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Virgil’s Aeneid Gets Translated to a Modern Ear and Abridged to its Essentials
New condensed and annotated edition of the epic Aeneid makes it live for new readers, and explains key words, names, and places. David Crump's edition is lively and fast paced, and even rhymes. Ebook editions use innovative jumps to brief asides, rather than footnotes, while print editions place explanations at margins, arranged to mirror the text. Bridge summaries explain omitted parts.
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7th 2011 Issue of Harvard Law Review, May 2011, Available in Ebook Formats
The Harvard Law Review is now offered in a digital edition for ereaders — featuring active Contents, linked footnotes, active URLs in citations, and proper ebook formatting. Available download sites are linked below. The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. The Review comes out monthly from November through June and has roughly 2000 pages per volume. The organization is formally independent of the Harvard Law School. Aside from serving as an important academic forum for legal scholarship, the Review has two other goals. First, the journal is designed to be an effective research tool for practicing lawyers and…
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G. Edward White describes Patterns of American Legal Thought
A renowned legal historian at UVA and author of 14 books republishes his collection of astute and timeless essays on such subjects as the method and debates of legal history; the truth about Holmes and Brandeis; the legal realism school and its critics; the development of gay rights in constitutional law; and the origins of tort law. In digital formats and new, modern paperback edition.
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Stuart Scheingold’s classic The Politics of Law and Order reissued in print and digital with new Foreword by Malcolm Feeley
How crime and public fear of it are socially constructed -- not just a set reality to observe. Politicians and others use public anxiety for their purposes, and push a 'law and order' platform even as crime rates drop. As the foundational, supported study of the issue, it's often cited and used in later scholarship on crime and politics, from a legendary scholar in the field--an acclaimed follow-up to his landmark 'The Politics of Rights.' Available in ebook and print formats.
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Stanford Law Review‘s new Issue 4 – April 2011 – features articles by Stephen Gillers, Omri Ben-Shahar and Others
This current issue of the Stanford Law Review contains studies of law, history, and social policy by acclaimed scholars Stephen Gillers (on the ethics of lawyers who hold real evidence in a case, such as guns, presidential tapes, and drugs), Natalie Ram (on DNA technology in family identifications, and especially its forensic use in criminal cases), and Omri Ben-Shahar (on fixing unfair and imbalanced contracts). This issue also features extensive student work on the history of religious freedom in the early 1800s and on the amicus curiae briefing process of the Supreme Court. The Stanford Law Review was organized in 1948. Each year the Law Review publishes one volume, which…
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Stanford Law Review‘s March 2011 Issue 3 Hits the Streets Early
Quid Pro, LLC is the exclusive digital publisher of the Stanford Law Review. The latest issue, Number 3 (March 2011) features cutting-edge articles by recognized scholars on such diverse topics as “preglimony,” derivatives markets in a fiscal crisis, corporate reform in Brazil, land use and zoning, and a student Note on college endowments. It is available as a quality ebook even before the print edition is published. Footnotes, graphs and tables, and cited URLs are all linked, Contents are active (including contents page for each article), and tables are scaled properly. Available in multiple digital editions: Amazon for Kindle. [And at UK Amazon Kindle store.] Barnes and Noble for Nook.…
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Yale Law Journal Nov. 2011 Issue on International Law and Downsizing Government
This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the second issue of Volume 121, academic year 2011-2012) features articles on new ideas in enforcing international law, and on the role of incentives and disincentives under the idea of limited government. Contributors include the noted scholars Oona Hathaway, Scott J. Shapiro, Benjamin Ewing, and Douglas A. Kysar. The issue also features student contributions on sentencing guidelines and the historical argument for Presidential war powers.
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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?
