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Science Informed Policing

Edited by Bryanna Fox, Joan A. Reid, Anthony J. Masys ...

Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
The current policing landscape has seen the rise in serious and organized crime across the globe. Criminals are innovating in real-time leveraging cyber, social media, enhanced surveillance to support their activities. In so doing, the criminal landscape has become transnational whereby collaborative networks have flourished thereby creating greater complexity and novel threats for the ... Read more

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The current policing landscape has seen the rise in serious and organized crime across the globe. Criminals are innovating in real-time leveraging cyber, social media, enhanced surveillance to support their activities. In so doing, the criminal landscape has become transnational whereby collaborative networks have flourished thereby creating greater complexity and novel threats for the
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The Shriver Report

A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink

by Maria Shriver, The Center for American Progress, Olivia Morgan, Karen Skelton, Carol Gilligan, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Barbara Ehrenreich, Heather Boushey, Maya L. Harris0, Ai-jen Poo1, Danielle Moodie-Mills2, Angela Glover Blackwell3, Eva Longoria4, Ann O'Leary5, Lebron James6, Catherine Emmanuelle7, Ron Haskins8, Kathryn Edin9, Tony Porter0, John Bouman1, Wendy Pollack2, Stephanie Coontz3, Jennifer Garner4, Almeta Keys5, Arne Duncan6, Kathleen Sebelius7, Betsy Price8, Nikki Brown9, Jada Pinkett Smith0, Britani Hood-Mongar1, Anne-Marie Slaughter2, Marianne Cooper3, Melissa Boteach4, Shawn Fremstad5, Ellen Galinsky6, James T. Bond7, Eve Tahmincioglu8, Families and Work Institute9, Anne Mosle0, Hillary Rodham Clinton1, Anna Greenberg2, David Walker3, Alex Lundry4, Alicia Downs5, Tory Burch6, Kristen Gillibrand7, Howard Schultz8, Joan Chittister9, Anthony P. Carnevale0, Nicole Smith1, Eduardo J. Padrón2, Nadine Burke Harris3, Ron Manderschied4, Sonya Borrero5 ...

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or ... Read more

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Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or
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Secrets Behind the White Picket Fence

by Ava St. Martin, Joan Anthony ...

The message of this book not only encompasses hope, perseverance, self-discipline, and belief in oneself and a higher power, but also forgiveness and self-creation, which may offer strength to continue fighting for individual authenticity. It may also help a loved one of someone who has suffered the immense pain and fear experienced from trauma, to understand and ultimately realize compassion ... Read more

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The message of this book not only encompasses hope, perseverance, self-discipline, and belief in oneself and a higher power, but also forgiveness and self-creation, which may offer strength to continue fighting for individual authenticity. It may also help a loved one of someone who has suffered the immense pain and fear experienced from trauma, to understand and ultimately realize compassion
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Racial Justice: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

by Harvard Business Review, Robert W. Livingston, Laura Morgan Roberts, Joan C. Williams, Anthony J. Mayo ...

Series series HBR Insights Series
HBR's best and latest thinking on improving racial justice and equity in the workplace.Curates HBR's latest and most important thinking on the racism and racial justice at work.Explains how businesses must reevaluate their strategy and operations in an age of widening inequality that is dominated by a handful of mega-firms.Provides a range of diverse contributors and viewpoints with clear ... Read more

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HBR's best and latest thinking on improving racial justice and equity in the workplace.Curates HBR's latest and most important thinking on the racism and racial justice at work.Explains how businesses must reevaluate their strategy and operations in an age of widening inequality that is dominated by a handful of mega-firms.Provides a range of diverse contributors and viewpoints with clear
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Between the Lines

Actively Engaging Readers in the English Classroom

by Michael Anthony, Joan F. Kaywell ...

Michael Anthony, 20-year reading workshop practitioner at the secondary level, and Joan Kaywell, acclaimed author and advocate for young adult literature in learning, present Between the Lines, a creative paradigm shift for the English Language Arts workshop classroom. In contrast to the traditional sustained silent reading and individual conferencing model, an impractical commitment for most ... Read more

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Michael Anthony, 20-year reading workshop practitioner at the secondary level, and Joan Kaywell, acclaimed author and advocate for young adult literature in learning, present Between the Lines, a creative paradigm shift for the English Language Arts workshop classroom. In contrast to the traditional sustained silent reading and individual conferencing model, an impractical commitment for most
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Wounded Galaxies 1968

Geopolitics and Culture Wars

by Joan Hawkins, Tariq Ali, David Andrews, Rakhee Balaram, Maria Bucur-Deckard, Stephen Buttes, Anna Chichi, Pete Hamill0, Tom Hayden1, Matthew Hubbell2, Seth Kim-Cohen3, Annea Lockwood4, Scott MacDonald5, Greil Marcus6, Timothy S. Murphy7, Kristoffer S. Noheden8, William "bil" Paul9, Marielle Pelissero0, Elijah Pritchett1, Chris Reynolds2, Davis Schneiderman3, Ward Shelley4, Christopher Sieving5, Samuel Smucker6, Laurie Stone7, Katharine Streip8, McKenzie Wark9, Alex Wermer-Colan0, Laurel Westrup1, Eric Zobel2 ...

Wounded Galaxies 1968 examines the relationship between radical politics, radical aesthetics, radical culture, and the legacy of a watershed year for the world. Like the Surrealists before them, 1968's counterculture believed that changing the world (politics) and changing art (life, culture) were part of the same project.This year saw violent protests and uprisings, including those at the ... Read more

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Wounded Galaxies 1968 examines the relationship between radical politics, radical aesthetics, radical culture, and the legacy of a watershed year for the world. Like the Surrealists before them, 1968's counterculture believed that changing the world (politics) and changing art (life, culture) were part of the same project.This year saw violent protests and uprisings, including those at the
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Immersive Audio Cinema™ (Eight Classic Films Reimagined for Premium Narrative Audio)

Hollywood Noir & Drama Masterworks

by Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison, Robert Rossen, Anthony Veiller, Walter Newman, Lewis Meltzer, Casey Robinson, Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson, Charles Lederer, Ethel Hill, Walter Ferris ...

Narrated by Sean Pratt, Original Film Casts ...

Unabridged

16 hours 14 min

Experience Hollywood’s Golden Age in a Groundbreaking New WayImmersive Audio Cinema™: Hollywood Noir & Drama Masterworks transforms eight legendary films into a premium narrative audio experience — complete original film dialogue and cast performances, woven together with new scene-bridging narration by Sean Pratt.These are full-length audio reconstructions, not short radio dramatizations or ... Read more

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Experience Hollywood’s Golden Age in a Groundbreaking New WayImmersive Audio Cinema™: Hollywood Noir & Drama Masterworks transforms eight legendary films into a premium narrative audio experience — complete original film dialogue and cast performances, woven together with new scene-bridging narration by Sean Pratt.These are full-length audio reconstructions, not short radio dramatizations or
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Zarah the Cruel (Unabridged)

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by JOAN CONQUEST ...

Narrated by Fred Hardy, Mark Holland, Anthony Curtis, William Gries ...

Unabridged

10 hours 47 min

As told to a group of Bedouins as they sit around the fire, this tale , set in the Arabian desert, tells of a Holy Man accused of murder, and forced to flee and lead a nomadic life until he can prove his innocence. Some listeners may be offended by the ideas presented in this text. This is a reflection of the thinking at the time it was written. ... Read more

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As told to a group of Bedouins as they sit around the fire, this tale , set in the Arabian desert, tells of a Holy Man accused of murder, and forced to flee and lead a nomadic life until he can prove his innocence. Some listeners may be offended by the ideas presented in this text. This is a reflection of the thinking at the time it was written.
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Reluctant Race Men

Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-Century America

by Joan L. Bryant ...

Narrated by Deanna Anthony ...

Unabridged

15 hours 40 min

Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing, grouping, and ranking humans into races became commonplace facets of activism in anti-colonization and emigration campaigns, suffrage and civil rights initiatives, moral reform projects, abolitionist struggles, independent church development, and ... Read more

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Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing, grouping, and ranking humans into races became commonplace facets of activism in anti-colonization and emigration campaigns, suffrage and civil rights initiatives, moral reform projects, abolitionist struggles, independent church development, and
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Winkie, the Wily Woodchuck (Unabridged)

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by Richard BARNUM ...

Narrated by Anthony Gaudin, Leon Harres, Joan Smith, Leticia Morrison ...

Unabridged

2 hours 8 min

Winkie is a girl woodchuck that is always up for any adventure. And she and her sister Blinky have a lot of them as they scurry through the forest with their friends looking for things to eat and to have fun with. Winkie is not called the wily woodchuck for no reason; she manages to evade trouble most times but not all and those times makes us hold our breath wondering if Winkie will manage to ... Read more

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Winkie is a girl woodchuck that is always up for any adventure. And she and her sister Blinky have a lot of them as they scurry through the forest with their friends looking for things to eat and to have fun with. Winkie is not called the wily woodchuck for no reason; she manages to evade trouble most times but not all and those times makes us hold our breath wondering if Winkie will manage to
... Read more

Women Who Opt Out

The Debate over Working Mothers and Work-Family Balance

Edited by Bernie D. Jones ...

In a much-publicized and much-maligned 2003 New York Times article, “The Opt-Out Revolution,” the journalist Lisa Belkin made the controversial argument that highly educated women who enter the workplace tend to leave upon marrying and having children. Women Who Opt Out is a collection of original essays by the leading scholars in the field of work and family research, which takes a multi ... Read more

$26.59 USD

In a much-publicized and much-maligned 2003 New York Times article, “The Opt-Out Revolution,” the journalist Lisa Belkin made the controversial argument that highly educated women who enter the workplace tend to leave upon marrying and having children. Women Who Opt Out is a collection of original essays by the leading scholars in the field of work and family research, which takes a multi
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Is Technology Good for Education?

by Neil Selwyn ...

Series series Digital Futures
Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education. Schools, colleges and universities operate along high-tech lines, while alternate forms of online education have emerged to challenge the dominance of traditional institutions. According to many experts, the rapid digitization of education over the past ten years has undoubtedly been a ‘good thing’.Is Technology Good For Education? ... Read more

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Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education. Schools, colleges and universities operate along high-tech lines, while alternate forms of online education have emerged to challenge the dominance of traditional institutions. According to many experts, the rapid digitization of education over the past ten years has undoubtedly been a ‘good thing’.Is Technology Good For Education?
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