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John Dewey’s 1910 How We Think Becomes a Digitally Remastered Book™ in Paperback
The “thought process” laid bare. One of America’s greatest philosophers and educators examines the nature and process of human reasoning, intellect, and emotion. John Dewey took a common sense approach to the subject, using examples and explanations that resonate today. His pragmatism has influenced much modern philosophy and the social sciences—and in the effort he produced a timeless, captivating, and universally accessible study of the subject of human thought and logical decision-making. John Dewey (1859–1952) was a U.S. philosopher, education reformer, and psychologist, and an influential professor at the University of Michigan, University of Chicago, and Columbia University. His belief in an empirically based theory of knowledge informed much of…
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Meltsner’s Cruel and Unusual: Inside Story of the NAACP Inc. Fund Lawyers Who Fought to Abolish the Death Penalty
Michael Meltsner's inside account, accessible to a wide audience and reading like a novel, of a small band of Fund lawyers and their 9-year struggle to end the death penalty. New edition features a 2011 Foreword by death-penalty author Evan Mandery of CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, as well as a new Preface by the author. In paperback and 9 ebook formats. The mission seemed as impossible then as going to the moon...
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James Fenimore Cooper spins tale of sailing, smuggling and romance in The Water-Witch
This unabridged and complete presentation of THE WATER-WITCH is unlike any reproduction of a vintage printing available (as is apparent in Previewing other offerings). It is unlike both new formattings which use small print to pack the story into half the pages (or give half the book), and typical vintage republications, whose distracting stray marks and printer artifacts mar the reading experience. Instead, the Quid Pro edition is in the quality collection of Digitally Remastered Books™, a process that retains the nostalgia and font size of earlier printings while reducing stray marks, broken letters, and blotched print. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was one of the most popular and creative American…
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Classic Bio of Ben Franklin by John Morse is a New Paperback, a Digitally Remastered Book™
John Torrey Morse’s beloved biography of Benjamin Franklin, originally published in 1889 in the American Statesmen Series, is presented as a quality new paperback. The Digitally Remastered™ edition removes underlines and distracting stray marks, repairs missing parts of words, and is presented with enhanced, clearer text as compared to most such republications today. It even includes page one, unlike most modern reprints. Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was America’s original Renaissance Man. Most noted as one of the country’s Founding Fathers, the first Postmaster General, and a statesman, he was also an accomplished writer, printer, scientist, inventor, and musician. He was quite simply “The First American.” Morse’s entertaining biography of the great…
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Jay Wexler spins stories of a Supreme Court Justice, Tu Fu, Clam Camp, a Black & White Zoo, and a Sitcom of Death Row
Available in paperback and at bookstores and ebook sites linked below. A zoo with only black and white animals. A camp where children are forced to gather clams or face a trip to the ‘hot box.’ A Supreme Court Justice’s confirmation hearing presided over by the ’77 KC Royals. BU law professor Jay Wexler’s The Adventures of Ed Tuttle, Associate Justice, and Other Stories transports the reader to these hilarious places and beyond. This is a world, according to Dan Kennedy, host of The Moth Storytelling Podcast, “where corporate cafeteria lunch servers blurt out Kierkegaard quotes to soften the hard luck of a low supply of the ‘lunch beans’ that…
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Lawrence Friedman’s Provocative The Human Rights Culture, Views the Modern Arc of Rights as a Social and Historical Phenomenon
New from the acclaimed legal historian Lawrence Friedman, professor at Stanford. He does not mind going against the grain of most writers on human rights, to ask questions about its origins and import that the previous literature sidesteps. Why, as a social and historical matter, is all the rights discourse so pervasive and near-global today?
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The Nature and the Sources of the Law: John Chipman Gray’s Anatomy of Jurisprudence, Comparative Law, and the Concept of Rights
The Nature and Sources of the Law (Second Edition, 1921) is Gray’s legal and jurisprudential classic, finally available in a high-quality eBook edition and new paperback. It is the 11th contribution in the Legal Legends Series and, unlike most such classics typically reproduced by crude scanning, offers full assurances of careful proofreading, proper formatting, and modern presentation. The eBooks also offer active Contents and linked footnotes. John Chipman Gray (1839-1915) was a noted lawyer and legal scholar of the progressive era and a founder of the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray. His important book analyzed the uses of precedent and custom, the meaning of law and legal rights, the…
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Cynthia Fuchs Epstein’s foundational Women in Law adds Deborah Rhode’s new Foreword: available in paperback and eBooks
Simply one of the most important and influential works in the canon of the sociology of law, Epstein's WOMEN IN LAW is now republished (including new paperback) and available worldwide for departments of sociology, law, and gender studies — but is accessible and fascinating to a general audience, unloaded with legal or sociological jargon. It won the SCRIBES Book Award and the ABA's Merit Award.
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Martin Shapiro Links Freedom of Speech with the Legitimate Political Role of the Supreme Court
A classic study of the free speech right and especially the function of the Supreme Court in review—in effect answering, before his time, Chief Justice Roberts' claim that judges are neutral umpires. Such judicial modesty ignores the Court's political role in governing and protecting under-represented citizens. In paperback edition, plus Kindle, Nook, Apple, and other ebook formats.
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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…
