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John Lennon vs. the U.S.A.: The Inside Story of the Most Bitterly Contested and Influential Deportation Case in United States History - Hardcover

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by Leon Leon Wildes (Author)At a time when the hottest issue in US immigration law is the proposed action by President Obama to protect from deportation as many as 5 million illegals in the United States, the 1972 John Lennon deportation case takes on special relevance today, notwithstanding the passage of forty years since he was placed in deportation proceedings. Although Wildes did not even know who John Lennon and Yoko Ono were when he was originally retained by them, he developed a close...

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The Crime of Complicity: The Bystander in the Holocaust - Hardcover

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by Amos N. Guiora (Author)If you are a bystander and witness a crime, should intervention to prevent that crime be a legal obligation? Or is moral responsibility enough? In The Crime of Complicity, Amos N. Guiora addresses these profoundly important questions and the bystander-victim relationship from a deeply personal and legal perspective, focusing on the Holocaust and then exploring cases in contemporary society. Sharing the experiences of his parents, who were Holocaust survivors, and his...

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Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History - Hardcover

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by Peter Houlahan (Author)5 young men. 32 destroyed police vehicles. 1 spectacular bank robbery. This "cinematic" true crime story transports readers to the scene of one of the most shocking bank heists in U.S. history--a crime that's almost too wild to be real (The New York Times Book Review). Norco '80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men--led by an apocalyptic born-again Christian--attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal events in U.S. hist...

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Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History - Paperback

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9/12: The Epic Battle of the Ground Zero Responders - Hardcover

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by William H. Groner (Author), Tom Teicholz (Author)9/12 is the saga of the epic nine-year legal battle waged by William H. Groner against the City of New York and its contractors on behalf of the more than ten thousand first responders who became ill as a result of working on the Ground Zero cleanup. These first responders--like AT&T Disaster Relief head Gary Acker and New York Police Department detectives Candiace Baker, Thomas Ryan, and Mindy Hersh--rushed to Ground Zero and remained t...

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Judicial Fortitude: The Last Chance to Rein in the Administrative State - Hardcover

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by Peter J. Wallison (Author)In this book, Peter J. Wallison argues that the administrative agencies of the executive branch have gradually taken over the legislative role of Congress, resulting in what many call the administrative state. The judiciary bears the major responsibility for this development because it has failed to carry out its primary constitutional responsibility: to enforce the constitutional separation of powers by ensuring that the elected branches of government--the legisl...

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Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution - Hardcover

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by Myron Magnet (Author)When Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991, he found with dismay that it was interpreting a very different Constitution from the one the framers had written--the one that had established a federal government manned by the people's own elected representatives, charged with protecting citizens' inborn rights while leaving them free to work out their individual happiness themselves, in their families, communities, and states. He found that his predecessors on t...

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Coming Home: Reclaiming America's Conservative Soul - Hardcover

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by Ted V. McAllister (Author), Bruce P. Frohnen (Author)Americans have been forced from their homes. Their jobs have been outsourced, their neighborhoods torn down to make room for freeways, their churches shuttered or taken over by social justice warriors, and their very families eviscerated by government programs that assume their functions and a hostile elite that deems them oppressive. Conservatives have always defended these elements of a rooted life as crucial to maintaining cultural co...

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The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds That Shaped America's Supreme Law - Paperback

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by Joseph Tartakovsky (Author)In a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the eyes of ten extraordinary individuals--some renowned, like Alexander Hamilton and Woodrow Wilson, and some forgotten, like James Wilson and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Tartakovsky brings to life their struggles over our supreme law from its origins in revolutionary America to the era of Obama and Trump. Sweeping from settings as diver...

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America's Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It - Hardcover

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by C. Bradley Thompson (Author)America's Revolutionary Mind is the first major reinterpretation of the American Revolution since the publication of Bernard Bailyn's The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon S. Wood's The Creation of the American Republic. The purpose of this book is twofold: first, to elucidate the logic, principles, and significance of the Declaration of Independence as the embodiment of the American mind; and, second, to shed light on what John Adams onc...

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False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All - Paperback

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by Sally C. Pipes (Author)American health care is at a crossroads. Health spending reached $3.5 trillion in 2017. Yet more than 27 million people remain uninsured. And it's unclear if all that spending is buying higher-quality care. Patients, doctors, insurers, and the government acknowledge that the status quo is unsustainable. America's last attempt at health care reform--Obamacare--didn't work. Nearly a decade after its passage, Democrats are calling for a government takeover of the natio...

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Terror in the Cradle of Liberty: How Boston Became a Center for Islamic Extremism - Hardcover

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by Ilya Feoktistov (Author)In April of 2002, a mosque in Cambridge, MA run by the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) posted an appeal on its website: "Chechen refugee family needs temporary place to live until they complete their permanent refugee status in the US. Husband has good business knowledge, auto-mechanic experience and construction." Contrary to the Islamic Society of Boston's claims, taken entirely at face value by most media, that the Tsarnaev brothers only briefly and occasionally...

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American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup - Hardcover

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by F. H. Buckley (Author)Americans have never been more divided, and we're ripe for a breakup. The bitter partisan animosities, the legislative gridlock, the growing acceptance of violence in the name of political virtue--it all invites us to think that we'd be happier were we two different countries. In all the ways that matter, save for the naked force of law, we are already two nations. There's another reason why secession beckons, says F.H. Buckley: we're too big. In population and area, ...

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The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics Is Dividing the Land of the Free - Hardcover

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by Mike Gonzalez (Author)The Plot to Change America exposes the myths that help identity politics perpetuate itself. This book reveals what has really happened, explains why it is urgent to change course, and offers a strategy to do so. Though we should not fool ourselves into thinking that it will be easy to eliminate identity politics, we should not overthink it, either. Identity politics relies on the creation of groups and then on giving people incentives to adhere to them. If we eliminat...

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Career Defense 101: How to Stop Sexual Harassment Without Quitting Your Job - Paperback

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by Meredith Holley (Author)Career Defense 101 offers women seven proven, actionable strategies that help end sexual harassment in their careers for good so that they can focus on work they love. Women are often told, "Things are really sexist, and all we can do is ignore it." Career Defense 101 does not accept that answer but compiles research and tools that have actually been proven to work in ending harassment and helping women advance in their careers. Women often work twice as hard as eve...

The Self-Help Guide to the Law: Know Your Constitutional Rights - Paperback

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by J. D. Teller Esq (Author)Self-Help Guides to the Law(TM) explain the law in clear, concise terms to a popular audience of non-lawyers. Summarizing the key areas of the law with which readers are most likely to come into contact, the Guides broadly outline the statutes and cases that govern landlord-tenant relations, personal injury, contracts, family law, criminal law and constitutional law and procedure. With detailed references to sources for readers wishing to delve deeper, the Guides ...

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by Charlotte Adelman (Author), David A. Hurst (Designed by)A short history of the WBAI, as well as news clippings from the early 1900s. Biographies and photos of WBAI members. Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.27 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: June 01, 1992

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by Speedy Publishing LLC (Author)Keep track of all the documents you notarized Keep your own records for future reference and possible use in this handy notary public record book. Write the information of your client, the services you rendered and the fees you charged. This book is extremely handy to spot legal trends and identify the needs of your clientele. Number of Pages: 106 Dimensions: 0.22 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: April 25, 2015

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by Speedy Publishing LLC (Author)A notary journal is a must-have in any legal practice. It stores a list of all the services you offered, the fees paid, as well as the information of the client. This list is beneficial in tracking your office income as well as in determining the demographics and need of your clientele. This way, you can adjust your services accordingly. Number of Pages: 106 Dimensions: 0.22 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: April 25, 2015

The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and Us Social Transformation - Paperback

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by Fania E. Davis (Author)In our era of mass incarceration, gun violence, and Black Lives Matters, a handbook showing how racial justice and restorative justice can transform the African-American experience in America. This timely work will inform scholars and practitioners on the subjects of pervasive racial inequity and the healing offered by restorative justice practices. Addressing the intersectionality of race and the US criminal justice system, social activist Fania E. Davis explores ho...

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The Little Book of Racial Healing: Coming to the Table for Truth-Telling, Liberation, and Transformation - Paperback

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by Thomas Norman Dewolf (Author), Jodie Geddes (Author)This book introduces Coming to the Table's approach to a continuously evolving set of purposeful theories, ideas, experiments, guidelines, and intentions, all dedicated to facilitating racial healing and transformation. People of color, relative to white people, fall on the negative side of virtually all measurable social indicators. The "living wound" is seen in the significant disparities in average household wealth, unemployment and po...

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The Little Book of Restorative Teaching Tools: Games, Activities, and Simulations for Understanding Restorative Justice Practices - Paperback

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by Lindsey Pointer (Author), Kathleen McGoey (Author), Haley Farrar (Author)Engaging Practices for Integrating Restorative Justice Principles in Group Settings As restorative practices spread around the world, scholars and practitioners have begun to ask very important questions: How should restorative practices be taught? What educational structures and methods are in alignment with restorative values and principles? This book introduces games as an effective and dynamic tool to teach resto...

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Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five - Paperback

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by Miko Peled (Author)In July 2004, federal agents raided the homes of five Palestinian-American families, arresting the five dads. The first trial of the "Holy Land Foundation Five" ended in a hung jury. The second, marked by highly questionable procedures, resulted in very lengthy sentences--for "supporting terrorism" by donating to charities that the U.S. government itself and other respected international agencies had long worked with. In 2013, human rights activist and author Miko Peled ...

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by James Peck (Author), James Baldwin (Foreword by)2016 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unco...

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by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (Author)In the classic essay by the brilliant Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., he delivers his interpretation on what the law ought to be versus what the law is. Holmes served on the United States Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. "The Path of the Law" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was originally published in the "Harvard Law Review" in 1897. Number of Pages: 26 Dimensions: 0.06 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 30, 2018

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Bad Law: Rethinking Justice for a Postcolonial Canada - Paperback

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by John Reilly (Author)From the bestselling author of Bad Medicine and its sequel Bad Judgment comes a wide-ranging, magisterial summation of the years-long intellectual and personal journey of an Alberta jurist who went against the grain and actually learned about Canada's Indigenous people in order to become a public servant."Probably my greatest claim to fame is that I changed my mind," writes John Reilly in this broadly cogent interrogation of the Canadian justice system. Building on his ...

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Write Your Legal Will in 3 Easy Steps - Paperback

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by Robert C. Waters (Author)Approximately 60% of Americans don t have a properly written legal Will Updated for 2012, this complete kit has everything you need to plan your estate, make decisions about how to divide it, and write your own legal will. This kit is written by an American lawyer and is 100 percent legal. Creating an estate plan and writing your own will is easy. Just follow the step-by-step instructions in this book and use the forms to create your own will. There s no need to r...

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I Am Nobody: Confronting the Sexually Abusive Coach Who Stole My Life - Hardcover

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by Greg Gilhooly (Author)"I Am Nobody is an honest, tragic account of child sexual abuse and a powerful resource for individuals struggling with recovery. Gilhooly clearly highlights the shortcomings of the Canadian justice system's approach; hopefully, one day, the punishment will fit the crime. —Sheldon Kennedy, former NHL player and author of Why I Didn't Say Anything In this raw, unflinching look at how his dream of playing hockey was stolen from him by charismatic hockey coach and sexual...

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Border Cities Powerhouse: 1901-1945 - Hardcover

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by Patrick Brode (Author)This is the first comprehensive history of the Border Cities area during its formative period in the first half of the 20th Century. The story of Windsor's emergence during this period is largely one of confrontation and conflict: a multicultural population, industrial expansion, radical politics, and military production all played their part in the city's early history.Author BiographyPatrick Brode was born in Windsor in 1950 and educated there. He graduated from Win...

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by Shireen Smith (Author)We're undergoing a quiet revolution. The new currency in our digital economy is information, ideas, know-how, brands, systems and data. Whether you're starting a new business, building a brand identity or launching a new product or service, you're also creating intellectual property. Do it right and the intangible assets you create could be worth more than the products or services themselves. Do it wrong and you could miss vital opportunities, have your true value sto...

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by Lovemore Madhuku (Author)This is a comprehensive textbook on Zimbabwean labour law. After detailing the history and purpose of the law, it offers a comprehensive review of contracts of employment, termination, the rights of organisation and association, and collective bargaining. Dispute settlement is discusses within the contexts of the right to strike, conciliation and arbitration, and the role of the courts in adjudication. State employment is treated separately, as it is governed by co...

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Crime Scene to Court: The Essentials of Forensic Science - Paperback

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by Peter C. White (Editor)The fascinating field of forensic science can be challenging to understand. Written for non-scientists, or those with limited scientific knowledge, this book covers the three main areas of an investigation where forensic science is practised: at the scene of the crime, in the forensic laboratory and at court. The fourth edition of this popular book features a new chapter on identifying an individual, including biometrics and a new chapter covering digital crime. The ...