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  • Nine Black Robes

    Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    New York Times Editor's Choice"Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done something different and a good deal harder. She has written a group narrative that combines close accounts of the court's public business in the Trump years with a history of its private dramas and conflicts... The deeper ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Reading the Constitution

    Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism

    A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court’s supermajority and makes the case for a better way to interpret the Constitution.The relatively new judicial philosophy of textualism dominates the Supreme Court. Textualists claim that the right way to interpret the Constitution and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Just Mercy

    A Story of Justice and Redemption

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice and equality has inspired me and many others and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • How to Think Like a Lawyer--and Why

    A Common-Sense Guide to Everyday Dilemmas

    by Kim Wehle ...
    Series series Legal Expert Series
    A law professor and author teaches non-attorneys how to think like a lawyer to gain advantage in their lives—whether buying a house, negotiating a salary, or choosing the right healthcare.Lawyers aren’t like other people. They often argue points that are best left alone or look for mistakes in menus “just because.” While their scrupulous attention to detail may be annoying, it can also be a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • 25+ Collected Works of Vladimir Lenin

    The Dreamer in the Kremlin, State and Revolution, What Is to Be Done?, Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism and others

    Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party. Ideologically a ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Abolition

    Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1

    A major collection of essays and speeches from pioneering freedom fighter Angela Y. DavisFor over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for abolition and feminism and the fight against state violence and oppression. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis’s essays, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The New Jim Crow

    Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    • Best seller history: 250+ weeks on New York Times paperback non-fiction bestseller list, including as recently as December 2018.• New 10th anniversary preface: covering events of the past decade; we expect to serialize this.• New York Times columnist: Alexander is now a regular op-ed columnist, writing for the daily paper and the Sunday Review. • Tie-in with YA edition.• New cover· New 10th ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Salvage Work

    U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood

    by Angela Naimou ...
    Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law’s construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but generative figure for contemporary legal personhood across categories of race, citizenship, gender, and labor. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Active Liberty

    Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution

    A brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.For Justice Breyer, the Constitution’s primary role is to preserve and encourage what he calls “active liberty”: citizen participation in shaping government and its laws. As this book argues, promoting active liberty requires judicial modesty and deference to Congress; it also means ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Driven toward Madness

    The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio

    Series series New Approaches to Midwestern Studies
    Margaret Garner was the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture just outside of Cincinnati, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery. Her story has inspired Toni Morrison’s Beloved, a film based on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera. Yet, her life has defied solid historical treatment. In Driven toward Madness, Nikki M. Taylor ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • A Bitter Remedy

    A totally compelling historical mystery

    by Alis Hawkins ...
    Series Book 1 - The Oxford Mysteries
    Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallow…Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found dead at his lodgings and the medical examination reveals some shocking findings. When the young man’s guardian blames the college for his death and threatens a scandal, Basil Rice, a Jesus College fellow with a secret to hide, is forced ... Read more

    $5.99 USD $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Under the Bridge

    *****Soon to be a Hulu limited series starring Lily Gladstone, Riley Keough, and Archie Panjabi!*“A swift, harrowing classic perfect for these unnerving times.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of SpeculationOne moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home.In this “tour de force of crime reportage” (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Blockchain Democracy

    Technology, Law and the Rule of the Crowd

    In Blockchain Democracy, William Magnuson provides a breathtaking tour of the world of blockchain and bitcoin, from their origins in the online scribblings of a shadowy figure named Satoshi Nakamoto, to their furious rise and dramatic crash in the 2010s, to their ignominious connections to the dark web and online crime. Magnuson argues that blockchain's popularity stands as a testament both to the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door

    The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School

    A trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways—and how to fight backIn the “vigorous, well-informed” (Kirkus Reviews) A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, the co-hosts of the popular education podcast Have You Heard expose the potent network of conservative elected officials, advocacy groups, funders, and think tanks that are pushing a radical vision to do ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

    An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

    Newly updated: “An enjoyable introduction to American working-class history.” —The American ProspectPraised for its “impressive even-handedness”, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roe v. Dobbs

    The Past, Present, and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion

    With this volume, Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present and Future of a Constitutional Right of Abortion, we confront the remarkable beginning and end--once again, after a half-century-of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, shockingly overruled by the Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The goal of this book is to bring together some of our nation's leading ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Beyond Winning

    Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes

    Conflict is inevitable, in both deals and disputes. Yet when clients call in the lawyers to haggle over who gets how much of the pie, traditional hard-bargaining tactics can lead to ruin. Too often, deals blow up, cases don’t settle, relationships fall apart, justice is delayed. Beyond Winning charts a way out of our current crisis of confidence in the legal system. It offers a fresh look at ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Sadopaideia (Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics)

    ‘Sadopaideia’ is a shocking, explicit, classic tale of Sado Masochism at the heart of English high society. Set in London and the Dorset coast, in an era of English history where corporal punishment was freely dispensed, the characters represent the core principles of disobedience, chastisement and compliance.How far is too far?Cecil Prendergast has a problem. He has been selected by Muriel ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Supreme Court

    20 Cases that Changed America

    by Tony Mauro ...
    A concise, informative guide to the twenty most momentous Court rulings in American history, including excerpts from the written decisions and dissents.The legislative branch of government creates laws, and the executive branch signs and enforces them. But how does America make sure these laws don’t run afoul of the Constitution? That responsibility lies with the final arbiters: the nine justices ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Odd Clauses

    Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions

    by Jay Wexler ...
    A hilariously entertaining tour through the lesser-known clauses of the United States Constitution, with absurd insights into American history and lawIf the United States Constitution were a zoo, and the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth amendments were a lion, a giraffe, and a panda bear, respectively, then The Odd Clauses would be a special exhibit of shrews, wombats, and bat-eared foxes. Past the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict

    In Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, Cass R. Sunstein, one of America's best known commentators on our legal system, offers a bold, new thesis about how the law should work in America, arguing that the courts best enable people to live together, despite their diversity, by resolving particular cases without taking sides in broader, more abstract conflicts. Professor Sunstein closely analyzes ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Thrive

    How Better Mental Health Care Transforms Lives and Saves Money

    A compelling argument for improving society's mental health through increased services and better policyMental illness is a leading cause of suffering in the modern world. In sheer numbers, it afflicts at least 20 percent of people in developed countries. It reduces life expectancy as much as smoking does, accounts for nearly half of all disability claims, is behind half of all worker sick days, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • At Home in Two Countries

    The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship

    by Peter J Spiro ...
    Read Peter's Op-ed on Trump's Immigration Ban in The New York TimesThe rise of dual citizenship could hardly have been imaginable to a time traveler from a hundred or even fifty years ago. Dual nationality was once considered an offense to nature, an abomination on the order of bigamy. It was the stuff of titanic battles between the United States and European sovereigns. As those conflicts ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Terrorism

    An Investigator's Handbook

    This handbook introduces the reader to the field of terrorism investigation. Describing how terrorists operate and how they differ from other criminals, it provides an outline of how terrorism investigations should be conducted. By helping investigators to develop skills and knowledge, this guide helps them to prepare prosecutable cases against terrorists. ... Read more

    $74.99 USD