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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “tara wright”
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  • Tracks

    a short story

    by Tara Wright ...
    Series series Fiction Attic Press Single Story Ebook Series
    In this spare and beautifully imagined short story, set on a night train in winter, a woman struggles to come to terms with the loss of a child. A romantic encounter with a stranger in a dining car allows her to glimpse, momentarily, a different kind of life. The story's startling conclusion will leave a lasting impression. ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Freedoms of Speech

    Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power

    Edited by Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood, Fiona Wright ...
    Series series Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life
    Bringing together leading anthropologists, this collection sheds light on the vast topic of freedoms of speech from a comparatively human perspective. Freedoms of Speech provides a sustained, empirical exploration of the variety of ways freedom of speech is lived, valued, and contested in practice; envisioned as an ideal; and mediated by various linguistic, ethical, and material forms.From Ireland ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Prison Profiteers

    Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration

    by Tara Herivel, Paul Wright ...
    "No country in history has ever handed over so many inmates to private corporations. This book looks at the consequences" (Eric Schlosser, bestselling author of Fast Food Nation ).In Prison Profiteers, coeditors Tara Herivel and Paul Wright "follow the money to an astonishing constellation of prison administrators and politicians working in collusion with private parties to maximize profits" ( ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Freedoms of Speech

    Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power

    Edited by Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood, Fiona Wright ...
    Series series Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life
    Bringing together leading anthropologists, this collection sheds light on the vast topic of freedoms of speech from a comparatively human perspective. Freedoms of Speech provides a sustained, empirical exploration of the variety of ways freedom of speech is lived, valued, and contested in practice; envisioned as an ideal; and mediated by various linguistic, ethical, and material forms.From Ireland ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Prison Nation

    The Warehousing of America's Poor

    Edited by Paul Wright, Tara Herivel ...
    Prison Nation is a distant dispatch from a foreign and forbidden place--the world of America's prisons. Written by prisoners, social critics and luminaries of investigative reporting, Prison Nation testifies to the current state of America's prisoners' living conditions and political concerns. These concerns are not normally the concerns of most Americans, but they should be. From substandard ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Bump in the Night: Count Down to Halloween

    by Diane Wright Landolf ...
    Narrated by Tara Sands ...
    Series series Countdown Novels

    Unabridged

    1 hour 54 min

    Count down to Halloween with 13 sealed short stories!Bump in the Night features 13 chilling tales to tingle kids' spines without keeping them up all night. Perfect for reading in the lead-up to Halloween, each story features full-color artwork and is sealed with a sticker for kids to peel open and reveal the frights and delights within. Whether readers open one story per day, or tear into them all ... Read more

    Was $26.99 CAD Now $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

    by Michael S. Berliner, Harry Binswanger, Tore Boeckmann, Jeff Britting, Debi Ghate, Onkar Ghate, Edwin A. Locke, Shoshana Milgram, Leonard Peikoff, Richard Ralston, Tara Smith, Mary Ann Sures, Darryl Wright, Andrew Bernstein, Allan Gotthelf, Gregory Salmieri ...
    While the fiction of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is extremely popular and enduring, little has been written on it so far. This book consists of essays, most of which are new, by top Rand scholars on Atlas Shrugged, her magnum opus. The essays deal with historical, literary, and philosophical topics, surpassing related writings in breadth and depth of analysis. The historical essays cover the ... Read more

    $78.89 CAD

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  • The War on Cops

    How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe

    by Heather Mac Donald ...
    Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the “Ferguson effect”: Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, officers have been backing ... Read more

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  • Three Felonies A Day

    How the Feds Target the Innocent

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    The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate ... Read more

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  • Driving While Black

    Highways, Shopping Malls, Taxi Cabs, Sidewalks: How to Fight Back if You Are a Victim of Racial Profiling

    by Kenneth Meeks ...
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  • The Case Against Lawyers

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