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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xxv, 199 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
HATE dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony. We hear too many incorrect assertions that "hate speech" -- which has no generally accepted definition -- is either absolutely unprotected or absolutely protected from censorship. Rather, U.S. law allows government to punish hateful or discriminatory...
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J. Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
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xxxiii, 360 p. ; 28 cm.
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English
Description
Authoritative answers to the most important questions on business, tax, legal, and fundraising practices for nonprofit organizations. Presented in a convenient question-and-answer format, 650 Essential Nonprofit Law Questions Answered offers real-world solutions to the most common challenges facing nonprofit organizations, including: Intermediate sanctions ; Competition and commerciality doctrines ; Partnerships and joint ventures ; Private foundation...
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English
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America loves guns. From Daniel Boone and Jesse James to the NRA and Seal Team 6, gun culture has colored the lore, shaped the law, and protected the market that arms the nation. In Loaded, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz peels away the myths of gun culture to expose the true historical origins of the Second Amendment, revealing the racial undercurrents connecting the earliest Anglo settlers with contemporary gun proliferation, modern-day policing, and the consolidation...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Presents a searing investigation into the role of the drug trade in the black market for firearms, both within the U.S. and across the U.S.-Mexican border.
Guns and drugs are not often connected in our heated discussions of gun control-- but they should be. Grillo shows us this connection by following the market for guns in the Americas-- and how it has made the continent the most murderous on earth. He travels to gun manufacturers, strolls the aisles...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in responding. 'They killed him. It was bad money. I told him no,' Benedetta Toso gasps the words about her recently deceased husband, Vittorio Fadalto ... They discover that Fadalto worked in the field collecting samples of contamination...
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FEMA volume F-084
Publisher
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
ix, 54 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
Description
This book is intended to acquaint the public with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Despite the highly technical nature of the Program, there has been a deliberate effort to minimize the use of technical terms. This publication is designed for readers who do not need a detailed history or refined technical or legal explanations, but who do need a basic understanding of the Program and the answers to some frequently asked questions. Readers...
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Nolo
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 v. (various pagings) : ill., forms ; 28 cm.
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English
Description
Create a nonprofit in your state without pricey attorneys' fees! The process of becoming a tax-exempt organization may appear intimidating, but with How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation, you can do it quickly, easily, and with confidence. This bestselling book includes complete instructions for obtaining federal 501(c)(3) tax exemption and for qualifying for public charity status with the IRS. It will help you: complete an IRS tax-exemption application...
30) Black code
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Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the global impact that the Internet has had on free speech and privacy, and how activists have responded to various governments' control and manipulation of information across the world.
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Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Datafication threatens human rights, including privacy and the right to self-determination. This book argues not that we should own but that we are our data; and it proposes an expansion of international human rights to recognize and protect our data selves along with our physical ones"--
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Western Epics
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
122 p.
Language
English
Description
Three centuries of history in the American Southwest from the first Spanish conquistadors to the American settlers. Explorations of the southwest from the early 1500s to the 1800s including tales of lost mines and treasures.
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Nolo
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
190 p. : forms ; 23 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
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English
Description
Nonprofit? Stay out of IRS trouble with the ultimate corporate housekeeping tool! Nearly 1.5 million nonprofit organizations are busy preserving historic sites, saving libraries, helping the homeless, greening our cities -- and so much more. Yet, while some have sophisticated record-keeping systems, most nonprofits are staffed by volunteers who need help running the organization and keeping up a proper -- and legal -- paper trail. Help has arrived!...
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The New Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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pages cm
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English
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"Carving Out a Humanity gathers some of our country's brightest progressive legal stars in a volume that illuminates the facets of the law that have continued to perpetuate racial inequality and to confound our nation at the start of a new millennium. Originally delivered as Derrick Bell Lectures in a series at NYU School of Law, begun in 1995 and running up through 2019, Carving Out a Humanity offers an unprecedented array of today's most creative...
37) Plan your estate
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English
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This book provides the information and encouragement you need to create an estate plan that's right for you. It shows you how to protect your property, provide for children, avoid probate, and plan for incapacity. The information in this book will help you formulate your plan and will save you time and money, whether you create your own estate plan or go to a lawyer for assistance.
38) Capernaum
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
After he is arrested for a violent crime, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.
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Seven Stories Press
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English
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"The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America is a comprehensive and user-friendly manual for understanding and preparing for the looming changes to reproductive rights law, and getting the health care you need. Activist and writer Robin Marty guides readers through various worst-case scenarios of a post-Roe America, and offers ways to fight back, including: how to acquire financial support, how to use existing networks and create new ones, and how to,...
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Nolo
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
452 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Deduct It! shows you how to maximize your business deductions -- quickly, easily, and legally. Easy to read and full of real-world examples, Deduct it! will pay for itself many times over. It covers deductions for: start-up and operating expenses; travel, meals, and entertainment; home offices; medical expenses; equipment and inventory and more. This book shows you how to avoid problems with the IRS, including having your business classified as...
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