Columbia Readings of Buddhist Literature
    Śāntideva’s eighth-century work, the Guide to Bodhisattva Practice (Bodhicaryāvatāra), is known for its eminently practical instructions and its psychologically vivid articulations of the Mahāyāna path. It is a powerful, succinct poem into which are woven diverse Buddhist traditions of moral transformation, meditative cultivation, and philosophical insight. Since its composition, it has seen ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Paving the Great Way

    Vasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy

    The Indian Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu (fourth–fifth century C.E.) is known for his critical contribution to Buddhist Abhidharma thought, his turn to the Mahayana tradition, and his concise, influential Yogacara–Vijñanavada texts. Paving the Great Way reveals another dimension of his legacy: his integration of several seemingly incompatible intellectual and scriptural traditions, with far ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    King of the North Wind

    The Life of Henry II in Five Acts

    by Claudia Gold ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Oliver ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 1 min

    Henry II conquered the largest empire of any English medieval king. Yet it is the people around him we remember: his wife Eleanor, whom he seduced from the French king; his son Richard the Lionheart; Thomas Becket, murdered in his cathedral. Who was this great, yet tragic king? For fans of Dan Jones, George RR Martin and Bernard Cornwell.The only thing that could have stopped Henry was himself ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice

    Series series Columbia Readings of Buddhist Literature
    Śāntideva’s eighth-century work, the Guide to Bodhisattva Practice (Bodhicaryāvatāra), is known for its eminently practical instructions and its psychologically vivid articulations of the Mahāyāna path. It is a powerful, succinct poem into which are woven diverse Buddhist traditions of moral transformation, meditative cultivation, and philosophical insight. Since its composition, it has seen ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Intentional Forgetting

    Interdisciplinary Approaches

    Research on intentional forgetting has been conducted in various forms and under various names for at least 30 years, but until now no effort has been made to present these different perspectives in one place. Comprising both review chapters and new empirical studies, this book brings together the many research paradigms investigating intentional forgetting, thereby highlighting the commonalities ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Dark Bargain

    Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution

    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 52 min

    On September 17, 1787, at the State House in Philadelphia, thirty-nine men from twelve states, after months of often bitter debate, signed America's Constitution. Yet very few of the delegates, at the start, had had any intention of creating a nation that would last. Most were driven more by pragmatic, regional interests than by idealistic vision. Many were meeting for the first time, others after ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Birdmen

    The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies

    Narrated by Jonathan Fried ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 43 min

    Wilbur and Orville Wright are two of the greatest innovators in history, and together they solved the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air flight. Glenn Hammond Curtiss was the most talented machinist of his day; he first became the fastest man alive when he perfected the motorcycle, then turned his eyes toward the skies to become the fastest man aloft. But between the Wrights and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Water to the Angels

    William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles

    Narrated by Robert Fass ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 11 min

    The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created—William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct—a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today.In 1907, Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: ... Read more

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    Science of Liberty, The

    Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature

    Narrated by Fred Stella ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 26 min

    "Ferris is a master analogist who conveys his insights on the history of cosmology with a lyrical flair." —The New York Times Book ReviewIn The Science of Liberty, award-winning author Timothy Ferris—called "the best popular science writer in the English language today" by the Christian Science Monitor and "the best science writer of his generation" by the Washington Post—makes a passionate case ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Brave Genius

    A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize

    Narrated by Byron Wagner ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 6 min

    The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius.In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quietly pursuing ordinary, separate lives in Paris. After the German invasion and occupation of ... Read more

    $15.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus