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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This lecture, directed by Jehane Noujaim, explores how Americans, as consumers in a rapidly growing world economy, have an insatiable appetite for the next greatest electronic gadget. But can we consume cheap imported products without exploiting someone in the supply chain? Part of WE THE ECONOMY, a series of short films developed by renowned filmmakers and apanel of top economic experts, meant to provoke thought and discussion about fundamental and...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Angela Perry provides advice for a achieving productive outcome when seeking legal advice. She discusses how to approach lawyers about template documents and contracts, and communicate with them about fees. She discusses how to find a lawyer with whom you can establish a good working relationship. She discusses how to judge when you need legal advice.
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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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The internet was supposed to be a thing of revolutions. As that dream curdles, there is no shortage of villains to blame--from tech giants to Russian bot farms. But what if the problem is not an issue of bad actors ruining a good thing? What if the hazards of the internet are built into the system itself? That's what journalist James Ball argues as he takes us to the root of the problem, from the very establishment of the internet's earliest protocols...
Pub. Date
[1935]
Language
English
Description
On August 8, 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, which created a federally-funded unemployment and old age insurance program. For the first time, the government provided citizens over the age of 65 a monthly pension, which paid through a payroll tax and matching employer contributions. The act also provides assistance for permanently disabled individuals, the temporarily unemployed (up to 25 percent of the population was unemployed...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2011
Language
English
Description
It's the fall of 2007 and Nadia Kajouji has no way of knowing she is about to fall into the clutches of an online predator. She is in her first year at Ottawa's Carleton University and succumbs to a crippling depression that sparks suicidal impulses nurtured and fed by an online counselor named Cami D. Nadia doesn't know it, but Cami D is alleged to be a web predator, a "cyberpath." The Fifth Estate takes an in-depth look at the upcoming trial and...
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The 6th amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees every American the right to a speedy and public trial before an impartial jury, and the right to a defense attorney. What the 6th amendment doesn't lay out are rules for law enforcement and prosecution. In this episode, we will highlight two cases: the ongoing efforts of parolee Derrick Hamilton to clear his name after twenty years for a murder conviction fraught with alleged police and prosecutorial...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Updated with the latest legal and tax rules plus social media and e-commerce trends, this guide to setting up a small business provides such information as choosing the right business structure, writing an effective business plan, managing finances and taxes and marketing your business effectively, online and off.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1994, Oregon voters passed the Death with Dignity Act, which legalized physician-assisted suicide for people with terminal illnesses. Since then, more states have passed such laws, and others are considering them. Is physician-assisted suicide, as the American Medical Association's code of ethics states, "fundamentally incompatible with the physician's role as healer?" Will such laws lead to a slippery slope, where human life is devalued and vulnerable...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Upon being sent to live with her aunt in the small town of Doverville, 12-year-old Emma O'Conner finds herself in the middle of a 'dog-fight' with the Mayor and town dogcatcher. In order to strike down their "no-dogs" law, Emma must bring together a group of schoolmates, grown-ups and adorable dogs of all shapes and sizes.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides that "No State shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Yet many state universities give preferences to members of certain races and groups when deciding whom to admit. In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke in 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court approved such preferences but only in specific circumstances...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
After a 40-year-old nationwide "War on Drugs", the state of Washington has become a key battleground in the fight to legalize marijuana. But many marijuana advocates are vehemently opposed to Measure I-502, the law that will legalize the growing, sale and use of cannabis. They say it will impose harsh and scientifically arbitrary DUI laws, new taxes, and additional restrictions and penalties that will hut medical marijuana patients and providers.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This episode of the Green Interview features 16-year old Rachel Parent who has made a remarkable impact on the global debate about the benefits and dangers of industrial food. At 11 years of age she had to do a speech for her class. She decided to talk about food. When she began to research the food she was eating-the same food most of us eat, the standard fare of people in the industrialized world-she was horrified. She was particularly concerned...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
"Inicie su propia corporación revela los secretos y estrategias que los ricos han usado por generaciones para manejar sus negocios y proteger sus bienes. Escrito de una manera clara y fácil de entender--y ahora completamente actualizada para reflejar los cambios importantes en la legislación, las reglas y regulaciones--Inicie su propia corporación provee el conocimiento necesario para ahorrale miles de dólares en impuestos y proteger el patrimonio...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits The rules for claiming Social Security benefits have changed. Find out if you can still choose between your own benefits and spousal benefits. Learn this and more with Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions-completely updated for 2023. Social Security benefits. Figure out how to get retirement, disability, dependents, and survivors benefits, or Supplemental Security Income...
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