Ryan Vincent Anderson
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The definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequality
In Separate and Unequal, historian Steven M. Gillon offers a revelatory new history of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders--popularly known as the Kerner Commission. Convened by President Lyndon Johnson after riots in Newark and Detroit left dozens dead and thousands injured, the commission issued a report...
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A prominent sacred researcher uncovers how our way to deal with privileges is separating America, and demonstrates the way that we can construct a superior arrangement of equity.
You reserve the privilege to stay quiet - and the option to free discourse. The option to venerate, and to uncertainty. The option to be liberated from segregation, and to loathe. The right to life, and the option to possess a weapon.
Privileges are a holy piece of American...
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New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler crafts a near-future thriller about the evolution of empathy.
Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn is the first of his kind-an empathy tracker, an emotional soothsayer, with a felt sense for the future of the we. In simpler terms, he can spot cultural shifts and trends before they happen.
It's a useful skill for a certain kind...
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SOMETIMES THE SMALLEST MISTAKES ARE THE DEADLIEST.
A People Magazine "Book of the Week."
"Jessica Treadway draws her characters into an impossible knot and then expertly teases apart...kept me up half the night." -- Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth
Fans of Reconstructing Amelia will love this pulse-pounding novel of mystery, betrayal, and a small town's dark secrets. On a cold December day, the body of high school...