Author: Amy Bach
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Keywords: court, holds, america, injustice, ordinary
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0805074473
ISBN-13: 9780805074475
From an award-winning lawyer-reporter, a radically new explanation for America’s failing justice systemThe stories of grave injustice are all too familiar: the lawyer who sleeps through a trial, the false confessions, the convictions of the innocent. Less visible is the chronic injustice meted out daily by a profoundly defective system.In a sweeping investigation that moves from small-town Georgia to upstate New York, from Chicago to Mississippi, Amy Bach reveals a judicial process so deeply compromised that it constitutes a menace to the people it is designed to serve. Here is the public de
Authors:Cecil Headlam, Gordon Home,
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: court, inns
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2009-10-27
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 1115201190
ISBN-13: 9781115201193
Author: Vassily Sigarev
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Keywords: theatre, court, royal, ladybird
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1854597884
ISBN-13: 9781854597885
Russian playwright Vassily Sigarev shot to prominence in 2002 with his debut play, Plasticine, which won him the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright—the first time the award had gone to a non-English-speaking writer. Set in a block of low-income apartments near the city cemetery, Ladybird returns to the urban setting Sigarev knows so well and the people at the bottom of society for whom he has an obstinate affection.
Author: Benjamin N. Schiff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: court, criminal, international, building
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-05-05
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0521694728
ISBN-13: 9780521694728
The ICC is the first and only standing international court capable of prosecuting humanity’s worst crimes: genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It faces huge obstacles. It has no police force; it pursues investigations in areas of tremendous turmoil, conflict, and death; it is charged both with trying suspects and with aiding their victims; and it seeks to combine divergent legal traditions in an entirely new international legal mechanism. International law advocates sought to establish a standing international criminal court for more than 150 years. Other, temporary,
Author: Thomas R. Marshall
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Keywords: court, supreme, opinion, public
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1988-12-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0044970471
ISBN-13: 9780044970477
Author: Allan W. Atlas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: naples, court, aragonese, music
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2008-10-30
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521088305
ISBN-13: 9780521088305
This book deals with various aspects of musical life at the Aragonese court of Naples, from its establishment in 1442 to its demise in the opening years of the sixteenth century. An opening chapter gives a general historical-cultural background of the court. The author then discusses the royal chapel and its most important members, as well as other important musicians who were in Naples but who had no known ties with the court in an official sense. He goes on to describe the various types of secular music at the court and the music manuscripts compiled in and around Naples. The importance of t
Author: Earl Miner
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: poetry, court, japanese, introduction
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1968-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0804706360
ISBN-13: 9780804706360
The poetry written by the Japanese imperial court between A.D. 550 and 1350 is regarded as one of the great literatures of the world. This volume introduces readers to that literature, offering at once a condensation, a reorganization, and an extension (to A.D. 1500) of "Japanese Court Poetry" (1901). (Poetry)
