Why would two small-time American public defenders search, locate, and photograph the lifeless bodies of young women their client raped, murdered, and hid, and then leave the bodies where they found them and not tell authorities? And how did they have the audacity to meet with one of the fathers of a missing girl and tell him they knew nothing about her fate or whereabouts?
When the nation eventually learned of the lawyers' actions, they were horrified and outraged that two officers of the law could act in a way that seemed beyond any concept of humanity.
In Sworn to Silence, award winning reporter Jim Tracy tells the lawyers' story within the framework of a true crime narrative. He uncovers a criminal who police and the public never learned was an American serial killer. Tracy does so while taking the listener back briefly to American life in the early 1970s.
As the speed and complexity of the world increases, governments and nonprofit organizations need new ways to effectively tackle the critical challenges of our time-from pandemics and global warming to social media warfare. In Power to the Public, Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank describe a revolutionary new approach-public interest technology-that has the potential to transform the way governments and nonprofits around the world solve problems. Through inspiring stories about successful projects ranging from a texting service for teenagers in crisis to a streamlined foster care system, the authors show how public interest technology can make the delivery of services to the public more effective and efficient.
At its heart, public interest technology means putting users at the center of the policymaking process, using data and metrics in a smart way, and running small experiments and pilot programs before scaling up. And while this approach may well involve the innovative use of digital technology, technology alone is no panacea-and some of the best solutions may even be decidedly low-tech.
Clear-eyed yet profoundly optimistic, Power to the Public presents a powerful blueprint for how government and nonprofits can help solve society's most serious problems.
An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals.
The United States incarcerates more of its residents than any other nation. Though home to 5% of the global population, the United States has nearly 25% of the world's prisoners-a total of over 2 million people. This number continues to steadily rise. Over the past 40 years, the number of people behind bars in the United States has increased by 500%.
Journalist Victoria Law explains how racism and social control were the catalysts for mass incarceration and have continued to be its driving force: from the post-Civil War laws that states passed to imprison former slaves, to the laws passed under the "War Against Drugs" campaign that disproportionately imprison Black people. She breaks down these complicated issues into four main parts:
1. The rise and cause of mass incarceration
2. Myths about prison
3. Misconceptions about incarcerated people
4. How to end mass incarceration
Through carefully conducted research and interviews with incarcerated people, Law identifies the 21 key myths that propel and maintain mass incarceration, including:
• The system is broken and we simply need some reforms to fix it
• Incarceration is necessary to keep our society safe
• Prison is an effective way to get people into drug treatment
• Private prison corporations drive mass incarceration
"Prisons Make Us Safer" is a necessary guide for all who are interested in learning about the cause and rise of mass incarceration and how we can dismantle it.
Efforts to reduce gun violence in the United States face formidable political and constitutional barriers. Legislation that would ban or broadly restrict firearms runs afoul of the Supreme Court's current interpretation of the Second Amendment. And gun rights advocates have joined a politically savvy firearm industry in a powerful coalition that stymies reform.
Ian Ayres and Fredrick Vars suggest a new way forward. We can decrease the number of gun deaths, they argue, by empowering individual citizens to choose common-sense gun reforms for themselves. Rather than ask politicians to impose one-size-fits-all rules, we can harness a libertarian approach-one that respects and expands individual freedom and personal choice-to combat the scourge of gun violence.
Ayres and Vars identify ten policies that can be immediately adopted at the state level to reduce the number of gun-related deaths without affecting the rights of gun owners. By embracing these and other new forms of decentralized gun control, the United States can move past partisan gridlock and save lives now.
Divorce Remedy: The Best Guide On How to Understand Your Partner and Your Fundamental Differences and Use This to Repair Your Marriage
It has been theorized too many times that men and women are diametrically opposite beings. The theory goes on to say that there are totally different things that drive both these genders, and there are different things that they are looking for. That is the reason men and women act and behave in radically different ways.
This audiobook will show you that men and women are fundamentally different and we need to understand and accept these differences. We need to understand that there are different things that we look for in life, and even in a relationship, there are different things that a man and a woman look for each other. You will learn how to understand your partner and your differences and use this to repair your relationship. It takes time and it takes effort, but, most importantly, it takes a great deal of maturity and understanding. If we accept these differences in our partners, we will have more meaningful relationships.
Here is the preview of what you will learn in this audiobook:
- Defeating Divorce Basics
- Then And Now
- Know The Differences
- Mind Your Tongue
- Thriving
Marriage is a duty larger than life and maybe a source of bother or sound joy. Only if we turn those bothers and joys into building blocks for a lasting friendship may we say that we’ve taken the firm path to a union made in heaven. If you want to learn more, download Divorce Remedy now!
For most of the twentieth century, the American founding has been presented as a struggle between social classes over issues arising primarily within, rather than outside, the United States. But in recent years, new scholarship has instead turned to the international history of the American union to interpret both the causes and the consequences of the US Constitution.
In Perfecting the Union, Max M. Edling argues that the Constitution was created to defend US territorial integrity and the national interest from competitors in the western borderlands and on the Atlantic Ocean, and to defuse inter-state tension within the union. By replacing the defunct Articles of Confederation, the Constitution profoundly transformed the structure of the American union by making the national government more effective. But it did not transform the fundamental purpose of the union, which remained a political organization designed to manage inter-state and international relations. And in contrast to what many scholars claim, it was never meant to eclipse the state governments.
The Constitution created a national government but did not significantly extend its remit. The result was a dual structure of government, in which the federal government and the states were both essential to the people's welfare.
From Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age—and why we can’t stop falling for them.
'Scams are hot right now, and Bluestone covers the hottest here.' –
Booklist
We live in an age where scams are the new normal. A charismatic entrepreneur sells thousands of tickets to a festival that never happened. Respected investors pour millions into a start-up centered around fake blood tests. Reviewers and celebrities flock to London’s top-rated restaurant that’s little more than a backyard shed. These unsettling stories of today’s viral grifters have risen to fame and hit the front-page headlines, yet the curious conundrum remains: Why do these scams happen?
Drawing from scientific research, marketing campaigns, and exclusive documents and interviews, Vice reporter Gabrielle Bluestone delves into the irresistible hype that fuels our social media ecosystem, whether it’s from the trusted influencers that peddled Fyre or the consumer reviews that sold Juicero. A cultural examination that is as revelatory as it is relevant, Hype pulls back the curtain on the manipulation game behind the never-ending scam season—and how we as consumers can stop getting played.
“Juicy, sharp, savage and wildly entertaining” – Cat Marnell, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Murder Your Life
As we navigate the coming decades, We the People must know our rights more than ever, particularly as they relate to the freedom to exercise our religion. Armed with a proper understanding of this country's rich tradition of religious liberty, we can protect faith through any crisis that comes our way. Without that understanding, though, we'll watch as the creeping secular age erodes our freedom. In this book, Ken Starr explores the crises that threaten religious liberty in America. He also examines the ways well-meaning government action sometimes undermines the religious liberty of the people and how the Supreme Court in the past has ultimately provided us protection from such forms of government overreach. He also explores the possibilities of future overreach by government officials. Listeners will learn how each of us can resist the quarantining of our faith within the confines of the law and why that resistance is important. Through gaining a deep understanding of the Constitutional importance of religious expression, Starr invites listeners to be a part of protecting those rights of religious freedom and taking a more active role in advancing the cause of liberty.
Os audiolivros da série Direito Societário, de Eduardo Goulart Pimenta, abordam de forma aprofundada todas as questões envolvendo a legislação referente às empresas e sociedades empresárias. Esta parte (1) trata do aspecto econômico, da constituição e dos tipos das personalidades jurídicas. Escute também as partes 2 a 5. Na parte 2, o autor aborda a questão dos valores mobiliários, incluindo desde temas como bolsa de valores, mercado de derivativos e debêntures até a presença de novas tecnologias no mercado, como o blockchain, os algoritmos e as criptomoedas. A parte 3 foca nos caminhos de controle das sociedades empresárias com as regras para deliberações e direito de voto. Na parte 4, são abordados os principais aspectos ligados à administração, às decisões e à fiscalização. E a parte 5 trata das relações intersocietárias, incluindo os processos de fusão, incorporação, cisão e dissolução.
Os audiolivros da série Direito Societário, de Eduardo Goulart Pimenta, abordam de forma aprofundada todas as questões envolvendo a legislação referente às empresas e sociedades empresárias. Nesta parte (2), o autor aborda a questão dos valores mobiliários, incluindo desde temas como bolsa de valores, mercado de derivativos e debêntures até a presença de novas tecnologias no mercado, como o blockchain, os algoritmos e as criptomoedas. Escute também as outras partes. A parte 1 trata do aspecto econômico, da constituição e dos tipos das personalidades jurídicas. A parte 3 foca nos caminhos de controle das sociedades empresárias com as regras para deliberações e direito de voto. Na parte 4, são abordados os principais aspectos ligados à administração, às decisões e à fiscalização. E a parte 5 trata das relações intersocietárias, incluindo os processos de fusão, incorporação, cisão e dissolução.
Os audiolivros da série Direito Societário, de Eduardo Goulart Pimenta, abordam de forma aprofundada todas as questões envolvendo a legislação referente às empresas e sociedades empresárias. Esta parte (3) foca nos caminhos de controle das sociedades empresárias com as regras para deliberações e direito de voto. Escute também as outras partes. A parte 1 trata do aspecto econômico, da constituição e dos tipos das personalidades jurídicas. Na parte 2, o autor aborda a questão dos valores mobiliários, incluindo desde temas como bolsa de valores, mercado de derivativos e debêntures até a presença de novas tecnologias no mercado, como o blockchain, os algoritmos e as criptomoedas. Na parte 4, são abordados os principais aspectos ligados à administração, às decisões e à fiscalização. E a parte 5 trata das relações intersocietárias, incluindo os processos de fusão, incorporação, cisão e dissolução.
Os audiolivros da série Direito Societário, de Eduardo Goulart Pimenta, abordam de forma aprofundada todas as questões envolvendo a legislação referente às empresas e sociedades empresárias. Nesta parte (4), são abordados os principais aspectos ligados à administração, às decisões e à fiscalização. Escute também as outras partes. A parte 1 trata do aspecto econômico, da constituição e dos tipos das personalidades jurídicas. Na parte 2, o autor aborda a questão dos valores mobiliários, incluindo desde temas como bolsa de valores, mercado de derivativos e debêntures até a presença de novas tecnologias no mercado, como o blockchain, os algoritmos e as criptomoedas. A parte 3 foca nos caminhos de controle das sociedades empresárias com as regras para deliberações e direito de voto. E a parte 5 trata das relações intersocietárias, incluindo os processos de fusão, incorporação, cisão e dissolução.
