Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
By: M. Chris Fabricant
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An insider's journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science…
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1. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
By: Naomi Oreskes , Erik M. Conway
4.17
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, en… read more
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"An all purpose expert is an oxymoron"-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
"The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions"-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
"After the Cold War, most scientists were relieved to be freed of the burdens of secrecy and misrepresentation, but Seitz, Singer, and Nierenberg continued to act as if the Cold War had not ended."-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
"...and that greater use of pesticides was the key to wiping out world hunger (although most social scientist disagree, pointing out that there is plenty of food in the world; the problem we face is o…"-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
2. Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports
By: Mark Fainaru-Wada , Lance Williams
3.42
Format: None pages,
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3. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
By: Radley Balko
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
The American approach to law enforcement was forged by the experience of revolution. Emerging as th… read more
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4. Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable
By: Joanna Schwartz
4.47
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police mis… read more
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5. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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6. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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7. Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—A Cool History of a Hot Commodity
By: Amy Brady
3.91
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation--from the foods Americans eat,… read more
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8. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
By: Radley Balko
4.03
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursue… read more
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9. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
By: Steven Levitsky
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more
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10. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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11. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
By: M. Chris Fabricant
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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12. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
By: Catherine Coldstream
3.71
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more
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13. Duped: Why Innocent People Confess - And Why We Believe Their Confessions
By: Saul M. Kassin
4.15
Format: 424 pages, ebook
Why do people confess to crimes they did not commit? And, surely, those cases must be rare? In fact… read more
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14. If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize finalist's bizarre journalistic journey through the world of fringe medicine, fill… read more
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15. Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry
By: Kelly Richmond Pope
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A riveting look at the perpetrators, victims, and whistleblowers behind financial crimes, from fore… read more
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16. Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
By: Preet Bharara
4.27
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of … read more
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"You can’t ever really know someone else’s mind or someone else’s heart, what someone else is capable of."-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
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"You will not find God or grace in legal concepts, in formal notions of criminal justice. Certain values and ideals are beyond justice. These include mercy, forgiveness, redemption, dignity. Also love."-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
"One's understanding of the truth—whether that's the correctness of a fact or the guilt of a person—should never be unalterable. Think of a strongly held, defensible point of view as a block of ice, f…"-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
17. Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison
By: Daniel S. Medwed
4.40
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exposé of how our legal system makes it nearly impossible to overturn wrongful con… read more
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18. Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change
By: Ben Austen
4.36
Format: None pages, None
Author of HIGH-RISERS Ben Austen's CORRECTION: PAROLE AND AMERICAN JUSTICE, an exploration of the U… read more
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19. You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent
By: Justin Brooks
4.66
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Surviving prison as an innocent person is a surreal nightmare no one wants to think about. But it c… read more
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20. Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality
By: Renee DiResta
4.17
Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliant, original investigation into the radical shift of power as invisible rulers create bes… read more
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21. Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy
By: Brian Tyler Cohen
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the first content creator to interview President Biden, leading progressive voice Brian Tyler … read more
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