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  • The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans

    Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childrearing, and Death

    de Howard Ball ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003Personal rights, such as the right to procreate—or not—and the right to die generate endless debate. This book maps out the legal, political, and ethical issues swirling around personal rights. Howard Ball shows how the Supreme Court has grappled with the right to reproduce and to abort, and takes on the issue of auto-euthanasia and assisted suicide, from ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Taking the Fight South

    Chronicle of a Jew's Battle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

    de Howard Ball ...
    In this "entertaining and informative" memoir, a Jewish civil rights activist recounts living in Mississippi and fighting for racial equity (Howard Winant, co-author of Racial Formation in the United States).In Taking the Fight South, distinguished historian and civil rights activist Howard Ball focuses on six years, from 1976 to 1982, when he and his Jewish family moved from New York City to ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Prosecuting War Crimes and Genocide

    The Twentieth-Century Experience

    de Howard Ball ...
    The “ethnic cleansing” that has gripped the Balkans for much of this decade is but another chapter in the long history of man’s inhumanity to man. Hopeful but unflinching in the face of such realities, Howard Ball’s book focuses on international efforts to punish perpetrators of genocide and other war crimes. Combining history, politics, and critical analysis, he revisits the killing fields of ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Working in the Killing Fields

    Forensic Science in Bosnia

    de Howard Ball ...
    While the specifics of individual wars vary, they share a common epilogue: the task of finding and identifying the “disappeared.” The Bosnian war of the early 1990s, which destroyed the sovereign state of Yugoslavia, is no exception. In Working in the Killing Fields, Howard Ball focuses on recent developments in the technology of forensic science and on the work of forensic professionals in Bosnia ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Right to Die

    A Reference Handbook

    de Howard Ball ...
    Series series Contemporary World Issues
    This book provides a comprehensive and contemporary examination of the right-to-die issues facing society now that vast improvements in public health care and medicine have resulted in people not only living longer but taking much longer to die—often in great pain and suffering.In 1900, the average age at which people died in America was 47 years of age; the primary causes of death were ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • A Defiant Life

    Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism in America

    de Howard Ball ...
    Thurgood Marshall's extraordinary contribution to civil rights and overcoming racism is more topical than ever, as the national debate on race and the overturning of affirmative action policies make headlines nationwide. Howard Ball, author of eighteen books on the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary, has done copious research for this incisive biography to present an authoritative portrait of ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Murder in Mississippi

    United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights

    de Howard Ball ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney—idealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South. In films like Mississippi Burning and popular folk songs, these young men have been venerated as martyrs. Even so, ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • At Liberty to Die

    The Battle for Death with Dignity in America

    de Howard Ball ...
    "Ball's arguments are concise, compelling, and backed with considerable case law. This volume is highly recommended for upper-level undergraduates and above in law, philosophy, and the medical humanities interested in the 'right to die' debates. Summing up: Highly recommended." —ChoiceOver thepast hundred years, average life expectancy in America has nearly doubled, duelargely to scientific and ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • The Bakke Case

    Race, Education, and Affirmative Action

    de Howard Ball ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Twice denied admission to a California medical school despite better grades and test scores than successful minority applicants, Allan Bakke took his grievance to court and set off a major controversy over affirmative action. Bakke claimed that he was a victim of reverse discrimination, and his case has been considered by many as the most important civil rights decision since the end of ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Genocide

    A Reference Handbook

    de Howard Ball ...
    Series series Contemporary World Issues
    This book presents the background and history of genocide, the key issues associated with this worldwide crime, and the problems inherent in preventing its occurrence.In 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), legally defining the crime of genocide for the first time. Amazingly, the United States did not ratify this ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Bach Flower Remedies For Animals

    de Judy Howard, Stefan Ball ...
    Bach Flower Remedies for Animals is a complete and authoritative guide to using the Bach Flower Remedies as an alternative treatment for pets and other animals. Written by experts, it includes the history behind Dr Bach's internationally acclaimed remedies and explains how the remedies are suitable for animals. According to an animal's temperament, a particular remedy or combination of remedies ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

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    Ball of Confusion in Galatia

    Fighting a Religious, Nationalistic, and Ethnic Battle

    de Jimmie D. Compton, Jr. ...
    Narrado por Kevin Howard ...

    Completo

    1 horas 23 minutos

    This book highlights how Jesus and the Apostle Paul provided their faith communities with clarity during the cultural mishmash of ideological confusion during their day, while maintaining the ethos, pathos, and logos of the kingdom of God. The hope is, by examining how they confronted the various violent, religiously nationalist, ethnically biased, imperialistic, and corrupt ideologies of their ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus