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Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
David Bordwell · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 572
Format: Hardcover
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In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer. Incidents were replayed from different characters' viewpoints, and sometimes... |
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Learning American Sign Language in High School: Motivation, Strategies, and Achievement
Russell S. Rosen · Gallaudet University Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Reflecting the exponential growth of college courses offering American Sign Language (ASL) as a foreign language, high schools have followed suit with significant increases in ASL classes during the past two decades. Despite this trend, high school ASL teachers and program administrators... |
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Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law, Fifth Edition
Jay M Feinman · Oxford University Press
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
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In this fifth edition of his bestselling classic, Jay Feinman provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the American legal system. In the years since the publication of the fourth edition, there have been many important developments on the legal front. The Supreme Court has issued... |
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A Court of Refuge: Stories from the Bench of America's First Mental Health Court
GINGER LERNER-WREN · Beacon Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
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The story of America's first Mental Health Court as told by its presiding judge, Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren--from its inception in 1997 to its implementation in over 400 courts across the nationAs a young legal advocate, Ginger Lerner-Wren bore witness to the consequences of an underdeveloped... |
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The Invent To Learn Guide to 3D Printing in the Classroom: Recipes for Success
David Thornburg Ph.D. · Constructing Modern Knowledge Press
Format: Print book
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This book is an essential guide for educators interested in bringing the amazing world of 3D printing to their classrooms. Learn about the technology, exciting powerful new design software, and even advice for purchasing your first 3D printer. The real power of the book comes from a variety... |
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Broken Scales: Reflections on Injustice
Joel Cohen · American Bar Association
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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However rare, some injustices are "objectively" determined, often through DNA evidence, which allows us to squarely establish innocence despite a conviction. But the stories selected for this book represent a cross-section: some are such that (almost) every reader will see and acknowledge... |
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Richard Posner
William Domnarski · Oxford University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Judge Richard Posner is one of the great legal minds of our age, on par with such generation-defining judges as Holmes, Hand, and Friendly. A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the principal exponent of the enormously influential law and economics movement, he writes... |
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The Heart of the Constitution: How the Bill of Rights became the Bill of Rights
Gerard N Magliocca · Oxford University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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This is the untold story of the most celebrated part of the Constitution. Until the twentieth century, few Americans called the first ten constitutional amendments drafted by James Madison in 1789 and ratified by the states in 1791 the Bill of Rights. Even more surprising, when people finally... |
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What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
MONA HANNA-ATTISHA · One World
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of relentless citizen resistance in the face of corrupt power Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan - in the name of austerity - shifted the source of its water supply... |
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In the Footsteps of Columbus: European Missions to the International Space Station
John O'Sullivan · Springer
Pages: 391
Format: Paperback
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The European Space Agency has a long history of human spaceflight, flying in space with both NASA and the Soviet/Russian space agencies over the years. This book tells the story of the ESA astronauts who have visited the International Space Station over its first decade and how they have... |
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