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Sylvain a quitté le pays des châteaux et doit affronter d'autres formes d'enfermement. Entraîné dans une spirale de délinquance et perdu entre la prison, la drogue, les femmes et les voyages, il plonge dans l'univers carcéral et ses sombres réalités. Alors qu'il pense avoir touché le fond de l'abîme, une main invisible le propulse à la surface. Parviendra-t-il à surmonter l'adversité et à trouver la voie de la résilience ?
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1562) Identity Crisis
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A missing client, a dead body, the FBI, and the Mob.
How much can one lawyer handle?
A simple domestic abuse case turns deadly when the alleged abuser is killed and Stephanie Ann "Sam" McRae's client disappears. When a friend asks Sam to find Melanie Hayes, the Maryland attorney is drawn into a complex case of murder and identity theft that has her running from the Mob, breaking into a strip club and forming a shaky alliance with an offbeat private...
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Allyson May chronicles the history of the English criminal trial and the development of a criminal bar in London between 1750 and 1850. She charts the transformation of the legal process and the evolution of professional standards of conduct for the criminal bar through an examination of the working lives of the Old Bailey barristers of the period. In describing the rise of adversarialism, May uncovers the motivations and interests of prosecutors,...
1564) Between the Rule of Law and States of Emergency: The Fluid Jurisprudence of the Israeli Regime
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Raises concerns about the degree to which the rule of law and emergency powers have become fundamentally entangled, using Israel as a case study.
Honorable Mention, 2017 Yonathan Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israel Studies presented by the Association for Israel Studies
Contemporary debates on states of emergency have focused on whether law can regulate emergency powers, if at all. These studies base their analyses on the premise that law and...
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Not everything is as it seems!
When Roger Dalby's elderly uncle passes away and leaves him Toplingham Manor, he isn't quite prepared for what happens next. Unknown to him, his best friend Duggie finds a use for the second floor that his Uncle Eustace certainly wouldn't have expected...
But the further Duggie immerses himself into one of the oldest and most secretive professions around, the more he realises what a complicated game it is to play....
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Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) is best known for condemning racial segregation in his dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, when he declared, "Our Constitution is color-blind." But in other judicial decisions-as well as in some areas of his life-Harlan's actions directly contradicted the essence of his famous statement. Similarly, Harlan was called the people's judge for favoring income tax and antitrust laws, yet he also...
1567) Booking In
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Mystery-solving criminal lawyer Crang returns to investigate the disappearance of two rare books. Fletcher Marshall is a Toronto antiquarian book dealer, internationally respected in the business. One night, someone blows the safe in his office and makes off with the contents, which include an infamous forged first edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese that is in itself a collector's item. Fletcher, who was still in the...
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Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts. The central story of that era, he finds, was a struggle between a jurisprudence of the head, which adhered strongly to English precedent, and a jurisprudence of the heart, a humane concern for the rights of parties rendered weak by inequitable...
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Horniman, Birley and Craine is a highly respected legal firm with clients drawn from the highest in the land. When a deed box in the office is opened to reveal a corpse, the threat of scandal promises to wreak havoc on the firm's reputation-especially as the murder looks like an inside job. The partners and staff of the firm keep a watchful and suspicious eye on their colleagues, as Inspector Hazlerigg sets out to solve the mystery of who Mr. Smallbone...
1570) A Secret to Die For
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After pharmaceutical industry executives Martin Cardenas and Justin Palmer step forward to complain about the test results of a soon-to-be-released cancer drug, they are subsequently fired. Soon after, stalking and threats of violence follow. The two have no idea what they are up against. Aligor Pharmaceuticals' touted drug, Delexane, is only weeks from FDA approval, but the third phase results don't add up. With billions of dollars on the line, revealing...
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With this incisive work, Palmer Rampell reveals the surprising role genre fiction played in redefining the category of the private person in the postwar period. Especially after the Supreme Court established a constitutional right to privacy in 1965, legal scholars, judges, and the public scrambled to understand the scope of that right. Before and after the Court's ruling, authors of genre fiction and film reformulated their aliens, androids, and...
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In Paul Lisnek's sequel to Assume Guilt, Assume Treason takes readers on a mysterious ride in this Chicago-based political thriller.
With time running out to prove an assassination plot is in the works, jury consultant, Matt Barlow must dig deep to find answers.
Matt Barlow and his team are back, this time using their research skills on behalf of presidential candidate, Senator Marie Kent. Matt's okay using his jury consulting firm in service of...
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Este libro tiene como propósito visibilizar la participación y el aporte de la Facultad de Enfermería de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana a la salud colectiva, enmarcada en el contexto de la salud colombiana, la articulación histórica y los aportes de enfermería a las corrientes de pensamiento en salud pública en Colombia, a través del caso particular del Departamento de Enfermería en Salud Colectiva. Para ello, se realiza un recuento...
1574) Love And Liability
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Sometimes your sensibilities make absolutely no sense!
Holly James is looking for her big break. A young journalist for BritTEEN magazine, she is dying to write about something more meaningful than pop stars and nail varnish. So when she spots a homeless teenager outside the office, she feels compelled to tell her story. But her evil boss Sasha has other ideas…
Holly is sent to interview a city solicitor she has never heard of. But Alex Barrington...
1575) First To Fall
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Aiden Connelly's first case...
Lawyer Aiden Connelly has traded the frenzy of Chicago for a slower pace in sleepy Avalon - and his first case appears to be as open-and-shut as he could hope for. Hired to defend a local ex-beauty queen accused of murdering her husband, he's confident that he'll have the case closed in record time. But below the surface lurks a darker truth...
Will be one he'll never forget.
Suddenly, a quiet backwater has transformed...
1576) If I'm Dead
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It started with a haunting image: a Ford Explorer, iridescent in the moonlight and alone on a desolate stretch of beach. Its owner, Melissa Gibbons, has gone missing. Her husband says she flew the coop. But Los Angeles Deputy DA Rachel Knight is convinced otherwise: Melissa Gibbons has been murdered.
So begins the confounding case that Rachel must present before a disbelieving jury. A dissatisfied heiress and her philandering husband-- what really...
1577) My Cousin Skinny
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A dream of a wedding turns into a bloody nightmare for LA family lawyer Sandy Moss's cousin Skinny in the latest instalment of the critically acclaimed Jersey Girl Legal mystery series. Sandy might have to take on her trickiest case yet!
An uncomfortable weekend awaits LA family lawyer Sandy Moss when she makes her way to her hometown in New Jersey for the wedding of her cousin Stephanie, sweetly nicknamed Skinny. Uncomfortable, because Sandy is...
1578) Big Horn
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Nora Roberts meets Yellowstone in this brand new must read series from USA Today bestselling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins. When an investment guru turns up dead in the septic tank behind her husband's new Wyoming lodge, Jennifer must put the campaign that could make her the youngest ever female district attorney in Houston on hold to defend the well-lubricated lodge caretaker, or he'll go down for a murder she's convinced he didn't commit. Prosecutor...
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Lorsque tous vous désignent coupable, comment assurer sa défense?
Moral turpitude, nom: terme anglophone désignant un acte ou un comportement qui viole gravement le sentiment ou la norme acceptée de la communauté. En droit pénal américain, désigne les délits financiers.
Une banque internationale anonyme — « La Banque » — prend le contrle d'une entreprise marseillaise de haute technologie, persuadée d'avoir mis la main sur une pépite....
1580) No Consent
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Newly released from jail, Nate Conner is determined to go straight. But a thug is pressuring him for money, and his younger sister Kaylee is missing. His chances are slim until he runs into Clara Hitchens, the one person in the district attorney's office he trusts.
Hitch wants nothing to do with Conner-except he's the one person who can help her expose the scheme in the DA's office that plants informants in jail cells to ensure convictions. But...
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