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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Running Pr Book Pub, 2003 NEW - "Bass never lets us forget why this special march meant so much then and now This is an exceptional heartfelt tribute that should be featured in every local library and discussed openly in every family's living room." - Robert Fleming, Black Issues Book Review. This book tells the inspiring stories behind the landmark August 1963 march for economic and social equality. Over 250,000 Americans of every race and creed participated, makin... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Basic Books, 2001 This is the first in-depth look at the evolution of the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions on gay and lesbian rights - the new frontier in America's struggle for civil rights for all its citizens, and one that will not quickly be resolved. Since 1957, a wide array of gay men, lesbians and bisexuals have forced the court to consider whether the Constitution's promise of equal protection applies to gay Americans. Here the two authors take us inside the jus... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Basic Books, 2001 This is the first in-depth look at the evolution of the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions on gay and lesbian rights - the new frontier in America's struggle for civil rights for all its citizens, and one that will not quickly be resolved. Since 1957, a wide array of gay men, lesbians and bisexuals have forced the court to consider whether the Constitution's promise of equal protection applies to gay Americans. Here the two authors take us inside the jus... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Amistad Press, 2005 In this buried chapter of American history, a nearly forgotten case of famed attorney Clarence Darrow comes hauntingly to the surface. In 1925 the NAACP approached Darrow to defend Ossian Sweet - a highly respected African-American doctor who, after integrating an all-white neighborhood in Detroit, found himself the victim of a community attack. When Sweet and his family fought back, they were caught in a melee in which a white man was fatally shot. The trial ... more information

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New York, NY: Pantheon, 2002 Randall Kennedy, a distinguished Harvard Law School professor, "put[s] a tracer on nigger," to identify how it has been used and by whom, while analyzing the controversies to which it has given rise. With candor and insight he explores such questions as: How should nigger be defined? Is it, as some have declared, necessarily more hurtful than other racial epithets? Do blacks have a right to use nigger even as others do not? Should the law view nigger baiting as a provo... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: New York Univ Pr, 1998 For most of the 20th century, social thinkers devoted their attention mainly to the issues of economic class. They generally dismissed the more primordial bonds of racial, ethnic, and national anachronisms that either communism or the liberal frameworks of democracy would dissolve. Today, communism is nearly dead and liberalism is on the wane. At the same time, older ethno-racial tribalisms, along with some newly invented ones, have shattered our illusions ... more information

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New Britian, Connecticut, U.S.A.: Lexington Books, 1993 Drawing on comprehensive information available on the complex legal and ethical issues related to AIDS, attorney William F. Banta explains employers', employees', and applicants' rights and responsibilities as defined by the American with Disabilities Act, OSHA, COBRA, the National Labor Relations Act, state and local laws, arbitration awards, and the Centers for Disease Control. He clarifies the complex issues of hiring, firing, insuring, ... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Aperture Human Rights Watch, 2000 Still in publisher's plastic. "This book contains more than one hundred color and black-and-white photographs of Tibet in the last half-century. Several recent photographs of Chinese prisons in "eastern" Tibet were taken secretly with a telephoto lens, and have never been published in the West before. The book contains essays as well as interviews with Tibetan exiles. As a documentary history, the book includes the texts of Chi... more information

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New York: W W Norton & Co Inc., 2006 A sharp examination of the idea of liberty in the modern, democratic state.Liberty is fortunate to have such a reasoned and persuasive voice as its champion." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review). How has the modern welfare state redefined our notion of individual liberty. Are we free to express ourselves in speech, at work, or through sex? In this book, the fourth volume in Norton's ongoing "Issues of our Times" series, Fried shepherds the reader thr... more information

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New York: Oxford Univ Press, 2002 The history of law can be viewed as a tale of human choices about the preservation of life, protection of property, exercise of individual liberty, fashioning of creative knowledge, and other basic social concepts. This book gives readers a comprehensive, authoritative, and accesible guide to this ongoing saga, in the form of 468 alphabetically arranged entries written by hundreds of respected scholars about a wide variety of pertinent subjects. 912 pages with a case index ... more information

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