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"I would describe my book as a somewhat autobiographical collection of war stories about cases I tried or handled during my career, plus some personal stories about growing up in a small Southern town." • Joel W. Collins, Jr.

Family breakdowns don't have to break you. In a world where divorce is often treated as a battleground, Not Broken, Just Changing offers a radically compassionate, practical, and forward-thinking approach to one of life's most difficult transitions.

Luis Roberto Barroso se tornou conhecido dos brasileiros por sua atuação corajosa, lúcida e invariavelmente comprometida com o interesse público como Ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal. Mas os horizontes intelectuais de Barroso transcendem suas responsabilidades como juiz. Ele é, há décadas, um estudioso das grandes questões da vida brasileira e mundial.

According to Experian’s Annual Credit Review, 16 percent of Americans have credit scores between 300 and 579, and another 18 percent have “fair” credit scores up to 669. But even if you’re barely squeaking by with a “fair” credit score…it only takes one late payment to send your FICO score plummeting down.

The American legal system changed dramatically when the OJ Simpson trial became a television-ratings bonanza. Now it's all crime, all the time, from tabloid news to police procedurals. Americans now know more about the criminal justice system than ever before. Or do they?

In this urgently important book, Zelnick looks past the good intentions to how affirmative action really works in such areas as voting rights, employment, minority set-asides, mortgage and insurance regulation, and education. Zelnick traces how affirmative action was first sold as a short-term program designed to expand employer awareness of qualified minority job applicants, but instead has become a coercive network of race-conscious laws, regulations, quotas, preferences, and entitlement programs - in short, an assault on the very value of equality of opportunity it was supposed to promote.

The FBI is suffering its worst crisis ever. The integrity and reputation built over a century is in jeopardy. In 2016, the FBI Director - along with several other senior executives from the Bureau and Justice Department - attempted to falsify one of the most significant presidential elections in American history. Retired FBI agent John Ligato takes you behind the scenes into the bowels of the Bureau's culture and explains how it happened - and how to fix it.

In this article-interview that covers the property dispute between the Episcopal Church and Christ Church, Savannah regarding the breakaway Christ Church leaving that Communion and joining the Anglican Church in North America. This writer had the privilege of talking with a number of key people. Included in this group of people with whom the writer spoke was The Reverend Jim Elliott, an attorney who is Chancellor of the Diocese of Georgia (Episcopal Church).