The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
By: Patricia Ewick
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Why do some people not hesitate to call the police to quiet a barking dog in the middle of the nigh…
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1. The Idiot
By: Elif Batuman
3.66
Format: 423 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself… read more
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"For a while now, I have been conscious of a tension in my relationship with you,"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"Lighting a match felt exciting and a little bit dangerous, and when the flame came into contact with the paper, it made a sound like the needle coming down on a record player—like the music was about…"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"For the first time in my life, I couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to study or to do. I still had the old idea of being a writer, but that was being, not doing. It didn't say what you …"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the…"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
2. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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3. Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
By: Daniel Lachance , Daniel LaChance
4.00
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told… read more
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4. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
By: Bryan Stevenson
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our bro… read more
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5. The Underground Railroad
By: Colson Whitehead
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves but especiall… read more
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6. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writ… read more
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7. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
By: Carson McCullers
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
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8. Sula
By: Toni Morrison
3.97
Format: None pages,
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9. A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution
By: Howard Zinn , Peter Irons
2.83
Format: 212 pages,
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10. Apology
By: Plato , James J. Helm
4.20
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
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"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."-Plato, Apology
"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."-Plato, Apology
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11. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.95
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
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12. Husband Material (London Calling, #2)
By: Alexis Hall
3.56
Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition
Wanted: One (very real) husband Nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best In BOYF… read more
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13. Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
By: Reuben Jonathan Miller
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life af… read more
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14. Constructing Grounded Theory
By: Kathy Charmaz
4.63
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
Kathy Charmaz presents the definitive guide to doing grounded theory from a constructivist perspect… read more
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15. The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
By: Patricia Ewick
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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16. Drugs and Thugs: The History and Future of America’s War on Drugs
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4.20
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
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17. Invitation to Law and Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
By: Kitty Calavita
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Law and Society is a rapidly-growing interdisciplinary field that turns on its head the conventiona… read more
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