Rakuten Kobo

Audiolibro

Audiolibro

The End of Policing

de Alex S. Vitale ...

Narrado por Michael Butler Murray ...

Completo

8 hora 17 minutos

Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists, and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training, and community relations. Unfortunately, these reforms will not produce results, either alone or in combination. The core of the problem must be addressed: ... Leer más

$20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists, and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training, and community relations. Unfortunately, these reforms will not produce results, either alone or in combination. The core of the problem must be addressed:
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

Hitler's American Model

The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law

de James Q. Whitman ...

Narrado por James Anderson Foster ...

Completo

5 hora 36 minutos

Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to ... Leer más

$18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

Minorities

The Ongoing Fight for Equality in a Diverse World (3 in 1)

de Marcus Kline ...

Narrado por Sarah Donovan ...

Completo

8 hora 12 minutos

This book contains three titles, which are the following:Child Soldiers - The use of child soldiers in armed conflicts represents one of the most tragic and pervasive human rights violations of our time. Children, often as young as eight or nine, are forcibly recruited or manipulated into participating in violent wars, often by rebel groups or government forces. These young individuals, deprived ... Leer más

$7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This book contains three titles, which are the following:Child Soldiers - The use of child soldiers in armed conflicts represents one of the most tragic and pervasive human rights violations of our time. Children, often as young as eight or nine, are forcibly recruited or manipulated into participating in violent wars, often by rebel groups or government forces. These young individuals, deprived
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

Beyond Innocence

The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt

de Phoebe Zerwick ...

Narrado por Sean Crisden ...

Completo

9 hora 3 minutos

In June 1985, a young Black man named Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a white copyeditor at the local paper. Many in the community believed him innocent and crusaded for his release. Finally, in 2003, the tireless efforts of his attorney combined with an award-winning series of articles by Phoebe Zerwick in the Winston-Salem Journal led ... Leer más

Antes $24.99 USD Ahora $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

In June 1985, a young Black man named Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a white copyeditor at the local paper. Many in the community believed him innocent and crusaded for his release. Finally, in 2003, the tireless efforts of his attorney combined with an award-winning series of articles by Phoebe Zerwick in the Winston-Salem Journal led
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

How to Fight Anti-Semitism

de Bari Weiss ...

Narrado por Bari Weiss ...

Completo

5 hora 50 minutos

**WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • BARI WEISS NAMED TO THE 2025 TIME100 NEXT LISTThe prescient founder of The Free Press and editor-in-chief of CBS News delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country—and explains what we can do to defeat it.**“A praiseworthy and concise brief against modern-day anti-Semitism.”—The New York ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

**WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • BARI WEISS NAMED TO THE 2025 TIME100 NEXT LISTThe prescient founder of The Free Press and editor-in-chief of CBS News delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country—and explains what we can do to defeat it.**“A praiseworthy and concise brief against modern-day anti-Semitism.”—The New York
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

Fighting Time

de Amy Banks, Isaac Knapper ...

Narrado por Beresford Bennett, Christina Moore ...

Completo

8 hora 27 minutos

Unaware of the danger lurking on the periphery of the French Quarter, Drs. Ronald Banks and John Hakola made a tragic decision on the evening of April 29, 1979, to walk several blocks from the historic district to the Hyatt Regency. Inchesfrom the safety of their hotel, they were accosted by two young men—a scuffle ensued, a shot was fired, and Dr. Banks lay dead on the sidewalk. Fighting Time is ... Leer más

$20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Unaware of the danger lurking on the periphery of the French Quarter, Drs. Ronald Banks and John Hakola made a tragic decision on the evening of April 29, 1979, to walk several blocks from the historic district to the Hyatt Regency. Inchesfrom the safety of their hotel, they were accosted by two young men—a scuffle ensued, a shot was fired, and Dr. Banks lay dead on the sidewalk. Fighting Time is
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

Women and Leadership

de Deborah L. Rhode ...

Narrado por Jo Anna Perrin ...

Completo

5 hora 45 minutos

In Women and Leadership, the eminent legal scholar Deborah L. Rhode focuses on women's underrepresentation in leadership roles and asks why it persists and what we can do about it. Although organizations generally stand to gain from increasing gender equity in leadership, women's underrepresentation is persistent and pervasive. Rhode explores the reasons, including women's family roles, ... Leer más

$18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

In Women and Leadership, the eminent legal scholar Deborah L. Rhode focuses on women's underrepresentation in leadership roles and asks why it persists and what we can do about it. Although organizations generally stand to gain from increasing gender equity in leadership, women's underrepresentation is persistent and pervasive. Rhode explores the reasons, including women's family roles,
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

Calculating Race

Racial Discrimination in Risk Assessment

de Benjamin Wiggins ...

Narrado por Eric Jason Martin ...

Completo

4 hora 12 minutos

In Calculating Race, Benjamin Wiggins analyzes the historical relationship between statistical risk assessment and race in the United States. He illustrates how actuarial science transformed the nature of racism and helped usher racial disparities in wealth, incarceration, and housing from the nineteenth century into the twentieth.Wiggins begins by tracing how the life insurance industry utilized ... Leer más

$15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

In Calculating Race, Benjamin Wiggins analyzes the historical relationship between statistical risk assessment and race in the United States. He illustrates how actuarial science transformed the nature of racism and helped usher racial disparities in wealth, incarceration, and housing from the nineteenth century into the twentieth.Wiggins begins by tracing how the life insurance industry utilized
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

Chokehold

Policing Black Men

de Paul Butler ...

Narrado por JD Jackson ...

Completo

8 hora 53 minutos

Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)A 2017 Washington Post Notable BookA Kirkus Best Book of 2017“Butler has hit his stride. This is a meditation, a sonnet, a legal brief, a poetry slam and a dissertation that represents the full bloom of his early thesis: The justice system does not work for blacks, particularly black men.”—The Wash... ... Leer más

$35.99 USD

Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)A 2017 Washington Post Notable BookA Kirkus Best Book of 2017“Butler has hit his stride. This is a meditation, a sonnet, a legal brief, a poetry slam and a dissertation that represents the full bloom of his early thesis: The justice system does not work for blacks, particularly black men.”—The Wash...
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

Sexism

The Persistent Struggle for Gender Equality Across the World

de Marcus Kline ...

Narrado por Sarah Donovan ...

Completo

3 hora 7 minutos

Sexism, a deeply entrenched social issue, has been pervasive throughout human history, shaping the experiences of individuals and communities across the globe. At its core, sexism refers to the belief that one gender is superior to another, typically manifesting in the unequal treatment and opportunities given to individuals based on their gender. While this issue affects all genders, it is most ... Leer más

$5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Sexism, a deeply entrenched social issue, has been pervasive throughout human history, shaping the experiences of individuals and communities across the globe. At its core, sexism refers to the belief that one gender is superior to another, typically manifesting in the unequal treatment and opportunities given to individuals based on their gender. While this issue affects all genders, it is most
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

Migrating to Prison

America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants

de César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández ...

Narrado por Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

Completo

5 hora 58 minutos

For most of America's history, we simply did not lock people up for migrating here. Yet over the last thirty years, the federal and state governments have increasingly tapped their powers to incarcerate people accused of violating immigration laws. As a result, almost 400,000 people annually now spend some time locked up pending the result of a civil or criminal immigration proceeding.In Migrating ... Leer más

$18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

For most of America's history, we simply did not lock people up for migrating here. Yet over the last thirty years, the federal and state governments have increasingly tapped their powers to incarcerate people accused of violating immigration laws. As a result, almost 400,000 people annually now spend some time locked up pending the result of a civil or criminal immigration proceeding.In Migrating
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

In Their Names

The Untold Story of Victims' Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety

de Lenore Anderson ...

Narrado por Misty Monroe ...

Completo

10 hora 50 minutos

When twenty-six-year-old recent college graduate Aswad Thomas was days away from starting a professional basketball career in 2009, he was shot twice while buying juice at a convenience store. The trauma left him in excruciating pain, with mounting medical debt, and struggling to cope with deep anxiety and fear. That was the same year the national incarceration rate peaked. Yet, despite thousands ... Leer más

$25.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

When twenty-six-year-old recent college graduate Aswad Thomas was days away from starting a professional basketball career in 2009, he was shot twice while buying juice at a convenience store. The trauma left him in excruciating pain, with mounting medical debt, and struggling to cope with deep anxiety and fear. That was the same year the national incarceration rate peaked. Yet, despite thousands
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

The Criminal Record Complex

Risk, Race, and the Struggle for Work in America

de Melissa Burch ...

Narrado por Bill Andrew Quinn ...

Completo

7 hora 42 minutos

Most employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions. In this powerful analysis, Melissa Burch sheds light on one of the most significant forces of social and economic marginalization of our time—discrimination on the basis of criminal records. Chronicling the daily interactions of hiring managers, workforce ... Leer más

$20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Most employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions. In this powerful analysis, Melissa Burch sheds light on one of the most significant forces of social and economic marginalization of our time—discrimination on the basis of criminal records. Chronicling the daily interactions of hiring managers, workforce
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

Usual Cruelty

The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Justice System

de Alec Karakatsanis ...

Narrado por George Newbern ...

Completo

4 hora 26 minutos

Alec Karakatsanis is interested in what we choose to punish. For example, it is a crime in most of America for poor people to wager in the streets over dice; dice-wagerers can be seized, searched, have their assets forfeited, and be locked in cages. It's perfectly fine, by contrast, for people to wager over international currencies, mortgages, or the global supply of wheat.He is also troubled by ... Leer más

Antes $19.99 USD Ahora $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Alec Karakatsanis is interested in what we choose to punish. For example, it is a crime in most of America for poor people to wager in the streets over dice; dice-wagerers can be seized, searched, have their assets forfeited, and be locked in cages. It's perfectly fine, by contrast, for people to wager over international currencies, mortgages, or the global supply of wheat.He is also troubled by
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

At America's Gates

Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943

de Erika Lee ...

Narrado por Emily Woo Zeller ...

Completo

9 hora 32 minutos

With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants.At America's Gates is the first book ... Leer más

$20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants.At America's Gates is the first book
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

HR is Not Your Friend

Recognize Company Agendas, Protect Your Rights, and Win in the Workplace

de Katherine Kleyman ...

Completo

7 hora

A modern workplace guide to understanding the actual rules before you are forced to learn them the hard way.In HR Is Not Your Friend, respected employment attorney Katherine Kleyman reveals a simple but uncomfortable reality: The systems most professionals rely on for fairness at work — HR, employee handbooks, performance reviews, severance offers — are built to protect the company, not the ... Leer más

$23.99 USD

PEDIDO ANTICIPADO

A modern workplace guide to understanding the actual rules before you are forced to learn them the hard way.In HR Is Not Your Friend, respected employment attorney Katherine Kleyman reveals a simple but uncomfortable reality: The systems most professionals rely on for fairness at work — HR, employee handbooks, performance reviews, severance offers — are built to protect the company, not the
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

Crook County

Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court

de Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve ...

Narrado por Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve ...

Completo

10 hora 11 minutos

Americans are slowly waking up to the dire effects of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities of color. Crook County bursts open the courthouse doors to reveal a world of punishment determined by race, not offense.Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve spent ten years working in and investigating the largest criminal courthouse in ... Leer más

$25.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Americans are slowly waking up to the dire effects of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities of color. Crook County bursts open the courthouse doors to reveal a world of punishment determined by race, not offense.Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve spent ten years working in and investigating the largest criminal courthouse in
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

Red Summer

The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America

de Cameron McWhirter ...

Narrado por L.J. Ganser ...

Completo

12 hora 6 minutos

A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings.After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for democracy finally earned them rights they had been promised since the close of the Civil War.Instead, an unprecedented wave of anti ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings.After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for democracy finally earned them rights they had been promised since the close of the Civil War.Instead, an unprecedented wave of anti
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

Conduct Unbecoming

Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military

de Randy Shilts ...

Narrado por Daniel Henning ...

Completo

38 hora 50 minutos

"A thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history" of gay men and women in the American armed forces by the author of And the Band Played On—The New York Times Book Review.Published during the same year the American military instituted Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and eighteen years before President Barack Obama repealed it, Conduct Unbecoming is a landmark work of social justice and a searing ... Leer más

$35.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

"A thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history" of gay men and women in the American armed forces by the author of And the Band Played On—The New York Times Book Review.Published during the same year the American military instituted Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and eighteen years before President Barack Obama repealed it, Conduct Unbecoming is a landmark work of social justice and a searing
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

He Calls Me By Lightning

The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty

de S. Jonathan Bass ...

Narrado por Mirron Willis ...

Completo

13 hora 40 minutos

Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within minutes of the electric chair—nearly a dozen times. A Kafka-esque legal odyssey in which Washington's original conviction was overturned three times before he was ... Leer más

$25.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within minutes of the electric chair—nearly a dozen times. A Kafka-esque legal odyssey in which Washington's original conviction was overturned three times before he was
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

Mob And The Machine, The

White Supremacy, Propaganda, And Police

de James G. Edwards II ...

Narrado por Digital Voice Madison G ...

Series Audiolibro 4 - The Red Summer Chronicles
Completo

7 hora 25 minutos

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Mob spilled the blood. The Machine buried the truth.In The Mob and the Machine: White Supremacy, Propaganda, and Policy, historian James G. Edwards II delivers a searing examination of how racial terror in America was not simply the work of rogue mobs—but a calculated system of violence, silence, and complicity.This powerful narrative unpacks the ... Leer más

$23.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Mob spilled the blood. The Machine buried the truth.In The Mob and the Machine: White Supremacy, Propaganda, and Policy, historian James G. Edwards II delivers a searing examination of how racial terror in America was not simply the work of rogue mobs—but a calculated system of violence, silence, and complicity.This powerful narrative unpacks the
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic

Atheists in American Public Life

de R. Laurence Moore, Isaac Kramnick ...

Narrado por Matthew Boston ...

Completo

9 hora 2 minutos

From colonial times into the twentieth century, our laws and court cases ignored atheism, assuming that all good Americans were religious. Americans came to associate atheism with radical social philosophies that advocated violence—especially anarchism and communism. Avowed nonbelievers were derided, even the famous patriot Thomas Paine. Only in the twentieth century, with the passage of laws ... Leer más

$20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

From colonial times into the twentieth century, our laws and court cases ignored atheism, assuming that all good Americans were religious. Americans came to associate atheism with radical social philosophies that advocated violence—especially anarchism and communism. Avowed nonbelievers were derided, even the famous patriot Thomas Paine. Only in the twentieth century, with the passage of laws
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

Faces at the Bottom of the Well

The Permanence of Racism

de Derrick Bell ...

Narrado por Brad Raymond ...

Completo

8 hora 22 minutos

The groundbreaking work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice“Eerily prophetic, almost haunting, and yet at the same time oddly reassuring.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowIn Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example—including the classic story "The Space Traders"—to argue that racism ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

The groundbreaking work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice“Eerily prophetic, almost haunting, and yet at the same time oddly reassuring.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowIn Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example—including the classic story "The Space Traders"—to argue that racism
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Audiolibro

Get Off My Neck

Black Lives, White Justice, and a Former Prosecutor's Quest for Reform

de Debbie Hines ...

Narrado por Karen Chilton ...

Completo

8 hora 8 minutos

In Get Off My Neck, Debbie Hines draws on her unique perspective as a trial lawyer, former Baltimore prosecutor, and assistant attorney general for the State of Maryland to argue that US prosecutors, as the most powerful players in the criminal justice system, systematically target and criminalize Black people. Hines describes her disillusionment as a young Black woman who initially entered the ... Leer más

$20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

In Get Off My Neck, Debbie Hines draws on her unique perspective as a trial lawyer, former Baltimore prosecutor, and assistant attorney general for the State of Maryland to argue that US prosecutors, as the most powerful players in the criminal justice system, systematically target and criminalize Black people. Hines describes her disillusionment as a young Black woman who initially entered the
... Leer más

eReaders

Aplicaciones

Accesorios

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Tu carrito de compra está vacío

Disponible el:

1 audiolibro mensual

+ Prueba gratis de 30 días

Disponible el:

1 audiolibro mensual

+ Prueba gratis de 30 días

Recomendado para ti

Audiolibros de Discriminación

Mostrar: