In-Laws and Outlaws

In-Laws and Outlaws
Author: Kate Fulford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781786080486

A shocking, hilarious romantic novel in which a young woman struggles to cope with her fiancé's hostile mother.

In-laws, Outlaws, and Other People

In-laws, Outlaws, and Other People
Author: Steve Franco
Publisher:
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2012
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780874408942

It is 6pm and the Douglas family is busily preparing to be invaded by their quirky relatives for their annual Christmas Eve dinner. After robbing a neighborhood liquor store, high strung and irritable Tony, and his dim-witted side-kick Vinny, find themselves in need of a place to briefly hide out. Using a ruse to gain entrance into the Douglas home, they suddenly find themselves in charge of an ever-growing list of family members that they are forced to hold hostage. From smart-aleck teenagers, to nosy neighbors, and bickering adults - the laughs (like the flow of people) are non-stop and we soon wonder who is holding who hostage?! With outrageous characters, laugh-a-minute-dialogue, and a surprise, heart-felt ending - Mr. Franco has created a comic treasure that is sure to leave your audience in stitches while celebrating the true meaning of Christmas.

Marriage Equality

Marriage Equality
Author: William N. Eskridge, Jr.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 1041
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0300221819

The definitive history of the marriage equality debate in the United States, praised by Library Journal as "beautifully and accessibly written. . . . An essential work.” As a legal scholar who first argued in the early 1990s for a right to gay marriage, William N. Eskridge Jr. has been on the front lines of the debate over same‑sex marriage for decades. In this book, Eskridge and his coauthor, Christopher R. Riano, offer a panoramic and definitive history of America’s marriage equality debate. The authors explore the deeply religious, rabidly political, frequently administrative, and pervasively constitutional features of the debate and consider all angles of its dramatic history. While giving a full account of the legal and political issues, the authors never lose sight of the personal stories of the people involved, or of the central place the right to marry holds in a person’s ability to enjoy the dignity of full citizenship. This is not a triumphalist or one‑sided book but a thoughtful history of how the nation wrestled with an important question of moral and legal equality.

Don't Roll Your Eyes

Don't Roll Your Eyes
Author: Ruth Nemzoff
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0230338992

Ruth Nemzoff, an expert in family dynamics, empowers family members across the generations to define and create lasting bonds.

Inlaws, Outlaws and the Functional Family

Inlaws, Outlaws and the Functional Family
Author: Harry R. Jackson
Publisher: Charisma Media
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1599792400

Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr. offers time-tested suggestions on how to improve communication, overcome conflict, parent with grace, improve family finances, and deal with relatives. He provides real-world answers to real-world questions. This extraordinary book was written to heal and strengthen the family. It is an action plan to provide families with answers to today's obstacles facing the family unit. This is not a book of theory, but rather one full of personal illustrations that make it very readable and extremely believable. Jackson makes his points by combining revelation, practical teaching, and humor.

In-laws, Outlaws, and Granny Flats

In-laws, Outlaws, and Granny Flats
Author: Michael Litchfield
Publisher: Taunton Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781600852510

This book explains how to turn the extra space in one's home into a separate living quarters in order to house a relative or to rent out to a boarder to earn extra money.

Legendary Louisiana Outlaws

Legendary Louisiana Outlaws
Author: Keagan LeJeune
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2016-03-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807162582

From the infamous pirate Jean Laffite and the storied couple Bonnie and Clyde, to less familiar bandits like train-robber Eugene Bunch and suspected murderer Leather Britches Smith, Legendary Louisiana Outlaws explores Louisiana's most fascinating fugitives. In this entertaining volume, Keagan LeJeune draws from historical accounts and current folklore to examine the specific moments and legal climate that spawned these memorable characters. He shows how Laffite embodied Louisiana's shift from an entrenched French and Spanish legal system to an American one, and relates how the notorious groups like the West and Kimbrell Clan served as community leaders and law officers but covertly preyed on Louisiana's Neutral Strip residents until citizens took the law into their own hands. Likewise, the bootlegging Dunn brothers in Vinton, he explains, demonstrate folk justice's distinction between an acceptable criminal act (operating an illegal moonshine still) and an unacceptable one (cold-blooded murder). Recounting each outlaw's life, LeJeune also considers their motives for breaking the law as well as their attempts at evading capture. Running from authorities and trying to escape imprisonment or even death, these men and women often relied on the support of ordinary citizens, sympathetic in the face of oppressive and unfair laws. Through the lens of folk life, LeJeune's engaging narrative demonstrates how a justice system functions and changes and highlights Louisiana's particular challenges in adapting a system of law and order to work for everyone.

Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists

Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists
Author: Gabriella Blum
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2010-09-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0262289091

Guidance for maintaining national security without abandoning the rule of law and our democratic values. In an age of global terrorism, can the pursuit of security be reconciled with liberal democratic values and legal principles? During its “global war on terrorism,” the Bush administration argued that the United States was in a new kind of conflict, one in which peacetime domestic law was irrelevant and international law inapplicable. From 2001 to 2009, the United States thus waged war on terrorism in a “no-law zone.” In Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists, Gabriella Blum and Philip Heymann reject the argument that traditional American values embodied in domestic and international law can be ignored in any sustainable effort to keep the United States safe from terrorism. They demonstrate that the costs are great and the benefits slight from separating security and the rule of law. They call for reasoned judgment instead of a wholesale abandonment of American values. They also argue that being open to negotiations and seeking to win the moral support of the communities from which the terrorists emerge are noncoercive strategies that must be included in any future efforts to reduce terrorism.

In-laws, Outlaws, Friends, and Foes

In-laws, Outlaws, Friends, and Foes
Author: Kopfler, Pamela McConathy
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release:
Genre: Country life
ISBN: 9781455606351

Crossing both generations and genders, the anecdotal stories in this collection are tinged with a Southern flavor that encourages reflection on and amusement about life.

In-laws and Outlaws

In-laws and Outlaws
Author: Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1962
Genre: Business
ISBN:

Frivolous advice to enable the ambitious business executive to get ahead.