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Current, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In Stoned, palliative care physician Dr. David Casarett sets out to do anything-- including experimenting on himself-- to find evidence of marijuana's medical potential. He smears mysterious marijuana paste on his legs and samples pot wine. He poses as a patient at a seedy California clinic and takes lessons from an artisanal hash maker. In conversations with researchers, doctors, and patients around the world he learns how marijuana works-- and...
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"There was a time in the United States when children with disabilities weren't allowed to go to public school. But in 1971, seven kids and their families wanted to do something about it. They knew that every child had a right to an equal education, so they went to court to fight for that right. The case Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia led to laws ensuring children with disabilities would receive a free public education. Janine...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of John Lennon's evolution from beloved Beatle to an outspoken artist and activist to iconic inspiration for peace, and how, in the midst of one of the most tumultuous times in American history, Lennon stood his ground, refused to be silenced and courageously won his battle with the U.S. Government.
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President Trump's new tax law is fully effective, and millions are finding out about the little-known “Trump Tax Loophole.” This guide explains the new loophole and how taxpayers like you can save billions in taxes. With this loophole you can slash your personal taxes by an additional 20%! That's if you qualify and many Americans do. This guide shows you how. The Trump Tax Cut is your guidebook to the biggest tax cut in history. In plain English,...
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 436 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Environmental law has failed us all. As ecosystems collapse across the globe and the climate crisis intensifies, environmental agencies worldwide use their authority to permit the very harm that they are supposed to prevent. Growing numbers of citizens now realize they must act before it is too late. This book exposes what is wrong with environmental law and offers transformational change based on the public trust doctrine. An ancient and enduring...
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W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xi, 361 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Author Adam Winkler, a professor of Constitutional law, uses the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, which invalidated a law banning handguns in the nation's Capitol, as a springboard for a historical narrative of America's four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. From the Founding Fathers and the Second Amendment to the origins of the Ku Klux Klan, ironically as a gun control organization,...
52) Loving
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
The gripping inside story of the ongoing landmark lawsuit, Juliana v. United States, brought against the US government by twenty-one young people.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
x, 253 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Andrews writes about the widespread misuse of our personal online data and creates a Constitution for the web. Social networks are the defining cultural movement of our time. An ordinary individual can be a reporter, alerting the world to breaking news of a natural disaster or a political crisis. A layperson can be a scientist, participating in a crowd sourced research project or an investigator, helping cops solve a crime. But as we work and chat...
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"An intimate account of the devastating effects of gun violence on our nation's children, and a call to action for a new way forward In 2017, seven-year-old Ava in South Carolina wrote a letter to Tyshaun, an eight-year-old boy from Washington, DC. She asked him to be her pen pal; Ava thought they could help each other. The kids had a tragic connection-both were traumatized by gun violence. Ava's best friend had been killed in a campus shooting at...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiv, 444 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"A once idyllic American landscape is home to a closely knit, rural community that, for more than a generation, has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming that had been making them sick and damaging their homes. After years of frustrationand futile attempts to bring about change, an impassioned cadre of local residents, led by a team of intrepid and dedicated lawyers, brought suit against one of the world's most powerful corporations-and,...
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Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
An in-depth examination of the dramatic 1925 "Monkey Trial," which pitted science against religion as a teacher fought to teach his students about evolution, shows how this trial still reverberates a hundred years later.
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