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Freeman's Challenge

The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit

de Robin Bernstein ...

Honored by the 2025 Massachusetts Book Awards in NonfictionAn award-winning historian tells a gripping, morally complicated story of murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prison for profit.In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-driven prison. Uniting incarceration and capitalism, the ... Leer más

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Honored by the 2025 Massachusetts Book Awards in NonfictionAn award-winning historian tells a gripping, morally complicated story of murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prison for profit.In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-driven prison. Uniting incarceration and capitalism, the
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The Children's Table

Childhood Studies and the Humanities

de Annette Ruth Appell, James Marten, John Wall, Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Lesley Ginsberg, Lucia Hodgson, Lynne Vallone, Robin Bernstein, Roy Kozlovsky, Sarah E. Chinn, Sophie Bell, Susan Honeyman, Carol J. Singley ...

Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "adult" labor of humanities scholarship. The Children's Table brings together scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and literary and cultural criticism to provide an overview of the innovative work being done in childhood studies—a transcript of what is being said ... Leer más

$33.99 USD

Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "adult" labor of humanities scholarship. The Children's Table brings together scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and literary and cultural criticism to provide an overview of the innovative work being done in childhood studies—a transcript of what is being said
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Racial Innocence

Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights

de Robin Bernstein ...

Series Libro 16 - America and the Long 19th Century
2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association2012 Runner-Up, John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association2012 Honorable ... ... Leer más

$28.99 USD

2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association2012 Runner-Up, John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association2012 Honorable ...
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Freeman's Challenge

The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit

de Robin Bernstein ...

Narrado por Shamaan Casey ...

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8 hora 6 minutos

An award-winning historian tells a gripping, morally complicated story of murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prison for profit.In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-driven prison. Uniting incarceration and capitalism, the village of Auburn built a prison that enclosed industrial ... Leer más

$35.99 USD

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An award-winning historian tells a gripping, morally complicated story of murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prison for profit.In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-driven prison. Uniting incarceration and capitalism, the village of Auburn built a prison that enclosed industrial
... Leer más

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A Lynching at Port Jervis

Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age

de Philip Dray ...

Narrado por Dion Graham ...

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7 hora 4 minutos

An account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racismOn June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The twenty-eight-year-old victim had been accused of sexually assaulting Lena McMahon, the daughter of one of the town's well-liked Irish American ... Leer más

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An account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racismOn June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The twenty-eight-year-old victim had been accused of sexually assaulting Lena McMahon, the daughter of one of the town's well-liked Irish American
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The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself

The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times

de Robin Reames ...

Narrado por Kim Niemi ...

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9 hora 40 minutos

The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. Only recently has its perceived importance faded.In this book, renowned rhetorical scholar Robin Reames argues that, in today's polarized political climate, we should all care deeply about learning rhetoric. Drawing on examples ranging from the destructive ancient Greek demagogue Alcibiades to modern-day ... Leer más

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The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. Only recently has its perceived importance faded.In this book, renowned rhetorical scholar Robin Reames argues that, in today's polarized political climate, we should all care deeply about learning rhetoric. Drawing on examples ranging from the destructive ancient Greek demagogue Alcibiades to modern-day
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America, U.S.A.

How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries

de Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...

Narrado por Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...

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9 hora 37 minutos

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts America’s unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us.“A thoughtful, insightful, beautifully written book that is timely and welcomed in these perilous times.”—Bryan Stevenson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy**“Eddie S. Glaude Jr. opens a ... Leer más

$22.00 USD

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts America’s unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us.“A thoughtful, insightful, beautifully written book that is timely and welcomed in these perilous times.”—Bryan Stevenson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy**“Eddie S. Glaude Jr. opens a
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Nonviolent

A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love

de Reverend James Lawson Jr, Emily Yellin ...

Narrado por Emily Yellin, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Dominic Hoffman, John C. Lawson, Raven Lawson, Cassandra Campbell, MacLeod Andrews, Devin Lawson0 ...

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28 hora 11 minutos

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The posthumous memoir of Rev. James Lawson Jr., peer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mentor to Congressman John Lewis and the Freedom Riders, and a principal architect of a nonviolent resistance movement that changed the world.“This book is a gift to be treasured, from a man who has already given so much.”—Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of King: A LifeRev. Lawson ... Leer más

$37.00 USD

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The posthumous memoir of Rev. James Lawson Jr., peer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mentor to Congressman John Lewis and the Freedom Riders, and a principal architect of a nonviolent resistance movement that changed the world.“This book is a gift to be treasured, from a man who has already given so much.”—Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of King: A LifeRev. Lawson
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Chasing Me to My Grave

An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South

de Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly ...

Narrado por Dion Graham, Karen Chilton ...

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6 hora 47 minutos

Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager.He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, later survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent the next seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife. Years later, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsy’s ... Leer más

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Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager.He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, later survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent the next seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife. Years later, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsy’s
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The World Broke in Two

Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature

de Bill Goldstein ...

Narrado por Bill Goldstein ...

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12 hora 6 minutos

This program is read by the author.A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernismThe World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, make ... Leer más

$26.99 USD

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This program is read by the author.A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernismThe World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, make
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How to Be a Dissident

de Gal Beckerman ...

Narrado por Gal Beckerman ...

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4 hora 58 minutos

An invigorating guide to fighting back—part philosophy, part history, and part manual for living with integrity in an age of conformity and authoritarian driftHow do we push back in a world where political leaders wield fear and intimidation? Where digital technology dehumanizes and flattens us? We need role models, and in this engaging book, acclaimed writer Gal Beckerman goes looking for them. ... Leer más

$15.00 USD

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An invigorating guide to fighting back—part philosophy, part history, and part manual for living with integrity in an age of conformity and authoritarian driftHow do we push back in a world where political leaders wield fear and intimidation? Where digital technology dehumanizes and flattens us? We need role models, and in this engaging book, acclaimed writer Gal Beckerman goes looking for them.
... Leer más

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What We Value

The Neuroscience of Choice & Change

de Emily Falk ...

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7 hora 29 minutos

A neuroscientist reveals the hidden calculations that shape our daily decisions―and how to make more fulfilling, impactful choices in our work, relationships, and lives.Amid the many competing priorities of our busy lives, it can feel difficult to make the right decisions―ones that feel aligned with the things we care about. Change can feel almost impossible. In this book, award-winning researcher ... Leer más

$32.99 USD

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A neuroscientist reveals the hidden calculations that shape our daily decisions―and how to make more fulfilling, impactful choices in our work, relationships, and lives.Amid the many competing priorities of our busy lives, it can feel difficult to make the right decisions―ones that feel aligned with the things we care about. Change can feel almost impossible. In this book, award-winning researcher
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