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The New Federal Equity Rules: Promulgated By The United States Supreme Court At The October Term, 1912 (1912)

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Report copyright infringementby James Love Hopkins (Author)""The New Federal Equity Rules: Promulgated By The United States Supreme Court At The October Term, 1912"" is a legal text written by James Love Hopkins. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the new federal equity rules that were established by the United States Supreme Court in 1912. These rules were designed to regulate the procedures and practices of federal courts in equity cases, and they represented a significant shift ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Jam Jems (Author)The Federal Reserve Monster by Jems, Jim Jam is a non-fiction book that delves into the inner workings of the Federal Reserve System of the United States. The author, who is a financial expert, presents a critical analysis of the central bank's policies and actions, arguing that it has become a monster that is out of control. He explores the history of the Federal Reserve, its structure, and its role in the economy, highlighting the controv...

Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy Part Two

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Report copyright infringementby John Stuart Mill (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number...

Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy Part One

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel S. Cox (Author)Union-Disunion-Reunion: Three Decades Of Federal Legislation 1855 To 1885 is a book written by Samuel S. Cox. The book covers the period of American history from 1855 to 1885, which was marked by significant political and social changes. It provides a comprehensive overview of the federal legislation passed during this period, including the major events that led to the Civil War, the Reconstruction era, and the eventual reunification of th...

Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education Entanglements and Regenerations

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Report copyright infringementby Michalinos Zembylas (Editor), André Keet (Editor)Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education presents new scholarly research that views human rights, democracy and citizenship education as a critical project. Written by an international line-up of contributors including academics from Canada, Cyprus, Ireland, South Africa, Sweden, the UK and the USA, this open access book provides a cross-section of theoretical work as well as case studies on th...

American Teacher in China: Coping with Cultures

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Report copyright infringementby Francis Kretschmer (Author), F. A. Kretschmer (Author)From the perspective of six years in Beijing (1986-1992), Kretschmer offers a lively account of how American Foreign Experts go berserk in China, how they gradually adjust to Chinese culture, and how they eventually acquire a unique bicultural vision of the world. Kretschmer combines entertaining sketches of the bumbling China Thumb with penetrating glimpses of the population policy at work. He addresses iss...

ALA-APA Salary Survey: Librarian--Public and Academic

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Report copyright infringementby Denise M. Davis (Author), Jenifer Grady (Editor)Useful for academic and public library directors and human resources staff for hiring and promotions, and librarians seeking employment, this report summarizes salaries paid as of February 1, 2010, to staff in six position categories: directors/deans, associate/assistant directors, department heads, managers of support staff, librarians who do not supervise and beginning librarians. The survey shows aggregated dat...

Conflicting Missions?: Teachers Unions and Educational Reform

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Loveless (Editor)"Ask people whether teachers unions are good or bad for education and you are likely to receive a wide variety of opinions. A 1998 Gallup Poll asked whether teachers unions helped, hurt, or made no difference in the quality of education in U.S. public schools. Twenty-seven percent responded that unions helped, 26 percent that they hurt, and 37 percent that they made no difference (10 percent of those surveyed said they did not know). Althou...

Learning Whiteness: Education and the Settler Colonial State

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Report copyright infringementby Arathi Sriprakash (Joint Author), Sophie Rudolph (Joint Author), Jessica Gerrard (Joint Author)Whiteness is not innate - it is learned. The systems of white domination that prevail across the world are not pregiven or natural. Rather, they are forged and sustained in social and political life. Learning Whiteness examines the material conditions, knowledge politics and complex feelings that create and relay systems of racial domination. Focusing on Australia, th...

Eulogy On King Philip, As Pronounced At The Odeon, In Federal Street, Boston

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Report copyright infringementby William Apes (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of ...

Popular Sovereignty In The Territories: The Dividing Line Between Federal And Local Authority

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen a. Douglas (Author)""Popular Sovereignty In The Territories: The Dividing Line Between Federal And Local Authority"" is a book written by Stephen A. Douglas, a prominent American politician and senator from Illinois in the mid-19th century. The book focuses on the issue of popular sovereignty, which was a controversial concept during the time leading up to the American Civil War. Popular sovereignty is the idea that the people of a territory should have...

The State, Corporatist Politics, and Educational Policy Making in Mexico

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel a. Morales-Gomez (Author), Carlos Torres (Author), Carlos Alberto Torres (Author)An important contribution to the growing body of work on Latin American policy making in education, this volume presents a critical analysis of the conflicts and contradictions inherent in educational policy planning in Mexico since the early 1970s. In an effort to forge a clearer and more comprehensive understanding of the processes involved, the authors examine the complex...

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Report copyright infringementby Siamack Shojai (Author), Robert Christopherson (Author)Globalization is both a virtue and a vice. On balance it is beneficial to individuals, communities, nations, and the world economy. It facilitates the movement of goods and services, people, financial capital, and ideas. Overall, it creates wealth. Globalization does have vices, however, cultural clashes, environmental degradation, and displaced workers among them. The contributors to this volume contend th...

Preparing for Citizenship: Teaching Youth to Live Democratically

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph Mosher (Author), Andrew Garrod (With), Robert A. Kenny (With)Understanding democracy, learning to be democratic and to value democracy are critical competencies to be developed by all Americans. In the present debate about what knowledge is of most worth in the public school, these civic competencies are seen as second in importance only to the development of critical thinking. They are typically, however, honored more in commencement rhetoric than in sch...

The Parallel Histories of Israel and Palestine: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Davies (Author)How do you learn about a contentious and divisive history like that of Israel and Palestine? Don't shy away from the two competing narratives - seek them out, lay them side by side, and immerse yourself in both. Then you can form your own judgement. In a world where every truth seems to have a counter-truth, opinions are taken to extremes and people don't trust the 'experts' to decide, it's tempting to duck talking about difficult topics....

Step Up!: How To Advocate Like A Woman - Paperback

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by Ellen Troxclair (Author)Right-of-center women are frustrated and fed up - tired of being overrun by a "women's march" that does not represent their values, overwhelmed by divisive rhetoric on social media, and woefully underrepresented in elected offices. And, there is too much at stake to stay on the sidelines. Step Up will inspire women to turn the same leadership, compassion, and tenacity that already bring to their families and workplaces into effective advocacy for their communities -...

University Commons Divided: Exploring Debate & Dissent on Campus

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Report copyright infringementby Peter MacKinnon (Author)Investigating issues of university governance in Canada, University Commons Divided analyzes several major cases at the university level that have come to exemplify infringements on the freedom of expressionAuthor BiographyPeter MacKinnon is president emeritus of the University of Saskatchewan, an officer of the Order of Canada, and a senior fellow of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Number of Pages: 168 Dimensi...

The Battle of Lincoln Place: An Epic Fight by Tenants to Save Their Homes - Paperback

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by Dennis Hathaway (Author)The Battle of Lincoln Place is a stirring account of the courage and perseverance shown by the tenants of a large, historic apartment complex who stand up to the greed and heartlessness of their corporate landlords, whose quest for profit threatens to destroy their long-time homes. It follows four women who lead the hundreds of working class and elderly tenants in a desperate struggle on the streets, in the halls of government, and in the courts of law and public op...

The Battle of Lincoln Place: An Epic Fight By Tenants To Save Their Homes - Hardcover

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Reparations on Fire: How and Why it's Spreading Across America - Paperback

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by Nkechi Taifa (Author)Reparations on Fire describes history-in-the-making. It combines a historical survey and commentary on the Reparations Movement in America while addressing how pioneering reparations legislation is being born and debated in city council chambers and statehouses nationwide. It is part historical analysis, part revolutionary manifesto, and part political red-alert.Reparations on Fire brings additional value to the Reparations Movement as it goes about the necessary task ...

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by Tom Ramstack (Author)April 15, 2013. Before the Boston Marathon was over, few people cared who won or lost. Patriots Day, a day of festivities to celebrate the American Revolution, was about to become the latest nightmare in America's ongoing war on terrorism. "The pungent smell of gunpowder hung in the air while shrapnel, ball bearings and nails littered the streets near the blast sites. Spectators left behind backpacks, cell phones and handmade signs with runners' names. Doctors at Brigh...

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by The Invisible Committee (Author)A call to arms by a group of French intellectuals that rejects leftist reform and aligns itself with younger, wilder forms of resistance.Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy... We have to see that the economy is itself the crisis. It's not that there's not enough work, it's that there is too much of it. The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent wav...

Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have - Paperback

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by Tatiana Schlossberg (Author)*First Place Winner of the Society of Environmental Journalists' Rachel Carson Environment Book Award* From a former New York Times science writer, this urgent call to action--updated for paperback with a new preface and afterword--will empower you to stand up to climate change and environmental pollution by making simple but impactful everyday choices. With urgency and wit, Tatiana Schlossberg explains that far from being only a distant problem of the natural w...

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory - Paperback

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by Ben MacIntyre (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING COLIN FIRTH - The "brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining" (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker) true story of the most successful--and certainly the strangest--deception carried out in World War II, from the acclaimed author of The Spy and the Traitor "Pure catnip to fans of World War II thrillers and a lot of fun for everyone else."--Joseph Kanon, The Washington Post Book World Near the end of World War II, tw...

Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations

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Report copyright infringementby Charlie Kirk (Author), Brent Hamachek (Author)"A Post Hill Press book"--Title page verso.Author BiographyCharlie Kirk is the Founder and Executive Director of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to identifying, organizing, and empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government. Since the inception of Turning Point USA in 2012, Kirk has grown Turning Point USA from nothing to having representation on ove...

Early History of Junction City, Kansas: the First Generation

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Report copyright infringementby John B. Jeffries (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 important...

Encouraging College Students' Democratic Engagement in an Era of Political Polarization

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Report copyright infringementby Angela M. McGowan-Kirsch (Editor), Mike Y. Ahn (Contribution by), Rebecca A. Alt (Contribution by)This work argues that colleges and universities are important locations for building students' capacities for civic participation. Grounded in literature and personal experience, the authors advance pedagogical strategies that promote civic responsibility and prepare students to navigate today's polarized political landscape.Author BiographyAngela M. McGowan-Kirsch...

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony T. Kronman (Author)"I want to call it a cry of the heart, but it's more like a cry of the brain, a calm and erudite one." --Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal The former dean of Yale Law School argues that the feverish egalitarianism gripping college campuses today is a threat to our democracy. College education is under attack from all sides these days. Most of the handwringing--over free speech, safe zones, trigger warnings, and the babying of stud...

Spying 101: The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities, 1917-1997

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Hewitt (Author)Since the end of the First World War, members of the RCMP have infiltrated the campuses of Canada's universities and colleges to spy, meet informants, gather information, and on occasion, to attend classes. Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 15, 2002

Tafari Makonnen School: Inspiring Lives of Achievement Since 1925

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Report copyright infringementby Bisrat Aklilu (Contribution by), Doug Eadie (Contribution by)Through the lives of tremendous achievement that its alumni have lived since its establishment in 1925 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by Regent Ras Tafari Makonnen (the future Emperor Haile Selassie I), Tafari Makonnen School has made a powerful contribution to the economic and social development of not only Ethiopia but of many other nations around the world where its alumni have lived and worked. The emb...

Framing Equality: The Politics of Gay Marriage Wars

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Report copyright infringementby Omar G. Encarnación (Author)Although a lot has been said about the stunning success of the marriage equality movement, not much is known about why the global struggle over gay marriage has varied across countries with respect to the severity of the conservative backlash and the legacy for LGBTQ equality. In this book, Omar Encarnación presents a cross-national exploration of the politics of "gay marriage wars" by looking at how gay marriage has been framed in t...