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Jewish-Christian Disputations in the Middle Ages
$59.95During the Middle Ages, the Jewish religion was placed on trial by a series of notorious “disputations” or debates between champions of Christianity and Judaism. Only three of these disputations have detailed records which survived - Paris (1240), Barcelona (1263), and Tortosa (1413-14). This book provides an account from both […] -
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Hitler and the Beer Hall Putsch
$54.95One of the most important trials of the 20th Century was one that almost no one outside of Germany ever heard of. It was the trial of Adolf Hitler and several associates for their feeble and unsuccessful effort to overthrow the Weimer government of Germany in what has come to be […] -
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Every Knee Shall Bow-The Ruby Ridge Tragedy
$44.95The story of Ruby Ridge is well known and it has been the subject of many books and articles. Randy and Vicky Weaver were survivalists, racists, anti-Semites, anarchists and violent resisters. They and their family were holed up on Ruby Ridge in northern Idaho where they refused FBI orders to come down […] -
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I Am Murdered: The Trial of the George Wythe Assassin
$59.95Thomas Jefferson’s teacher and mentor, George Wythe, died in 1806. Wythe was one of our nation’s founding fathers, having signed the Declaration of Independence and having been instrumental—as a lawyer, law professor and judge—in bringing the rule of law to the new republic. His students included Chief Justice John Marshall, […] -
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Until Proven Innocent: Duke Lacrosse Team Rape Case
$59.95"Until Proven Innocent, an account of the Duke lacrosse case, should be ranked high among works that disprove the notion that those charged with serious crimes are invariably guilty and that those who are acquitted somehow beat the system. Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson pillory not only the prosecutor […] -
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The Unlawful Concert: an Account of the Presidio Mutiny Case
$49.95The book takes readers to San Francisco in the late 1960s. As the war in Vietnam was escalating, twenty-seven men held in the overcrowded stockade staged a sit-down and asked to present a petition of grievances after seeing one of their fellow prisoners killed by a guard. The angry AWOLS […] -
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The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms
$54.95John Napier is best known as the discoverer of Logarithms. In the late sixteenth century, further advances in science demanded a less complex method of numerical computation. In response, the Scottish mathematician John Napier (1550-1617) developed “a small table by the use of which we can obtain a knowledge of all geometrical […] -
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Trial of Charles Manson: Witness to Evil
$49.95In the annals of crime, there might never have been a more bizarre motive for killing than that revealed in the 1970-71 trial of four Manson "Family" members. In the twisted mind of thirty-four-year-old Charles Manson, a wave of bloody killings of high-society types in Los Angeles would be the […] -
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Superstition and Force: Essays on The Wager of Law, The Wager of Battle, The Ordeal, and Torture
$59.95This work contains several essays on various topics relating to the history of law, war and torture throughout the ages. -
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15 volume Biographies Collection
$599.95What a great way to start your Biography Collection! Each book within this set is fully bound in leather and features all the loved elements of every Gryphon edition: raised bands on spine with gilt lettering, gilt page edges and cover design, ribbon page marker and marble design endpapers. Below […] -
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25 volume SIGNED Editions Collection
$1,449.95This collection includes 25 leather-bound volumes each personally SIGNED by author. In addition, each of the books features luxurious genuine leather binding, raised bands on the spine with gilt lettering, gilt page edges and cover design, ribbon page marker and marble design endpapers. The following books are included in this […] -
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50 volume Classics of Medicine Collection
$1,895.95What a great way to start your Classics of Medicine Collection! Each book within this set is fully bound in leather and feature all the loved attributes of every Gryphon Edition: raised bands on spine with gilt lettering, gilt page edges and cover design, ribbon page marker and marble design […]
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4 volume American History Collection
$249.95This 4 volume collection includes the following American History works by Gordon Wood: The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (Signed by Gordon Wood) - won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize in 1970 Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Signed by Gordon […] -
Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered
$64.95Throughout his political and literary career, Burke opposed the “arbitrary exercise of power” and “denial of justice,” warning against the dangers of absolute power. He championed “the cause of the unfortunate” and “never had feared to attack the powerful, or to defend the weak, or to oppose to established interests […] -
The Ideal Element in Law
$64.95Roscoe Pound, former dean of Harvard Law School, delivered a series of lectures at the University of Calcutta in 1948. In these lectures, he criticized virtually every modern mode of interpreting the law because he believed the administration of justice had lost its grounding and recourse to enduring ideals. These […] -
In Defense of Freedom
$69.95When it first appeared in 1962, In Defense of Freedom was hailed by Richard M. Weaver as "a brilliant defense of the primacy of the person" and an effective "indictment of statism and bureaucratism." Meyer examines the tension between the freedom of the person and the power of social institutions. […]
