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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The US Supreme Court is the head of the judicial branch of the federal government. It is the highest court in the land, with thousands of cases appealed to it every year. One of those history-making cases was Korematsu v. The United States, which addressed the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Readers will follow this case from beginning to end, including the social and political climates that led up to it and the effects it...
5464) Castles made of sand: a century of Anglo-American espionage and intervention in the Middle East
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
5467) Pelican brief
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Two Supreme Court Justices have been murdered. A lone law student turns her suspicions about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shock waves into the highest levels of government. She finds herself embroiled in a terrifying web of intrigue extending to the highest levels of government. She writes a speculative legal brief exposing the activities of a powerful oil magnate. With the help of Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, they suspect...
5472) Answering the call: an autobiography of the modern struggle to end racial discrimination in America
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Answering the Call is an extraordinary eyewitness account from an unsung hero of the battle for racial equality in America-a battle that, far from ending with the great victories of the civil rights era, saw some of its signal achievements in the desegregation fights of the 1970s and its most notable setbacks in the affirmative action debates that continue into the present in Ferguson, Baltimore, and beyond. Judge Nathaniel R. Jones's pathbreaking...
5473) The pit and the pendulum
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Retold in graphic novel format, the narrator tells of his macabre torture at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition.
5477) Farewell Ferris wheel
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
"The film follows a carnival owner, a labor-recruiter, and workers from a small town in Mexico who join the carnival legally on seasonal visas ... an honest on-the-ground portrait of the financial, emotional, and physical challenges they all face"--Container.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The 3rd Earl of Portsmouth voted in the House of Lords, took county positions, invited Jane Austen to his balls, counted William Cobbett as one of his Hampshire neighbors and had Lord Byron as his best man at his second marriage. Then, at the age of fifty-five, his own family launched a case citing him as a danger not only to the peerage but to himself. Historian Elizabeth Foyster invites us into the jury box for the lengthiest, most expensive and...
5480) Murder at the Watergate
Series
Capital crimes novel volume 15
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Doubleday Direct large print edition
Language
English
Description
After selling their home and moving into a Watergate apartment, professor Mac Smith and his wife Annabel find themselves living among the famous while investigating "soft money" being used to influence various political campaigns.
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