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Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Patty Hearst who suffered an unimaginable trauma and then made the stunning decision to join her captors' crusade
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists when the group released a tape of...
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English
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Full Courtroom Press takes the reader behind-the-scenes and into the mind of former combat Marine and current Boston civil trial lawyer, Mike Lyons, as he plans and strategizes to meet the challenges of two dramatic cases. The powerful force of shame keeps both clients from being forthright with Mike, creating tension and obstacles during each trial. Mike educates the reader about how to win in a courtroom.
This book is both entertaining and enriching....
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English
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If you like courtroom drama, these cases read like finely-crafted short stories, each laid out to create tension and capture the reader. This is Mr. Katz's autobiographical anthology of court cases he selected from a legal career that spanned over forty years. He was an assistant district attorney, a public defender, an insurance defense attorney, and a civil plaintive in Louisiana state and federal courts and in state courts in Colorado.
Entwined...
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Español
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Sobre el contenido de este trabajo tan sólo dos palabras… se trata de una reflexión muy gremial propia de los teóricos del Derecho, pues pretende dilucidar si las normas que forman un ordenamiento jurídico son de una sola clase o si pertenecen a dos categorías distintas, las normas o reglas y los principios, y, en tal caso, en qué se diferencian o para qué sirven unas y otros… deseo aclarar que no se trata de ninguna disputa estrechamente...
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Español
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Este manual ofrece pistas y técnicas para construir y sustentar una argumentación jurídica convincente y también para incitar a los juristas a no descuidar y descartar el valor del método en sus trabajos. Uno de sus objetivos es demostrar el valor agregado del uso de un método -en especial, del método que el autor plantea- durante un trabajo jurídico.
La primera parte del libro se dedica, por tanto, a la presentación de algunas técnicas...
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English
Description
"Winner of the 2011 C. Herman Pritchett Award, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association" "Winner of the 2011 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association" Sean Farhang is assistant professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Of the 1.65 million lawsuits enforcing federal laws over the past decade, 3 percent were prosecuted by the federal government, while...
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Español
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Este libro presenta el debate normativo actual entre algunos de los diferentes modelos más relevantes en ciencia jurídica: la disciplina que tiene como objetivo establecer cuál es el contenido de los diferentes derechos.
El volumen se abre con un ensayo introductorio de Álvaro Núñez que pretende responder qué es la ciencia jurídica para, después, aclarar el tipo de desacuerdos que tienen las diferentes doctrinas (o ideologías) de la ciencia...
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Español
Description
Este libro está compuesto por una serie de trabajos que, de manera conjunta, proponen la necesidad de construir una Teoría de la Prueba judicial a partir de dos condiciones.
En primer lugar, esta debe estar constituida desde los hechos y los problemas planteados por éstos, y no desde las normas, esto es, que no se limite a ver los problemas de prueba como problemas de interpretación de las normas jurídicas que regulen la actividad probatoria....
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Español
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La ponderación se ha convertido en el tópico de nuestro tiempo y punto de debates en torno a las concepciones del Derecho, los derechos y la justicia. Precisamente, teniendo como marco el escenario continental europeo, los profesores Manuel Atienza y Juan Antonio García Amado emprenden un "combate dialéctico 'cuerpo a cuerpo'" que, a partir del trabajo de uno de los autores, va tomando forma epistolar.
Se trata de un debate fundamental para comprender...
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Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In Little Pink House, award-winning investigative journalist Jeff Benedict takes readers behind the scenes of the Suzatte Kelso case (a case that ultimately reached the United States Supreme Court) in which Kelso led the charge to take on corporate America to save her home.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The definitive account of the rise and fall of South African Olympic and Gold Medal-winning Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, from his personal and athletic success to the murder charge that rocked the world and put both the man, and post-Apartheid South Africa, on trial. Oscar Pistorius made history as the first amputee to compete against able-bodied runners at the 2012 London Olympics. A hero in his native South Africa, the Blade Runner as he...
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Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The stakes couldn't be any higher. Stephen Parkes, a former Airborne Ranger and law school graduate, has been charged with a brutal crime. A career prosecutor has made him an offer of thirty years in prison in return for a guilty plea. He has a hanging judge and his own public defender wants him to die in prison. The circumstances have never been more grim!
So, he decides to take matters into his own hands. He drops more than eight feet into a noose....
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Français
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En 25 questions, ce guide aborde les droits et les devoirs des copropriétaires, et donne des arguments, des exemples et des conseils en cas de litige à régler à l'amiable ou devant la justice : quels sont les rles du conseil syndical et de l'assemblée générale, comment résoudre des problèmes affectant les parties communes ou privatives, etc.
20) The Prick
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English
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Jason Hunter's dwindling bank account is a daily reminder that Jason never should have left his job at a prestigious law firm to start his own practice, a solo shop located in uncomfortable proximity to a strip club. Hope arrives in the form of Maggie Moxley, a legal assistant who tearfully claims that Robert Spelkin III-her boss, and the office's most profitable partner-sexually assaulted her at work. Looking to transform Moxley's misfortune into...
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