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Intro -- FrontMatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgment of Reviewers -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Increasing U.S. Competitiveness by Improving Knowledge Creation and Technology Diffusion -- 3 Workforce Development -- 4 Supporting Supply Chains and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises -- 5 Sustainability and the Future of the Institutes -- 6 Key Points Made by Presenters During the Workshop -- References -- APPENDIXES -- Appendix A: Workshop Agenda -- Appendix B: Glossary -- Appendix C: Biographies of Speakers and Planning Committee Members.

American politics have become increasingly polarized over the past several decades. As the two primary parties have moved further apart, so have those whose beliefs fall on the extremes of the political spectrum. This book features articles that examine the ideas and actions of political extremists from across the spectrum, ranging from single-issue groups like Second Amendment and anti-abortion radicals, to larger movements such as anti-government activists and the growing presence of white nationalists. With the reporting, photography, and media literacy questions and terms collected here, readers will discover that while these groups may operate on the fringes of American politics, the echoes of their positions resonate into the mainstream.

Court systems and jurisdiction -- Criminal trial procedure -- Civil trial procedure -- Defensive pleadings in civil trials -- Method of discovery -- Pretrial hearing and jury trial -- Steps in a trial -- Legal ethics -- Constitutional law -- Crimes, accomplices, and defenses -- Crimes against property -- Crimes against the person and human habitation -- Homicide -- Crimes against morality and drug abuse -- Torts and tortfeasors -- Intentional torts -- Negligence and product liability -- Formation of contracts -- Contract requirements -- Third parties and discharge of contracts -- The uniform commercial code and sales of goods contracts -- Personal property and bailments -- Intellectual property -- Law of agency -- Wills, testaments, and advance directives -- Revocation, lapses, and ademption -- Principal clauses in a will -- Disinheritance and intestacy -- Personal representative of the estate -- Settling an estate -- Trusts -- Estates in real property -- Multiple ownership of real property -- Acquiring title to real property -- Deeds -- Mortgages -- Landlord and tenant -- Marriage, divorce, and dissolution of marriage -- Divorce procedure -- -- Business organizations -- The law of bankruptcy

Preface and introduction : a cocktail [book] of decisions -- Prologue : early times and the early Supreme Court -- The Marshall era of punch and the public house -- The long Taney era of the mint julep -- The Chase era : taxing times -- The Waite era of the grand political saloon -- The Fuller era : a gilded age of cocktails -- The White era and the prohibition amendment -- The Taft era of law, order, and bootlegging -- The gin cocktail party of the Hughes era -- The Stone era : rumbustion -- The old-fashioned Vinson era -- The Warren era : swanky swilling -- The Burger era : twilight of the cocktail lounge -- The Rehnquist era of neo-temperance -- The retro Roberts era : running a tab -- Epilogue : a return to normalcy cocktail

Legal doctrines -- Free exercise of religion -- Search and seizure -- Abortion -- Voting rights -- Presidential power -- Immigration -- Economic regulation -- Federalism -- Statistical patterns -- Unanimity -- Opinion writing -- Ideological voting -- The importance of Justice Kennedy

"This is a rather strange book, as tends to be true of Memoirs. They of course have to be autobiographical, and are sometimes little more than that, but (to my mind, at least) a Memoir should be more than that: It should be about the life and times of the author. In my case, the life and times of the author comes down to what I like to call the author's adventures. In my case, too, those adventures are both what are ordinarily called adventures and what are sometimes called intellectual adventures. Put otherwise, the true hero of this tale is not Mel Kohn, but an academic field, Sociology. It is the story of the wonderful adventures I have had in a long lifetime of doing research, in this country and in several others, in the marvelous field of sociology. There are other ways of having adventures in sociology, in teaching or in administration for example, but in my case it was research. The basic theme of the entire book is an examination of the life of one sociologist - me - whose life illustrates a remarkable range of adventures, entirely contrary to most readers' expectations of what life in this professional domain entails. Moreover, half of my working life was spent working for a governmental organization, half for a university, suggesting that the adventures were there to be pursued no matter which of the primary career paths open to a sociologist one pursued. My argument is that a career in sociological research can lend itself to an exciting life of adventure, as it certainly did for this sociologist. I speak not of sociological teaching, nor of sociological activities of any other sort, as necessarily leading to an adventurous life. I only argue that sociological research can,"--