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Legal Research Reports: Protection of Environmental Defenders in Latin America

The Law Library of Congress is proud to present the report, Protection of Environmental Defenders in Latin America.

This report includes surveys of laws guaranteeing the safety of environmental defenders in Latin America, especially in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. A United Nations Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, which was adopted for the specific purpose of promoting, protecting, and defending human rights in environmental matters was signed by Brazil, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. However, Colombia and Honduras are the only countries that have enacted specific legislation for the protection of environmental defenders.

This report is one of many prepared by the Law Library of Congress. Visit the Comprehensive Index of Legal Reports page for a complete listing of reports and the Current Legal Topics page for our highlighted and newer reports. 




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Legal Research Reports: Government Responses to Disinformation

The Law Library of Congress is proud to present the report, Government Responses to Disinformation.

Concerns regarding the impact of viral dissemination of disinformation on democratic systems of government, on political discourse, on public trust in state institutions, and on social harmony have been expressed by many around the world. This report addresses reported instances of alleged disinformation and highlights governmental responses to challenges posed by the spread of disinformation on social media platforms in 16 jurisdictions

This report is one of many prepared by the Law Library of Congress. Visit the Comprehensive Index of Legal Reports page for a complete listing of reports and the Current Legal Topics page for our highlighted and newer reports. 




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Legal Research Reports: Child Protection Law and Policy

The Law Library of Congress is proud to present the report, Child Protection Law and Policy.

This report includes surveys of 16 foreign jurisdictions on laws and policies on protecting children from abuse and neglect. The introductory summary briefly describes domestic U.S. federal law before turning to a comparative analysis of foreign law. The individual country surveys in this report describe the law of each jurisdiction on protecting children from abuse and neglect. They also describe practices respecting data gathering and the publication of statistics, as applicable in each country.

This report is one of many prepared by the Law Library of Congress. Visit the Comprehensive Index of Legal Reports page for a complete listing of reports and the Current Legal Topics page for our highlighted and newer reports. 




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Legal Research Reports: Virtual Civil Trials

The Law Library of Congress is proud to present the report, Virtual Civil Trials.

This report surveys the law of 25 foreign jurisdictions on the availability and functioning of virtual civil hearings and/or trials, including the structure of civil court systems and arrangements made to ensure the continuation of hearings and proceedings during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report describes foreign court systems that have adopted a range of options and procedural conditions for virtual hearings and/or trials in noncriminal cases in each jurisdiction surveyed.

This report is one of many prepared by the Law Library of Congress. Visit the Comprehensive Index of Legal Reports page for a complete listing of reports and the Current Legal Topics page for our highlighted and newer reports. 




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Neural connectomics challenge / Demian Battaglia, Isabelle Guyon, Vincent Lemaire, Javier Orlandi, Bisakha Ray, Jordi Soriano, editors ; foreword by Florin Popescu

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Behave: the biology of humans at our best and worst / Robert M. Sapolsky

Hayden Library - QP351.S27 2017




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Understanding the cochlea Geoffrey A. Manley, Anthony W. Gummer, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R. Fay, editors

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Brain function assessment in learning: first International Conference, BFAL 2017, Patras, Greece, September 24-25, 2017, proceedings / Claude Frasson, George Kostopoulos (eds.)

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Primate hearing and communication / Rolf M. Quam, Marissa A. Ramsier, Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper, editors

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Auditory development and plasticity: in honor of Edwin W Rubel / Karina S. Cramer, Allison B. Coffin, Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper, editors

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Auditory temporal processing and its disorders / Jos J. Eggermont

Hayden Library - QP461.E34 2015




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Computational neuroscience: first Latin American Workshop, LAWCN 2017, Porto Alegre, Brazil, November 22-24, 2017, Proceedings / Dante Augusto Couto Barone, Eduardo Oliveira Teles, Christian Puhlmann Brackmann (eds.)

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The physics of the mind and brain disorders: integrated neural circuits supporting the emergence of mind / Ioan Opris, Manuel F. Casanova, editors

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The mammalian auditory pathways: synaptic organization and microcircuits / Douglas L. Oliver, Nell B. Cant, Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper, editors

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The genius within: unlocking your brain's potential / David Adam

Hayden Library - QP360.5.A33 2018




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Proprioception in orthopaedics, sports medicine and rehabilitation / Defne Kaya, Baran Yosmaoglu, Mahmut Nedim Doral, editors

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The heart of the brain: the hypothalamus and its hormones / Gareth Leng

Hayden Library - QP383.7.L46 2018




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Hippocampal microcircuits: a computational modeler's resource book / Vassilis Cutsuridis, Bruce P. Graham, Stuart Cobb, Imre Vida, editors

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The spontaneous brain: from the mind-body to the world-brain problem / Georg Northoff

Hayden Library - QP376.N679 2018




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Multisensory processes: the auditory perspective / Adrian K. C. Lee, Mark T. Wallace, Allison B. Coffin, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R. Fay, editors

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Signal processing in auditory neuroscience: temporal and spatial features of sound and speech / Yoichi Ando

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Capture-recapture: parameter estimation for open animal populations / George A. F. Seber, Matthew R. Schofield

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Electroreception: fundamental insights from comparative approaches / Bruce A. Carlson, Joseph A. Sisneros, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R. Fay, editors

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Successful aging: a neuroscientist explores the power and potential of our lives / Daniel J. Levitin

Dewey Library - QP376.L43 2020




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Yeats and postmodernism / edited by Leonard Orr

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Make We Merry More and Less: an Anthology of Medieval English Popular Literature.

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Utopia and the contemporary British novel / Caroline Edwards, Birbeck College, London

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Milton and the new scientific age: poetry, science, fiction / edited by Catherine Gimelli Martin

Hayden Library - PR3592.S3 M55 2019




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The political poetess: Victorian femininity, race, and the legacy of separate spheres / Tricia Lootens

Hayden Library - PR595.W6 L67 2017




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Ducks, Newburyport / Lucy Ellmann

Dewey Library - PR6055.L54 D83 2019




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Lanny / Max Porter

Dewey Library - PR6116.O76 L366 2019




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The mind of a poet: a study of Wordsworth's thought with particular reference to The prelude, / by Raymond Dexter Havens ..

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The porpoise: a novel / Mark Haddon

Dewey Library - PR6058.A26 P67 2019




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Adapting Frankenstein: the monster's eternal lives in popular culture / edited by Dennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry

Dewey Library - PR5397.F73 A33 2018




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September 1, 1939: a biography of a poem / Ian Sansom

Dewey Library - PR6001.U4 Z796 2019




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Shakespeare's rise to cultural prominence: politics, print and alteration, 1642-1700 / Emma Depledge, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Dewey Library - PR2899.D47 2018




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"Harry-- yer a wizard": exploring J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter universe.

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Paul Muldoon and the language of poetry / by Ruben Moi

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The beekeeper of Aleppo: a novel / Christy Lefteri

Dewey Library - PR6112.E419 B44 2019




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Science, form, and the problem of induction in British Romanticism / Dahlia Porter

Hayden Library - PR448.I538 P67 2018




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Contemporary Irish women poets: memory and estrangement / Lucy Collins

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The Poetics of Jacobean Drama Coburn Freer

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Mary Shelley and the rights of the child: political philosophy in Frankenstein / Eileen Hunt Botting

Dewey Library - PR5397.F73 B676 2018




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Judith Butler [electronic resource] : sexual politics, social change and the power of the performative / Gill Jagger

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008




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Half of India's adolescents are either short, thin, overweight or obese, says NITI Aayog-UNICEF report

The new report reveals that almost all adolescents in India have unhealthy or poor diets. This is the main cause for all forms of malnutrition.




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'Difficult Heritage' in Nation Building [electronic resource] : South Korea and Post-Conflict Japanese Colonial Occupation Architecture / by Hyun Kyung Lee

Lee, Hyun Kyung, author




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Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context [electronic resource]: Beyond the Borders




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Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities [electronic resource] : A Study of Mersin, Turkey—From Antiquity to Modernity / edited by Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu, Eyüp Özveren, Tülin Selvi Ünlü




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Education Policy, Digital Disruption and the Future of Work [electronic resource] : Framing Young People's Futures in the Present / by Shane B. Duggan

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Education, Democracy and Inequality [electronic resource]: Political Engagement and Citizenship Education in Europe

Hoskins, Bryony