The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials & no one can tell the story better than Davis herself Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Angela & including contributions from numerous radicals & commentators such as Black Panthers George Jackson Huey P Newton Bobby Seale & Erica Huggins this book is not only an account of Davis's incarceration & the struggles surrounding it but also perhaps the most comprehensive & thorough analysis of the prison system of the United States & the figure embodied in Davis's arrest & imprisonment-the political prisoner Since the book was written the carceral system in the US has grown from strength to strength with more of its black population behind bars than ever before The scathing analysis of the role of prison & the policing of black populations offered by Davis & her comrades in this astonishing volume remains as relevant today as the day it was published ...

Science fiction tales some humorous & some not-so-funny about the downside of the future—and how to deal with a universe ruled by Murphy&s Law!

Includes:: stories by Robert A Heinlein Sarah A Hoyt Fritz Leiber Gordon R Dickson Lester del Rey Christopher Anvil Fredric Brown & more WHAT COULD GO WRONG ? Progress! It’s wonderful—though it sometimes has unexpected & undesirable side effects Read the long warning list of possible side effects on a medicine bottle’s label sometime the part in really tiny print But surely the benefits of modern technology outweigh the drawbacks Until they don’t Remember how increasingly deadly weapons from the machine gun to the H-bomb were supposed to make war too horrific to even be contemplated? Didn’t happen The cell phone has made it possible to phone from almost anywhere—too bad if you wanted to be out of reach & civilization is so big & complicated that a breakdown of any part can have disastrous consequences Modern transportation makes it possible to get anywhere in a hurry though traffic jams & overextended airports may slow the hurry part to a crawl & it also can ensure that a new disease can go all over the planet in a few days Then there’s the sheer complexity of society itself from interminable waits at the DMV to trying to get tech help on the phone (“ Your call is important to us ”) & that’s just the present day What new technologies new ways of organizing (or disorganizing) society new confused & confusing government bureaucracies new ways for small disgruntled groups to wreak havoc & worse will the future bring? Will privacy keep eroding? Could computers & robots take over? Maybe they wouldn’t want to & if the pace of modern life is driving you batty just wait to see what’s on the horizon Exploring such scary yet fascinating possibilities are such masters of science fiction as Robert A Heinlein Sarah A Hoyt Fritz Leiber Gordon R Dickson Lester del Rey Christopher Anvil Fredric Brown & more writers who have seen the future—and it may not work

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With the moral stamina & intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan this slightly built duitful unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth steadfastly to think it through & then to render it comprehensible in lucid unpretentious prose He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events & with the most contempible What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable but also in THE PERIODIC TABLE & THE WRENCH his delight in what made the world exquisite to him He was himself a magically endearing man the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known
- PHILIP ROTH
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Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women
- housewives doctors
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Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why for centuries did people fear fruit? All these questions
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- are answered in this juicy truly intimate history of the home Through the bedroom bathroom living room & kitchen Lucy Worsley explores what people actually did in bed in the bath at the table & at the stove From sauce-stirring to breast-feeding teeth-cleaning to masturbation getting dressed to getting married this book will make you see your home with new eyes

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Young Tizra & her twin brother Tracell find their world abruptly changed when their father is unexpectedly called to fight in a war which promises to last much longer than the usual three-day skirmish Their mother
- the village healer
- enlists her children to assist her in caring for the many refugees left wounded & homeless by the conflict Inspired by her mother Tizra learns never to surrender hope even in a time of fear & uncertainty

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Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend Nasrin since they were six They've shared stolen kisses & romantic promises But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love--Sahar & Nasrin could be beaten imprisoned even executed if their relationship came to light So they carry on in secret--until Nasrin's parents announce that they've arranged for her marriage Nasrin tries to persuade Sahar that they can go on as they had before only now with new comforts provided by the decent well-to-do doctor Nasrin will marry But Sahar dreams of loving Nasrin exclusively--and openly Then Sahar discovers what seems like the perfect solution In Iran homosexuality may be a crime but to be a man trapped in a woman's body is seen as nature's mistake & sex reassignment is legal & accessible As a man Sahar could be the one to marry Nasrin Sahar will never be able to love the one she wants in the body she wants to be loved in without risking her life Is saving her love worth sacrificing her true self? ...

THE OUTSTANDING NEW THRILLER FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ERICA SPINDLERPraise for Erica Spindler' Forces you to turn each page' Daily Mail' Absolutely can't put it down' Lisa Gardner Face your fear Uncover the truth It's been three months since that night
- the night that Detective Micki Dare almost died Physically she's healed but the nightmares remain & she can't shake the feeling that more happened that night than her partner Detective Zach Harris is telling her The only thing she can do is try to carry on as normal & solve the latest case she & Zach have been assigned to A string of brutal home invasions are rocking the city & the families targeted have nothing in common Why were these victims chosen? The deeper Micki & Zach go into the case the more they realise something isn't right There's something familiar about the person doing this
- & it's a familiarity Micki has been trying to forget Suddenly this case is hitting too close to home & Micki has to decide if she really wants to learn the truth about that night

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'A stunning example of psychological suspense' Clare Mackintosh Sunday Times bestselling author of I SEE YOUTHE PERFECT LIFE ...

In 1994 21 years after her disappearance Lucy Partington's remains were discovered in Fred & Rosemary West's basement at 25 Cromwell Street Gloucester In this powerful & lyrical book Lucy's elder sister Marian reclaims Lucy from the status of victim & finds an authentic & compassionate response to her traumatic loss Her inspiring narrative of healing draws on Buddhist & Quaker practices & culminates in restorative justice work in prisons ...