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Author
Publisher
Crown Forum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This rich collection offers Neil Gorsuch's most salient writings and speeches from his over three decades of thinking about the law as a student, practitioner, professor, judge, and now justice. For court watchers and the general public alike, it provides essential insight into his judicial philosophy and his views on the Constitution and the role of judges in our modern republic"--
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Americans are required to pay taxes, serve on juries, get their kids vaccinated, get driver's licenses, and sometimes go to war for their country. So why not ask--or require--every American to vote?.. E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport argue that universal participation in our elections should be a cornerstone of our system. It would be the surest way to protect against voter suppression and the active disenfranchisement of a large share of our citizens....
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Language
English
Description
This guidebook contains legal and practical information for tenants, and contains dozens of sample letters and forms. Topics discussed include: getting landlords to make repairs by using rent withholding or repair-and-deduct; avoiding disputes with roommates over rent, deposits, guests, and noise; fighting illegal discrimination, retaliation, or sexual harassment; dealing with hazards like lead paint, mold, or bedbugs; breaking a lease with minimum...
88) Postmortem
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Patricia Cornwell's debut novel introduced one of crime fiction's most compelling characters: gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell's gift for combining cutting-edge criminology with nerve-shattering suspense makes this book a true modern classic. Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Kay Scarpette suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"What are rules? What are laws? Who creates them? Why do we have to follow them? What happens if we break them? Accessible text and explanatory photos help students understand the key concepts of rules and laws and why they are part of our lives."-- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Okrent, the definitive and timely account of a forgotten dark chapter of American history. The Guarded Gate tells the story of the scientists who provided the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American history and the men who turned their 'science' into politics. Brandished by the upper-class Bostonians and New Yorkers--many of them progressives--who led the anti-immigration movement,...
Author
Series
Firm volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A young rising star in the legal world lands the job of a lifetime when he takes a position at a prestigious law firm. Despite a little uneasiness, things seem to be going well. Unfortunately, though, an FBI probe puts this young lawyer in the middle of a dangerous nightmare, which includes some dark and sinister secrets within the firm.
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Language
English
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Description
Essentially this book is a heavily visual memoir-in-essays that explores how the experience of gestational parenthood-conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding my son Samson-eventually clarified my gender identity and allowed me to project a different more masculine self. Ruminating on how the experiences contained under the umbrella of "motherhood" don't fully describe my experience amplifies the outsiderness the speaker, who is almost always addressing...
Author
Publisher
Pebble, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2020].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The law enforcement center is an important part of our community. Many community helpers work together at a law enforcement center. Readers will learn about who works at a law enforcement center, what the workers do, and what makes a law enforcement center special." --
99) Bull Mountain
Author
Series
Bull Mountain volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
" "Brian Panowich stamps words on the page as if they've been blasted from the barrel of a shotgun, and as with a shotgun blast, no one is safe from the scattered fragments of history that impale the people of Bull Mountain."-Wiley Cash, New York Times-bestselling author of This Dark Road to Mercy. The Godfather meets Daniel Woodrell in this Southern debut, a multigenerational saga of crime, family, and vengeance. Clayton Burroughs comes from a long...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This book explores the way in which new states emerge in the modern international system. While the subject of secession and state creation has rarely been so newsworthy - especially in light of the 2022 war in Ukraine and other conflicts in the international system - recent events in places such as Kosovo, Catalonia and Kurdistan have highlighted just how difficult it is to create a new country in the modern international system. Although there...
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