• Books,  QP Blog,  Yale Law Journal

    Yale Law Journal‘s Dec. 2012 issue covers the disappearing civil trial, grading restaurants’ cleanliness, paying witnesses, the Confrontation Clause in lower courts, and targeted killings

    One of the world’s leading law journals is available in quality ebook formats. This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the third of Volume 122, academic year 2012-2013) features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: • John H. Langbein, “The Disappearance of Civil Trial in the United States” • Daniel E. Ho, “Fudging the Nudge: Information Disclosure and Restaurant Grading” • Saul Levmore & Ariel Porat, “Asymmetries and Incentives in Plea Bargaining and Evidence Production” The issue also includes extensive student research on targeted killings of international outlaws, Confrontation Clause jurisprudence as implemented in lower courts, and the implied license doctrine…

  • Books,  History and Heroes

    Truscott’s Command Missions: Inside account of World War II’s European Theater, now a Digitally Remastered Book™

    “You play games to win, not lose. And you fight wars to win. That’s spelled W-I-N! And every good player in a game and every good commander in a war … has to have some son of a bitch in him. If he doesn’t, he isn’t a good player or commander…. It’s as simple as that. No son of a bitch, no commander.” Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., was a hard-driving U.S. colonel and general in World War II, a leader and victor in North Africa, Italy, and Southern France. He did not abide incompetence, even when it came from his superiors. He always spoke truth to power. And…

  • Books,  Classics of the Social Sciences,  Featured

    Samuel Krislov’s Representative Bureaucracy is back in paperback, hardcover & eBooks

    “Professor Samuel Krislov’s Representative Bureaucracy remains among the most important and enduring books in the field of public administration and its intersection with political science. It takes the kernel of the idea, inchoately introduced in J. Donald Kingsley’s 1944 book by the same title, that public bureaucracies can be representative political institutions and it develops an overall analytic framework with empirically testable propositions that has served subsequent generations scholars very well. So well, in fact, that as the literature on representative bureaucracy blossomed, these propositions have become so ingrained that many younger scholars are unaware of their initial formulation and roots. That is one reason why the republication of this…

  • Books,  Classics of the Social Sciences,  Featured

    Talcott Parsons’ Foundational Book, The Social System: Digitally Remastered, adds analytical Intro by Neil Smelser

    The classic and unabridged work on the theory of sociology from one of its greatest voices in the U.S. over the 2oth century is finally available in a modern, affordable eBook, and new paperback. We are proud to note that this is Quid Pro’s 100th book published to Amazon Kindle since April 2010, in addition to all our print editions in our expanding catalog, and eBook editions for Apple, Nook, Sony, and other apps and devices. Part of the Classics of the Social Sciences Series from Quid Pro: quality digital formatting features fully-linked footnotes, active table of contents, proper formatting, all graphs and tables, and the original Index. The 60th…

  • Books,  Featured,  History and Heroes

    Abernethy’s classic history examines Tennessee and democracy in emerging territories: From Frontier to Plantation in Tennessee

    FROM FRONTIER TO PLANTATION IN TENNESSEE is the classic book by late UVa professor of history Thomas Perkins Abernethy about the formative years of Tennessee and its  early political leadership. Now republished in a quality paperback edition without underlines and distracting stray marks, it has been Digitally Remastered to restore missing parts of words, cleaner text, and more consistently legible footnotes. Abernethy studied a time when Tennessee was the original Wild West and a laboratory for U.S. expansion and repopulation–the first new state born out of a territory. Answering the idealized histories that had uncritically praised the democracticizing effects of the Frontier in American history, Abernethy discusses such leaders as…

  • Books,  Harvard Law Review,  QP Blog

    Harvard Law Review‘s January 2013 issue explores politicians and redistricting, copyright reform, the independent status of the SEC, & recent cases

    The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition for ereaders and pads, featuring active Contents, linked notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 3, January 2013, include: • Article, “Politicians as Fiduciaries,” by D. Theodore Rave • Book Review, “Is Copyright Reform Possible?” by Pamela Samuelson • Note, “The SEC Is Not an Independent Agency” In addition, student research explores Recent Cases on the Fourth Amendment implications of “pinging” a GPS signal on a cellphone, the First Amendment and mandatory tobacco graphic warnings, the First Amendment and police impersonation statutes, whether software method claims are patent ineligible, defamation law and the changing “per se” status of…

  • Books,  Harvard Law Review

    Harvard Law Review‘s Issue 2 (Dec. 2012): separation of powers, class actions, fixing Washington, student loan bankruptcy, DOMA, and more

    Available in ebooks even before the print edition is sold, the Harvard Law Review is offered in a high-quality digital edition, featuring active Contents and linked notes. Issue 2 includes articles by such scholars as Margaret Lemos, Curtis Bradley & Trevor Morrison, and Richard Hasen, as well as extensive student commentary.

  • Books,  Featured,  Journeys and Memoirs Series

    Lee Scheingold’s One Silken Thread ties poetry, loss, and introspection

    Lee Scheingold’s rich, painful personal journey—following the death of her husband, famed political scientist Stuart Scheingold—is described from the points of view which have informed her life: psychoanalysis, clinical social work, Buddhist meditation, and family medicine. Poetry is the connecting thread, beginning with the Russian poems she studied long ago in college, and then to a variety of contemporary American and English verse. This is an emotional and intellectual account of profound grief from a professional psychotherapist who has approached her recent life with continual introspection and self-reflection. She explores the experiences which enabled her to tolerate and even welcome the feelings of grief.  She examines, with the issue of…

  • Books,  QP Blog,  Yale Law Journal

    Yale Law Journal Issue 2, Nov. 2012, features new articles by Karen Tani, Adrian Vermeule and Andrew Coan

    One of the world’s leading law journals is available in quality ebook formats for ereader devices and apps. This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the second issue of Volume 122, academic year 2012-2013) features new articles and essays on law and legal theory, and in particular examines: the language of rights discourse, even before the expansion of welfare in the 1960s (Karen Tani); impartiality of judges and legislators and its limits (Adrian Vermeule); and constitutional law and judicial capacity (Andrew Coan). The issue also features substantial student contributions on bankruptcy-proof financing, as well as recoupment from financial executives under Dodd-Frank. Ebook formatting includes linked notes and active Contents (including…

  • Books,  Featured,  Legal History & Biography,  Legal Legends

    The annotated Common Law: Holmes Gets Decoded for a New Generation, in Hardcover, Paperback & eBook

    The only corrected and annotated version available of this foundational work on law and legal reasoning, read by generations of law students, scholars, and historians -- now in a 2010 edition with an explanatory Foreword, active contents, linked and numbered footnotes, and clarifying annotations throughout. In hardcover, paperback, and eight digital versions.