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  • The Little Book of Plagiarism

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    A concise, lively, and bracing exploration of an issue bedeviling our cultural landscape–plagiarism in literature, academia, music, art, and film–by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars. Best-selling novelists J. K. Rowling and Dan Brown, popular historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, first novelist Kaavya Viswanathan: ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • THE CRISIS OF CAPITALIST DEMOCRACY

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    Judge Posner continues to react to the current economic crisis and reflect upon the impact on our views and reliance on capitalism. Posner helps non-technical readers understand business-cycle and financial economics, and financial and governmental institutions, practices, and transactions, while maintaining a neutrality impossible for persons professionally committed to one theory or another. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A Failure of Capitalism

    The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent into Depression

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime because of the warp-speed at which it is occurring. How could it have happened, especially after all that we’ve learned from the Great Depression? Why wasn’t it anticipated so that remedial steps could be taken to avoid or mitigate it? What can be done to reverse a slide into a full-blown depression? Why have ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Antitrust Law, Second Edition

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    The definitive textbook of antitrust lawAntitrust Law was fundamental to redefining the field of antitrust law and it remains the definitive textbook for those teaching or learning the subject, Richard Posner's book has played a major role in transforming the field of antitrust law into a body of economically rational principles largely in accord with the ideas set forth in the first edition. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Law and Literature

    Third Edition

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    Hailed in its first edition as an “outstanding work, as stimulating as it is intellectually distinguished” (New York Times), Law and Literature has handily lived up to the Washington Post’s prediction that the book would “remain essential reading for many years to come.” This third edition, extensively revised and enlarged, is the only comprehensive book-length treatment of the field. It continues ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Reflections on Judging

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    For Richard Posner, legal formalism and formalist judges--notably Antonin Scalia--present the main obstacles to coping with the dizzying pace of technological advance. Posner calls for legal realism--gathering facts, considering context, and reaching a sensible conclusion that inflicts little collateral damage on other areas of the law. ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • How Judges Think

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Catastrophe

    Risk and Response

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    Catastrophic risks are much greater than is commonly appreciated. Collision with an asteroid, runaway global warming, voraciously replicating nanomachines, a pandemic of gene-spliced smallpox launched by bioterrorists, and a world-ending accident in a high-energy particle accelerator, are among the possible extinction events that are sufficiently likely to warrant careful study. How should we ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Remaking Domestic Intelligence

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    The author reveals the dangerous weaknesses undermining domestic intelligence in the United States and tells why a new national security service should not be part of the FBI. He explains the need for a new domestic intelligence agency, modeled on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and lodged in the Department of Homeland Security. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sparrow's Flight

    by Richard Posner ...
    Julie Hoffman is sixteen, clumsy, and a dreamer. Not such a great combo when your mom has moved you to a new school on Long Island. Feeling alone and ugly, Julie dreams about her estranged dad coming back and calling her Sparrow again. All she has left to remember him by is his collection of adventure and fantasy novels—which propels her into developing a fantasy of her own.In her new school Julie ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Goodnight, Cinderella

    by Richard Posner ...
    Kimber Delaney is the seventeen-year-old flaky and endearing editor of the Westfield High School literary magazine. Her wealthy, handsome, two-faced boyfriend Lou is giving her nothing but grief, while her pot-smoking brother and sulking father are driving her crazy.Troubles are contagious during this senior year at Westfield High, and all of Kimber’s friends are afflicted. Fickle Deena misses her ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Sweet Pain

    by Richard Posner ...
    Casey Gordon is lean and limber, a 17-year-old senior at Westfield High School. Casey is a bright, energetic, caring girl but she seems to need to be hurt. She injures herself a little too much in track competitions and she always falls in love with real losers. She doesn’t really understand the conflicts inside of her and the feelings of unworthiness that set her up to get involved with Paul ... Read more

    $9.99 USD