New Masses

Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times best seller list.

In the nineteenth century, Manhattan's streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours. Alfred Beach had the perfect solution: build a giant pneumatic tube underneath Broadway from the Battery to Harlem. Air pressure would shoot passengers up and down the island in clean, quiet carriages. But Beach was up against the operators of the horse-drawn streetcars and the politicians in their pay, most conspicuously William M. Tweed, the notorious "Boss" of Tammany Hall.

First published as articles in El Sol in 1929, the essays in The Revolt of the Masses serve as a prescient analysis of a 20th-century creature - the "mass man" - and the mass society that he makes up. With strains of Jamesian pragmatism and the sociology of Gustave Le Bon, Ortega shows how technological and political changes reduced Western civilization to the lowest common denominator and made it susceptible to the pressures of statism.

*** Honors: 2018 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner -- Seen on NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX *** What happenings and environments wrought the most hated man in history? How does a child become a young man who evolved into a self-proclaimed messiah? Why did this one man become a psychotic who was responsible for the deaths of more than 50 million people? This book follows the first, formative years of Adolf Hitler's life. Presented as a personal journal, this is a fact-supported re-telling of a desperate existence, as viewed by Hitler, and tracks the points of pain that forged his beliefs. From a ...

There is no safe place… A murder with no way in and no way out. A victim found inside a sealed home that even the most seasoned investigators can’t explain. What begins as a classic locked-room mystery quickly spirals into something far deadlier—a game of wits where every “perfect” crime is only the first move. Texas Rangers Ruth Baker and Aaron Tate race against time to stop a brilliant but deranged psychopath who leaves a trail of ingenious, seemingly perfect murders. Each crime scene is sealed tight, every death more impossible than the last, and the body count keeps rising. ...

"Crucifixion to Creation" shows that the roots of the traditional Roman liturgy can be traced from the Crucifixion back through the worship in Solomon's Temple to the Tabernacle made by Moses and through to the Garden of Eden and even beyond.

Betsy LaQuanda Ross is a self-proclaimed “Peculiar Patriot”, who makes regular visits to penitentiaries in order to boost the morale of her loved ones. When she is not sharing neighborhood updates and gossip, Betsy illuminates our country’s cruel and unjust criminal justice system and its impact not only on the 2.3 million people behind bars, but also their family and friends.

Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander offers a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status, denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights movement.

Charged follows the story of two young people caught up in the criminal justice system: Kevin, a 20-year-old in Brooklyn who picked up his friend’s gun as the cops burst in and was charged with a serious violent felony, and Noura, a teenage girl in Memphis indicted for the murder of her mother. Bazelon tracks both cases - from arrest and charging to trial and sentencing - and with her trademark blend of deeply reported narrative, legal analysis, and investigative journalism illustrates just how criminal prosecutions can go wrong and, more important, why they don’t have to.

An evil cult has risen in the bowels of New Orleans. Cole, the man who established this cult, directs his queen's efforts toward his goal, which is a fiery destruction followed by the establishment of a new order over which he and she will rule. Julie Williams is a witch, descended from a centuries old line of witches. Julie has learned through visions and ceremonies of the coming fire. She teams up with Dean Curtis, a construction site manager in Dallas, and Aaron White, a young deaf child whose parents are killed by the cult. The three of them travel to New Orleans to confront the cult ...

There are many books covering the topic of Mass Murder (Shootings), but all have a common theme. This book is different in that it takes an important look at Mass Murder from a Spiritual perspective. Thus giving a more indepth look at why such incidents are occurring and the spiritual message these shootings are trying to teach mankind. The reasons for such events as Mass Murder are spelled out from a spiritual viewpoint so that it can finally be understood the true motivation behind the seemingly negative acts.

"And a girl born of the stars gambled with fate. She sacrificed herself and jumped after him." Oracles are like diamonds: stunning and valuable. In times of chaos and war, they're priceless. And they're known to succumb to the temptations of wealthy, powerful men. And the King who conquered three kingdoms wants to find the fated oracle chosen of the stars. And not just because she'll be beautiful. But because she is destined to do more than just see the future... She might be able to influence it. Samara has lived a sheltered, privileged life with her war-hero father and her famous ...

The legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt enjoys regular acclaim from historians, politicians, and educators. But is that true? Deploying an abundance of primary source evidence and well-reasoned arguments, historian and distinguished professor emeritus David T. Beito masterfully presents a complete account of the real Franklin D. Roosevelt: a man who abused power, violated human rights, targeted dissidents, and let his crude racism imprison American citizens merely for being of Japanese descent.

Why do some leap ahead while others fall behind in today's chaotic, hyperconnected world? In New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms confront the biggest stories of our age - the rise of megaplatforms like Facebook and Uber; the out-of-nowhere rise of Trump and Corbyn - and reveal what's really behind them: the rise of New Power. For most of human history, the rules of power were clear. To get ahead or get things done, you mastered 'old power', which is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven....

The updated Photon-Storm Theory explains energy, space-time, the electron, matter, magnetism, gravity, stars, radioactivity, the strong and weak forces, universe expansion, and black holes, utilizing the photon-storm model. The math is simple; and agrees with Newton and Einstein. The double-slit experiment becomes rational in the photon-storm model.

Al apuntar a hombres negros por medio de la Guerra contra las Drogas y diezmando las comunidades de gente de color, el sistema de justicia criminal de Estados Unidos funciona como un sistema contemporaneo de control racial - al relegar a millones de personas a un estatus de segunda clase - incluso mientras este se adhiere al principio de ceguera para los colores.

A chilling prophecy, a church-going family, and occult magic working in the background. To the unsuspecting, the Star family is ordinary—holding regular jobs and leading mundane lives. But beneath the surface, they are far from typical. The Stars belong to an elite secret society that practices powerful sorcery. When a prophecy emerges, foretelling the arrival of the Black Awakening, Dawn’s quiet life is disrupted. As darkness threatens to engulf the world, Dawn must confront his own identity, and navigate a web of ancient secrets. With his family’s hidden legacy coming to light, he ...

The picturesque towns and quiet woods of New England hold their secrets close. Beneath the idyllic surface of historic charm and natural beauty lies a dark history of violence, a collection of the region's most haunting and perplexing cold cases. This gripping narrative journeys into the heart of these shadows, examining a series of baffling crimes that terrified communities and stumped investigators for decades. From the unidentified victims of the Bear Brook barrels to a string of unsolved slayings that plagued a single seaside city, these are the stories of lives cut short and the ...

Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of 31 men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates an indelible portrait of a closeted, blue-collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community.

In 1620, a group of English families, known now as the Pilgrims, were carried from England to the New World on the Mayflower. When the Mayflower finally showed up in America on November 21, 1620, it had 102 guests and a team of around 30 on board, and was anchored off Cape Cod. The Pilgrims, as opposed to their Puritan coworkers, chose to break away from the Church of England because of its Roman Catholic heritage and the church's hesitation to reform, requiring them to pray in private instead of in the church.