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The Cost of Fear

Why Most Safety Advice Is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence

by Meg Stone ...

**A violence prevention expert helps targets of gender-based violence discern fact from fiction around what keeps us safe and support social changePersonal safety shouldn’t mean living in fear, nor should it come at the expense of political progress.**Questionable advice to avoid violence, like “don’t go shopping alone,” comes mostly from the police or other men in authority. But gender-based ... Read more

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**A violence prevention expert helps targets of gender-based violence discern fact from fiction around what keeps us safe and support social changePersonal safety shouldn’t mean living in fear, nor should it come at the expense of political progress.**Questionable advice to avoid violence, like “don’t go shopping alone,” comes mostly from the police or other men in authority. But gender-based
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"Don't Fight Back"

And 10 Other Myths About Crime, Personal Safety, and Gender-Based Violence

by Meg Stone ...

Series Book 12 - Myths Made in America
From a nationally recognized violence-prevention expert, an accessible guide that debunks the most pervasive myths about crime and offers evidence-based strategies that make us saferA specific image of violence and how to avoid it lives in a lot of our imaginations. What some of us fear most is shaped not by the strongest evidence but by the most viral horror stories.Meg Stone, a violence ... Read more

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From a nationally recognized violence-prevention expert, an accessible guide that debunks the most pervasive myths about crime and offers evidence-based strategies that make us saferA specific image of violence and how to avoid it lives in a lot of our imaginations. What some of us fear most is shaped not by the strongest evidence but by the most viral horror stories.Meg Stone, a violence
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The Cost of Fear

Why Most Safety Advice Is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence

by Meg Stone ...

Narrated by Julie McKay ...

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7 hours 54 min

**A violence prevention expert helps targets of gender-based violence discern fact from fiction around what keeps us safe and support social changePersonal safety shouldn’t mean living in fear, nor should it come at the expense of political progress.**Questionable advice to avoid violence, like “don’t go shopping alone,” comes mostly from the police or other men in authority. But gender-based ... Read more

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**A violence prevention expert helps targets of gender-based violence discern fact from fiction around what keeps us safe and support social changePersonal safety shouldn’t mean living in fear, nor should it come at the expense of political progress.**Questionable advice to avoid violence, like “don’t go shopping alone,” comes mostly from the police or other men in authority. But gender-based
... Read more

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"Don't Fight Back"

And 10 Other Myths About Crime, Personal Safety, and Gender-Based Violence

by Meg Stone ...

Narrated by Julie McKay ...

Series Audiobook 12 - Myths Made in America
Unabridged

6 hours 32 min

From a nationally recognized violence-prevention expert, an accessible guide that debunks the most pervasive myths about crime and offers evidence-based strategies that make us saferA specific image of violence and how to avoid it lives in a lot of our imaginations. What some of us fear most is shaped not by the strongest evidence but by the most viral horror stories.Meg Stone, a violence ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

From a nationally recognized violence-prevention expert, an accessible guide that debunks the most pervasive myths about crime and offers evidence-based strategies that make us saferA specific image of violence and how to avoid it lives in a lot of our imaginations. What some of us fear most is shaped not by the strongest evidence but by the most viral horror stories.Meg Stone, a violence
... Read more

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The Coddling of the American Mind

How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt ...

Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and afraid to speak honestly. How did this happen?First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in ... Read more

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Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and afraid to speak honestly. How did this happen?First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in
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Rage Becomes Her

The Power of Women's Anger

by Soraya Chemaly ...

***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION***NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION***Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCHRage Becomes Her is an “utterly eye opening” (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions, and possibilities o... ... Read more

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***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION***NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION***Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCHRage Becomes Her is an “utterly eye opening” (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions, and possibilities o...
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Biased

Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

by Jennifer L. Eberhardt PhD ...

**"Poignant....important and illuminating."—The New York Times Book Review"Groundbreaking."—Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just MercyFrom one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious racial bias come stories, science, and strategies to address one of the central controversies of our time**How do we talk about bias? How do we address racial disparities and inequities? ... Read more

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**"Poignant....important and illuminating."—The New York Times Book Review"Groundbreaking."—Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just MercyFrom one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious racial bias come stories, science, and strategies to address one of the central controversies of our time**How do we talk about bias? How do we address racial disparities and inequities?
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The End of Bias: A Beginning

The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias

by Jessica Nordell ...

**Finalist for the NYPL Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Lukas Book Prize, and the Royal Society Science Book PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year by World Economic Forum, AARP, Greater Good, and** Inc.The End of Bias is a transformative, groundbreaking exploration into how we can eradicate unintentional bias and discrimination, the great challenge of our age.Discussions of un ... Read more

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**Finalist for the NYPL Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Lukas Book Prize, and the Royal Society Science Book PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year by World Economic Forum, AARP, Greater Good, and** Inc.The End of Bias is a transformative, groundbreaking exploration into how we can eradicate unintentional bias and discrimination, the great challenge of our age.Discussions of un
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Unfair

The New Science of Criminal Injustice

by Adam Benforado ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Unfair succinctly and persuasively recounts cutting-edge research testifying to the faulty and inaccurate procedures that underpin virtually all aspects of our criminal justice system, illustrating many with case studies.”—The Boston GlobeA child is gunned down by a police officer; an investigator ignores critical clues in a case; an innocent man confesses to a crime ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Unfair succinctly and persuasively recounts cutting-edge research testifying to the faulty and inaccurate procedures that underpin virtually all aspects of our criminal justice system, illustrating many with case studies.”—The Boston GlobeA child is gunned down by a police officer; an investigator ignores critical clues in a case; an innocent man confesses to a crime
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You Have More Influence Than You Think

How We Underestimate Our Powers of Persuasion, and Why It Matters

by Vanessa Bohns ...

**"This remarkable book will change the way you see your own potential." —Daniel H. Pink, author of DriveAn original investigation of our hidden power to persuade, and how to wield it wisely.**If you’ve ever felt ineffective, invisible, or inarticulate, chances are you weren’t actually any of those things. Those feelings may instead have been the result of a lack of awareness we all seem to have ... Read more

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**"This remarkable book will change the way you see your own potential." —Daniel H. Pink, author of DriveAn original investigation of our hidden power to persuade, and how to wield it wisely.**If you’ve ever felt ineffective, invisible, or inarticulate, chances are you weren’t actually any of those things. Those feelings may instead have been the result of a lack of awareness we all seem to have
... Read more
Pushout

The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

by Monique Couvson ...

The “powerful” (Michelle Alexander) exploration of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting Black girls in schools, and how we can instead orient schools toward their flourishingOn the day fifteen-year-old Diamond from the Bay Area stopped going to school, she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was ... Read more

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The “powerful” (Michelle Alexander) exploration of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting Black girls in schools, and how we can instead orient schools toward their flourishingOn the day fifteen-year-old Diamond from the Bay Area stopped going to school, she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was
... Read more
What’s on Her Mind

The Mental Workload of Family Life

by Allison Daminger ...

The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of itMothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on family labor as men. But what about the gendered differences in the ways women and men think? What’s on Her Mind provides an illuminating look at the cognitive labor that families depend on and reveals why this essential aspect of ... Read more

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The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of itMothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on family labor as men. But what about the gendered differences in the ways women and men think? What’s on Her Mind provides an illuminating look at the cognitive labor that families depend on and reveals why this essential aspect of
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