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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In 1918, right after the Russian Revolution, the highly gifted student Lazarus Lindt comes to Moscow carrying with him nothing but lice and a notebook. The Women of Lazarus tells a big part of Lazarus' life story, following three important women in it: his mentor's wife, his own young wife and their granddaughter. Set against the background of the twentieth century, Moscow and ...(展开全部)

In 1918, right after the Russian Revolution, the highly gifted student Lazarus Lindt comes to Moscow carrying with him nothing but lice and a notebook. The Women of Lazarus tells a big part of Lazarus' life story, following three important women in it: his mentor's wife, his own young wife and their granddaughter. Set against the background of the twentieth century, Moscow and ...(展开全部)

A dystopian tale of a power struggle between the sexes in the post-nuclear future, perfect for readers of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin. After a nuclear holocaust, women rule the world. Using advanced technology, they’ve expelled men from their vast walled cities to roam the countryside in primitive bands, bringing them back only for the purpose of loveless reproductio...(展开全部)

In the Event of Women outlines the stakes of what Tani Barlow calls “the event of women.” Focusing on the era of the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century's Cultural Revolution, Barlow shows that an event is a politically inspired action to install a newly discovered truth, in this case the mammal origins of human social evolution. Highbrow and lowbrow socia...(展开全部)

The classic Japanese bestseller published in English for the very first time – a darkly funny and relatable book portraying the lives of five women ‘Witty, wise and thought-provoking’ Cecelia Ahern ‘Crackles and pops with humour, empathy and intelligence’ Lisa Owens, author of Not Working ‘So brilliantly written that I kept trying to memorise sentences in order to repeat them t...(展开全部)

The history of China in the nineteenth century usually features men as the dominant figures in a chronicle of warfare, rebellion, and dynastic decline. This book challenges that model and provides a different account of the era, history as seen through the eyes of women. Basing her remarkable study on the poetry and memoirs of three generations of literary women of the Zhang fa...(展开全部)