Septembre 1715. Louis XIV meurt. Ses guerres interminables ont laissé les caisses vides et un endettement public record. L'économie est en récession. Les impôts sont lourds et écrasent les producteurs. Le régent Philippe d'Orléans succède au grand roi. Il mène une politique de rigueur, impopulaire et inefficace. Philippe se laisse alors convaincre par un financier écossais du nom de Law, personnage romanesque fuyant la justice anglaise. Ce Law a sillonné l'Europe et assimilé toutes les tec...

At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe.Born in Scotland in 1671, he was convicted of murder in London and, after his escape from prison, fled Scotland for the mainland when Union with England brought with it a warrant for his arrest.On the continent he lurched from one money-making scheme to the next - selling insurance against losing lottery tickets in Holland, advising the Duke of Savoy - amassing a fortune of some £80,000.But for h...

À l'image du célèbre diamant dont il fit hommage au Régent en 1717, le nom de Law brille de mille feux. On ne le créditera pas seulement d’avoir introduit en France le billet de banque : son Système relevait d’une vision macroéconomique avant la lettre. Law surgit à un moment, somme toute banal de la vie économique de l’Ancien Régime, où l’argent circule mal faute de trouver à s’investir, et aboutit dans le coffre des rentiers. Plombées par vingt-cinq ans de guerre (1689-1714), les finance...

John Law is a misfit private investigator, with Washington D. C., as his beat and hes not doing all that well in either his love life or his career. A mercy job from his sometime lover leads him to the Delaware shore and into the middle of an intricate drug cartel operation. With help from new friends and old and in spite of dangerous adversaries and a near drowning, John solves the case with surprising results . . .

John Bookman—Book to his friends—is a tenured professor at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin. He rides a Harley and wears jeans and cowboy boots and his hair too long to suit the conservative dean. He’s thirty-five, handsome and unmarried but seldom without a female companion. He teaches karate and Con Law, law school vernacular for Constitutional Law. He is a recognized constitutional law expert, debates senators on political talk shows and reduces them to blithering fools, ...

Enhance your understanding of land law with the bestselling law revision seriesLand Law, 8th edition, by John Duddington is a premier text designed to aid revision and prepare you for your exams. Part of the acclaimed Law Express series, this book uses expert advice throughout to guide you through approaching and assessing the subject. Its chapters will ensure you are exam ready, taking you through essential cases, statutes, and legal terms. A ra...

What would happen if a top expert with more than thirty years of leadership experience were willing to distill everything he had learned about leadership into a handful of life-changing principles just for you? It would change your life.John C. Maxwell has done exactly that in The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. He has combined insights learned from his thirty-plus years of leadership successes and mistakes with observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports...

**Steinbeck’s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survivalA Penguin Classic**Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, including longtime friend Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Do...

Attorney Dismas Hardy is called to defend the least likely suspect of his career: his longtime, trusted assistant who is suddenly being charged as an accessory to murder in this instant New York Times bestseller from “the undisputed master of the courtroom thriller” (The Providence Journal).Dismas Hardy knows something is amiss with his trusted secretary, Phyllis. Her strange behavior and sudden disappearances concern him, especia...

Meet the gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists of Cannery Row in Monterey, California, during the Great Depression. They want to throw a party for their friend Doc, so Mack and the boys set about, in their own inimitable way, recruiting everyone in the neighbourhood to the cause. But along the way they can't help but get involved in a little mischief and misadventure. It wouldn't be Cannery Row if it was otherwise, now would it?Packed with a ramshackle joi de vivre, Cannery Row...

The legendary FBI criminal profiler and inspiration for the hit Netflix show Mindhunter offers a personal look into the workings of the justice system.“At the top of his form.” —James PattersonFor the first time since his retirement, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Killer Across the Table and The Killer’s Shadow teams up with award-winning author Mark Olshaker to delve into his most notori...

First published in 1980, Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely heralded as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an authoritative restatement of natural law doctrine. It has offered generations of students and other readers a thorough grounding in the central issues of legal, moral, and political philosophy from Finnis's distinctive perspective. This new edition includes a substantial postscript by the author, in which he responds to thirty years of discussion, c...