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Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This collection of original essays brings together a dozen pieces on the history of policing practices along both the southern and northern US borders. The two volume editors themselves have done work that represents the cutting edge of scholarship on the respective borders: Diaz in Border Contraband, and Karibo in Sin City North, her study of the Detroit-Windsor border region. The thematic reach of the book matches the geographic and chronological...
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
If you work with words, you need this book No writer likes to see their hard work or creativity copied by others-or to be accused of copying. Fortunately,The Copyright Handbook provides everything you need to protect yourself. Find information and forms to help you: learn what copyright law protects and doesn't register your work with the Copyright Office deal with infringers, online and off transfer ownership of a copyright get international copyright...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Before the 1960s, the distinction between violent and nonviolent crime played hardly any role in the law. Since then, the number of crimes deemed violent has skyrocketed. David Alan Sklansky shows how shifting and inconsistent legal definitions of violence have fueled mass incarceration, protected abusive police, and undermined criminal justice"--
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A probing work of narrative history that reveals the hidden story of immigrant detention in the United States, deepening urgent national conversations around migration. In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as children were torn from their parents at the US-Mexico border under Trump's "family separation" policy. But as historian Ana Raquel Minian reveals in In the Shadow of Liberty, this was only the latest chapter in a saga tracing back to the...
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Series
Widows volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"1985, Rhode Island. A private jet carrying four partners of a Providence law firm crashes outside New York City, killing all aboard but leaving behind more questions than answers and setting the stage for four widows to find the truth. Justine: a former fashion model adjusting to suburban life. Camille: a beautiful, young second wife whom some suspect is a gold digger. Meredith: a stripper who was in a relationship with the firm's only female partner....
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
D. Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular--and biblically sanctioned--view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundane: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature--and how we know it--was at stake. Burnett...
Publisher
Imagicomm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Christmas in Maple Hills: To save her family's legacy, Valerie Warrick teams up with handsome veteran Walker Jennings to dig into her family's past.
Christmas in Big Sky Country: Becca teams up with the oil company's new PR rep, Logan Johnston, to get her brother-in-law safely home for the holidays.
Christmas with the Knightlys: A teacher finds herself in the spotlight when she poses as the girlfriend of a famous billionaire.
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