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Book Injustice  Ground Zero  2016    24

Download or read book Injustice Ground Zero 2016 24 written by Chris Sebela and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This adaptation of the original Injustice video game story comes to its dramatic conclusion with a showdown between Supermen and the reveal of Harley Quinn's final fate.

Book Injustice  Ground Zero Vol  2

Download or read book Injustice Ground Zero Vol 2 written by Christopher Sebela and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times best-selling series, written by Christopher Sebela (SUICIDE SQUAD MOST WANTED) with talented artists including Tom Derenick (INFINITE CRISIS: FIGHT FOR THE MULTIVERSE), Pop Mhan (HE-MAN: THE ETERNITY WAR) and Daniel Sampere (GREEN ARROW), takes readers deep inside the mind of Harley Quinn in this canÕt-miss collection of INJUSTICE: GROUND ZERO VOL. 2 stories. Harley QuinnÕs twisted take on the world of the hit video game Injustice: Gods Among Us comes to a thrilling conclusion, setting the stage for the fighting gameÕs sequel, INJUSTICE 2! Harley and the Joker are back together at last, but all is not as it appears. Is she JokerÕs unwitting pawn, or is she actually setting an elaborate trap for her no-longer-beloved Mr. J and becoming the hero a world on the brink of mass destruction needs most? And while the Joker and Harley Quinn work out their differences in typically explosive fashion, the war between the brutal despot Superman and the superhero resistance led by Batman and the heroes of the Justice League takes a savage toll! How will this strange new world survive the battle between former friends and allies? Collects #7-12!

Book Model Rules of Professional Conduct

    Book Details:
  • Author : American Bar Association. House of Delegates
  • Publisher : American Bar Association
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781590318737
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Book Injustice  Gods Among Us Year One   The Complete Collection

Download or read book Injustice Gods Among Us Year One The Complete Collection written by Tom Taylor and published by DC. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the video game phenomenon, INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US YEAR ONE-THE COMPLETE EDITION collects the initial year of the best-selling series in its entirety for the first time! Superman is Earth's greatest hero. But when the Man of Steel can't protect the thing he holds most dear, he decides to stop trying to save the world-and start ruling it. Now, the Last Son of Krypton is enforcing peace on Earth by any means necessary. Only one man stands between Superman and absolute power: Batman. And the Dark Knight will use any method at his disposal to stop his former friend from reshaping the world in his shattered image. Written by Tom Taylor (EARTH 2) with art by Jheremy Raapack (RESIDENT EVIL), Mike S. Miller (A Game of Thrones) and more, this thrilling graphic novel collects INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US digital chapters 1-36 and in single magazine form as INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US 1-12 and INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US ANNUAL 1.

Book Unfair

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adam Benforado
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2016-06-14
  • ISBN : 0770437788
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book Unfair written by Adam Benforado and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Unfair succinctly and persuasively recounts cutting-edge research testifying to the faulty and inaccurate procedures that underpin virtually all aspects of our criminal justice system, illustrating many with case studies.”—The Boston Globe A child is gunned down by a police officer; an investigator ignores critical clues in a case; an innocent man confesses to a crime he did not commit; a jury acquits a killer. The evidence is all around us: Our system of justice is fundamentally broken. But it’s not for the reasons we tend to think, as law professor Adam Benforado argues in this eye-opening, galvanizing book. Even if the system operated exactly as it was designed to, we would still end up with wrongful convictions, trampled rights, and unequal treatment. This is because the roots of injustice lie not inside the dark hearts of racist police officers or dishonest prosecutors, but within the minds of each and every one of us. This is difficult to accept. Our nation is founded on the idea that the law is impartial, that legal cases are won or lost on the basis of evidence, careful reasoning and nuanced argument. But they may, in fact, turn on the camera angle of a defendant’s taped confession, the number of photos in a mug shot book, or a simple word choice during a cross-examination. In Unfair, Benforado shines a light on this troubling new field of research, showing, for example, that people with certain facial features receive longer sentences and that judges are far more likely to grant parole first thing in the morning. Over the last two decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have uncovered many cognitive forces that operate beyond our conscious awareness. Until we address these hidden biases head-on, Benforado argues, the social inequality we see now will only widen, as powerful players and institutions find ways to exploit the weaknesses of our legal system. Weaving together historical examples, scientific studies, and compelling court cases—from the border collie put on trial in Kentucky to the five teenagers who falsely confessed in the Central Park Jogger case—Benforado shows how our judicial processes fail to uphold our values and protect society’s weakest members. With clarity and passion, he lays out the scope of the legal system’s dysfunction and proposes a wealth of practical reforms that could prevent injustice and help us achieve true fairness and equality before the law.

Book Hag Seed

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Atwood
  • Publisher : Hogarth
  • Release : 2016-10-11
  • ISBN : 0804141304
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book Hag Seed written by Margaret Atwood and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of The Handmaid’s Tale reimagines Shakespeare’s final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge. “A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that’s utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable subtlety even as the original’s back story falls neatly into place.”—The New York Times Book Review Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. Now he’s staging aTempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, but it will also heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And also brewing revenge, which, after twelve years, arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Margaret Atwood’s novel take on Shakespeare’s play of enchantment, retribution, and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own. Praise for Hag-Seed “What makes the book thrilling, and hugely pleasurable, is how closely Atwood hews to Shakespeare even as she casts her own potent charms, rap-composition included. . . . Part Shakespeare, part Atwood, Hag-Seed is a most delicate monster—and that’s ‘delicate’ in the 17th-century sense. It’s delightful.”—Boston Globe “Atwood has designed an ingenious doubling of the plot of The Tempest: Felix, the usurped director, finds himself cast by circumstances as a real-life version of Prospero, the usurped Duke. If you know the play well, these echoes grow stronger when Felix decides to exact his revenge by conjuring up a new version of The Tempest designed to overwhelm his enemies.”—Washington Post “A funny and heartwarming tale of revenge and redemption . . . Hag-Seed is a remarkable contribution to the canon.”—Bustle

Book Injustice  Gods Among Us  Year Five Vol  3

Download or read book Injustice Gods Among Us Year Five Vol 3 written by Brian Buccellato and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Brian Buccellato and an all-star team of artists bring the epic prequel of the hit video game to its shocking conclusion! The Man of SteelÕs most implacable enemy, the Dark Knight, has teamed up with the warlord of Thanagar to bring Kryptonite-powered destruction to SupermanÕs regime and all of its work. But it will take more than brute force to take down the totalitarian regime of the Man of Tomorrow. As the Caped CrusaderÕs ally Batgirl hacks into CyborgÕs database to broadcast proof of SupermanÕs brutality to the world, a dimensional vortex is breached, proving that a reality in which the worldÕs greatest heroes work together is indeed possible. Meanwhile, lethal adversaries like Lex Luthor, Deathstroke and Raven put their own plans into play. Will SupermanÕs new world order crumble around him? Or will he live to rule another day? Author Brian Buccellato provides all the answers in INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US: YEAR FIVE VOL. 3! Collects INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US: YEAR FIVE #9-20 and INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US ANNUAL #1!

Book Charlotte s Web

Download or read book Charlotte s Web written by E. B. White and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t miss one of America’s top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS’s The Great American Read. This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect." Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter. E. B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. It contains illustrations by Garth Williams, the acclaimed illustrator of E. B. White's Stuart Little and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, among many other books. Whether enjoyed in the classroom or for homeschooling or independent reading, Charlotte's Web is a proven favorite.

Book Deathstroke Vol  4  Defiance

Download or read book Deathstroke Vol 4 Defiance written by Priest and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deathstroke is a changed man. The worldÕs deadliest assassin has seen the light, and now he can no longer bring himself to take lives. So whatÕs an unrivaled mercenary to do when he can no longer kill? Start a superhero team, of course. Slade has recruited a group of young heroes into Project Defiance, including Kid Flash, Power Girl, Terra and his children, Rose and Jericho. Deathstroke claims his goal is to shape them into the heroes theyÕre meant to be. But no one on the team trusts the others...and they trust Deathstroke least of all. Can a lifelong assassin really leave his past behind and become a hero? Why has Slade really agreed to train Defiance? And when his enemies rise against him and kidnap Deathstroke...has he trained his team well enough to tangle with the most dangerous super-villains in the world? In one of the most acclaimed series of the year, writer Christopher Priest (Justice League) and artists Diogenes Neves (Green Arrow) and Jason Paz (Batman and Robin Eternal) take Deathstroke in a surprising new direction. Collects Deathstroke #21-25 and a Deathstroke story from DC Universe Holiday Special #1.

Book Injustice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Taylor
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781401246013
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Injustice written by Tom Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the makers of Mortal Kombat comes the critically acclaimed prequel comic to the smash hit fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us! Things in the DC Universe have changed after Superman is tricked into destroying the one thing he loves the most. Now unwilling to let crime go unpunished, the heroes of our world must choose if they are with Superman or against him. But not every country will submit to his new world order and neither will Superman's greatest threat--Batman!

Book Injustice  Gods Among Us Year Three  The Complete Collection

Download or read book Injustice Gods Among Us Year Three The Complete Collection written by Tom Taylor and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As action-packed as the video game phenomenon that inspired it, this graphic novel collects the entirety of the third year of the now-legendary Injustice: Gods Among Us saga that sees Superman and Batman rallying forces against each other! There was a great and terrible war between heroes. On one side, Superman and his Justice League with their allies in the Sinestro Corps, who sought to bring peace through absolute order. On the other side, Batman’s army and the Green Lantern Corps. It ended with Superman, wielding a fear-powered yellow ring, murdering Black Canary while the world looked on. But Batman lived to fight another day... and Batman always has a backup plan. Only one force in the world can hurt a Kryptonian wielding a Sinestro Corps ring—magic. Now, with John Constantine seeking his own revenge against Superman, the sorcerer con man is helping Batman add the greatest magicians in the universe to his growing army. With the most powerful magic users in the universe on their side, Superman shouldn’t stand a chance. And yet... something mysterious is protecting the Justice League. Something that wants to protect Superman’s vision of a world under his control—and something deadly enough to kill some of the most powerful beings in the universe! Written by Tom Taylor and Brian Buccellato, this graphic novel collects the third year of the best-selling series in its entirety for the first time. Collects Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Three #1-12 and Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Three Annual #1.

Book The Sandman  The Deluxe Edition Book One

Download or read book The Sandman The Deluxe Edition Book One written by Neil Gaiman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most popular and critically acclaimed graphic novels of all time, Neil Gaiman's award-winning masterpiece The Sandman, is finally being collected for the first time in deluxe hardcover format. Illustrated by an exemplary selection of the medium's most gifted artists, the series is a rich blend of modern and ancient mythology in which contemporary fiction, historical drama, and legend are seamlessly interwoven. This first book collecting Neil Gaiman's genre-defining series about the Dream King in a new deluxe edition series featuring an oversize hardcover format and bonus content. Collects the first two paperback volumes of the critically acclaimed series Sandman, issues 1-16, and Sandman Midnight Theatre 1.

Book Saving America s Cities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lizabeth Cohen
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2019-10-01
  • ISBN : 0374721602
  • Pages : 331 pages

Download or read book Saving America s Cities written by Lizabeth Cohen and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bancroft Prize In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many must rely on the private market to support the public good. It wasn’t always this way. For almost three decades after World War II, even as national policies promoted suburban sprawl, the federal government underwrote renewal efforts for cities that had suffered during the Great Depression and the war and were now bleeding residents into the suburbs. In Saving America’s Cities, the prizewinning historian Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests that would culminate in the neoliberal rush to privatize efforts to solve entrenched social problems. A Yale-trained lawyer, rival of Robert Moses, and sometime critic of Jane Jacobs, Logue saw renewing cities as an extension of the liberal New Deal. He worked to revive a declining New Haven, became the architect of the “New Boston” of the 1960s, and, later, led New York State’s Urban Development Corporation, which built entire new towns, including Roosevelt Island in New York City. Logue’s era of urban renewal has a complicated legacy: Neighborhoods were demolished and residents dislocated, but there were also genuine successes and progressive goals. Saving America’s Cities is a dramatic story of heartbreak and destruction but also of human idealism and resourcefulness, opening up possibilities for our own time.

Book LGBTQ Stats

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bennett Singer
  • Publisher : New Press, The
  • Release : 2017-01-24
  • ISBN : 162097245X
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book LGBTQ Stats written by Bennett Singer and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years ago it was impossible to imagine the president of the United States embracing same-sex marriage or Bruce Jenner transitioning to Caitlyn Jenner, an open transgender woman. LGBTQ Stats chronicles the ongoing LGBTQ revolution, providing the critical statistics, and draws upon and synthesizes newly collected data. Deschamps and Singer—whose previous books and films on LGBTQ topics have won numerous awards and found audiences around the globe—provide chapters on family and marriage, workplace discrimination, education, youth, criminal justice, and immigration, as well as evolving policies and laws affecting LGBTQ communities. A chapter on LGBTQ life around the globe contrasts the dramatic progress for LGBTQ people in the United States with violent backlash in countries such as Russia, Iran, and Nigeria, which have discriminatory laws that make same-sex activity punishable by prison or death. A lively, accessible, and eye-opening snapshot, LGBTQ Stats offers an invaluable resource for activists, journalists, lawmakers, and general readers who want the facts and figures on LGBTQ lives in the twenty-first century.

Book The Triumph of Injustice  How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay

Download or read book The Triumph of Injustice How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay written by Emmanuel Saez and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s runaway inequality has an engine: our unjust tax system. Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have had their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice presents a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation, written by two economists who revolutionized the study of inequality. Eschewing anecdotes and case studies, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman offer a comprehensive view of America’s tax system, based on new statistics covering all taxes paid at all levels of government. Their conclusion? For the first time in more than a century, billionaires now pay lower tax rates than their secretaries. Blending history and cutting-edge economic analysis, and writing in lively and jargon-free prose, Saez and Zucman dissect the deliberate choices (and sins of indecision) that have brought us to today: the gradual exemption of capital owners; the surge of a new tax avoidance industry, and the spiral of tax competition among nations. With clarity and concision, they explain how America turned away from the most progressive tax system in history to embrace policies that only serve to compound the wealth of a few. But The Triumph of Injustice is much more than a laser-sharp analysis of one of the great political and intellectual failures of our time. Saez and Zucman propose a visionary, democratic, and practical reinvention of taxes, outlining reforms that can allow tax justice to triumph in today’s globalized world and democracy to prevail over concentrated wealth. A pioneering companion website allows anyone to evaluate proposals made by the authors, and to develop their own alternative tax reform at taxjusticenow.org.

Book Sex and Gender

    Book Details:
  • Author : David E. Newton
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2017-05-12
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Sex and Gender written by David E. Newton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geared toward high school students, undergraduate students, and general readers, this reference work provides a thorough and unbiased treatment of sex, gender, and transgenderism—social issues of particular importance in today's world. Sex and Gender: A Reference Handbook is a single-volume book that introduces a variety of personal, social, political, and ethical issues of concern to every young adult in the United States today. Written in a style that is accessible and engaging for student readers and researchers, this book examines subjects that are rarely discussed for readers of this age group, providing authoritative information on topics such as gender roles, gender development, and gender inequality; body image; sexual differentiation in humans; the range of human affectional expression; sex education; and LGBT discrimination. Readers of this reference book will examine a number of important current issues relating to sex and gender, such as transgenderism, gender dysphoria, same-sex attraction, the development of gender roles, the changing perspectives on these topics, and other controversial and unresolved issues in American society today. The book also includes a Data and Documents chapter that contains laws, courts cases, and other primary documents that relate to current issues involving sex and gender.

Book The Trusted Doctor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rosamond Rhodes
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-04-06
  • ISBN : 0190859938
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book The Trusted Doctor written by Rosamond Rhodes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common morality has been the touchstone of medical ethics since the publication of Beauchamp and Childress's Principles of Biomedical Ethics in 1979. Rosamond Rhodes challenges this dominant view by presenting an original and novel account of the ethics of medicine, one deeply rooted in the actual experience of medical professionals. She argues that common morality accounts of medical ethics are unsuitable for the profession, and inadequate for responding to the particular issues that arise in medical practice. Instead, Rhodes argues that medicine's distinctive ethics should be explained in terms of the trust that society allows to the profession. Trust is the core and starting point of Rhodes' moral framework, which states that the most basic duty of doctors is to "seek trust and be trustworthy." Building from this foundation, Rhodes explicates the sixteen specific duties that doctors take on when they join the profession, and demonstrates how her view of these duties is largely consistent with the codes of medical ethics of medical societies around the world. She then explains why it is critical for physicians to develop the attitudes or "doctorly" virtues that comprise the character of trustworthy doctors and buttress physicians' efforts to fulfil their professional obligations. Her book's presentation of physicians' duties and the elements that comprise a doctorly character, together add up to a cohesive and comprehensive description of what medical professionalism really entails. Rhodes's analysis provides a clear understanding of medical professionalism as well as a guide for doctors navigating the ethically challenging situations that arise in clinical practice