New Masses

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.

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.

An Oxford physicist "seeks to shatter complacency" (David Deutsch) in modern physics and show why five revolutionary experiments in quantum physics promise to open the gates separating us from a true understanding of the universe For the last century, physics has been treading along the paths...

*** 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 ...

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.

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.

"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.

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 ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America’s mass incarceration crisis—and charts a way out. “An important, thoughtful, and thorough examination of criminal justice in America that...

One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2022 The disturbing eyewitness account of how a new breed of Republicans—led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Madison Cawthorn—far from moving on from Trump, have taken the politics of hysteria to even...

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 ...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Steve John Shepherd, whose theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe, The Good Canary directed by John Malkovich, Bomber's Moon and Piaf. His TV and film credits range from the iconic This Life to Silent Witness...

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 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.

In the winter of 1692, in the isolated Puritan settlement of Salem Village, Massachusetts, two young girls began to suffer bizarre fits and convulsions. What started as a mysterious affliction in the household of Reverend Samuel Parris quickly spiraled into one of the most infamous episodes in American history: the Salem witch trials.Over the course of less than a year, more than 200 people were accused of witchcraft, 30 were convicted, 19 were hanged, one man was pressed to death, and several others died in prison. Rooted in a fervent belief in Satan's active presence in the world, the ...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The New Jim Crow written by Michelle Alexander, read by Karen Chilton. 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...

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. ...

A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals. Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive...