Author: William Bernhardt
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: novel, offense, capitol
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2010-02-23
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345503007
ISBN-13: 9780345503008
Insane with grief, Professor Dennis Thomas blames Detective Christopher Sentz for the death of his wife and wants to kill him. In fact, Thomas shares his revenge plans with Ben Kincaid. Then someone fires seven bullets into the police officer. Against all advice and going on instinct, Kincaid decides to represent the troubled professor, who faces a charge of capital murder. Meanwhile, Kincaid’s personal private detective, Loving, starts prying loose pieces of a shocking secret. Working in the shadows of the law, Loving risks his life to construct an entirely new narrative about Detective Sen
Author: Mike Doogan
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Keywords: offense, capitol
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-08-16
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0399154310
ISBN-13: 9780399154317
Detective Nik Kane investigates a deadly mystery at Alaska’s political heart. The second in a new series from the author of Lost Angel. Abeautiful young woman is found strangled in the office of an Alaskan state senator. Standing over her dead body is gifted young legislator Matthew Hope. Before this unfortunate event, he was the most promising native Alaskan politician in the state. Now he’s facing serious time, and he’s not talking to anyone. In desperation, a mysterious, wealthy patron hires Nik Kane, disgraced ex-cop, to investigate the crime. What Kane discovers is
Author: William Bernhardt
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: novel, offense, capitol
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-09-29
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 034550299X
ISBN-13: 9780345502995
In his thrilling novels of suspense, William Bernhardt takes us into the fault lines of the criminal justice system, where one mistake, a twist of fate, or an explosive secret can mean the difference between justice and its cataclysmic undoing. In Capital Offense, attorney Ben Kincaid stands amid the chaos of a violent collision between vengeance and death–and it’s up to him to discover where the truth lies.Professor Dennis Thomas arrives at the law office of Ben Kincaid with a bizarre request: Thomas wants to know if Kincaid can help him beat a murder charge–of a killing yet to happen.
Author: Bernard L. Ramm
Publisher: Regent College Publishing
Keywords: sin, theology, reason, offense
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1573830011
ISBN-13: 9781573830010
Author: J. M. Coetzee
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: censorship, essays, offense, giving
Number of Pages: 297
Published: 1997-11-08
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0226111768
ISBN-13: 9780226111766
Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. He argues that a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals in any field ruled by censorship.From Osip Mandelstam commanded to compose an ode in praise of Stalin, to Breyten Breytenbach writing poems under and for the eyes of his prison guards, to Aleksander S
Author: J. M. Coetzee
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: censorship, essays, offense, giving
Number of Pages: 297
Published: 1996-04-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0226111741
ISBN-13: 9780226111742
Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. He argues that a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals in any field ruled by censorship.From Osip Mandelstam commanded to compose an ode in praise of Stalin, to Breyten Breytenbach writing poems under and for the eyes of his prison guards, to Aleksander S
Author: Joel Feinberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: law, vol, criminal, limits, others, moral, offense
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 1988-01-07
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0195052153
ISBN-13: 9780195052152
The second volume in Joel Feinberg’s series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Offense to Others focuses on the "offense principle," which maintains that preventing shock, disgust, or revulsion is always a morally relevant reason for legal prohibitions. Feinberg clarifies the concept of an "offended mental state" and further contrasts the concept of offense with harm. He also considers the law of nuisance as a model for statutes creating "morals offenses," showing its inadequacy as a model for understanding "profound offenses," and discusses such issues as obscene words and social pol
