Courts as Catalysts

Courts as CatalystsDiscusses state supreme courts and funding equity reform in Texas, Kentucky, and North Dakota. Despite education being one of the most important, if not the most important, political issues for the American public, access to funding for education is not equal across school districts. Local public schools are generally funded by a combination of state aid and local property taxes, a combination which favors wealthier suburbs and disadvantages

Beyond Auteurism is a comprehensive study of nine directors who have blurred the boundaries between art house and mainstream

Engendering Whiteness examines the complex diversity of slaveholding and non-slaveholding white women’s material realities within the slave societies of Barbados and North Carolina between the 17th-19th centuries

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Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes

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This book describes how Italy elaborated a master narrative of the Second World War that evades the faults of Mussolini's fascist war by attributing all responsibility on the shoulders of the German ally

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