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  • The Sick Chicken Case

    The US Supreme Court and the New Deal

    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    The defining legal history of a landmark decision by the US Supreme Court that gutted a key piece of FDR’s New Deal.On May 25, 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, the US Supreme Court handed down a series of decisions that dealt mortal blows to New Deal legislation and presidential initiatives—a day known to New Dealers as Black Monday. The most significant of these decisions was A.L.A. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A Practical Guide to the Interpretation of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Tests

    Series series Oxford Respiratory Medicine Library
    Maximum oxygen uptake during exercise is one of the best predictors of operative mortality and of prognosis in chronic cardiac or respiratory disease. Cardiopulmonary exercise tests (CPET) are therefore an increasingly common component of pre-operative assessment and the management of patients with chronic cardiopulmonary problems. Part of the Oxford Respiratory Medicine Library (ORML) series, A ... Read more

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  • The Struggle for a Soul

    William L. Hull's The Struggle for a Soul is a gripping and deeply reflective account of his experience as the spiritual counselor to Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust, during his trial, conviction, and execution in Israel. As a Canadian pastor, Hull was given rare access to Eichmann in his final days, engaging in profound discussions about guilt, justice, and redemption ... Read more

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  • William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania

    "The original purpose of this monograph was to tell the European half of the story of William Penn's relations with the Dutch Quakers who emigrated to Pennsylvania. But the predominance of the Dutch Quaker pioneers, as revealed by that story, in the settlement of Germantown made it desirable to follow them across the Atlantic and indicate the part which they played for at least a quarter-century ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Historic Photos of Chattanooga in the 50s, 60s and 70s

    Series series Historic Photos
    Nestled in a valley beside the Tennessee River and surrounded by the southern Appalachian mountains, Chattanooga is truly Tennessee’s most scenic city. With the experience of the Great Depression and World War II still strong in memory, and the legacy of the long-ago Civil War still percolating, Chattanoogans would grapple with the new realities of postwar America while preserving much of what had ... Read more

    $27.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Perspective Drawing

    Series series Dover Art Instruction
    This richly illustrated guide to perspective drawing features 17 reproductions of ancient and modern art, plus more than 200 instructive figures. The first half encourages freehand drawing, cultivating practical exposure to the principles of perspective. The second part addresses the laws and theories that constitute the science of perspective.Encouraging students to begin immediately with pencil ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Federal Courts

    An Essential History

    Unabridged

    22 hours 50 min

    There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and when its decision changes the course of history. More often, the story of the federal judiciary is simply a tale of hard work: of finding order in the chaotic system of state and federal law, local custom, and contentious lawyering. The Federal Courts is a story ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Clamor of Lawyers

    The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession

    The Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 and 1776. Most, though not all, were composed outside of the courtroom and detached from on-going litigation. While they have been studied as political theory, these writings and speeches are rarely viewed as the work of active lawyers, despite the fact that ... Read more

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  • The Supreme Court

    An Essential History, Second Edition

    For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation’s history. Now a veteran team of talented historians—including the editors of the acclaimed Landmark Law Cases and American Society series—have updated the most readable, astute single-volume history of this venerated institution with a new chapter on the Roberts Court ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America

    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discrimination—but ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Court’s landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Now Williamjames Hull Hoffer vividly details the origins, litigation, opinions, and aftermath of this notorious case.In response to the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Historic Photos of Chattanooga

    Series series Historic Photos
    HISTORIC PHOTOS OF CHATTANOOGA captures the remarkable journey of this city and her people with still photography from the finest archives of city, state and private collections. From the Civil War through Reconstruction, the rise of industry, World Wars and into the modern era, Chattanooga has remained a unique and prosperous city. With hundreds of archival photos reproduced in stunning duotone ... Read more

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  • The Caning of Charles Sumner

    Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War

    Series series Witness to History
    A signal, violent event in the history of the United States Congress, the caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor embodied the complex North-South cultural divide of the mid-nineteenth century. Williamjames Hull Hoffer's vivid account of the brutal act demonstrates just how far the sections had drifted apart and explains why the coming war was so difficult to avoid.Sumner, a noted ... Read more

    $21.29 USD