The Nine
Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $15.95
In
The Nine, acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at...
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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...
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The Federalist Papers
Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
Format: Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1982
Price: $7.99
Originally published anonymously,
The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Still hotly debated, and open to often controversial interpretations, the arguments first presented here by three of America’s greatest patriots and...
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A Civil Action
Written by Jonathan Harr
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $16.00
"The legal thriller of the decade." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
Now a Major Motion Picture!
In this true story of an epic courtroom showdown, two of the nation's largest corporations stand accused of causing the deaths of children. Representing the bereaved parents, the unlikeliest of heroes emerges: a young, flamboyant Porsche-driving lawyer who hopes...
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Dead Man Walking
Written by Helen Prejean
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 31, 1994
Price: $14.95
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified...
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The Forensic Casebook
The Science of Crime Scene Investigation
Written by Ngaire E. Genge
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $17.95
THE ULTIMATE READERS’ GUIDE TO THE ART OF FORENSICS!
An intrepid investigator crawls through miles of air conditioning ducts to capture the implicating fibers of a suspect’s wool jacket . . . A forensic entomologist discovers insects in the grill of a car and nails down a drug dealer’s precise geographical path...
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Tierra de todos
Nuestro momento para crear una nación de iguales
Written by Jorge Ramos
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $13.00
Estados Unidos es un país que hoy tiene habitantes de primera y de segunda clase. Esto tiene que cambiar, y pronto. Hay 12 millones de indocumentados, pero también hay una esperanza: la promesa que Barack Obama le hizo a Jorge Ramos de que durante su primer año como presidente apoyaría una...
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Gideon's Trumpet
Written by Anthony Lewis
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 23, 1989
Price: $13.95
A history of the landmark case of James Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist bestseller. More than 800,000 sold since its first pub date of 1964.
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Firefighters
Their Lives in Their Own Words
Written by Dennis Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2002
Price: $14.95
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...
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