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  • Today's Reflections

    Ellie's Little Scribbles

    Todays Reflections, Ellie’s Little Scribbles is a small collection of poems and color photographs easily read while sitting on your back porch sipping your morning coffee. It brings to life random thoughts that often pop into our mind in our daily encounters with nature and our fellow humans. Everyone has some poetry, music or an eye for beauty within us, that is so often unexpressed. This book ... Read more

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  • The Equal Society

    Essays on Equality in Theory and Practice

    Equality is a widely championed social ideal. But what is equality? And what action is required if present-day societies are to root out their inequalities?The Equal Society collects fourteen philosophical essays, each with a fresh perspective on these questions. The authors explore the demands of egalitarian justice, addressing issues of distribution and rectification, but equally investigating ... Read more

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  • Roe v. Wade

    The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History

    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even violence as Roe v. Wade in 1973. Four decades later, it remains a touchstone for the culture wars in the United States and a pivot upon which much of our politics turns. With that in mind, N. E. H. Hull and Peter Charles Hoffer have taken stock of the abortion debates, controversies, and cases that have ... Read more

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  • Petty's Place in the History of Economic Theory

    Enriched edition. Exploring Sir William Petty's Revolutionary Economic Ideas

    In "Petty's Place in the History of Economic Theory," Charles Henry Hull meticulously examines the critical contributions of William Petty to the development of economic thought. Hull employs a scholarly tone, intertwining historical context with analytical frameworks that reveal Petty's innovative methodologies and theories, particularly his early work on the quantification of economic value. ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Federal Courts

    An Essential History

    Unabridged

    22 hours 50 min

    There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and when its decision changes the course of history. More often, the story of the federal judiciary is simply a tale of hard work: of finding order in the chaotic system of state and federal law, local custom, and contentious lawyering. The Federal Courts is a story ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Supreme Court

    An Essential History

    For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation’s history. Now a veteran team of talented historians—including the editors of the acclaimed Landmark Law Cases and American Society series—have updated the most readable, astute single-volume history of this venerated institution with a new chapter on the Roberts Court ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Transport Beyond Oil

    Policy Choices for a Multimodal Future

    Seventy percent of the oil America uses each year goes to transportation. That means that the national oil addiction and all its consequences, from climate change to disastrous spills to dependence on foreign markets, can be greatly reduced by changing the way we move. In Transport Beyond Oil, leading experts in transportation, planning, development, and policy show how to achieve this fundamental ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • The Clamor of Lawyers

    The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession

    The Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 and 1776. Most, though not all, were composed outside of the courtroom and detached from on-going litigation. While they have been studied as political theory, these writings and speeches are rarely viewed as the work of active lawyers, despite the fact that ... Read more

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    $9.99 CAD

  • Uncertain Justice

    The Roberts Court and the Constitution

    "Illuminating. . . . [Tribe and Matz] offer well-crafted overviews of key cases decided by the Roberts Court [and] chart the Supreme Court's conservative path." — Chicago TribuneFrom Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has profoundly affected American life. Yet the court remains a mysterious institution, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • You Talkin' To Me?

    Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama

    Rhetoric is what gives words power. It's nothing to be afraid of. It isn't the exclusive preserve of politicians: it's everywhere, from your argument with the insurance company to your plea to the waitress for a table near the window. It convicts criminals (and then frees them on appeal). It causes governments to rise and fall, best men to be shunned by brides, and people to march with steady ... Read more

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  • #Conversationstoppers 2: More Puns, Non Sequiturs, and Impossible Scenarios

    #Conversationstoppers:, #2

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    Series Book 2 - #Conversationstoppers
    Tweets certain to stop any conversation, and generate a good laugh, from the author of the mysteries, "Fatal Sisters," "The Baba Yaga," and Screams and Bleeds," available on all e-book readers. ... Read more

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