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Cahill continues his study of civilizations, begun in "How the Irish Saved Civilization" (DC15036), with an extended look at the…
Torah. He shows how events therein, especially the Jews' belief in one God and their ability to look at reality in a whole new way, influenced civilization. Some strong language. Bestseller. 1998.
In 1922, Elizabeth Bethune Campbell, a Toronto-born socialite, began a fourteen-year-battle with the Ontario legal establishment over her mother's will,…
and to prove that her uncle had stolen funds from her mother's estate. In 1930, as a non-lawyer and Canadian, she argued her case before the Privy Council in London - the first woman to do so. This is an annotated reprint of her self-published account of her campaign. 2004.
New York University professor, Lawrence Schiffman, discusses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the most important collection of Jewish texts from the…
centuries before the rise of Christianity. Only through efforts to understand what the scrolls can teach us about the history of Judaism is it possible for us to learn what they have to teach us about the history of Christianity, because Christianity came into being only after these texts were composed and copied. 2007.
An encyclopedic introduction to the tradition and rituals of the Jewish religion that covers virtually all aspects of Jewish observance.…
Rabbi Trepp briefly describes the historical development of each rite and the divergent practices among Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist Jewry. 1980.
Until 1949, court decisions in Canada were open to Britain for appeal. Since then, the Supreme Court has emerged as…
a powerful Canadian institution. The author tells the story of how the Court evolved and describes many of the well-known personalities who have sat on the bench. He also provides a portrait of the major events and daily life of the Court over the last five decades of the 20th century. 2000.
The right to dignity for all is explicitly recognized in Canadian law; in practice a variety of individuals and groups…
have been excluded from the concern and respect that their nature as persons demands. Prominent among these excluded groups are members of the disabled community, who are marginalized by a society that regularly neglects to recognize their needs, capacities, and merits as individuals. Shannon identifies the social and attitudinal barriers still present in Canadian society today, and cites the factors needed to reverse the process of exclusion. 2007.
Describes both the experiences of same-sex couples who have been able to marry, and the stories behind the scenes that…
explain how the legal battle was won. Using legal history and interviews, the authors investigate the two sides of this process. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2004.
Traces Robinette's career from his beginnings as a litigation lawyer, to his successes as a civil lawyer in cases involving…
such corporate giants as E.P. Taylor, and his participation in the new Canadian constitution. c1984.
" Dans un style clair et accessible à tous, Jean Soler met d'abord en lumière six contresens sur le dieu…
de la Bible, une divinité qui n'est pas le Dieu unique des trois religions monothéistes mais un dieu parmi d'autres, du nom de Iahvé, conçu comme le dieu national des seuls Juifs. Il relate ensuite, sans référence aucune au surnaturel, la généalogie du dieu Dieu, telle qu'il l'a reconstituée à partir des acquis de la recherche scientifique. Il explique enfin pourquoi cette croyance peut porter plus que d'autres à l'extrémisme et à la violence, comme on l'a vu avec les Croisades, l'Inquisition ou les Guerres de religion, et comme on le voit de nos jours avec les conflits du Moyen-Orient, sans compter l'influence, indirecte mais bien réelle, de l'idéologie monothéiste sur le nazisme et le communisme, ces deux fléaux du siècle passé. " -- 4e de couv.
During Passover, Jews are reminded of how, more than three thousand years ago, their ancestors emerged from slavery to become…
free men and women. Polak explores her own Jewish roots as she tells the Passover story, which reminds us that the freedom to be who we are and practice our religion, whatever it may be, is a great gift. It also teaches us that if we summon our courage and look out for each other, we can endure and overcome the most challenging circumstances. Grades 4-7. 2016.
Macdonald, a former British Columbia attorney general, argues that natural justice is being thwarted in Canada's courts. Clogged courtrooms, procedural…
wrangling and ill-considered legislation, such as the Young Offender's Act, are causing criminals to go free as lawyers jockey for victory instead of justice. Macdonald offers his solutions to these problems in his sometimes humourously written, politically neutral book. 1999.
Tom Berger is best known for championing aboriginal rights, including early advocacy work that led to the precedent-setting Nisga'a Accord,…
but he has also often represented those not well served by the legal and legislative status quo. In a career that spans four decades, Berger has taken on the challenge of many controversial cases in order to test or transform the application of justice within the law. c2002.
Certains l'ont vu comme le plus important débat social de notre époque, c'est en tout cas une question déchirante, sur…
laquelle ont d se pencher la plupart des pays occidentaux. Ce livre raconte l'histoire inédite du mariage gai au Canada : la bataille des arguments juridiques et politiques, les stratégies secrètes et surtout les jeux de coulisses qui ont conduit à cette nouvelle avancée des droits de la personne. 2006.
In 1985, when Mowat tried to enter the United States for a book promotion tour, he was barred by the…
McCarran Act, a 1952 law enacted during the McCarthy era. This book, told with outraged but good humour, describes Mowat's fight against the ban. 1985.
Un reporter judiciaire livre ici une analyse pénétrante de la crise qui secoue la magistrature au Québec. Jamais a-t-on vu,…
au cours de la dernière décennie, autant de mythes entourant la magistrature tomber les uns après les autres. Une suite d'affaires récentes touchant les juges et la gestion des tribunaux a provoqué de vives réactions dans l'opinion publique. Quel rôle jouent les médias dans ce phénomène? "La saison de la chasse aux juges est ouverte" s'exclamait l'honorable André Brossard. Qui sont donc nos juges? De quels groupes d'intérêts sont-ils issus? Comment sont-ils désignés? Quel régime de sanctions encadre leur conduite? Voilà autant de questions auxquelles l'auteur fournit des explications sobres. 1994.
" Jean Soler retrace, en s'appuyant sur les avancées de la recherche biblique et archéologique dans le dernier quart du…
XX° siècle, l'évolution des idées religieuses et, plus généralement, de la vision du monde caractéristique des Hébreux, depuis leur constitution en nation, à l'époque supposée de Moïse, le XIII ° siècle avant notre ère, jusqu'à la création de l'état d'Israël, trois millénaires plus tard. " -- 4e de couv.
In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as groundbreaking…
as Roe v Wade and Brown v Board of Education. Through insider accounts and access to key players, this definitive account reveals the dramatic and previously unreported events behind Obergefell v Hodges and the lives at its centre. This is a story of law and love--and a promise made to a dying man who wanted to know how he would be remembered. 2016.
Rabbi Aaron shares the divine knowledge of Jewish mystical tradition to offer practical guidance for modern times. He shows how…
you can achieve success in every aspect of your life--love, happiness, creativity, and more--when you unlock your natural self-knowledge and reclaim the abundance within you! 2006.