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In/Out

A scandalous story of falling into love and out of the church

by Steph Lentz ...

'Steph takes you into her world with refreshing honesty. Her voice is that rare combination of conviction and vulnerability' Kumi Taguchi'With In/Out, Steph Lenz shows that if love does not conquer all, something has gone very badly wrong' Ed le BrocqIn January 2021, Steph Lentz was fired from her job as an English teacher at a Sydney Christian school after she came out as a lesbian.A hardcore ... Read more

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'Steph takes you into her world with refreshing honesty. Her voice is that rare combination of conviction and vulnerability' Kumi Taguchi'With In/Out, Steph Lenz shows that if love does not conquer all, something has gone very badly wrong' Ed le BrocqIn January 2021, Steph Lentz was fired from her job as an English teacher at a Sydney Christian school after she came out as a lesbian.A hardcore
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Anatomy of Injustice

A Murder Case Gone Wrong

by Raymond Bonner ...

The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and ... Read more

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The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and
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Copaganda

How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

by Alec Karakatsanis ...

In this groundbreaking expose essential for understanding rising authoritarianism, award-winning civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis introduces the concept of “Copaganda.”Copaganda is a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media to stoke fear of police-recorded crime and distort society’s response to it.What readers will discover:How mass media manipulates our ... Read more

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In this groundbreaking expose essential for understanding rising authoritarianism, award-winning civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis introduces the concept of “Copaganda.”Copaganda is a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media to stoke fear of police-recorded crime and distort society’s response to it.What readers will discover:How mass media manipulates our
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Indigeneity: Before and Beyond the Law

by Kathleen Birrell ...

Series series Indigenous Peoples and the Law
Examining contested notions of indigeneity, and the positioning of the Indigenous subject before and beyond the law, this book focuses upon the animation of indigeneities within textual imaginaries, both literary and juridical. Engaging the philosophy of Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin, as well as other continental philosophy and critical legal theory, the book uniquely addresses the troubled ... Read more

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Examining contested notions of indigeneity, and the positioning of the Indigenous subject before and beyond the law, this book focuses upon the animation of indigeneities within textual imaginaries, both literary and juridical. Engaging the philosophy of Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin, as well as other continental philosophy and critical legal theory, the book uniquely addresses the troubled
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Modern Employment Law

by Charles Barrow, Ann Lyon ...

Modern Employment Law covers all aspects relating to the employment relationship between employer and employee at both individual and collective levels. All chapters are absorbing and exact, with nuanced topics such as unfair dismissal, discrimination and trade union law being explored from several different angles. Pedagogical features such as Thinking points and Further reading sections enable ... Read more

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Modern Employment Law covers all aspects relating to the employment relationship between employer and employee at both individual and collective levels. All chapters are absorbing and exact, with nuanced topics such as unfair dismissal, discrimination and trade union law being explored from several different angles. Pedagogical features such as Thinking points and Further reading sections enable
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Misjustice

How British Law is Failing Women

by Helena Kennedy ...

Two women a week are killed by a spouse or partner. Every seven minutes a woman is raped. Now is the time for change.‘Fascinating and chilling’ Caroline Criado Perez, bestselling author of Invisible WomenHelena Kennedy, one of our most eminent lawyers and defenders of human rights, examines the pressing new evidence that women are being discriminated against when it comes to the law. From the ... Read more

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Two women a week are killed by a spouse or partner. Every seven minutes a woman is raped. Now is the time for change.‘Fascinating and chilling’ Caroline Criado Perez, bestselling author of Invisible WomenHelena Kennedy, one of our most eminent lawyers and defenders of human rights, examines the pressing new evidence that women are being discriminated against when it comes to the law. From the
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Healthcare and Human Dignity

Law Matters

by Frank M. McClellan ...

Series series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
The individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go unseen. These biases are often rooted in power, class, racial, gender or sexual orientation prejudices, and as a result, the injured parties usually lack the resources needed to protect themselves. In Healthcare and Human Dignity, individual worth, ... Read more

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The individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go unseen. These biases are often rooted in power, class, racial, gender or sexual orientation prejudices, and as a result, the injured parties usually lack the resources needed to protect themselves. In Healthcare and Human Dignity, individual worth,
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Shattered Justice

Crime Victims' Experiences with Wrongful Convictions and Exonerations

by Kimberly J. Cook ...

Series series Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Shattered Justice presents original crime victims' experiences with violent crime, investigations and trials, and later exonerations in their cases. Using in-depth interviews with 21 crime victims across the United States, Cook reveals how homicide victims’ family members and rape survivors describe the painful impact of the primary trauma, the secondary trauma of the investigations and trials, ... Read more

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Shattered Justice presents original crime victims' experiences with violent crime, investigations and trials, and later exonerations in their cases. Using in-depth interviews with 21 crime victims across the United States, Cook reveals how homicide victims’ family members and rape survivors describe the painful impact of the primary trauma, the secondary trauma of the investigations and trials,
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An Historical Review of Legalized Discrimination by the United States

by Arthur Perlman ...

In An Historical Review of Legalized Discrimination by the United States, retired attorney Arthur Perlman illustrates how specific congressional legislation, Executive Orders, and Supreme Court decisions are deliberately discriminatory against minorities. Citing selected legal precedent to support his argument, he presents a well-researched case for pervasive discrimination and bigotry within the ... Read more

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In An Historical Review of Legalized Discrimination by the United States, retired attorney Arthur Perlman illustrates how specific congressional legislation, Executive Orders, and Supreme Court decisions are deliberately discriminatory against minorities. Citing selected legal precedent to support his argument, he presents a well-researched case for pervasive discrimination and bigotry within the
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Almighty God Created the Races

Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law

by Fay Botham ...

In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the United States, Fay Botham argues that religion — specifically, Protestant and Catholic beliefs about marriage and race — had a significant effect on legal decisions concerning miscegenation and marriage in the century following the Civil War. She contends that the white southern Protestant notion that God ... Read more

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In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the United States, Fay Botham argues that religion — specifically, Protestant and Catholic beliefs about marriage and race — had a significant effect on legal decisions concerning miscegenation and marriage in the century following the Civil War. She contends that the white southern Protestant notion that God
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Unreasonable

Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment

by Devon W. Carbado ...

How the Supreme Court’s decision to treat unreasonable policing as reasonable under the Fourth Amendment has shortened the distance between life and death for Black peopleThe summer of 2020 will be remembered as an unprecedented, watershed moment in the struggle for racial equality. Published on the second anniversary of the global protests over the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna ... Read more

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How the Supreme Court’s decision to treat unreasonable policing as reasonable under the Fourth Amendment has shortened the distance between life and death for Black peopleThe summer of 2020 will be remembered as an unprecedented, watershed moment in the struggle for racial equality. Published on the second anniversary of the global protests over the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna
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The Unexpected Journey: Fire and Gold

by Dedrick L. Moone, Haelee P. Moone ...

This award winning book is published by the Rules of a Big Boss LLC. It is the journey of a single father who risked it all to protect and provide for his daughter. Follow along and learn how he survived brokenness, criminal prosecution, discrimination, reprisal, and unemployment to ultimately come out gold. Readers will also learn how President Obama and the US Department of Education lent a hand ... Read more

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This award winning book is published by the Rules of a Big Boss LLC. It is the journey of a single father who risked it all to protect and provide for his daughter. Follow along and learn how he survived brokenness, criminal prosecution, discrimination, reprisal, and unemployment to ultimately come out gold. Readers will also learn how President Obama and the US Department of Education lent a hand
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Segregation and Assimilation in York, Western Australia

by Roland See ...

This new archival research-based case study by Roland See looks primarily at segregation and 'assimilation' in interaction with the settler-Australian community in the Western Australian wheatbelt town of York. The period under review spans from 1923 to 1974 which corresponds with the official existence of the 'York Native Reserve'-a space of total segregation.Coinciding with a growing Aboriginal ... Read more

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This new archival research-based case study by Roland See looks primarily at segregation and 'assimilation' in interaction with the settler-Australian community in the Western Australian wheatbelt town of York. The period under review spans from 1923 to 1974 which corresponds with the official existence of the 'York Native Reserve'-a space of total segregation.Coinciding with a growing Aboriginal
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Are Human Rights Rights?: What Are Human Rights? Are They Universal And Unchanging? Are They Just Politics?

by Terry Nettle ...

Are human rights really rights that are codified in law and can be upheld and enforced? Or are they just imagined rights? Are they simply human instincts, human beliefs, human aspirations and even human vanity?The most basic of human rights is without doubt the right to live unmolested. But, whether even that is achievable in the crowded and troubled world of today is highly questionable.What ... Read more

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Are human rights really rights that are codified in law and can be upheld and enforced? Or are they just imagined rights? Are they simply human instincts, human beliefs, human aspirations and even human vanity?The most basic of human rights is without doubt the right to live unmolested. But, whether even that is achievable in the crowded and troubled world of today is highly questionable.What
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Крестовый поход против инакомыслия. Как антикультизм стал угрозой для свободы и разума

by Крис Морган ...

«Крестовый поход против инакомыслия: как антикультизм стал угрозой для свободы и разума» — публицистическое исследование о современном антикультистском движении, его механизмах и последствиях для прав человека. На примере деятельности Александра Дворкина, Российcкой ассоциации центров изучения религий и сект (РАЦИРС), а также зарубежных и международных организаций, автор показывает, как риторика ... Read more

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«Крестовый поход против инакомыслия: как антикультизм стал угрозой для свободы и разума» — публицистическое исследование о современном антикультистском движении, его механизмах и последствиях для прав человека. На примере деятельности Александра Дворкина, Российcкой ассоциации центров изучения религий и сект (РАЦИРС), а также зарубежных и международных организаций, автор показывает, как риторика
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For Equals Only

Race, Equality, and the Equal Protection Clause

by Tina Fernandes Botts ...

Series series Philosophy of Race
This book philosophically explores how changing conceptions of race and equality have affected Supreme Court interpretations of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution over the years. In the years since the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, in its decisions interpreting the Equal Protection Clause, the Supreme Court has switched from using a sociocultural ... Read more

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This book philosophically explores how changing conceptions of race and equality have affected Supreme Court interpretations of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution over the years. In the years since the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, in its decisions interpreting the Equal Protection Clause, the Supreme Court has switched from using a sociocultural
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Social Movements and the Law

Talking about Black Lives Matter and #MeToo

Edited by Lolita Buckner Inniss, Bridget J. Crawford ...

Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are two of the most prominent twenty-first-century social movements in the United States. On the ground and on social media, more people have taken an active stance in support of either or both movements than almost any others in the country's history. Social Movements and the Law brings together the voices of twelve scholars and public intellectuals to explore how ... Read more

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Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are two of the most prominent twenty-first-century social movements in the United States. On the ground and on social media, more people have taken an active stance in support of either or both movements than almost any others in the country's history. Social Movements and the Law brings together the voices of twelve scholars and public intellectuals to explore how
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Hot Flash

How the Law Ignores Menopause and What We Can Do About It

by Bridget J. Crawford, Naomi Cahn, Emily Gold Waldman ...

More than half the population will experience menopause; it is time for the law to acknowledge it.Menopause is a stage of life that half the population will inevitably experience. But it remains one of the last great taboo topics for discussion, even among close friends and family members. Silence and stigmas around many aspects of reproductive health—from menstruation to infertility to ... Read more

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More than half the population will experience menopause; it is time for the law to acknowledge it.Menopause is a stage of life that half the population will inevitably experience. But it remains one of the last great taboo topics for discussion, even among close friends and family members. Silence and stigmas around many aspects of reproductive health—from menstruation to infertility to
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Identite culturelle et humanisme

De la Grece Antique a l'Europe moderne

by Stamatios Tzitzis ...

Le cosmologiste ancien a aboli la distinction entre Grecs et Barbares pour rendre hommage au génie créateur de chaque homme. La globalisation, sous l'habit du cosmopolitisme postmoderne, donna le titre le plus noble à l'homme, celui de “personne”. Au delà des nations, des classes, des couleurs, des conditions sociales, de l'intelligence individuelle, tous doivent jouir d'une égalité et d'une ... Read more

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Le cosmologiste ancien a aboli la distinction entre Grecs et Barbares pour rendre hommage au génie créateur de chaque homme. La globalisation, sous l'habit du cosmopolitisme postmoderne, donna le titre le plus noble à l'homme, celui de “personne”. Au delà des nations, des classes, des couleurs, des conditions sociales, de l'intelligence individuelle, tous doivent jouir d'une égalité et d'une
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Dalla non discriminazione alle pari opportunità

Un itinerario di confronto, ricerca e sperimentazione di buone prassi a UNISA... e oltre. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi tenuto in occasione della Giornata internazionale della donna 2023

by Angela Di Stasi ...

L'opera raccoglie gli Atti del Convegno internazionale tenuto presso l'Università degli Studi di Salerno in occasione della Giornata internazionale della donna 2023. Il Convegno ha rappresentato un momento di corale partecipazione da parte dell'intero Ateneo salernitano: il tutto nella direzione di realizzare, come indica il titolo dell'Iniziativa culturale svolta, un "Itinerario di confronto, di ... Read more

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L'opera raccoglie gli Atti del Convegno internazionale tenuto presso l'Università degli Studi di Salerno in occasione della Giornata internazionale della donna 2023. Il Convegno ha rappresentato un momento di corale partecipazione da parte dell'intero Ateneo salernitano: il tutto nella direzione di realizzare, come indica il titolo dell'Iniziativa culturale svolta, un "Itinerario di confronto, di
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Privilege Revealed

How Invisible Preference Undermines America

by Stephanie M. Wildman ...

Series Book 48 - Critical America
An in-depth examination of the different forms of privilege perpetuating inequality within American societyIn this era of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter, inequality is at the forefront of American thought like never before. Yet many of the systems of privilege upholding the status quo remain unchanged. Many Americans who advocate a merit-based, race-free worldview do not acknowledge the systems of ... Read more

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An in-depth examination of the different forms of privilege perpetuating inequality within American societyIn this era of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter, inequality is at the forefront of American thought like never before. Yet many of the systems of privilege upholding the status quo remain unchanged. Many Americans who advocate a merit-based, race-free worldview do not acknowledge the systems of
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Il rispetto del principio di pari opportunità

L’annullamento della composizione delle giunte regionali e degli enti locali

by Francesca Ragno ...

Series Book 119 - Studi e saggi
Recenti cronache politiche e giurisprudenziali hanno portato all’attenzione dell’opinione pubblica la scarsa presenza delle donne negli organi di governo di province, comuni e regioni: diversi pronunciamenti dei tribunali amministrativi hanno annullato le composizioni di quelle giunte che non presentavano nessuna donna tra le nomine assessorili o ne presentavano troppo poche da poter dire che era ... Read more

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Recenti cronache politiche e giurisprudenziali hanno portato all’attenzione dell’opinione pubblica la scarsa presenza delle donne negli organi di governo di province, comuni e regioni: diversi pronunciamenti dei tribunali amministrativi hanno annullato le composizioni di quelle giunte che non presentavano nessuna donna tra le nomine assessorili o ne presentavano troppo poche da poter dire che era
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Migrating to Prison

America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants

by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA powerful, in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants, addressing the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system, with a new epilogue by the author“Argues compellingly that immigrant advocates shouldn’t content themselves with debates about how many thousands of immigrants to lock up, or other minor tweaks.” —Gus Bova, Texas ObserverFor most of America’s ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERA powerful, in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants, addressing the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system, with a new epilogue by the author“Argues compellingly that immigrant advocates shouldn’t content themselves with debates about how many thousands of immigrants to lock up, or other minor tweaks.” —Gus Bova, Texas ObserverFor most of America’s
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So You Think You Need A Lawyer?

by The Committee for Social Justice ...

The complelling true story of Ann M. Pavlick, author and brain injury advocate.Just when you feel it can't get any worse - it does! A nightmare of tragedy and despair encounters indominable spirit and the grace of not giving up. This is not fiction. The events are detestable but need to be told. it will have you shaking your head and doubting the values held in society. And perhaps more disturbing ... Read more

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The complelling true story of Ann M. Pavlick, author and brain injury advocate.Just when you feel it can't get any worse - it does! A nightmare of tragedy and despair encounters indominable spirit and the grace of not giving up. This is not fiction. The events are detestable but need to be told. it will have you shaking your head and doubting the values held in society. And perhaps more disturbing
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