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A magisterial new history of the role of the Supreme Court as an ally in implementing and preserving a racial caste system in America, Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes listeners from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court—even more than the presidency or Congress—aligned with the enemies of Black progress to undermine the promise of the Constitution’s Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.

Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge's chambers, the spectators' gallery. From the daily grind of the court to the highest-profile case of the year, Steve Bogira's masterful investigation raises fundamental issues of race, civil rights, and justice in America.

Hollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry both set conventions and broke norms and traditions—from Cinerama, Cinemascope and Vistavision to the epic film and lavish musical. It was a decade that saw the rise of the anti-hero; the smoldering, the hidden, and the unspoken; teenagers gone wild in the streets; the sacred and the profane; the revolution of the Method; the socially conscious; the implosion of the studios, the end of the production code; and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher: the “small screen” television.

El dinero es un símbolo sagrado que cuenta con millones de adoradores, pero la mayoría de ellos no saben cómo relacionarse con él de manera positiva y natural. Si consideras que el dinero es un vehículo beneficioso que te permitirá hacer realidad tus proyectos, fluirá hacia ti con naturalidad y, sobre todo, sin culpabilidad.

Solar Power for Beginners uses stepwise instructions, tons of real-life examples, and various schematics that make your solar learning life easier. DIY SOURCE authors have consulted with numerous mobile solar power DIYers, electrical and photovoltaics engineers, and off-grid solar professionals to prepare a solar guide to power your adventures.

Here, in one intensely focused download, is everything you need to know to successfully flip a house, from finding a great investment property and buying it, right to fixing it up and netting solid profit.

America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. It’s a fly-on-the-wall account of the titanic fight to pass a 961-page law aimed at fixing America’s largest, most dysfunctional industry. It’s a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his trailblazing Time magazine cover story continues, despite Obamacare.

Patti Davis, the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, writes about losing her father to Alzheimer's disease, saying goodbye in stages, and watching the progression of a disease that steals what is most precious: a person's memory. Past and present come together in this illuminating portrait of grief, of a man, a disease, and a girl and her father.

The sun's family of planets become a familiar place in this personal account of the lives of other worlds. Sobel explores the planets' origins and oddities through the lens of popular culture, from astrology, mythology, and science fiction to art, music, poetry, biography, and history. This intimate account is filled with fascination, beauty, and surprise.

A fascinating, darkly funny comeback story of learning to live with a broken mind after a near-fatal traumatic brain injury - from the acclaimed author of The Hike.

El éxito y la felicidad no son accidentales. El autor bestseller Brian Tracy revela las claves para desbloquear tu potencial y alcanzar tus metas. No se trata de suerte, sino de aplicar estratégicamente los principios probados del éxito. ¿Cuál es la clave? Si quieres tener éxito, haz lo que hacen las personas exitosas. Así de simple.

Join Diane, a retired nurse, on her move from Texas to Panama. Enjoy colorful descriptions of travel in the tropics. Experience all the trials and triumphs of living in a foreign country. Her experience is bumpier than most, with social, legal, and cultural entanglements. She encourages anyone thinking about moving abroad to learn from her mistakes. She hopes everyone will welcome the diversity of a journey into a different culture.

Francesco Cirillo developed his famed system for improving productivity as a college student 30 years ago. Using a kitchen timer shaped like a pomodoro (Italian for tomato), Cirillo divided the time he spent working on a project into 25-minute intervals, with 5-minute breaks in between, in order to get more done, without interruptions. By grouping a number of pomodoros together, users can tackle a project of any length, and drastically improve their productivity, enhance their focus, and better achieve their goals.

IF YOU WANT TO DISCOVER HOW TO BUILD AN HYDROPONIC SYSTEM, THEN KEEP READING… Hydroponics is a means of growing plants without soil. It makes use of nutrient-rich water, or a nutrient solution as well as techniques that allow the plant to grow. You can also use sand or gravel, with added nutrients. Hydroponics is a division of hydroculture and is a way of cultivating plants with the use of mineral nutrient solutions and water and without soil. Terrestrial herbs may be cultivated with their roots in the mineral solution. They may be also grown on inert medium such as mineral wool, ...

Introducing the Ultimate Guide to Rebooting Your Life in Spain! Are you ready to take control and embark on the adventure of a lifetime? Dive into "Rebooting in Spain," a comprehensive and engaging guide that will provide you with all the knowledge and resources needed for a seamless transition into Spanish life. This eBook is meticulously designed to be your indispensable companion, equipping you with vital information that covers a wide range of aspects of life in Spain. It all begins with an in-depth look into the Spanish culture, making you feel right at home while you soak up ...

From the author of the best-selling 30-Day Heart Tune-Up and Smart Fat - the first book to show how the brain can become insulin resistant through diet and lifestyle and to make clear how and why this has been directly linked to cognitive decline and memory loss. With a detailed program developed by the author to prevent and reverse this potentially devastating condition.

Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation's housing systems. Increasingly, important life outcomes—performance in school, employment, even life expectancy—are determined by where people live and the quality of homes they live in. Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities.

Are you anxious, frazzled, exhausted? Do you find yourself constantly worrying? Do you feel like you're "running on empty"? Do you have trouble sleeping? Like millions of people living today, your brain has become drained. In his latest audiobook, Dr. Mike Dow offers a two-week plan designed to help you naturally balance your brain. He explains what drains modern brains, which groups are wired for it, and provides clinically proven tools to help you feel less drained.

The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli. Sixteen-year-old Padma sparked and burned. Fourteen-year-old Lalli was an incorrigible romantic. They grew up in Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in Western Uttar Pradesh crammed into less than one square mile of land. It was out in the fields, in the middle of mango season, that the rumors started. Then one night in the summer of 2014 the girls went missing; and hours later they were found hanging in the orchard.

Drawing upon new theories about leadership and the long-term success of change initiatives, and based upon 25 years of experience building learning organizations, the authors of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook show how to accelerate success and avoid the obstacles that can stall momentum. The Dance of Change, written for managers and executives at every level of an organization, reveals how business leaders can work together to anticipate the challenges that profound change will ultimately forc