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Vanished in Vermillion

The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case

de Lou Raguse ...

In May 1971, Pam Jackson and Sherri Miller were two seventeen-year-olds driving to an end-of-the-school-year party in a rundown Studebaker Lark when they seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth. Police back then didn’t do enough to try and find them. Investigators thirty years later did too much. Two families endure decades of pain as they await answers of what happened to their girls. ... Leer más

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In May 1971, Pam Jackson and Sherri Miller were two seventeen-year-olds driving to an end-of-the-school-year party in a rundown Studebaker Lark when they seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth. Police back then didn’t do enough to try and find them. Investigators thirty years later did too much. Two families endure decades of pain as they await answers of what happened to their girls.
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The Price of Justice

The Myths of Lawyer Ethics

de Ronald Goldfarb ...

“Attorney and literary agent Goldfarb (editor, After Snowden) delivers a lacerating critique of inequities in America’s criminal and civil justice systems and the role of lawyers in perpetuating them… Legal professionals will want to take note.” – Publisher’s WeeklyWith foreword by Senator Bernie SandersReal civil and criminal Justice is long overdueInThe Price of Justice: Money, Morals and ... Leer más

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“Attorney and literary agent Goldfarb (editor, After Snowden) delivers a lacerating critique of inequities in America’s criminal and civil justice systems and the role of lawyers in perpetuating them… Legal professionals will want to take note.” – Publisher’s WeeklyWith foreword by Senator Bernie SandersReal civil and criminal Justice is long overdueInThe Price of Justice: Money, Morals and
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Guilt by Accusation

The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo

de Alan Dershowitz ...

A Wall Street Journal bestseller! Alan Dershowitz, one of America’s most respected legal scholars and a New York Times bestselling author proves—with incontrovertible evidence—that he is entirely innocent of the sexual misconduct accusations against him, while suggesting a roadmap for how such allegations should be handled in a just society.“Maybe the question isn’t what happened to Alan ... Leer más

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A Wall Street Journal bestseller! Alan Dershowitz, one of America’s most respected legal scholars and a New York Times bestselling author proves—with incontrovertible evidence—that he is entirely innocent of the sexual misconduct accusations against him, while suggesting a roadmap for how such allegations should be handled in a just society.“Maybe the question isn’t what happened to Alan
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Ética, profesión y ciudadanía: Una ética cívica para la vida en común

de Dora Elvira García González ...

Series series Biblioteca Jurídica Porrúa
La relevancia del tema de la ética en la actualidad obliga a reflexionar sobre aquellos problemas que cotidianamente enfrentamos en los espacios donde nos desarrollamos, ya sean profesionales o cívicos, ámbitos que están en la escena pública. Éste es el marco contextual de los ensayos que componen esta obra, en la cual un grupo de investigadores del Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores ... Leer más

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La relevancia del tema de la ética en la actualidad obliga a reflexionar sobre aquellos problemas que cotidianamente enfrentamos en los espacios donde nos desarrollamos, ya sean profesionales o cívicos, ámbitos que están en la escena pública. Éste es el marco contextual de los ensayos que componen esta obra, en la cual un grupo de investigadores del Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores
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Media Ethics

A Guide For Professional Conduct

de Cindy Kelley, Tony Peterson ...

Closely organized around the Society of Professional Journalists' code of ethics — the news industry's widely accepted "gold standard" of journalism principles — this updated edition uses real-life case studies to demonstrate how journalism students and professionals can identify and reason through ethical dilemmas. Stressing the cross-platform viability of basic ethical principles, this study ... Leer más

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Closely organized around the Society of Professional Journalists' code of ethics — the news industry's widely accepted "gold standard" of journalism principles — this updated edition uses real-life case studies to demonstrate how journalism students and professionals can identify and reason through ethical dilemmas. Stressing the cross-platform viability of basic ethical principles, this study
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We Own This City

A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption

de Justin Fenton ...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • The astonishing true story of “one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation” (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize–nominated reporter who exposed a gang of criminal cops and their yearslong plunder of an American cityNOW AN HBO SERIES FROM THE WIRE CREATOR DAVID SIMON AND GEORGE PELECANOS“A work of journalism that not only chronicles ... Leer más

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NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • The astonishing true story of “one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation” (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize–nominated reporter who exposed a gang of criminal cops and their yearslong plunder of an American cityNOW AN HBO SERIES FROM THE WIRE CREATOR DAVID SIMON AND GEORGE PELECANOS“A work of journalism that not only chronicles
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American Muckraker

Rethinking Journalism for the 21st Century

de James O’Keefe ...

ON POWERThey do have tremendous power. But in part it is because we give it to them. We are nothing, but we are not alone. Awe cannot live in fear. The moment you stop caring about what the media establishment thinks of you, is the moment you become truly free.ON INSIDERSThe USPS whistleblower, a Marine Corps combat veteran said, “I would rather be back in Afghanistan, getting shot at by Afghans, ... Leer más

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ON POWERThey do have tremendous power. But in part it is because we give it to them. We are nothing, but we are not alone. Awe cannot live in fear. The moment you stop caring about what the media establishment thinks of you, is the moment you become truly free.ON INSIDERSThe USPS whistleblower, a Marine Corps combat veteran said, “I would rather be back in Afghanistan, getting shot at by Afghans,
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The Death of Common Sense

How Law Is Suffocating America

de Philip K. Howard ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common Sense. Here Howard offers nothing less than a fresh, lucid, practical operating system for modern democracy. ... Leer más

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common Sense. Here Howard offers nothing less than a fresh, lucid, practical operating system for modern democracy.
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Anatomy of Injustice

A Murder Case Gone Wrong

de Raymond Bonner ...

The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and ... Leer más

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The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and
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El jurado seducido: Las pasiones ante la justicia

de Luis De la Barreda Solórzano ...

Series series Biblioteca Jurídica Porrúa
El autor conjunta en estas crónicas y reflexiones dos temas candentes: la justicia y la pasión. La primera parte presenta casos en los que el amor apasionado y el desamor son los protagonistas. La segunda, fenómenos criminales relacionados con usos y costumbres bárbaros, tolerados o propiciados por las autoridades. La tercera, asuntos en los que entran en juego, por un lado, delicadas cuestiones ... Leer más

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El autor conjunta en estas crónicas y reflexiones dos temas candentes: la justicia y la pasión. La primera parte presenta casos en los que el amor apasionado y el desamor son los protagonistas. La segunda, fenómenos criminales relacionados con usos y costumbres bárbaros, tolerados o propiciados por las autoridades. La tercera, asuntos en los que entran en juego, por un lado, delicadas cuestiones
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Firefighters

Their Lives in Their Own Words

de Dennis Smith ...

An unforgettable journey through the daily lives of the brave men and women who have made saving lives their profession.Dennis Smith, author of Report from Engine Co. 82, traveled across the country talking to dozens of America’s firefighters to put together this powerful collection of their own descriptions of their most dramatic and intense experiences on the job. Their stories, compiled here, ... Leer más

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An unforgettable journey through the daily lives of the brave men and women who have made saving lives their profession.Dennis Smith, author of Report from Engine Co. 82, traveled across the country talking to dozens of America’s firefighters to put together this powerful collection of their own descriptions of their most dramatic and intense experiences on the job. Their stories, compiled here,
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Voto en contra

de José Ramón Cossío ...

Este libro muestra uno de los rostros más luminosos de México: el de la pluralidad, la inteligencia y las instituciones.En los últimos 15 años, México ha librado algunas de sus batallas más importantes... en la Suprema Cortede Justicia de la Nación. Ahí se han debatido -y definido- los límites a la libertad de expresión, los derechos de los indígenas a juicios justos, las fronteras de la ... Leer más

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Este libro muestra uno de los rostros más luminosos de México: el de la pluralidad, la inteligencia y las instituciones.En los últimos 15 años, México ha librado algunas de sus batallas más importantes... en la Suprema Cortede Justicia de la Nación. Ahí se han debatido -y definido- los límites a la libertad de expresión, los derechos de los indígenas a juicios justos, las fronteras de la
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It's Never Been Easier to Hire the Wrong Attorney

de David W. Craig ...

Winning your case means finding the right lawyer.Whether criminal or civil, each court case is unique. An attorney may have a high win rate with exceptional testimonials, but if their specialty is financial fraud and your case is in personal injury, your position will suffer-and the results could be detrimental.In It's Never Been Easier to Hire the Wrong Attorney, David W. Craig and Abigail Hays ... Leer más

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Winning your case means finding the right lawyer.Whether criminal or civil, each court case is unique. An attorney may have a high win rate with exceptional testimonials, but if their specialty is financial fraud and your case is in personal injury, your position will suffer-and the results could be detrimental.In It's Never Been Easier to Hire the Wrong Attorney, David W. Craig and Abigail Hays
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Aristotle: The Complete Works

de Aristotle ...

Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and student of Plato who stunningly changed the course of Western philosophy. He has gone down in history as one of the greatest philosophers of all time. Cicero, the Roman statesman and philosopher, once called his writing style "a river of gold;" and his scope of thought and subsequent influence on the study of science, logic, philosophical ... Leer más

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Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and student of Plato who stunningly changed the course of Western philosophy. He has gone down in history as one of the greatest philosophers of all time. Cicero, the Roman statesman and philosopher, once called his writing style "a river of gold;" and his scope of thought and subsequent influence on the study of science, logic, philosophical
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Sworn to Silence

The Truth Behind Robert Garrow and the Missing Bodies Case

de Jim Tracy ...

Jim Tracy’s Sworn to Silence is an unforgettable story of two American lawyers who did the unprecedented. They searched for, found, and photographed the lifeless bodies of their client’s victims and then kept it secret. They did so in the face of unendurable pressure from the authorities and the victims’ families, who suspected the lawyers knew more than they were saying.When the American public ... Leer más

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Jim Tracy’s Sworn to Silence is an unforgettable story of two American lawyers who did the unprecedented. They searched for, found, and photographed the lifeless bodies of their client’s victims and then kept it secret. They did so in the face of unendurable pressure from the authorities and the victims’ families, who suspected the lawyers knew more than they were saying.When the American public
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The Great Post Office Scandal

The Fight to Expose A Multimillion Pound Scandal Which Put Innocent People in Jail

de Nick Wallis ...

The Great Post Office Scandal is the extraordinary story behind the recent ITV drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office.This gripping page-turner recounts how thousands of subpostmasters were accused of theft and false accounting on the back of evidence from Horizon, the flawed computer system designed by Fujitsu, and how a group of them, led by Alan Bates, took their fight to the High Court. ... Leer más

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The Great Post Office Scandal is the extraordinary story behind the recent ITV drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office.This gripping page-turner recounts how thousands of subpostmasters were accused of theft and false accounting on the back of evidence from Horizon, the flawed computer system designed by Fujitsu, and how a group of them, led by Alan Bates, took their fight to the High Court.
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The Price of Principle

Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences

de Alan Dershowitz ...

In his fiftieth book, The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences, Alan Dershowitz—#1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most influential legal scholars—explores the implications of the increasing tendency in politics, academia, media, and even the courts of law to punish principle and reward partisan hypocrisy.Alan Dershowitz has been called “one of the ... Leer más

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In his fiftieth book, The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences, Alan Dershowitz—#1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most influential legal scholars—explores the implications of the increasing tendency in politics, academia, media, and even the courts of law to punish principle and reward partisan hypocrisy.Alan Dershowitz has been called “one of the
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Conflicts of Interest in Science

How Corporate-Funded Academic Research Can Threaten Public Health

de Sheldon Krimsky ...

30+ Years of Peer-Reviewed Studies on the Corporate Ties and Vested Interests that Influence Scientific ResearchFor over 500 years, groups and organizations with political, economic, and personal interests have successfully exercised influence on the pursuit of scientific inquiry and knowledge. History is replete with examples like the Papal authority muddying research into studies of the cosmos, ... Leer más

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30+ Years of Peer-Reviewed Studies on the Corporate Ties and Vested Interests that Influence Scientific ResearchFor over 500 years, groups and organizations with political, economic, and personal interests have successfully exercised influence on the pursuit of scientific inquiry and knowledge. History is replete with examples like the Papal authority muddying research into studies of the cosmos,
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What It Means to Be Human

The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics

de O. Carter Snead ...

A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the YearA First Things Books for Christmas SelectionWinner of the Expanded Reason Award“This important work of moral philosophy argues that we are, first and foremost, embodied beings, and that public policy must recognize the limits and gifts that this entails.”—Wall Street JournalThe natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and dependent on others ... Leer más

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A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the YearA First Things Books for Christmas SelectionWinner of the Expanded Reason Award“This important work of moral philosophy argues that we are, first and foremost, embodied beings, and that public policy must recognize the limits and gifts that this entails.”—Wall Street JournalThe natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and dependent on others
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Email Marketing for the Entrepreneurial Attorney

de Dave Clough ...

Attorneys have been hesitant to adopt the marketing tools offered by the internet, though it would grant them access to a massive potential client base. Email marketing is the most direct, personal, permission-based method of reaching out to past, present and potential clients. How can attorneys use email to effectively marketing to gain and keep clients? ... Leer más

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Attorneys have been hesitant to adopt the marketing tools offered by the internet, though it would grant them access to a massive potential client base. Email marketing is the most direct, personal, permission-based method of reaching out to past, present and potential clients. How can attorneys use email to effectively marketing to gain and keep clients?
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Animal Rights

What Everyone Needs to Know®

de Paul Waldau ...

Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
In this compelling volume in the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, Paul Waldau expertly navigates the many heated debates surrounding the complex and controversial animal rights movement. Organized around a series of probing questions, this timely resource offers the most complete, even-handed survey of the animal rights movement available. The book covers the full spectrum of issues, beginning ... Leer más

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In this compelling volume in the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, Paul Waldau expertly navigates the many heated debates surrounding the complex and controversial animal rights movement. Organized around a series of probing questions, this timely resource offers the most complete, even-handed survey of the animal rights movement available. The book covers the full spectrum of issues, beginning
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Loving Justice

Legal Emotions in William Blackstone's England

de Kathryn D. Temple ...

A history of legal emotions in William Blackstone’s England and their relationship to justiceWilliam Blackstone’s masterpiece, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769), famously took the “ungodly jumble” of English law and transformed it into an elegant and easily transportable four-volume summary. Soon after publication, the work became an international monument not only to English law, ... Leer más

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A history of legal emotions in William Blackstone’s England and their relationship to justiceWilliam Blackstone’s masterpiece, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769), famously took the “ungodly jumble” of English law and transformed it into an elegant and easily transportable four-volume summary. Soon after publication, the work became an international monument not only to English law,
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The Moral Compass of the American Lawyer

Truth, Justice, Power, and Greed

de Richard A. Zitrin, Carol M. Langford ...

These are perilous times for Americans who need access to the legal system. Too many lawyers blatantly abuse power and trust, engage in reckless ethical misconduct, grossly unjust billing practices, and dishonesty disguised as client protection. All this has undermined the credibility of lawyers and the authority of the legal system. In the court of public opinion, many lawyers these days are ... Leer más

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These are perilous times for Americans who need access to the legal system. Too many lawyers blatantly abuse power and trust, engage in reckless ethical misconduct, grossly unjust billing practices, and dishonesty disguised as client protection. All this has undermined the credibility of lawyers and the authority of the legal system. In the court of public opinion, many lawyers these days are
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Digital Accessibility Ethics

Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech

Edición de Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, Chancey Fleet ...

Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech is a practical guide with an urgent goal: to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities.This book introduces the first Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework – an action-oriented, three-part tool designed to influence, change, and disrupt patterns of exclusion with values, actions, and ... Leer más

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Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech is a practical guide with an urgent goal: to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities.This book introduces the first Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework – an action-oriented, three-part tool designed to influence, change, and disrupt patterns of exclusion with values, actions, and
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