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The First
Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge,
Murder, and the Birth of the American
Mafia
by Mike
Dash
Before the notorious Five Families who
dominated U.S. organized crime for a
bloody half century, there was the
one-fingered criminal genius Giuseppe
Morello -- known as "The Clutch Hand" --
and his lethal coterie of associates. In
The First Family, historian, journalist,
and New York Times bestselling
author Mike Dash brings to life this
little-known story, following the rise of
the Mafia in America from the 1890s to the
1920s, from the lawless villages of Sicily
to the streets of Little Italy. Using an
impressive array of primary sources --
hitherto untapped Secret Service archives,
prison records, trial transcripts, and
interviews with surviving family members
-- this is the first Mafia history that
applies scholarly rigor to the story of
the Morello syndicate and the birth of
organized crime on these shores.
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Distracted:
The Erosion of Attention and the Coming
Dark Age
by Maggie
Jackson
Journey with Maggie Jackson as she
explores the many ways in which we are
eroding our capacity for deep, sustained
attention-the building block of intimacy,
wisdom, and cultural progress. In her
sweeping quest to unravel the nature of
attention and detail its erosion, she
introduces us to scientists,
cartographers, marketers, educators, wired
teens, virtual lovers from the telegraph
age, and roboticists building smart
machines to comfort and care for us. She
takes us from the nineteenth-century roots
of our mobile, virtual multitasking ways
into a darkening future of snippets,
glimpses, skimming, McThinking, and
mistrust.
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Transparent:
Love, Family, and Living the T with
Transgender Teenagers
by Cris
Beam
When Cris Beam first moved to Los
Angeles, she thought she might put in just
a few hours volunteering at a school for
transgender kids while she got settled.
Instead she found herself drawn deeply
into the pained and powerful group of
transgirls she discovered. In
Transparent she introduces four of
them -- and shows us their world, a
dizzying mix of familiar teenage cliques
and crushes with far less familiar
challenges like how to morph your body on
a few dollars a day. Funny, heartbreaking,
defiant, and sometimes defeated, the girls
form a singular community. But they
struggle valiantly to resolve the gap
between the way they feel inside and the
way the world sees them -- a struggle we
can all identify with.
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The Road to
Whatever: Middle-Class Culture and the
Crisis of Adolescence
by Elliott
Currie
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a
sharp and compassionate investigation of
the root causes of the epidemic of drug
abuse, violence, and despair among
"mainstream" American teenagers In
the past few years, it has become
painfully clear that all is not well with
the children of middle-class America.
Beyond the shootings at Columbine, hardly
a day goes by without stories of drug use,
binge drinking, fatal accidents, and
senseless suicides among middle-class
adolescents. But the "why" of these
tragedies has eluded us. In this
groundbreaking book, acclaimed sociologist
and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elliott Currie
rejects such predictable answers as TV
violence, permissiveness, and inherent
evil. Instead, drawing on years of
interviews, he links this crisis to a
pervasive "culture of exclusion" that has
left young people facing an ever more
unforgiving world.
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A Man's
Guide to a Civilized Divorce: How to
Divorce with Grace, a Little Class, and a
Lot of Common Sense, by Sam Margulies,
Ph.D., J.D.
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Ultimate
Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on
Dealing with the Death
Penalty
Dr. Dolhenty says...
"I have been a fan of Scott Turow's
fiction for a number of years. So, when I
was asked to read and review his latest
work, a nonfiction book dealing with one
of the most controversial topics in
America today, that of capital punishment,
I eagerly anticipated the opportunity to
find out what this bestselling
author-lawyer had to say on the subject. I
was not disappointed. Turow's very short
treatise on the "ultimate punishment"
(only about 120 pages of actual
discussion) immediately brings the
controversy into focus and lays out the
arguments on both sides of the issue."
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The Broken
Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of
the American Family
Today the American family is under
siege as never before. From the dramatic
rise in illegitimacy, divorce,
cohabitation, and single parenthood to the
call for recognition of gay marriages, the
traditional nuclear family is being
radically challenged and undermined, along
with the moral and legal consensus that
once supported it. Many think it doesn't
matter whether we preserve the nuclear
family. Some even argue that its
dissolution is a good thing?a liberation
from repressive patriarchal authority.
William J. Bennett maintains that, to the
contrary, the dissolution of the American
family is the fundamental crisis of our
time. Now Bennett presents a timely and
much-needed defense of the traditional
family.
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Addiction
Is a Choice
Written for both lay and professional
readers, this book offers new approaches
to understanding addiction and the public
policies necessary to successfully battle
its detrimental effects on society. The
author explains why current policies are
ineffective and how they fail to cure the
"problem." He argues that they actually
encourage addiction by allowing people to
feel blameless for the consequences of
their choices.
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