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Baltimore and the 19th of April, 1861 is a first-hand account of the beginning of the Civil War in a contested border state
A vivid and fascinating first-person account of Maryland at the beginning of the Civil War, its Southern sympathizers and support for slavery, the attempted assassination of Lincoln, and the 1861 riots that tore Baltimore apart and brought the Union and martial law to the border state that fringed the nation’s capital. Author George William Brown was the mayor of Baltimore at the time of the crisis, and later wrote these memoirs—after his own imprisonment during the Civil War, and his restoration to public standing as a judge and trustee of Johns Hopkins University. Presented in an enhanced form by Quid Pro, this new but vintage edition of this important historical…
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Lawrence Friedman’s Mystery The Book Club Murder Drags Lawyer Frank May into his Wife’s Domain
Frank May hates trouble, as a lawyer and as a guy. But it likes him just fine. For someone who practices wills and trusts law because it is far from the scene of murder and mayhem, he has a knack for being caught up in it anyway. Which is why he thought he was fortune’s friend the night his wife stayed home from her book club meeting—a lucky migraine—when someone got smothered. He wouldn’t be caught up in it this time, nor his wife, and someone else could figure out all the tangles and suspicions of the book club women. Somehow it did not work out that way, and all…
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Acclaimed sociologist Amitai Etzioni’s newest book plays Law in a New Key
Most issues of law and social policy can be understood better through a lens that balances rights and interests --and protects all of us while protecting each of us--says Etzioni in his latest of 30 books. Explores drone wars, TSA scanners, internet privacy, norms, terrorism, shaming, and DNA banks. In paperback and eight digital formats for all e-readers.
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A Dictionary of Civil Law Terminology in Louisiana: Usufruct and Naked Owners Are Explained to Common Lawyers and Civilians
With obscure terms like emphyteusis and jactitation, the language of the civil law can sometimes confuse students and even seasoned practitioners. But the Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary can help. It defines every word and phrase contained in the index to the Louisiana Civil Code, plus many more–in clear and concise language–and provides current citations to the relevant statutes, code articles, and cases. Available in paperback (from our eStore, Amazon, etc.), plus hardcover and eBook formats linked below. The dictionary’s dedicated website is here. It is reviewed by iPhone JD Blog here. Whether you are a student, researcher, lawyer, or judge, if you deal with Louisiana and its laws, this volume…
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Eleanor Lothrop’s Throw Me a Bone Tells of Adventures in Archaeology in South America
“If you marry a man it is presumably because you like the man and not, necessarily, his profession. Marrying a mortician or a dentist, for instance, does not presuppose a passionate interest in and a knowledge of embalming or filling teeth. Yet an archaeologist’s bride is expected to emerge from the marriage ceremony with a fullblown understanding of history, sociology, linguistics and philosophy, to say nothing of the less frivolous aspects of anatomy.” Eleanor Lothrop picked up a lot along the way of her adventures with famed Harvard archaeologist Samuel Lothrop, but most of all was able to tell the tale through her own lens: witty, wide-eyed, exasperated, patient, and…
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Yale Law Journal‘s December 2011 Issue (No. 3): Masur on Patent Inflation and Gluck on Federalism in Health Reform
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 third issue of Volume 121, Dec. 2011, academic year 2011-2012) features articles on “patent inflation” and on implementing federal health care reform within a state under principles of federalism. Contributors include the noted scholars Jonathan Masur and Abbe Gluck. The issue also features student contributions on punitive damages in tort law, taxation under the “common control” doctrine, and the proper role of the Solicitor General of the U.S. Ebook formatting includes linked notes and an active Table of Contents (including linked Tables of Contents…
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Scheingold’s The Law in Political Integration Explores Federalizing the Early Forms of the EU
Really, what became the EU, from a disparate mishmash of treaties, organizations, and economic groupings. And always law, before most people could imagine the extent of political integration it would engender. But Stuart A. Scheingold saw what it could become, what law could do for that process, and analyzed the state of that process from its early fragments. His monograph written for the Harvard Center for International Relations became a classic for those interested in this snapshot of data and time, and its careful analysis of early decisions in trade and governance. He explores the reasons that law and regional integration would lead the future of the Union, not a…
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Harvard Law Review‘s annual issue reviewing Supreme Court Term, and scholarly Foreword, now out in Kindle, Apple, and Nook formats
Issue number 1 of the academic year 2011-12 is now available, HLR’s November 2011 issue analyzing the 2010 Term of the U.S. Supreme Court. This special issue is read widely for its summaries and analyses of the law in cases involving the U.S. Constitution, federal statutes and jurisdiction, patent law, and many other subjects recently adjudicated by the Justices. The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition for ereaders, featuring active Table of Contents, linked footnotes and cross-references, legible tables, and proper ebook formatting. Quid Pro Books is the exclusive ebook publisher of the Review. The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to…
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Classic Study of Solo Lawyers: Jerome Carlin’s Lawyers on Their Own Gets Digitally Remastered™
A classic study, in 2011 digital and paperback formats, with a new foreword by law professor William Gallagher. Carlin's LAWYERS ON THEIR OWN is a recognized, foundational study of lawyers in solo practice in an urban setting. It became the template for an important form of social science research into lawyers in action. The first frank, extensive and grounded study of individual practitioners, now back in print, plus nine quality digital formats.
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Classic legal history, adding new Foreword by Stewart Macaulay: Lawrence Friedman’s Contract Law in America
Contract law and legal history as applied in the real world and not just in the law books—a classic study of the social and economic realities of trade law, told through case studies and rich historical analysis, and comparing cases and legislation over three discrete historical periods. Lawrence Friedman's first book, with new introductions, is now in paperback and eight accessible digital formats.
