Canary In The Courtroom

Author : Jessie MacLeod
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595380522
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canary in the Courtroom written by Jessie MacLeod and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canary in the Courtroom is the compelling true story of a woman poisoned in her own home by a pesticide and her resultant civil action against the pesticide company that applied it. It raises questions and encourages awareness about the toxins in our environment. Christine Rankine, then a 54-year-old teacher, was living a normal, busy life when she hired Vermini Termite and Pesticide Company to kill termites in her home. Vermini assured her that the chemical applied was a safe and natural product. After the pesticide application, Christine became very ill, with a burning sensation in her throat and lungs, as well as the inability to breath normally. This courtroom drama and the story that parallels it provide insight into what can happen to an individual after becoming chemically injured. In this powerful biography, author Jessie MacLeod examines the influence of the chemical industry and illustrates how labels and manufacturers' claims are often deceptive. She exposes legal loopholes that allow toxic ingredients in commonly used products and discloses weakness in federal laws and regulations that are meant to protect the consumer. Ms. MacLeod skillfully weaves credible research, colorful characters, and entertaining courtroom drama into this riveting story. What happened to Christine Rankine could happen to anyone. Reading her story will enlighten you and perhaps give you the knowledge necessary to save you or a family member from possible chemical injury. This book is a must-read for anyone concerned about product safety and for anyone in the mood for a good courtroom drama.

Author : Joseph Hilldorfer
Publisher : Free Press
ISBN 13 : 9780743246521
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cyanide Canary written by Joseph Hilldorfer and published by Free Press. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this true story of a horrific environmental crime, written by an EPA Special Agent, a brave young man suffers severe brain damage after being pulled from a poison-saturated 25,000-gallon storage tank. of photos.

Author : Alexandra Monir
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0593178335
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Canary: Breaking Silence written by Alexandra Monir and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES! DC Icons continues with the first-ever YA origin story of superhero Black Canary, from the internationally bestselling author Alexandra Monir. In this thrilling novel, Dinah Lance's voice is her weapon. And in a near-future world where women have no rights, she won't hesitate to use everything she has--including her song--to fight back. Dinah Lance was eight years old when she overheard the impossible: the sound of a girl singing. It was something she was never meant to hear--not in her lifetime and not in Gotham City, taken over by the vicious, patriarchal Court of Owls. The sinister organization rules Gotham City as a dictatorship and has stripped women of everything--their right to work, to make music, to learn, to be free. Now seventeen, Dinah can't forget that haunting sound, and she's beginning to discover that her own voice is just as powerful. But singing is forbidden--a one-way route to a certain death sentence. Fighting to balance her father's desire to keep her safe, a blossoming romance with mysterious new student Oliver Queen, and her own need to help other women and girls rise up, Dinah wonders if her song will finally be heard. And will her voice be powerful enough to destroy the Court of Owls once and for all?

Author : Rachele Alpine
Publisher : Medallion Media Group
ISBN 13 : 1605426148
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canary written by Rachele Alpine and published by Medallion Media Group. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this debut novel, a high school girl faces the pain, shame, and uncertainty that come with sexual abuse. With the passing of her mother, Kate Franklin’s life unravels at the seams as she loses the only emotional mooring in her family. Her dad shuts down completely, and her brother enlists in the army. Things start looking better when her dad is hired to coach at Beacon Prep, home of one of the best basketball teams in the state. In a blog of prose and poetry, Kate chronicles her new world—dating a basketball player, being caught up in a world of idolatry and entitlement, and discovering the perks the inner circle enjoys. Then Kate’s fragile life shatters once again when one of her boyfriend’s teammates assaults her at a party. Although she knows she should speak out, her dad’s vehemently against it and so, like a canary sent into a mine to test toxicity levels and protect miners, Kate alone breathes the poisonous secrets to protect her dad and the team. The once welcoming community has betrayed Kate, her family is disintegrating, and she’s on her own to grapple with whether to stay quiet or speak out and expose a town’s hero and destroy her father’s career.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monthly Law Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1030 pages
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Download or read book Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1036 pages
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Download or read book Supreme Court Appeals written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert White
Publisher : Thesis Antithesis Synthesis Press
ISBN 13 : 9780692712504
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canary in the Court written by Robert White and published by Thesis Antithesis Synthesis Press. This book was released on 2016-04-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canary in the Court exposes the illicit collusion between the bankruptcy bench and bar to bilk creditors out of millions of dollars in attorney fees. The author was incarcerated for contempt of court for challenging the Bankruptcy Court's authority to pay estate counsel $1.25 mil. in attorney fees to sell a $10 mil. asset which only fetched $2.5 mil. at a bankruptcy sale to the Debtor's largest investor. As a condition of the sale the Court enjoin creditors from suing the buyer to recover claims owed by the Debtor. The Court went on to enjoin the author from enforcing his royalty contract for the sale of his software source code and trademarks to the pre-petition Debtor. Canary in the Court covers Robert White's life in business, bankruptcy court, prison, and back on the Cimarron River developing his homestead.

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Richmond Hill, Ont. : A Pocket Book edition publised by Simon & Schuster of Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case of the Lame Canary written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by Richmond Hill, Ont. : A Pocket Book edition publised by Simon & Schuster of Canada. This book was released on 1966 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lani GUINIER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674038037
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miner's Canary written by Lani GUINIER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century. Given the complex relationship between race and power in America, engaging race means engaging standard winner-take-all hierarchies of power as well. Terming their concept political race, Guinier and Torres call for the building of grass-roots, cross-racial coalitions to remake those structures of power by fostering public participation in politics and reforming the process of democracy. Their illuminating and moving stories of political race in action include the coalition of Hispanic and black leaders who devised the Texas Ten Percent Plan to establish equitable state college admissions criteria, and the struggle of black workers in North Carolina for fair working conditions that drew on the strength and won the support of the entire local community. The aim of political race is not merely to remedy racial injustices, but to create truly participatory democracy, where people of all races feel empowered to effect changes that will improve conditions for everyone. In a book that is ultimately not only aspirational but inspirational, Guinier and Torres envision a social justice movement that could transform the nature of democracy in America.