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  • Spots and Stripes and the Very Merry Christmas (Unabridged) - Laurie Friedman

    Spots and Stripes and the Very Merry Christmas (Unabridged) - Laurie Friedman
    Sep 12 2024
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    Title: Spots and Stripes and the Very Merry Christmas (Unabridged)
    Author: Laurie Friedman
    Narrator: Amy Culliford
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 0:07:26
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-12-2024
    Publisher: Zebralution
    Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Holidays

    Summary:
    It's Christmas! Ms. Green, Spots, and Stripes are at home opening presents. But when Spots and Stripes both give Ms. Green the same gift, they think Christmas is ruined. Will this dog and cat duo find a way to have a very merry holiday together?
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    7 min
  • Spots and Stripes and the Spooky Halloween (Unabridged) - Laurie Friedman

    Spots and Stripes and the Spooky Halloween (Unabridged) - Laurie Friedman
    Sep 5 2024
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    Title: Spots and Stripes and the Spooky Halloween (Unabridged)
    Author: Laurie Friedman
    Narrator: Amy Culliford
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 0:07:48
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-05-2024
    Publisher: Zebralution
    Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Holidays

    Summary:
    It's Halloween, and Ms. Green is busy in her flower shop. She leaves Spots and Stripes home to get ready for the night ahead. They're going to a haunted house! Spots can't wait, but Stripes is scared. Will this dog and cat duo find a way to enjoy Halloween together?
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    8 min
  • Spots and Stripes Celebrate Thanksgiving (Unabridged) - Laurie Friedman

    Spots and Stripes Celebrate Thanksgiving (Unabridged) - Laurie Friedman
    Sep 5 2024
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    Title: Spots and Stripes Celebrate Thanksgiving (Unabridged)
    Author: Laurie Friedman
    Narrator: Amy Culliford
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 0:08:21
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-05-2024
    Publisher: Zebralution
    Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Holidays

    Summary:
    It's Thanksgiving! Ms. Green and Spots and Stripes are at home cooking and baking for their holiday meal. Spots and Stripes have some very different ideas about what's on the menu. Will this dog and cat duo resolve their differences and find a way to show their gratitude together?
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    8 min
  • Suspended: Punishment, Violence, and the Failure of School Safety - Charles Bell

    Suspended: Punishment, Violence, and the Failure of School Safety - Charles Bell
    Jul 16 2024
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    Title: Suspended: Punishment, Violence, and the Failure of School Safety
    Author: Charles Bell
    Narrator: Auto
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 5:36:02
    Language: English
    Release date: 07-16-2024
    Publisher: Bookwire
    Genres: Non-Fiction, Education

    Summary:
    Decades of urban disinvestment and poverty have made educational attainment for Black youth more vital than at any time in recent history. Yet in their pursuit of quality education, many Black families are burdened by challenging barriers to success, most notably the frequency and severity of school punishment. Such punishment is meant to be a disciplinary tool that makes schools safer, but it actually does the opposite—and is particularly harmful for Black students and their families. Focusing on schools in inner-city and suburban Detroit, Charles Bell draws on 160 in-depth interviews with Black high school students, their parents, and their teachers to illuminate the negative outcomes that are associated with out-of-school suspension. Bell also sheds light on the inherent shortcomings of school safety measures as he describes how schools fail to protect Black students, which leaves them vulnerable to bullying and victimization. The students he interviews offer detailed insight into how the lack of protection they received in school intensified their fear of being harmed and even motivated them to use violence to establish a reputation that discouraged attacks. Collectively, their narratives reveal how receiving a suspension for fighting in school earned them respect, popularity, and a reputation for toughness—transforming school punishment into a powerful status symbol that destabilizes classrooms. A thought-provoking and urgent work, Suspended calls for an inclusive national dialogue on school punishment and safety reform. It will leave readers engrossed in the students' and parents' tearful narratives as they share how school suspension harmed students' grades, disrupted parents' employment, violated state and federal laws, and motivated families to withdraw from punitive districts.
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    5 h et 36 min
  • Present Illness: American Health Care and Its Afflictions - Martin F. Shapiro

    Present Illness: American Health Care and Its Afflictions - Martin F. Shapiro
    Jul 16 2024
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    Title: Present Illness: American Health Care and Its Afflictions
    Author: Martin F. Shapiro
    Narrator: Auto
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 13:19:06
    Language: English
    Release date: 07-16-2024
    Publisher: Bookwire
    Genres: Science & Technology, Medicine

    Summary:
    Health care reform efforts are difficult to achieve and have been historically undermined by their narrow scope. In The Present Illness, Martin F. Shapiro, MD, PhD, MPH, weaves together history, sociology, extensive research, and his own experiences as a physician to explore the broad range of afflictions impairing US health care and explains why we won't be able to fix the system without making significant changes across society. With a sharp eye and ready humor, Shapiro dissects the ways all groups participating—clinicians and their organizations, medical schools and their faculty, hospitals and clinical corporations, scientists and the National Institutes of Health, insurers and manufacturers, governments and their policies, and also patients and the public—shape and reinforce a dysfunctional system. Shapiro identifies three major problems stymieing reform: commodification of care; values, expectations, unmet needs, attitudes, and personal limitations of participants; and toxic relationships and communication among these groups. Shapiro lays out a sweeping agenda of concrete actions to address the many factors contributing to the system's failings. Highlighting the interconnectedness of both the problems and potential solutions, he warns that piecemeal reform efforts will continue to be undermined by those who believe they have something to gain from the status quo. Although overhauling our health care system is daunting, Shapiro nonetheless concludes that we must push forward with a far more comprehensive effort in all sectors of health care and throughout society to create a system that is humane, effective, and just.
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    13 h et 19 min
  • Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform - Joseph F. Spillane

    Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform - Joseph F. Spillane
    Jul 16 2024
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    Title: Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform
    Author: Joseph F. Spillane
    Narrator: Auto
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 11:08:09
    Language: English
    Release date: 07-16-2024
    Publisher: Bookwire
    Genres: History, North America

    Summary:
    Should prisons attempt reform and uplift inmates or, by means of principled punishment, deter them from further wrongdoing? This debate has raged in Western Europe and in the United States at least since the late eighteenth century. Joseph F. Spillane examines the failure of progressive reform in New York State by focusing on Coxsackie, a New Deal reformatory built for young male offenders. Opened in 1935 to serve 'adolescents adrift,' Coxsackie instead became an unstable and brutalizing prison. From the start, the liberal impulse underpinning the prison's mission was overwhelmed by challenges it was unequipped or unwilling to face—drugs, gangs, and racial conflict. Spillane draws on detailed prison records to reconstruct a life behind bars in which 'ungovernable' young men posed constant challenges to racial and cultural order. The New Deal order of the prison was unstable from the start; the politics of punishment quickly became the politics of race and social exclusion, and efforts to save liberal reform in postwar New York only deepened its failures. In 1977, inmates took hostages to focus attention on their grievances. The result was stricter discipline and an end to any pretense that Coxsackie was a reform institution. Why did the prison fail? For answers, Spillane immerses readers in the changing culture and racial makeup of the U.S. prison system and borrows from studies of colonial prisons, which emblematized efforts by an exploitative regime to impose cultural and racial restraint on others. In today's era of mass incarceration, prisons have become conflict-ridden warehouses and powerful symbols of racism and inequality. This account challenges the conventional wisdom that America's prison crisis is of comparatively recent vintage, showing instead how a racial and punitive system of control emerged from the ashes of a progressive ideal.
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    11 h et 8 min
  • Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis - Bryan Alexander

    Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis - Bryan Alexander
    Jul 16 2024
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    Title: Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis
    Author: Bryan Alexander
    Narrator: Auto
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 8:44:16
    Language: English
    Release date: 07-16-2024
    Publisher: Bookwire
    Genres: Non-Fiction, Education

    Summary:
    In 2019, intense fires in the San Francisco Bay Area closed universities and drove afflicted people to shelter at other campuses. At the same time, extraordinary fires ravaged eastern Australia. Several universities responded by promising material and research support to damaged businesses while also hosting refugees and emergency response teams in student residence halls. This was an echo of the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina on Tulane University in 2005. In Universities on Fire, futurist Bryan Alexander explores higher education during an age of unfolding climate crisis. Powered by real-world examples and the latest research, Alexander assesses practical responses and strategies by surveying contemporary programs and academic climate research from around the world. He establishes a model of how academic institutions may respond and offers practical pathways forward for higher education. How will the two main purposes of education—teaching and research—change as the world heats up? Alexander positions colleges and universities in the broader social world, from town-gown relationships to connections between how campuses and civilization as a whole respond to this epochal threat. Current studies of climate change trace the likely implications across a range of domains, from agriculture to policy, urban design, technology, culture, and human psychology. However, few books have predicted or studied the effects of the climate crisis on colleges and universities. By connecting climate research to a deep, futures-informed analysis of academia, Universities on Fire explores how climate change will fundamentally reshape higher education.
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    8 h et 44 min
  • Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal - Rebecca Pope-Ruark

    Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal - Rebecca Pope-Ruark
    Jul 16 2024
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    Title: Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal
    Author: Rebecca Pope-Ruark
    Narrator: Auto
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 6:17:29
    Language: English
    Release date: 07-16-2024
    Publisher: Bookwire
    Genres: Non-Fiction, Education

    Summary:
    Faculty often talk about how busy, overwhelmed, and stressed they are. These qualities are seen as badges of honor in a capitalist culture that values productivity above all else. But for many women in higher education, exhaustion and stress go far deeper than end-of-the-semester malaise. Burnout, a mental health syndrome caused by chronic workplace stress, is endemic to higher education in a patriarchal, productivity-obsessed culture. In this unique book for women in higher education, Rebecca Pope-Ruark, PhD, draws from her own burnout experience, as well as collected stories of faculty in various roles and career stages, interviews with coaches and educational developers, and extensive secondary research to address and mitigate burnout. Pope-Ruark lays out four pillars of burnout resilience for faculty members: purpose, compassion, connection, and balance. Each chapter contains relatable stories, reflective opportunities and exercises, and advice from women in higher education. Blending memoir, key research, and reflection opportunities, Pope-Ruark helps faculty not only address burnout personally but also use the tools in this book to eradicate the systemic conditions that cause it in the first place. As burnout becomes more visible, we can destigmatize it by acknowledging that women are not unraveling; instead, women in higher education are reckoning with the productivity cult embedded in our institutions, recognizing how it shapes their understanding and approach to faculty work, and learning how they can remedy it for themselves, their peers, and women faculty in the future.
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    6 h et 17 min