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Penn, University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This book explores the role of myth in the creation and propagation of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Drawing on records, publications, and speeches from the Declaration's creators as well as current scholarship on human rights, Jenna Reinbold sees the Declaration as an exemplar of modern mythmaking.
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Series
Great books of the Western World volume 35
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English
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Colorado General Assembly, Office of Legislative Legal Services
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
This Office has received a number of inquiries from members of the General Assembly and legislative staff relating to their ability to accept or receive gifts and other items of value as a result of the passage of Amendment 41 on November 7, 2006. This memorandum addresses the application of the measure to legislators and legislative staff.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Offers an account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of Parkland who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and Congressional leaders, inspiring millions of Americans to join their grassroots #neveragain movement.
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Publisher
OpenStax, Rice University
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
American Government 3e is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester American Government course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including Insider Perspective features and a Get Connected module that shows students how they can get engaged in the political process. The book provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of American Government...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A bold new history of the American presidency, arguing that the successful presidents of the past created unrealistic expectations for every president since JFK, with enormously problematic implications for American politics" -- provided by publisher.
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English
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"...The Color of Law is a groundbreaking investigation into how U.S. governments in the twentieth century deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide....Richard Rothstein has painstakingly documented how our cities--from San Francisco to Boston--became so divided. Rothstein describes how federal, state, and local governments systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning, public housing...
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Publisher
Pluto Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Media accounts to the contrary, the Alt-Right didn't just burst out of nowhere in 2016. They have been building their network quietly for years, using bulletin boards and social media to spread a toxic hybrid of technological utopianism, reactionary philosophy, and racial hatred. Wendling traces the rise of the movement and the evolution of its ideas, and he introduces us to some of its key figures. Exploring links between Alt-Right rhetoric and hate...
74) The L word: an unapologetic, thoroughly biased, long-overdue explication and defense of liberalism
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Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
Description
Defines liberalism, and discusses its history, its concepts, and its cycles in American political life.
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Series
Agricultural and resource policy report volume APR 99-04
Publisher
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From colonial times into the twentieth century, our laws and court cases ignored atheism, assuming that all good Americans were religious. Americans came to associate atheism with radical social philosophies that advocated violence--especially anarchism and communism. Avowed nonbelievers were derided, even the famous patriot Thomas Paine. Only in the twentieth century, with the passage of laws allowing for conscientious objection to war, did nonbelief...
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English
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Few men in American history are as controversial as Malcolm X. In this provocative biography, Myers, winner of a Newbery Honor and four-time Coretta Scott King Award winner, presents a forthright portrait of a complex man whose life reflected the major events of our times.