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A photographic history of the Kurdish people and their struggle for independence and survival over the past 125 years, gathered by one of America`s foremost photojournalists. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. AUTHOR: A. Whitley, S. Meisalas
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | Asian Americans by Joann F. Lee
Since the first three documented Chinese arrived in the U.S. in 1848, more than six million Asians have followed. Their stories provide a fascinating picture of diverse cultural attitudes against a common American backdrop. AUTHOR: Joann F. Lee
PUBLISHER: New Press, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Wisdom for Today's Woman by Poppy Smith
Description not available.As women study the dramatic life of Queen Esther, they'll learn vital lessons about choices, personal trials, pride, faith, control, and other foundational truths upon which a wise woman builds her life and faith. Original. AUTHOR: Poppy Smith
PUBLISHER: WaterBrook Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Flatland-Sphereland by Dionys Burger, Edwin A. Abbott, Isaac Asimov
A perennial science-fiction classic and fascinating experiment in expanding our ways of thinking and experiencing the world. AUTHOR: Dionys Burger, Edwin A. Abbott, Isaac Asimov
PUBLISHER: HarperInformation
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Narrowing the Nation's Power by John Thomas Noonan
NARROWING THE NATION'S POWER is the tale of how a cohesive majority of the Supreme Court has, in the last six years, cut back the power of Congress and enhanced the autonomy of the fifty states. The immunity from suit of the sovereign, Blackstone taught, is necessary to preserve the people's idea that the sovereign is a superior being. Promoting the common law doctrine of sovereign immunity to constitutional status, the current Supreme Court has used it to shield the states from damages for age discrimination, disability discrimination, and the violation of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and fair labor standards. Not just the states themselves, but every state-sponsored entity--a state insurance scheme, a state university's research lab, the Idaho Potato Commission--has been insulated from paying damages in tort or contract. Sovereign immunity, as Noonan puts it, has metastasized. It only hurts when you think about it, Noonan's Yalewoman remarks. Crippled by the states' immunity, Congress has been further brought to heel by the Supreme Court's recent invention of two rules. The first rule: Congress must establish a documentary record that a national evil exists before Congress can legislate to protect life, liberty, or property under the Fourteenth Amendment. The second rule: The response of Congress to the evil must then be both congruent and proportionate. The Supreme Court determines whether these standards are met, thereby making itself the master monitor of national legislation. Even legislation under the Commerce Clause has been found wanting, illustrated here by the story of Christy Brzonkala's attempt to redress multiple rapes at a state university by invoking the Violence Against Women Act. The nation's power has been remarkably narrowed. Noonan is a passionate believer in the place of persons in the law. Rules, he claims, are a necessary framework, but they must not obscure law's task of giving justice to persons. His critique of Supreme Co AUTHOR: John Thomas Noonan
PUBLISHER: University of California Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Buccaneers by Iain Lawrence
In this conclusion to Iain Lawrence's High Seas trilogy, the now 17-year-old John Spencer and the crew of the ship the Dragon put themselves in danger when they rescue a mysterious stranger from a lifeboat lost at sea. AUTHOR: Iain Lawrence
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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