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2) Are We Good?
“A searing, compassionate, and utterly necessary book that pulls back the curtain with the clarity of a lawyer and the heart of someone who’s seen the criminal legal system’s devastating consequences...
"The first book I'm aware of to pull back the curtain on a life-saving field most have never heard of: mitigation." —Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, from the foreword
Elizabeth Vartkessian works with criminal...
The Westerners tells two richly detailed and interwoven stories. The first reveals the captivating lives of women and men moving through the American West—Indigenous peoples, Black Americans, Mexican Americans, and...
From the world-leading expert on the Maya, a monumental history of a flourishing civilization across three millennia
The Four Heavens brings to life the cultural and visual splendor of the ancient Maya, drawing on the oldest indigenous texts of the Americas and the latest archaeological discoveries to present an entirely new history of this spectacular civilization. Renowned historian and archaeologist David Stuart, who has made
How can we build more accessible cities? Living Disability brings together vibrant perspectives on disability justice and urban systems.
From sidewalks to the climate crisis, Living Disability brings together the vibrant perspectives of thirty-five disabled writers. They explore disability justice, analyze urban systems, and propose more equitable approaches to city building. Essays and interviews push the conversation
...For the modern world, it seems as if sexuality and spirituality have always been at odds. But what if the two are actually deeply connected? And what if science could prove this connection?
From neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, Sex, God, and the Brain argues that our religious and spiritual experiences derive directly from our sexual being. While others have speculated on a connection between religion and sex, Newberg is the first
...18) Growing Up with Cochlear Implants: Development of deaf and hard of hearing children and adolescents
"A crisp, confident, and convincing new account of the place and its chroniclers" — The New Yorker
"A definitive history of the mysteries of Easter Island...compelling...[a] magisterial history." — New York Times
"Revelatory...fascinating... wholly convincing" — Daily Mail (UK)
A vital and timely work of historical adventure and reclamation by British
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