America's Constitution
A Biography
Written by Akhil Reed Amar
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: February 29, 2012
Price: $15.99
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America’s Constitution, one of this era’s most accomplished constitutional law scholars, Akhil Reed Amar, gives the first comprehensive account of one of the world’s great political texts. Incisive, entertaining, and occasionally controversial, this “biography” of America’s framing document explains not only what the Constitution says but also why the Constitution...
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The Nine
Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Read by Don Leslie
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $22.50
Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the Supreme Court and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land.
Just in time for the 2008 presidential election–where the future of the Court will be at stake–Toobin reveals an institution at a...
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There Is Power in a Union
The Epic Story of Labor in America
Written by Philip Dray
Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $19.95
From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience.
In this stirring new history, Philip Dray shows us the vital accomplishments of organized labor...
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Out of Order
Stories from the History of the Supreme Court
Written by Sandra Day O'Connor
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $12.99
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“I called this book Out of Order because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court. Most people know the Court only as it exists between bangs of the gavel, when the Court comes to order to hear arguments or give...
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Anatomy of Injustice
A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Written by Raymond Bonner
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $16.00
From Pulitzer Prize winner Raymond Bonner, the gripping story of a grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man 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...
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A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Third Edition
Written by Marie C. Malaro and Ildiko DeAngelis
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $47.95
Hailed when it was first published in 1985 as the bible of U.S. collections management,
A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections offers the only comprehensive discussion of the legal questions faced by museums regarding collections. This revised and expanded third edition addresses the many legal developments—including a comprehensive discussion of...
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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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