Books
Our catalog of all books of all genres and formats.
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Crump’s How To Reason explains logic, scientific method, statistics, game theory, psychology, jurisprudence, econ, accounting, and more
This book is a kind of “thinker’s toolkit.” It’s a guide to clear reasoning. The sources range from Plato to Pareto, from Kant to Clausewitz, from Rawls to Rousseau, from Freud to Friedman, and from Adam and Eve to Adam Smith. In these pages, you will be amused by the fallacy of Bertrand Russell’s chicken-and by game theorists’ analyses of the game of chicken. You will see how air conditioning works, how obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is diagnosed, and how General Norman Schwartzkopf started the invasion of Iraq that began Operation Desert Storm. If some of these names are unfamiliar to you, don’t worry. They’re unfamiliar to many well-educated people. The…
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Wilensky’s classic Organizational Intelligence takes on failure in intelligence and informational decision-making
This prize-winning, foundational book — now in an ebook edition and new paperback, featuring a 2015 Foreword by Neil Smelser — focuses on the structural and ideological roots of intelligence failures (both informational and analytical) found in government, industry, and other institutions. It provides groundbreaking theory and structure to the analysis of decision-making processes and their breakdowns, as well as the interactions among experts and the organizations they inform.In this book, both “organization” and “intelligence” are taken to their larger meanings, not just focused on the military meaning of intelligence or on one set of institutions in society. Astute illustrations of intelligence failures abound from real-world cases, such as foreign…
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Harvard Law Review, March 2015, on creating around copyright, property as the new privacy, value of illegal immigrants, more
The Harvard Law Review, March 2015, is offered in a digital edition. Contents include: • Article, “Creating Around Copyright,” Joseph P. Fishman • Book Review, “Growing Up Outside the Law,” Stephen Lee • Book Review, “Property Is the New Privacy: The Coming Constitutional Revolution,” Suzanna Sherry • Note, “Working Together for an Independent Expenditure: Candidate Assistance with Super PAC Fundraising” In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases and policy positions, including such subjects as: defining ‘government instrumentality’ under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, invalidation of New York soda-portion cap, whether the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission lacks jurisdiction over rates for nonconsumption of energy, standard of review for…
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Galanter’s much-cited Why the Haves Come Out Ahead is now a book, adding new commentary
This is the fortieth anniversary edition of a classic of law and society, updated with extensive new commentary. Drawing a distinction between experienced “repeat players” and inexperienced “one shotters” in the U.S. judicial system, Marc Galanter establishes a recognized and applied model of how the structure of the legal system and an actor’s frequency of interaction with it can predict outcomes. Notwithstanding democratic institutions of governance and the “majestic equality” of the courts, the enactment and implementation of genuinely redistributive measures is a hard uphill struggle. In one of the most-cited essays in the legal literature, Galanter incisively demolishes the myth that courts are the prime equalizing force in American…
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Harvard Law Review, Feb. 2015: changing rate of innocent incarceration, government as business, privileges & immunities, and early voting after Shelby
The Harvard Law Review, February 2015, is offered in a digital edition. Contents include: • Article, “The Consequences of Error in Criminal Justice,” Daniel Epps • Book Review, “Running Government Like a Business … Then and Now,” Jon D. Michaels • Note, “International Norms and Politics in the Marshall Court’s Slave Trade Cases” • Note, “Congress’s Power to Define the Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship” • Note, “It’s About Time (Place and Manner): Why and How Congress Must Act to Protect Access to Early Voting” • Note, “The Psychology of Cruelty: Recognizing Grave Mental Harm in American Prisons” In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases, Legislation, and…
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I Saw Them Die: historical and occasionally bizarre account from a WWI nurse
Shirley Millard's harrowing and fascinating account of her MASH-like experience in WWI France gives insights she intends and many more that she does not. Reading it is an experience on several levels. One of the most fascinating personal accounts of the Great War from just behind the lines, first published in 1936, and updated by Prof. Elizabeth Townsend Gard.
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Yale Law Journal, Jan.-Feb. ’15, on jurisprudence’s end, cost-benefit analysis, Indian ‘commerce,’ & the Wonder Woman origins of the Frye test
The contents of Yale Law Journal‘s January-February 2015 issue (Volume 124, Number 4) are: Articles: * “Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation: Case Studies and Implications,” John C. Coates IV * “Beyond the Indian Commerce Clause,” Gregory Ablavsky Essays: * “On Evidence: Proving Frye as a Matter of Law, Science, and History,” Jill Lepore * “The End of Jurisprudence,” Scott Hershovitz Notes: * “Against the Tide: Connecticut Oystering, Hybrid Property, and the Survival of the Commons,” Zachary C.M. Arnold * “Perceptions of Taxing and Spending: A Survey Experiment,” Conor Clarke & Edward Fox Comments: * “The Psychology of Punishment and the Puzzle of Why Tortfeasor Death Defeats Liability for Punitive Damages,”…
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Rutgers CompTech, 2015 #1, on teleradiology, ‘next gen’ research, guns & 3D printers, and privacy & tech
The Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal offers its issues in convenient and modern ebook formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, smartphones, and computers. This first issue of Volume 41, 2015, features new articles and student contributions on cutting-edge topics related to: teleradiology, jurisdiction, and malpractice; teaching ‘next gen’ research methods such as Ravel and Casetext to law students; regulating 3D-printing as firearms creators; employment, privacy, and social media; and privacy issues of cell phone tracking. The Journal is edited and produced by students at Rutgers University School of Law – Newark and features contributions by leading scholars and professionals in the field. Founded in 1969, the Journal is the…
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John Logue’s 4 Dell paperback murder mysteries are now Quid Pro ebooks
Classic mystery writer John Logue has contributed some of his most acclaimed fiction to the growing eBook library of QP fiction. Now available are four suspense novels set in the world of high-stakes golf. Originally published by Dell Publishing of Random House, these books formed part of the Morris & Sullivan Mystery series. These books are fun, and presented digitally with active Table of Contents. MURDER ON THE LINKS. ISBN 9781610272902 (eBook); list price: $4.99 At Augusta National, home of the Masters, the spring grass is green and the world’s most famous golfers are gathered. It looks as if it’s going to be another splendid tournament. Until Melvin Newton’s body is…
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Harvard Law Review, Jan. 2015: Resolving Interagency Conflicts in Administrative Law, Abortion Restrictions as Searches, Copyright Reform as Takings, and More
The Harvard Law Review, January 2015, is offered in a digital edition. Contents include: * Article, “Uncovering Coordinated Interagency Adjudication,” by Bijal Shah * Note, “Deference and the Federal Arbitration Act: The NLRB’s Determination of Substantive Statutory Rights” * Note, “Education Policy Litigation as Devolution” * Note, “Physically Intrusive Abortion Restrictions as Fourth Amendment Searches and Seizures” * Note, “Copyright Reform and the Takings Clause” In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases and policy resolutions, including such subjects as constitutional protection for teacher tenure, suspicionless street stop of suspect’s companion, the necessity of warrants to search foreign emails, confrontation clause in sentence selection phase of capital cases,…