Punishment and Inequality in America
By: Bruce Western
4.10
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Over the last thirty years, the prison population in the United States has increased more than seve…
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By: William J. Stuntz
3.80
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
The rule of law has vanished in America's criminal justice system. Prosecutors now decide whom to p… read more
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2. White Teeth
By: Zadie Smith
4.53
Format: 288 pages,
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaus… read more
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3. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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4. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
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5. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
By: Cal Newport
4.06
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to o… read more
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By: Alice Walker
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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7. Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
By: Alexandra Natapoff
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as crimi… read more
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"[O]ffenses like disorderly conduct, obstruction, and resisting arrest are easily alleged, they effectively give police the power to arrest based on violations of their own sense of authority."-Alexandra Natapoff, Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
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8. Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing
By: Issa Kohler-Hausmann
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Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
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9. Punishment and Inequality in America
By: Bruce Western
4.10
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Over the last thirty years, the prison population in the United States has increased more than seve… read more
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