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Collins, Ronald

Community & Culture

Young Excited Soulz

This, our second cookbook, ended in a place we did not intend when we started developing and testing the recipes. Halfway though and without warning we needed to make sure that healthy, low carb and low saturated fat recipes became a major part of the repertoire.Our location in the White Mountains exposes us to a large amount of great Canadian French cooking. We have include many od those dishes, sometimes made healthy, by the replacement of high glycemic carbs with low glycemic carbs, the replacement of saturated fats with olive oil and other good oils. We did not diminish the flavors, just the guilt.We also decided to add a section on comfort foods and collected some of the best New York and New England recipes for long-term favorites such as Dirty John's Hot Dog topping, and added healthy comfort foods such as whole grain pizza dough recipes.

Eat Well and Stay Healthy

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Review\n"This is a disturbing yet mind-opening tour through the deep chasm that separates our free speech ideals from our cultural reality. The new edition ― which by all rights could be titled We Warned You ― brilliantly invokes up-to-date examples to show that modern American discourse is indeed suffocating under the spectacle of an entertainment and commercial culture obsessed with self-gratification. With their unique and prophetic talents, Collins and Skover have issued a sagacious warning that we ignore at our peril." -- Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law, University of Arizona\n"Professors Collins and Skover have written a provocative and important book, that was prescient in earlier editions and very timely now, about the meaning of freedom of expression when false speech is prevalent, when commercial interests dominate, and when pornography is easily accessible. Some might think of the Internet and social media as creating a golden age for free speech, but Collins and Skover powerfully suggest that instead we might be seeing the end of the discourse that the First Amendment exists to create and that is essential for a democracy. Their unique, thought-provoking writing style invites readers to ponder our cultural dilemma against the backdrop of the high principles of Madisonian discourse to which we claim allegiance in word, though not in practice." -- Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law\n"The Death of Discourse is literary dynamite ready to demolish the pomp and hypocrisy obstructing the proud edifice of the First Amendment. This book poses a clear and present danger in the most deserving sense." -- Leonard W. Levy, Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian and author of Emergence of a Free Press\nThis book explores one of the most disturbing intellectual dilemmas of our time ― that our beloved First Amendment is being exploited in the name of the dumbing of America. It is the first book to examine the popular culture of the First Amendment, specifically with reference to television, advertising, and pornography. Comparing the culture of popular discourse with traditional First Amendment ideals, the authors expose the vast gap between our speech practices and our speech principles. Is the tyranny of the trivialization of discourse a problem? In a dialogue-like way, the authors invite their readers to judge.

The Death of Discourse

Skover, David

Legal Theory & Systems

Carolina Academic Press

Tragedy on Trial reveals as never before the entire and shocking story of the 1955 trial of Emmett Till's murderers. Based on extensive research, and accompanied by photos of the trial and a "For the Record" Introduction by Lonnie G. Bunch, III (Secretary of the Smithsonian), the brisk narrative brings the story alive, revealing all its manipulations of justice, including: <ul> <li>the sheriff who from beginning to end put the fix in for the defendants;</li> <li>the ethically conflicted county attorney who selected the jurors;</li> <li>the successful scheme to never charge the guilty defendants with kidnapping;</li> <li>the defense lawyers who corruptly built their case on racism of the cruelest kind;</li> <li>the White woman who falsely accused Emmett Till, inflaming an already bigoted all-White male jury;</li> <li>the Black witnesses for the defense who were rounded up and secretly jailed in distant jurisdictions;</li> <li>the defense's medical "experts" who were not experts; and</li> <li>the defense's closing arguments (never recorded but now reconstructed) directed to "every Anglo-Saxon" member of the jury.</li> </ul> Ronald Collins offers an original and in-depth account that highlights the fearless efforts of Mamie Till and the courageous friends and family who testified. Collins also uncovers the truth behind the widely read 1956 Look magazine story, correcting falsehoods that persist to this day.

Tragedy on Trial: The Story of the Infamous Emmett Till Murder Trial

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Lenny Bruce's words had the power to provoke laughter and debate-as well as shock and outrage. It was the force of his voice that would place him on the wrong side of the law in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. Lenny committed his life to telling the truth. But the truth he told infuriated those in power, and authorities in the largest, most progressive cities in the country worked relentlessly to put him in jail. To them, Lenny's words were filthy, depraved. But to his fans-the hip, the discontented, the fringe-his words were not only sharp and hilarious, they were a light in the dark to the repressed society of the early 1960s. Lenny's battles were fought on stage and in the courtroom-against cops in San Francisco and L.A. who took notes at his performances, against judges in Chicago and against a prosecutor in New York with a zeal to bring the comedian down. Lenny also fought his addiction to heroin and, at times, his own lawyers. And there were those who never stopped fighting for Lenny-people like Steve Allen, Phil Spector and William Kunstler. To better understand the power of Lenny's performances, the authors have compiled an audio CD of the routines that got him in trouble, as well as interviews with his defenders and prosecutors, and his friends and followers, including George Carlin, Hugh Hefner and Margaret Cho. The first carefully documented account of Lenny Bruce's career and free speech struggles, The Trials of Lenny Bruce paints a vivid, shocking, hilarious and tragic portrait of a man too honest for his time. The Trials of Lenny Bruce includes a one-hour audio CD narrated by Nat Hentoff that features: --Lenny Bruce performances (including ones for which he was busted) --Notorious routines, including "Religions, Inc.," "Blah Blah Blah," "Thank You Mask Man" and "Las Vegas Tits and Ass" --Interviews with George Carlin, Hugh Hefner, Margaret Cho and others A Book Sense 76 Selection "A work that puts it all together...Collins and Skover write with clarity and energy....It is entertaining, often exciting-but above all it is an immensely important record of a vital chapter in our ever-evolving democracy's eternal groping toward liberty." -Baltimore Sun "The CD gives the text another dimension and allows for a truly different reading experience....A fine retelling of Bruce's career as well as one of the only books in print to detail his free-speech legal troubles." -Library Journal

The Trials of Lenny Bruce With Audio CD: The Fall and Rise of an American Icon

Humor & Entertainment

Sourcebooks MediaFusion

This book explores one of the most disturbing intellectual dilemmas of our time -- that our beloved First Amendment is being exploited in the name of the dumbing of America. It is the first book to examine the popular culture of the First Amendment, specifically with reference to television, advertising, and pornography. Comparing the culture of popular discourse with traditional First Amendment ideals, the authors expose the vast gap between our speech practices and our speech principles. Is the tyranny of the trivialization of discourse a problem? In a dialogue-like way, the authors invite their readers to judge.

In Nuanced Absolutism First Amendment scholar Ronald Collins identifies, explains, and analyzes key aspects of the legal thought of America's most noted contemporary First Amendment lawyer, Floyd Abrams — a man who has had a profound impact on the law of free speech. In the process of discussing Abrams's work, the reader is introduced to ''nuanced absolutism,'' a way of thinking about the First Amendment.Nuanced absolutism describes a tenet of existing First Amendment law that has emerged over the years and which has taken on new life in the decisional law of the Roberts Court. Before it was judge-made law, it was a brand of law argued by lawyers, most notably Floyd Abrams.One of the author's aims is to remind readers of the role played by lawyers in shaping our law, especially our supreme law. By way of an intellectual history and biographical approach to his subject, Collins explains how Abrams's nuanced absolutism operates in the context of some of the appellate cases he has litigated, the causes he has defended, and the positions he has taken in public. In short, the work is a biographical sketch and case study of one man's life in the law, the law of the First Amendment.

Nuanced Absolutism: Floyd Abrams and the First Amendment

Constitutional Law

Cupcake Cookbook: Step by Step Recipes of Chocolate Cupcake Desserts & Buttercream (Delicious Cupcake Recipes for Any Event)

Baking

Sharon Lohan

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