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The Minimum Wage NEW
A Reference Handbook
The Right to Die
OREN M. LEVIN-WALDMAN
A Reference Handbook
“ In all, a useful book for HOWARD BALL
bringing both students
and policy makers This book provides a
up to speed on this comprehensive and
important matter. Highly contemporary examination of the
”
recommended. right-to-die issues facing society
ABC-CLIO —Choice, May 2, 2016 ABC-CLIO now that vast improvements in
December 2015, 354pp, 6x9 January 2017, 368pp, 6x9 public health care and medicine
Print: 978-1-4408-3394-6 This unbiased look at the Print: 978-1-4408-4311-2 have resulted in people not only
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minimum wage policy at both the longer to die—often in great pain
federal and state levels, discusses the controversies swirling and suffering.
around the issue, and examines the veracity of claims made by FEATURES
people on both sides of the debate. • Provides readers a clear picture of the complexity of the
right-to-die controversy as it has emerged in the courts and
in the political branches of state and federal governments
OREN M. LEVIN-WALDMAN, PhD, is professor of public policy in
the school for public affairs at Metropolitan College of New York.
HOWARD BALL, PhD, is professor emeritus of political science and
university scholar at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
NEW

Marijuana Profiling and
A Reference Handbook Criminal Justice
in America
Second Edition
DAVID E. NEWTON A Reference Handbook
This single-volume resource Second Edition
provides sound, up-to-date JEFF BUMGARNER
information and authoritative “ This book is ideal for
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society. $58.00, £45.00, €53.00
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FEATURES
An unbiased examination of profiling in the criminal justice
• Provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the way system—one of the most hotly contested public policy issues—
in which marijuana has been treated in the nation’s long- on the streets, in the courts, and in the jails and prisons of
running “war on drugs”
America.

DAVID E. NEWTON, EdD, has been a freelance writer of JEFF BUMGARNER, PhD, is a professor in and department head
nonfiction books and ancillary materials for young adults for of the Criminal Justice and Political Science department at North
nearly 55 years. Dakota State University.

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