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Freedom to Harm: The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival
Freedom to Harm: The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival
by Thomas O. Mcgarity
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How much economic freedom is a good thing?   This book tells the story of how the business community, and the trade associations and think tanks that it created, launched three powerful assaults during the last quarter of the twentieth century on... (read more)

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Payback: The Case for Revenge
Payback: The Case for Revenge
by Thane Rosenbaum
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We call it justice—the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call... (read more)

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Special Needs Trusts: Protect Your Child's Financial Future (Special Needs Trust: Protect Your Childs Financial Future)
Special Needs Trusts: Protect Your Child's Financial Future (Special Needs Trust: Protect Your Childs Financial Future)
by Stephen Elias
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Create a special needs trust for a loved one's care and get peace of mind If you care for a child or other loved one with a disability, you’ve no doubt thought about what will happen when you’re no longer able to give that care. Fortunately... (read more)

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A Question of Choice
A Question of Choice
by Sarah Weddington
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"As a husband and as a father of a daughter, I am moved by Sarah Weddington's eloquent reminder of what Roe truly means—that our most private decisions can be made behind the closed doors of our homes, with our families, and in private... (read more)

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Patent Searching Made Easy: How to Do Patent Searches on the Internet and in the Library (Patent Searching Made Easy: How to Do Patent Searches on the Internet & in the Library)
Patent Searching Made Easy: How to Do Patent Searches on the Internet and in the Library (Patent Searching Made Easy: How to Do Patent Searches on the Internet & in the Library)
by David Hitchcock
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In the past, if you wanted to assess the novelty of an idea, you had to wade through the patent database at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) in Virginia -- or hire a lawyer to do a patent search for $500 and up. The cost and inconvenience of... (read more)

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The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis
The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis
by Steven J. Harper
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A noble profession is facing its defining moment. From law schools to the prestigious firms that represent the pinnacle of a legal career, a crisis is unfolding. News headlines tell part of the story—the growing oversupply of new lawyers, widespread... (read more)

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The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic
The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic
by Eric A. Posner
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Ever since Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. used "imperial presidency" as a book title, the term has become central to the debate about the balance of power in the U.S. government. Since the presidency of George W. Bush, when advocates of executive power such... (read more)

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Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case
Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case
by Allen Weinstein
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When the Hiss-Chambers case first broke open, its main characters and events seemed more appropriate to spy fiction than to the realities of American life in the late 1940s. Yet, almost half a century after the final verdict, many questions about it... (read more)

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Bonds of Citizenship: Law and the Labors of Emancipation
Bonds of Citizenship: Law and the Labors of Emancipation
by Hoang Gia Phan
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In this study of literature and law from the Constitutional founding through the Civil War, Hoang Gia Phan demonstrates how American citizenship and civic culture were profoundly transformed by the racialized material histories of free, enslaved, and... (read more)

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How to Solve Divorce Problems in California in 2013: How to Manage a Contested Divorce - In or Out of Court (How to Solve Divorce Problems in California)
How to Solve Divorce Problems in California in 2013: How to Manage a Contested Divorce - In or Out of Court (How to Solve Divorce Problems in California)
by Ed Sherman
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SOLUTIONS FOR DIVORCES THAT ARE NOT GOING SMOOTHLY. How to solve problems without going to court, and how to fight in court if you have to. The majority of Californias 160,000 annual divorces are done without an attorney, but as many as 70% of them... (read more)

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The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy
The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy
by Michael J. Gerhardt
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Their names linger in memory mainly as punch lines, synonyms for obscurity: Millard Fillmore, Chester Arthur, Calvin Coolidge. They conjure up not the White House so much as a decaying middle school somewhere in New Jersey. But many forgotten presidents,... (read more)

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Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws (Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws)
Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws (Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws)
by Lisa Guerin
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The Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws explains the 20 most important federal laws dealing with employment issues -- a must-have book for any HR professional, manager or entrepreneur. Get the facts on: . which business must comply with each law .... (read more)

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Democracy, Expertise, and Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State
Democracy, Expertise, and Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State
by Robert C Post
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A leading American legal scholar offers a surprising account of the incompleteness of prevailing theories of freedom of speech. Robert C. Post shows that the familiar understanding of the First Amendment, which stresses the “marketplace of... (read more)

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Federalist Society
Federalist Society
by Michael Avery and Danielle McLaughlin
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How conservative ideas rose to a position of dominance in law and... (read more)

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How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California (How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California)
How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California (How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California)
by Anthony Mancuso
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Start a nonprofit corporation with the forms and information you need to give back to your community! Thousands of arts groups, educators, social-service agencies and others have used How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California to get their... (read more)

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Filing and Winning Small Claims for Dummies
Filing and Winning Small Claims for Dummies
by Philip S. Straniere
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Learn to:Prosecute or defend your small claims caseGrasp small claims court laws, statutes, and proceduresSettle or mediate a dispute Real insight you can trust and use in small claims court When every other method to collect has failed, a small claim is... (read more)

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Saving the Family Cottage: A Guide to Succession Planning for Your Cottage, Cabin, Camp or Vacation Home (Saving the Family Cottage: A Guide to Succession Planning for)
Saving the Family Cottage: A Guide to Succession Planning for Your Cottage, Cabin, Camp or Vacation Home (Saving the Family Cottage: A Guide to Succession Planning for)
by Stuart Hollander
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Whether you’re a parent planning to pass on a cottage to your children, someone who has inherited a cabin with your siblings or other relatives, or someone who is thinking about buying a vacation home, you want to know how to keep the property in... (read more)

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The Arizona State Constitution (Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United)
The Arizona State Constitution (Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United)
by John D. Leshy
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In The Arizona State Constitution, John D. Leshy provides a comprehensive history of Arizona's constitutional development. Adopted at the height of the progressive movement, the Constitution contains many progressive innovations. Leshy describes these... (read more)

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Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places: Why State Constitutions Contain?america's Positive Rights (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, Internat)
Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places: Why State Constitutions Contain?america's Positive Rights (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, Internat)
by Emily J. Zackin
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"Zackin has written a major challenge to conventional wisdom that American constitutionalism is committed to negative rights only. Her exceptional research and analysis has resulted in a work that will be both a classic of American state... (read more)

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Legitimate Target: A Criteria-Based Approach to Targeted Killing (Terrorism and Global Justice)
Legitimate Target: A Criteria-Based Approach to Targeted Killing (Terrorism and Global Justice)
by Amos N. Guiora
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Targeted killings represent both the contemporary weapon of choice and, clearly, the weapon of the future. From the perspective of the nation-state, the benefits of targeted killing are clear: aggressive measures against identified targets can be carried... (read more)

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