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Killers of the Flower Moon : The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Grann, DavidKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2017#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost C...
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Just Mercy : A Story of Justice and Redemption
Stevenson, BryanRandom House Publishing Group 2014#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clario...
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The Dozier School for Boys : Forensics, Survivors, and a Painful Past
Murray, Elizabeth A.Lerner Publishing Group 2019Some true crimes reveal themselves in bits and pieces over time. One such case is the Florida School for Boys, a.k.a. the Dozier School, a place where—rather than reforming the chi...
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The Color of Law : A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Rothstein, RichardLiveright 2017New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates' "Amazing Books" of the Year One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of the Yea...
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Racial Profiling : Everyday Inequality
Behnke, Alison MarieLerner Publishing Group 2017In the United States, racial profiling affects thousands of Americans every day. Both individuals and institutions—such as law enforcement agencies, government bodies, and schools—...
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A Human Algorithm : How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are
Coleman, FlynnCatapult 2019A groundbreaking narrative on the urgency of ethically designed AI and a guidebook to reimagining life in the era of intelligent technology. The Age of Intelligent Machines is upon...
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Chokehold : Policing Black Men
Butler, PaulThe New Press 2018Finalist for the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency's Media for a Just Society Awards Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)A...
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The Federalist Papers
Hamilton, Alexander; Jay, John; Madison, JamesDuke Classics 2012Perhaps the most essential distillation of the Founders' vision of America, The Federalist Papers consist of a series of 85 essays in favor of the ratification of the U.S. Constitu...
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Shaking Hands With Death
Pratchett, TerryTransworld 2015Why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying for 'Most men don't fear death. They fear those things – the knife, the shipwreck, the illness, the bomb – which prec...
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Just Mercy : a story of justice and redemption
Stevenson, BryanScribe Publications Pty Ltd 2015WINNER OF THE 2015 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION WINNER OF THE 2015 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION Now a majo...
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Spying on Democracy : Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance
Boghosian, HeidiCity Lights Publishers 2013Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is...
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The United States Bill of Rights
United States of AmericaDuke Classics 2014One of the most remarkable characteristics of the U.S. Constitution is its mutability. The procedure for amending the Constitution ensures that it will always be a living document...
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The Magna Carta : Three Versions
AnonymousDuke Classics 2013Immerse yourself in one of the most significant documents ever penned. Originally enacted in 1215, some sections of the Magna Carta remain on the books as legally enforced statutes...
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The United States Constitution
Fathers, FoundingDuke Classics 2014One of the most influential documents ever written, the U.S. Constitution delineates not only the basic structure of the entire federal government, but also limns the democratic pr...
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Children in Prison : And Other Cruelties of Prison Life
Wilde, OscarDuke Classics 2013While Oscar Wilde is now strongly associated with the tone of whimsy that imbues his breezy, effortlessly witty epigrams and essays, the Irish writer and playwright was also a seri...
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Law, truth and reason a treatise on legal argumentation
Siltala, RaimoSpringer 2011Table of contents 1. Introduction Raimo Siltala 2. An Isomorphic Theory of Law: A Relation of Structural Similarity Between the Two Fact-Constellations ComparedRaimo Siltala 3. Coh...
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Mob Rule in New Orleans : Robert Charles and His Fight to Death
Wells, Ida B.Duke Classics 2014African-American journalist and activist Ida B. Wells played a major role in shedding light on the widespread practice of lynching in the United States. In this gripping account, W...
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Distributive Justice : The Right and Wrong of Our Present Distribution of Wealth
Ryan, John A.Duke Classics 2014Prominent Catholic thinker John Ryan made significant contributions not only to the field of theology, but also in the areas of social justice and political science. In this insigh...
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Irrefutable Evidence : A History of Forensic Science
Kurland, MichaelIvan R. Dee 2009The rise of scientific thinking in finding, catching, and convicting criminals—and, just as important, freeing the innocent—has transformed society's assault on crime. Before scien...