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Origins of World War I by Durkheim and Denis: Who Wanted War?
A historic monograph about the origins of World War I. Two famed University of Paris professors document their "brief" on the diplomatic and historic causes of the Great War, and especially its spread throughout Europe. Published early on in the conflict—as current events—the tract serves as a fascinating rebuttal to the usual assumptions. It was not just about Sarajevo.
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Scientific Evidence and the Law-Science Divide: Book by Cedric Gilson Offers Reconciliation Analysis
THE LAW-SCIENCE CHASM is a new socio-legal study that takes seriously the varying approaches to science that physicians and scientists use, as compared to legal actors such as judges and lawyers. Offering a way to mediate and translate their different perspectives and assumptions, Gilson uses sociological and philosophical methodologies to explain each discipline to the other. Part of the new Dissertation Series from Quid Pro Books. The book also includes an introduction by Professor John Paterson, of the faculty of law at the University of Aberdeen. As Paterson writes in the Foreword: “Gilson’s book takes seriously the idea of the autopoietic closure of society’s communicative subsystems and works out the…
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University of Chicago Law Review Fall 2012: statutory interpretation, immigration law, and is religion special?
A leading law review offers a quality ebook edition. This fourth issue of 2012 features articles from internationally recognized legal scholars, and extensive research in Comments authored by University of Chicago Law School students. Contents for the issue are: • Elected Judges and Statutory Interpretation by Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl & Ethan J. Leib • Delegation in Immigration Law by Adam B. Cox & Eric A. Posner • What If Religion Is Not Special? by Micah Schwartzman COMMENTS: • A Common Law Approach to D&O Insurance “In Fact” Exclusion Disputes • Taming the Hydra: Prosecutorial Discretion under the Acceptance of Responsibility Provision of the US Sentencing Guidelines • Are Railroads Liable…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.