In this first general history of legal education, Stevens traces the development of law schools, the legal profession, and legal thought, relating their evolution to intellectual, political, and social trends. He describes how the establishment gained power over education after 1920 and how, in the past two decades, both students and the practicing profession have questioned th...(展开全部)

(A Preview of Law School and Legal Reasoning) Law school has the reputation of being one of the hardest academic programs. It is a reputation well earned. However, Law School Basics is chock-full of insights and strategies that will prepare you well and give you a head start on the competition. Law School Basics presents a thorough overview of law school, legal reasoning, and l...(展开全部)

Introduction to the Oxford Edition: The Bramble Bush and You (Steve Sheppard) (p. ix) Foreword (1951 Edition) (p. xxiii) Preface (1930 Edition) (p. xxv) Acknowledgments (1951 Edition) (p. xxvii) Acknowledgments (1930 Edition) (p. xxxiii) Part 1. The Bramble Bush I. What Law Is About (p. 3) II. This Case System: What Lies Behind the Case (p. 19) III. This Case System: What to Do...(展开全部)

Working with Contracts should become a bible for associates in large corporate firms because it offers the reader both basic and more-advanced drafting techniques and concepts. The conscientious reader will be drawn into the subject matter and may likely be surprised that such potentially complex, and perhaps dull, topics could be so inspiring. --New York Law Journal The second...(展开全部)

Anyone who has attended law school knows that it invokes an important intellectual transformation, frequently referred to as "learning to think like a lawyer". This process, which forces students to think and talk in radically new and toward different ways about conflicts, is directed by professors in the course of their lectures and examinations, and conducted via spoken and w...(展开全部)

โรงเรียนเอกชนมัธยมปลายสตรีเซกะ มีฉากหลังเป็นงานกีฬาสี พาเหรดแฟนซี และการฆาตกรรมในห้องปิดตาย “ผู้ต้องสงสัยเป็นกลุ่มคนในโรงเรียน กลุ่มบุคคลผู้ไม่อาจรู้ตัวตนที่แน่นอนได้” ในโรงเรียนซึ่งมีบุคคลเข้ามาเกี่ยวข้องมากมาย ไม่ว่าจะเป็น ครู นักเรียน เจ้าหน้าที่ นักการ ผู้ปกครอง เริ่มต้นที่ ครูมาเอจิมะ ซึ่งเป็นครูกีฬายิงธนู โดนปองร้ายทุกรูปแบบ หาตัวผู้ประสงค์ร้ายไม่ได้ แต่เมื่อเกิดคดีฆาตกรร...(展开全部)

The protagonist of Tobias Wolff's shrewdly--and at times devastatingly--observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writer. But to do that he must first learn to tell the truth about himself. Th...(展开全部)

李查德 Lee Child 1954年生於英國。上高中時，獲得獎學金成為《魔戒》作者托爾金的學弟。之後他曾就讀法學院、在戲院打工，最後進入電視台，展開長達18年的電視人生涯，製作過許多叫好叫座的節目。 40歲那年，李查德在一夕之間失業了，但就像他筆下智勇雙全的傑克．李奇總能化險為夷一樣，他將這個中年危機化為最有利的轉機。酷愛閱讀的他花了6塊美金買了紙筆，寫下「浪人神探」傑克．李奇系列的第一集《地獄藍調》，結果一出版就登上英國週日泰晤士報的暢銷排行榜，在美國更贏得推理小說最高殊榮之一的「安東尼獎」以及「巴瑞獎」最佳處女作，並獲得「麥卡維帝獎」和「黛莉絲獎」的提名。而次年出版的第二集《至死方休》亦榮獲「W.H.史密斯好讀獎」。此後他以一年一本的速度推出續集，每出版必定征服大西洋兩岸各大暢銷排行榜，更風靡了全球43國的讀者。 2004年，李奇系列的第8集《...(展开全部)