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In his statement accompanying the release of the 37 count indictment of Donald J Trump, Special Council Jack Smith urged "everyone to read it in full to understand the scope and gravity of the crimes charged." You don't have to be a lawyer to understand what is alleged here. The pdf released by the Department of Justice included reproductions of several murky black and white photographs that by now have become notorious as shown in color i...

United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent a lifetime defying notions about "the way women are." This collection of her legal briefs, opinions, and dissents--newly updated to include her final days on the Court--illuminates the intellect, humor, and toughness that made "the Notorious R.B.G." a cultural icon and a profoundly influential jurist. An introduction summarizes her life and legacy, and explanatory notes make these w...

BACK IN PRINT!¿A rollicking good read that, as the Irish say, would make a dead man laugh.¿ ¿Philadelphia InquirerMalachy McCourt was already famous as an actor, saloon-keeper, and late-night television personality when Angela's Ashes was published. Brother Frank's book introduced the incorrigible, indomitable young Malachy to a worldwide audience that was charmed, and clamored for more.Frank's book was a hard act to follow, but Malachy's deli...

In 1954, the US Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools violated the civil rights of Black schoolchildren. The brilliant and courageous lawyer behind that ruling, Thurgood Marshall, became the Court's first Black justice in 1967 and continues to inspire decades later. This accessible collection of Marshall's own words spans his long career as advocate, jurist, and judicial philosopher and includes introductions providing ...

Iran is a tightly restricted, closed society-a situation that Jack Abramian, a superrich Californian with Armenian roots and business interests, desperately wants to change. From his huge industrial base in southern Armenia he conceives Operation Snowdrop, in which a handful of daredevil pilots drop 10 million ready-to-use mobile phones that float down on little parachutes on Iranian cities. Programmed with messages of freedom, they are an imm...

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An encounter with the artistic heritage of Islam is characterized by two factors that make it very special: 1) the vast dimension of the areas involved, from Spain to Central Asia as far as China, and south to sub-Saharan Africa 2) its continuing influence through fourteen centuries of history. Within the great variety of structures and objects showing an Islamic aesthetic, some constants stand out: the most representative art is certainly cal...

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From September, 1940 until March, 1945, German aircraft rained thousands of bombs on cities throughout the British Isles. The Blitz, as it has become known, was the most devastating aerial bombardment the world had ever seen. These momentous events are recounted here through the archives of The Daily Mail, London Evening Standard and London Evening News in a detailed visual history.

U2 have won 22 Grammy awards, more than any other band, whilst pursuing personal and idealogical goals including relief of world poverty and social justice.The band is seen here from its inception in more than 200 classic, rare and unseen photographs with evocative and illuminating commentary.

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The beginnings of Gothic art can be dated towards the middle of the 12th century. Starting from the Ile de France, this artistic movement spread throughout Europe, embracing all fields of artistic endeavor and lasting in some regions until the 16th century. The most obvious architectural developments involved the introduction of the ogival arch, flying buttresses, spires, and galleries which permitted the lightening of walls and the constructi...

Based on a true story:My son Michael disappeared in 1980. He was sixteen. In 1989 the FBI informed me that a "lifer" had confessed to killing Michael and burying him in a swamp. I went to meet that prisoner near an alligator slide in the Alabama woods so he could lead us to where he had buried my son. This novel is the result of my journey there, looking for a corpse and finding live ones. --Len WilliamsBilly Ray Billings grew up dirt poor and...

Intensely focused, compressed, and sharp-edged, these prose poems by Adele Kenny take the spiritual journey into heightened awareness of experience, place, and identity. Deliberate fragments, the language of dreams, and an occasional nod to the surreal combine with Kenny's signature elements of striking imagery, lyrical precision, and compelling immediacy to inform an enhanced vision of the ways in which the interior life intersects with the o...

The 100th anniversary of the outbreak of "the war to end all wars" has already generated substantial historical analysis and media attention. The anniversary of the US entry into the war will spark another round of interest, and this book is both an excellent pictorial introduction and short history of the conflict.

As a European expert on American author Henry James, Professor Sergio Perosa is uniquely qualified to examine James' "international theme"¿the meeting and clash of European and American characters, moeurs, and values, his related fascination with Italy and the important role it plays in the confrontation. The essays reveal his surprising view of other writers (such as Tolstoy, D'Annunzio, and Shakespeare), his elaborate and influential theorie...

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Sir Elton is shown here in hundreds of photos that have never before been seen, drawn from the massive archive of The Daily Mirror.

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The author visits the homes of authors, actors and composers, and muses on settings in which their creative work was done.