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TWENTY-FOUR ISLAMIC STATE rebels had been killed by the United States in a drone strike. The strike allowed the United States to capture eight Daesh insurgents and rescue six Marine POW. I was among the six marines rescued that day. My team and I had been prisoners for ten months. Ten months, they tried to break me without success; I had come close when they brought a woman into my cell. It was in my nature to protect those unable to defend themselves,...
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Tough enough? Smart enough? Max will require all his skills just to stay alive as a Special Forces Cadet...
Child slavery is rife. Hundreds of young people are being forced into lives of slavery by an international trafficking ring based in the jungles of central Africa. The cadets are tasked to present themselves as bait for the traffickers. Some of them head to Africa. Some stay in the UK. They are to gather hard intel which the authorities can...
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Life is a gamble Nikki isn't willing to take. Over the years, Zach has gone from being the boy next door to the only man to hold her heart. But life has made a habit of getting in their way. And the Zach standing before her now with his heart in his hands and love in his eyes doesn't know her pain. How justice has failed her. The odds are stacked against him, but Nikki is the only woman Zach has ever loved. When fate puts her back in his life, he'll...
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Justice for Some is an impressive series kickoff novel by E.H. George. This first book in The Chicago Law Series introduces the reader to the generational legal families, the Kepley's and the Roberts'. Lindsey Roberts is an assistant state's attorney trying to put her life in order. For more than ten years in the second largest prosecutor's office in the nation, the beautiful, intelligent attorney has seen it all – so she thinks.The star prosecutor...
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From leading thinker Danielle Allen, a bold and urgent articulation of a new political philosophy: power-sharing liberalism.
At a time of great social and political turmoil, when many residents of the leading democracies question the ability of their governments to deal fairly and competently with serious public issues, and when power seems more and more to rest with the wealthy few, this book reconsiders the very foundations of democracy and...
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Rebecca, a lawyer, becomes suspicious when she discovers contracts and orders from Asia that she hasn't authorized. As she digs deeper, Mason, the CEO of a high powered technology firm asks her for her assistance at his home while he is away in Hong Kong. Unknown to him, Rebecca is desperately in love with Mason, but she agrees to help him, secretly hoping that this will bring them closer. After experiencing strange phone calls, being followed and...
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The Bucket of Blood Saloon is robbed, but the kind of hard cases that terrorize 1870s Dakota Territory don't stop there: the owner is murdered and one of his upstairs girls is abducted. Tucker Ashley is back in action.This time, he got himself talked into tracking for the posse-but only because the kidnapped girl is his best friend's fiancée. Tucker's own fiancée threatens to call off their impending wedding if he leaves town, but nonetheless, off...
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5 novellas where justice is served, if not in the tradition legal sense-Eenie Meemie Mynie MurderMurders of several persons with no known connections. What was the motive? Pick uṕthe phone book and make a stab at the page, then kill the name under your finger? Eenie, meenie mynie murder?A Timely BurialBill Reynald's funeral is announced?Well, that could piss me off! The least he could have done is tell me about it when I was talking to him ten minutes...
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She killed a man. Or did she?USA Todaybestselling Judge Willa Carson returns in this fast-paced mystery filled with great characters, humor, and more twists and turns than a roller coaster.It could happen to anyone.Driving home after a long, exhausting work week, Judge Willa Carson hits a man with her car.She jumps out to help, but it's too late. He's not breathing and she can't revive him.Famous Restaurant Owner's Wife Kills Pedestrianis the top...
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Both cases were 1st Degree Murder trials. For months, the Mothers carry on a "normal" life, denying any knowledge. Both cases involved the concealment of a missing child. Both involved stories of the horrific murder of young children. Both were deliberated by jurors. Why the different outcome?Told by the Jury Forman of the North Carolina trial, it has riveting insights about the case, and the deliberation process from the Jury's perspective. It is...
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A planet in despair. An army being overrun. When an invading clone army completely overwhelms and threatens total destruction on the planet Delpha, there's only one group that can stop them. Task Force 88. A highly skilled combat team of super soldiers, the Task Force Rangers are the planet's only hope of survival. Outnumbered and facing near impossible odds against the clone army, the Rangers must protect three airfields until the United Planet Military...
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Slavery. A crime against humanity and the basis for a whole economy in one of the most shameful aspects of our history is the backdrop against which Lucky Nat is painted. Based on a true and all but forgotten incident, part sea chase and part courtroom drama, it is the story of the capture, trial, and execution of Captain Nathanial Gordon, the only slaver executed for piracy using an 1820 law that declared all slavers to be pirates and if found guilty...
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"In 'The Mysterious Birth of the Light of Justice,' the Hoshiyan Chronicle blazes to life. Dr. Arieli, falsely accused of leading a Jewish terrorist group, battles a political maelstrom even after Syria's conflict ends. A startling Vatican alliance with Hamas and Iran ignites chaos in Jerusalem.Amid Queen Chana's rule, two intertwined love stories bind the Arieli and Dori families. Queen Chana's brilliant grandson, Elisha, becomes a prophet, heralding...
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"Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic," claimed Aristotle. "Rhetoric is the first part of logic rightly understood," Martin Heidegger concurred. "Rhetoric is the universal form of human communication," opined Hans-Georg Gadamer. But in Deep Rhetoric, James Crosswhite offers a groundbreaking new conception of rhetoric, one that builds a definitive case for an understanding of the discipline as a philosophical enterprise beyond basic argumentation and...
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"A fascinating book. In clear and forceful prose, Becoming Justice Blackmun tells a judicial Horatio Alger story and a tale of a remarkable transformation . . . A page-turner."-The New York Times Book Review
In this acclaimed biography, Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times draws back the curtain on America's most private branch of government, the Supreme Court. Greenhouse was the first print reporter to have access to the extensive archives of...
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Christians who are passionate about helping others - but aren't sure where or how to focus their energy - will find much to love about Zealous Love. Authors Mike and Danae Yankoski have written just what Christians need to integrate compassion and justice into their lives. "Our hope," they write, "is that God will work through this book...to help direct your life so that you can act on tangible concern for neighbors in need, both globally and locally....
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A surprising look at how Rousseau defended the philosophic life as the most natural and best of lives.
Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom reveals what could be thought of as the capstone of Rousseau's thought, even if that capstone has been nearly invisible to readers. Despite criticizing philosophy for its corrosive effects on both natural goodness and civic virtue, Rousseau, argues Laurence D. Cooper, held the philosophic life as an ideal....
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Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts. As a result, substantial discrepancies exist between what is decided in the halls of the United Nations and what women experience on a daily basis in their communities. Human Rights and Gender Violence is an ambitious study that investigates the tensions between global law and local justice.
As an observer of UN diplomatic negotiations as well as the...
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Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan volume 21
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A westie named Percy has grown into quite a handful for his patient owner. And bad memories make a pit bull named Justice afraid to go for a walk. What can Cesar suggest?
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A much-needed account of the hierarchy of justice that defines China's unique political-legal culture.
To many outsiders, China has an image as a realm of Oriental despotism where law is at best window dressing and at worst an instrument of coercion and tyranny. In this highly original contribution to the interdisciplinary field of law and humanities, Haiyan Lee contends that this image arises from a skewed understanding of China's political-legal...
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