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Get the Summary of David Farber's The War on Drugs in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The War on Drugs" by David Farber traces the complex history of drug regulation and prohibition in the United States, from the early 20th century to the present day. The book examines the ambivalent attitudes toward substances like alcohol, opium, cocaine, heroin, and cannabis, leading to various legislative efforts to control...
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Hope Scott...
She's a beautiful New York heiress who will do anything for love, including pulling strings with a ruthless power broker to advance her husband's judicial career. But she doesn't know the hidden price; a blackmail, the rape of her trust fund, and perhaps the ruin of her marriage.
Judge Paul Murray...
He fought his way up from his working-class Irish roots to the Federal bench. Tough and honest, dedicated to the law, he relishes sitting...
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First published in 1926. Mrs Bentley has been arrested for murder. The evidence is overwhelming: arsenic she extracted from fly papers was in her husband's medicine, his food and his lemonade, and her crimes are being plastered across the newspapers. Even her lawyers believe she is guilty. But Roger Sheringham, the brilliant but outspoken young novelist, is convinced that there is 'too much evidence' against Mrs Bentley and sets out to prove her innocence....
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As our society becomes more global, international law is taking on an increasingly significant role, not only in world politics but also in the affairs of a striking array of individuals, enterprises, and institutions. In this comprehensive study, David J. Bederman focuses on international law as a current, practical means of regulating and influencing international behavior. He shows it to be a system unique in its nature-nonterritorial but secular,...
5) Redemption
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Samuel Elijah Johnson is a man with a Juris doctorate he earned while incarcerated. But as the prison doors swing open, he's faced with a choice he can't refuse – a chance to help an innocent man. Arthur Creed is a church-goer grappling with forbidden desires. The scriptures guide him, yet his heart leads him astray.Randy is an accountant entangled in a dangerous game of altered books and entwined with a crooked boss. When he digs deeper, he and...
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But the trauma of her ordeal is only just beginning. Plagued by nightmares and panic attacks, Emma struggles to regain her sense of normalcy and security. When new evidence raises doubts about Lucas' guilt, her own grip on reality threatens to unravel. Just as she is starting to rebuild her life, cryptic threats emerge from Lucas' secret followers determined to ensure his freedom.
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Sasha and Connelly are finally getting married!They've gathered their closest friends and family at a remote eco-resort in Nicaragua to attend their New Year's Eve wedding on the beach. It's romantic. It's breathtaking. It's perfect.Until a murderous enemy from their past arranges for armed banditos to storm the resort and take the bride and groom hostage.Till death do us part may come all too soon, unless Sasha, Connelly, and their guests can outwit...
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"Putman's legal expertise shines in this compelling and intricately plotted romantic suspense. Highly recommended!"
--Colleen Coble, USA Today best-selling author
Janae Simmons left the small town of Kedgewick, Virginia, ten years ago to pursue her legal career and never looked back--until a professional mistake leads her to her grandmother's historic carriage house and to the town where her past threatens to find her. The quiet streets echo with...
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The still surface of a sea is both menacing and calmly beautiful: a perfect metaphor for this reflective novel. The narrator's unassuming, thoughtful voice dampens but cannot conceal the forces driving his story of love and war and the boundless suffering of innocents. The narrator is a young historian, preoccupied with a case on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. The prosecution argues that the Serb...
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The debut novel from longtime Brooklyn district attorney Charles "Joe" Hynes, Triple Homicide is the gritty saga of two generations of New York City police officers fighting to stay on the right side of the law.
In the early 1990s in New York, easy money stands to be made at every turn, and temptation proves a bitter struggle for the young and much-decorated NYPD Sergeant Steven Holt---and for Steven and his uncle Robert, an officer before him, an...
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Veronica's friends try to convince her to give Dexter a chance: Layla reached out, took my hands and looked into my eyes. "You're fighting it, Veronica. Let yourself go. Put away the journalism credibility outfit and let the wave take you where it wants. Stop thinking with your head and follow your heart. Give the guy a chance.” I'm not fighting anything. ”Yes you are," said Savannah. "Everyone can see it but you." -The irresistible force meets...
12) Shanga
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Des années 80 aux années 2000, la pratique de mariages mixtes est une évidence, entre afro-européens, en Europe et particulièrement en Suisse. Ce phénomène naturel lié à la nature humaine, fait fi des origines natales et de la couleur de peau. Des enfants métis naissent des conjoints mixtes ou binationaux ; de l'union entre un Noir et une Blanche ; entre un Blanc et une Noire. L'ère est à la fusion ; celle du métissage qui permet aux...
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Trois condisciples d'université aux parcours de vies très contrastés se retrouvent mêlés, quelques dizaines d'années plus tard, à l'assassinat d'une danseuse dans un bar à entraîneuses bruxellois, le Medusa.
Quels sont les liens entre Edgard Brandt, un célèbre et richissime avocat pénaliste, Grabowski, le patron pervers de la boîte de nuit et Antoine Maudet, un auteur en mal de succès ?
À la veille de sa mort, Brandt confie à Maudet...
14) A Lawyer's Life
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The most famous lawyer in America talks about the law, his life, and how he has won.
Johnnie Cochran has been a lawyer for almost forty years. In that time, he has taken on dozens of groundbreaking cases and emerged as a pivotal figure in race relations in America. Cochran gained international recognition as one of America's best - and most controversial lawyers - for leading 'the Dream Team' defense of accused killer O.J. Simpson in the Trial of...
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A study of the life of a Maryland slave, his escape to freedom in New Jersey, and the trials that ensued.
James Collins Johnson made his name by escaping slavery in Maryland and fleeing to Princeton, New Jersey, where he built a life in a bustling community of African Americans working at what is now Princeton University. After only four years, he was recognized by a student from Maryland, arrested, and subjected, to a trial for extradition under,...