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1) Afterlife
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New Digital Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: April 8, 2020
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New Digital Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: April 8, 2020
Read A-Likes for the Week of December 27, 2020
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"A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise"--
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Do you or your partner spend more than you earn? Have your credit card debts evolved into collection letters? Has either of you received a court summons? Has either of you considered turning to a life of a crime? You are not alone. We know. We can help. Welcome to the Transition. While taking part in the Transition, you and your partner will spend six months living under the supervision of your mentors, two successful adults of a slightly older generation....
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This "is a guide for sustainability at home that offers simple, tangible steps toward reducing our environmental impact by looking at what we consume and the waste we create, as well as how to take action for environmental change. The title reflects Bonnie Wright's belief that the best way to change our planet and ourselves is through a gentle approach, rather than a judgmental one. This is a book of do's rather than don'ts. It's also an invitation...
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Centuries of foul play in the Department of Justice (DOJ) in this country, fortified through deceptive practices, has temporized the freedom of far too many innocent people with puritanical, senseless prison sentences.
This reasoning is laced with a mythology rich in ideals that are spoon-fed to the American people by this country's political leaders-judges are infallible and neutral; the objective of all prosecutors is justice; public defenders...
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This book is about telling and showing how the currently accepted regular everyday practices of Lawyers in America today is proving to be entirely too dysfunctional for the society. Today we now have a system which generates too much of its own business, often frivolous, ridiculous and absurd relative to the common sense of the everyday average citizen. Most persons in America today who are forced to deal with the legal system and lawyers probably...
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Service to the community means involvement, commitment, and engagement with the entire community, and that includes all of the parts, including police, fire schools, merchants, etc. Providing some law enforcement education to citizens about the total service mission of police work should be a goal for every police agency. Ensuring good service to the community means careful recruitment and personnel selection, for officers who will develop a prime...
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Essays on Professionalism is a compilation of articles on topics of legal professionalism, most of which have appeared in the Tulsa Lawyer, a monthly publication of the Tulsa County Bar Association. The purpose of this book is to emphasize the importance to individual lawyers and to the legal profession as a whole the qualities and characteristics fundamental to their profession.
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Un vieil adage, souvent repris, veut que « le droit mène à tout ». Si l'on peut déceler dans cette affirmation une certaine part d'exagération - après tout, le droit et la biologie moléculaire demeurent des disciplines bien distinctes -, une formation en droit ouvre en effet de nombreux horizons de carrière, en plus de contribuer à l'épanouissement intellectuel des personnes qui y ont accès. En outre, cette formation a parfois des effets...
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Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to the present. Since the book's initial publication in 2014, the cruel and unusual executions of a number of people on death row, including Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma and Joseph Wood in Arizona, have made headlines and renewed vigorous debate surrounding the death penalty in America. Austin Sarat's book instantly became an essential...
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Exploring the basic meaning of police power and how it must be redefined.
My ultimate objective is uncovering the dynamics of the police-citizen contact, including the emotional nature of not only the police officer but also the private citizen, and probing those wounds of discontent, frustration, and anger. We have to do it now. This is the year 2021, and we have to realize that nothing has changed. We see the failings of the police-citizen contact...
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Quines deben leer esta obra?:
1. Personas que desean ser promovidas
2. Aquellos que quieren que sus bendiciones sean ms sostenibles en el tiempo
3. Quienes desean tener un panorama equilibrado sobre las bendiciones espirituales y las materiales
4. Administradores que necesitan presupuestar sabiamente
5. Personas que no se atreven a emprender algo
6. El cristiano que desea ser buen mayordomo de sus bienes
7. Aquel que desea comprender cmo involucrar...
14) The innovation delusion: how our obsession with the new has disrupted the work that matters most
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[2020]
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260 pages ; 25 cm
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"or forty years, innovation has been the hottest buzzword in business. But what if the benefits of innovation have been exaggerated, and our obsession with the new has distracted us from the work that matters most? It's hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether it's a new technology or a new toothbrush. But in this manifesto on the state of American work, historians of technology Lee Vinsel...
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La ciencia del derecho tiene como finalidad fundamental que la sociedad sea justa, con esa justicia real y concreta que consiste en que se respete y se dé a cada hombre su derecho, aquello que es suyo. Tarea importante y de incalculable trascendencia social, aunque a veces cueste grandes esfuerzos conseguirlo.
Este libro es una introducción al derecho, orientado en gran medida a personas que, o bien están en los comienzos de sus estudios de derecho...
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In the criminal justice system, people are cast into polar positions on the good-bad axis: good guys and bad guys. Prosecutors, who wield considerable power and influence in the enforcement of our laws, are almost universally cast as good guys. Seldom is there accountability when they are, in fact, not always good.
Rethinking Justice: Inside America's Movement for Prosecution Reform introduces a newly minted generation of prosecutors, intent on holding...
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Restorative Justice was a term and concept largely unused before the mid-1970s. Wayne Northey happened to be in on the ground floor of facilitating its worldwide adoption as a challenge to Western retributive justice systems, ultimately to violent responses to conflict domestically and internationally. The most replicated early model of Restorative Justice, based on the well-known "Elmira Case," was a Canadian first, initially dubbed Victim Offender...
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Portfolio/Penguin
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[2020]
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xix, 252 pages ; 24 cm
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"From Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and his coauthors, a follow-up to groundbreaking bestseller Conscious Capitalism-revealing what it takes to lead a purpose-driven, sustainable business"--
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An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...
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Do you know that a prosecutor can charge you with a crime even if a crime wasn't committed? Do you know your Constitutional rights as a US citizen?
Discover one woman's compelling true story and how it became a fight against a Criminal Justice System that has strayed far from its original purpose.
Do you believe an unlawful criminal prosecution could never happen to you or your loved ones? Noted Certified Speaking Professional (ret.) and grandmother...
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