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Little, Brown and Company
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Police officers risk their lives every day to protect and serve our homes, families and communities. Protect. These men and women are our eyes. Our ears. Our protectors. Those who wear a badge, doing their best to help people. Serve. These cops serve their communities. They serve their country. They're in the business of saving lives— even at the risk of their own. Defend. These patrol officers and K9 handlers, sheriffs and detectives, reveal what...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Academy Award-winning filmmakers expose the forces that are leading our planet to its next mass extinction, potentially resulting in the loss of half of all species. A never-before-seen view of an international wildlife trade, operating in the shadows, reveals how creatures that have survived for millions of years may be wiped from Earth in our lifetime.
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Contractors' State License Board
Pub. Date
[1938]
Physical Desc
v. 23 cm.
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For anyone interested in becoming licensed as a contractor in California. The new edition includes the related laws and regulations required to obtain a contractors license, together with critical information on maintaining an existing license, managing a business, and a valuable list of additional resources. The publication also includes a comprehensive table of contents, a table of sections affected by new legislation, and an index.
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Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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104 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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Discusses the issues surrounding the legalization of marijuana for medical and recreational purposes, include its history, the variety of laws in different states, the lack of strong scientific evidence either way, and its economic role.
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Forever Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 21 cm
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"Virginia, 1924. Ruth Ann Riley is 17 years old when she gives birth to a baby girl. Unwed and under-educated, she's deemed "feeble-minded" -- just like her own mother -- and sent to live in a state-run institution where the doctors decide she must be sterilized "for the greater good." But Ruth Ann won't give up her baby Annabel or the hope of future children without a fight, even though her hardscrabble life and sixth-grade education have in no way...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
x, 911 pages ; 25 cm
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"On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal throughout the United States. But the road to victory was much longer than many know. In this seminal work, Sasha Issenberg takes us back to Hawaii in the 1990s, when that state's supreme court first started grappling with the issue, and traces the fight for marriage equality from the enactment of the Defense...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxix, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. They established the principle of birthright citizenship and guaranteed the privileges...
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xxv, 404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, historian Felicia Kornbluh delivers an urgent book about two key reproductive rights victories in New York that set the tone for the nation. A Woman's Life Is a Human Life is the story of two movements that transformed the politics of reproductive rights: the fight to decriminalize abortion and the campaign against sterilization abuse, which happened disproportionately in communities...
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