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Explores the arguments surrounding the controversy over the sole use of English as a national language.

Examines the nature and extent of judicial power in the United States and introduces the intricacies of the judicial process.

Examines the U.S. immigration laws since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and discusses the issues of both legal and illegal immigration, government policies regarding immigrants and citizens, the economic costs involved, and the question of whether English should continue as the official language of the United States.

This is a serious look into the social and cultural significance of reality programming. The dynamics of spectatorship and self-revelation have changed in ways unimaginable just a decade ago. Television once worked as a form of sociality that preserved the private. Times have changed. The evolution of reality programming has accompanied a cultural swing toward revelation and voyeuristic consumption that has complicated the divide between public and private experience. And as the line between what is private and public blurs, reality programming's responsibility to its audience becomes more complicated. -- from Preface.

"Reveals how our most important debates about class, race, religion, sex, and the raw quest for political power are played out both on and off the field"--Provided by publisher.

This book is a collection of articles in which authors debate whether rap music promotes violence, whether rap music is harmful to women, and whether rap music is politically thoughtful or effective.

The first five chapters of his book "explore in detail a variety of factual issues raised by the death penalty," . . . The last four chapters are concerned with constitutional and ethical issues. Here the author argues that the Supreme Court's arguments are not conclusive; many moral arguments used by opponents of the death penalty are less conclusive than their users believe; and there are reasons favoring the abolition of the death penalty even for the worst murders.

Discusses the founding of the Internet-based whistleblower Web site WikiLeaks and how it emerged as a major player in world politics, and examines the role of its founder, Julian Assange, and his rise to fame.