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Three Rivers Press, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. ... more information

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HarperCollins, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Tirman (executive director, Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) protests that he is not being "cranky or clownish" in enumerating 100 things that the United States has dove in the world that "[have] gone awry, or worse, [have] gone as planned with disastrous results for almost everyone else." He urges readers to think of his discussion as a corrective, as he goes about criticizing neoliberali... more information

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Barron's Educational Ser., 2008. New. CD-ROM; not a bound book. CD-ROM included. ... more information

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Pocket Essentials, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Their crimes were unprecedented, despicable, deadly and obscene, conducted in hatred but also conducted in times of war. Their victors had to punish them, but exactly how under the laws that existed at the time was an open question. The prosecutors' tricks were to be candid about the law and thorough about the evidence, and although they did not obtain convictions for all of the 21 Nazi defendants, they were able to establish precedent and bring ... more information

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Adams Media Corporation, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This career guide outlines the government agencies that hire enforcement officers, the minimum requirements expected of a candidate, and the application process. The second half of the book describes the tests a potential hire must pass, recruit training, the first year on the job, family life considerations, and the honor code. Bagley is a justice of the peace. (©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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W.W. Norton, 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Author Miller (media studies, New York U.) has been unrelenting in his criticism of the George W. Bush administration for many years now, charging the regime with being not only antidemocratic and antirepublican, but "fundamentally apocalyptic." Following up on his earlier The Bush Dyslexicon, he documents how the administration has used corrosive cynicism to stampede the country into war and to stifle all dissent, how it has flagrantly disregard... more information

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Concept Pub. Co., 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. ... more information

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Cato Institute, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The libertarian Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies presents the sixth volume of their annual critique of key Supreme Court decisions, covering the 2006 term. Covered in this volume is the Court's treatment of constitutional remedies in Wilkie v. Robbins, the election law case of FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc., the First Amendment cases of Davenport v. Washington Education Association and Morse v. Frederick, the federal part... more information

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AEI Press, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Entine (Miami U., Ohio) compiles four essays, one his own, on the subject of public pension fund investing and the legal and political implications of socially-responsible investing. The authors argue that social investing of public funds violates fiduciary responsibility; ideological filters do not improve and may hurt stock performance; and that social investing has not brought the social reforms promised by its advocates, and has had unintended social and... more information

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Century Foundation, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Abramowitz (The Century Foundation) and Bosworth (law and diplomacy, Tufts U.) describe the new reality in East Asia. What the US once thought was its control over the region is changing rapidly, and these two veterans of the State Department and diplomatic circles carefully describe the historical context as well as the results in terms of an increasingly complex US military, diplomatic, and financial involvement; the role of the new China; the per... more information

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The Independent Institute, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Helland (economics, Claremont McKenna College) and Tabarrok (economics, George Mason U. and The Independent Institute) examine tort cases in the US in terms of the roles of judges, juries, and lawyers. They consider whether awards vary because of jury characteristics, differences between judge and jury awards, variances of judicial electoral systems, lawyer contingency fees, and reforms. Their study is based on analyses of the JVR Personal In... more information

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Penguin Books, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. ... more information

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Open Society Institute, 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This update of the 1997 edition offers guidelines for setting standards for laws governing diverse civic organizations. The authors, with the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, collaborated with George Soros' Open Society Institute. (©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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RDR Books, 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. In the sweeping set of federal laws known as No Child Left Behind, the contributors see a sustained and damaging campaign to dismantle America's neighborhood-based public school system. Writing for parents, teachers, and the interested public, they lay out the ways that backers of No Child Left Behind, which has been presented as a reform effort, have exaggerated the weaknesses of the system and diverted attention from the real problems that stem from un... more information

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The New Press, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Rothschild (editor, The Progressive) has composed a journalistic compendium of 82 stories demonstrating the severe erosion of civil and human rights in the post-9/11 United States. He reports on American citizens of Arab ethnicity being harassed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a student anti-torture protestor arrested on clearly bogus bomb hoax charges, a graphic designer fired from his job for heckling President Bush at a speech, university stud... more information

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Clarity Press, Inc., 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This book contains the transcripts of the two lectures (along with the question and answer sessions) delivered by Boyle (international law, U. of Illinois) as part of the 18th Annual Bertrand Russell Peace Lectures at Canada's McMaster U. in January of 2007. The first lecture concerns Israel/Palestine and international law, a topic to which Boyle brings both his academic expertise and his experience as a former legal adviser to the Palestinian ... more information

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Andrews McMeel, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. She can take the field with you on the football team, she collects items for a scrapbook to document the most embarrassing moments of your life, and she deserves the best, whether she's your biological, working, single, adoptive, earth, in-law, unwed, or unfit mother. This collection of New Yorker cartoons, mostly hilarious but also occasionally poignant, focuses on the diversity of motherhood from the point of view of those who are mothers and from... more information

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Naturegraph Publishers, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Having then recently retired from teaching, Gee wrote a 1996 account of the life of fish for the US Fish and Wildlife Service education for primary schools. Here she integrates scientific information into a story for adult or upper teenage readers illustrating the life cycle of a particular species of salmon from its birth in the northwest rivers to its life in the ocean and return to its birth place to spawn. Among the stages of the trip are sw... more information

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National Academies Press, 2003. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. A summary of a workshop convened in Washington, DC, in June 2002 by the National Academy of Engineering to consider issues related to the development of owner-authorized handguns--firearms that would operate only for an authorized user. The workshop, attended by about 40 academics, researchers, gun advocates, gun opponents, law enforcement officials, lawyers, and others, explored the technical feasibility, legal implications, and possible soci... more information

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Entrepreneur Press, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. ... more information

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