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Creating Capabilities: Human Development Approach (11 Edition)
Creating Capabilities: Human Development Approach (11 Edition)
by Martha C. Nussbaum
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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)

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Understanding the Law (6TH 12 Edition)
Understanding the Law (6TH 12 Edition)
by Donald L. Carper
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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)

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Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
by Leo R Chavez
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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)

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Business & Legal Forms for Fine Artists 3RD Edition
Business & Legal Forms for Fine Artists 3RD Edition
by Tad Crawford
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• 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)

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Free? : Stories About Human Rights (10 Edition)
Free? : Stories About Human Rights (10 Edition)
by Amnesty International
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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)

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Good Divorce Revised Edition
Good Divorce Revised Edition
by Constance Ahrons
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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)

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Plain English for Lawyers
Plain English for Lawyers
by Richard C. Wydick
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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)

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Immigrant America (3RD 07 Edition)
Immigrant America (3RD 07 Edition)
by Alejandro Portes
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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)

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You're the Jury: Solve Twelve Real-Life Court Cases Along with the Juries Who Decided Them
You're the Jury: Solve Twelve Real-Life Court Cases Along with the Juries Who Decided Them
by Norbert Ehrenfreund
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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)

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Law and Justice : Introduction To the American Legal System (6TH 08 Edition)
Law and Justice : Introduction To the American Legal System (6TH 08 Edition)
by Howard Abadinsky
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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)

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A Civil Action
A Civil Action
by Jonathan Harr
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"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)

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Supremes' Greatest Hits: the 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life (07 - Old Edition)
Supremes' Greatest Hits: the 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life (07 - Old Edition)
by Michael G. Trachtman
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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)

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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
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
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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)

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Love They Lost : Living With the Legacy of Our Parents' Divorce (00 Edition)
Love They Lost : Living With the Legacy of Our Parents' Divorce (00 Edition)
by Stephanie Staal
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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)

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Digital Evidence and Computer Crime: Forensic Science, Computers and the Internet
Digital Evidence and Computer Crime: Forensic Science, Computers and the Internet
by Eoghan Casey
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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)

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One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
by Scott Turow
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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)

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From Jim Crow To Civil Rights : Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (03 Edition)
From Jim Crow To Civil Rights : Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (03 Edition)
by Michael J. Klarman
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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)

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Political Economy of Human Rights #01: The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
Political Economy of Human Rights #01: The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
by Noam Chomsky
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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)

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God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time
God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time
by Desmond Tutu
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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)

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Unequal Under Law : Race in the War on Drugs (07 Edition)
Unequal Under Law : Race in the War on Drugs (07 Edition)
by Doris Marie Provine
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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)

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