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Let It Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy

Let It Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy

John Perlin

Author John Perlin began telling this story in 1980 with the first edition of their book A Golden Thread, which then went back 2,500 years and covered up through the late 70s.
Mental Health Law in a Nutshell

Mental Health Law in a Nutshell

John Myers

Michael Perlin observes, “Surprisingly, there has been virtually no case law on the question of a state constitutional right to treatment on behalf of mentally disabled persons.” (Michael Perlin, Mental Disability Law: Civil and Criminal, vol. 2, p.
The Relationship Rights of Children

The Relationship Rights of Children

James G. Dwyer

61. Id., 176-80; Perlin, Civil and Criminal, 159-65,417-26. 62. Parry and Gilliam, Handbook, 59, 166, 202; Michael L. Perlin, The Hidden Prejudice: Mental Disability on Trial (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2000), 276-9.
Psychology and Law: Bridging the Gap

Psychology and Law: Bridging the Gap

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KeriK.Gould), 24Seattle U. L.Rev.339, 345n. 35 (2000); Perlin,supra note 3, at 266–67; see also, MichaelL.Perlin, Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Understanding the Sanist andPretextual Bases of Mental Disability Law, 20 N. Eng. J. on Crim.& Civ.
Mental Disability and the Death Penalty: The Shame of the States

Mental Disability and the Death Penalty: The Shame of the States

Michael L. Perlin

Michael Perlin shows how the administration of the death penalty deprives persons with mental disabilities of their constitutional rights, and how trial courts and prosecutors consciously flaunt the law.
Public Guardianship: In the Best Interests of Incapacitated ...

Public Guardianship: In the Best Interests of Incapacitated ...

Pamela Booth Teaster

Michael Perlin, “On Sanism,” Southern Methodist University Law Review 46 ( 1992): 373–407; Michael Perlin, “Things Have Changed: Looking at Non- Institutional Mental Disability Law Through the Sanism Filter,” New York Law School Law ...
Competence in the Law: From Legal Theory to Clinical Application

Competence in the Law: From Legal Theory to Clinical Application

Michael L. Perlin

From Legal Theory to Clinical Application Michael L. Perlin, Pamela R. Champine, Henry A. Dlugacz, Mary Connell. expert testimony comes under greater court (and public) scrutiny in all areas of the law.13 Not surprisingly, this state of affairs ...
The Working Press of the Nation

The Working Press of the Nation

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From Space to Earth: The Story of Solar Electricity

From Space to Earth: The Story of Solar Electricity

John Perlin

Explores the history of photovoltaics, the direct conversion of the sun's energy into electricity by solar cells, from its 19th-century beginnings to its high-visibility success in the space program to its current position as a versatile ...
Belief, Bounty, And Beauty: Rituals Around Sacred Trees in India

Belief, Bounty, And Beauty: Rituals Around Sacred Trees in India

Albertina Nugteren

19 A recent study is the fascinating cross-cultural survey by John Perlin, A forest journey: The role of wood in the development of civilization (1991), in which wood (especially black ebony and ceder) imported from Western India is connected ...
A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization

A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization

John Perlin

Alex Mackay's intentions for writing a book on America appear in A. Mackay ( 1849), 1, “Introduction.” 347. Alex Mackay's account of crossing the James River is in ibid., 2.151. 347. William builders the Nowlin's description ofbuilding rails ...
A Prescription for Dignity: Rethinking Criminal Justice and ...

A Prescription for Dignity: Rethinking Criminal Justice and ...

Michael L. Perlin

2 See, e.g., Greg Berman & Aubrey Fox, The Future of ProblemSolving Justice: An International Perspective, 10 U. MD. L.J. RACE, RELIGION, GENDER & CLASS 1, 3 (2010); Greg Berman & John Feinblatt, ProblemSolving Courts: A Brief ...
Fantastic Adventures in Metaphysics:

Fantastic Adventures in Metaphysics:

Michael Perlin

This book explores the secret teachings of all the great philosophers and spiritual geniuses of our time and reveals the common theme throughout all of them.
The Hidden Prejudice: Mental Disability on Trial

The Hidden Prejudice: Mental Disability on Trial

Michael L. Perlin

In this book, the author reveals a pattern of prejudice against mentally disabled individuals that keeps them from receiving equal treatment under the law.
The Insanity Defense: American Developments: The Role of ...

The Insanity Defense: American Developments: The Role of ...

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As Michael Perlin has noted, "The public's outrage over a jurisprudential system that could allow a defendant who shot an American president on national television to plead 'not guilty' (for any reason) became a 'river of fury' after the jury's ...
The Role of Mental Illness in Criminal Trials: The insanity ...

The Role of Mental Illness in Criminal Trials: The insanity ...

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For their comments on an earlier version of this Article, the author would like to thank Scon Altman, Jody Armour, Thomas Griffith, Martin Levine, Tom Lyon, Edward McCaffrey, Stephen Morse, Michael Perlin, Elyn Saks, Robert Schopp, Dan ...
Poor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts

Poor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts

Vicki Lens

Brooks/Coles, 1996), 15–39; Virginia A. Hiday, “The Attorney's Role in Involuntary Civil Commitment,” North Carolina Law Review 60 (1982): 1027– 1056; Michael Perlin, “Fatal Assumption: A Critical Evaluation of the Role of Counsel in Mental ...
List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, with the ...

List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, with the ...

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics

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Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command

Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command

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The American Shropshire Sheep Record

The American Shropshire Sheep Record

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An Alphabetical List of the Poll, taken before John ...

An Alphabetical List of the Poll, taken before John ...

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Official Register of the United States

Official Register of the United States

United States Civil Service Commission

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Biennial Report of the Adjutant General: (1861-1866)

Biennial Report of the Adjutant General: (1861-1866)

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Journal

Journal

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Says he served subpoenas on Samuel Lord, James Ellis, John J. Libert, John Jones, John Ruth, John Kirk, Lukens Kirk, Cornelius Tyson, M. Meglathery, John Williams, John Funk and Charles Coogler. Question by Mr. Bell.—What are the ...
A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex: ...

A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex: ...

James Dallaway

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