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Defending the Masses

A Progressive Lawyer's Battles for Free Speech

By: Eric B. Easton

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Defending the Masses

A Progressive Lawyer's Battles for Free Speech

By: Eric B. Easton

As muckrakers, feminists, pacifists, anarchists, socialists, and communists were arrested or censored for their outspoken views, many of them turned to a Manhattan lawyer named Gilbert Roe to keep them in business and out of jail. In articulating and upholding Americans' fundamental right to free expression against charges of obscenity, libel, espionage, sedition, or conspiracy during turbulent times, Roe was rarely successful in the courts. His greatest victory was the influential 1917 decision by Judge Learned Hand in 'The Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten'. Roe's battles illuminate the evolution of free speech doctrine and practice in an era when it was under heavy assault."--Back cover.

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299314006

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Too Great a Burden to Bear

The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas

By: Christopher B. Bean

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Too Great a Burden to Bear

The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas

By: Christopher B. Bean

This Reconstruction Era historical study of the Freedman’s Bureau in Texas offers a personal view of the lives, struggles and misconceptions of its agents. Formed at the close of the Civil War to provide assistance to formerly enslaved people, the Freedmen’s Bureau became the epicenter of the debate about Reconstruction. Though its agents in Texas were vitally important, historians have only recently begun to focus on their operations. Specifically addressing the historiographical debates concerning the character of the Bureau and its sub-assistant commissioners (SACs), Too Great a Burden to Bear sheds new light on the work and reputation of these agents. Focusing on the agents on a personal level, author Christopher B. Bean reveals the type of man Bureau officials believed qualified to oversee the Freedpeople’s transition to freedom. This work shows that each agent, moved by his sense of fairness and ideas of citizenship, gender, and labor, represented the agency’s policy in his subdistrict. These men further ensured the Freedpeople’s right to an education and right of mobility, rights fiercely contested by many in the South.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823268764

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9780823268764

The Sleeping Giant Awakens

Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation

By: David B. MacDonald

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The Sleeping Giant Awakens

Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation

By: David B. MacDonald

Confronting the truths of Canada’s Indian residential school system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant. In The Sleeping Giant Awakens, David B. MacDonald uses genocide as an analytical tool to better understand Canada’s past and present relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples. Starting with a discussion of how genocide is defined in domestic and international law, the book applies the concept to the forced transfer of Indigenous children to residential schools and the "Sixties Scoop," in which Indigenous children were taken from their communities and placed in foster homes or adopted. Based on archival research, extensive interviews with residential school Survivors, and officials at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, among others, The Sleeping Giant Awakens offers a unique and timely perspective on the prospects for conciliation after genocide, exploring the difficulties in moving forward in a context where many settlers know little of the residential schools and ongoing legacies of colonization and need to have a better conception of Indigenous rights. It provides a detailed analysis of how the TRC approached genocide in its deliberations and in its Final Report. Crucially, MacDonald engages critics who argue that the term genocide impedes understanding of the IRS system and imperils prospects for conciliation. By contrast, this book sees genocide recognition as an important basis for meaningful discussions of how to engage Indigenous-settler relations in respectful and proactive ways.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487518056

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9781487518059

Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 10

By: Sheridan Le Fanu,E. Heron,H. Heron,Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard,Charlotte Riddell,Flora Annie Steel,Amelia B. Edwards,Margaret Oliphant,Maria Edgeworth,Edward Bellamy,S. Baring-Gould,Arnold Bennett

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Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 10

By: Sheridan Le Fanu,E. Heron,H. Heron,Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard,Charlotte Riddell,Flora Annie Steel,Amelia B. Edwards,Margaret Oliphant,Maria Edgeworth,Edward Bellamy,S. Baring-Gould,Arnold Bennett

This book contains 70 short stories from 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: Sheridan Le Fanu: - Carmilla - Green Tea - Mr. Justice Harbottle - The Familiar - The Room in the Dragon Volant - Jim Sulivan's Adventures in the Great Snow - HauntedH. Heron and E. Heron: - The Story of Saddler's Croft - The Story of Baelbrow - The Story of Yand Manor House - The Story of Konnor Old House - The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith - The Story of Sevens Hall - The Tale of the Moor RoadCharlotte Riddell: - A Strange Christmas Story - Walnut-Tree House - The Open Door - Nut Bush Farm - The Old House in Vauxhall Walk - Sandy the Tinker - Old Mrs. JonesFlora Annie Steel: - Sir Buzz - The Rat's Wedding - The Faitful Prince - The Bear's Bad Bargain - Prince Lionheart and HisThree Friends - Princess Aubergine - Valiant Vicky, The Brave WeaverAmelia B. Edwards: - A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest - The Story of Salome - In the Confessional - Was it an illusion? - How the Third Floor Knew the Potteries - The Tragedy in the Palazzo BardelloMargaret Oliphant: - A window's tale. - Queen Eleanor and fair Rosamond - Mademoiselle - The Lily and the thorn - The strange adventures of John Percival - A story of a wedding-tour - JohnMaria Edgeworth: - The Grateful Negro - The Prussian Vase - The Good Aunt - The Good French Governess - The Orphans - The False Key - TarltonS. Baring-Gould: - Jean Bouchon - Pomps and Vanities - McAlister - The Leaden Ring - The Mother of Pansies - The Red-haired Girl - A Professional Secret Edward Bellamy: - The Blindman's World - An Echo Of Antietam - The Old Folks' Party - The Cold Snap - Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment - Potts's Painless Cure - A Summer Evening's Dream Arnold Bennett: - The Lion's Share - The Burglary - News of the Engagement - Beginning the New Year - From One Generation to Another - The Death of Simon Fuge - In a New Bottle

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Tacet Books

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857777287X

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9788577772872

The Serengeti Rules

The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters

By: Sean B. Carroll

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The Serengeti Rules

The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters

By: Sean B. Carroll

One of today's most accomplished biologists and gifted storytellers reveals the rules that regulate all life How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the pioneering scientists who sought the answers to such simple yet profoundly important questions, and shows how their discoveries matter for our health and the health of the planet we depend upon. One of the most important revelations about the natural world is that everything is regulated—there are rules that regulate the amount of every molecule in our bodies and rules that govern the numbers of every animal and plant in the wild. And the most surprising revelation about the rules that regulate life at such different scales is that they are remarkably similar—there is a common underlying logic of life. Carroll recounts how our deep knowledge of the rules and logic of the human body has spurred the advent of revolutionary life-saving medicines, and makes the compelling case that it is now time to use the Serengeti Rules to heal our ailing planet. Bold and inspiring, The Serengeti Rules illuminates how life works at vastly different scales. Read it and you will never look at the world the same way again.

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Princeton University Press

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0691264287

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Hubert Harrison

The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927

By: Jeffrey B. Perry

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Hubert Harrison

The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927

By: Jeffrey B. Perry

The St. Croix–born, Harlem-based Hubert Harrison (1883–1927) was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and activist who combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a potent political radicalism. Harrison’s ideas profoundly influenced “New Negro” militants, including A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey, and his work is a key link in the two great strands of the Civil Rights/Black Liberation struggle: the labor- and civil-rights movement associated with Randolph and Martin Luther King Jr. and the race and nationalist movement associated with Garvey and Malcolm X. In this second volume of his acclaimed biography, Jeffrey B. Perry traces the final decade of Harrison’s life, from 1918 to 1927. Perry details Harrison’s literary and political activities, foregrounding his efforts against white supremacy and for racial consciousness and unity in struggles for equality and radical social change. The book explores Harrison’s role in the militant New Negro Movement and the International Colored Unity League, as well as his prolific work as a writer, educator, and editor of the New Negro and the Negro World. Perry examines Harrison’s interactions with major figures such as Garvey, Randolph, J. A. Rogers, Arthur Schomburg, and other prominent individuals and organizations as he agitated, educated, and organized for democracy and equality from a race-conscious, radical internationalist perspective. This magisterial biography demonstrates how Harrison’s life and work continue to offer profound insights on race, class, religion, immigration, war, democracy, and social change in America.

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Columbia University Press

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0231552424

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9780231552424

A Framework for Complex System Development

By: Paul B. Adamsen II

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A Framework for Complex System Development

By: Paul B. Adamsen II

Industry, government, and academic efforts to create a generalized systems engineering process have repeatedly fallen short. The outcome? Systems engineering failures that produce losses like the September 1999 destruction of the Mars Climate Orbiter. A simple information transfer error between teams motivated far-reaching managerial and technical

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CRC Press

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1420038826

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9781420038828

Separating Fools from Their Money

A History of American Financial Scandals

By: Scott B. MacDonald

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Separating Fools from Their Money

A History of American Financial Scandals

By: Scott B. MacDonald

What do Michael Milken and Martha Stewart have in common? (Answer: Both became public scapegoats for an outrageous era of greed and excess.) What was the most outrageous party thrown by a financial baron of the twentieth century? (Answer: Tough call, but either Michael Milken's Predators Ball in 1985, or Dennis Kozlowski's Sardinian birthday bash in 2001, with its vodka-spouting sculpture.) Which U.S. war hero president became party to, and victim of, an unabashed con man known as the Napoleon of Wall Street? (Answer: Ulysses S. Grant, but it's a long story.)These questions and more are discussed in Scott MacDonald and Jane Hughes' Separating Fools from Their Money. The authors trace the history of financial scandals from the early days of the young republic through the Enron/WorldCom debacle of modern times. A host of colorful characters inhabit the pages of this history, revealing human nature in all of its dubious shades of gray. At the same time, the book exposes themes common to all financial scandals, which remain astonishingly unchanged over more than two centuries--greed, hubris, media connections, self-interested politicians, and booms-gone-bust, to name a few.Informative and entertaining, Separating Fools should engage the interest of investors and casual business readers, as well as economists interested in supplemental reading for their students.A new introduction focuses on trends since publication of the original, with a postscript on the financial panic of 2008.

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135149144X

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Corporations and Other Business Associations

Cases and Materials

By: Charles R.T. O'Kelley,Robert B. Thompson,Dorothy S. Lund

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Corporations and Other Business Associations

Cases and Materials

By: Charles R.T. O'Kelley,Robert B. Thompson,Dorothy S. Lund

Sophisticated yet accessible, Corporations and Other Business Associations: Cases and Materials balances economic and legal theory with a flexible organization, popular case selection, and engaging problems. Current users will recognize a familiar format with creative updates. New users will recognize a casebook easily adaptable for use in a typical Corporations or Business Associations course, ranging in length from three to five credit hours, and providing ample material from which an instructor may choose how much emphasis to give to particular topics. New to the Ninth Edition: O’Kelley and Thompson are excited to welcome Dorothy Lund as a co-author. Chapter 3 now ends with a set of four very teachable shareholder governance cases capturing the current state of play in public corporations. Chapter 4 blends new presentation of corporate purpose with revised discussion of benefit corporations, has emphasis on Directors’ monitoring responsibilities, and includes the Delaware Supreme Court opinions in Marchand v. Barnhill and the Walt Disney Shareholder Litigation (newly edited in response to user interest). Chapter 4 also incorporates developments in derivative litigation popularly referred to as “thedeath ofAronson.” Chapter 6 continues its leading and innovative treatment of LLCs, adding two new cases – Obeid v. Hogan and Manere v. Collins. Chapter 8 includes the seminal appraisal case – DFC Global Corporation v. Muirfield Value Partners, L.P. – and notes regarding important subsequent cases. Chapters 9, 10, and 11 contain newly edited versions of several classic cases, and expanded coverage of user favorites, including Time v. Paramount, Moran v. Household Finance, and the Blasius case. Professors and students will benefit from: Balance of theory, cases, and problems in which law and economic theory enriches without dominating the focus of the book Carefully edited and selected cases— both classic and contemporary cases Excellent and ample problems explore practical applications of theory in the business world Flexible organization easily adapts to different teaching approaches Strongest book on LLCs/LLPs and other business associations

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Aspen Publishing

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1543825931

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Defending the Masses

Defending the Masses

Too Great a Burden to Bear

Too Great a Burden to Bear

The Sleeping Giant Awakens

The Sleeping Giant Awakens

Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 10

Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 10

The Serengeti Rules

The Serengeti Rules

Hubert Harrison

Hubert Harrison

A Framework for Complex System Development

A Framework for Complex System Development

Separating Fools from Their Money

Separating Fools from Their Money

Corporations and Other Business Associations

Corporations and Other Business Associations

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