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1) Policing Ferguson, Policing America: What Really Happened - and What the Country Can Learn From It
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Following the fatal shooting in broad daylight of unarmed African American Michael Brown by a white cop in August 2014, Ferguson, Missouri became the scene of protests that pitted law enforcement against locals and Black Lives matter activists. The media firestorm has not waned, and, in fact, has grown stronger in light of all the recent violence by and against police officers nationwide. According to Ferguson's former police chief Tom Jackson, the...
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Hoover Institution Press
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2015.
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English
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In 2012, building off work first published in 2010, the Resolution Project proposed that a new Chapter 14 be added to the Bankruptcy Code, exclusively designed to deal with the reorganization or liquidation of the nation's large financial institutions. In this book, the contributors expand on their proposal to improve the prospect that our largest financial institutions-particularly with prebankruptcy planning-could be successfully reorganized or...
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Let's take a trip through time to the prehistoric world! on this Amazing Adventure you will discover the mysteries of dinosaur origins, clues to what they looked like, how they survived, where they lived and why they became extinct. What did the world look like during the Age of Dinosaurs? What are fossils and how can we learn from them? Who was the largest and most ferocious dinosaur of all? Discover the answers and more as you journey around a lost...
6) Foodies
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English
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A new power player on the food scene is the so called FOODIE. This subculture consists of people from all over the world with a mission to visit the best restaurants around the globe. In FOODIES we get to know many of the world's most respected chefs and hear their perspective on the influence of the FOODIES. A unique insight into the world of the fascinating characters who both create and consume the best food on the planet. Join the culinary elite...
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Discover more than 85 of the most important mathematical ideas, theorems, and proofs ever devised, and the great minds behind them, with this original, graphics-led book. Applying the Big Ideas Simply Explained series' trademark combination of authoritative, accessible text and bold graphics to chart the development of math through history, The Math Book explores and explains subjects ranging from ancient mathematical ideas and inventions, such as...