Programs and Publications Department of the enoch pratt free library. Welcome to writers wise. Thank you for joining us to welcome dr. Lydia kang to baltimore. We hope you will join for some of our upcoming events, and stearns, author of finding age, and caregivers guide to living your best life. Will be rating on wednesday november 29 at 12 p. M. At the Senior Center in canton. And then we are hosting, same day, mark bowden, a turning point in vietnam come in conversation with steve luxenberg. At 7 p. M. At church of the redeemer. You can sign up for our email list or pick up a flyer or copy of compass at the table to the right. So tonight dr. Lydia kang, practicing internal medicine physician and author of adult and young Adult Fiction will share from her book quacker a brief history of the worst ways to cure everything. Cowritten with Nate Pedersen, a librarian, historian and freelance journalist with over 400 publications in print and online. So quackery offers 67 tales about outla
Evening everyone. Im tracy diamond from the programs and Locations Department of the Enoch Pratt Free Library and welcome to writers lives at the Maryland State Library for the blind and handicapped. Thank you for joining us to welcome doctor lydia kang to baltimore. We hope you will join us for some of our upcoming events. And stearns, author of redefining age a caregivers guide to living your best life will be reading on wednesday, november 29 at 12 pm at the Hatton Senior Center in canton and we are hosting, same day, mark oden, author of play 1968 a turning point of the american war in vietnam and conversation with Steve Luxenberg at 7 pm at church of the redeemer and you can sign up for our email list or pick up a liar on the table to the right. So tonight, doctor lydia kang, a practicing internal medicine physician and author of adult and the young Adult Fiction will share from her book quackery a brief history of the worst ways to cure anything cowritten with nate peterson, a li
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For several afterwards. A conversational and u. S. Criminal justice mass incarceration rehabilitation programs and recommendations for reform. Speakers included former convict whos now an attorney from the Georgetown University professor who is the author of the book unusually cool which compares the criminal Justice System with other countries. This event was hosted by new america. Good afternoon, everyone. I am the executive Vice President at new america. Welcome to new america for those of you that are here for the first time. I am delighted that we are having a very important conversation this afternoon about punishment in the u. S. For those of you that may be unfamiliar with that particular criminal Justice System, you learn quickly i think the criminal Justice System is criminal in some of the ways that the place justice. We add new america are working even though our society has left if i change we are working for thriving families, individuals and communities to have the time,
I am the executive Vice President at new america. Welcome to new america for those of you that are here for the first time. I am delighted that we are having a very important conversation this afternoon about punishment in the u. S. For those of you that may be unfamiliar with that particular criminal Justice System, you learn quickly i think the criminal Justice System is criminal in some of the ways that the place justice. We add new america are working even though our society has left if i change we are working for thriving families, individuals and communities to have the time, stability and opportunity necessary to plead productive lives. We need highquality education for all. We work for equal representation and politics and we do that by telling stories about what is happening and what is possible and by generating big and bold ideas to solutions but i think that you will see that today. The criminal Justice System is in dire need of change. It was originally intended to be used