Fighting for our right to a healthy environment: Ada Lockridge and Ron Plain

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Elizabeth Packard a noble fight / by Carlisle, Linda V., 1947-

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Civil rights /

Table of Contents: “…Racial profiling violates African Americans' and Hispanics' civil rights -- Hate crimes against Arab Americans are a serious problem -- Racial discrimination in mortgage lending is a serious problem -- Prohibiting same-sex marriage violates gays' and lesbians' civil rights -- The problem of racial profiling is exaggerated -- The incidence of hate crimes directed against Arab Americans is exaggerated -- Racial discrimination is uncommon in mortgage lending -- Prohibiting same-sex marriage is not a violation of civil rights -- Current civil rights laws do not adequately protect gays and lesbians -- Housing discrimination persists despite fair housing laws -- Reparations for African American slavery are necessary for the advancement of civil rights -- Disabled workers need better protection from employment discrimination -- Additional civil rights protection for gays and lesbians would be harmful -- Increasing the penalties for housing discrimination will harm society -- The fight for African American slavery reparations impedes the advancement of civil rights -- Affirmative action : an overview -- Affirmative action reduces discrimination -- Affirmative actions encourages educational diversity -- Affirmative action is necessary to build the black middle class -- Affirmative action helps make American business more competitive -- Affirmative action is no longer necessary -- Encourage educational diversity is not a legitimate justification for affirmative action -- Affirmative action is not necessary to help build the black middle class -- Affirmative action ignores individual merit -- Antiterrorist policies jeopardize immigrants' civil rights -- Using military tribunals to try suspected terrorists is not justified -- Antiterrorist efforts unfairly target Arab Americans -- Antiterrorist policies do not jeopardize immigrants' civil rights -- Using military tribunals to try suspected terrorists is justified -- Antiterrorism efforts targeting Arab Americans are justified.…”


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Triumph of the right : the rise of the California conservative movement, 1945-1966 / by Schuparra, Kurt, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…It's not the party- but the man -- Freedom versus tyranny -- A little piece of America -- The 'old Nixon' is the real Nixon -- How the west was won -- A great white light -- Triumph of the right.…”


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Landing rights : poems / by Jaffin, David, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Mountain ; This high- ; Mountain' ; A lake bott ; Leaves wind- ; Star-night' ; The slop ; Castles ; Swallow ; Apples hung ; These mount -- Poems from Sirmione 2012 -- A year past -- Boats soft -- The short- -- The scarce -- The early -- A light -- The motion -- Women -- Short-breath -- First-timed -- The way the -- Was it be -- The "new -- A distant un -- Gaia's four- -- For Rosemarie (inspired by Phillip Larkin's "Arundel Tomb") -- We finally -- Gaia's -- Dried leaves -- Pin wheel' -- Centuries -- We don't know -- That young -- A Motor -- Rough-bark -- Two poems on -- WH Auden (2). …”


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Transgender rights /

Table of Contents: “…Afterword: Are transgender rights inhuman rights? /…”


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Defending privilege : rights, status, and legal peril in the British novel. by Mansfield Wright, Nicole

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Rights and demands : a foundational inquiry / by Gilbert, Margaret, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Part I -- Are there any moral demand-rights? Part II -- Demand-rights, law, and other institutions -- Human rights in light of the foregoing -- Conclusion.…”
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Index it right! : advice from the experts /

Table of Contents: “…Indexing as canvas, musings on; Creating real-world taxonomies: getting customers to products; I was a teenage taxonomist: the light and dark of constructing taxonomies at Bloomberg BNA; ebook indexing; Indexing literary criticism; Let the adventure begin! …”


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Raymond Pace Alexander : a new Negro lawyer fights for civil rights in Philadelphia / by Canton, David A.

Table of Contents: “…The origin of a new Negro lawyer, 1898-1924 -- Using the left to fight for what is right : civil rights law and radicalism, 1925-1935 -- Making a national movement local : the civil rights struggle in Philadelphia, 1936-1948 -- The Cold War, northern Scottsboro, and the politics of civil rights, 1949-1953 -- Participating in the civil rights movement from the bench, 1954-1964 -- A new Negro judge in black power America, 1965-1974.…”
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The right to privacy / by Alderman, Ellen

Table of Contents: “….: the forced cesarean case -- Quill v. Koppell: the right-to-die cases -- Doe v. City of New York: the other constitutional right to privacy -- Privacy v. the press -- The right to be let alone -- Hall v. …”


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LGBTQ rights /

Table of Contents: “…Does the LGBTQ community enjoy equal rights? -- Does the promotion of LGBTQ rights threaten the freedom of others? …”


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The right spouse : preferential marriages in Tamil Nadu / by Clark-Decès, Isabelle, 1956-2017

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Tamil preferential marriages -- The Kallars and Dumont's theory of alliance -- Doing the right thing -- The remainders of right marriages -- The younger brother takes less -- The unbearable weight of marrying kin -- The wrongness of kin -- Love in the time of youth -- Conclusion : the present is not another country.…”
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The religious right : a reference handbook / by Utter, Glenn H.

Table of Contents: “…The religious right in America -- Chronology -- Biographical profiles -- Analysis of survey data -- Primary documents and quotations -- Directory of organizations -- Suggested readings -- Selected multimedia resources.…”
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Right to be healthy /

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The Right to Vote : the Contested History of Democracy in the United States. by Keyssar, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…Preface to the Revised Edition; Preface to the Original Edition; Introduction; Part I; One; Two; Three; Part II; Four; Five; Six; Part III; Seven; Eight; Nine; Conclusion; appendix; list of tables; appendix sources; notes; index.…”
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Designed right! / by Swann, Alan, 1946-

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The right of necessity : moral cosmopolitanism and global poverty / by Mancilla, Alejandra

Table of Contents: “…The Right of Necessity and the Pull of Self-preservation / </span><span style="font-weight:bold;">Part II: The Right of Necessity and Global Poverty</span><span> / 4. …”
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For the rights of all : ending Jim Crow in Alaska /

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On Minority Rights. / by Lin, Li

Table of Contents: “…The Protection of Minority Rights by a Comprehensive Legal System and Preferential Policy, Paths and Experiences of the Regional National Autonomy in China, Chen JianyuePart Three: Anti-discrimination Policy and Protection of Rights of Minoritie; Study on the Height Discrimination in the Employment in Chinese Urban Areas, On the Case Study of Height Requirements in the Recruitment Advertisement in 300 Thousand Copies of Newspapers in Shanghai and Chengdu from 1995 to 2005, Zhou Wei; Anti-chscrimination, Europeanisation and Multilevel Policy Making, Luis Moreno.…”
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