The Palace of Justice
| Author | : Ana Carrigan |
| Publisher | : Thunder's Mouth Press |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Bogotá (Colombia) |
| ISBN | : 9780941423823 |
Investigates the 1985 guerilla insurgency and bloody military coup
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Palace of Justice
| Author | : Susanne Alleyn |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2010-11-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429925086 |
"Known for her impeccable plotting and fully defined characters," says Library Journal in a starred review about acclaimed author Susanne Alleyn, and in this newest installment featuring Aristide Ravel, freelance investigator for the Paris police, Alleyn brings her sharpest voice and most keenly crafted mystery yet. Louis XVI is in his grave, and Marie-Antoinette is on her way to trial. Paris is hungry, restless, and fearful in the autumn of 1793, and the guillotine's blade is beginning to fall daily on the necks of enemies of the French Republic. Not even members of the Republican government are safe from the threat of the Revolutionary Tribunal, where the only sentence for the guilty is death. In this atmosphere of distrust and anxiety, police agent Ravel, while coming to terms with personal tragedy, must stop a ruthless killer who is terrorizing the city. Ravel soon learns, however, that hunting a murderer who strikes at random and leaves headless corpses on the streets, paralleling the ever more numerous victims of the guillotine, is a task that will lead him to dark, painful secrets and echoes from an even darker past. From the author of The Cavalier of the Apocalypse, A Treasury of Regrets, and Game of Patience comes the fourth Aristide Ravel mystery, unfolding amid the bloody events and murderous politics of the Reign of Terror. "Alleyn brilliantly captures the paranoid spirit of the times, and inserts enough twists to keep most readers guessing. This entry approaches the quality of the historical fiction of such authors as Steven Saylor and Laura Joh Rowland."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A fiendishly clever and compelling mystery set in a grim, gripping vision of Paris where there is no justice, only shades of gray."--Kirkus Reviews
The Palace Complex
| Author | : Michal Murawski |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 2019-03-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0253039991 |
An exploration of the history and significance of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland. The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was “gifted” to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Framing the Palace’s visual, symbolic, and functional prominence in the everyday life of the Polish capital as a sort of obsession, locals joke that their city suffers from a “Palace of Culture complex.” Despite attempts to privatize it, the Palace remains municipally owned, and continues to play host to a variety of public institutions and services. The Parade Square, which surrounds the building, has resisted attempts to convert it into a money-making commercial center. Author Michal Murawski traces the skyscraper’s powerful impact on twenty-first century Warsaw; on its architectural and urban landscape; on its political, ideological, and cultural lives; and on the bodies and minds of its inhabitants. The Palace Complex explores the many factors that allow Warsaw’s Palace to endure as a still-socialist building in a post-socialist city. “The most brilliant book on a building in many years, making a case for Warsaw’s once-loathed Palace of Culture and Science as the most enduring and successful legacy of Polish state socialism.” —Owen Hatherley, The New Statesman’s“Books of the Year” list (UK) “An ambitious anthropological biography of Poland’s tallest and most infamous building, the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. . . . It is a truly fascinating story that challenges a tenacious stereotype, and Murawski tells it brilliantly, judiciously layering literatures from multiple disciplines, his own ethnographic work, and personal anecdotes.” —Patryk Babiracki, H-Net History
Judging Mohammed
| Author | : Susan J. Terrio |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 535 |
| Release | : 2009-02-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0804771030 |
In October 2005, three weeks of rioting erupted in France following the accidental deaths of two French boys of North African ancestry. Killed while fleeing the police, these boys were deemed dangerous based largely on their immigrant origins. In France, disadvantaged children of immigrant and foreign ancestry represent the vast majority of formal suspects and have increasingly been portrayed as a threat to public safety and as the embodiment of the assault on French values. Despite official rhetoric of protection, Judging Mohammed reveals how the treatment of these children in the juvenile courts system undermines legal guarantees of equality and due process and reinforces existing hierarchies. Based on five years of extensive research in the largest and most influential juvenile court in France, this work follows young people inside the system, from arrest to court trials. Revealing an alarming turn toward accountability, restitution, and retribution, this groundbreaking study uncovers the disquieting reasons behind France's shifting approaches to the identification, treatment, and representation of its delinquent youth.
With Justice For Some
| Author | : George P. Fletcher |
| Publisher | : Basic Books (AZ) |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 1995-01-20 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : |
A powerful examination of what's wrong with our criminal justice system and what needs to be done to fix it.
Courtiers of the Marble Palace
| Author | : Todd C. Peppers |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9780804753821 |
Courtiers of the Marble Palace explores how law clerks are hired and utilized by United States Supreme Court justices.
In the Place of Justice
| Author | : Wilbert Rideau |
| Publisher | : Profile Books |
| Total Pages | : 529 |
| Release | : 2011-01-06 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 1847654649 |
In 1961, young, black, eighth-grade dropout Wilbert Rideau despaired of his small-town future in the segregated deep south of America. He set out to rob the local bank and after a bungled robbery he killed the bank teller, a fifty-year-old white female. He was arrested and gave a full confession. When we meet Rideau he has just been sentenced to death row, from where he embarks on an extraordinary journey. He is imprisoned at Angola, the most violent prison in America, where brutality, sexual slavery and local politics confine prisoners in ways that bars alone cannot. Yet Rideau breaks through all this and finds hope and meaning, becoming editor of the prison magazine, going on to win national journalism awards. Full of gritty realism and potent in its evocation of a life condemned, Rideau goes far beyond the traditional prison memoir and reveals an emotionally wrought and magical conclusion to his forty-four years in prison.
The Judicialization of Politics in Latin America
| Author | : Rachel Sieder |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2016-04-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1137108878 |
During the last two decades the judiciary has come to play an increasingly important political role in Latin America. Constitutional courts and supreme courts are more active in counterbalancing executive and legislative power than ever before. At the same time, the lack of effective citizenship rights has prompted ordinary people to press their claims and secure their rights through the courts. This collection of essays analyzes the diverse manifestations of the judicialization of politics in contemporary Latin America, assessing their positive and negative consequences for state-society relations, the rule of law, and democratic governance in the region. With individual chapters exploring Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela, it advances a comparative framework for thinking about the nature of the judicialization of politics within contemporary Latin American democracies.
Battle for the Marble Palace
| Author | : Michael Bobelian |
| Publisher | : Schaffner Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781943156665 |
"'1968: That moment began the politicization of the confirmation process and turned it into the ugly ritual we know too well'. Faced with the pending resignation of Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Supreme Court's longtime liberal kingpin, President Lyndon Johnson named his longtime adviser Abe Fortas to become Warren's successor. What Washington pundits believed would be a routine confirmation instead ignited a fractious war between liberals and conservatives eager to seize control of the judicial body. Michael Bobelian reveals the extent of the unprecedented machinations perpetrated to capture the Court, including LBJ's removal of two justices to make room for his favorites, the Senate's first filibuster against a Court nominee, Strom Thurmond's airing of pornographic movies to showcase Fortas's purported moral turpitude, and Richard Nixon who, in his zeal to win the presidency, stoked the fires of hatred and bigotry to transform the Court into a political weapon."--
The Quest for Cosmic Justice
| Author | : Thomas Sowell |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2001-06-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0743215079 |
This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents many people from confronting the actual consequences of their own beliefs and policies. Those consequences include the steady and dangerous erosion of fundamental principles of freedom -- amounting to a quiet repeal of the American revolution. The Quest for Cosmic Justice is the summation of a lifetime of study and thought about where we as a society are headed -- and why we need to change course before we do irretrievable damage.
