Judging Statutes
By: Robert A. Katzmann
3.75
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
In an ideal world, the laws of Congress-known as federal statutes- would always be clearly worded a…
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1. Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts
By: Antonin Scalia , Bryan A. Garner , Frank H. Easterbrook
4.29
Format: 567 pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking book, Scalia and Garner systematically explain all the most important princi… read more
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"It is in no way remarkable, and in no way a vindication of textual evolutionism, that taking power from the people and placing it instead with a judicial aristocracy can produce some creditable resul…"-Antonin Scalia, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts
2. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.04
Format: 466 pages, Hardcover
Watch a video Read discussion questions for "The Last Stand." The bestselling author of "Mayflow… read more
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3. America's Constitution: A Biography
By: Akhil Reed Amar
4.25
Format: 657 pages, Hardcover
In America’s Constitution, one of this era’s most accomplished constitutional law scholars, Akhil R… read more
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4. The Remains of the Day
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
4.14
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here. In the summer of 1956, St… read more
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"The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
"One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
"If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
"شاید بهتر بود خداوند مارا هم مثل گیاهان خلق میکرد، یعنی پایمان محکم توی زمین باشد. آنوقت هیچکدام از این کثافتکاری مربوط به جنگ و مرز و این چیزها اصلاً پیش نمیآمد."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
5. Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden
3.87
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more
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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
6. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
By: Marie Kondō , Cathy Hirano
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clo… read more
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7. The Everlasting Man
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.16
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
What, if anything, is it that makes the human uniquely human? This, in part, is the question that G… read more
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"Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
"Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
8. Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review
By: John Hart Ely
4.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
This powerfully argued appraisal of judicial review may change the face of American law. Written fo… read more
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9. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
10. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more
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11. It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Extremism
By: Norman J. Ornstein , Thomas E. Mann
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is de… read more
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12. A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law
By: Antonin Scalia , Amy Gutmann
3.68
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
In exploring the neglected art of statutory interpretation, Antonin Scalia urges that judges resist… read more
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13. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
By: Daniel Walker Howe
4.42
Format: 288 pages,
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14. The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction
By: Akhil Reed Amar
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Are the deep insights of Hugo Black, William Brennan, and Felix Frankfurter that have defined our c… read more
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15. Persuasion
By: Jane Austen , James Kinsley , Deidre Shauna Lynch
4.15
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, co… read more
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"Time will explain."-Jane Austen, Persuasion
"Give him a book, and he will read all day long."-Jane Austen, Persuasion
"No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery."-Jane Austen, Persuasion
"He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody."-Jane Austen, Persuasion
16. America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By
By: Akhil Reed Amar
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Despite its venerated place atop American law and politics, our written Constitution does not enume… read more
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17. The World America Made
By: Robert Kagan
4.36
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to fo… read more
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18. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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19. The Book of Form and Emptiness
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.03
Format: 548 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more
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"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness
20. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
21. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
By: John McWhorter
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
People of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question… read more
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"To tar America as insufficiently aware of slavery is more about smugness and noble victimhood than forging something new and needed."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"Antiracism should focus strongly on ending the war on drugs, and there is no need for legions of whites to be instructed in how privileged they are for this to happen."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"[P]rofound social change can happen without the entire populace being junior scholars about racist injustice. Such change has been happening world-wide for several centuries."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"They are unreachable for the simple reason that they are arguing from religion rather than reason, trying to foist their dogma into the public square out of a misguided sense that they are the world'…"-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
22. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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23. Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution
By: Gordon S. Wood
4.21
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidates the debates o… read more
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24. Trapped in America's Safety Net: One Family's Struggle
By: Andrea Louise Campbell
4.00
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
When Andrea Louise Campbell’s sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-… read more
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25. Judging Statutes
By: Robert A. Katzmann
3.75
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
In an ideal world, the laws of Congress-known as federal statutes- would always be clearly worded a… read more
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26. The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
By: Akhil Reed Amar
4.41
Format: 817 pages, Hardcover
A history of the American Constitution's formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar When … read more
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"with all America and the world looking on, the Federalists in New York at the end of the process reaffirmed what had been clear from the beginning: ratification would be “in toto, and for ever."-Akhil Reed Amar, The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
"in 1775 there arose a remarkable civic society that aimed to end slavery itself. The society was formed not by Johnson, nor in Johnson’s vaunted London, nor indeed anywhere in Britain proper, but rat…"-Akhil Reed Amar, The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
27. RFK: His Words for Our Times
By: Edwin O. Guthman
4.50
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Francis Kennedy’s death, an inspiring collection of … read more
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28. Common Good Constitutionalism
By: Adrian Vermeule
3.70
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
The way that Americans understand their Constitution and wider legal tradition has been dominated i… read more
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29. A Short & Happy Guide to Administrative Law (Short & Happy Guides)
By: William D. Araiza
4.17
Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition
This efficient and concise Guide explains complex Administrative Law concepts in accessible languag… read more
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30. Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution
By: Philip Bobbitt
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Here, Philip Bobbitt studies the basis for the legitimacy of judicial review by examining six types… read more
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31. Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State
By: Cass R. Sunstein
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2021 Scribes Book Award From two legal luminaries, a highly original framework for r… read more
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