The Nine
Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $15.95
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The Nine, acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at...
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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: $6.50
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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The Nine
Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $27.95
Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land.
Just in time for the 2008 presidential election—where the future of the Court will be...
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The Big Squeeze
Tough Times for the American Worker
Written by Steven Greenhouse
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2008
Price: $25.95
The Big Squeeze takes a fresh, probing, and often shocking look at the stresses and strains faced by tens of millions of American workers as wages have stagnated, health and pension benefits have grown stingier, and job security has shriveled.
Going behind the scenes, Steven Greenhouse tells the stories of software engineers...
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A Civil Action
Written by Jonathan Harr
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $15.95
"The legal thriller of the decade." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
Now a Major Motion Picture!
In this true story of an epic courtroom showdown, two of the nation's largest corporations stand accused of causing the deaths of children. Representing the bereaved parents, the unlikeliest of heroes emerges: a young, flamboyant Porsche-driving lawyer who hopes...
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The Forensic Casebook
The Science of Crime Scene Investigation
Written by Ngaire E. Genge
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $17.95
THE ULTIMATE READERS’ GUIDE TO THE ART OF FORENSICS!
An intrepid investigator crawls through miles of air conditioning ducts to capture the implicating fibers of a suspect’s wool jacket . . . A forensic entomologist discovers insects in the grill of a car and nails down a drug dealer’s precise geographical path...
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Dead Man Walking
Written by Helen Prejean
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 31, 1994
Price: $13.95
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified...
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Gideon's Trumpet
Written by Anthony Lewis
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 23, 1989
Price: $13.95
A history of the landmark case of James Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist bestseller. More than 800,000 sold since its first pub date of 1964.
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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: $15.95
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...
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