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Attorney Constance Crooker traces this debate from its origin to the present day. Narrative chapters examine the theories and rhetoric behind each side of this dispute and show the extent to which the rhetoric is or isn't supported by statistical records. A collection of quotes from pro and con politicians and activists illustrate the passionate nature of the gun control issue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudents will find a balanced, focused approach to landmark Supreme Court cases, gun control laws, gun rights groups, gun control advocates, and the fundamental controversies surrounding interpretations of the Second Amendment. 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Walker's own selection of his early plays which matter; which for him have stood the test of time; which represent, as he once said, his \"classical veneer.\" In them he honed his considerable and unique dramatic talent along \"that fine line between the serious and the comic,\" in settings outside the North American locales of his work since the 1980s.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Walker's earliest plays, absurdist dramas reminiscent of Ionesco and Beckett, climaxed with \u003ci\u003eBeyond Mozambique\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), featuring a B-movie jungle locale populated by a drug-addicted, pederastic priest, a disgraced Mountie, a porn-film starlet and a demonic ex-Nazi doctor whose wife thinks she is Olga in Chekhov's \u003ci\u003eThree Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eZastrozzi\u003c\/i\u003e (1977), utilizing all the baroque conventions of Jacobean tragedy, pits its protagonist, a self-styled, Machiavellian \"Master of Discipline\" against the chaos of the universe in a flurry of dramatic excesses that tend toward elegant self-parody. The Chalmers Award-winning \u003ci\u003eTheatre of the Film Noir\u003c\/i\u003e (1981), a murder mystery set in wartime Paris, is the culmination of his work in the Humphrey Bogart \/ Raymond Chandler style, so evident in his trilogy featuring the cynical investigative reporter \/ private-eye, Tyrone Power. The Governor General's and Chalmers Award-winning \u003ci\u003eNothing Sacred\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), an adaptation of Turgenev's novel, \u003ci\u003eFathers and Sons\u003c\/i\u003e, consolidated his popular reputation outside of Canada to such a degree that the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e declared it \"the play of the year.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367742771473,"sku":"CIN0889224021G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009407189265,"sku":"NIN9780889224025","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51325347266833,"sku":"CIN0889224021VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52689609130257,"sku":"NLS9780889224025","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0889224021.jpg?v=1750819504"},{"product_id":"escape-from-happiness-book-george-f-walker-9780889104402","title":"Escape from Happiness","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50579853410577,"sku":"CIN0889104409VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51333836570897,"sku":"CIN0889104409G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0889104409.jpg?v=1750787419"},{"product_id":"after-class-book-george-f-walker-9781772011845","title":"After Class","description":"\u003cp\u003eSit your butt down and learn your three Rs: ranting, resisting, and respect.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn two new plays, Canada's king of black comedy takes on the failing education system. Both Parents Night and The Bigger Issue are set in public-school classrooms after hours and involve confrontations between stressed-out teachers and ticked-off parents. Both sympathize with embattled educators and evince Walker's trademark understanding of poverty and the working classes. In both, Walker's signature moves work: the audience feels simultaneously complicit in and righteously angry about injustice and inequity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParents Night finds grade-three teacher Nicole caught in the crossfire between John, an arrogant executive dad, and Rosie, a ballsy, low-income mom. Both are meeting with Nicole to express concerns for their children, but class warfare quickly erupts, and the kids' behaviour turns out to be a reflection of their parents' messed-up lives. 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Readers meeting these characters for the first time will find much to enjoy in Walker's ready wit and keen sense of story.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen the FBI blackmails Peachum into helping bring down a group of corrupt bankers, he partners with Mac, his son-in-law, to discover that the bankers are using their wealth to inflate the market, plotting to pull their assets just before the bubble bursts. They scheme to make new for- tunes by providing loans after everyone else goes bankrupt. If all of this sounds distressingly familiar, it should.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt its heart, King of Thieves, like both its predecessors, is an examination of criminal behaviour at all levels of society, and of the disturbing truth that everyone can fall prey to dishonesty and corruption. 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