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Violence in Our Public Schools
- Look in-Depth at Factual Statistics to Show Just How Much Violence Actually Occurs in the Public Schools Surrounding You
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- Duración: 16 m
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Violence is a serious thing that many people shove off to the side to be dealt with later. When shoved off to the side, policies and security protocols that prevent or reduce violence in schools systems get delayed, which could mean more students dying. It's true the violent actions can be 100 percent prevented. Through an understanding of statistics, one can clearly associate a particular school with more violence than other schools. Dive deep to find out the hidden truth about school violence that they don't want you to know about.
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In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant & Flawed
- De Douglas C. Bates en 05-15-12
De: Charles Murray
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This Noble Land
- My Vision For America
- De: James A. Michener
- Narrado por: Arthur Addison
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 41
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This Noble Land is Michener's most personal statement about America, an examination of the issues that threaten to fragment and undermine the nation - racial conflict, the widening gulf between rich and poor, the decline of education, the inadequacies of our health care system - as well as a thought-provoking prescription for sustaining our "outstanding success". First published shortly before Michener's death, This Noble Land stands as a wake-up call for a troubled era, infused with the wisdom and passion of a lifetime.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A startling realization
- De Amazon Customer en 08-15-15
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Kids These Days
- Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- De: Malcolm Harris
- Narrado por: Will Collyer
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 199
Everyone knows "what's wrong with millennials". Glenn Beck says we've been ruined by "participation trophies". Simon Sinek says we have low self-esteem. An Australian millionaire says millennials could all afford homes if we'd just give up avocado toast. Thanks, millionaire. This millennial is here to prove them all wrong.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A devastating dream of revolution
- De Kevin Tierney Jr en 11-23-17
De: Malcolm Harris
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Automating Inequality
- How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
- De: Virginia Eubanks
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 106
Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, politics, health, and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent research, sprinkled with person bias
- De Katie en 12-31-19
De: Virginia Eubanks
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Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask
- De: Anton Treuer
- Narrado por: Kaipo Schwab
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 182
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What have you always wanted to know about Indians? Do you think you should already know the answers-or suspect that your questions may be offensive? In matter-of-fact responses to over 120 questions, both thoughtful and outrageous, modern and historical, Ojibwe scholar and cultural preservationist Anton Treuer gives a frank, funny, and sometimes personal tour of what's up with Indians, anyway.
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of the better books
- De Erica Kerr en 07-14-18
De: Anton Treuer
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Savage Inequalities
- Children in America's Schools
- De: Jonathan Kozol
- Narrado por: Mark Winston
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 139
Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio; East St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. Everywhere, he discovered separate systems of public schools, with the children of America's poor condemned to schools that are underfunded, understaffed, physically crumbling, and imbued with despair.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book for budding education professionals
- De Amazon Customer en 10-25-17
De: Jonathan Kozol
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Policing the Black Man
- Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
- De: Angela J. Davis - editor
- Narrado por: Robin Miles, Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 90
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Policing the Black Man explores and critiques the many ways the criminal justice system impacts the lives of African American boys and men at every stage of the criminal process, from arrest through sentencing. Essays range from an explication of the historical roots of racism in the criminal justice system to an examination of modern-day police killings of unarmed black men.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Book Every Young White Male Should Read
- De danielwead en 08-04-17
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Ghetto
- The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
- De: Mitchell Duneier
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 124
On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto - a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the 16th century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot understand the entanglements of race, poverty, and place in America today without recalling the history of the ghetto in Europe, as well as later efforts to understand the problems of the American city.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Impressive
- De Jean en 12-10-16
De: Mitchell Duneier
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High Price
- A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
- De: Carl Hart
- Narrado por: J.D. Jackson
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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A pioneering neuroscientist shares his story of growing up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and how it led him to his groundbreaking work in drug addiction. As a youth, Carl Hart didn't realize the value of school; he studied just enough to stay on the basketball team. At the same time, he was immersed in street life. Today he is a cutting-edge neuroscientist - Columbia University's first tenured African American professor in the sciences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding!
- De DaWoolf en 04-01-14
De: Carl Hart
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Prey
- Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
- De: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Narrado por: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 226
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In Prey, Ayaan Hirsi Ali presents startling statistics, criminal cases and personal testimony. Among these facts: In 2014, sexual violence in Western Europe surged following a period of stability. This violence isn’t a figment of alt-right propaganda, Hirsi Ali insists, even if neo-Nazis exaggerate it. It’s a real problem that Europe—and the world—cannot continue to ignore. She explains why so many young Muslim men who arrive in Europe engage in sexual harassment and violence, tracing the roots of sexual violence in the Muslim world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Feminist Must-Read
- De Annie Raks en 02-26-21
De: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The Spirit Level
- Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
- De: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett offer groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offer new ways to achieve it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An Important Book
- De Stephen Schoenberg en 12-19-11
De: Richard Wilkinson, y otros
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Chokehold
- Policing Black Men
- De: Paul Butler
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Cops, politicians, and ordinary people are afraid of black men. The result is the Chokehold: laws and practices that treat every African American man like a thug. In this explosive new book, an African American former federal prosecutor shows that the system is working exactly the way it's supposed to. Black men are always under watch, and police violence is widespread - all with the support of judges and politicians.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good but not amazing
- De Andrew en 12-16-17
De: Paul Butler
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The Why Axis
- Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life
- De: Uri Gneezy, John A. List
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 91
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Uri Gneezy and John List are like the anthropologists who spend months in the field studying the people in their native habitats. But in their case they embed themselves in our messy world to try and solve big, difficult problems, such as the gap between rich and poor students and the violence plaguing inner city schools; the real reasons people discriminate; whether women are really less competitive than men; and how to correctly price products and services. Their field experiments show how economic incentives can change outcomes.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Some Interesting Insights But Poor Science
- De Harold Toomey en 06-09-23
De: Uri Gneezy, y otros
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This is Your Country on Drugs
- The Secret History of Getting High in America
- De: Ryan Grim
- Narrado por: Milton Bagby
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 42
Past antidrug campaigns actually encouraged drug use. A few years ago, America stopped dropping acid altogether. The meth epidemic peaked a long, long time ago. NAFTA opened the border and created a bonanza for cocaine and meth traffickers just as President Clinton knew it would. President Reagan may have inadvertently caused the crack epidemic. Kids today are doing fewer illegal drugs than kids from any time in the recent past, and for a surprising reason.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A good book but....
- De steve en 10-28-10
De: Ryan Grim
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Violence in Our Public Schools
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This is excellent data that we could use to solve problem rather than go to one extreme or another.
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