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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court's supermajority and makes the case for a better way to interpret the Constitution.
"You will not read a more important legal work this election year." —Bob Woodward, Washington Post reporter and author of fifteen #1 New York Times bestselling...
"You will not read a more important legal work this election year." —Bob Woodward, Washington Post reporter and author of fifteen #1 New York Times bestselling...
22) Supreme Court
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Series
Publisher
Focus Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"This informative series gives early readers an introduction to the United States Supreme Court"--
23) Unnatural death
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 27
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Two mauled bodies in the woods. Top secret autopsies. The most chilling cases of Scarpetta's career. In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell's #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including...
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Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"During the years between the Civil War and World War II, police in New York City struggled with how to control a diverse city. In Police and the Empire City Matthew Guariglia tells the history of the New York Police to show how its origins were built upon and inseparably entwined with the history of race, ethnicity, and whiteness in the United States. Guariglia explores the New York City Police Department through its periods of experimentation and...
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InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"A former police officer tells the story of how his eyes were opened to the hard truth that dehumanization, systemic racism, and brutality are endemic to the policing culture of the U.S. He then offers a hopeful new model not based in dominance and control with concrete suggestions for procedural justice and community policing"--
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her way up to being a top criminal defense barrister against all the odds, and fights to defend those pleading not guilty. Tessa believes in the law, believes in the system. Her quick-witted cross-examinations and intelligence in the courtroom see her clocking up win after win—including securing freedom for men accused of rape and sexual assault. Innocence until proven guilty is, after all, the bedrock...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"After Dr. Jack Stapleton's near-death confrontation with a medical serial killer, his wife, NYC Chief Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery, is carrying the load both at home and at work. When Laurie insists Dr. Ryan Sullivan--an underperforming senior pathology resident who is spending his required month at the medical examiner's office but who truly detests doing forensic autopsies--assist her on a suicide autopsy in the hopes of stimulating his interest...
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ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"A transparent first-hand account of a Black officer maneuvering through three terrifying yet rewarding decades of policing, all while seeking reform in law enforcement. Sixteen-year-old Keith Merith finds himself pulled over, berated, and degraded by a white police officer. He's done nothing wrong -- he was only looking for a parking spot. But the officer has the power, and he doesn't. Keith never wants to be in that position again. From that day...
30) Secret service
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Black Rabbit Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Controlling crowds and protecting the president are just the beginning of what members of the Secret Service do. Find out what Secret Service agents do to keep the United States safe"--
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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
Description
"James Hamilton has been a fly on the wall of American history through his involvement in the investigations concerning Watergate, the Kennedy assassination, "Debategate," the Keating Five, the Clinton impeachment, Vince Foster's suicide, the Valerie Plame affair, Benghazi, and the Major League Baseball steroids scandal. Arguing against Brett Kavanaugh (in Kavanaugh's only Supreme Court argument), Hamilton won the Supreme Court case establishing that...
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The New Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In the fevered battles over immigration, Democrats and Republicans alike agree on this: that migrants who have committed a crime have no place in this country. But targeting migrants because they have committed a crime is a short-sighted appeal to nativist fear. To predicate a migrant’s right to stay in the country on whether they are law-abiding and therefore deserving or “criminal” and undeserving does little to improve public safety and...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"For the crime of falling sick without wealth, Americans today face lawsuits, wage garnishment, home foreclosure, and even jail time. Yet who really profits from aggressive medical debt collection? And how does this predatory system affect patients and doctors responsible for their care? Your Money or Your Life reveals how medical debt collection became a multibillion-dollar industry and how everyday Americans are made to pay the price. Emergency...
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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"Desde las profundidades de las marismas de Luisiana, un asesino en serie aficionado a la experimentación médica está completando su proyecto más ambicioso: tras marcarlas de forma macabra, sus víctimas no cesan de aumentar y no hay pistas que seguir. Los medios lo apodan «el carnicero del pantano» y, hasta ahora, nadie ha podido atraparlo. Con su conocimiento enciclopédico de las mentes más oscuras y años de experiencia en la práctica...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"What’s the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What’s the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to different constituencies? What’s the least distorted way to draw voting districts? Not the way we do things now. Democracy is mathematical to its very foundations. Yet most of the methods in use are a historical grab bag of the shortsighted, the cynical, the innumerate, and the outright discriminatory....
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AK Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The story of the radical feminist networks who worked outside the law to defend abortion. Starting in the 1970s, small groups of feminist activists met regularly to study anatomy, practice pelvic exams on each other, and learn how to safely perform a procedure known as menstrual extraction, which can empty the contents of the uterus in case of pregnancy using equipment that can be easily bought and assembled at home. This "self-help" movement grew...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Witchcraft is a dramatic journey through thirteen witch trials across history, some famous--like the Salem witch trials--and some lesser-known: on Vardø island, Norway, in the 1620s, where an indigenous Sami woman was accused of murder; in France in 1731, during the country's last witch trial, where a young woman was pitted against her confessor and cult leader; in Pennsylvania in 1929 where a magical healer was labelled a "witch"; in Lesotho in...
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