Law and Criminality / Civil Rights

New Britian, Connecticut, U.S.A.: Lexington Books, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/Fine. Drawing on comprehensive information available on the complex legal and ethical issues related to AIDS, attorney William F. Banta explains employers', employees', and applicants' rights and responsibilities as defined by the American with Disabilities Act, OSHA, COBRA, the National Labor Relations Act, state and local laws, arbitration awards, and the Centers for Disease Control. He clarifies the complex issues of hiring, firing, insuring, and testing applicants and employees with the AIDS virus. The extensive appendix of laws and regulations, government recommendations, checklists, and sample policies will assist readers in developing or evaluating their own workplace procedures. Workers who are HIV positive, managers, union officials, attorneys, and physicians, will find valuable advice on one of the most urgent problems of the twentieth century and beyond. The binding is navy blue with silver lettering along the spine. 422 pages, with a 1" remainder mark on the bottom. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Running Pr Book Pub, 2003. First Softcover Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. Photographs. NEW - "Bass never lets us forget why this special march meant so much then and now . . . This is an exceptional heartfelt tribute that should be featured in every local library and discussed openly in every family's living room." - Robert Fleming, Black Issues Book Review. This book tells the inspiring stories behind the landmark August 1963 march for economic and social equality. Over 250,000 Americans of every race and creed participated, making the march the largest demonstration of its kind in the history of the United States. To bring that momentous occasion alive for the reader, the author weaves eyewitness accounts, photographs, reporting, and observation into a memorable mosaic. His is the first book to provide a "people's history," exploring the movement from the perspective of everyday men and women. 157 pages, photographs scattered throughout. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Thomas Dunne Books, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. This is a definitive history of the most widely used drug in the world, from the neolithic period to the present day. To some, cannabis is the classic "gateway drug," to others it is a harmless way to relax, or provide relief from crippling pain. In this definitive study, Martin Booth crafts a tale of medical advance, religious enlightenment, political subterfuge, and human rights; of law enforcement and custom officers, cunning smugglers, street pushers, gang warfare, writers, artists, musicians, and happy-go-lucky hippies and potheads. Chronicled here is the fascinating and often mystifying process through which cannabis, a relatively harmless substance, became outlawed throughout the Western world, and the devastating effect such legislation has on the global economy. Above all, he demonstrates how the case for decriminalization remains one of the twenty-first century's hottest topics. 354 pages including a bibliography and extensive index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: W W Norton & Co Inc., 2006. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. A sharp examination of the idea of liberty in the modern, democratic state. . .Liberty is fortunate to have such a reasoned and persuasive voice as its champion." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review). How has the modern welfare state redefined our notion of individual liberty. Are we free to express ourselves in speech, at work, or through sex? In this book, the fourth volume in Norton's ongoing "Issues of our Times" series, Fried shepherds the reader through an elegant, wide-ranging, erudite, at times challenging (both intellectually and politically) but always concrete and relevant discussion of this core American value. He passionately argues why we should place liberty - the freedom "of a man to live his own life as he (thinks) best" - above competing values such as beauty, glory, virtue of one sort or another, and even equality, and shows how each of these values can be and have been used to subvert our personal freedoms. Richly illustrated with examples from contemporary life, Modern Liberty is vividly relevant to the experiences and needs of everyday Americans. 217 pages including notes and an index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Oxford Univ Press, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. The history of law can be viewed as a tale of human choices about the preservation of life, protection of property, exercise of individual liberty, fashioning of creative knowledge, and other basic social concepts. This book gives readers a comprehensive, authoritative, and accesible guide to this ongoing saga, in the form of 468 alphabetically arranged entries written by hundreds of respected scholars about a wide variety of pertinent subjects. 912 pages with a case index and general index. One page came torn, and has been properly repaired. This is a superb, concise source for lawyers, students, scholars, and lay people. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: New York Univ Pr, 1998. No Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. For most of the 20th century, social thinkers devoted their attention mainly to the issues of economic class. They generally dismissed the more primordial bonds of racial, ethnic, and national anachronisms that either communism or the liberal frameworks of democracy would dissolve. Today, communism is nearly dead and liberalism is on the wane. At the same time, older ethno-racial tribalisms, along with some newly invented ones, have shattered our illusions of a rationally manageable world. They find expression in the chauvanistic nationalisms, multicultarist ideologies, vicious civil wars, "ethnic cleansing" of whole regions, intensified racial and ethnic strife, a resurgence of prejudice, scapegoating, hate groups, and nativism as well as new group-based challenges to the individualistic focus of Western liberalism. Bringing together prominent historians, socialists, and political scientists, New Tribalisms examines early conceptions of race and ethnic pluralism in the United States. The volume also confronts some of the causes, implications, and possible outcomes of resurgent tribalisms in the country and around the world. 373 pages including notes on the contributors and an index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Aperture Human Rights Watch, 2000. Hard Cover. New/New. Still in publisher's plastic. "This book contains more than one hundred color and black-and-white photographs of Tibet in the last half-century. Several recent photographs of Chinese prisons in "eastern" Tibet were taken secretly with a telephoto lens, and have never been published in the West before. The book contains essays as well as interviews with Tibetan exiles. As a documentary history, the book includes the texts of Chinese edicts such as a decree on "re-education" in Tibetan monasteries in China's Qinghai province. The book illustrates the extent of China's repression and the ongoing violation of basic human rights in Tibet, through arbitrary arrest, torture, unfair trials, and the secular takeover of religion." Human Rights News. 182 pages. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Basic Books, 2001. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Photographs. This is the first in-depth look at the evolution of the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions on gay and lesbian rights - the new frontier in America's struggle for civil rights for all its citizens, and one that will not quickly be resolved. Since 1957, a wide array of gay men, lesbians and bisexuals have forced the court to consider whether the Constitution's promise of equal protection applies to gay Americans. Here the two authors take us inside the justices' private conference rooms to reveal - often for the first time - how the court weighed gay cases. They examine not only the decisions handed down - some of them devastating blows to the struggle for gay equality - but how the lives of many justices have been touched through their acquaintances with gay individuals. Also included are the dramatic stories of heroes of the gay rights movement - Karen Thompson, who sought custody of her disabled partner; Sharon Kowalski, whose parents refused to recognize their union, and Michael Hardwick, who was arrested for having oral sex in his own bedroom. And this book covers much more ground than there is room for here. The vertical edge of the pages have a very light dust mark. 582 pages, including an appendix, notes on sources, and an extensive index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Basic Books, 2001. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Photographs. This is the first in-depth look at the evolution of the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions on gay and lesbian rights - the new frontier in America's struggle for civil rights for all its citizens, and one that will not quickly be resolved. Since 1957, a wide array of gay men, lesbians and bisexuals have forced the court to consider whether the Constitution's promise of equal protection applies to gay Americans. Here the two authors take us inside the justices' private conference rooms to reveal - often for the first time - how the court weighed gay cases. They examine not only the decisions handed down - some of them devastating blows to the struggle for gay equality - but how the lives of many justices have been touched through their acquaintances with gay individuals. Also included are the dramatic stories of heroes of the gay rights movement - Karen Thompson, who sought custody of her disabled partner; Sharon Kowalski, whose parents refused to recognize their union, and Michael Hardwick, who was arrested for having oral sex in his own bedroom. And this book covers much more ground than there is room for here. The vertical edge of the pages have a very light dust mark. 582 pages, including an appendix, notes on sources, and an extensive index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Amistad Press, 2005. First Printing. Soft Cover. New. Graphic Charts Company. In this buried chapter of American history, a nearly forgotten case of famed attorney Clarence Darrow comes hauntingly to the surface. In 1925 the NAACP approached Darrow to defend Ossian Sweet - a highly respected African-American doctor who, after integrating an all-white neighborhood in Detroit, found himself the victim of a community attack. When Sweet and his family fought back, they were caught in a melee in which a white man was fatally shot. The trial that ensued would test the basic tenets of the American Dream - the right of a man to defend his own home. 349 pages with index, bibliography and endnotes. Includes photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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