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  • Death by Regulation

    How Bureaucrats Killed One of Obamacare's Promising Innovations

    The story of a small healthcare startup and its fight for survival against the very federal agencies responsible for its launch as part of the ACA.In the contentious run-up to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Congress passed a law to make nonprofit health insurance CO-OPs (formally known as Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans) a viable alternative to the public option. The idea was to ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Tapping into The Wire

    The Real Urban Crisis

    Story lines from The Wire challenge public perceptions about the deadly, real-world connections between drugs, crime, and poverty.Did Omar Little die of lead poisoning? Would a decriminalization strategy like the one in Hamsterdam end the War on Drugs? What will it take to save neglected kids like Wallace and Dukie? Tapping into 'The Wire' uses the acclaimed television series as a road map for ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Tapping into The Wire

    The Real Urban Crisis

    Story lines from The Wire challenge public perceptions about the deadly, real-world connections between drugs, crime, and poverty.Did Omar Little die of lead poisoning? Would a decriminalization strategy like the one in Hamsterdam end the War on Drugs? What will it take to save neglected kids like Wallace and Dukie? Tapping into 'The Wire' uses the acclaimed television series as a road map for ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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  • The End of Policing

    **The best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated edition"Urgent, provocative, and timely, The End of Policing will make you question most of what you have been taught to believe about crime and how to solve it."—James Forman Jr., author of Locking Up Our Own**The massive uprising that followed the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020— by some estimates ... Read more

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  • Bitcoin From Beginner To Expert

    The Ultimate Guide To Cryptocurrency And Blockchain Technology

    Reading through this book will provide you with a basic knowledge of Bitcoin, how it works and how to use it safely. This will allow you to have a base to learn further from and explore areas that may be of greater interest to you whether that may be creating new Bitcoin through mining or perhaps you prefer to invest in the crypto exchanges and make a fortune making informed decisions. Whichever ... Read more

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  • San Fransicko

    Why Progressives Ruin Cities

    National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities.Progressives claimed they knew how to solve the homelessness crisis, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, from San Francisco to Seattle, progressives made those problems worse.Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that ... Read more

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  • Drug Use for Grown-Ups

    Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear

    **“Hart’s argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely . . . when it comes to the legacy of this country’s war on drugs, we should all share his outrage.” —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom one of the world's foremost experts on the subject, a powerful argument that the greatest damage from drugs flows from their being illegal, and a ... Read more

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  • Winning Monopoly

    Seidman's "Winning Monopoly" is a short book that teaches the clear and simple strategy for winning the popular board game "Monopoly". In this book, Seidman also provides charts and histograms that show precisely the frequency that properties are landed on and the expected money that each will generate from rent. From the clearly presented strategy and the chart visualizations you will know ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • High Price

    A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society

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    A pioneering neuroscientist recounts his youth in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and how it led him to his groundbreaking work in drug addiction.Winner, Pen/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award"A fascinating combination of memoir and social science." —John Tierney, New York TimesAs a youth, Carl Hart didn't realize the value of school; he studied just enough to stay on the ba... ... Read more

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  • Obamacare: What's in It for Me?

    What Everyone Needs to Know About the Affordable Care Act

    On January 1, 2014, the most important consumer protections in ObamaCare (the Affordable Care Act) go into effect. With both supporters and opponents of the law debating its merits and its controversial rollout, there is a need for “news-you-can-use” types of resources from credible third parties.Enter Wendell Potter, author of Deadly Spin and former health insurance executive. Obamacare: What's ... Read more

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  • Locking Up Our Own

    Crime and Punishment in Black America

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-FictionLong-listed for the National Book AwardLos Angeles Times Book Prizes FinalistNew York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year"A beautiful book, written so well, that gives us the origins and consequences of where we are . . . I can see why [the Pulitzer prize] was awarded." —Trevor Noah, The Daily ShowF... ... Read more

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