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  • Hörbuch

    The Story of the Atlantic Cable (Unabridged)

    von Charles Bright …
    Erzählt von Elinore Hill, Anna Tiley, Jeanne Quero …

    Ungekürzt

    5 Stunden 26 Min.

    In the annals of technological marvels, the story of the Atlantic Cable stands as a testament to human ingenuity and perseverance. Sir Charles Bright, a pioneer in the field of submarine telegraphy, chronicles the arduous journey of laying the first transatlantic cable, connecting continents and revolutionizing global communication. From the initial vision to the countless setbacks and triumphs, … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 5,49

  • The Powers that Punish

    Prison and Politics in the Era of the "Big House", 1920-1955

    von Charles Bright …
    Serien series Law, Meaning, And Violence
    In a pathbreaking study of a major state prison, Michigan's Jackson State Penitentiary during the middle years of this century, Charles Bright addresses several aspects of the history and theory of punishment. The study is an institutional history of an American penitentiary, concerned with how a carceral regime was organized and maintained, how prisoners were treated and involved in the creation … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 48,72

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  • Are Prisons Obsolete?

    von Angela Y. Davis …
    Serien series Open Media Series
    With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 7,91

  • The Oath

    The Obama White House and The Supreme Court

    von Jeffrey Toobin …
    From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the Supreme Court and the White House has been confrontational. … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 6,48

  • A Colony in a Nation

    von Chris Hayes …
    **New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice"An essential and groundbreaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry." —Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me**In A Colony in a Nation, New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes upends the national conversation on policing and … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 11,32

  • Policing the Black Man

    Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

    Bearbeitet von Angela J. Davis …
    A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.“Somewhere among the anger, mourning and malice that Policing the Black Man documents lies the pursuit of justice. This powerful book demands our … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 8,79

  • The War on Cops

    How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe

    Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the “Ferguson effect”: Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, officers have been backing … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 11,87

  • Texas Tough

    The Rise of America's Prison Empire

    A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolutionIn the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 12,31

  • The Tyranny of Good Intentions

    How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice

    A thousand years of legal protections against tyranny are being stolen right before our eyes. Under the guise of good intentions, personal liberties as old as the Magna Carta have become casualties in the wars being waged on pollution, drugs, white-collar crime, and all of the other real and imagined social ills. The result: innocent people caught up in a bureaucratic web that destroys lives and … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,01

  • Gunfight

    The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America

    von Adam Winkler …
    A provocative history that reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America's cultural divide.Gunfight is a timely work examining America’s four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative history, Adam Winkler reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America’s cultural … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 12,97

  • Speaking Truth to Power

    A Memoir

    von Anita Hill …
    Twent-six years before the #metoo movement, Anita Hill sparked a national conversation about sexual harassment in the workplace when she testified against Clarence Thomas.After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to be a private citizen and became a public figure at the white-hot center of an intense national debate on how men and women relate to each other … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 11,54

  • Debating The Death Penalty : Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts On Both Sides Make Their Case

    When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public confusion is often the result. This volume brings together seven experts--judges, lawyers, … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 10,11