The Big Squeeze

Written by Steven Greenhouse

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2008
Price: $14.95

Why, in the world's most affluent nation, are so many corporations squeezing their employees dry? In this fresh, carefully researched book, New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse explores the economic, political, and social trends that are transforming America's workplaces, including the decline of the social contract that created the world's largest... Read more >

The Death of Innocents
An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
Written by Helen Prejean

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 24, 2006
Price: $14.95

Sister Helen Prejean was a little-known Roman Catholic nun from Louisiana when in 1993, her first book Dead Man Walking, challenged the way we look at the death penalty in America. It became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Now in The Death of... Read more >

Illicit
How Smugglers, Traffickers and Counterfeiters are Hijacking the Global Economy
Written by Moises Naim

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.95

Pick up a newspaper anywhere, any day, and you will find reports of illegal migrants, drug busts, smuggled weapons, and laundered money or counterfeit goods. Illicit trades are booming and so are the traffickers’ revenues—and their political influence. Hamstrung bureaucracies in rich and poor countries alike are losing the battles against... Read more >

Louis D. Brandeis
A Life
Written by Melvin Urofsky

Format: eBook, 928 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 >

Errors and Omissions

Written by Paul Goldstein

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $13.95

From one of the foremost experts in the country on intellectual property law, a gripping legal thriller of depth and complexity

Meet Michael Seeley, defender of artists’ rights, take-no-prisoners intellectual property litigator—and a man on the brink of personal and career collapse. So when United Pictures virtually demands that he fly out... Read more >

Active Liberty
Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution
Written by Stephen Breyer

Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95

This book, based on the Tanner lectures on Human Values that Justice Stephen Breyer delivered at Harvard University in November 2004, defines the term “active liberty” as a sharing of the nation’s sovereign authority with its citizens. Regarding the Constitution as a guide for the application of basic American principles to... Read more >

All the Laws but One
Civil Liberties in Wartime
Written by William H. Rehnquist

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95

In All the Laws but One, William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, provides an insightful and fascinating account of the history of civil liberties during wartime and illuminates the cases where presidents have suspended the law in the name of national security.

Abraham Lincoln, champion of freedom and... Read more >

Black Trials
Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste
Written by Mark S. Weiner

Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.95

A sweeping history of American ideas of belonging and citizenship, told through the stories of fourteen legal cases that helped to shape our nation.

Spanning the period from colonial times to the present, Black Trials tells how the place of blacks in American society evolved through the actions of our courts of... Read more >

Centennial Crisis
The Disputed Election of 1876
Written by William H. Rehnquist

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00

Near midnight on Election Day in November 1876, the returns coming into Republican National headquarters signaled a victory for the Democratic presidential candidate, Samuel J. Tilden. But alert Republican leaders saw that if all the states still doubtful or disputed went for their candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes would be elected.  Word was... Read more >

Property and Freedom

Written by Richard Pipes

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00

Property, asserts Richard Pipes, is an indispensable ingredient not only of economic progress but also of liberty and the rule of law. In his new book, the Harvard scholar demonstrates how, throughout history, private ownership has served as a barrier to the power of the state, enabling the Western world to... Read more >