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In a revelatory work praised as "excellent and timely" (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes sense of our fraught constitutional history in this incisive portrait of how American businesses seized political power, won "equal rights, " and transformed the Constitution to serve big business. Uncovering the deep roots of Citizens United, he repositions that controversial 2010 Supreme Court de...

Music's Everywhere invites toddlers and preschoolers to join Christy and her virtual music class as she takes them on an interactive journey to learn that music really is everywhere around us. They'll meet some interesting characters along the way, like a frog who loves to dance and a carpenter named Carl who makes music using nothing more than his hammer and nails! Music's Everywhere helps children gain an appreciation for music and movement ...

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Literatur und Philosophie befruchten sich seit jeher gegenseitig. In der 22. poet-Ausgabe geben fünf Gespräche Einblick in die vielfältigen Verflechtungen, die spätestens mit Platon beginnen. Philosophen und Literaten sprechen über Romantik und Idealismus, über Kleist und Beckett und über aktuelle Gedichte. Die Prosa konzentriert sich auf die Schweiz - mit einem Abstecher nach Äquatorial Guinea. Lyrisch öffnet sich ein Spektrum von jungen Dich...

Gunfight is a timely work examining America's four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative history, Adam Winkler reveals how guns-not abortion, race, or religion-are at the heart of America's cultural divide. Using the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller-which invalidated a law banning handguns in the nation's capital-as a springboard, Winkler brilliantly wea...

This new 6-vol. revision of the 1987 Dartmouth Medal winner includes all of the material from the original 4-vol. set and 1992 Supplement, as well as updated original articles and completely new articles covering recent concepts and court cases since 1992. New material is alphabetically integrated throughout the set. Appendices include a case index and primary documents. Among the new articles in this edition are adoption, race, and the Consti...

Gunfight promises to be a seminal work in its examination of America's four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In the tradition of Gideon's Trumpet, Adam Winkler uses the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, which invalidated a law banning handguns in the nation's capital, as a springboard for a groundbreaking historical narrative. From the Founding Fathers and the Second Amendment to the...

We the Corporations chronicles the astonishing story of one of the most successful yet least well-known "civil rights movements" in American history. Hardly oppressed like women and minorities, business corporations, too, have fought since the nation's earliest days to gain equal rights under the Constitution-and today have nearly all the same rights as ordinary people. Exposing the historical origins of Citizens United and Hobby Lobby, Adam W...