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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
Written by Oscar Zeta Acosta
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge.
Written with uninhibited candor... Read more >
Written by Oscar Zeta Acosta
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge.
Written with uninhibited candor... Read more >
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The Revolt of the Cockroach People
Written by Oscar Zeta Acosta
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
The further adventures of "Dr. Gonzo" as he defends the "cucarachas" -- the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.
Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo" a fat... Read more >
Written by Oscar Zeta Acosta
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
The further adventures of "Dr. Gonzo" as he defends the "cucarachas" -- the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.
Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo" a fat... Read more >
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Mi mundo adorado
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $27.95
La primera latina y tan sólo la tercera mujer designada a la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, Sonia Sotomayor se ha convertido en un icono americano contemporáneo. Ahora, con un candor e intimidad nunca antes asumidos por un juez en activo, Sonia nos narra el viaje de su vida —desde... Read more >
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $27.95
La primera latina y tan sólo la tercera mujer designada a la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, Sonia Sotomayor se ha convertido en un icono americano contemporáneo. Ahora, con un candor e intimidad nunca antes asumidos por un juez en activo, Sonia nos narra el viaje de su vida —desde... Read more >
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Mi mundo adorado
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $12.99
La primera latina y tan sólo la tercera mujer designada a la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, Sonia Sotomayor se ha convertido en un icono americano contemporáneo. Ahora, con un candor e intimidad nunca antes asumidos por un juez en activo, Sonia nos narra el viaje de su vida —desde... Read more >
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $12.99
La primera latina y tan sólo la tercera mujer designada a la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, Sonia Sotomayor se ha convertido en un icono americano contemporáneo. Ahora, con un candor e intimidad nunca antes asumidos por un juez en activo, Sonia nos narra el viaje de su vida —desde... Read more >
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My Beloved World
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $27.95
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $27.95
The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an...
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My Beloved World
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $12.99
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $12.99
The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an...
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My Beloved World
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Read by Rita Moreno
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $40.00
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Read by Rita Moreno
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $40.00
The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an...
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My Beloved World
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Read by Rita Moreno
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $20.00
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Read by Rita Moreno
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $20.00
The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an...
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Young Thurgood
The Making of a Supreme Court Justice
Written by Larry S. Gibson
Format: Hardcover, 413 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $28.00
As only biography of Thurgood Marshall to be endorsed by Marshall's immediate family, this exhaustively researched and engagingly written work will be of interest to any everyone interested in law, civil rights, American history, and biography. Thurgood Marshall was the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century. He transformed the... Read more >
The Making of a Supreme Court Justice
Written by Larry S. Gibson
Format: Hardcover, 413 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $28.00
As only biography of Thurgood Marshall to be endorsed by Marshall's immediate family, this exhaustively researched and engagingly written work will be of interest to any everyone interested in law, civil rights, American history, and biography. Thurgood Marshall was the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century. He transformed the... Read more >
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Young Thurgood
The Making of a Supreme Court Justice
Written by Larry S. Gibson
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $12.99
As only biography of Thurgood Marshall to be endorsed by Marshall's immediate family, this exhaustively researched and engagingly written work will be of interest to any everyone interested in law, civil rights, American history, and biography. Thurgood Marshall was the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century. He transformed the... Read more >
The Making of a Supreme Court Justice
Written by Larry S. Gibson
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $12.99
As only biography of Thurgood Marshall to be endorsed by Marshall's immediate family, this exhaustively researched and engagingly written work will be of interest to any everyone interested in law, civil rights, American history, and biography. Thurgood Marshall was the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century. He transformed the... Read more >
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Louis D. Brandeis
A Life
Written by Melvin Urofsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 976 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $24.95
A Life
Written by Melvin Urofsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 976 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $24.95
As a young lawyer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Louis Brandeis, born into a family of reformers who came to the United States to escape European anti-Semitism, established the way modern law is practiced. He was an early champion of the right to privacy and pioneer the idea...
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Clarence Darrow
Attorney for the Damned
Written by John A. Farrell
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $17.95
Attorney for the Damned
Written by John A. Farrell
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $17.95
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography
The definitive biography of Clarence Darrow, the brilliant, idiosyncratic lawyer who defended John Scopes in the “Monkey Trial” and gave voice to the populist masses at the turn of the twentieth century, thus changing American law forever.
Amidst the tumult of the...
Madame Prosecutor
Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity
Written by Carla Del Ponte and Chuck Sudetic
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $19.99
Carla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland's attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999, she answered the United Nations' call to become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In her new role, Del Ponte confronted genocide... Read more >
Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity
Written by Carla Del Ponte and Chuck Sudetic
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $19.99
Carla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland's attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999, she answered the United Nations' call to become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In her new role, Del Ponte confronted genocide... Read more >
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Thurgood Marshall
American Revolutionary
Written by Juan Williams
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 22, 2011
Price: $10.99
This New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 1998, is now in trade paper.
From the bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize, here is the definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
American Revolutionary
Written by Juan Williams
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 22, 2011
Price: $10.99
This New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 1998, is now in trade paper.
From the bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize, here is the definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Clarence Darrow
Attorney for the Damned
Written by John A. Farrell
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $32.50
Drawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations, here is the definitive biography of America’s legendary defense attorney and progressive hero.
Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. His... Read more >
Attorney for the Damned
Written by John A. Farrell
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $32.50
Drawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations, here is the definitive biography of America’s legendary defense attorney and progressive hero.
Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. His... Read more >
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Clarence Darrow
Attorney for the Damned
Written by John A. Farrell
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $13.99
Drawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations, here is the definitive biography of America’s legendary defense attorney and progressive hero.
Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. His... Read more >
Attorney for the Damned
Written by John A. Farrell
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $13.99
Drawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations, here is the definitive biography of America’s legendary defense attorney and progressive hero.
Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. His... Read more >
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In Defense of Women
Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate
Written by Nancy Gertner
Format: Hardcover, 298 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $26.95
From a “Human Rights Hero,” a memoir of her illustrious career litigating groundbreaking cases
Today Judge Nancy Gertner dons a long black robe while presiding over court cases for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. But in the 1970s, when she was one of few women in a... Read more >
Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate
Written by Nancy Gertner
Format: Hardcover, 298 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $26.95
From a “Human Rights Hero,” a memoir of her illustrious career litigating groundbreaking cases
Today Judge Nancy Gertner dons a long black robe while presiding over court cases for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. But in the 1970s, when she was one of few women in a... Read more >
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A Defiant Life
Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism in America
Written by Howard Ball
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 6, 2011
Price: $17.99
Thurgood Marshall's extraordinary contribution to civil rights and overcoming racism is more topical than ever, as the national debate on race and the overturning of affirmative action policies make headlines nationwide. Howard Ball, author of eighteen books on the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary, has done copious research for this... Read more >
Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism in America
Written by Howard Ball
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 6, 2011
Price: $17.99
Thurgood Marshall's extraordinary contribution to civil rights and overcoming racism is more topical than ever, as the national debate on race and the overturning of affirmative action policies make headlines nationwide. Howard Ball, author of eighteen books on the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary, has done copious research for this... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Sonia Sotomayor
Una sabia decision
Written by Mario Szichman
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $9.99
Los editores de El Diario La Prensa nos ofrecen la cobertura más completa de la histórica ascensión de la primera latina a la Corte Suprema
En agosto de 2009, Sonia Sotomayor se convirtió en la primera mujer latina en llegar a lo más alto del sistema judicial norteamericano —Sonia Sotomayor: una... Read more >
Una sabia decision
Written by Mario Szichman
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $9.99
Los editores de El Diario La Prensa nos ofrecen la cobertura más completa de la histórica ascensión de la primera latina a la Corte Suprema
En agosto de 2009, Sonia Sotomayor se convirtió en la primera mujer latina en llegar a lo más alto del sistema judicial norteamericano —Sonia Sotomayor: una... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Sonia Sotomayor
Una sabia decisión
Written by Mario Szichman
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $14.00
Los editores de El Diario La Prensa nos ofrecen la cobertura más completa de la histórica ascensión de la primera latina a la Corte Suprema
En agosto de 2009, Sonia Sotomayor se convirtió en la primera mujer latina en llegar a lo más alto del sistema judicial norteamericano —Sonia Sotomayor: una... Read more >
Una sabia decisión
Written by Mario Szichman
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $14.00
Los editores de El Diario La Prensa nos ofrecen la cobertura más completa de la histórica ascensión de la primera latina a la Corte Suprema
En agosto de 2009, Sonia Sotomayor se convirtió en la primera mujer latina en llegar a lo más alto del sistema judicial norteamericano —Sonia Sotomayor: una... Read more >
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Mouthpiece
A Life in -- and Sometimes Just Outside -- the Law
Written by Edward Hayes and Susan Lehman
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2010
Price: $15.99
From prosecuting (and defending) murderers in the Bronx to handling the public and private problems of Manhattan’s elite, Mouthpiece recounts the colorful adventures of New York City’s ultimate legal operator.
“In the pages before us, the Counselor tells a saga’s worth of tales of the city. As the saying goes, he’s got... Read more >
A Life in -- and Sometimes Just Outside -- the Law
Written by Edward Hayes and Susan Lehman
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2010
Price: $15.99
From prosecuting (and defending) murderers in the Bronx to handling the public and private problems of Manhattan’s elite, Mouthpiece recounts the colorful adventures of New York City’s ultimate legal operator.
“In the pages before us, the Counselor tells a saga’s worth of tales of the city. As the saying goes, he’s got... Read more >
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Louis D. Brandeis
A Life
Written by Melvin Urofsky
Format: Hardcover, 976 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $40.00
The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis had at least... Read more >
A Life
Written by Melvin Urofsky
Format: Hardcover, 976 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $40.00
The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis had at least... Read more >
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Louis D. Brandeis
A Life
Written by Melvin Urofsky
Format: eBook, 928 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $19.99
A Life
Written by Melvin Urofsky
Format: eBook, 928 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $19.99
The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.
A huge and galvanizing biography, a revelation...
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Judge Richard S. Arnold
A Legacy of Justice on the Federal Bench
Written by Polly J. Price
Format: Hardcover, 466 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $25.99
In 1994, President Bill Clinton called federal appellate court Judge and fellow Arkansan Richard Sheppard Arnold "the most brilliant man on the federal bench." But for concerns about Arnold’s poor health, Clinton would have nominated him to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the retirement of Justice Harry... Read more >
A Legacy of Justice on the Federal Bench
Written by Polly J. Price
Format: Hardcover, 466 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $25.99
In 1994, President Bill Clinton called federal appellate court Judge and fellow Arkansan Richard Sheppard Arnold "the most brilliant man on the federal bench." But for concerns about Arnold’s poor health, Clinton would have nominated him to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the retirement of Justice Harry... Read more >
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Black Titan
A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Written by Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $11.99
The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and... Read more >
A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Written by Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $11.99
The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and... Read more >
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