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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
The Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (3 Volume Set)
The Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (3 Volume Set) Review
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This Encyclopedia on American history and law is the first devoted to examining the issues of civil liberties and their relevance to major current events while providing a historical context and a philosophical discussion of the evolution of civil liberties.
Coverage includes the traditional civil liberties: freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition. In addition, it also covers concerns such as privacy, the rights of the accused, and national security. Alphabetically organized for ease of access, the articles range in length from 250 words for a brief biography to 5,000 words for in-depth analyses. Entries are organized around the following themes:
- organizations and government bodies
- legislation and legislative action, statutes, and acts
- historical overviews
- biographies
- cases
- themes, issues, concepts, and events.
The Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties is an essential reference for students and researchers as well as for the general reader to help better understand the world we live in today.
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
The Presidency A-Z (American Government S.)
The Presidency A-Z (American Government S.) Review
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An illustrated reference guide that offers quick answers to readers' questions about the American presidency and the individuals who have served it (all American presidents are included). Abundant charts, tables, illustrations, and a detailed index enhance more than 300 alphabetical entries that bring to life the history, processes, and personalities connected to America's highest office. This Second Edition includes information up through the 1996 election and President Clinton's second term.
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Friday, September 23, 2011
Death and Redemption in London & L.A.
Death and Redemption in London & L.A. Review
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Devastated that his wife and writing partner of 25 years left him on the eve of the new millennium, Lionel Rolfe set pen to paper in an attempt to make sense of the dance between men and women. But, as he began writing, a deeper understanding took hold – the Grim Reaper stopped by. And not just once, but again and again. The deaths of Carl Kessler, the unrepentant Stalinist and trade union organizer, and Nieson Himmel, a close friend and veteran nighttime police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, hit him hard. But it was the death of Rolfe's uncle, the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin, that turned his life upside down. In the end, the emotional ordeal was a blessing in disguise. After all, without it, the world would not have DEATH AND REDEMPTION IN LONDON & L.A. – an engrossing tale of one man’s search for redemption in the only place it has ever been found… within the soul. Come along with the author as he strives to deal with a life half-lived and dreams perpetually deferred. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry. But most of all, you’ll see the world through the eyes of a man truly in touch with his sensibilities; a man who’ll change your worldview forever.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Legalines: Domestic Relations: Adaptable to 5th Edition of the Wadlington Casebook
Legalines: Domestic Relations: Adaptable to 5th Edition of the Wadlington Casebook Review
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Legalines gives you authoritative, detailed briefs of every major case in your casebook. You get a clear explanation of facts, the issues, the court’s holding and reasoning, and any significant concurrences or dissents. Even more importantly, you get an authoritative explanation of the significance of each case, and how it relates to other cases in your casebook. And with Legalines’ detailed table of cases, you can quickly find any case or concept you’re looking for. But your professor expects you to know more than just the cases. That’s why Legalines gives you more than just case briefs. You get summaries of the black letter law as well. That’s crucial because some of the most important information in your casebooks isn’t in the cases at all… it’s the black letter principles you’re expected to glean from those cases. Legalines is the only study aid that gives you both case briefs and black letter review. With Legalines, you get everything you need to know – whether it’s in a case or not!
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Law and Society in the South: A History of North Carolina Court Cases (New Directions in Southern History)
Law and Society in the South: A History of North Carolina Court Cases (New Directions in Southern History) Review
Law and Society in the South: A History of North Carolina Court Cases (New Directions in Southern History) Feature
Law and Society in the South reconstructs eight pivotal legal disputes heard in North Carolina courts between the 1830s and the 1970s and examines some of the most controversial issues of southern history, including white supremacy and race relations, the teaching of evolution in public schools, and Prohibition. Finally, the book explores the various ways in which law and society interacted in the South during the civil rights era. The voices of racial minorities-some urging integration, others opposing it-grew more audible within the legal system during this time. Law and Society in the South divulges the true nature of the courts: as the unpredictable venues of intense battles between southerners as they endured dramatic changes in their governing values.
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Justice Denoted: The Legal Thriller in American, British, and Continental Courtroom Literature (Bibliographies and Indexes in Popular Culture)
Justice Denoted: The Legal Thriller in American, British, and Continental Courtroom Literature (Bibliographies and Indexes in Popular Culture) Review
Justice Denoted: The Legal Thriller in American, British, and Continental Courtroom Literature (Bibliographies and Indexes in Popular Culture) Feature
White provides the most comprehensive scholarly compilation of fictional work of legal suspense in existence. Primarily a bibliography of novels, it also annotates plays, scripts for film and television, novelizations, and short-story collections about lawyers and the law. The idea behind the principal of selection is to disdain labels that reduce the variety of the legal thriller to a subgenre of mystery fiction. Novels that range from suspense thrillers through science fiction to the philosophical novel are included if justice is thematically important. It is therefore an eclectic reference source beyond a compilation of books about lawyers as protagonists. Its biographical and scholarly information about authors, major and minor, and their novels or works is traditionally encyclopedic and objective regardless of whether the work has been genre-defined, or worse—deified as a classic or denigrated as a bestseller. Many novels included are long out of print, but historically interesting for their contribution to the lineage of the courtroom drama, showing that the history of the legal thriller is one of the major branches of modern literature since the Age of Reason.
The criterion of justice denoted moves beyond the fact of lawyers and courtrooms to select seminal novels like Robert Travers' Anatomy of a Murder as well as the romantic potboiler. Among the more than 2,000 works are the Perry Mason novels of Erle Stanley Gardner, John Mortimer's Rumpole series, along with a staple of fiction by major authors of the genre like John Lescroart, Lisa Scottoline, Margaret Maron, Scott Turow, and John Grisham. There are also individual works by Shakespeare, Goethe, Kafka, Camus, and Twain delineating humanity's obsession with the law as its shining prop of civilization and, alternative, béte-noire of the common individual caught up in its maw. The appendices include comments by lawyer-novelist Michael A. Kahn, a historical introduction to the legal thriller, craft notes by writers and prominent trial lawyers responding to author and lawyer questionnaires, bibliography of critical sources and articles, series characters, and the legal terminology found in courtroom dramas and novels. An essential reference tool for scholars, researchers as well as the occasional reader of legal thrillers.
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
World Encyclopedia of 20th Century Murder (True Crime Library)
World Encyclopedia of 20th Century Murder (True Crime Library) Review
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The most up-to-date source of information on murder ever compiled. In the hundreds of entries the author explores the minds, motives and methods of murderers world-wide and builds up a portrait of the men and women who kill.
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Saturday, September 17, 2011
Historic U.S. Court Cases: An Encyclopedia, Volume II Second Edition
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles: The Trials of Earl Rogers
Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles: The Trials of Earl Rogers Review
Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles: The Trials of Earl Rogers Feature
Earl Rogers was born in upstate New York in 1869. Sworn into the practice of law in California in 1897, Rogers' prolific legal career in Los Angeles spanned twenty-one years, ending in 1918.
He defended the famous and infamous, including:
- The great Clarence Darrow on charges of jury bribery
- Los Angeles Police Chief Charles Sebastian (who later became mayor of L.A.) on charges of having illegal sexual relations with a minor
- real estate tycoon Colonel Griffith J. Griffith, who donated Griffith Park to the State of California, on charges of attempted murder of his wife
- Heavyweight Champion Jess Willard on second degree murder charges
- United Railroad chief Patrick Calhoun on charges of corruption and bribery of public officials in San Francisco
Rogers tried 77 murder trials, losing but three. In an era when there was no television, when radio and moving pictures were in their infancy, the daily newspapers of Los Angeles communicated the news to its citizens. Their coverage of Earl Rogers made him a man of great celebrity.
This book reveals Rogers through his most famous trials, including extensive quotes from the trial transcripts, biographical sketches of the participants, and analyses of the often amazing verdicts.
Handsome, brilliant and famous, he was also a raging alcoholic and a womanizer. His young daughter, Adela Rogers (St. Johns), who went on to achieve great fame as a writer and journalist, would often have the responsibility of looking for her father on the eve of a big trial, only to find him drunk in a sporting house. After a trip to the turkish baths, Rogers would be back in court doing battle brilliantly, only to disappear at trial's end for the process to repeat itself again and again.
Despite earning a huge fortune in legal fees as California's foremost trial lawyer, the cunning talented, charismatic and prolific Earl Rogers, a man whose words could move a jury from tears to laughter at will, died penniless in 1922 in a Los Angeles boarding house; a hopeless and broken-down drunk at the age of 52.
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