Shouting Fire

Shouting Fire

Author: Alan M. Dershowitz

Publisher: Little Brown & Company

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 9780316181419

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The author presents a collection of his best writings on civil liberties issues, from the right to choice to the separation of church and state, and provides his own controversial philosophy of rights.


Shouting at the Rain

Shouting at the Rain

Author: Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0147516773

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Fish in a Tree comes a compelling story about perspective and learning to love the family you have. Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's always lived with her kindhearted Grammy, but now she's looking at their life with new eyes and wishing she could have a "regular family." Delsie observes other changes in the air, too--the most painful being a friend who's outgrown her. Luckily, she has neighbors with strong shoulders to support her, and Ronan, a new friend who is caring and courageous but also troubled by the losses he's endured. As Ronan and Delsie traipse around Cape Cod on their adventures, they both learn what it means to be angry versus sad, broken versus whole, and abandoned versus loved. And that, together, they can weather any storm.


Taking the Stand

Taking the Stand

Author: Alan Dershowitz

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2019-03-26

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 0307719286

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

#1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Dershowitz recounts his extraordinary coming of age in this legal autobiography, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past fifty years, most of which he has personally been involved in. “Overflowing with fascinating and funny vignettes involving his cases and clients, and probing and provocative insights into contemporary legal controversies.”—The Boston Globe Alan Dershowitz, the preeminent defense lawyer in America today, has been called the “winningest appellate criminal defense lawyer in history.” A professor at Harvard Law School since the age of twenty-five, he has led or been part of the defense team for such storied clients as Bill Clinton, Julian Assange, O. J. Simpson, Claus von Bülow, Mia Farrow, Jeffrey MacDonald, Patty Hearst, Mike Tyson, and countless others. In Taking the Stand, Dershowitz describes his evolution as a lawyer—from a C-minus student in Yeshiva High School to the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard Law School. In his #1 New York Times bestselling book Chutzpah, Alan described his Jewish life. In Taking the Stand, he looks at the people and events that have helped to shape his ideas about the law. He describes his formative years as a clerk for the United States Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. In the course of his career, he confronts the challenges of First Amendment law, the ongoing tension between individual freedom and national security, the questionable science often employed to prosecute accused murderers, the evolution of civil rights—and why the abortion rights debate in society hasn’t moved forward since Roe v. Wade. Filled with unforgettable cases and inside legal “baseball,” Taking the Stand is a deeply personal account of one of the legendary legal minds of our time.


Taking the Stand

Taking the Stand

Author: Alan M. Dershowitz

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 0307719278

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The esteemed Harvard lawyer describes his career and the cases that have changed American jurisprudence throughout the past half century, discussing his early academic struggles, his clerking work for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, and his role in many prominent cases.


Shoutin' in the Fire

Shoutin' in the Fire

Author: Danté Stewart

Publisher: Convergent Books

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0593239636

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black world “Only once in a lifetime do we come across a writer like Danté Stewart, so young and yet so masterful with the pen. This work is a thing to make dungeons shake and hearts thunder.”—Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Prophets In Shoutin’ in the Fire, Danté Stewart gives breathtaking language to his reckoning with the legacy of white supremacy—both the kind that hangs over our country and the kind that is internalized on a molecular level. Stewart uses his personal experiences as a vehicle to reclaim and reimagine spiritual virtues like rage, resilience, and remembrance—and explores how these virtues might function as a work of love against an unjust, unloving world. In 2016, Stewart was a rising leader at the predominantly white evangelical church he and his family were attending in Augusta, Georgia. Like many young church leaders, Stewart was thrilled at the prospect of growing his voice and influence within the community, and he was excited to break barriers as the church’s first Black preacher. But when Donald Trump began his campaign, so began the unearthing. Stewart started overhearing talk in the pews—comments ranging from microaggressions to outright hostility toward Black Americans. As this violence began to reveal itself en masse, Stewart quickly found himself isolated amid a people unraveled; this community of faith became the place where he and his family now found themselves most alone. This set Stewart on a journey—first out of the white church and then into a liberating pursuit of faith—by looking to the wisdom of the saints that have come before, including James H. Cone, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, and by heeding the paradoxical humility of Jesus himself. This sharply observed journey is an intimate meditation on coming of age in a time of terror. Stewart reveals the profound faith he discovered even after experiencing the violence of the American church: a faith that loves Blackness; speaks truth to pain and trauma; and pursues a truer, realer kind of love than the kind we’re taught, a love that sets us free.


Civil Rights and Liberties

Civil Rights and Liberties

Author: Harold J Sullivan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-07

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1317349482

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For undergraduate courses in Constitutional Law, Civil Rights & Liberties, Introduction to American Government,Introduction to Law and Legal Process, and Judicial Process & Politics. Examining contemporary and perennial constitutional issues in civil liberties and rights, this text engages students in an exploration of how and why U.S. Supreme Court Justices have interpreted the provisions of the U.S. Constitution relating to freedom of expression and religion, and equal protection and privacy.


Shouting at the Sky

Shouting at the Sky

Author: Gary Ferguson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1999-03-15

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780312200084

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Gary Ferguson recounts the experiences he had while spending two months in the Utah wilderness with a group of troubled teens.


The Architecture of Law

The Architecture of Law

Author: Brian M. McCall

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess

Published: 2018-05-30

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 0268103364

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book argues that classical natural law jurisprudence provides a superior answer to the questions “What is law?” and “How should law be made?” rather than those provided by legal positivism and “new” natural law theories. What is law? How should law be made? Using St. Thomas Aquinas’s analogy of God as an architect, Brian McCall argues that classical natural law jurisprudence provides an answer to these questions far superior to those provided by legal positivism or the “new” natural law theories. The Architecture of Law explores the metaphor of law as an architectural building project, with eternal law as the foundation, natural law as the frame, divine law as the guidance provided by the architect, and human law as the provider of the defining details and ornamentation. Classical jurisprudence is presented as a synthesis of the work of the greatest minds of antiquity and the medieval period, including Cicero, Aristotle, Gratian, Augustine, and Aquinas; the significant texts of each receive detailed exposition in these pages. Along with McCall’s development of the architectural image, he raises a question that becomes a running theme throughout the book: To what extent does one need to know God to accept and understand natural law jurisprudence, given its foundational premise that all authority comes from God? The separation of the study of law from knowledge of theology and morality, McCall argues, only results in the impoverishment of our understanding of law. He concludes that they must be reunited in order for jurisprudence to flourish. This book will appeal to academics, students in law, philosophy, and theology, and to all those interested in legal or political philosophy.


A Wee Story

A Wee Story

Author: Laura Adriana Craciun

Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore

Published: 2023-07-03

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1543773745

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Pirates like honey? A quest, a map, and the golden treasure. "Wee -people" can be good or bad and they can be mischievous or naughty, hard working or heroic in their tiny world, that we, humans, might be unaware of. A funny, beautifully illustrated story book for children to feel connected with nature, to understand that every little wee person counts, that being honest and true is important, and that it is never too late to learn to say please and sorry. Children are invited to use the maple leaf map and draw their own path through wee town, or through the forest, in order to recreate the path the Wee pirates in the story took.


Who Killed the Constitution?

Who Killed the Constitution?

Author: Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Publisher: Forum Books

Published: 2009-07-07

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0307405761

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Think it’s just judges who are trampling on the Constitution? Think again. The fact is that government officials long ago rejected the idea that the Constitution possesses a fixed meaning limiting the U.S. government’s power. Going right to the scenes of the crimes, bestselling authors Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin R. C. Gutzman dissect twelve of the most egregious assaults on the Constitution. In Who Killed the Constitution? Woods and Gutzman: • REVEAL the federal government’s “great gold robbery”–the flagrant assault on the Constitution you never heard about in history class • DESTROY the phony case for presidential war power • EXPOSE how the federal government has actively discriminated to end . . . discrimination Who Killed the Constitution? is a rallying cry for Americans outraged by a government run amok and a warning to take heed before we lose the liberties we are truly entitled to. “If you want to know why the federal government regulates the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the words you speak, read Who Killed the Constitution? . . . When the history of these unfree times is written, Tom Woods’s and Kevin Gutzman’s fearless work will be recognized as the standard against which all others are measured.” –Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News senior judicial analyst and bestselling author of The Constitution in Exile “It’s about time someone shouted out that the emperor has no clothes.” –Kirkpatrick Sale, director of the Middlebury Institute and author of Human Scale