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xi, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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"In the fall of 2019, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the University of California, Berkeley School of Law to deliver the first annual Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture in honor of her friend, the late Herma Hill Kay, with whom Ginsburg had coauthored the very first casebook on sex-based discrimination in 1974. Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue is the result of a period of collaboration between Ginsburg and Amanda L. Tyler, a Berkeley Law professor...

3) Ruth Bader Ginsburg: a life

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de Hart, Jane Sherron

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English

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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House

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2020

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xiv, 733 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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In this comprehensive, revelatory biography--fifteen years of interviews and research in the making--historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the experiences that shaped Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality, and her meticulous jurisprudence. At the heart of her story is her Jewish background and the concept of tikkun olam, the Hebrew injunction to "repair the world," with its profound meaning for a young girl...

4) Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography

Author:

Morton, Andrew, 1953-

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2010

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English

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328 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

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2010

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St. Martin's Press

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2010

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5) Black holes and time warps: Einstein's outrageous legacy

At first glance, Angelina Jolie might seem to be someone without any secrets, talking openly about her love life, drug use, etc. Yet mysteries remain: What went on in her brief, impulsive marriages to Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, and what is going on with Brad Pitt? What's behind the feud with her father, actor Jon Voight? What drove her to become a mother of six children in six years? And how did this talented but troubled young actress,...

Author:

Thorne, Kip S

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W.W. Norton

Pub. Date:

1993

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English

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619 pages : illustrations ; 25 centimeters

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1993

W.W. Norton

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6) Love and fury: a novel of Mary Wollstonecraft

Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the most brilliant minds of our century have sought to decipher the mysteries bequeathed by that theory, a legacy so unthinkable in some respects that even Einstein himself rejected them. Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short...

Author:

Silva, Samantha

Publisher:

Flatiron Books

Pub. Date:

2021

Language:

English

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1 of 1	Mellen Adult Fiction	FIC SIL

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7) The Outer Beach: a thousand-mile walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic shore

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"Midwife Parthenia Blenkinsop has delivered countless babies over the course of her career, and when she arrives at Mary Wollstonecraft's door, everything appears normal. But after the baby girl is delivered, the women will spend the next harrowing days together, fighting for the survival of both mother and daughter. Over those eleven days, Mary Wollstonecraft recounts the life she dared to live amidst the impossible constraints and prejudices of...

Author:

Finch, Robert, 1943-

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W.W. Norton & Company

Pub. Date:

c2017

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English

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xvi, 327 pages : map ; 25 cm

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W.W. Norton & Company

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Those who have encountered Cape Codor merely dipped into an account of its rich historyknow that it is a singular place. Robert Finch writes of its beaches: "No other place I know sears the heart with such a constant juxtaposition of pleasure and pain, of beauty being born and destroyed in the same moment." And nowhere within its borders is this truth more vivid and dramatic than along the forty miles of Atlantic coastwhat Finch has always known as...

8) Milk

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Universal Studios Home Entertainment

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[2009]

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English

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[2009]

1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

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9) The private lives of birds: a scientist reveals the intricacies of avian social life

His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977. His election makes him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death...

Author:

Stutchbury, Bridget Joan, 1962-

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Walker & Co.

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[2010]

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English

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249 pages, [4]o. of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

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10) Created equal: women campaign for the right to vote, 1840-1920

""With her trademark clarity and humor, Bridget Stutchbury---'bird detective' extraordinaire---reveals avian lives of uncommon drama, rife with adultery, divorce, sibling rivalry, lying, social climbing, and life-or-death marathons---a peek into a world at once familiar and wonderfully different from our own."---Scott Weidensaul, author of Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding" ""Bridget Stutchbury dodges killer bees, wakes before dawn...

Author:

Rossi, Ann

Series:

Crossroads America

Publisher:

National Geographic

Pub. Date:

[2005]

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790L

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English

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40 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

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1 of 1	Shell Lake Juvenile Nonfiction	J 324.623 ROSSI

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[2005]

National Geographic

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11) Winner-take-all politics: how Washington made the rich richer-and turned its back on the middle class

A brief history of American women's fight for voting rights.

Author:

Hacker, Jacob S

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Simon & Schuster

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[2010]

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English

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[2010]

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Simon & Schuster

357 pages ; 25 cm

12) Persepolis

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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[2008]

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French

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1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

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Defining documents in American history

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first-hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....

13) LGBTQ+ (1923-2017)

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Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc.

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[2018]

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English

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2 volumes (xv, 405 pages) : illustrations ; 26 cm.

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As gay, lesbian, and transgender individuals have continued their fight for basic rights and equal treatment under the law, various court cases and challenges to those cases have continued to refine the debate. This new resource provides important analyses of over 80 documents significant to LGBTQ rights.--Source other than Library of Congress.

14) Slay the dragon

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Magnolia Home Entertainment

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[2020]

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English

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1 of 1	Superior Nonfiction DVD	DVD 328.33 SLA

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Cook, William R. (William Robert), 1943-

"After the 2008 election, a secretive, well-funded partisan initiative poured money into state legislative races in key swing states to gain control of their redistricting processes and dramatically skew voting maps. The result is one of the greatest electoral manipulations in U.S. history, one that poses a fundamental threat to our democracy and exacerbates the already polarized atmosphere in Congress and state houses across the country. Slay the...

15) Tocqueville and the American experiment

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Teaching Co.

Pub. Date:

c2004

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English

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4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, digital, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 guidebooks (56, 54 pages ; 22 cm.)

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c2004

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