Gideon's Trumpet
Written by Anthony Lewis
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2011
Price: $13.99
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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Dead Man Walking
Written by Helen Prejean
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 31, 1994
Price: $15.00
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 Best 168 Law Schools, 2013 Edition
Written by Princeton Review
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $22.99
We can help you make the right decision.The Princeton Review's
The Best 168 Law Schools gives you student survey-driven profiles of the nation's top 168 law schools as well as detailed statistical information about accredited law schools. Each profile provides information on academics and campus life, and also provides answers to all the practical...
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Written by Angela Y. Davis
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2003
Price: $11.95
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of...
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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: $20.00
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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A Civil Action
Written by Jonathan Harr
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2011
Price: $11.99
"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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Writing to Win
The Legal Writer
Written by Steven D. Stark
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $16.99
From a master teacher and writer, a fully revised and updated edition of the results-oriented approach to legal writing that is clear, that persuades--and that WINS.
More than almost any profession, the law has a deserved reputation for opaque, jargon-clogged writing. Yet forceful writing is one of the most potent weapons of...
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A Country for All
An Immigrant Manifesto
Written by Jorge Ramos
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $14.95
For decades, fixing the United States’ broken immigration system has been one of the most urgent challenges facing our country, and time and time again, politicians have passed the buck. With anti-immigrant sentiment rising around the country, as evidenced by the passage of a controversial new law in Arizona, it is...
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