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Our Posthuman Future

Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

Francis Fukuyama Picador

"In this groundbreaking inquiry, Fukuyama warns that advances in drugs and genetic engineering will allow society to control human behavior and manipulate physical characteristics—and this power could alter our understanding of what it means to be human . . . In a contentious and fast-moving policy area, Fukuyama provides a remarkably sensible and human vision of what is at stake and what needs to be done."—Foreign Affairs

Hardcover : $26.00 Buy	The Activist John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, and the Myth of Judicial Review Lawrence Goldstone Walker & Company The story of the landmark case that put the “Supreme” in Supreme Court. Among the many momentous decisions rendered by the Supreme Court, none has had a...

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	A Cold Case Philip Gourevitch Picador From a prize-winning author and, in Elmore Leonard’s words, “a knockout writer,” comes a masterfully written and gripping tale of a...

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The Silence of the Lambs

Hannibal Lector

Thomas Harris St. Martin's Griffin

As part of the search for a serial murderer nicknames "Buffalo Bill," FBI trainee Clarice Starling is given an assignment. She must visit a man confined to a...

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Dark Dreams

A Legendary FBI Profiler Examines Homicide and the Criminal Mind

Roy Hazelwood and Stephen G. Michaud St. Martin's True Crime

Profiler Roy Hazelwood is the world's leading expert on the strangest and most dangerous of all aberrant offenders--the sexual criminal. In Dark Dreams he...

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Tales from the Hanging Court

Tim Hitchcock;Bob Shoemaker Bloomsbury USA

Tales from the Hanging Court draws on published accounts of Old Bailey trials from 1674-1834, a rich seam of social, political and legal history. Through these compelling true stories of theft, murder, rape and blackmail, Hitchcock and Shoemaker capture the early history of the judicial system and the colorful, vibrant and sometimes scandalous world of pre-industrial London.

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Desire Street

A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans

Jed Horne Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A searing anatomy of a New Orleans murder trial and a system of justice gone wrong. In a New Orleans supermarket parking lot in the fall of 1984 ,two...

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Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice Morton J. Horwitz Hill and Wang The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. The men who made up the...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies Women and the Obligations of Citizenship Linda K. Kerber Hill and Wang "Combining micronarrative with feminist theorizing, impeccable research with passionate engagement, Linda Kerber reshapes the history of American political development . . . A model study."—From the Citation for the AHA's 1999 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize

Mass Market Paperbound : $8.99 Buy	The Bureau The Secret History of the FBI Ronald Kessler St. Martin's Paperbacks No institution is as critically important to America's security. No American institution is as controversial. And, after the White House, Congress, and the...

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NYPD Confidential

Power and Corruption in the Country's Greatest Police Force

Leonard Levitt Thomas Dunne Books

For years, the police commissioner and the mayor of New York City have duked it out for publicity, credit, and power. Some have translated their stardom into...

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Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Net Neutrality Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution Christopher T. Marsden Bloomsbury USA The author considers market developments and policy responses in Europe and the United States, draws conclusions and proposes regulatory recommendations.

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Enough

Staying Human in an Engineered Age

Bill McKibben St. Martin's Griffin

"In this wise, well-researched, and important book, Bill McKibben addresses the burning philosophical question of the new century, and the one that counts for the long haul: how to control the technoscientific juggernaut before it dehumanizes our species."—E. O. Wilson, author of The Future of Life

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The Key to My Neighbor's House

Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda

Elizabeth Neuffer Picador

"Captures the human drama at the core of the [war crimes] trials . . . Neuffer manages to convey in intimate and sometimes painful detail the trauma of [the victims'] personal ordeals and the importance of their search for justice . . . Prodigious research and excellent reporting."—The New York Times Book Review

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Enemy of the State

The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein

Michael A. Newton and Michael P. Scharf St. Martin's Press

At 12:21 p.m., on October 19, 2005, Saddam Hussein was escorted into the Courtroom of the Iraqi High Tribunal in Baghdad for one of the most important and...

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Prison Writings

My Life Is My Sun Dance

Leonard Peltier; Edited by Harvey Arden St. Martin's Griffin

"It would be inadequate to describe Leonard Peltier's Prison Writings as a classic of prison literature, although it is that. It is also a cry for help, an accusation against monstrous injustice, a beautiful expression of a man's soul, demanding release."—Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States

Mass Market Paperbound : $7.99 Buy	Whoever Fights Monsters My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI Robert K. Ressler and Tom Shachtman St. Martin's Paperbacks Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran and ex-Army CID colonel Robert Ressler learned form then how to identify the unknown...

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Dominion

The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

Matthew Scully St. Martin's Griffin

"With an almost masochistic resolve, [Scully] exposes himself to the theory and practice of exploitation as it is found among the exponents of commercial hunting and industrial farming . . . In the three arenas—food, sport, and experiment—Scully asks all the right questions . . . He does this in beautiful and witty prose."—Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic Monthly

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Homicide

A Year on the Killing Streets

David Simon Holt Paperbacks

From the creator of HBO’s The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show The scene is Baltimore....

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Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	John Marshall Definer of a Nation Jean Edward Smith Holt Paperbacks A New York Times Notable Book of 1996 It was in tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to ring again....

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Beggars and Choosers

How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States

Rickie Solinger Hill and Wang

"With passion and verve, Rickie Solinger defends motherhood, no matter a woman's class, race, or marital status, against those who would limit feminism to the marketplace of choice. Her brilliant interweaving of the histories of adoption, abortion, and welfare since the 1960s is must reading for untangling today's politics of family, poverty, and women's rights."—Eileen Boris, University of California

Hardcover : $27.00 Buy	FDR v. The Constitution The Court-Packing Fight and the Triumph of Democracy Burt Solomon Walker & Company The fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of Franklin Roosevelt’s attempt to pack the Supreme Court has special resonance today as we debate the limits of...

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Win Your Case

How to Present, Persuade, and Prevail--Every Place, Every Time

Gerry Spence St. Martin's Griffin

Gerry Spence is perhaps America's most renowned and successful trial lawyer, a man known for his deep convictions and his powerful courtroom presentations when...

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Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power The Rise and Risks of the New Conservative Hate Culture Gerry Spence St. Martin's Griffin Gerry Spence is perhaps America's most renowned and successful trial lawyer, a man known for his deep convictions and his powerful courtroom presentations when...