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Pérez Perdomo Examines Law, Politics and Justice in Justicia e Injusticias en Venezuela
The new Spanish-language analysis of institutions of law, politics, and reform in Venezuela 1780-2000, from the nation’s leading voice. Even though seeking justice is an undoubted good, the history of that effort has sometimes resulted in the creation of machinery and policies that have perversely resulted in massive injustices. This book is the culmination of years of intensive research, in records and interviews by Rogelio Pérez Perdomo, renowned law professor at Unimet in Caracas (often also teaching civil law at Stanford) and frequent writer (in Spanish and English) on law and society in South America; the work frames in a new way the search for democracy and equality in Venezuelan…
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Stanford Law Review‘s Issue 2 now out, in multiple ebook formats
Stanford Law Review has ebook distribution of its volumes–the first for a law review in all its current issues. [Issue 1 (Dec. 2011) of volume 63 was already available here.] Now, Issue 2 has published in all ebook formats. It is now in Kindle and Nook, and on iTunes. It was already available in multiple formats, including Sony, basic ePub, and PDF, from Smashwords. It features articles by Judge Posner, Cynthia Estland, and other scholars. The Stanford Law Review is edited by students at Stanford Law School and features scholarly articles in law, economics, and social policy. Quid Pro Books is the exclusive digital publisher of the Stanford Law Review. …
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Dr. Woodrow Wilson explains history and structure of governments in U.S., including local and state variations
Before he was the 28th U.S. President and the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wilson wrote popular books on history and civics. This text, used in schools in many countries for decades, explains local and federal units including courts, executive agencies. Know the difference between a town and township?
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Stanford Law Review, Vol. 63, #1 (Dec. 2010) Is Available as an Ebook
One of the most read and recognized law journals in the world has added ebook and digital distribution of its volumes. The Stanford Law Review is edited by students at Stanford Law School and features scholarly articles in law, economics, and social policy. Quid Pro Books is the exclusive digital publisher of the Stanford Law Review. Footnotes and tables of contents are fully linked and functional, note numbering is retained, and the issue is properly formatted for ereaders (which allow word search, dictionary function, font size changes, and lending). The current academic year (2o10-11) is Volume 63. The Law Review publishes six issues a year. Its first issue is now…
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Cardozo’s Classic Nature of the Judicial Process Adds Modern Foreword by Harvard’s Andrew Kaufman
Judges don’t discover the law, they create it. Justice Cardozo's premier biographer, Andrew L. Kaufman, brings the classic study of judicial decision-making to a new generation. New, affordable cloth hardback and paperback. Digital formats include Nook and Kindle. Has become the standard edition of this important book.
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Lawrence Friedman’s Mystery An Unnatural Death Takes Lawyer Frank May Into May and December
Frank May practices law, but he gets by just doing the safe, bland kind—writing wills, forming partnerships, processing papers. Everything far from the seedy adventures of criminal law or detective work. But every lawyer knows: clients have a habit of taking you to places you don’t want to be. One of those clients is the estate of the late Harriet Wingate. Harriet had money, and that always makes for interested relatives. But a bizarre husband Harriet’s junior, by a half-century? Two squabbling nieces? The suddenly revealed grandson? Worst of all, a litter of soon-to-be rich cats? Frank did not think she even had a cat. Frank wrote Harriet’s will, or…
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Eliezer Segal Explores Jewish Holy Days and Their History, Legend and Lore
For Signs and for Seasons: Bringing his scholarly research into Jewish history and legend to a wide audience in pithy and clever essays, Eliezer Segal offers his 2011 collection of newspaper columns focusing on the holy days and seasons of the Jewish calendar. All its rich history and modern cultural implications — how is Coca-cola kosher if its ingredients are secret? how did Spanish Jewish poetry survive the Inquisition? — are explored in entertaining and insightful vignettes. For Signs and for Seasons is a natural sequel to its companion volumes, Holidays, History and Halakhah, At This Time, and Sanctified Seasons. Like those earlier books, this volume brings together a diverse…
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Eliezer Segal’s Fun Essays on Traditions and Lore of Judaism and Jewish Culture
Eliezer Segal, professor of religious studies at the University of Calgary and a newspaper columnist, brings his witty and pithy essays on Jewish tradition and history to books accessible to a wide audience. The latest is On the Trails of Tradition, his 2011 book that explores — in an amusing and entertaining manner — such topics as child brides and arranged marriages, academic rivalries, vegetarianism, gift-giving and resentment, the physician’s prayer, prescriptions and healing, and the unbridled truth about pork. While Dr. Segal is well known in the academic community for his scholarly research into Judaism and religious lore and symbolism, including the new Routledge book Reading Jewish Religious Texts,…
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Woodrow Wilson’s Congressional Government Gets Digitally Remastered, and New Paperback Edition
The only correct and properly formatted ebook version of Wilson's classic and frank study of how the U.S. government works from inside Congress and what role that creates for Presidents and others in the system. Takes seriously the legislative branch at a time when most political scientists saw the President as some sort of politically dominant force (before Wilson himself attempted that role). Now in paperback too.
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Grandfather J. B.: Letters to My Grandson offers strong characters and longings for education and philosophy
From the family of Mary Grossman and Joel Grossman (she the coeditor of Law & Change in Modern America, he a chaired professor of political science at Johns Hopkins), comes the witty, acerbic, and sweet correspondence by grandfather Joseph Bercovici, a self-taught Romanian immigrant who produced a “clan” of novelists and academics. This is his book, and in it he gets the last say. [Links below to many eBook and paperback formats.] Grandfather J. B. is a memoir presented through poignant, witty letters written by a real old-school character to his professor grandson in the Sixties, first published by Little Brown and now in quality digital and paperback. With plenty…