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  • Understanding Law in a Changing Society

    by Bruce E. Altschuler ...
    To most Americans, the law-especially noncriminal law-is a mystery that only someone with a law degree can solve. Understanding Law in a Changing Society renders the complexity of law at a level that everyone can understand. The book walks readers through the structure of the legal system, different divisions of civil law, and the core concepts and distinctions that underlie contemporary legal ... Read more

    $321.55 CAD

  • Seeing through the Screen

    Interpreting American Political Film

    by Bruce E. Altschuler ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    Although films affect and reflect the way Americans look at politics, they have received far less attention than television or newspapers. This is changing, particularly on college campuses, where courses on politics and film are growing in popularity. This book consists of short essays on approximately fifty American political films. It is distinctive in two ways. Firstly, it defines politics ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Lights, Camera, Execution!

    Cinematic Portrayals of Capital Punishment

    by Bruce E. Altschuler, Jaclyn Schildkraut, Helen J. Knowles-Gardner ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    Lights, Camera, Execution!: Cinematic Portrayals of Capital Punishment fills a prominent void in the existing film studies and death penalty literature. Each chapter focuses on a particular cinematic portrayal of the death penalty in the United States. Some of the analyzed films are well-known Hollywood blockbusters, such as Dead Man Walking (1995); others are more obscure, such as the made-for ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare and Politics

    What a Sixteenth-Century Playwright Can Tell Us about Twenty-First-Century Politics

    by Bruce E. Altschuler, Michael A. Genovese ...
    William Shakespeare, more than any other author, was able to capture the essence of human nature in all its manifestations. His political plays offer enduring insights into our humanity, our vanity, our noble and baser drives, what makes us great, and what makes us loathsome. He tells us about ourselves and about our world. This volume gleans valuable lessons from the writings of William ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Filming the First

    Cinematic Portrayals of Freedom of the Press

    by Helen J. Knowles-Gardner, Bruce E. Altschuler, Brandon T. Metroka ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits Congress from abridging freedom of the press. But, as the printed press has been transformed into mass media with Americans now more likely to get their political information from television or social media than from print, confidence in this important, mediating institution has fallen dramatically. Movies, in their role as cultural artifacts, ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

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    The Anatomy Lesson

    A Novel

    by Nina Siegal ...
    Narrated by Nina Siegal, Bruce Mann, Emma Jayne Appleyard, Gildart Jackson, Steve West, Adam Alexi-Malle, Peter Altschuler, Hannah Curtis ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 10 min

    Set in one day in 1632, The Anatomy Lesson is a stunning portrayal of Golden Age Amsterdam and a brilliantly imagined back-story to Rembrandt's first great work of art. Told from several points of view, ranging from a curio dealer who collects bodies for the city’s chief anatomist to philosopher Rene Descartes, the novel opens on the morning of the medical dissection that is to be recorded by the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Leonardo and the Last Supper

    by Ross King ...
    Narrated by Mark Meadows ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 55 min

    Bloomsbury presents Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King, read by Mark MeadowsIn 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began what would become one of history’s most influential works of art—The Last Supper. After a decade at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point: at forty-three, he had failed, despite a number of prestigious commissions, to complete anything that ... Read more

    $22.00 CAD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Law 101

    Everything You Need to Know About American Law

    by Jay M. Feinman ...
    The first two editions of the best-selling Law 101 provided readers with a vividly written and indispensable portrait of our nation's legal system. Now, in this third edition, Jay M. Feinman offers a fully updated survey of American law that incorporates fresh material on 2009 Supreme Court cases, the legal response to the war on terror (including the Guantanamo detainees and electronic ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Tyrant

    Shakespeare on Politics

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    **"Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable." —Philip RothWorld-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.**Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Law 101

    Everything You Need to Know About American Law, Fourth Edition

    by Jay Feinman ...
    In each of the first three editions of the bestselling Law 101, Jay Feinman gave readers an upbeat and vivid examination of the American legal system. Since the third edition was published in 2010, much has happened: several key Supreme Court cases have been decided, we've seen sensational criminal trials, and the legal system has had to account for the latest developments in Internet law. This ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • This Is Shakespeare

    How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright

    by Emma Smith ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary MantelA genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States, Fourth Edition

    by E. Allan Farnsworth ...
    In the updated, fourth edition of this classic text which has been translated into over a dozen languages, constitutional scholar and Columbia Law School professor E. Allan Farnsworth provides a clear explanation of the structure and function of the U.S. legal system in one handy reference. An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States, Fourth Edition is designed to be a general ... Read more

    $58.39 CAD