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The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit

by Robin Bernstein ...

Honored by the 2025 Massachusetts Book Awards in NonfictionAn award-winning historian tells a gripping, morally complicated story of murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prison for profit.In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-driven prison. Uniting incarceration and capitalism, the ... Read more

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Honored by the 2025 Massachusetts Book Awards in NonfictionAn award-winning historian tells a gripping, morally complicated story of murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prison for profit.In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-driven prison. Uniting incarceration and capitalism, the
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Racial Innocence

Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights

by Robin Bernstein ...

Series Book 16 - America and the Long 19th Century
2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association2012 Runner-Up, John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association2012 Honorable ... ... Read more

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2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association2012 Runner-Up, John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association2012 Honorable ...
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Uniquely Normal

Tapping The Reservoir of Normalcy To Treat Autism

by Robert J. Bernstein, Robin Cantor-Cooke ...

Author Robert J. Bernstein has found a different approach in helping people of all ages with ASD. Based on cognitive thinking, the goal is for people with ASD to be able to live in the world and connect with the people in it as themselves. Bernstein believes that whatever he does therapeutically must be on the individual’s terms—he or she must lead. Therapy examples are categorized by age groups, ... Read more

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Author Robert J. Bernstein has found a different approach in helping people of all ages with ASD. Based on cognitive thinking, the goal is for people with ASD to be able to live in the world and connect with the people in it as themselves. Bernstein believes that whatever he does therapeutically must be on the individual’s terms—he or she must lead. Therapy examples are categorized by age groups,
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The Children's Table

Childhood Studies and the Humanities

by Annette Ruth Appell, James Marten, John Wall, Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Lesley Ginsberg, Lucia Hodgson, Lynne Vallone, Robin Bernstein, Roy Kozlovsky, Sarah E. Chinn, Sophie Bell, Susan Honeyman, Carol J. Singley ...

Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "adult" labor of humanities scholarship. The Children's Table brings together scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and literary and cultural criticism to provide an overview of the innovative work being done in childhood studies—a transcript of what is being said ... Read more

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Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "adult" labor of humanities scholarship. The Children's Table brings together scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and literary and cultural criticism to provide an overview of the innovative work being done in childhood studies—a transcript of what is being said
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Freeman's Challenge

The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit

by Robin Bernstein ...

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8 hours 6 min

An award-winning historian tells a gripping, morally complicated story of murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prison for profit.In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-driven prison. Uniting incarceration and capitalism, the village of Auburn built a prison that enclosed industrial ... Read more

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An award-winning historian tells a gripping, morally complicated story of murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prison for profit.In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-driven prison. Uniting incarceration and capitalism, the village of Auburn built a prison that enclosed industrial
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A Lynching at Port Jervis

Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age

by Philip Dray ...

Narrated by Dion Graham ...

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7 hours 4 min

An account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racismOn June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The twenty-eight-year-old victim had been accused of sexually assaulting Lena McMahon, the daughter of one of the town's well-liked Irish American ... Read more

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An account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racismOn June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The twenty-eight-year-old victim had been accused of sexually assaulting Lena McMahon, the daughter of one of the town's well-liked Irish American
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Chasing Me to My Grave

An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South

by Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly ...

Narrated by Dion Graham, Karen Chilton ...

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6 hours 47 min

Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager.He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, later survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent the next seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife. Years later, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsy’s ... Read more

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Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager.He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, later survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent the next seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife. Years later, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsy’s
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The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself

The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times

by Robin Reames ...

Narrated by Kim Niemi ...

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9 hours 40 min

The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. Only recently has its perceived importance faded.In this book, renowned rhetorical scholar Robin Reames argues that, in today's polarized political climate, we should all care deeply about learning rhetoric. Drawing on examples ranging from the destructive ancient Greek demagogue Alcibiades to modern-day ... Read more

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The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. Only recently has its perceived importance faded.In this book, renowned rhetorical scholar Robin Reames argues that, in today's polarized political climate, we should all care deeply about learning rhetoric. Drawing on examples ranging from the destructive ancient Greek demagogue Alcibiades to modern-day
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Nonviolent

A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love

by Reverend James Lawson Jr, Emily Yellin ...

Narrated by Emily Yellin, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Dominic Hoffman, John C. Lawson, Raven Lawson, Cassandra Campbell, MacLeod Andrews, Devin Lawson0 ...

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28 hours 11 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The posthumous memoir of Rev. James Lawson Jr., peer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mentor to Congressman John Lewis and the Freedom Riders, and a principal architect of a nonviolent resistance movement that changed the world.“This book is a gift to be treasured, from a man who has already given so much.”—Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of King: A LifeRev. Lawson ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The posthumous memoir of Rev. James Lawson Jr., peer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mentor to Congressman John Lewis and the Freedom Riders, and a principal architect of a nonviolent resistance movement that changed the world.“This book is a gift to be treasured, from a man who has already given so much.”—Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of King: A LifeRev. Lawson
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America, U.S.A.

How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries

by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...

Narrated by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...

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9 hours 37 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts America’s unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us.“A thoughtful, insightful, beautifully written book that is timely and welcomed in these perilous times.”—Bryan Stevenson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy**“Eddie S. Glaude Jr. opens a ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts America’s unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us.“A thoughtful, insightful, beautifully written book that is timely and welcomed in these perilous times.”—Bryan Stevenson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy**“Eddie S. Glaude Jr. opens a
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Drained

Reduce Your Mental Load to Do Less and Be More

by Leah Ruppanner PhD ...

Narrated by Leah Ruppanner PhD ...

Unabridged

9 hours 10 min

A renowned sociologist and researcher reveals how women can build the life they really wantThe term mental load has become more familiar in recent years, but the popular understanding of the concept often reduces it down to managing a list of household chores and logistics. Sociologist Leah Ruppanner reveals that for women, mental load actually goes much deeper: It’s a complex form of emotional ... Read more

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A renowned sociologist and researcher reveals how women can build the life they really wantThe term mental load has become more familiar in recent years, but the popular understanding of the concept often reduces it down to managing a list of household chores and logistics. Sociologist Leah Ruppanner reveals that for women, mental load actually goes much deeper: It’s a complex form of emotional
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The World Broke in Two

Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature

by Bill Goldstein ...

Narrated by Bill Goldstein ...

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12 hours 6 min

This program is read by the author.A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernismThe World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, make ... Read more

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This program is read by the author.A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernismThe World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, make
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