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  • Desert Star

    Inspiration for the hit Amazon Prime series BALLARD

    by Michael Connelly ...
    Series series Ballard and Bosch
    THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER BEHIND AMAZON PRIME'S BOSCH AND NETFLIX'S THE LINCOLN LAWYERSOME CRIMES YOU CAN'T FORGET.Detective Renée Ballard is given the chance of a lifetime: revive the LAPD's cold case unit and find justice for the families of the forgotten. The only catch is they must first crack the unsolved murder of the sister of the city councilman who is sponsoring the department - or lose ... Read more

    5,99 €

  • The Innocent Man

    A gripping crime thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of mystery and suspense

    by John Grisham ...
    ***NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES***__________________A gripping true-crime story of a shocking miscarriage of justice, from international bestselling thriller author John Grisham, author of A Time to Kill, The Firm and The Whistler.In the baseball draft of 1971, Ron Williamson was the first player chosen from Oklahoma. Signing with Oakland, he said goodbye to his small home to... ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • A Treatise on the Alteration of Money

    by Juan de Mariana ...
    In this treatise we find an insightful analysis concerning how monetary debasement and inflation increase prices, which proceeds to illustrate how such increases do not affect everyone equally—in effect, causing a revolution in fortunes. In a parallel argument, Mariana explains how government, if given control of other forms of private property, would also debase the values of those forms and use ... Read more

    6,49 €

  • The Secret Barrister

    Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

    by The Secret Barrister ...
    **An anonymous barrister offers a shocking, darkly funny and very moving journey through the legal system – and explains how it's failing all of us.The Sunday Times number one bestseller.Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction AwardShortlisted for Waterstones Book of the YearShortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year**You may not wish to think about it, but one day you or someone ... Read more

    11,76 €

  • Il vento sta cambiando?

    alla ricerca del cambiamento epocale

    by Luca Laurenti ...
    Un circostanziato e ricco dossier fotografico sul degrado di Roma relativo al quinquennio 2017 - 2021, raccolto con il fine di sensibilizzare l’amministrazione capitolina e la stessa cittadinanza romana a operare per il decoro e il rispetto della città. ... Read more

    2,69 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Lawyers Behave As They Do

    by Paul G. Haskell ...
    In Why Lawyers Behave as They Do, Paul Haskell explains the professional rules that govern how lawyers behave and which permitor requireconduct that laypersons may find unethical. In his criticism of the traditional role of lawyers, Haskell proposes an alternativeand controversialmodel of behavior. Over the past five years, the American Bar Association and legal educators themselves have been ... Read more

    62,27 €

  • Health Research Governance in Africa

    Law, Ethics, and Regulation

    by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    The globalisation of research has resulted in the increased location of research involving humans in developing countries. Countries in Africa, along with China and India, have seen research grow significantly. With emerging infectious diseases, such as Ebola and Zika, emphasising the risk of public health crises throughout the world, a further increase in health research, including clinical ... Read more

    57,39 €

  • The Unelected

    How an Unaccountable Elite is Governing America

    by James R. Copland ...
    America is highly polarized around elections, but unelected actors make many of the decisions that affect our lives. In this lucid history, James R. Copland explains how unaccountable agents have taken over much of the U.S. government apparatus.Congress has largely abdicated its authority. “Independent” administrative agencies churn out thousands of new regulations every year. Courts have enabled ... Read more

    19,07 €

  • Bioethics and Disability

    Toward a Disability-Conscious Bioethics

    by Alicia Ouellette ...
    Series series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    Bioethics and Disability provides tools for understanding the concerns, fears and biases that have convinced some people with disabilities that the health care setting is a dangerous place and some bioethicists that disability activists have nothing to offer bioethics. It wrestles with the charge that bioethics as a discipline devalues the lives of persons with disabilities, arguing that ... Read more

    40,59 €

  • War Crimes

    Causes, Excuses, and Blame

    by Matthew Talbert, Jessica Wolfendale ...
    In 2005, US Marines killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha, including several children. How should we assess the perpetrators of this and other war crimes? Is it unfair to blame the Marines because they were subject to situational pressures such as combat stress (and had lost one of their own in combat)? Or should they be held responsible for their actions, since they ... Read more

    78,64 €

  • I Swear

    The Meaning of an Oath

    by Joel Cohen, Dale J. Degenshein ...
    I Swear: The Meaning of an Oath looks at how taking an oath may impact the obligations of the oath taker, and the perceptions and expectations of those around him. The book begins with Aeschylus – “It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.” The author explores whether Aeschylus was correct through stories of diverse and varied individuals who took an oath – doctor, ... Read more

    19,07 €

  • The Road to Abolition?

    The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Charles J. Ogletree Jr. ...
    Series Book 5 - The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice
    At the start of the twenty-first century, America is in the midst of a profound national reconsideration of the death penalty. There has been a dramatic decline in the number of people being sentenced to death as well as executed, exonerations have become common, and the number of states abolishing the death penalty is on the rise. The essays featured in The Road to Abolition? track this shift in ... Read more

    24,58 €

  • Le scientifique et le théologien en quête d'Origine

    L'expérience de l'incomplétude

    by Thierry Magnin ...
    L'évolution des connaissances scientifiques est souvent venue remettre en cause des représentations du monde et de la place de l'homme dans l'univers que véhiculent les religions. Parallèlement, les scientifiques ont largement évolué dans leur conception du réel et de la vérité.La pensée scientifique, de plus en plus performante, montre néanmoins son incomplétude : quelque chose échappe, le fond ... Read more

    15,99 €

  • Echoes of Influence: Media’s Grip on Truth and Perception

    by Charbel Abinader ...
    In every corner of the world, from ancient oral traditions to the latest digital platforms, media has played an undeniable role in shaping how we understand reality. Whether we like it or not, the stories we consume influence not only our perceptions but also our collective beliefs, biases, and behaviors. ... Read more

    4,49 €

  • Technology

    New Trajectories in Law

    by Penny Crofts, Honni van Rijswijk ...
    Series series New Trajectories in Law
    Placing contemporary technological developments in their historical context, this book argues for the importance of law in their regulation.Technological developments are focused upon overcoming physical and human constraints. There are no normative constraints inherent in the quest for ongoing and future technological development. In contrast, law proffers an essential normative constraint. Just ... Read more

    25,64 €

  • Lawyers on Trial

    Hired Guns or Heroes?

    by Dr Christopher Whelan ...
    "Whelan has written a book that anyone interested in the law should queue to buy." – The Times (of the 1st edition)“A classic work” **–**Michael Beloff KC, Former President, Trinity College Oxford, Treasurer, Gray's InnLawyers are universally unpopular, but is that justified? Aren't lawyers necessary for justice? This book uses real-world examples, case studies, and commentary from practitioners ... Read more

    29,14 €

  • O Supremo Tribunal Federal na Constituição Brasileira

    by Ruy Barbosa ...
    O Supremo Tribunal Federal na Constituição BrasileiraDiscurso proferido pelo Conselheiro Rui Barbosa no Instituto dos Advogados, ao tomar posse do cargo de Presidente, em 19 de novembro de 1914. Transcrito da Revista do Supremo Tribunal, vol. 2, 2ª pt., ag./dez. 1914, p. 393-414.Neste volume apresentamos o texto completo do discurso de Ruy Barbosa no Instituto dos Advogados onde defende quas ... Read more

    2,99 €

  • Formalised Access to Pre-jurisdictional Free Legal Aid.

    Analysis based on Example of Ukraine, Poland, Great Britain and Sweden.

    by Bogusław Przywora, Aleksander Wróbel ...
    Series Book 27 - Ius, Lex et Res Publica
    One of the constitutional obligations of states is the defence of human rights. Such state activities encompass providing free pre-litigation legal aid. In search for solutions allowing to improve Polish model, the authors employed a comparative method. As a result, they analysed solutions adopted in international law, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.Swedish law is an example of a system ... Read more

    53,52 €

  • Access to Justice in Rural Communities

    Global Perspectives

    Edited by Dr Daniel Newman, Dr Faith Gordon ...
    This book offers insight on access to justice from rural areas in internationally comparable contexts to highlight the diversity of experiences within, and across rural areas globally.It looks at the fundamental questions for people's lives raised by the issue of access to justice as well as the rule of law. It highlights a range of social, geographic and cultural issues which impact the way rural ... Read more

    49,49 €

  • Biolaw, Economics and Sustainable Governance

    Addressing the Challenges of a Post-Pandemic World

    by Erick Valdés, Jacob Dahl Rendtorff ...
    Series series Finance, Governance and Sustainability
    This book offers an accurate and updated approach to the main contributions of cosmopolitan biolaw in relation to sustainability, global governance, organizational health care economics and COVID-19.Bringing together different robust and dense biojuridical epistemologies to analyze key bioethical problems as well as the health care, management, economics and sustainability issues of our time, it ... Read more

    Was 57,39 € Now 51,28 €

  • AI and Ethics: Rewriting Our Moral Code

    A journey to digital conscience.....

    by Medha Rashmi, Amitabh Mitra ...
    Artificial Intelligence is no longer science fiction—it already shapes who gets hired, whoreceives credit, and how people are monitored. With such influence come profound ethicalchallenges: Can machines be fair? Who is accountable when algorithms fail? And how do weensure AI serves humanity rather than controls it?In this timely book, Medha Rashmi and Amitabh Mitra explore the urgent intersection ... Read more

    0,71 €

  • A Interioridade E O Mundo

    by Hélder Miguel Rodrigues Órfão Carreira ...
    Como habitar o presente com lucidez numa época marcada por crises convergentes? Esta interrogação atravessa um ensaio que explora sete dimensões constitutivas de uma vida examinada: o conhecimento profundo do mundo que transcende a acumulação de informações, a escrita rigorosa como disciplina de pensamento, o compromisso com a excelência sem perfeccionismo paralisante, o cultivo deliberado da ... Read more

    8,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anti-Corruption in a Discordant World

    Contestation, Abuse, and Innovation

    Edited by David Jackson, Inge Amundsen, David Aled Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Corruption and Anti-Corruption Studies
    As the United Nations Convention against Corruption celebrates 20 years, there could be a sense that anti-corruption discourses, policies, and practices are settling into a stable, consensus-driven phase. This edited volume argues they are not.Bringing together perspectives from around the world, this book captures the turbulent contemporary practice of anti-corruption. It shows it to be an arena ... Read more

    53,73 €

  • Conselhos de Fiscalização Profissional Brasileiros

    desvendando a natureza jurídica das entidades de fiscalização profissional no contexto da administração pública contemporânea

    by Fernanda Fontenelle Grillo ...
    O que levou os grupos profissionais a obterem a chancela do Estado para fiscalizar, normatizar e julgar o exercício da própria profissão? Por que alguns grupos profissionais obtiveram o poder de autorregulação e outros não? Quais eram os problemas a serem enfrentados quando a autorregulação foi estabelecida? Os atores estatais possuem algo a ganhar com a autorregulação profissional? Como se deu o ... Read more

    9,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus