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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
A stillborn baby ends Max and Zoe's marriage. Max leaves Zoe and turns to drinking. Zoe falls in love with a female school counselor, Vanessa. Max finds help for his drinking problem through his brother's church. Vanessa and Zoe get married. Vanessa offers to carry one of Zoe and Max's fertilized embryos. Zoe goes to Max to get permission to release the embryos to her but Max's new found religious fervor leads him to sue Zoe for custody.
Author
Publisher
Core Library
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 2015, the US Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage throughout the country in the decision in the case Obergefell v. Hodges. The Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage examines this historic event from multiple perspectives, including those of Jim Obergefell, one of the men involved in the case, activist Edith Windsor, and the Supreme Court justices who decided the case. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear...
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Alice Sebold meets Roxane Gay in Michelle Bowdler's literary debut, telling her story of rape and recovery while interrogating why one of society's most serious crimes goes largely uninvestigated. The crime of rape sizzles like a lightning strike. It pounces, flattens, destroys. A person stands whole, and in a moment of unexpected violence, that life, that body is gone. Award-winning writer and public health executive Michelle Bowdler's memoir indicts...
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Publisher
Motorbooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Motorcyclists face legal challenges that non-motorcyclists don't even consider. Unfortunately, many motorcyclists are ignorant of those challenges as well-until they find themselves in legal trouble. In addition to all the physical hazards of the road, motorcyclists must negotiate a seemingly endless array of legal hazards, from the myriad licensing requirements and restrictions that vary from state to state to the issue of anti-motorcycle bias among...
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Series
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Describes how emerging market and developing countries (EMDs) managed to reregulate cross-border financial flows in the wake of the global financial crisis. Discusses the benefits and difficulties of regulating cross-border finance in the twenty-first century. Includes graphs.
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Series
Publisher
Essential Library
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Examines the intersection of race, employment, and the law through history, discussing court cases, government actions, and efforts to end employment discrimination based on race. Also studies the history and impact of the Civil Rights Act and affirmative action. Includes discussion questions, sidebars, color photographs, a glossary, and further resources.
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Publisher
ILR Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Examines efforts by workers' rights organizations and other activists to formulate laws that help protect workers from unsafe work conditions, including the right to refuse work. Explores theoretical perspectives, negotiations, ideological origins, and the future of labor rights.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades--the legalization of same-sex marriage. In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as groundbreaking as Roe v Wade and Brown v Board of Education. Through insider accounts and access to...
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Series
Publisher
Essential Library
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Paris Climate Agreement explores the issues surrounding the 2015 international agreement to combat climate change. Many nations were shocked when the United States later announced its decision to withdraw from the agreement. The book explores these political ramifications and encourages readers to form their own opinions. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated...
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Series
Publisher
Essential Library
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Mass Shootings in America looks at the history of mass shootings, from the 1966 mass shooting at the University of Texas, Austin, to the 2018 MSD High School shooting. The debates surrounding gun rights are also explored. The book encourages readers to form their own opinions. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint...
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Series
Publisher
Essential Library
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Examines the intersection of race, education, and the law through history, discussing court cases, government actions, and efforts to end educational discrimination based on race. Also studies discipline in schools, and the history, impact, and current status of affirmative action. Includes discussion questions, sidebars, color photographs, a glossary, and further resources.
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Series
Publisher
Essential Library
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Examines the intersection of race, housing, and the law through history, discussing court cases, government actions, and efforts to end discrimination based on race. Also studies gentrification and the history, impact, and current status of the Fair Housing Act. Includes discussion questions, sidebars, color photographs, a glossary, and further resources.
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This guide to newswriting details the Associated Press rules on grammar, spelling, capitalization and abbreviation. Fully revised and updated to reflect the latest changes in writing style, the stylebook is an essential reference for journalists, students, editors, and writers in all professions.
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Series
Publisher
Essential Library
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the historical events and legislation that addressed race and marriage in the United States. Explores different legal proceedings and notable laws, from promoting anti-miscegenation laws to immigration bans to progressive definitions of family and marriage. Provides color and black-and-white images throughout, discussion questions, examples and sidebars, and essential facts section, a glossary, source notes, sources for further information,...
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Publisher
Mill City Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the work of parents and advocates of children with disabilities that led to the passage of the Special Instruction for Handicapped Children of School Age bill, one of the first in the nation making special education a requirement in public schools.
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Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Looks at the controversy of gun control from the points of view of those for and against.
In early 2018, teen-led March for Our lives events across the United States protested gun violence, demanded change to save lives, and registered voters toward that end. Doeden explores the history of guns, gun violence, and gun control, while exploring the Second Amendment, gun laws in the United States, legal restrictions to gun ownership, and the devastation...
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