Overview :This book assembles essays on legal sociology and legal history by an international group of distinguished scholars. All of them have been i... Read More
Overview :The stereotype of Zen Buddhism as a minimalistic or even immaterial meditative tradition persists in the Euro-American cultural imagination.... Read More
Overview :It is a widely held belief today that there are too many lawsuits, too many lawyers, too much law. As readers of this engaging and provocati... Read More
Overview :Thousands of rules affect our work and play, what we buy, and how we get along with our neighbors. This book meets the need of students and ... Read More
Overview :Laws and regulations are ubiquitous, touching on many aspects of individual and corporate behavior. But under what conditions are laws and r... Read More
Overview :Renowned legal historian Lawrence Friedman presents an accessible and authoritative history of American law from the colonial era to the pre... Read More
Overview :Modern technology has radically and irretrievably altered our sense of identity and hence our social, political, and legal life, argues Lawr... Read More
Overview :Throughout America's history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society's... Read More
Overview :Throughout America's history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society's... Read More
Overview :Lawrence Friedman in this provocative, accessible, and clear book turns a critical eye toward the human rights movement-and does not mind go... Read More
Overview :Privacy, in human history, is a relatively recent concept. Nobody had much privacy in the Middle Ages. Even kings and queens lacked privacy:... Read More
Overview :Drawing on many revealing and sometimes colorful court cases of the past two centuries, Private Lives offers a lively short history of the c... Read More
Overview :Professional historians address the dominant issues and theories offered to explain the history of American philanthropy and its role in Ame... Read More
Overview :Examines the impact of social forces on the legal system and how the rules and orders promulgated by that legal system affect social behavio... Read More
Overview :In this long-awaited successor to his landmark work A History of American Law, Lawrence M. Friedman offers a monumental history of American ... Read More
Overview :This is the fifth edition of a very successful textbook on clinical trials methodology, written by recognized leaders who have long and exte... Read More
Overview :Erich Fromm was a political activist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth... Read More
Overview :In this imaginative exploration of modern legal culture, Lawrence Friedman addresses how the contemporary idea of individual rights has alte... Read More
Overview :In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fas... Read More
Overview :Focusing on a single county at a time when the population grew from 24,000 to 246,000, the authors combine statistical analysis of documenta... Read More