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Author
Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This essential guide to starting and running a nonprofit organization includes practical advice, legal information, tips, and step-by-step instructions. It explains how to develop a strategic plan and budget; recruit and manage board members, volunteers, and staff; market an organization to a target audience; raise money-including traditional methods and crowdfunding; build a website and use social media strategically; and adopt policies that are...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Key topics: Redundancies, Dismissal, Gross misconduct, Employment, Law rights, At work. Whether it's making people redundant or sacking someone for theft, terminating someone's employment is a big step. This film highlights the legal issues involved and shows what happens in the real world.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
There are many potential legal and ethical problems faced every day in the health care setting. Maintaining a good relationship with the patient is one of the health care assistant's strongest safeguard. This program is intended to give your assistants the does and the dont's of the most common situations they face.
7) Grass
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Years in the making...Ron Mann's much-anticipated documentary presents a humorous and surprisingly balanced history of recreational MARIJUANA use in the late 20th century. Those who remain pure will see the degradation you've been missing. Those who have succumbed to temptation will learn how a nice person like yourself became a dangerous criminal. Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the twentieth century. Smoked by generations of musicians,...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal throughout the United States. But the road to victory was much longer than many know. In this seminal work, SashaIssenberg takes us back to Hawaii in the 1990s, when that state's supreme court first started grappling with the issue, and traces the fight for marriage equality from the enactment of the Defense...
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Discrimination and harassment can poison the work environment, undermine employee morale, and even lead to costly investigations and lawsuits. England help you protect your company and employees by developing policies, training employees and sumervisors, and more.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Cuba, Santo Domingo, and Cambodia, sexual tourism has become a booming industry. Men, women, and children prostitute themselves to survive in an economically ravaged country. A mostly Western male and female clientele, aficionados of exotic sex and even pedophiles use and abuse their financial superiority to satisy their basest desires.--Kanopy.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1994, Oregon became the first state in the U.S. to legalize physician aid-in-dying. At the time, only two countries (Switzerland and the Netherlands) permitted the practice, but more than 500 Oregonians have since ended their life using the law. The intimate Sundance Award-winning documentary How To Die in Oregon is a powerful, compassionate exploration of Oregon's historic and controversial Death with Dignity Act, which legalizes physician aid-in-dying...
12) Evergreen
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After a 40-year-old nationwide 'War on Drugs' the state of Washington becomes a key battleground in the fight to legalize marijuana. But many advocates of legalization are opposed to Initiative 502, the law that will permit the growing, sale and use of cannabis. They say it will impose harsh DUI laws, new taxes, additional restrictions and penalties that will hurt medical marijuana patients and providers. These unexpected opposing forces make Evergreen...
16) Familiar places
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by the linguist and anthropologist Peter Sutton, this documentary observes his work with a family in far north Queensland, outside Aurukun, to map their hereditary "clan country". The aim of the older members of the family is partly to protect their land and prove their attachment to it, for purposes of dealing with the government and industry, and also to demarcate the country from claims by other Aboriginal groups. Angus Namponen, with...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Key topics: Contracts of employment, Employment law, Rights at work, Maternity leave, Bullying, Victimisation, Discrimination, Equality Act, Redundancy, Human resource management, Personnel. How do contracts of employment, and employment laws more generally, help people at work? This film includes some basic facts about employment as well as examples of people with problems at work.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The false memory attack is one that has caused a great deal of unhappiness and a great deal of difficulty. It has also helped raise the standard of care. There is no doubt that the law has intruded into the practice of therapy, and there is no doubt that it will continue to do so." Alan Scheflin, JD. The 1990s saw a vigorous and well-publicized backlash, exemplified by the false memory movement, against sexual abuse survivors and the therapists who...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Readers learn about the #NeverAgain movement, from the history of the right to bear arms to later efforts at gun control, legislation such as the Brady handgun Violence Protection Act and the implementation of background checks, to the school shootings atColumbine, Sandy Hook and Parkland and the creation of #neveragain.
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