Charles Barber
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English
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A VITAL NEXT CHAPTER IN THE ONGOING CONVERSATION ABOUT RACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN AMERICA
When he was in his early twenties, William Juneboy Outlaw iii was sentenced to eighty-five years in prison for homicide and armed assault. The sentence brought his brief but prolific criminal career as the head of a forty-member cocaine gang in New Haven, Connecticut, to a close. But behind bars, Outlaw quickly became a feared prison "shot caller" with 100 men...
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English
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In 1972, a twenty-year-old college dropout had the radical idea to open a free clinic in his New England hometown. Without money or training but raising the banner that "healthcare is a right and not a privilege," Mark Masselli faced down opposition from the local hospital and City Hall. As he established Community Health Center, Inc., he found partners in a faith leader, a nurse practitioner, and a future U.S. senator, joined forces with Wesleyan...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The incredible true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once in a generation lifesaving product--and were persecuted for it by the U.S. Army. At the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, dramatized by the popular film Black Hawk Down, the majority of soldiers who died bled to death before they could even reach an operating table. This tragedy reinforced the need for a revolutionary treatment that could...
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Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"A dramatic narrative account of the life of William Juneboy Outlaw III, whose journey from housing-project youth to ruthless gangland kingpin to change-making community advocate represents a vital next chapter in the ongoing conversation about race and social justice in America"--
7) In the blood: how two outsiders solved a centuries-old medical mystery and took on the U. S. Army
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Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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At the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, the majority of soldiers who died were killed instantly or bled to death before they could reach an operating table. This tragedy reinforced the need for a revolutionary treatment that could transform trauma medicine. So, when Frank Hursey and Bart Gullong, who had no medical or military experience, discovered that a cheap, crushed rock called zeolite had blood clotting properties, they brought it to the military's...