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  • Objection

    Disgust, Morality, and the Law

    Why do we consider incest wrong, even when it occurs between consenting adults unable to have children? Why are words that gross us out more likely to be deemed "obscene" and denied the protection of the First Amendment? In a world where a gruesome photograph can decisively influence a jury and homosexual behavior is still condemned by some as "unnatural," it is worth asking: is our legal system ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Predatory Lending and the Destruction of the African-American Dream

    Since the Great Recession of 2008, the racial wealth gap between black and white Americans has continued to widen. In Predatory Lending and the Destruction of the African-American Dream, Janis Sarra and Cheryl Wade detail the reasons for this failure by analyzing the economic exploitation of African Americans, with a focus on predatory practices in the home mortgage context. They also examine the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Sworn to Silence

    The Truth Behind Robert Garrow and the Missing Bodies Case

    by Jim Tracy ...
    Jim Tracy’s Sworn to Silence is an unforgettable story of two American lawyers who did the unprecedented. They searched for, found, and photographed the lifeless bodies of their client’s victims and then kept it secret. They did so in the face of unendurable pressure from the authorities and the victims’ families, who suspected the lawyers knew more than they were saying.When the American public ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Guilt by Accusation

    The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo

    A Wall Street Journal bestseller! Alan Dershowitz, one of America’s most respected legal scholars and a New York Times bestselling author proves—with incontrovertible evidence—that he is entirely innocent of the sexual misconduct accusations against him, while suggesting a roadmap for how such allegations should be handled in a just society.“Maybe the question isn’t what happened to Alan ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Ética, profesión y ciudadanía: Una ética cívica para la vida en común

    Series series Biblioteca Jurídica Porrúa
    La relevancia del tema de la ética en la actualidad obliga a reflexionar sobre aquellos problemas que cotidianamente enfrentamos en los espacios donde nos desarrollamos, ya sean profesionales o cívicos, ámbitos que están en la escena pública. Éste es el marco contextual de los ensayos que componen esta obra, en la cual un grupo de investigadores del Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • We Own This City

    A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption

    by Justin Fenton ...
    NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • The astonishing true story of “one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation” (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize–nominated reporter who exposed a gang of criminal cops and their yearslong plunder of an American cityNOW AN HBO SERIES FROM THE WIRE CREATOR DAVID SIMON AND GEORGE PELECANOS“A work of journalism that not only chronicles ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Media Ethics

    A Guide For Professional Conduct

    Closely organized around the Society of Professional Journalists' code of ethics — the news industry's widely accepted "gold standard" of journalism principles — this updated edition uses real-life case studies to demonstrate how journalism students and professionals can identify and reason through ethical dilemmas. Stressing the cross-platform viability of basic ethical principles, this study ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ordinary Injustice

    How America Holds Court

    by Amy Bach ...
    "A groundbreaking book . . . revealing the systemic, everyday problems in our courts that must be addressed if justice is truly to be served."—Doris Kearns GoodwinAttorney and journalist Amy Bach spent eight years investigating the widespread courtroom failures that each day upend lives across America. What she found was an assembly-line approach to justice: a system that rewards mediocre advocacy ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • American Muckraker

    Rethinking Journalism for the 21st Century

    ON POWERThey do have tremendous power. But in part it is because we give it to them. We are nothing, but we are not alone. Awe cannot live in fear. The moment you stop caring about what the media establishment thinks of you, is the moment you become truly free.ON INSIDERSThe USPS whistleblower, a Marine Corps combat veteran said, “I would rather be back in Afghanistan, getting shot at by Afghans, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Death of Common Sense

    How Law Is Suffocating America

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common Sense. Here Howard offers nothing less than a fresh, lucid, practical operating system for modern democracy. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • Firefighters

    Their Lives in Their Own Words

    by Dennis Smith ...
    An unforgettable journey through the daily lives of the brave men and women who have made saving lives their profession.Dennis Smith, author of Report from Engine Co. 82, traveled across the country talking to dozens of America’s firefighters to put together this powerful collection of their own descriptions of their most dramatic and intense experiences on the job. Their stories, compiled here, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • El jurado seducido: Las pasiones ante la justicia

    Series series Biblioteca Jurídica Porrúa
    El autor conjunta en estas crónicas y reflexiones dos temas candentes: la justicia y la pasión. La primera parte presenta casos en los que el amor apasionado y el desamor son los protagonistas. La segunda, fenómenos criminales relacionados con usos y costumbres bárbaros, tolerados o propiciados por las autoridades. La tercera, asuntos en los que entran en juego, por un lado, delicadas cuestiones ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Anatomy of Injustice

    A Murder Case Gone Wrong

    The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Voto en contra

    Este libro muestra uno de los rostros más luminosos de México: el de la pluralidad, la inteligencia y las instituciones.En los últimos 15 años, México ha librado algunas de sus batallas más importantes... en la Suprema Cortede Justicia de la Nación. Ahí se han debatido -y definido- los límites a la libertad de expresión, los derechos de los indígenas a juicios justos, las fronteras de la ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Secret Barrister

    Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

    **An anonymous barrister offers a shocking, darkly comic and very moving journey through the legal system – and explains how it's failing all of us.The Sunday Times number one bestseller.**Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award.Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year.Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year.You may not wish to think about it, but one day you or som... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Conflicts of Interest in Science

    How Corporate-Funded Academic Research Can Threaten Public Health

    30+ Years of Peer-Reviewed Studies on the Corporate Ties and Vested Interests that Influence Scientific ResearchFor over 500 years, groups and organizations with political, economic, and personal interests have successfully exercised influence on the pursuit of scientific inquiry and knowledge. History is replete with examples like the Papal authority muddying research into studies of the cosmos, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Great Post Office Scandal

    The Fight to Expose A Multimillion Pound Scandal Which Put Innocent People in Jail

    by Nick Wallis ...
    The Great Post Office Scandal is the extraordinary story behind the recent ITV drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office.This gripping page-turner recounts how thousands of subpostmasters were accused of theft and false accounting on the back of evidence from Horizon, the flawed computer system designed by Fujitsu, and how a group of them, led by Alan Bates, took their fight to the High Court. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Price of Principle

    Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences

    In his fiftieth book, The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences, Alan Dershowitz—#1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most influential legal scholars—explores the implications of the increasing tendency in politics, academia, media, and even the courts of law to punish principle and reward partisan hypocrisy.Alan Dershowitz has been called “one of the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • What It Means to Be Human

    The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics

    A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the YearA First Things Books for Christmas SelectionWinner of the Expanded Reason Award“This important work of moral philosophy argues that we are, first and foremost, embodied beings, and that public policy must recognize the limits and gifts that this entails.”—Wall Street JournalThe natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and dependent on others ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Email Marketing for the Entrepreneurial Attorney

    by Dave Clough ...
    Attorneys have been hesitant to adopt the marketing tools offered by the internet, though it would grant them access to a massive potential client base. Email marketing is the most direct, personal, permission-based method of reaching out to past, present and potential clients. How can attorneys use email to effectively marketing to gain and keep clients? ... Read more

    Free

  • Animal Rights

    What Everyone Needs to Know?

    by Paul Waldau ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know?
    In this compelling volume in the What Everyone Needs to Know? series, Paul Waldau expertly navigates the many heated debates surrounding the complex and controversial animal rights movement. Organized around a series of probing questions, this timely resource offers the most complete, even-handed survey of the animal rights movement available. The book covers the full spectrum of issues, beginning ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Moral Compass of the American Lawyer

    Truth, Justice, Power, and Greed

    These are perilous times for Americans who need access to the legal system. Too many lawyers blatantly abuse power and trust, engage in reckless ethical misconduct, grossly unjust billing practices, and dishonesty disguised as client protection. All this has undermined the credibility of lawyers and the authority of the legal system. In the court of public opinion, many lawyers these days are ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Fake Law

    The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

    THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A powerful polemic' Sunday Times'A compelling, eye-opening read' Daily Express– Did an illegal immigrant avoid deportation because he had a cat?– Is the law on the side of the burglar who enters your home?– Are unelected judges ‘enemies of the people’?Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we even think of it at al... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Vanished in Vermillion

    The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case

    by Lou Raguse ...
    In May 1971, Pam Jackson and Sherri Miller were two seventeen-year-olds driving to an end-of-the-school-year party in a rundown Studebaker Lark when they seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth. Police back then didn’t do enough to try and find them. Investigators thirty years later did too much. Two families endure decades of pain as they await answers of what happened to their girls. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD