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  • 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

  • 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

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  • The Buffalo Creek Disaster

    How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought s uit against the coal company--and won

    The "suspenseful and completely absorbing story" (San Francisco Chronicle) of how survivors of the worst coal-mining disaster in history triumphed over corporate irresponsibility—written by the young lawyer who took on their case and won.One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • O racismo na história do Brasil

    As ideologias de desigualdades raciais na formação da sociedade brasileira

    by Fausto Brito ...
    A obra O racismo na história do Brasil: as ideologias de desigualdades raciais na formação da sociedade brasileira apresenta um estudo sobre as ideologias raciais, discutindo o papel da questão racial na formação da sociedade brasileira e como essas ideologias foram utilizadas como justificativa para promover a exclusão racial e o preconceito. Organizado em sete capítulos muito bem estruturados, o ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Are Prisons Obsolete?

    Series series Open Media Series
    With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • San Fransicko

    Why Progressives Ruin Cities

    National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities.Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Justice of Visual Art

    Creative State-Building in Times of Political Transition

    by Eliza Garnsey ...
    Series series Law in Context
    In the aftermath of mass conflict how is it possible to address violent and traumatic pasts, reconcile divided nations, and strengthen state institutions? This study explores the connections between transitional justice and visual art in order to answer that question. Garnsey argues that art can engage and shape ideas of justice. Art can be an inquiry into, and an alternative experience of, ... Read more

    $24.99 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

  • Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?

    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Written from the perspective of someone who was shot by police, and who advocates for justice for himself and the police officer killed.Mumia gives a voice to African Americans whose lives have been taken by police activity.Mumia names our current political moment in order to transform it.The national Black Lives Matter movement continues to grow and intensify in response to news of police ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bridges to Burn

    An unputdownable Scottish police procedural

    by Marion Todd ...
    Series Book 8 - Detective Clare Mackay
    How can DI Clare Mackay uncover the facts if nothing is what it seems?DI Clare Mackay is called to Albany High, where the body of a girl has been found. A suspected suicide – yet Sophie Bakewell was by all accounts a cheerful, talented student. Could she really have been hiding a darker side?It’s not the only disturbing case to land on Clare’s desk. Across town, an elderly man is in danger. Yet ... Read more

    $5.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Mission High

    One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph

    "This book is a godsend a moving portrait for anyone wanting to go beyond the simplified labels and metrics and really understand an urban high school, and its highly individual, resilient, eager and brilliant students and educators." -- Dave Eggers, co-founder, 826 National and ScholarMatchDarrell is a reflective, brilliant young man, who never thought of himself as a good student. He always ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING SUSPECT NO. 1

    The Man Who Got Away

    by Lise Pearlman ...
    In the depths of the Depression, millions worldwide followed every twist and turn of the Lindbergh baby kidnap/murder. Yet what was reported was largely fake news. Nearly a century after undocumented immigrant Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for the dastardly crime, questions still linger. If the wrong man was convicted, who did it? When? Why? Where? How? The shocking answers this book ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Eat What You Kill

    The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer

    "A wonderful character study of someone whose cognitive dissonance ('I am brilliant, therefore I must be doing everything correctly') led directly to his downfall. Students would do well to read this book before venturing forth into a large firm, a small firm, or any pressure-cooker environment."-Nancy Rapoport, University of Houston Law Center"Eat What You Kill is gripping and well written. . . . ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA

    A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2015: “A riveting account of a watershed moment in our history.”—President Bill ClintonRenowned litigator Roberta Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer had been together as a couple, in sickness and in health, for more than forty years—enduring society’s ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The New Practical Shorthand Manual - A Complete And Comprehensive Exposition Of Pitman Shorthand Adapted For Use In Schools, Colleges And For Home Instruction

    by Benn Pitman ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Peremptory International Law - Jus Cogens

    A General Inventory

    Robert Kolb, one of the leading international scholars of his generation, offers a seminal survey of the question of peremptory international law. The author analyses and systemises different questions, such as: the typology of peremptory norms beyond the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties; here he distinguishes between 'public order' jus cogens and mere 'public utility' jus cogens. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Defending the Damned

    Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office

    by Kevin Davis ...
    Chicago was the nation's deadliest city in 2001, recording 666 homicides. For lawyers in the Cook County Public Defender's Office Murder Task Force, that meant a steady flow of new clients. Eight out of ten people arrested for murder in Chicago are represented by public defenders. They're assigned the most challenging and seemingly hopeless cases, yet they always fight to win.One of those lawyers ... Read more

    $9.99 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