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“Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.”
― The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
― The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
“In addition, when a neighborhood's crime victims are portrayed as victims-sympathetically and without blame, as humans rather than as statistics-people living in other parts of the city are more inclined to support social services for the area, which in turn can reduce the crime rate.”
― The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
― The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
“We're not as free and independent as we thought. Street-level work that disrupts the infrastructure (the sewer system below or the electrical grid above) brings our shared dependence into view. People may inhabit very different worlds even in the same city, according to their wealth or poverty. Yet we all live in the same physical reality, ultimately, and owe a common debt to the world.”
― Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
― Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
“I'm sitting at the bar, rearranging the order of my jokes. I'm under the delusion that I'm having bad shows because of some cosmic misalignment of words, phrases, and ideas. I may as well have cast runes into a spirit bowl, hoping that the collective heart of the audience would open to my necromantic call. Maybe that's how jugglers do it. Those guys never have shitty sets.”
― Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
― Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
“Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They do not try to spell out everything--a checklist cannot fly a plane. Instead, they provide reminders of only the most critical and important steps--the ones that even the highly skilled professional using them could miss. Good checklists are, above all, practical.”
― The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
― The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Visionary Fiction
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Tweets by @altomov It differs from Science Fiction and Fantasy in that it explores human potential through philosophy and metaphysics. It lies with ...more
Second Wind Publishing
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— last activity Sep 22, 2013 02:33PM
Second Wind Publishing, LLC, is an independent press that produces quality novels by talented storytellers with readable, distinctive voices. http://s ...more
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more
The State of Black Science Fiction Book Club (archived)
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This club was created for the sharing and enjoyment of black speculative fiction books. We haave since moved the club to Facebook. Please join the clu ...more
Minorities in Fantasy and Science Fiction
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When I was a little girl I wanted to be Storm from X-Men. She was the only kick-butt black female super heroine in the world who could fly and "make i ...more
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