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Constitutional Conflicts between Congress and the President
by Louis FisherThis text covers issues relating to conflicts between congress and the President. The scan is in tact, but has numorous footnotes, so the reader needs to be aware of these at the botton of each page.
The Best Lawyer In A One-Lawyer Town
by Dale BumpersAutobiography of the former Arkansas governor and legislator.
The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial
by Casey CharlesStudy of a long dispute for guardianship of a disabled woman between her parents and her partner.
New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention
by Nicolaus Mills Kira BrunnerThe question of the responsibility inherent in the unrivaled might of the U.S. military is one that continues to take up headlines across the globe. This award-winning group of reporters and scholars, including, among others, David Rieff, Peter Maass, Philip Gourevitch, William Shawcross, George Packer, Bill Berkeley and Samantha Power revisit four of the worst instances of state-sponsored killing--Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and East Timor--in the last half of the twentieth century in order to reconsider the success and failure of U.S. and U.N. military and humanitarian intervention.Featuring original essays and reporting, The New Killing Fields poses vital questions about the future of peacekeeping in the next century. In addition, theoretical essays by Michael Walzer and Michael Ignatieff frame the issue of intervention in terms of today's post-cold war reality and the future of human rights.
Make Them Go Away: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve and the Case Against Disability Rights
by Mary JohnsonHow the anti-ADA forces prevailed
Law And Ardor
by Ralph McinernyAndrew Broom is pleased to be working on an investigation in which he can combine a visit to the crime scene with a quick nine holes. But-
In America's Court: How a Civil Lawyer Who Likes to Settle Stumbled into a Criminal Trial
by Thomas GeogheganA lawyer used to the civil courts finds himself in a criminal court where things are very different.
Personal Injuries
by Scott TurowA compelling and convincing account of a long-term government-run sting operation.
Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case that Launched Forensic Science
by Colin BeavanHistory of how fingerprints came to be studied and used in forensics.
Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World
by Jean Bethke ElshtainAnalysis of the demands arising from the terror of 9-11.
Shooting Straight: Telling the Truth About Guns in America
by Wayne Lapierre James J. BakerOpposed to gun control.
A Mother's Touch: The Tiffany Callo Story
by Jay MathewsThe author, a journalist, retraces the life of Tiffany Callo and her battle to regain custody of her two children. Tiffany, a teenage mother living on public assistence, was deemed an unfit mother by the children's services of Santa Clara County, CA. Her disability - cerebral palsy - was used as a major strike against her. Callo's case aroused wide publicity and helped arouse interest in the rights and concerns of parents with disabilities.
This Sovereign Land
by Daniel KemmisThe westerner and the democrat has long been convinced, and because of this the author found himself disagreeing with his environmentalist and Democrat friends. So deep are some of these disagreements that the author has often doubted whether he was actually seeing what he thought he saw in the West. Despite these strong feelings he has tried to convey his understanding of the West, where it has been and where it is going.
Out of Order
by Bonnie MacdougalOn the night of a lavish party celebrating newlyweds Doug and Campbell Smith, tragedy strikes when the thirteen-year-old son of an influential senator is kidnapped. The senator--Doug's mentor--urges Cam to track the boy down. It is an offer she cannot refuse, despite her own unsettling suspicion that the statesman seems less concerned about his child than about keeping the scandal out of the headlines. But as Cam soon discovers, everyone has something to hide. With a circle of wealth and ambition closing in tightly around her, Cam penetrates layer upon layer of lies and invention. For the abduction is not what it seems. After using all her investigative skills to find the missing boy, she begins to uncover the shocking story that links him to his captor. Surprised at her deepening attachment to them both, struggling between her duty and what is best for the child, Cam starts to question her loyalties, her marriage, her priorities, even the man she thought she loved. As she pieces together an intricate pattern of abuse and cover-up; as a series of brutal murders looms ever closer, Cam is forced to make the most agonizing decision of her life--to reveal the devastating secret of her own past ... and the shattering lie she has lived for years.
The Ethics of War and Nuclear Deterrence
by James P. SterbaA selection of addresses, essays and lectures on the moral and ethical aspects of war and the strategy of deterrence.
Encyclopedia Brown's Book of Strange but True Crimes
by Donald J. Sobol Rose SobolEncyclopedia Brown's scrapbook with over 200 unbelievable but true stories.
Up Jumps the Devil (Deborah Knott #4)
by Margaret MaronHer father was a bootlegger. She's mixed up in a murder. And, to top it off, she's a judge.
Doctored Evidence
by Michael BiehlA mystery novel in the Karen Hayes series previously published in hardcover by Bridgeworks, now in paperback. Karen Hayes is a smart and courageous hospital attorney. In this novel a medical device fails and the patient dies on the operating table. Was it an accident, or murder? Hayes must find out: her job and her life depend on it.
Animal Rights: Opposing Viewpoints
by Andrew HarnackEssays giving opposing viewpoints on a variety of topics related to animal rights. Areas include whether animals do in fact have rights, whether animal experimentation is justified, the use of animals for food and other commodities, the protection of wildlife, and unresolved issues within the animal rights movement.
The Minority Rights Revolution
by John D. SkrentnyA study of the ways in which minority rights have come to be and of how they should be changed.
The Fourth Amendment
by Charles M. WettererShows how the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution has been historically interpreted by the judicial system and presents cases which illustrate how it is currently being applied.
Rural Woman Battering and the Justice System: An Ethnography
by Neil WebsdaleThe backbone of this book derives from lengthy conversations with 50 rural battered women, resident in various spouse abuse shelters in Kentucky.
The Myth of the Imperial Judiciary: Why the Right is Wrong About the Courts
by Mark KozlowskiAnalysis of judicial activity.
First Among Equals: The Supreme Court in American Life
by Kenneth W. StarrAnalysis of the Supreme Court since Earl Warren left the Court in 1969.
Degree of Guilt (Christopher Paget #2)
by Richard North PattersonA claim of attempted rape. A talepathology. These are the elements of Degree of Guilt, Richard North Patterson's stunning courtroom novel. Christopher Paget is a trial lawyer with a famous past: as a young investigator in Washington, he unearthed a scandal that brought ruin to a President--and an abrupt end to Paget's affair with Mary Carelli. Now, fifteen years later, they are estranged. Carelli is a well-known television journalist based in New York; Paget lives quietly in San Francisco, raising their teenage son and preserving what privacy he can. Until a charge of murder changes everything. The victim is America's most eminent novelist, Mark Ransom. The accused is Mary Carelli. Her defense is attempted rape. The man she chooses to defend her is Christopher Paget. Carelli does not deny that she killed Ransom, but a fateful question remains to be answered: Was it self-defense or was it murder? In preparation for a trial, Paget sets out to establish that Mark Ransom was the twisted man Carelli claims he was. With the help of an associate, Teresa Peralta, Paget uncovers compelling evidence that presents a complex and disturbing picture of Ransom as a sexual predator. But this evidence may not be admissible in court. And there are other unsettling surprises: a secret in Carelli's past that provides her with a powerful motive for murder; facts that suggest she has been lying; a woman prosecutor who firmly believes that Carelli is using the issue of rape to conceal murder; and an enigmatic judge who may very well have an agenda of her own. With the odds against Carelli's acquittal quickly rising, Christopher Paget is faced with a risky legal decision that leads to an explosive convergence of public trial and private conflict--a decision that threatens not only Mary Carelli's future, but his own, and their son's, as well. From first to last, Degree of Guilt holds us galvanized by its masterful storytelling, its complexity of motive and feeling, its vivid depiction of men and women under pressure, and its brilliant delineation of even the most subtle courtroom dynamics. It is an electrifying story of a search for legal and emotional truth. It is the ultimate courtroom drama.