Stealth of Nations
The Global Rise of the Informal Economy
Written by Robert Neuwirth
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $16.00
An eye-opening account of the informal economy around the globe, Stealth of Nations traces the history and reach of unregulated markets, and explains the unwritten rules that govern them.
Journalist Robert Neuwirth joins globe-trotting Nigerians who sell Chinese cell phones and laid-off San Franciscans who use Twitter to market street food...
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Abolition Democracy
Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture
Written by Angela Y. Davis
Format: Trade Paperback, 132 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $12.95
Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world’s leading democracy. It is within this context...
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The Journalist and the Murderer
Written by Janet Malcolm
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: October 31, 1990
Price: $15.00
In two previous books, Janet Malcolm explored the hidden sides of, respectively, institutional psychoanalysis and Freudian biography. In this book, she examines the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as her larger-than-life example -- the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of...
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Anatomy of Injustice
A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Written by Raymond Bonner
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $11.99
The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.
In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His...
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Make No Law
The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment
Written by Anthony Lewis
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2011
Price: $12.99
The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued The New York Times for libel -- and was awarded $500,000 by a local jury -- because the paper had published...
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Reversal of Fortune
Inside the Von Bulow Case
Written by Alan M. Dershowitz
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2013
Price: $11.99
Defense attorney and Harvard law professor provides an insider's account of the trial, appeal, subsequent retrial, and acquittal in the murder case of Claus von Bulow, profiling the people involved.
NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.
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Illicit
How Smugglers, Traffickers and Counterfeiters are Hijacking the Global Economy
Written by Moises Naim
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $15.99
A groundbreaking investigation of how illicit commerce is changing the world by transforming economies, reshaping politics, and capturing governments.In this fascinating and comprehensive examination of the underside of globalization, Moises Naím illuminates the struggle between traffickers and the hamstrung bureaucracies trying to control them. From illegal migrants to drugs to weapons...
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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
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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Making Our Democracy Work
A Judge's View
Written by Stephen Breyer
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $13.99
The Supreme Court is one of the most extraordinary institutions in our system of government. Charged with the responsibility of interpreting the Constitution, the nine unelected justices of the Court have the awesome power to strike down laws enacted by our elected representatives. Why does the public accept the Court’s decisions...
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