The Right to Privacy
Written by Caroline Kennedy and Ellen Alderman
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2010
Price: $14.99
Can the police strip-search a woman who has been arrested for a minor traffic violation? Can a magazine publish an embarrassing photo of you without your permission? Does your boss have the right to read your email? Can a company monitor its employees' off-the-job lifestyles--and fire those who drink, smoke, or...
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Active Liberty
Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution
Written by Stephen Breyer
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
A brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.For Justice Breyer, the Constitution’s primary role is to preserve and encourage what he calls “active liberty”: citizen participation in shaping government and its laws. As this book argues, promoting active liberty requires...
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Witsec
Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program
Written by Pete Earley
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2003
Price: $7.99
For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked in controversy and mystery as the Federal Witness Protection Program. Now, for the first time, Gerald Shur, the man credited with the creation of WITSEC, teams with acclaimed investigative journalist Pete Earley to tell the inside story of turncoats, crime-fighters, killers...
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Louis D. Brandeis
A Life
Written by Melvin Urofsky
Format: eBook, 928 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $19.99
The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.
A huge and galvanizing biography, a revelation...
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The Future of Ideas
The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
Written by Lawrence Lessig
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 22, 2002
Price: $16.00
The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In
The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating...
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Anatomy of Injustice
A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Written by Raymond Bonner
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $26.95
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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