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Law in America
A Short History
Written by Lawrence M. Friedman
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $15.00
Throughout America’s history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society’s genetic code. In the masterful hands of the subject’s greatest living historian, the story of the evolution of our laws serves to lay bare the deciding... Read more >
A Short History
Written by Lawrence M. Friedman
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $15.00
Throughout America’s history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society’s genetic code. In the masterful hands of the subject’s greatest living historian, the story of the evolution of our laws serves to lay bare the deciding... Read more >
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Making Our Democracy Work
A Judge's View
Written by Stephen Breyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $16.00
A Judge's View
Written by Stephen Breyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $16.00
Charged with the responsibility of interpreting the Constitution, the Supreme Court has the awesome power to strike down laws enacted by our elected representatives. Why does the public accept the Court’s decisions as legitimate and follow them, even when those decisions are highly unpopular? What must the Court do to maintain...
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Founding Faith
How Our Founding Fathers Forged a Radical New Approach to Religious Liberty
Written by Steven Waldman
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $16.00
The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a “Christian nation.” Many on the left contend that the First Amendment was designed to boldly separate church and state. Neither of these... Read more >
How Our Founding Fathers Forged a Radical New Approach to Religious Liberty
Written by Steven Waldman
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $16.00
The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a “Christian nation.” Many on the left contend that the First Amendment was designed to boldly separate church and state. Neither of these... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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Simple Justice
The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Written by Richard Kluger
Format: Trade Paperback, 880 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $27.95
Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and legal drama in the years before... Read more >
The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Written by Richard Kluger
Format: Trade Paperback, 880 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $27.95
Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and legal drama in the years before... Read more >
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Simple Justice
The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Written by Richard Kluger
Format: eBook, 880 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2011
Price: $19.99
Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and legal drama in the years before... Read more >
The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Written by Richard Kluger
Format: eBook, 880 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2011
Price: $19.99
Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and legal drama in the years before... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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Courtroom 302
A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse
Written by Steve Bogira
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $16.00
Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the... Read more >
A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse
Written by Steve Bogira
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $16.00
Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the... Read more >
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Justice
Crimes, Trials, and Punishments
Written by Dominick Dunne
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $15.00
For more than two decades, Vanity Fair has published Dominick Dunne’s brilliant, revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes, trials, and punishments of our time. Here, in one volume, are Dominick Dunne’s mesmerizing tales of justice denied and justice affirmed. Whether writing of Claus von Bülow’s romp through two trials; the... Read more >
Crimes, Trials, and Punishments
Written by Dominick Dunne
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $15.00
For more than two decades, Vanity Fair has published Dominick Dunne’s brilliant, revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes, trials, and punishments of our time. Here, in one volume, are Dominick Dunne’s mesmerizing tales of justice denied and justice affirmed. Whether writing of Claus von Bülow’s romp through two trials; the... Read more >
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Written by Angela Y. Davis
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
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... Read more >
Written by Angela Y. Davis
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
