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Brought to you by Penguin. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION Discover the essential, must-read book about how the UK legal system is failing women, as told by one of Britain’s foremost lawyers. For more than quarter of a century, Harriet Wistrich has fought the corner of...

This book consists of two parts: the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" and "The Law of Peoples", a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than 50 years of reflection on liberalism and on some of the most pressing problems of our times.

The way that Americans understand their Constitution and wider legal tradition has been dominated in recent decades by two exhausted approaches: the originalism of conservatives and the “living constitutionalism” of progressives. Is it time to look for an alternative? Adrian Vermeule argues...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Dieses Hörbuch wird von einer KI-Stimme gesprochen. Es bietet einen klaren und strukturierten Leitfaden zum englischen Vertragsrecht und behandelt die zentralen Grundsätze, maßgeblichen Gerichtsentscheidungen und praktischen Regeln, die...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This audiobook provides a clear and structured guide to English land law, covering the core principles, legal interests, and practical rules governing the ownership, use, transfer, and protection of land in England and Wales. Topics include estates and...

From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the assumption goes, society prospers. Superbloom tells a startlingly different story. As communication becomes more mechanized and efficient, it breeds confusion more than understanding, strife more than harmony. Media technologies all too often bring out the worst in us.

"A sheriff-elect was murdered. I was next on the hit list." —J.Tom Morgan In December 2000, Derwin Brown, the newly elected sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia, was ambushed and murdered in his own driveway just days before taking office. He had run on reform—promising to clean up corruption...

Notary Public Exam Vocabulary: A Short Guide to Learning and Remembering Key Terms Efficiently is the essential audiobook companion for anyone preparing to pass the Notary Public exam. Whether you're a first-time test-taker or need to refresh your knowledge, this guide is designed to make vocabulary acquisition fast, focused, and stress-free. Inside, you'll find: Clear, concise definitions of the most important Notary Public exam terms Memory strategies to help key vocabulary actually stick An efficient, structured approach built for busy learners on the go Skip the overwhelm.

Interweaving an insider’s account of the true crime saga driving Netflix sensation Making a Murderer with other controversial cases from his career, this powerful memoir from Steven Avery’s defense attorney reveals the flaws in America's criminal justice system and puts forth a provocative...

Get ready to pass the Life in the UK Test with a clear, practical study guide made for busy adults. It covers the official topics in simple English, including British history, UK government and politics, the law, customs, traditions, and everyday life in the United Kingdom. You’ll also get practice questions to check your understanding, spot weak areas, and build confidence for test day, whether you are applying for British citizenship or ILR.

'INCREDIBLE. If you read anything this year, make sure it's this.' -DAISY MAY COOPER 'Compelling... brilliant but shaming.' CHERIE BLAIR, KC 'Crucial reading for any person wanting to fight against all forms of gendered abuse.' JESS PHILLIPS, MP 'This book is another brick through the windows of...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING SHORTLIST FOR THE WORLD OF BOOKS SUSTAINABLE STORY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION Traffickers. Hit men. Outlaws. Thieves . . . Our planet is a crime scene – but can we catch the killers? Enter a world where people are murdered, ecosystems...

This House of Grief is a heartbreaking audiobook by one of Australia's most admired authors. Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way on a Sunday morning, across the great volcanic plain.

An informative no-nonsense guide to health and safety. Health and safety is a very dry arduous subject. Let us be totally honest! Everyone has an opinion on it, and it’s mostly bad. The whole perceived premise around health and safety is that it’s often “over the top”, it’s the “nanny state”, it’s overbearing, and “The Man” is giving us extra things to do. In reality it’s there to keep us all safe and healthy.

The deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting. Emma Gonzalez called BS. David Hogg called out Adult America. Cameron Kasky recruited a colorful band of teenagers. Four days after escaping Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, they announced the...

In his four-time Emmy-nominated show Caught in Providence, Judge Frank Caprio’s courtroom became a worldwide beacon of compassionate justice—and an unforgettable watch for millions of fans. Now, Judge Caprio, known as “the Nicest Judge in the World,” brings to the page the same wisdom and spirit of decency that viewers around the world have come to treasure.

No new parent expects their offspring’s childhood to be tainted by arrest or conviction. That only happens to other people’s kids, right? Wrong. In this compelling book, written by one of Britain’s top experts in youth justice, Aika Stephenson reveals the extraordinary cases she deals with...

First published as a pamphlet in June 1850, The Law is already well over 150 years old, and it will still be read when another century has passed. America now faces the same situation France did in 1848 and the same socialist-communist plans and ideas adopted there are now sweeping America—the...

Jeff Ashton was part of the prosecution team in the Florida homicide trial of Casey Anthony, the single mother accused of murdering her little girl, Caylee. The most sensational courtroom drama since the infamous O.J. Simpson affair, the Casey Anthony trial had people coast-to-coast riveted. In...

The ocean covers seventy per cent of the surface of our planet, and two thirds of this lie beyond national borders. Owned by all nations and no nation simultaneously, these waters are home to some of the richest and most biodiverse environments on the planet. But they are also home to atrocities beyond most of our imaginations. Here, out of sight and often out of mind, industry and economic progress rule and lax enforcement and apathy are the status quo, underscored by a battle to control, profit from, protect, or obliterate the world's largest, wildest commons.