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Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places

Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places

In Wars, Guns, and Votes, Paul Collier investigates the violence and poverty in the small, remote countries at the lowest level of the global economy and argues that the spread of elections and...

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Criminal Justice Today: An Introductory Text for the 21st Century (9th Edition)

The best-selling introduction to criminal justice book of all time, Criminal Justice Today 9/e, continues to set the standard with its hallmark features of theme, technology, and time.  The...

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Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

Since the rise of Napster and other file sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as...

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The Pocket Lawyer for Filmmakers: A Legal Toolkit for Independent Producers

You have an idea you want to pitch to a production company; how do you safeguard your concept?* There's a painting in the background of your independent film; is it necessary to clear the rights? *...

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Liberalization against Democracy: The Local Politics of Economic Reform in Tunisia (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies)

"... a very important contribution to contemporary debates on economic and political reform in developing countries. Based on interviews King conducted himself, this is an honest, unvarnished...

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Knowledge and Discretion in Government Regulation

Well-documented and clearly-written, this important volume examines the interaction between scientific and engineering knowldege and the exercise of policy discretion in environmental, health, and...

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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Second Edition

Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban—the world’s most extreme and radical Islamic organization—into sharp focus in this enormously insightful book. He offers the...

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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill each member of the Tutsi minority, and over the...

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Black's Law Dictionary (Pocket), 3rd Edition

Arguably the most valuable reference tool available to the legal community, Black's Pocket Dictionary provides more than 10,000 clear, concise, and precise definitions. The essential companion...

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CyberLaw: Text and Cases

This exciting book assists aspiring business managers in recognizing the legal issues relevant to maintaining and doing business in an e-commerce world. It covers relevant legal issues, applicable...

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Smith and Roberson's Business Law

With a long history of accuracy and up-to-date coverage, SMITH AND ROBERSON'S BUSINESS LAW is the most complete and credible text available, equipping you with a thorough understanding of the key...

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Law, Custom, and Social Order: The Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia (Classics of African Studies Series)

This book explores the historical formation during the colonial period of that part of African law know as customary law. Manufacturer: Heinemann Author: Martin Chanock ISBN: 0325000166 Number Of...

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The 9/11 Commission: Proceedings and Analysis (4 volumes)

When terrorists hijacked four planes and struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the grief of the tragedy was only matched by the utter shock that such an attack could take place on American...

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Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court

In the years before World War II, Franklin Roosevelt's fiercest, most unyielding opponent was neither a foreign power nor "fear itself." It was the U.S. Supreme Court. Beginning in 1935, in a series...

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The Pioneers of Judicial Behavior

In The Pioneers of Judicial Behavior, prominent political scientists critically examine the contributions to the field of public law of the pioneering scholars of judicial behavior: C. Hermann...

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Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction

Susan Markens takes on one of the hottest issues on the fertility front--surrogate motherhood--in a book that illuminates the culture wars that have erupted over new reproductive technologies in the...

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Interactive Study Guide for Law for Business and Personal Use

Allows students to review chapter topics. Software asks questions from students related to chapter topics and gives page references for those concepts that are answered incorrectly. Manufacturer:...

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Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments

For more than two decades, Vanity Fair has published Dominick Dunne’s brilliant, revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes, trials, and punishments of our time. Here, in one volume, are...

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One Case at a Time: Judicial Minimalism on the Supreme Court

Abortion, affirmative action, the "right to die," pornography and free speech, homosexuality and sex discrimination: as eagerly as the Supreme Court's rulings on these hot issues are awaited and as...

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The Double Helix and the Law of Evidence

Bridging law, genetics, and statistics, this book is an authoritative history of the long and tortuous process by which DNA science has been integrated into the American legal system. In a history...

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Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War

Stephen Neff offers the first comprehensive study of the wide range of legal issues arising from the American Civil War, many of which resonate in debates to this day. Neff examines the...

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The Ideological Origins of American Federalism

Federalism is regarded as one of the signal American contributions to modern politics. Its origins are typically traced to the drafting of the Constitution, but the story began decades before the...

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