When justice is for sale, every jury has a price. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark trial begins. There are hundreds of millions of dollars at stake and soon it swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able t...(展开全部)

How are juries selected in the United States? What forces influence juries in making their decisions? Are some cases simply beyond the ability of juries to decide? How useful is the entire jury system? In this important and accessible book, a prominent expert on constitutional law examines these and other issues concerning the American jury system. Randolph N. Jonakait describe...(展开全部)

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本书作者 威廉•萨洛扬（Willam Saroyan，1908—1981 ） 祖籍亚美尼亚，生于美国加州弗雷斯诺城。一九三四年，他的短篇小说《高空秋千上的大胆男青年》和《七万亚述人》在新近崛起的《故事杂志》上发表，遂为世人所知。同年十月，他的第一个短篇小说集出版，为他赢得了声誉和经济支持。次年，他访问了当时已属苏联治下的亚美尼亚共和国。 接下来数年，萨洛扬创作了包括舞台剧、短篇小说等体裁的许多作品，都非常成功。一九三六年起，他与好莱坞电影公司数度合作。他的剧本《浮生岁月》在百老汇公演，获得一九四〇年的普利策戏剧奖，他却以商业界无权评判艺术为由谢绝领奖，不过在声誉上仅次于普利策奖的“纽约戏剧批评家圈子”所颁发给他的奖项，他还是欣然接受了。同年，《我叫阿拉木》出版，佳评如潮。 萨洛扬是位多产作家，生前发表的短篇小说集多达十五六部，发表于报刊杂志、未收入合...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The place is Ithaca, in California's San JoaquinValley. The time is World War II. The family isthe Macauley's -- a mother, sister, and threebrothers whose struggles and dreams reflect those ofAmerica's second-generation immigrants.. Inparticular, fourteen-year-old Homer, determined to becomeone of the fastest telegraph messengers in theWest, finds himself caught betwe...(展开全部)

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The New Comedy Bible is a step-by-step, no excuses manual for writing, performing, and launching your career as a stand-up comic. Written by Judy Carter, the author of The Comedy Bible (2001), which was called by The Washington Post and Forbes as a “Comedy Essential.” This new book, penned in classic Carter’s style -- part career coach and part comedy dominatrix -- has 100% new...(展开全部)

According to Billy Mernit, all the Hollywood studios--and most major actors--"are actively seeking romantic comedies." But the same studios and actors reject hundreds of romantic comedies a month. Mernit should know. As a story analyst who has read nearly 4,000 screenplays in the last 10 years, Mernit has seen the good, yes, but also too much of the bad and the ugly. With Writi...(展开全部)

Wittgenstein possessed one of the most acute philosophical minds of the 20th century. In this incisive portrait, Monk offers a unique insight into the life and work of a modern genius who radically redirected philosophical thought in our time.

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849) is an essay by the American transcendentalist writer and poet Henry David Thoreau in which he insists that rebelling against a government is a duty whenever su