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The Birth of the Bill of Rights, 1776-1791 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Allen 1922- Rutland (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is...

E.D. Nixon: The Unsung Father of the Montgomery Bus Boycott - Paperback

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by Michael Escoffery (Illustrator), Michael Eaddy (Author)Before Dr. Martin Luther King, E.D. Nixon was the principal black leader in Montgomery, Alabama. He helped sparked the Civil Rights Movement and bailed imprisoned civil rights icon, Rosa Parks out of jail. Mr. Nixon's contributions in civil rights, voter registration, leadership, and social justice was paramount in the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and advancing the civil rights movement. A true story about the man behind the m...

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Report copyright infringementby Sky Tallman (Author), David Vermette (Editor)Metrocoalescence presents a vision and a practical guide for a new way of regulating development that treats the city as a complex, self-organizing system. It proposes new tools to help solve the housing crisis, create better urban form, more vibrant and walkable cities, and mitigate some of the ways traditional zoning has distorted markets and contributed to urban and rural sprawl. f(z) Functional ZoningA framework ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Donahue (Author)Under the Asphalt: The Hidden Economics of Parking Lots reveals an unexpected world beneath our everyday parking lots-a world where economics, culture, technology, and public policy converge to shape urban life. In this groundbreaking book, you'll discover how a simple parking space is transformed into a microcosm of modern society. Through captivating case studies and insightful analysis, the author takes you on a journey through dynamic p...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Gilbert (Author)Getting the best from your realtor or real estate agent can be tricky. Read this book! it tells you how to get the best from your realtor, How to ask the realtor the tough questions. How to tip the scales in your favour when negotiating. What you should be saying to your realtor, and what he should be saying to you!. Plus it gives you the mindset of a n Agent when they are invited into your home. It also explains why the better agents may...

A Practical Guide to Injunctions Pursuant to Section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990

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Report copyright infringementby Mark O'Brien O'Reilly (Author)This book is a practical guide to section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 which affords Local Planning Authorities the power to seek an injunction where it is faced with an actual or apprehended breach of planning control. This book brings together the substantive principles and approach, as distilled from the various authorities, likely to be applied by the Courts in addition to addressing the procedural requirement...

Resolutions and Reasons: A Practical Guide to Decision Making in Planning

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Report copyright infringementby Sue Chadwick (Author)This book is intended to be a helpful guide to all aspects of the planning decision-making process, from dealing with the 'tilted balance' in practice to wider concerns such as consultation, advising committees and dealing with human rights and equalities issues.ABOUT THE AUTHORDr Sue Chadwick is a Strategic Planning Advisor with Pinsent Masons and Chair of the Housing Project Group at Cambridge Ahead. She has more than 25 years experience ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Ball (Author)Jonathan Ball was born in Bude, Cornwall, in June 1947. After qualifying at the Architectural Association, London, he set up practice in his home town in 1974. In 1992 he was appointed MBE for Services to Architecture. In 1994 he was approached by Tim Smit with an idea to create the largest greenhouses on planet Earth to tell the story of the great plant hunters. Smit and Ball took huge personal risks as co-founders of the innovative archi...

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Report copyright infringementby Stefan Szczelkun (Author), Owen Short (Author)70 colour photographs of houses on two of the Chalet Fields of the Gower peninsular in South Wales. These show a form of self-provision of working-class housing which begins with a simple timber-framed dwelling. Over the last 60 years most of these simple, cheap houses have evolved into desirable residences. In the process they have a acquired an idiosyncratic style that gives them considerable charm. Looking beyond...

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Report copyright infringementby William John Loftie (Author), Herbert Railton (Illustrator)The Inns of Court and Chancery is a historical book written by William John Loftie and published in 1895. The book provides a detailed account of the Inns of Court and Chancery in London, which were the legal institutions that trained and regulated lawyers in England. The author describes the history and architecture of the Inns, as well as the customs and traditions that were observed by the legal prof...

A Building Ordinance For The City Of Cambridge, Massachusetts: As Reported By The Commission On Revision Of The Building Laws (1907)

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Report copyright infringementby C. H. Blackall (Author), Ernest W. Clark (Author), Millard Fillmore (Author)""A Building Ordinance For The City Of Cambridge, Massachusetts"" is a book written by C. H. Blackall and reported by the Commission on Revision of the Building Laws in 1907. The book provides a comprehensive guide to the building laws and regulations in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It covers various aspects of building construction, including zoning, building codes, permits, i...

Model Houses For The Industrial Classes (1871)

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Report copyright infringementby Banister Fletcher (Author)Model Houses For The Industrial Classes is a book written by Banister Fletcher and published in 1871. The book is a detailed guide to designing and building houses for the working class during the Industrial Revolution in England. The author argues that the living conditions of the working class were deplorable and that the design of their houses was a major contributing factor. The book offers practical advice on how to design and bui...

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Report copyright infringementby John Nolen (Author)Replanning Reading: An Industrial City Of A Hundred Thousand (1910) is a book written by John Nolen, an American urban planner and landscape architect. The book details Nolen's proposed urban planning strategy for the city of Reading, Pennsylvania, which had a population of around 100,000 in 1910. Nolen's plan aimed to address the issues of overcrowding, poor living conditions, and inadequate infrastructure that plagued the city at the time. ...

Trust Your Gut: Residential Construction Contracts 101

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Report copyright infringementby Karalynn Cromeens (Author)Protect your business and preserve your peace of mind.As a residential contractor, chances are you've seen it all: litigation threats, withheld payments, and indecisive clients who change plans midproject or, worse, abandon a project altogether.Are you prepared for the unexpected? How do you protect your time, subcontractors, and reputation when even one unhappy customer could derail your progress?In Trust Your Gut, Karalynn Cromeens ...

The Twilight of Bohemia: Westbeth and the Last Artists of New York

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Trachtenberg (Author)An intimate history of America's first publicly funded artists' housing project and its residents that casts light on the precarious place of art-makers in a changing New York. Westbeth Artists Housing was founded in 1970 to provide affordable housing for artists and their families. It occupies a full city block in what back then was one of New York's less desirable neighborhoods, the desolate far-West Village. Over the next fifty ye...

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Report copyright infringementby Fustel De Coulanges (Author), Margaret Ashley (Author), William James Ashley (Author) The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. Its International Law component features works of some of the great legal theorists, including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf, Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among others. ...

Justice, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: A Tribute to the Memory and Ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Report copyright infringementby Jack A. Childers (Author), Emma L. Childers (Author)Justice, Forgiveness and Reconciliation is a unique historical archive, consisting of 33 sketches by internationally known artist Anna Sandhu Ray, the former wife of the late James Earl Ray, six original paintings by Anna Sandhu Ray, and ten original paintings by James Earl Ray done while he was in Brushy Mountain State Prison. Anna Sandhu, who has been an artist since her early childhood, served as a court ro...

Big Pharma, Big Greed: The Inside Story of One Lawyer's Battle to Stem the Flood of Dangerous Medicines and Protect Public Health

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen A. Sheller (Author), Sidney D. Kirkpatrick (Author), Christopher Mondics (Author)Throughout his distinguished legal career, Stephen Sheller has relished the role of the underdog, evincing a sharply honed sense of fair play and justice.Early in his career, he represented Black Panthers in Philadelphia when they were arrested on trumped up murder and conspiracy charges. Later, he was in the vanguard of lawyers who took on the tobacco industry in the 1990s...

The Legal and Moral Rights of All Artists

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Report copyright infringementby Amelia V. Vetrone (Author)It may be said that the beauty of art comes from the struggle that is involved in creating it: struggle to hear the voice, struggle to understand the voice, struggle to express or articulate the voice, struggle to let others hear the voice, and struggle to protect what has been expressed. This book is about the last struggle--to legally protect what has been expressed by appreciating the struggle that has come before. The Legal and Mo...

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And Justice for All: Arthur Chaskalson and the Struggle for Equality in South Africa - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Ellmann (Author)And Justice For All: Arthur Chaskalson and the Struggle for Equality in South Africa is a biography of a remarkable life lived in service both to law and to the struggle for social change and justice. The social change it describes is the victory over apartheid, which was won on several fronts and through the efforts of people in many nations, but an important one of those fronts lay in the courts of South Africa itself. In exploring Cha...

The Nuremberg Trials - The Complete Proceedings Vol 1: The Indictment and OPening Statements - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Bob Carruthers (Editor), Bob Carruthers (Introduction by) Number of Pages: 416 Dimensions: 0.93 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 01, 2011

The Constitutional Rights, Privileges, and Immunities of the American People: The Selective Incorporation of the Bill of Rights, the Refined Incorpora - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Arnold T. Guminski (Author)The Constitutional Rights, Privileges, and Immunities of the American People explores the idea that the Supreme Court should radically revise its general theory of constitutional rights and discusses various aspects of some special theories of constitutional rights in order to ensure a sufficient universe of discourse. As a former deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County, Guminski gained a wealth of experience in preparing argu...

Gnomologia: adagies and proverbs; wise sentences and witty sayings, ancient and modern, foreign and British. Collected by Thomas Fuller, M.D. - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Fuller (Author) The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th...

The Spanish Constitution: English version - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Legibus (Author)The Spanish Constitution of 1978 is the current supreme law of the legal system of Spain, sanctioned by King Juan Carlos I on 27 December 1978; its promulgation marked the culmination of the Spanish transition to democracy after the death of the dictator, Francisco Franco, on 20 November 1975. This led to the country undergoing a series of political, social and historical changes that transformed the Francoist regime into a democratic state. Thi...

Tact in Court: Containing Sketches of Cases won by Skill, wit, art, Tact, Courage and Eloquence, With Practical Illustrations in Lett - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Wesley Donovan (Author)This book provides practical guidance for lawyers who wish to improve their advocacy skills. It includes examples of notable lawsuits and the strategies used by the attorneys who won them.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unite...

Memory & Injustice: Wrongful Accusations in the United Kingdom - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin Felstead (Author)Over the past thirty years, thousands of ordinary people have been accused of crimes they've never committed by individuals whose memories are distorted. This book documents the catastrophic impact of these false memories in the criminal justice system in the United Kingdom, which has seen families torn apart, and hundreds of innocent people imprisoned. For more than a decade Dr Kevin Felstead witnessed many of these trials first-hand whi...

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Carbon Capture and Storage: The Legal Landscape of Climate Change and Mitigation Technology, Second Edition - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Dirk Uwer (Author), Daniel Zimmer (Author)This Special Report explores the most recent regulatory, political and economic trends and themes arising from CCS technologies and projects. It will be an invaluable resource for in-house counsel, senior managers, engineers, consultants, researchers and policy makers with an interest in the energy sector and CCS technologies and projects. Number of Pages: 119 Dimensions: 0.4 x 11.2 x 8 IN ...

A Treatise On Maritime Law: Including The Law Of Shipping - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Theophilus Parsons (Author)Gain a comprehensive understanding of maritime law and the law of shipping with this authoritative treatise. Written by Theophilus Parsons, this book is an invaluable resource for lawyers and legal scholars.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. ...

The Writings Of James Madison: 1790-1802 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby James Madison (Author)This collection of writings by founding father James Madison offers a rare insight into the thoughts and motivations of one of America's most important historical figures. With articles covering topics ranging from the ratification of the Constitution to foreign affairs, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the early days of American politics. It's an indispensable resource for historians, political scientists, and stude...

The Constitution of the State of Oklahoma - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Oklahoma Oklahoma (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is import...

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Report copyright infringementby Bertha Von 1843-1914 Suttner (Author), Alice Asbury Abbott (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, ...

Insurance Fraud Investigations: How Insurance Fraud Costs You Money: Insurance Fraud Cases - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Phillis Aikin (Author)An insurance fraud investigation is a type of fraud investigation that centers around attempts to benefit from deceitful claims. Seeking compensation for false or inflated claims is illegal, dangerous, and raises the price of insurance for everyone. An insurance fraud investigation aids by revealing false claims. Don't let your insurance premiums be a waste of money; use a private investigator to safeguard your insurance privileges. Here's...