22 must-read nonfiction books like The Law Says What? Stuff You Didn't Know About the Law (but Really Should) by Maclen Stanley

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The Law Says What? Stuff You Didn't Know About the Law (but Really Should)

By: Maclen Stanley

4.47

Format: 190 pages, None

There’s some important stuff you don’t know about the law (but really should)! What happens if R…

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1. The Declaration of Independence

By: Thomas Jefferson , Michael Hardt , Garnet Kindervater

4.56

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes."

-Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;"

-Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."

-Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

"When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Gover…"

-Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

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2. Newtown: An American Tragedy

By: Matthew Lysiak

3.77

Format: 341 pages, ebook

A journalist for The Daily News (New York) offers a "meticulous account of the Newtown massacre and… read more

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Cover of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Elliot Aronson, Carol Tavris

3. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

By: Elliot Aronson , Carol Tavris

4.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable … read more

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4. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

By: Mary Roach

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In ?Bonk,?the best-selling author of Stiffturns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most al… read more

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5. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

By: Sam Kean

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The Periodic Table is one of man's crowning scientific achievements. But it's also a treasure trove… read more

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6. Columbine

By: Dave Cullen

4.29

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . . " So begins a new epilogue, ill… read more

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"The final portrait is often furthest from the truth."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?"

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

7. You Have the Right to Remain Innocent

By: None

4.06

Format: 368 pages,

Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reason… read more

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8. One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School

By: Scott Turow

3.76

Format: 180 pages,

Newsweekcalls him "an extraordinarily canny and empathetic observer." In bestseller after bestselle… read more

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9. Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.

By: Julie Holland

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In an absorbing memoir laced with humor, Holland provides an unvarnished look at life in the psych … read more

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10. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.15

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more

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"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

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11. The Office of Historical Corrections

By: Danielle Evans

4.18

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and … read more

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"Who buys these?" I asked. "Who walks in here and says this, this is what I need?" "People who don't know what they need in the first place," she said. "So, pretty much anybody."

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

"Besides the tablecloths, the decor is all old photographs and postcards that they scrounged up from wherever, because you know how white people love their history right up until it's true."

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

"I was certain it would indeed be charming, but the Upper Midwest made me moody; people made me feel like I was being asked to speak a language I'd never learned and in which I was constantly misunder…"

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

"I distrusted, in general, appeals to nostalgia--I loved the past of archives, but there was no era of the past I had any inclination to visit with my actual human body, being rather fond of it having…"

-Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

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12. Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

By: Dan Ariely

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

“In this thoughtful, moving, and well-written book, Dan Ariely narrates his personal and profession… read more

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"A higher level of income inequality in our community can fray our sense of social trust."

-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

"How can science - which is slow and methodical, providing only an occasional breakthrough - compete with creative minds unfettered by facts?"

-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

"Would you enthusiastically recommend that a friend purchase something you'd never tested yourself? Probably not. But you may be unwittingly doing this with information every day."

-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

"[M]isbelief is enormously engaging and even fun for those who become deeply involved in its cleverly constructed alternate worlds. People who work in the gaming industry have drawn striking parallels…"

-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

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13. Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

By: Paul Holes

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest … read more

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Cover of Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson

14. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

By: Rick Emerson

3.96

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more

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Cover of Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya

15. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

By: Anna Bogutskaya

3.72

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more

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"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

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16. One and Done (Sam Johnstone, #2)

By: James Chandler

4.36

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

When an all-star college athlete is charged with murdering a fellow student, attorney Sam Johnstone… read more

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17. Brink of War (The Prosecution Force #1)

By: Logan Ryles

4.53

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Air Force One is down. The president is dead. Maggie Trousdale has been vice president for only … read more

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18. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System

By: M. Chris Fabricant

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An insider's journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science… read more

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Cover of Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever by Jared Knott

19. Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever

By: Jared Knott

4.01

Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition

How often does it happen that a single tiny mistake causes an entire civilization to collapse? More… read more

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20. How to Think Like a Lawyer—And Why: A Common-Sense Guide to Everyday Dilemmas

By: Kim Wehle

3.37

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A law professor and author teaches non-attorneys how to think like a lawyer to gain advantage in th… read more

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Cover of Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence by Amy B. Zegart

21. Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence

By: Amy B. Zegart

3.96

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating and authoritative account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s lea… read more

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Cover of Absurdly Strange But True: Weird, Crazy and Straight Out Outrageous Facts and Stories That You Won't Believe are True! by Bill O'Neill

22. Absurdly Strange But True: Weird, Crazy and Straight Out Outrageous Facts and Stories That You Won't Believe are True!

By: Bill O'Neill

3.97

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever sat down and thought about how absurd and strange some of the things in our world are… read more

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Cover of Mega Fails: The Hilariously Funny Book of Humorous Blunders and Misadventures (Crazy True Stories and Anecdotes) by Adam Douglas

23. Mega Fails: The Hilariously Funny Book of Humorous Blunders and Misadventures (Crazy True Stories and Anecdotes)

By: Adam Douglas

3.95

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

What do you get the man who has everything?Are you struggling to find the ideal present for your da… read more

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Cover of The Unbelievable Facts Book: Hilariously Weird Facts & Fascinating Stories from Planet Earth (Exploring Facts & Stories) by Henry Bennett

24. The Unbelievable Facts Book: Hilariously Weird Facts & Fascinating Stories from Planet Earth (Exploring Facts & Stories)

By: Henry Bennett

3.81

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

For a laugh, or two, an “oh!” or an “ah!”, you have found the right source of insight into the worl… read more

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25. The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win

By: Joel P. Trachtman

3.98

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Joel Trachtman's book presents in plain and lucid terms the powerful tools of argument that have be… read more

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"You might say that those who seek change must show that something is indeed “broken."

-Joel P. Trachtman, The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win

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26. Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better

By: Woo-Kyoung Ahn

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn devised a course at Yale University to help students examine the biases… read more

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"When we keep trying to find answers to questions that are probably unanswerable, we may start to feel worse and worse."

-Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better

"Why did we create a society that not only forces most people to work to live but also makes even the most privileged feel like they have to work desperately hard all the time? We created a mythology …"

-Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better

Cover of Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison by Daniel S. Medwed

27. Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

By: Daniel S. Medwed

4.40

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exposé of how our legal system makes it nearly impossible to overturn wrongful con… read more

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28. Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings

By: Alan Lightman

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe an… read more

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Cover of Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

29. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

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30. The Law Says What? Stuff You Didn't Know About the Law (but Really Should)

By: Maclen Stanley

4.47

Format: 190 pages, None

There’s some important stuff you don’t know about the law (but really should)! What happens if R… read more

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Cover of Essential Errors: 21 Confessions of an Old Fool by X.Y. Scientist

31. Essential Errors: 21 Confessions of an Old Fool

By: X.Y. Scientist

3.61

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a short autobiographical pamphlet written by a senior physicist and sprinkled with quotes f… read more

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The Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson , Michael Hardt , Garnet Kindervater

4.56

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M. Chris Fabricant

4.08

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How to Think Like a Lawyer—And Why: A Common-Sense Guide to Everyday Dilemmas

Kim Wehle

3.37

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The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win

Joel P. Trachtman

3.98

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The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

William Egginton

4.28

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Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Brian Klaas

4.13

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Michio Kaku

3.79

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Sean Carroll

4.07

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