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You're Only Old Once! A Book for Obsolete Children
$17.99
I was very please with the book it self as well as the speed in which I received the book. Thank you.

Black Men, Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?: The Afrikan American Family in Transition
$15.95
Folks, the chapter, 'Never Without a Book' is worth the price of the book alone.

The Obsolete Employee: How Businesses Succeed Without Employees - And Love It!
$24.95
I am a Certified Social Media Marketing virtual assistant (VA) and I love this book. This is a wonderful book and I recommend this book for all business owners. How will this book help you business?

* Learn how to save money and time.
* See how all the work can be done, while you send time on things that are important to you.
* How to find the right partner for your business.
* And much more.

Keep your business running while you are doing what makes you money. Don't waste your valuable time doing the technical aspects of your business anymore.

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Are Prisons Obsolete?
$11.95
As other reviews have stated very gently, the book is light on substance. This is a gross understatement- it is pure nonsense. To be sure, if you want to read something with long diatribes of how evil and racist the American correctional system is you should buy this book, raise a fist and march on with Ms. Davis. But there is no progressive proposal in this book that is possible in the slightest if one has a basic conception of reality. In fact, the book ends by celebrating the commutation of the sentences of four MURDERERS for a what can only be called a "hate crime" in South Africa. (See Pages 114-115) This is celebrated because they apologized, because the family accepted their apology, and the country had to move forward etc etc.... So if you think murder in these circumstances is totally cool as long as you apologize the book is for you.

There is no general sentiment that punishment is required and then working towards rehabilitation can and should begin, rather Davis moves right to rehab. The thing is, not everyone is a fist-time petty drug offender who, it can be reasonably argued, should go straight to rehab.

In fact, if you read the entire short book you will realize on page 107 that you were duped because it is not about prisons at all:

"An abolitionist approach that seeks to answer questions such as these would require us to imagine a constellation of alternative strategies and institutions, with the ultimate aim of removing the prison from the social and ideological landscapes of our society. In other words, we would not be looking for prisonlike [sic] substitutes for the prison, such as house arrest safeguarded by electronic surveillance bracelets. Rather, positing decarceration [sic] as our overarching strategy, we would try to envision a continuum of alternatives to imprisonment--decriminalization of schools, revitalization of education at all levels, a health system that provides free physical and mental care to all, and a justice system based on reparation and reconciliation rather than retribution and vengeance."

The idea to fix prisons is to make the world a nicer place- that is not an idea, and it may be well-intentioned but it is also nonsense.