To right these wrongs : the North Carolina Fund and the battle to end poverty and inequality in 1960s America / by Korstad, Robert Rodgers

Table of Contents: “…Battle lines -- Alliances -- Citizen soldiers -- An army of the poor -- Fighting for the high ground -- Counterassault.…”
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To right these wrongs the North Carolina Fund and the battle to end poverty and inequality in 1960s America / by Korstad, Robert Rodgers

Table of Contents: “…Battle lines -- Alliances -- Citizen soldiers -- An army of the poor -- Fighting for the high ground -- Counterassault.…”
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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 right to water : politics, governance and social struggles /

Table of Contents: “…The right to water: possibilities and prospects / Farhana Sultana and Alex Loftus -- Commons versus commodities: debating the human right to water / Karen Bakker -- The human right to what? …”
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Privacy and border controls in the fight against terrorism : a fundamental rights analysis of passenger data sharing / by Kuşkonmaz, Elif Mendos

Table of Contents: “…Putting PNR data into context : privacy and personal data protection in the EU and in the US -- Right to privacy and right to protection of personal data under the ECHR and the Charter -- Birth of PNR data and the EU-US PNR Agreement -- From theory to practice : what is the added value of PNR data? …”
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The radical right. : The new American right expanded and updated /

Table of Contents: “…The sources of the "radical right" (1955) /…”


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The right and the righteous : the Christian Right confronts the Republican Party / by Oldfield, Duane Murray

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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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Women's rights

Table of Contents: “…Women Around the World (2:55) -- International Women's Movement (1:18) -- Women's Movement in the US (3:52) -- China (1:01) -- Confucianism (1:15) -- Effect of Communism on Women's Rights (0:46) -- Trafficking and Sexism (2:34) -- Career Choice (0:53) -- Afghanistan (3:04) -- Women Enslaved (2:51) -- Poverty and Aids (3:30) -- Global Fight (1:16)…”
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Women's rights /

Table of Contents: “…Women Around the World (2:55) -- International Women's Movement (1:18) -- Women's Movement in the US (3:52) -- China (1:01) -- Confucianism (1:15) -- Effect of Communism on Women's Rights (0:46) -- Trafficking and Sexism (2:34) -- Career Choice (0:53) -- Afghanistan (3:04) -- Women Enslaved (2:51) -- Poverty and Aids (3:30) -- Global Fight (1:16)…”
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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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Right Turn : John T. Flynn and the Transformation of American Liberalism. by Moser, John E.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Irish Exaggerations; 2 Business Must Be Governed; 3 An Empty Collection of Syllables; 4 Pay as We Fight; 5 A Pretty Sorry Board; 6 A Plague of Promisers; 7 A Great and Grand Guy--Once; 8 A Very Responsible Committee; 9 The Nazi Transmission Belt; 10 The Good Name of a Noble Cause; 11 The Smear Offensive; 12 A Bitter and Disheartening Struggle; 13 God Bless Joe McCarthy; 14 It Sickens My Soul; Conclusion.…”
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Voters' rights / by Issitt, Micah L.

Table of Contents: “…Reading the fine print -- 17. The fight for access -- 18. Voting at home -- 19. Losing the right to vote -- 20. …”
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Speakers' rights in private forums : how the First Amendment might look on the Information Superhighway / by Johnson, Michelle

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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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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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Fat Rights : Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood. by Kirkland, Anna

Subjects: “…Overweight persons Civil rights United States.…”
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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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