The status of civil rights in the United States today is as volatile an issue as ever, with many Americans wondering if new laws, implemented after the events of September 11, restrict more people than they protect. How will efforts to eradicate racism, sexism, and xenophobia be affected by the measures our government takes in the name of protecting its citizens? Richard Delgado, one of the founding figures in the Critical Race Theory movement, ...
Single-parent families succeed. Within these families children thrive, develop, and grow, just as they do in a variety of family structures. Tragically, they must do so in the face of powerful legal and social stigma that works to undermine them. As Nancy E. Dowd argues in this bold and original book, the justifications for stigmatizing single-parent families are founded largely on myths, myths used to rationalize harshly punitive social policie ...
Подготовлена редакция Конституции РФ с изменениями, не вступившими в силу. Текст документа с учетом изменений, внесенных Законом РФ о поправке к Конституции РФ от 14.03.2020 N 1-ФКЗ, размещен на нашем ресурсе для предварительного ознакомления. О порядке вступления в силу Закона РФ о поправке к Конституции РФ от 14.03.2020 N 1-ФКЗ см. ст. 3 указанного закона.
Конституция Российской Федерации(принята всенародным голосованием 12.12.1993)(с учетом ...
If you've ever read a news story about radical Islam, you've probably seen «sharia law» mentioned. But for something that is becoming increasingly prevalent in political rhetoric, it's hard to believe how little most people actually know about Islamic law. In this concise and instructive book, Khurram Dara explains not only the history and origins of Islamic law but also the interesting role it has played in the politics of the Mi ...
The popularity of the recent TV series Murder Comes to Town (Investigation Discovery) demonstrates that true crime in small towns has generated considerable interest. Books on the subject appear consistently on bestseller lists, often seeing several reprints. A recent reader poll conducted by this editor came up with an overwhelming result in favor of small-town true crime being the next book for The Best New True Crime Stories series. Reader ...
Apple orchards in bucolic Washington state. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where female workers have suffered brutal sexual assault and shocking harassment at the hands of their employers, often with little or no official recourse. In this harrowing yet often inspiring tale, investigative journalist Bernice Yeung exposes the epidemic of sexual violen ...
After 31 years… Major Tax Reform – and what it means to you True overhaul of the tax law only happens about once every 30 years. In the past 75 years, the U.S. tax law has only seen three major revisions; one in 1954, the next in 1986 and most recently at the end of 2017. I have been fortunate as a tax professional to be heavily involved in the last two reforms. In 1986, I was a manager in the National Tax Department (NTD) of Ernst & Whinney ...
<P>Castaways on a barren island in the South Seas, Karl and Pieter Kip are rescued by the brig James Cook. After helping to quell an onboard mutiny, however, they suddenly find themselves accused and convicted of the captain's murder. In this story, one of his last Voyages Extraordinaires, Verne interweaves an exciting exploration of the South Pacific with a tale of judicial error reminiscent of the infamous Dreyfus Affair. Th ...
