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  • THE LAW AND SOCIETY READER II
    ERIK LARSON AND PATRICK SCHMIDT
    Law and society scholars challenge the common belief that law is simply a neutral tool by which society sets standards and resolves disputes. Decades of research shows how much the nature of communities, organizations, and the people inhabiting them affect how law works. Just as much, law shapes beliefs, behaviors, and wider social structures, but the connections are much more ...

    $329.00

  • THE TELEVISION WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED
    AMANDA LOTZ
    Go behind the TV screen to explore what is changing, why it is changing, and why the changes matters Many proclaimed the “end of television” in the early years of the twenty-first century, as capabilities and features of the boxes that occupied a central space in American living rooms for the preceding fifty years were radically remade. In this revised, second edition of her de...

    $390.00

  • NEW YORK AND AMSTERDAM
    NANCY FONER / JAN RATH / JAN WILLEM DUYVENDAK / ROGIER VAN REEKUM
    Immigration is dramatically changing major cities throughout the world. Nowhere is this more so than in New York City and Amsterdam, which, after decades of large-scale immigration, now have populations that are more than a third foreign-born. These cities have had to deal with the challenge of incorporating hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose cultures, languages, religio...

    $382.00

  • AN UNUSUAL RELATIONSHIP
    YAAKOV ARIEL
    It is generally accepted that Jews and evangelical Christians have little in common. Yet special alliances developed between the two groups in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Evangelicals viewed Jews as both the rightful heirs of Israel and as a group who failed to recognize their true savior. Consequently, they set out to influence the course of Jewish life by attempti...

    $382.00

  • A DEATH AT CROOKED CREEK
    MARIANNE WESSON
    "This is an extraordinary and ground-breaking book, a wonderfully creative mix of fact and theory, imagination and drama. Anyone with an interest in law, history, or, for that matter, great storytelling will fall in love with A Death at Crooked Creek. The startling origin of the complex 'intention exception' to the hearsay evidence rule becomes canvas on which a grand and marve...

    $487.00

  • ACROSS THE DIVIDE
    STEVEN J. RAMOLD
    Union soldiers left home in 1861 with expectations that the conflict would be short, the purpose of the war was clear, and public support back home was universal. As the war continued, however, Union soldiers began to perceive a great difference between what they expected and what was actually occurring. Their family relationships were evolving, the purpose of the war was chang...

    $329.00