The First Essential Function


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In an all too real scenario of whats happening in America today, as the United States struggles with its massive budget and trade deficits, and open border illegal immigration, terrorists who have acquired Saddam Husseins previously missing weapons of mass destruction are moving to pay back the great Satan who has been responsible for killing so many of them and their families. Gene Holmes and his Snow Leopard team, working for Americas National Security Advisor, are working desperately to find them and stop the attack. You are about to begin one of todays most exciting thrillers that portrays the nation as it really is, the greatest debtor nation in the history of the world, and the forces at work to destroy its faade of wealth, liberty, and democracy. Written by a person who has spent his life protecting the nation, it is a grim reminder of just how far the nation has fallen and how great the threat to its citizens because of the greed and corruption of those taking the money in Washington.




The Netflix Vision of Horror


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Since the emergence of on-demand streaming platforms, television as a storytelling medium has drastically changed. The lines between TV and cinema are blurred. Traditionally, television relied on narrative forms and genres that were highly formulaic, striving to tease the viewer onward with a series of cliffhangers while still maintaining viewer comprehension. Now, on platforms such as Netflix, the lack of commercial breaks and the practice of "binge-watching" have led to a new type of television flow that urges viewers to see and consume a series as a whole and not as a fragmented narrative. This book examines the structuring methods of 13 Netflix original horror series, including Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Stranger Things, Hemlock Grove, The Haunting of Hill House, and Santa Clarita Diet. Although these shows use television as the medium of storytelling, they are structured according to the classical rules of film.







Council Unbound


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It has been described variously as everything from a global legislature to a self-important yet ineffectual debating society. And although the United Nations Security Council may have resembled the latter in many respects during the Cold War, when vetoes and disagreements among the permanent members often stymied the Council s work, the end of the Cold War made it possible for the Council to begin exercising the full range of its legal authority under the UN Charter and to begin expanding that authority to meet the new challenges of the post Cold War period. In this book, Michael Matheson examines the Security Council s new, expansive exercise of legal authority in this period and its devising of bold and innovative methods coercive and noncoercive to stop nascent wars and threats to the peace, including international terrorism. He also surveys the many roles assumed by the Council in postconflict environments, acting in a variety of ways to rebuild a war-torn country or territory and reintegrate it into the world community from prosecuting war criminals, to providing compensation for war victims, to exercising governmental authority in postconflict territories such as Cambodia, Bosnia, and, recently, Kosovo and East Timor. The author also examines the more recent controversies over Iraq, in which disagreements among the permanent members have made decisive UN action difficult, and the investigations into fraud and abuse in various UN programs."




The Workplace Reimagined


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Proposes reimagining the workplace to account for the diversity, the reality, and the precarity of our lives and bodies.




Technical Assistance Manual on the Employment Provisions (Title 1) of the Americans with Disabilities Act


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Provides official guidance to employers and persons with disabilities on the practical application of the legal requirements established by the ADA and EEOC regulations. Includes a comprehensive directory of resources to aid in compliance. Subscription service consist of basic manual and supplementary material issued for an indeterminate period. Looseleaf, punched to fit 3-ring binder.




Public Health in the Americas


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This book describes the principal conceptual, methodological, and empirical developments stemming from PAHO and WHO's institutional efforts in public health, which have entailed the broad and committed participation of the Member States. It provides and overview of the status of Essential Public Health Functions (EPHF) in 41 countries and territories of the Americas, based on self-evaluation exercises performed by health authorities to measure their performance.




Employment Law


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The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities, plus an outline tool and other helpful resources. Employment Law: Private Ordering and Its Limitations, by Timothy Glynn, Charles Sullivan, Charlotte Alexander, and Rachel Arnow-Richman, is organized around the rights and duties that flow between parties in an employment relationship. Cases, detailed discussion of the facts, and accessible notes and problems examine the laws that are intended to balance the competing interests and contractual obligations of employers and employees. The note materials also encourage students to think critically and creatively about how best to protect the interests of workers or employers. Exercises in planning, drafting, advising, and negotiating develop practice-ready transactional lawyering skills. New to the Fifth Edition: Important Supreme Court and lower court cases in key areas including the whistleblower and antiretaliation protections, workplace privacy and speech, antidiscrimination laws, disability and other accommodations, noncompetition agreements and intellectual property workplace health and safety, and mandatory arbitration clauses Addition of cases and note materials on hot topics including developments in competition law, new workplace legal issues and disputes arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, the scope of employment protections in the contemporary economy, workplace speech protections in a time of deep social and political conflict, the workplace implications of emergent communications and monitoring technologies, structural and unconscious bias in the workplaces, and innovations in accommodating workers’ lives Updated practice-oriented problems and exercises Streamlined case and note editing Professors and students will benefit from: Comprehensive and deep coverage of key areas of workplace regulation Practical exercises in each chapter Note materials designed to provide both context and knowledge of emergent legal and social science scholarship Thematic consistency across chapters providing a unifying framework for the discussion of disparate topic areas




Public Health in International Investment Law and Arbitration


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As a wide variety of state regulations allegedly aimed at protecting public health may interfere with foreign investments, a tension exists between the public health policies of the host state and investment treaty provisions. Under most investment treaties, States have waived their sovereign immunity, and have agreed to give arbitrators a comprehensive jurisdiction over what are essentially regulatory disputes. Some scholars and practitioners have expressed concern regarding the magnitude of decision-making power allocated to investment treaty tribunals. This book contributes to the current understanding of international investment law and arbitration, addressing the fundamental question of whether public health has and/or should have any relevance in contemporary international investment law and policy.