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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Make No Law
The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment
Written by Anthony Lewis
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1992
Price: $16.95
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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The Death of Common Sense
How Law Is Suffocating America
Written by Philip K. Howard
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $15.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of...
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Enemies
A History of the FBI
Written by Tim Weiner
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $30.00
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • New York Daily News • Slate“Fast-paced, fair-minded, and fascinating, Tim Weiner’s
Enemies turns the long history of the FBI into a story that is as compelling, and important, as today’s headlines.”—Jeffrey Toobin, author of
The Oath ...
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Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 5th Edition
Written by Princeton Review
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $13.99
Stand out in a crowd of law school applicants with an outstanding personal statement.
Law schools are receiving more applications than ever with high LSAT scores and excellent grades. To get in, you also need a personal statement that shines.
Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 5th Edition, gives you...
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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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This Business of Television
Written by Howard Blumenthal and Oliver Goodenough
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2006
Price: $35.00
Broad in scope and rich in detail,
This Business of Television has been the essential sourcebook for producers, writers, broadcasters, network executives, and other television professionals since the first edition was published in 1991. And as the television business continues to evolve,
This Business of Television evolves along with it. This...
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The Anatomy of Violence
The Biological Roots of Crime
Written by Adrian Raine
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $35.00
With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout
Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies neuroscience techniques...
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Stealth of Nations
The Global Rise of the Informal Economy
Written by Robert Neuwirth
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $11.99
• Thousands of Africans head to China each year to buy cell phones, auto parts, and other products that they will import to their home countries through a clandestine global back channel.
• Hundreds of Paraguayan merchants smuggle computers, electronics, and clothing across the border to Brazil.
• Scores of laid-off San...
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