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City Limits

Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

by Megan Kimble ...

An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities—and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward“Megan Kimble manages to turn a book about transportation and infrastructure into a fascinating human drama.”—Michael Harriot, New York Times bestselling author of Black AF HistoryEvery major American city has a highway tearing ... Read more

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An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities—and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward“Megan Kimble manages to turn a book about transportation and infrastructure into a fascinating human drama.”—Michael Harriot, New York Times bestselling author of Black AF HistoryEvery major American city has a highway tearing
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Unprocessed

My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food

by Megan Kimble ...

In the tradition of Michael Pollan's bestselling In Defense of Food comes this remarkable chronicle, from a founding editor of Edible Baja Arizona, of a young woman's year-long journey of eating only whole, unprocessed foods—intertwined with a journalistic exploration of what "unprocessed" really means, why it matters, and how to afford it.In January of 2012, Megan Kimble was a twenty-six-year ... Read more

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In the tradition of Michael Pollan's bestselling In Defense of Food comes this remarkable chronicle, from a founding editor of Edible Baja Arizona, of a young woman's year-long journey of eating only whole, unprocessed foods—intertwined with a journalistic exploration of what "unprocessed" really means, why it matters, and how to afford it.In January of 2012, Megan Kimble was a twenty-six-year
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City Limits

Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

by Megan Kimble ...

Narrated by Megan Kimble ...

Unabridged

10 hours 25 min

An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities—and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward“Megan Kimble manages to turn a book about transportation and infrastructure into a fascinating human drama.”—Michael Harriot, New York Times bestselling author of Black AF HistoryEvery major American city has a highway tearing ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities—and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward“Megan Kimble manages to turn a book about transportation and infrastructure into a fascinating human drama.”—Michael Harriot, New York Times bestselling author of Black AF HistoryEvery major American city has a highway tearing
... Read more

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Unprocessed

My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food

by Megan Kimble ...

Narrated by Sarah Mollo-Christensen ...

Unabridged

12 hours 22 min

In January of 2012, Megan Kimble was a twenty-six-year-old living in a small apartment without even a garden plot to her name. But she cared about where food came from, how it was made, and what it did to her body: so she decided to go an entire year without eating processed foods. Unprocessed is the narrative of Megan's extraordinary year, in which she milled wheat, extracted salt from the sea, ... Read more

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In January of 2012, Megan Kimble was a twenty-six-year-old living in a small apartment without even a garden plot to her name. But she cared about where food came from, how it was made, and what it did to her body: so she decided to go an entire year without eating processed foods. Unprocessed is the narrative of Megan's extraordinary year, in which she milled wheat, extracted salt from the sea,
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The Highest Law in the Land

How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy

by Jessica Pishko ...

Narrated by Nan McNamara ...

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14 hours 26 min

**Shortlisted for Columbia Journalism School’s J. Anthony Lukas AwardA Publishers Lunch NonFiction Buzz Book| Named Most Anticipated by Los Angeles Times**A leading authority on sheriffs investigates the impunity with which they police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement, and, increasingly, national politics.The figure of the American sheriff ... Read more

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**Shortlisted for Columbia Journalism School’s J. Anthony Lukas AwardA Publishers Lunch NonFiction Buzz Book| Named Most Anticipated by Los Angeles Times**A leading authority on sheriffs investigates the impunity with which they police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement, and, increasingly, national politics.The figure of the American sheriff
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Revisionaries

What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers

by Kristopher Jansma ...

Narrated by Greg D. Barnett ...

Unabridged

8 hours 59 min

Find creative inspiration in this fascinating rummage through the wastebaskets, secret diaries, and abandoned files of twenty literary superstars.If you like to write—whether it's a pastime, a passion, or a profession—you've probably found yourself reading something brilliant and thinking, "I could never do this! I might as well give up." But if there's one thing every great author has in common, ... Read more

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Find creative inspiration in this fascinating rummage through the wastebaskets, secret diaries, and abandoned files of twenty literary superstars.If you like to write—whether it's a pastime, a passion, or a profession—you've probably found yourself reading something brilliant and thinking, "I could never do this! I might as well give up." But if there's one thing every great author has in common,
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Tyranny, Inc.

How Private Power Crushed American Liberty--and What to Do About It

by Sohrab Ahmari ...

Narrated by Sohrab Ahmari ...

Unabridged

7 hours 30 min

The inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless—and how we can fight back—from the acclaimed author of The Unbroken Thread“In Tyranny, Inc., Sohrab Ahmari, one of the leading thinkers of our time, alerts us to one of the greatest threats to freedom.”—Michael Lind, author of The New Class War and Hell to ... Read more

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The inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless—and how we can fight back—from the acclaimed author of The Unbroken Thread“In Tyranny, Inc., Sohrab Ahmari, one of the leading thinkers of our time, alerts us to one of the greatest threats to freedom.”—Michael Lind, author of The New Class War and Hell to
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Original Sins

The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of AmericanRacism

by Eve L. Ewing ...

Narrated by Eve L. Ewing, Robin Miles ...

Unabridged

12 hours 15 min

**Why don’t our schools work? Eve L. Ewing tackles this question from a new angle: What if they’re actually doing what they were built to do? She argues that instead of being the great equalizer, America’s classrooms were designed to do the opposite: to maintain the nation’s inequalities. It’s a task at which they excel.“This book will transform the way you see this country.”—Michelle Alexander, ... Read more

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**Why don’t our schools work? Eve L. Ewing tackles this question from a new angle: What if they’re actually doing what they were built to do? She argues that instead of being the great equalizer, America’s classrooms were designed to do the opposite: to maintain the nation’s inequalities. It’s a task at which they excel.“This book will transform the way you see this country.”—Michelle Alexander,
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20th Century-Fox

Darryl F. Zanuck and the Creation of the Modern Film Studio

by Scott Eyman ...

Narrated by Suehyla El-Attar ...

Unabridged

8 hours 57 min

From New York Times bestselling author Scott Eyman, this is the story one of the most influential studios in film history, from its glory days under the leadership of legendary movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck up to its 2019 buyout by Disney.March 20, 2019 marked the end of an era -- Disney took ownership of the movie empire that was Fox. For almost a century before that historic date, Twentieth ... Read more

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From New York Times bestselling author Scott Eyman, this is the story one of the most influential studios in film history, from its glory days under the leadership of legendary movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck up to its 2019 buyout by Disney.March 20, 2019 marked the end of an era -- Disney took ownership of the movie empire that was Fox. For almost a century before that historic date, Twentieth
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Killed by a Traffic Engineer

Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System

by Wes Marshall ...

Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

Unabridged

15 hours 2 min

In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse, yet we continue to accept these deaths as part of doing business. There has been no examination of why we engineer roads that are literally killing us.In Killed by a Traffic Engineer, civil engineering professor Wes Marshall shines a spotlight on how little science there is behind ... Read more

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In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse, yet we continue to accept these deaths as part of doing business. There has been no examination of why we engineer roads that are literally killing us.In Killed by a Traffic Engineer, civil engineering professor Wes Marshall shines a spotlight on how little science there is behind
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American Nightmare

The History of Jim Crow

by Jerrold M. Packard ...

Narrated by Terrence Kidd ...

Unabridged

11 hours 49 min

For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette," these rules governed nearly every aspect of life—and outlined draconian punishments for infractions.The purpose of Jim Crow was to keep African Americans subjugated at a level as close as ... Read more

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For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette," these rules governed nearly every aspect of life—and outlined draconian punishments for infractions.The purpose of Jim Crow was to keep African Americans subjugated at a level as close as
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Holding It Together

How Women Became America's Safety Net

by Jessica Calarco ...

Narrated by Jessica Calarco, Karen Murray ...

Unabridged

8 hours 32 min

Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences.America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo.Holding It Together draws on five ... Read more

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Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences.America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo.Holding It Together draws on five
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