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There is no issue on which the U.S. is as exceptional as civilian ownership of firearms. There are an estimated 330 million firearms in private hands; there is at least one firearm in 40% of American households. With 5% of the world's population, the U.S. has more than half of the world's civilian gun stock. How can this situation be explained? What problem or problems does it cause? How can Americans tolerate mass shootings that seem to occur more and more regularly? How come the National Rifle Association exerts so much political influence? To what extent does the U.S. constitution constrain policy options? What is the prospect for sensible gun control in the near future?

Rapid technological change has caused some to question the need for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). We argue that the traditional roles of FDLP libraries in selecting, acquiring, organizing, preserving, and providing access to and services for government information are more important than ever in the digital age.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Catholicism and Philosophy -- Philosophy: The Handmaid to Theology -- Three Uses of Philosophy in Theology -- Characteristics of a Catholic Philosophy -- Outline of the Book -- Concluding Apologetic Postscript -- Further Reading -- Chapter 1: Wisdom and Faith: The Relation between Reason and Revelation -- The Problem -- What Is Philosophy? -- The Necessary Uselessness of Philosophy -- First Principles -- Four Implications of First Principles -- Philosophy and Faith -- What Is Faith? -- Philosophy Overcomes the Reductionism of Scientism and Fideism -- Further Reading -- Part I: What Is -- Chapter 2: The Origins of the Perennial Philosophy -- The Birth of Philosophy -- The Pre-Socratics (ca. 600 BC to ca. 400 BC) -- The Socratic Revolution -- Plato: The Discovery of Transcendent Truth -- Aristotle: The Master of Those Who Know -- Later Philosophical Developments -- The Rejection of the Perennial Philosophy -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3: The One and the Many: The Search for Being in Metaphysics -- The Problem: Knowing Reality behind Appearance -- Reductive Extremes -- The Act of Existence -- The Transcendental Properties of Being -- The Divisions of Being -- The Analogy of Being -- The Ladder of Being -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4: What Is Truth? Epistemology and the Extent of Knowledge -- The Problem: What Can Be Known? -- The Rejection of Knowledge: Relativism and Skepticism -- Framing the Problem: Plato's Critique of Knowing as Looking -- Reductive Extremes -- Thomistic Realism: Necessity in the Contingent -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5: What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him? Humans as Persons -- The Problem: Man, between the Beasts and the Angels -- The Platonic Foundations -- Reductive Extremes -- Hylomorphism and the Unity of Man -- Significant Implications of Human Nature -- Personalism.

In this ambitious interdisciplinary study, James B. Jacobs provides the first comprehensive review and analysis of America's drunk driving problem and of America's anti-drunk driving policies and jurisprudence. In a clear and accessible style, he considers what has been learned, what is being done, and what constitutional limits exist to the control and enforcement of drunk driving.

Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Organized Crime and Organized Labor -- 3 President's Commission on Organized Crime -- 4 Labor Racketeering in New York City -- 5 Organized Labor's Response to Organized Crime -- 6 Labor Racketeering and the Rank and File -- 7 Attacking Labor Racketeering Prior to Civil RICO (1982) -- 8 Civil RICO Suits and Trusteeships -- 9 The Liberation of IBT Local 560 -- 10 The New York City District Council of Carpenters -- 11 The Four International Unions -- 12 Evaluating Civil RICO -- 13 Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Few schisms in American life run as deep or as wide as the divide between gun rights and gun control advocates. Awash in sound and symbol, the gun regulation debate has largely been defined by forceful rhetoric rather than substantive action. Politicians shroud themselves in talk ofindividual rights or public safety while lobbyists on both sides make doom-and-gloom pronouncements on the consequences of potential shifts in the status quo.In America today there are between 250 and 300 million firearms in private hands, amounting to one weapon for every American. Two in five American homes house guns. On the one hand, most gun owners are law-abiding citizens who believe they have a constitutional right to bear arms. On the other, agreat many people believe gun control to be our best chance at reducing violent crime. While few--whether gun owner or anti-gun advocate--dispute the need to keep guns out of the wrong hands, the most important question has too often been dodged: What gun control options does the most heavily armeddemocracy in the world have? Can gun control really work?The last decade has seen several watersheds in the debate, none more important than the 1993 Brady Bill. That bill, James B. Jacobs argues, was the culmination of a strategy in place since the 1930s to permit widespread private ownership of guns while curtailing illegal use. But where do we go fromhere? While the Brady background check is easily circumvented, any further attempts to extend gun control--for instance, through comprehensive licensing of all gun owners and registration of all guns--would pose monumental administrative burdens. Jacobs moves beyond easy slogans and broad-brushideology to examine the on-the-ground practicalities of gun control, from mandatory safety locks to outright prohibition and disarmament. Casting aside ideology and abstractions, he cautions