Tales of bohemia, taverns, and the underworld

THIS is a collection of yams from real life : yarns told on that undefined borderland known as Bohemia ; in the bars of town and country inns, and around those obscure sections of British and cosmopolitan capitals collectively and rather vaguely termed " The Underworld." They are stories retailed by men and women who lounge about to pass their leisure hours, watching life go by ; tales of famou…

Race, Incarceration, and American Values

"Based on the 2007 Tanner lectures on human values at Stanford."Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate--at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising--is almost forty percent greater th…

Rule of law, misrule of men

This book is a passionate call for citizen action to uphold the rule of law when government does not. Arguing that post-9/11 legislation and foreign policy severed the executive branch from the will of the people, Elaine Scarry in Rule of Law, Misrule of Men offers a fierce defense of the people's role as guarantor of our democracy. She begins with the groundswell of local resistance to the 200…

The Newgate calendar improved; being interesting memoirs of notorious charact…

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839968675

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6 v. 22 cm

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