Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race, Paperback

Reducere. Suspect Citizens offers the most comprehensive look to date at the most common form of police-citizen interactions, the routine traffic stop. Throu...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Cass R. SunsteinNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 133 x 203 x 15Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. How we became so burdened by red tape and unnecessary paperwork, and why we must do better. We've all had to fight our way through administrative s...

Reducere. "I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow." This inscription in Tutankhamun's tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kell...

Get stuck in -Ó Why do some people become demons when they get behind a wheel? Why does the other lane always move faster? Why do New Yorkers jaywa...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998Critical acclaim for Lawrence Wright'sA Rhone-Poulenc Science Prize Finalist""This is a book about far more t...

DescriptionA veteran science reporter's investigation into the fascinating and distinctive nature of women's friendships In Girl Talk, New York Tim...

An irreverent, provocative, and visually fascinating look at what our online lives reveal about who we really are - and how this deluge of data wil...

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The Disordered Mind is the definitive statement on all we know about the brain and its associated disorders by the eminent Nobel Prize-winning scie...

Reducere. Is there life after death? Do heaven and hell really exist? What happens to me when I die? Will I see my loved ones? New York Times best-selling au...

Reducere. The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 nearly doubled the size of the United States. The U.S. suddenly went from consisting of 17 states along the Atlantic...

A revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality and the problems of old age, from the author of Veni, Vidi, Vici.

With its focus on the popular television genre of Nordic noir, this book examines subtle and explicit manifestations of geopolitics in crime series...

One of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year - A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - A New York Times Notable Book A timely explo...

Reducere. Leading African American Buddhist teachers offer lessons on racism, resilience, spiritual freedom, and the possibility of a truly representative Am...

A new popular psychology title exploring the science behind out-of-body & tunnel experiences (OBEs) from astral projection to near death experience...

"Silver" Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Religion CategoryBefore he began his recent travels, it seemed to Phil Zucker...

Explains psychological, neuroscientific, and philosophical developments in our understanding of very young children, transforming our understanding...

Reducere. The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 nearly doubled the size of the United States. The U.S. suddenly went from consisting of 17 states along the Atlantic...

Reducere. As punctuated through recent events, societal perceptions are that American policing continues to fail in its mission, to protect and preserve. Whe...

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Reducere. In a world where science faces challenges from creationists and climate change deniers, and where social media is awash with wild conspiracy theori...

DescriptionInspired by the bizarre and uncanny, this book attempts to use science and rationality to lift the veil off the irrational, confronting ...

Reducere. The follow-up book to the popular, ?Inside Heaven and Hell, ? comes the equivalent of a guided tour of God's holy penitential world where human spi...

Reducere. The bloody Battle of Spotsylvania Court House took place in May 1864. The frantic back-and-forth fighting at an area now called the Bloody Angle wa...

Reducere. Plymouth Rock has long stood as a symbol of the Pilgrims' journey to and settlement in America. But how much of the story surrounding it is true? W...

Most companies talk about excellence, but what does excellence really mean? What specific attitudes and practices lead to excellence? Drawing on ye...

Reducere. In this provocative rethinking of the African American woman's experience, Brenda Lane Richardson and Dr. Brenda Wade ask their black American sist...

Reducere. The West without Water documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with tales of past droughts and deluges and pre...

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A look at how our monuments to World War II shape the way we think about the war by an award-winning historian. Keith Lowe, an award-winning author...

'Inspired ... Lowe's sensitive, disturbing book should be compulsory reading for both statue builders and statue topplers' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIM...

Reducere. With the Declaration of Independence, the 13 colonies in America declared their independence from Great Britain. Virginian Thomas Jefferson, later ...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Ronald C., Jr. WhiteIllustration(s): 16-PP colour photo insert; black and white photos throughoutNumber o...

Reducere. Second only to the Super Bowl in audience size and revenue, the Oscars are more than a mere ceremony; they are a phenomenon. Hosted by The Academy ...

Reducere. With Lament for the Makers W. S. Merwin honors the lives and work of twenty-three poets of our time. Each of them has been important to him, and al...

Reducere. For centuries the Hebrew Bible has been the fountainhead of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Today, however, the entire biblical tradition, including...

Reducere. More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysmic event known as the Permian extinction destroyed more than 90% of all species and nearly 97% of all l...