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When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars. Sarah Seo reveals how the rise of the automobile led us to accept - and expect - pervasive police power. As Policing the Open Road makes clear, this radical transformation in the nature and meaning of American freedom has had far-reaching political and legal consequences.

A brilliant and defiant celebration of driving as a unique pathway of human freedom, by ""one of the most influential thinkers of our time"" (Sunday Times) ""Why We Drive weaves philosophers, thinkers, and scientific research with shade-tree mechanics and racers to defend our right to...

From the bestselling author of The Wax Pack, comes another eye‑opening road trip adventure into a pocket of iconic pop culture—professional wrestling—starring the Iron Sheik, Hulk Hogan, Tito Santana, and many more larger‑than‑life characters of the WWF of the 1980s. In 2005, Brad...

Harbour Voices is a series of true story podcasts celebrating the lives and livelihoods of people who call the harbour area of Aberdeen home. Supported by the Year of Scottish Stories 2022 Communities Stories fund and Creative Scotland's Culture Collective fund. The ships horn has been recorded by Milo and is distributed by Free Sound https://freesound.org/people/milo/sounds/23722/ and it’s use is licenced under a Creative Commons licence https://creativecommons.org Music by Marie Driver and Geraldine Heaney Produced by @openroadltd

Do Opinions Matter? Is a daily podcast devoted to talking about opinions and whether having an Opinion even matters in todays world. Join host Jonathan Turner as he discusses opinions from around the globe each and every day. Definition of an Opinion a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

An enlightening and entertaining inside look at the lifestyles of America's extremely wealthy from the bestselling author of Our Crowd. It's no secret that the rich are different from the rest of us. But the rich, as author Stephen Birmingham so insightfully points out, are also different from the very rich. There's Society, and then there's Real Society, and it takes multiple generations for families of the former to become entrenched in the latter.

A three-episode series by New York Times-bestselling author James Dodson.

The Gay in American Podcast is an oral history project where we share stories from the LGBTQA+ community to inspire each other to live our best gay lives and to understand that our shared experiences are what unite us as a community.

With a Foreword by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe Available once again for a new generation, the first volume in Arthur Ashe’s epic trilogy that chronicles the remarkable legacy of Black athletes in the United States—a major addition to our understanding of American history and the fulfillment of...