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Judging Science : Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts
Kenneth R. Foster, Peter William Huber
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Current:
9.6 |
What is "scientific knowledge" and when is it reliable? These deceptively simple questions have been the source of endless controversy. In 1993 the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling on the use of scientific evidence in federal cou
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Technology and Privacy : The New Landscape
Philip E. Agre
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Current:
9.5 |
This series of 10 scholarly essays lays a foundation for understanding the current state of technology-based privacy issues. The diverse group of contributors encompasses the fields of communications, human-computer interaction, law, politi
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Judging Science : Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts
Kenneth R. Foster, Peter William Huber
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Current:
9.4 |
"Anyone, scientist, jurist, or layman, will better judge the reliability of scientific results from reading the mosaic of quotations from experts, with annotations and expansions by the authors, that make up the core of this important book.
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Hide Your Assets and Disappear: A Step-by-Step Guide to Vanishing Without a Trace
Edmund J. Pankau
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Current:
9.4 |
In Hide Your Assets and Disappear, a master gumshoe gives some straight information about how to cover your trail and protect your money from the government and creditors. Edmund J. Pankau, a writer and acclaimed private investigator
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Perfect Murder, Perfect Town
Lawrence Schiller
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Current:
9.4 |
The murder of 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey on Christmas night in 1996 inspired sensational headlines throughout the nation--and plunged idyllic Boulder, Colorado's justice system into an ongoing nightmare. In Perfect Murder, Perfect
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More Guns, Less Crime : Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws (Studies in Law and Economics)
John R., Jr. Lott
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Current:
9.4 |
Multiple regression analyses are rarely the subject of heated public debate or 225-page books for laypeople. But John R. Lott, Jr.'s study in the January 1997 Journal of Legal Studies showing that concealed-carry weapons permits redu
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The Anatomy of Motive: The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
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Current:
9.4 |
What makes people kill? Specifically, what are the motivations behind serial, mass, and spree killings? Drawing from cases such as the mass murder in Dunblane, Scotland, in which a lone gunman mowed down 16 children and their teacher, the s
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Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell
Gitta Sereny
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Current:
9.2 |
In 1968, cases like that of Mary Bell were almost unheard of. Two little boys were dead, and the two accused killers, Mary Bell and Norma Bell (no relation), were 11 and 13. Norma was acquitted, but Mary was found guilty and sentenced to li
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In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
Truman Capote
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Current:
9.1 |
"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks,
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Why They Kill : The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist
Richard Rhodes
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Current:
9.1 |
In Why They Kill, Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Rhodes traces the life and career of criminologist Lonnie Athens, a man who took his own sad and squalid life and turned it on its head to make a groundbreaking career as a criminologis
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The Culture of Fear : Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
Barry Glassner
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Current:
9.1 |
Americans are afraid of many things that shouldn't frighten them, writes Barry Glassner in this book devoted to exploding conventional wisdom. Thanks to opportunistic politicians, single-minded advocacy groups, and unscrupulous TV "newsmaga
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Journey into Darkness
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
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Current:
9.0 |
Some authors are worth reading because of their area of expertise, even when their objectivity may be questionable. This is true of John Douglas, who follows up his Mindhunter with another
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Whoever Fights Monsters
Robert K. Ressler
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Current:
8.8 |
This book is an overview of the career of the FBI man who nearly single-handedly created the system for personality profiling of violent offenders. If there's a big-time multiple murderer from about 1950 until now who hasn't been interviewe
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Pros and Cons : The Criminals Who Play in the NFL
Jeff Benedict
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Current:
8.8 |
Startling in its breadth, Benedict and Yaeger's investigation into the off-the-field violence and criminal behavior that pervades the culture of professional football is as eye opening as it is disturbing. That these guys get into trouble i
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The Big Con : The Story of the Confidence Man
David W. Maurer, Luc Sante
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Current:
8.7 |
"To study the lingo of the con is inevitably to study the con itself," writes Luc Sante in his foreword to this classic work of urban anthropology, originally published in 1940. "A term such as cackle-bladder or shut-out canno
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Tough Jews : Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams
Rich Cohen
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Current:
8.7 |
When we think gangster, hood, or wiseguy, we often associate these characters with such names as Capone, Luciano, or even Corleone. However, when organized crime reared its ugly head in the late 1920s in Brooklyn, at the foundation were men
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Our Guys : The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
Bernard Lefkowitz
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Current:
8.7 |
Leslie, a sweet-natured young woman with the mental age of an 8-year-old, just wanted to be friends with the high school football stars. When they invited her down into the basement rec room of a suburban home, she jumped with joy at being
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Murder in Greenwich : Who Killed Martha Moxley?
Mark Fuhrman(Afterword)
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Current:
8.6 |
On the night before Halloween in 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was bludgeoned to death with a golf club in front of her home in the ultra-upper-class Belle Haven district of Greenwich, Connecticut. Though many suspects were brought forth,
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Takedown : The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw-By the Man Who Did It
Tsutomu Shimomura, John Markoff
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Current:
8.6 |
On Christmas Day 1995, a daring cybercriminal used a new, dangerous, and clever method to gain access to the home computer of the world's greatest computer security expert. The hero, as a matter of honor, set out to find the devious masterm
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The Crime of Sheila McGough
Janet Malcolm
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Current:
8.6 |
The inimitable Janet Malcolm has previously probed the soft white underbellies of psychiatry, journalism, litera
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Dead Man Walking : An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
Helen Prejean
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Current:
8.6 |
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Inside the Criminal Mind
Stanton E. Samenow
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Current:
8.6 |
Long-held myths defining the sources of and cures for crime are shattered in this ground-breaking book--and a chilling profile of today's criminal emerges. Read more
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Crime Classification Manual
John E. Douglas
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Current:
8.4 |
This landmark book classifies the three major felonies--murder, arson, and sexual assault--based upon the motivation of the offender, standardizing in one place, for the first time, the language and terminology used throughout the criminal
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Legal Alchemy : The Use and Misuse of Science in the Law
David L. Faigman
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Current:
8.4 |
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Protecting Your Ideas : The Inventor's Guide to Patents
Joy L. Bryant
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Current:
8.4 |
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| 26
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Science at the Bar : Law, Science, and Technology in America
Sheila Jasanoff, Shelia Jasanoff
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Current:
8.4 |
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| 27
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Law and Regulation of Common Carriers in the Communications Industry
Daniel L. Brenner(Preface)
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Current:
8.3 |
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| 28
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Future Codes : Essays in Advanced Computer Technology and the Law
Curtis E. A. Karnow
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Current:
8.2 |
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| 29
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Mind Hunter : Inside the Fbi's Elite Serial Crime Unit
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
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Current:
8.2 |
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Murder Machine : A True Story of Murder, Madness, and the Mafia
Gene Mustain, Jerry Capeci
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Current:
8.2 |
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The Best Defense : True Stories of Intended Victims Who Defended Themselves With a Firearm
Robert A. Waters
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8.1 |
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales : The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
Michael Browning, William R. Maples
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8.0 |
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Culture Clash : Law and Science in America
Steven Goldberg
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Current:
7.8 |
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The Software Publishers Association Legal Guide to Multimedia/Book and Disk
Thomas J. Smedinghoff
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Current:
7.6 |
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Understanding Emerging Network Services, Pricing, and Regulation (Artech House Telecommunications Library)
Leo A. Wrobel, Eddie M. Pope
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Current:
7.5 |
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Science in Court (Issues in Law and Society)
Michael Freeman, Helen Reece
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Current:
7.5 |
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Science in Court (Issues in Law and Society)
Michael D. A. Freeman, Helen Reece
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Current:
7.4 |
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Lectures on the Paradigms of Legal Thinking (Philosophiae Iuris)
Csaba Varga
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Current:
7.3 |
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Aids, Experimental Drug Approval, and the Fda New Drug Screening Process : A Legal Research Guide (Legal Research Guides, Vol. 34)
Michael D. Greenberg
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7.2 |
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Global Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights in Science and Technology : Office of International Affairs National Research Council
Mitchel B. Wallerstein
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Current:
7.2 |
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Biotechnology : Law, Business, and Regulation
Michael J. Malinowski
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Current:
7.2 |
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Biotechnology and the Federal Circuit
Kenneth J. Burchfiel
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Current:
7.2 |
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European Computer Law
Information Technology Law Group, Europe
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Current:
7.0 |
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Guide to E-Mail and the Internet in the Workplace : A Practical Guide for the Corporate Counselor (Corporate Practice Series (Unnumbered).)
Susan E. Gindin
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Competitive Industrial Development in the Age of Information : The Role of Cooperation in the Technology Sector (Routledge Studies in International bu
Richard J. Braudo, Jeffrey G. MacIntosh
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7.0 |
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The Investigator's Little Black Book 2
Robert Scott
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6.9 |
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