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Fix It: How History, Sports, and Education Can Inform Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Today
Despite a long-standing commitment to diversity and inclusion, creating a more diverse bar has been challenging for the legal profession. And this begs the question 'why?' Does the profession find itself in the precarious position of having self-imposed barriers in place that work against its best efforts? Are outside factors beyond the profession's control inhibiting progress? Or is it a combination of the two? Fix It: How History, Sports, and Education Can Inform Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Today cites historical and current references and the latest research to address these questions and much more.
Kenneth O.C. Imo (Author), Kenneth Toles (Narrator)
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Inheriting Clutter: How to Calm the Chaos Your Parents Leave Behind
Every day hundreds of adult children become middle-aged orphans when their elderly parents pass away, leaving behind more than just memories. You've heard the horror stories: arguments over stuff, an inheritance lost forever when easily deceived parents are scammed, siblings estranged, an adult heir taken from daily responsibilities for months because of the enormous task of clearing out a childhood home. It doesn't have to be that way. The Estate Lady, professional estate liquidator Julie Hall, knows what to do. Whether your parents are still living or you're caught in the middle of a crisis, Inheriting Clutter: How to Calm the Chaos Your Parents Leave Behind has solutions. Hall provides trustworthy counsel on how to: - Divide your parents' estate with peace of mind - Minimize fighting with siblings during the estate settlement process - Clear out the family home in thirty days or less - Identify potential items of value in the home - Have "that conversation" with your parents - Prepare your own children for the future The Estate Lady offers guidance for any executor, heir, or beneficiary, sharing some of her most fascinating stories as well as helpful checklists of the things that need to be done now and at the time of your loss. Inheriting Clutter gives you practical, effective steps for liquidating and distributing your parents' assets in a way that both honors them and promotes family harmony for generations to come. Quizzes, checklists, and resources are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
Julie Hall (Author), Jill Blackwood (Narrator)
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They Should Stay There: The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression
While Mexicans were hopeful for economic reform following the Mexican revolution, by the 1930s, large numbers of Mexican nationals had already moved north and were living in the United States in one of the twentieth century's most massive movements of migratory workers. Fernando Saúl Alanis Enciso provides an illuminating backstory that demonstrates how fluid and controversial the immigration and labor situation between Mexico and the United States was in the twentieth century and continues to be in the twenty first. When the Great Depression took hold, the United States stepped up its enforcement of immigration laws and forced more than 350,000 Mexicans, including their U.S.-born children, to return to their home country. While the Mexican government was fearful of the resulting economic implications, President Lázaro Cárdenas fostered the repatriation effort for mostly symbolic reasons relating to domestic politics. In clarifying the repatriation episode through the larger history of Mexican domestic and foreign policy, Alanis connects the dots between the aftermath of the Mexican revolution and the relentless political tumult surrounding today's borderlands immigration issues.
Fernando Saul Alanis Enciso (Author), Rudy Sanda (Narrator)
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American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
A concise history of how American law has shaped-and been shaped by-the experience of contagion, 'taking us from the smallpox outbreaks of the colonies to COVID-19. . . . The conclusion [Witt] arrives at is devastating.' -Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws. In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt traces the legal history of epidemics, showing how infectious disease has both shaped, and been shaped by, the law. Arguing that throughout American history legal approaches to public health have been liberal for some communities and authoritarian for others, Witt shows us how history's answers to the major questions brought up by previous epidemics help shape our answers today: What is the relationship between individual liberty and the common good? What is the role of the federal government, and what is the role of the states? Will long-standing traditions of government and law give way to the social imperatives of an epidemic? Will we let the inequities of our mixed tradition continue?
John Fabian Witt (Author), Mike Chamberlain (Narrator)
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The Supreme Court's 1919 decision in Schenck vs. the United States is one of the most important free speech cases in American history. Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, it is most famous for first invoking the phrase 'clear and present danger.' Although the decision upheld the conviction of an individual for criticizing the draft during World War I, it also laid the foundation for our nation's robust protection of free speech. Over time, the standard Holmes devised made freedom of speech in America a reality rather than merely an ideal. In The Free Speech Century, two of America's leading First Amendment scholars, Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, have gathered a group of the nation's leading constitutional scholars to evaluate the evolution of free speech doctrine since Schenk and to assess where it might be headed in the future. Publishing on the one hundredth anniversary of the decision that laid the foundation for America's free speech tradition, The Free Speech Century will serve as an essential resource for anyone interested in how our understanding of the First Amendment transformed over time and why it is so critical both for the United States and for the world today.
Geoffrey R. Stone, Lee C. Bollinger (Author), David De Vries (Narrator)
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Breakup Recovery: The Ultimate Guide on How to Cope with a Breakup, Discover Useful Tips on How to S
Breakup Recovery: The Ultimate Guide on How to Cope with a Breakup, Discover Useful Tips on How to Survive and Carry On After a Failed Relationship A lot of people tend to take break up seriously. They allow a breakup to rule their life. This affects their personal and professional relationship in a negative manner. The health of the individual is also affected badly. This is because he/she is unable to cope up with all the stress and mental tension that surrounds him/her as soon as his/her partner declares a breakup or divorce. However, you must not allow any breakup to ruin your life. If there was life before the broken relationship, there can be life after it too. This audiobook will teach you how you can cope with the heartbreak of any breakup. You will learn useful tips on how you can recover and move on from any failed relationship. You will discover how to get back to the life you used to have prior to the relationship. This audiobook will cover the following topics: - Surviving a Break-up - Make Friends - Importance of Family and Friends After Divorce - How to Express Feelings of Divorce In Front of Loved Ones - Lessons and Positive Things You Can Learn After Divorce - Life After a Break-up - How to Start Dating Again - Tips to Move On Sexually After Divorce - How to Handle Your Children After Divorce It is natural to go through a rough phase after splitting up with your partner. The emotional ups and downs can be very testing for you. However, it is important to take control of your life as soon as you can. If you want to learn more, download your copy of Breakup Recovery today!
B.R. Benedict (Author), Marcus Mulenga, Todd Studer (Narrator)
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The Punitive Turn in American Life: How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that 'the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime,' and police forces, arms makers, policy makers, and crime experts heeded this call to arms, bringing weapons and practices from the arena of war back home. The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the center of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies. Michael S. Sherry argues that, by the 1990s, the 'war on crime' had been successfully broadcast to millions of Americans at an enormous cost and that the currents of vengeance that ran through the punitive turn, underwriting torture at home and abroad, found a new voice with the election of Donald J. Trump. By 2020, the connections between war-fighting and crime-fighting remained powerful, evident in campaigns against undocumented immigrants and the militarized police response to the nationwide uprisings after George Floyd's murder. From the racist system of mass incarceration and the militarization of criminal justice to gated communities, public schools patrolled by police, and armies of private security, Sherry chronicles the United States' slide into becoming a meaner, punishment-obsessed nation.
Michael S. Sherry (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator)
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A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil
What are our responsibilities in the face of injustice? How far should we go to fight it? Many would argue that as long as a state is nearly just, citizens have a moral duty to obey the law. Proponents of civil disobedience generally hold that, given this moral duty, a person needs a solid justification to break the law. But activists from Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Gandhi to the Movement for Black Lives have long recognized that there are times when, rather than having a duty to obey the law, we have a duty to disobey it. Taking seriously the history of this activism, A Duty to Resist wrestles with the problem of political obligation in real world societies that harbor injustice. Candice Delmas argues that the duty of justice, the principle of fairness, the Samaritan duty, and political association impose responsibility to resist under conditions of injustice. We must expand political obligation to include a duty to resist unjust laws and social conditions even in legitimate states.
Candice Delmas (Author), Allyson Ryan (Narrator)
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“Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals. The United States incarcerates more of its residents than any other nation. Though home to 5% of the global population, the United States has nearly 25% of the world's prisoners-a total of over 2 million people. This number continues to steadily rise. Over the past 40 years, the number of people behind bars in the United States has increased by 500%. Journalist Victoria Law explains how racism and social control were the catalysts for mass incarceration and have continued to be its driving force: from the post-Civil War laws that states passed to imprison former slaves, to the laws passed under the "War Against Drugs" campaign that disproportionately imprison Black people. She breaks down these complicated issues into four main parts: 1. The rise and cause of mass incarceration 2. Myths about prison 3. Misconceptions about incarcerated people 4. How to end mass incarceration Through carefully conducted research and interviews with incarcerated people, Law identifies the 21 key myths that propel and maintain mass incarceration, including: • The system is broken and we simply need some reforms to fix it • Incarceration is necessary to keep our society safe • Prison is an effective way to get people into drug treatment • Private prison corporations drive mass incarceration "Prisons Make Us Safer" is a necessary guide for all who are interested in learning about the cause and rise of mass incarceration and how we can dismantle it.
Victoria Law (Author), Melissa Moran (Narrator)
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The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court is Reshaping America
From 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the present, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017. In the same period, the Supreme Court dismantled much of America's campaign finance law, severely weakened the Voting Rights Act, permitted states to opt-out of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, weakened laws protecting against age discimination and sexual and racial harassment, and held that every state must permit same-sex couples to marry. This powerful unelected body, now controlled by six very conservative Republicans, has and will become the locus of policymaking in the United States. Ian Millhiser, Vox's Supreme Court correspondent, tells the story of what those six justices are likely to do with their power. It is true that the right to abortion is in its final days, as is affirmative action. But Millhiser shows that it is in the most arcane decisions that the Court will fundamentally reshape America, transforming it into something far less democratic, by attacking voting rights, dismantling and vetoing the federal administrative state, ignoring the separation of church and state, and putting corporations above the law. The Agenda exposes a radically altered Supreme Court whose powers extend far beyond transforming any individual right--its agenda is to shape the very nature of America's government, redefining who gets to have legal rights, who is beyond the reach of the law, and who chooses the people who make our laws.
Ian Millhiser (Author), D.H. Lawrence, David H. Lawrence (Narrator)
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Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights
Efforts to reduce gun violence in the United States face formidable political and constitutional barriers. Legislation that would ban or broadly restrict firearms runs afoul of the Supreme Court's current interpretation of the Second Amendment. And gun rights advocates have joined a politically savvy firearm industry in a powerful coalition that stymies reform. Ian Ayres and Fredrick Vars suggest a new way forward. We can decrease the number of gun deaths, they argue, by empowering individual citizens to choose common-sense gun reforms for themselves. Rather than ask politicians to impose one-size-fits-all rules, we can harness a libertarian approach-one that respects and expands individual freedom and personal choice-to combat the scourge of gun violence. Ayres and Vars identify ten policies that can be immediately adopted at the state level to reduce the number of gun-related deaths without affecting the rights of gun owners. By embracing these and other new forms of decentralized gun control, the United States can move past partisan gridlock and save lives now.
Fredrick E. Vars, Ian Ayers (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator)
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Say Goodbye to the Everyday Grind: Work From Home or Anywhere in Your Spare Time
Say goodbye to your boss. Say goodbye to your alarm clock and say welcome to financial freedom. Now it’s the best time to get started with declaring your financial independence and earning an income online. Why wait or delay with what you always had in mind. The old ways of earning a living are rapidly changing and needless to say we are living in very uncertain times. This book includes many options on how you can possibly double or even triple your income. The steps are simple, and the possibilities are many, take the first step and begin a new chapter in your life now.
Marsha Graham (Author), Stacy Patterson (Narrator)
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