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General Principles of Law and International Due Process
Principles and Norms Applicable in Transnational Disputes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice defines "international law" to include not only "custom" and "convention" between States but also "the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations" within their municipal legal systems. In 1953, Bin Cheng wrote his seminal...
The Dynamic Free Speech Clause
Free Speech and its Relation to Other Constitutional Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
The right to free speech intersects with many other constitutional rights. Those intersections have significantly influenced the recognition, scope, and meaning of rights, ranging from freedom of the press to the Second Amendment right to bear arms. They have also influenced interpretation of the...
by Atif Qasim
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Internal Medicine offers a concise yet thorough overview of both clinical and factual knowledge required of medical students as they journey through their internal medical rotations. Included in this book are all the pertinent information for third year medical students and...
by Joy Hakim
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. How did compliant colonials with strong ties to Europe get the notion to become an independent nation? Perhaps the seeds of liberty were planted in the 1735 historic courtroom battle...
A Nation in Pain
Healing our Biggest Health Problem
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Out of 238 million American adults, 100 million live in chronic pain. And yet the press has paid more attention to the abuses of pain medications than the astoundingly widespread condition they are intended to treat. Ethically, the failure to manage pain better is tantamount to torture. When chronic...
The Victory with No Name
The Native American Defeat of the First American Army
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
In 1791, General Arthur St. Clair led the United States army in a campaign to destroy a complex of Indian villages at the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio. Almost within reach of their objective, St. Clair's 1,400 men were attacked by about one thousand Indians. The U.S. force was decimated, suffering...
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso
A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the shocking...
Nobody's Girl Friday
The Women Who Ran Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Looking back on her career in 1977, Bette Davis remembered with pride, "Women owned Hollywood for twenty years." She had a point. Between 1930 and 1950, over 40% of film industry employees were women, 25% of all screenwriters were female, one woman ran MGM behind the scenes, over a dozen...
Gypsy Jazz
In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
Of all the styles of jazz to emerge in the twentieth century, none is more passionate, more exhilaratingly up-tempo, or more steeped in an outsider tradition than Gypsy Jazz. And there is no one more qualified to write about Gypsy Jazz than Michael Dregni, author of the acclaimed biography, Django....
Clement Attlee
The Man Who Made Modern Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill's wartime heroics and larger-than-life personality propelled him to the center of the world stage. To most, he remains Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister, his fame and charisma overshadowing those who followed in his footsteps....
Deposition 1940-1944
A Secret Diary of Life in Vichy France
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Historians agree: the diary of Léon Werth (1878-1955) is one of the most precious--and readable--pieces of testimony ever written about life in France under Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime. Werth was a free-spirited and unclassifiable writer. He is the author of eleven novels, art and dance...
The Magic Lantern
Having a Ball and Christmas Eve
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2000
José Tomas de Cuéllar (1830-1894) was a Mexican writer noted for his sharp sense of humor and gift for caricature. Having a Ball and Christmas Eve are two novellas written in the costumbrista style, made popular in the mid-nineteenth century by the periodical press in which these sketches of contemporary...
Mencken
The American Iconoclast
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
A towering figure on the American cultural landscape, H.L. Mencken stands out as one of our most influential stylists and fearless iconoclasts--the twentieth century's greatest newspaper journalist, a famous wit, and a constant figure of controversy. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers has written the definitive...
Selling the Korean War
Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
How presidents spark and sustain support for wars remains an enduring and significant problem. Korea was the first limited war the U.S. experienced in the contemporary period - the first recent war fought for something less than total victory. In Selling the Korean War , Steven Casey explores how...