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Creating Capabilities: Human Development Approach (11 Edition) by Martha C. Nussbaum Publisher Comments If a country’s Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making progress? If we rely on conventional economic... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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Understanding the Law (6TH 12 Edition) by Donald L. Carper Publisher Comments Learn the basics of business law and what it means to you with UNDERSTANDING THE LAW, Sixth Edition. This popular text discusses how various aspects of the law affect the individual, highlighting the personal law issues that confront people in their... (read more) List Price $222.95 Your price: $165.50 Used - Hardcover
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Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) by Leo R Chavez Publisher Comments One of the few case studies of undocumented immigrants available, this insightful anthropological analysis humanizes a group of people too often reduced to statistics and stereotypes. The hardships of Hispanic migration are conveyed in the immigrants... (read more) List Price $64.40 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Business & Legal Forms for Fine Artists 3RD Edition by Tad Crawford Publisher Comments • 22 handy forms on CD-ROM to meet artists needs, with directions • Protects artists rights • Replaces ISBN 1-58115-031-8 The third edition of this eminently useful book includes new forms for commercial lease, sublease, and lease... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Free? : Stories About Human Rights (10 Edition) by Amnesty International Publisher Comments What does it mean to be free? Top authors donate their talents to explore the question in a compelling collection to benefit Amnesty International. A boy who thinks that school is "slavery" learns the true meaning of the word when he stumbles... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Good Divorce Revised Edition by Constance Ahrons Publisher Comments It's never too late to have a good divorce Based on two decades of groundbreaking research, The Good Divorce presents the surprising finding that in more than fifty percent of divorces couples end their marriages, yet preserve their families. Dr. Ahrons... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Plain English for Lawyers by Richard C. Wydick Book News Annotation Emphasizing the elements of plain English style, this concise guide helps law students and attorneys to simplify and improve their legal writing. Sample topics include omitting surplus words; putting modifying words close to what they modify; and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Immigrant America (3RD 07 Edition) by Alejandro Portes Publisher Comments This third edition of the widely acclaimed classic has been thoroughly expanded and updated to reflect current demographic, economic, and political realities. Drawing on recent census data and other primary sources, Portes and Rumbaut have infused the... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $24.50 Used - Trade Paper
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You're the Jury: Solve Twelve Real-Life Court Cases Along with the Juries Who Decided Them by Norbert Ehrenfreund Publisher Comments In the American judicial system, jurors hold an awesome responsibility. They have the power to grant millions of dollars in damages, to declare someone guilty or not guilty of a crime, and, in some states, to decide if another human being should live or... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Law and Justice : Introduction To the American Legal System (6TH 08 Edition) by Howard Abadinsky Publisher Comments Law and Justice: An Introduction to the American Legal System, Sixth Edition offers a thorough examination of the system of justice used in the United States: civil and criminal, juvenile, and therapeutic. This new edition continues its... (read more) List Price $120.75 Your price: $97.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr Publisher Comments "The legal thriller of the decade." --Cleveland Plain Dealer Now a Major Motion Picture! In this true story of an epic courtroom showdown, two of the nation's largest corporations stand accused of causing the deaths of children. Representing... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Supremes' Greatest Hits: the 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life (07 - Old Edition) by Michael G. Trachtman Publisher Comments Can the government seize your house in order to build a shopping mall? Can it determine what you can do to your own body? Why are you allowed to copy songs on a CD, but not music files from the Internet? The answers to those questions come from the... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do about It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs by James P. Gray Publisher Comments Our drug prohibition policy is hopeless, just as Prohibition, our alcohol prohibition policy, was before it. Today there are more drugs in our communities and at lower prices and higher strengths than ever before. We have built large numbers of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Love They Lost : Living With the Legacy of Our Parents' Divorce (00 Edition) by Stephanie Staal Publisher Comments Stephanie Staals parents divorced when she was thirteen. But it wasnt until years later that she realized the devastating impact of her parents divorce on her own search for love. She sought help. There was none. So she wrote the book she was looking for:... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Digital Evidence and Computer Crime: Forensic Science, Computers and the Internet by Eoghan Casey Publisher Comments Digital Evidence and Computer Crime: Forensic Science, Computers and the Internet, Third Edition by Eoghan Casey cmdLabs, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Technical Editor Brent E. Turvey, Forensic Solutions LLC, Sitka, Alaska, USA Contributors: Susan W... (read more) List Price $69.95 Your price: $48.00 Used - Hardcover
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One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School by Scott Turow Publisher Comments Becoming a first-year law student--a "One L"--at the oldest, most esteemed law school in the U. S. threw Scott Turow into a physical, emotional, and intellectual combat zone. An ultimate test by fire of his honesty and principles, in a time of hazings... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From Jim Crow To Civil Rights : Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (03 Edition) by Michael J. Klarman Publisher Comments Fifty years after the Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, the debate still rages over the consequences of this momentous ruling. In this authoritative account of constitutional law concerning race, Michael Klarman details, in the... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Political Economy of Human Rights #01: The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Analyzes the forces that shape U.S. policy in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, as well as the role of the media in misreporting these policies and their motives.... (read more) List Price $33.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time by Desmond Tutu Publisher Comments Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu has long been admired throughout the world for the heroism and grace he exhibited while encouraging countless South Africans in their struggle for human rights. In God Has a Dream, his most soul-searching book, he shares the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Unequal Under Law : Race in the War on Drugs (07 Edition) by Doris Marie Provine Publisher Comments Race is clearly a factor in government efforts to control dangerous drugs, but the precise ways that race affects drug laws remain difficult to pinpoint. Illuminating this elusive relationship, Unequal under Law lays out how decades of both manifest and... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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