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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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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The Majesty of the Law
Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice
Written by Sandra Day O'Connor
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $16.00
In this remarkable book, a national bestseller in hardcover, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history, people, ideas...
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The Supreme Court
Written by William H. Rehnquist
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2002
Price: $15.95
This new edition of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s classic book offers a lively and accessible history of the Supreme Court. His engaging writing illuminates both the high and low points in the Court's history, from Chief Justice Marshall’s dominance of the Court during the early nineteenth century through the landmark...
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Covering
The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
Written by Kenji Yoshino
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 20, 2007
Price: $15.95
In this remarkable and elegant work, acclaimed Yale Law School professor Kenji Yoshino fuses legal manifesto and poetic memoir to call for a redefinition of civil rights in our law and culture.
Everyone covers. To cover is to downplay a disfavored trait so as to blend into the mainstream. Because all of...
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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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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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