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The Best 168 Law Schools, 2014 Edition by Princeton Review

2013-10-08T00:30:00-05:00

The Best 168 Law Schools, 2014 Edition
Written by Princeton Review

Trade Paperback, 496 pages | Princeton Review | Study Aids; Study Aids - Graduate School Guides; Law - Essays | $22.99 | 978-0-8041-2434-8 (0-8041-2434-5)

Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 5th Edition by Princeton Review

2013-01-22T00:30:00-05:00

Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 5th Edition
Written by Princeton Review

eBook, 304 pages | Princeton Review | Study Aids; Study Aids - Graduate School Guides; Law - Essays | $11.99 | 978-0-307-94526-6 (0-307-94526-X)

Stand out in a crowd of law school applicants with an outstanding personal statement.

Law schools are receiving more applications than ever with high LSAT scores and excellent grades. To get in, you also need a personal statement that shines. The fifth edition of Law School Essays That Made a Difference gives you the tools to do just that. It includes:

   • 70 real essays written by 62 unique future lawyers attending Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Yale, and other top law schools—along with each applicant’s test scores, GPA, and admissions profile
   • An overview of law school admissions and a “crash course” in prepping your application
   • Insider advice: Interviews with admissions pros at Berkeley, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Northwestern, Texas Tech, UCLA, University of Kansas, University of Michigan, UPenn, University of Richmond, and William & Mary

Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 5th Edition includes essays written by students who enrolled at the following schools:

Amherst College
Bard College
Barnard College
Boston College
Brown University
Bryn Mawr College
California Institute of Technology
Claremont McKenna College
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Emerson College
Franklin W. Olin College of
Engineering
Georgetown University
Harvard College
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Middlebury College
New College of Florida
New York University
Northwestern University
Pomona College
Princeton University
Rice University
Smith College
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
University of California—San Diego
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
Washington and Lee University
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Yale University

The Crime of Sheila McGough by Janet Malcolm

2013-01-16T00:30:00-05:00

The Crime of Sheila McGough
Written by Janet Malcolm

eBook, 176 pages | Vintage | Law - Essays; Law | $11.99 | 978-0-307-83057-9 (0-307-83057-8)

"[N]o other writer tells better stories about the perpetual, the unwinnable, battle between narrative and truth." --The New York Times Book Review

The Crime of Sheila McGough is Janet Malcolm's brilliant exposé of miscarriage of justice in the case of Sheila McGough, a disbarred lawyer recently released from prison. McGough had served 2 1/2 years for collaborating with a client in his fraud, but insisted that she didn't commit any of the 14 felonies she was convicted.

An astonishingly persuasive condemnation of the cupidity of American law and its preference for convincing narrative rather than the truth, this is also a story with an unconventional heroine. McGough is a zealous defense lawyer duped by a white-collar con man; a woman who lives, at the age of 54, with her parents; a journalistic subject who frustrates her interviewer with her maddening literal-mindedness. Spirited, illuminating, delightfully detailed, The Crime of Sheila McGough is both a dazzling work of journalism and a searching meditation on character and the law.

Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 5th Edition by Princeton Review

2012-12-11T00:30:00-05:00

Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 5th Edition
Written by Princeton Review

Trade Paperback, 304 pages | Princeton Review | Study Aids; Study Aids - Graduate School Guides; Law - Essays | $13.99 | 978-0-307-94525-9 (0-307-94525-1)

Stand out in a crowd of law school applicants with an outstanding personal statement.

Law schools are receiving more applications than ever with high LSAT scores and excellent grades. To get in, you also need a personal statement that shines. Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 5th Edition, gives you the tools to do just that. It includes:

   • 70 real essays written by 62 unique future lawyers attending Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Yale, and other top law schools—along with each applicant’s test scores, GPA, and admissions profile
   • An overview of law school admissions and a “crash course” in prepping your application
   • Insider advice: Interviews with admissions pros at Berkeley, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Northwestern, Texas Tech, UCLA, University of Kansas, University of Michigan, UPenn, University of Richmond, and William & Mary

Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 5th Edition includes essays written by students who enrolled at the following schools:

Amherst College
Bard College
Barnard College
Boston College
Brown University
Bryn Mawr College
California Institute of Technology
Claremont McKenna College
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Emerson College
Franklin W. Olin College of
Engineering
Georgetown University
Harvard College
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Middlebury College
New College of Florida
New York University
Northwestern University
Pomona College
Princeton University
Rice University
Smith College
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
University of California—San Diego
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
Washington and Lee University
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Yale University

The Best 168 Law Schools, 2013 Edition by Princeton Review

2012-10-09T00:30:00-05:00

The Best 168 Law Schools, 2013 Edition
Written by Princeton Review

Trade Paperback, 496 pages | Princeton Review | Study Aids; Study Aids - Graduate School Guides; Law - Essays | $22.99 | 978-0-307-94530-3 (0-307-94530-8)

We can help you make the right decision.

The Princeton Review's The Best 168 Law Schools gives you student survey-driven profiles of the nation's top 168 law schools as well as detailed statistical information about accredited law schools. Each profile provides information on academics and campus life, and also provides answers to all the practical questions you should ask when applying to law school, including:

• Which employers are hiring graduates?
• Is the focus of the curriculum on the practical or theoretical aspects of law?
• Is the environment competitive?
• What internship/externship opportunities are available to students?

You'll also get easy-to-reference snapshots of each school's admissions criteria, deadlines, telephone numbers, tuition figures, e-mail and snail mail addresses, and other key info.

The Crime of Sheila McGough by Janet Malcolm

2000-02-08T00:30:00-05:00

The Crime of Sheila McGough
Written by Janet Malcolm

Trade Paperback, 176 pages | Vintage | Law - Essays; Law | $15.00 | 978-0-375-70459-8 (0-375-70459-0)

Birth of a Nation'hood by Toni Morrison

1997-02-04T00:30:00-05:00

Birth of a Nation'hood Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case
Written by Toni Morrison

Trade Paperback, 448 pages | Pantheon | Law - Essays; Law - Discrimination | $19.00 | 978-0-679-75893-8 (0-679-75893-3)

Co-edited and introduced by Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Birth of a Nation'hood elucidates as never before the grim miasma of the O.J. Simpson case, which has elicited gargantuan fascination.

As they pertain to the scandal, the issues of race, sex, violence, money, and the media are refracted through twelve powerful essays that have been written especially for this book by distinguished intellectuals--black and white, male and female. Together these keen analyses of a defining American moment cast a chilling gaze on the script and spectacle of the insidious tensions that rend our society, even as they ponder the proper historical, cultural, political, legal, psychological, and linguistic ramifications of the affair.

With contributions by:
Toni Morrison, George Lipsitz, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., with Aderson Bellegarde Francois and Linda Y. Yueh, Nikol G. Alexander and Drucilla Cornell, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Ishmael Reed, Leola Johnson and David Roediger, Andrew Ross, Patricia J. Williams, Ann duCille, Armond White, Claudia Brodsky Lacour

Random House New Releases - Law - Essays

The Best 168 Law Schools, 2014 Edition by Princeton Review

The Best 168 Law Schools, 2014 Edition Written by Princeton Review

Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 5th Edition by Princeton Review

Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 5th Edition Written by Princeton Review

The Crime of Sheila McGough by Janet Malcolm

The Crime of Sheila McGough Written by Janet Malcolm

Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 5th Edition by Princeton Review

Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 5th Edition Written by Princeton Review

The Best 168 Law Schools, 2013 Edition by Princeton Review

The Best 168 Law Schools, 2013 Edition Written by Princeton Review

The Crime of Sheila McGough by Janet Malcolm

The Crime of Sheila McGough Written by Janet Malcolm

Birth of a Nation'hood by Toni Morrison

Birth of a Nation'hood Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson CaseWritten by Toni Morrison

The Best 168 Law Schools, 2014 Edition
Written by Princeton Review

Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 5th Edition
Written by Princeton Review

The Crime of Sheila McGough
Written by Janet Malcolm

Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 5th Edition
Written by Princeton Review

The Best 168 Law Schools, 2013 Edition
Written by Princeton Review

The Crime of Sheila McGough
Written by Janet Malcolm

Birth of a Nation'hood Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case
Written by Toni Morrison