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  Virtual Searches - Regulating...

  Christopher Slobogin

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  A host of technologies—including digital cameras, drones, facial recognition devices, night-vision binoculars, automated license plate readers, GPS, geofencing, DNA matching, datamining, and artificial intelligence—have enabled police to carry out much of their work without leaving the office or squad car, in ways that do not easily fit the traditional physical search and seizure model envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. Virtual Searches develops a useful typology for sorting through this bewildering array of old, new, and soon-to-arrive policing techniques. It then lays out a framework for regulating their use that expands the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections without blindly imposing its warrant requirement, and that prioritizes democratic over judicial policymaking. 
   
   
   
  The coherent regulatory regime developed in Virtual Searches ensures that police are held accountable for their use of technology without denying them the increased efficiency it provides in their efforts to protect the public. Whether policing agencies are pursuing an identified suspect, constructing profiles of likely perpetrators, trying to find matches with crime scene evidence, collecting data to help with these tasks, or using private companies to do so, this book provides a template for ensuring their actions are constitutionally legitimate and responsive to the polity.

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  The Communist Manifesto

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

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  Welcome to an unprecedented audio journey into Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' "The Communist Manifesto" - the unabridged edition that remains unswervingly loyal to the original text. Its ground-breaking insights into class struggle, capitalism, and communism have left an indelible mark on the history of political thought.Crafted for the discerning listener, this audiobook's clear and crisp voice rendition makes the complex philosophical and political ideas accessible to all. Each sentence is meticulously delivered, making the potent theories of Marx and Engels not only more understandable but also more relatable.From your first listen, you'll find yourself captivated by the lucidity and precision of the narrator's voice as it guides you through the compelling manifesto that catalyzed a global revolution. The original text's essence is preserved with great fidelity, allowing you to grasp the theoretical underpinnings of communism as envisioned by its founders."The Communist Manifesto (Unabridged Version)" paints a vivid picture of society's class struggles - a narrative that continues to resonate today. Marx and Engels' theories are brought to life in this audiobook, making it not just a listening experience but an enlightening journey into the depths of socioeconomic discourse.Embark on this transformative journey with "The Communist Manifesto (Unabridged Version)" and uncover the powerful ideas that continue to shape our world. Immerse yourself in the clarity of thought and depth of understanding that this audiobook promises.

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  Hypochondria

  Will Rees

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  A personal and literary examination of hypochondria.​
  		 
  A free-wheeling philosophical essay, Hypochondria is expansive in its range of references, from the writings of Franz Kafka to original yet accessible readings of theorists like Lauren Berlant. Whether he is discussing Seinfeld, John Donne, or his own hypochondriac past, Rees reveals himself to be a wry and perceptive critic, exploring the causes — and the costs — of our desire for certainty. With wit and erudition, Hypochondria demonstrates both the rewards and the perils of reading (too) closely the common but typically overlooked aspects of our everyday lives.

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  A Man of Few Words - The...

  Carlo Greppi

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  'Nobody knows how much I owe that man', Primo Levi said of his Italian compatriot Lorenzo Perrone, who saved his life at Auschwitz. 'I could never repay him'. Each day for a period of six months, Perrone, who worked beside Auschwitz in desperate conditions, risked his own life to smuggle part of his own soup ration to Levi, quietly leaving the mess tin by a half-constructed brick wall. Without those extra five hundred calories, Levi could not have survived, and would probably not have written If This Is a Man, the first published account by a Holocaust survivor.
  
  In A Man of Few Words, Carlo Greppi pieces together the life of Lorenzo Perrone, a bricklayer from the Piedmontese town of Fossano, not far from Levi's native Turin. Near-destitute and with minimal formal education, Perrone left very few traces of himself. Yet despite their stark differences – Levi was a middle-class chemist – their friendship survived the Holocaust and continued until Perrone's tragic death. Levi never forgot Perrone. In every book he wrote, he mentions that he owes his life to a man named Lorenzo, and he returned persistently, in the last years of his life, to the man of few words who saved his life.
  
  Compassionate, worldly and prescient, Greppi brings us a story that has much to say about the world we live in today, about an individual who kept hope alive in one of the darkest times and places known to humankind.

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  Oliver Cromwell - The English...

  Kelly Mass

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  Oliver Cromwell was an English army and statesman who led Parliamentary armies against King Charles I throughout the English Civil War. From 1653 till his death in the year 1658, he lead the British army in the British Islands area. 
  Why was he so hated by so many? And is this image of him historically correct? 
  Even though we cannot go back in time 450 years ago, we can certainly try to find the answers in the sources we have. 
  The reason why people thought he was so evil, is because of his brutality against the Irish at that time. Several Irish and English scholars agree that Cromwell was too cruel in Ireland. Other academics blame him of 'ethnic cleansing,' or the systematic expulsion of a certain ethnic population from a territory. It typically entails the execution and deportation of Catholics, and that he is despised by Irish Catholics. 
  Is this true? And why did he do this? 
  Find out more about his time, his life, his circumstances and his legacy.

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  Sweet Land of Liberty - A...

  Rossi Anastopoulo

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  A delicious and delightful narrative history of pie in America 
   
  From pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving to apple pie on the Fourth of July, nearly every American shares a certain nostalgia for a simple circle of crust and filling. But for centuries, pie has been a malleable icon, equally enjoyed at the table and coopted for social and political purposes. After all, it was a slice of cherry pie denied  
  at the Woolworth’s lunch counter that ignited a wave of anti-segregation protests across the South during the civil rights movement. Molasses pie, a Southern favorite, captures the legacies of racial trauma and oppression passed down from America’s history of slavery, and Jell-O pie exemplifies the pressures and  
  contradictions of gender roles in an evolving modern society. We all know the warm comfort of the so-called all-American apple pie … but just how did pie become the symbol of a nation? 
   
  In Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies, food writer Rossi Anastopoulo cracks open our relationship to pie with wit and good humor. She traces the pies woven into our history, following the evolution of our country across centuries of innovation and change and examining how America’s  
  relationship with this iconic dessert impacted culture across eras—and vice versa.  
   
  With corresponding recipes for each chapter, Sweet Land of Liberty is an entertaining, informative, and utterly charming food history for bakers, dessert lovers, and history aficionados alike. Ultimately, the story of pie is the story of America itself, and it’s time to dig in.

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