Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
By: Alisa Roth
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made …
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1. No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
By: Ron Powers
3.87
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the… read more
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"The mentally ill people in our lives, as they strive to build healthy, well-supported, and rewarding lives for themselves, can show us all how to reconnect with the most primal of human urges, the ur…"-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
"...I have sometimes imagined my own sanity as resting on the surface of a membrane, a thin and fragile membrane that can easily be ripped open, plunging me into the abyss of madness, where I join the…"-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
"The future will be decided in a thousand American urban neighborhoods and suburban conference centers and small-town church basements and library meeting rooms and rural kitchens... The future of men…"-Ron Powers, No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
2. Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward
By: Elizabeth Ford
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the Executive Director of Mental Health for Correctional Services in New York City, comes a re… read more
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3. Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters
By: Peter Langman
3.83
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
Ten years after the school massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, school shootings are a ne… read more
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4. Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice
By: Adam Benforado
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
"A law professor sounds an explosive alarm on the hidden unfairness of our legal system." --Kirkus … read more
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5. Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
By: Emily Craig , Emily Craig
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Teasing Secrets from the Deadis a front-lines story of crime scene investigation at some of the mos… read more
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6. Being Peace (Being Peace, #1)
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Since its publication in 1987, "Being Peace" has become a classic of contemporary religious literat… read more
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7. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
By: Angela Nagle
4.08
Format: 88 pages, ebook
Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle … read more
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8. One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
By: Åsne Seierstad , Sarah Death
4.17
Format: None pages,
A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put… read more
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9. Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
By: Ben Goldacre
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it's based on evidence and the results of fair tests. I… read more
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10. Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties
By: None , None
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Hardcover
In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne L… read more
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11. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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12. Never Suck A Dead Man's Hand: And Other Life (and Death) Lessons from the Front Lines of Forensics
By: Dana Kollmann
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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13. The Moral Sense
By: James Q. Wilson
3.95
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
The classic and controversial argument that morality is based in human nature. read more
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14. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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15. Uncultured: A Memoir
By: Daniella Mestyanek Young
4.08
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a … read more
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"Daniella,"-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
"The body keeps the score."-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
"I can run and run, but I’m always still here."-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
"...the only real friend I had, and would ever have, was myself."-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir
16. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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17. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
By: Sarah Kendzior
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-see… read more
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"The word “conspire"-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"The desire to forget is as overwhelming as the obligation not to."-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"History was a feedback loop of unlearned lessons and reverberating lies."-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"There is no such thing as paranoia; your worst fears can come true at any moment,"-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
18. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
By: Bill Maher
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more
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19. Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic
By: Peter Canning
4.22
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
When Peter Canning started work as a paramedic on the streets of Hartford, Connecticut, twenty-five… read more
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20. Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
By: Alisa Roth
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made … read more
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21. American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
By: Shane Bauer
4.23
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private p… read more
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"When I get home, I draw a bath. I pour a glass of wine, then another, and another. I try to empty my mind. Inside me there is a prison guard and a former prisoner and they are fighting with each othe…"-Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
"How many times have such meetings been held throughout American history? How many times have men. be they private prison executives or convict lessees, gotten together to perform this ritual? They si…"-Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
22. Beyond the Last Path: A Buchenwald Survivor's Story
By: Eugene Weinstock
4.48
Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition
It records what he saw and felt during his calvary from Antwerp to the Malin distribution camp in F… read more
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23. Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
By: Richard A. McKay
4.08
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Now an award-winning documentary feature film The search for a “patient zero”—popularly understood… read more
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24. Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
By: Rosa Brooks
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Journalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the blue wall of silence in this radical insid… read more
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"For better or for worse, police officers spend most of their time serving as medics, mediators, and monitors."-Rosa Brooks, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
"Violence is a puzzle. We all say we oppose violence and want to reduce it, but no human society gets by without it."-Rosa Brooks, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
"What if instead of telling officers they have a right to go home safe, police training focused on reminding officers that members of the public have a right to go home safe? What if we reminded offic…"-Rosa Brooks, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
"For the most part, America’s criminal justice system isn’t deliberately cruel. It’s just indifferent to the ways in which it breaks human beings. Few police officers want to contribute to mass incarc…"-Rosa Brooks, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
25. Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction
By: Shira Hassan
4.53
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Harm Reduction is one of the most important interventions of the 20th century, and yet a compilatio… read more
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26. Rakesfall
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
3.39
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Rakesfall is a groundbreaking, standalone science fiction epic about two souls bound together from … read more
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"She asks the moon, who loves her, but the moon does not know."-Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall
27. Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island
By: Ian Cobain
4.21
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a… read more
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28. Helping the Suicidal Person: Tips and Techniques for Professionals
By: Stacey Freedenthal
4.68
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Helping the Suicidal Person provides a highly practical toolbox for mental health professionals. Th… read more
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