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The Innocent Manby John Grisham
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 7.99In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death—in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man’s already broken life…and let a true killer go free. Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with eleventh-hour drama, John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction... more...
The Mammoth Book of Famous Trialsby Roger Wilkes
Constable & Robinson 2011; US$ 5.55The 35 most famous trials of the 20th century, as recorded by the people who were there including Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Brian Masters, Damon Runyon and other star turns in true crime writing. Among the cases featured: the longest ever US trial, of deadly duo Bianchi and Buono for the Hillside Stranglings of 12 young women; Brady and Hindley - the iconic case of multiple child murder by a couple obsessed with sadism, Nazism and pornography; America's trial of the 1990s - O.J. Simpson; the media frenzy around Bruno Hauptmann's alleged kidnap and murder of the infant son of American hero, Charles Lindbergh; gagged press during the 1968 trial of eleven-year-old Mary Bell, convicted for killing two little boys; Oscar Wilde - one of the... more...
The 'War on Terror' and the Framework of International Lawby Helen Duffy
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 62.00The acts of lawlessness committed on September 11 were followed by a 'war on terror'. This book sets out the essential features of the international legal framework against which the 9/11 attacks and the lawfulness of measures taken in response thereto fall to be assessed. more...
The Means of Reproductionby Michelle Goldberg
Penguin Group Inc. 2010; US$ 12.99A groundbreaking new work on the global battle over reproductive rights by the author of The New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming Award-winning journalist Michelle Goldberg shows how the emancipation of women has become the key human rights struggle of the twenty-first century in The Means of Reproduction . Deeply reported across four continents, the book explores issues such as abortion, female circumcision, and Asia's missing girls to dramatize the connections between international policymaking and individual lives. Goldberg demonstrates how women's rights are key to addressing both overpopulation and rapid population decline, reducing world poverty, and retarding the spread of AIDS. Sweeping and ambitious, this is a must-read... more...
An Introduction to Sustainable Developmentby Peter P. Rogers; Kazi F. Jalal; John A. Boyd
Earthscan 2007; US$ 36.95'Goes deep into the details and presents the available scientifi c data for explaining the different issues using interdisciplinary approaches ... Extremely useful especially [for] teachers.' Alexandre Kiss formerly President European Council on Environmental Law 'This is the most thoughtful interdisciplinary and practical introduction to sustainable development that I have read. It is an outstanding contribution to the field and it is recommended as an excellent source for academics researchers and students. It is particularly useful for the insights into global regional and economic aspects and makes workable suggestions for the way forward.' Professor Donna Craig Centre for Environmental Law Macquarie University Sydney Australia... more...
FIDIC - A Guide for Practitionersby Axel-Volkmar Jaeger; Gotz-Sebastian Hok
Springer 2010; US$ 179.00The Buffalo Creek Disasterby Gerald M. Stern
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 9.99One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris crashing into southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. It was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. 125 people were killed instantly, more than 1,000 were injured, and over 4,000 were suddenly homeless. Instead of accepting the small settlements offered by the coal company's insurance offices, a few hundred of the survivors banded together to sue. This is the story of their triumph over incredible odds and corporate irresponsibility, as told by Gerald M. Stern, who as a young lawyer and took on the case and won. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Justiceby Michael J. Sandel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009; US$ 9.99What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Is killing sometimes morally required? Is it possible, or desirable, to legislate morality? Do individual rights and the common good conflict? Michael J. Sandel’s “Justice” course is one of the most popular and influential at Harvard. Up to a thousand students pack the campus theater to hear Sandel relate the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day, and this fall, public television will air a series based on the course. Justice offers readers the same exhilarating journey that captivates Harvard students.... more...
Imperfect Justiceby Jeff Ashton
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99Filled with explosive new information, this is the definitive inside story of the case that captivated the nation and the verdict that no one saw coming It was the trial that stunned America, the verdict that shocked us all. On July 5, 2011, nearly three years after her initial arrest, Casey Anthony walked away, virtually scot-free, from one of the most sensational murder trials of all time. She'd been accused of killing her daughter, Caylee, but the trial only left behind more questions: Was she actually innocent? What really happened to Caylee? Was this what justice really looked like? In Imperfect Justice , prosecutor Jeff Ashton, one of the principal players in the case's drama, sheds light on those questions and much more,... more...
Devil's Knotby Mara Leveritt
Simon & Schuster 2002; US$ 12.99On the evening of May 5, 1993, in the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas, three eight-year-old boys disappeared. The next afternoon, the naked bodies of Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore were found submerged in a nearby stream. The boys had been bound from ankle to wrist with their own shoelaces and severely beaten. Christopher had been castrated. The crime scene had yielded few clues, and despite Christopher's castration, there was a remarkable absence of blood. The police were stymied, and citizens' alarm mounted as weeks passed without an arrest. Finally, a month after the murders, detectives announced three arrests -- and a startling theory of the crime: that the children had been killed by members of a satanic cult.... more...