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Describe your latest work. When I started working on Plant-Thinking in 2008, I had no idea that the project would turn out to be as broad as it did.... Continue »

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Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life
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The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding

by Sarah Burns

ISBN13: 9780307596598
ISBN10: 0307596591
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Traces the near-fatal 1989 Central Park attack on a woman and the ensuing media frenzy and public hysteria that culminated in the wrongful convictions of five Latino teens, in a report that analyzes regional class and race struggles and the failures of local government and law enforcement.

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\Sarah Burns graduated from Yale University in 2004 with a degree in American studies and went on to work for Moore & Goodman, a small civil rights law firm based in New York. She is now producing a documentary film with Ken Burns based on this book. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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ISBN:: 9780307596598
Subtitle:: A Chronicle of a City Wilding
Publisher:: Alfred A. Knopf
Author:: Burns, Sarah
Subject:: main_subject
Subject:: all_subjects
Publication Date:: 20110517
Binding:: ELECTRONIC
Language:: English
Pages:: 240

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