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- The citizen's guide to lobbying Congress / by DeKieffer, Donald E.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-187) and index.- Subjects: Lobbying;
- © c2007., Chicago Review Press,
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- Republic, lost : how money corrupts congress, and a plan to stop it / by Lessig, Lawrence.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government-driven by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to new levels by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission - trust in the US government has reached an all-time low. More than ever before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress and that business interests wield control over their legislature.- Subjects: United States. Congress; Lobbying; Political corruption;
- © 2012., Twelve,
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- The triumph of the gun-rights argument : why the gun control debate is over / by Wilson, Harry L.,1957-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- The Second Amendment, the Supreme Court, and firearms -- Violence, public policy, and firearms -- Public opinion, gun control, and elections -- Interest groups -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: The midterm elections of 2014.Gun control evokes passions equaled by few other subjects. As this book shows, the debate over firearms begins with cultural values and extends into questions of constitutional rights, public health and safety, and politics. Examining its subject through the prism of the Sandy Hook shootings, the book looks at the influence of elected officials, the courts, interest groups, and average citizens in shaping gun-control laws. It shares poll results detailing what the public really thinks about guns and why, and it explains the various components of gun policy and policymaking to show how they come together to form the current reality.--Jacket flap.- Subjects: Gun control; Firearms ownership; Pressure groups; Lobbying; United States.; Firearms;
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- One for the road : drunk driving since 1900 / by Lerner, Barron H.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-205) and index.Introduction: what's the harm? -- The discovery of drunk driving -- Science and government enter the fray -- The MADD mothers take charge -- The movement matures and splinters -- Lawyers, libertarians, and the liquor lobby fight back -- More (and more) tragedies.- Subjects: Drunk driving; Drunk driving;
- © 2012., Johns Hopkins University Press,
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- One nation under guns : how gun culture distorts our history and threatens our democracy / by Erdozain, Dominic,author.;
"This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation's fathers did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms--and that this intentional distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy. Hundreds of lives are lost to firearms every day in America. The cost is more than the numbers--it is also the fear, the anxiety, the dread of public spaces that an armed society has created under the tortured rubric of freedom. But the norms of today are not the norms of American history or the values of its Founders. They are the product of a gun culture that has imposed its vision on a sleeping nation. Historian Dominic Erdozain argues that we have wrongly ceded the big-picture argument on guns--as we parse legislation on background checks and automatic weapons bans, we fail to ask: Do individual gun rights have any place at all in American democracy? Taking readers on a brilliant historical journey, Erdozain shows how the Founders feared the tyranny of individuals as much as the tyranny of kings--the idea that any person had a right to walk around armed was anathema to their notion of freedom and the enduring republic they hoped to build. They baked these ideas into the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, ideas that were subsequently affirmed as bedrock by two centuries of jurisprudence. And yet: the twin scourges of America's sickness on race and its near-religious nationalism would work in tandem to create an alternate, darker vision of American freedom. This vision was defined by a mystic conception of good guys and bad guys, underpinned by a host of assumptions about innocence and guilt, power and entitlement. By the time the US Supreme Court essentially invented an individual gun right in 2008 by torturing the words of the Second Amendment in Heller--a decision that Erdozain convincingly eviscerates--many Americans had already acceded to gun activists' perverse unfreedom. To save our democracy, he argues, we must fight for the Founders' true idea of what it means to be free"--Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Firearms; Firearms; Gun control;
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- Psycho [videorecording] / by Stefano, Joseph.aus; Russell, John L.,A.S.C.cng; Hitchcock, Alfred,1899-1980.drt; Perkins, Anthony,1932-1992.act; Miles, Vera.act; Gavin, John.act; Balsam, Martin,1919-1996.act; McIntire, John.act; Oakland, Simon.act; Taylor, Vaughn,1910-1983.act; Albertson, Frank,1909-1964.act; Tuttle, Lurene.act; Hitchcock, Pat.act; Anderson, John,1922-1992.act; Mills, Mort,1919-1993.act; Leigh, Janet.act; Herrmann, Bernard,1911-1975.cmp; Bloch, Robert,1917-1994.Psycho.; Paramount Pictures Corporation.; Universal Pictures (Firm);
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Simon Oakland, Vaughn Taylor, Frank Albertson, Lurene Tuttle, Pat Hitchcock, John Anderson, Mort Mills, Janet Leigh.Art direction, Joseph Hurley & Robert Clatworthy ; set decoration, George Milo ; edited by George Tomasini ; costume supervisor, Helen Colvig ; special effects, Clarence Champagne ; assistant director, Hilton A. Green ; music by Bernard Herrmann.Rated R.Hitchcock's classic film about the troubled Norman Bates whose old dark house and adjoining motel offer a supposed refuge for Marion Crane, the ill-fated traveler.- Subjects: Horror films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Bates, Norman (Fictitious character); Murderers; Hotelkeepers;
- © c2000., Universal,
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- Unrig : how to fix our broken democracy / by Newman, Dan(Dan G.),author.; O'Connor, George,illustrator.; Reynoso, Frank,colorist.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-275) and index.Takes readers behind the scenes--from the sweaty cubicles where senators dial corporate CEOs for dollars, to lavish retreats where billionaires boost their favored candidates, to the map rooms where lawmakers scheme to handpick their voters. It highlights the heroic efforts of those unrigging the system to return power to We the People. -- adapted from back cover.Unrigging the rules -- Congress and lobbying -- Political money -- The wealth hoarders -- Who votes -- Drawing the districts -- Picking the winners -- Electing a president -- The next steps for you.- Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Political corruption; Political participation;
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- The other side of war, with the Army of the Potomac : letters from the headquarters of the United States Sanitary Commission during the peninsular campaign in Virginia in 1862 / by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott.;
The other side of war.During the American Civil War, it was women who formed the vanguard of demanding better sanitary conditions at field hospitals and in the city hospitals. Thousands of women volunteered to work in hospitals and for the Sanitary Commission, the organization that advocated better practices and lobbied for increased supplies. Born in England, Katharine Prescott Wormeley was an American nurse in the Civil War, author, editor, and and one of America's best-known translators of French language literary works. Her letters from the period of the Peninsular Campaign of 1862 provide a warm, witty, and at times heartbreaking view of the hardworking women to whom so much was owed by the soldiers and the nation. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.- Subjects: Wormeley, Katharine Prescott; United States Sanitary Commission.; Volunteer workers in medical care;
- © 2014., Big Byte Books ,
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- The glass hotel : [electronic resource] : A novel. by Mandel, Emily St. John.;
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: "Why don't you swallow broken glass." High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis is running an international Ponzi scheme, moving imaginary sums of money through clients' accounts. When the financial empire collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan's wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call.Electronic reproduction.- Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Literature.; Mystery.;
- © 2020.,
- On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=5011122 -- Click to access digital title in Overdrive.;
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- The sound of music [videorecording] / by Andrews, Julie.; Plummer, Christopher.; Haydn, Richard,1905-1985.; Wood, Peggy,1892-1978.; Lee, Anna,1914-2004.; Nelson, Portia.; Wright, Ben,1915-1989.; Truhitte, Daniel,1943-; Varden, Norma.; Nixon, Marni.; Stuart, Gil,1919-1977.; Baker, Evadne,1897-1995.; Lloyd, Doris,1896-1968.; Parker, Eleanor,1922-; Lehman, Ernest,1915-2005.; Wise, Robert,1914-2005.; Reynolds, William,1910-1997.; Rodgers, Richard,1902-1979.; Hammerstein, Oscar,1895-1960.; Lindsay, Howard,1889-1968.Sound of music.; Argyle Enterprises, Inc.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.;
DVD; 5.0 Dolby surround in English; 2.0 Dolby surround in French; stereo. in English; mono. in Spanish; region 1.Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Ben Wright, Daniel Truhitte, Norma Varden, Marni Nixon, Gil Stuart, Evadne Baker, Doris Lloyd, Eleanor Parker.Director of photography, Ted McCord ; film editor, William Reynolds ; music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.MPAA rating: G.Academy awards, best picture, best director, best film editing, best sound, best music, scoring of music, adaptation or treatment, 1965As Nazism takes over Austria, a governess and a widowed father fall in love and escape the country with his large family of musically-talented children.- Subjects: Historical films.; Film adaptations.; Feature films.; Musical films.; Fiction films.; Musical; Romance; Musical films.; Trapp Family Singers; Films for the hearing impaired.;
- © [2005], Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,
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