The Killer of Little Shepherds
By: Douglas Starr
Narrated by: Erik Davies
Length: 12 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting true crime story that vividly recounts the birth of modern forensics.
At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher, known and feared as “The Killer of Little Shepherds,” terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities for years—until he ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr. Alexandre... Read more
The Mob and Me
By: John Partington & Arlene Violet
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
When U.S. Marshal John Partington suddenly found himself protecting the family of renowned mobster Joe "The Animal" Barboza, he made up the rules as he went along. Among Partington's diverse activities: managing a rotating crew of U.S. Marshals; chasing the family cat; convincing Barboza's wife not to leave; keeping the witness, his wife, and... Read more
View audiobookConstitutional Journal
By: Jeffrey St. John
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
You are there, in 1787, at America’s constitutional convention, with the inside story that reads like a modern-day account of the secret proceedings in Philadelphia. Veteran print and broadcast journalist Jeffrey St. John “reports” each day’s proceedings, flavoring his dispatches with quotes from private correspondence and notes of the... Read more
View audiobookThe E-Myth Attorney
By: Michael E. Gerber, Robert Armstrong & Sanford M...
Narrated by: Michael E. Gerber, Robert Armstrong & Sanford M...
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on his decades of experience working with small-business owners, Michael Gerber adds to his mega-selling E-Myth series withThe E-Myth Attorney, a one-of-a-kind system for transforming an attorney's practice into a business positioned for long-term growth.Many attorneys in small and mid-size practices are experts on the law but may not... Read more
View audiobookHunting Evil
By: Guy Walters
Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
Length: 18 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Already acclaimed in England as "first-rate" (The Sunday Times); “a model of meticulous, courageous and path-breaking scholarship"(Literary Review); and "absorbing and thoroughly gripping… deserves a lasting place among histories of the war.” (The Sunday Telegraph), Hunting Evil is the first complete and definitive account of how the Nazis... Read more
View audiobookLandmark
By: The Staff of the Washington Post
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
After a year-long political war, in March 2010 President Obama and the Democratic leaders of Congress achieved a victory that has eluded lawmakers for seventy-five years: an overhaul of America’s health-care system. In this indispensable book, the staff of the Washington Post tells the story of health-care reform and explains what it means for... Read more
View audiobookA Captain's Duty
By: Richard Phillips & Stephan Talty
Narrated by: George K. Wilson
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"I share the country's admiration for the bravery of Captain Phillips and his selfless concern for his crew. His courage is a model for all Americans." —President Barack Obama
It was just another day on the job for fifty-three-year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, a United States–flagged cargo ship that was carrying, among... Read more
Supreme Power
By: Jeff Shesol
Narrated by: Mel Foster
Length: 23 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Beginning in 1935, in a series of devastating decisions, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of Franklin Roosevelt's agenda in ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short succession. It was not just the New Deal but democracy itself that stood on trial. In February 1937, Roosevelt struck back with an audacious plan to expand... Read more
View audiobookSex, Love, and Money
By: Gerald Nissenbaum, JD & John Sedgwick
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Gerald Nissenbaum knows everything about his clients—how much is in their bank accounts, what kind of sex their spouses like, if they married for money or power, and who cheated with whom. For the first time in his long career, Nissenbaum gives the lowdown on all the antics he's experienced in dealing with clients who have money to burn.
From a... Read more
Veteran Court
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A new and special court system set up in over 20 jurisdictions around the country now gives veterans a chance at treatment and not simply punishment for their crimes. Like drug courts that began in the 1980s, they’re based on the idea of treating defendants for underlying problems in order to prevent future criminal activity. Veterans in this... Read more
View audiobookSCOTUS - Patriot Act
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The Patriot Act came under the microscope at the US Supreme Court today, as justices took up a case that pits free speech against national security concerns. Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal provides our analysis tonight. Read more
View audiobookInmate DNA
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
After spending 35 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, Florida inmate James Bain has become the longest-serving prisoner to be exonerated using DNA evidence.A court-mandated DNA test proved Bain was wrongly convicted of sexual assault in 1974.According to Innocence Project co-director Barry Scheck, head of the group that helped free... Read more
View audiobookTierra de todos (Temptress)
By: Jorge Ramos
Narrated by: Antonio Martinez
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
El objetivo de este libro es hacer visibles a los invisibles y darles voz a los que no tienen voz. Y la eleccion de Barack Obama como presidente nos brinda una oportunidad historica para incorporar a la sociedad norteamericana a los que viven marginados, con miedo y en las sombras. Obama es el mejor ejemplo de que Estados Unidos le da... Read more
View audiobookThe Murder Business
By: Mark Fuhrman
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Media and law enforcement work at cross-purposes. Law enforcement wants to solve a case as fast as possible and put the guilty behind bars. The media wants a case to drag on as long as humanly possible and do all they can to extricate every last bit of drama—drop by bloody drop—in order to hold the attention of the millions of viewers who have... Read more
View audiobookHealthcare
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Gwen Ifill moderates a discussion between Jonathan Gruber, a health economist at MIT, and Michael Cannon, the director of health policy studies at the libertarian Cato Insitute, about requiring individuals to purchase health insurance. Read more
View audiobookPacking the Court
By: James MacGregor Burns
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
For decades, James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America. Now he turns his eye to an institution of government that he believes has become more powerful—and more partisan—than the Founding Fathers ever intended: the Supreme Court. Much as we would like to believe that the Court remains... Read more
View audiobookSCOTUS Discussions June 2009
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Ray Suarez talks to Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal about the Supreme Court's decision on prisoners' legal rights to test DNA evidence after their convictions. Read more
View audiobookDigital Barbarism
By: Mark Helprin
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
“A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.”—National Review online In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its... Read more
View audiobookPicking Cotton
By: Ronald Cotton, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino & Erin...
Narrated by: Richard Allen & Karen White
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape and eventually identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken—but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After eleven years, Ronald was allowed... Read more
View audiobookPhilosophy and the Law
By: Stephen Mathis
Narrated by: Stephen Mathis
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Do judges deduce their decisions from legal rules and principles, or do they decide cases based on what is fair given the facts at hand? The latter view, held by Legal Realists, serves as the starting point for Professor Stephen Mathis' eye-opening look at how judges reason. In this compelling lecture series, the esteemed professor addresses... Read more
View audiobookThe American Legal Experience
By: Lawrence Friedman
Narrated by: The Professor
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The legal system in America is the basis of freedom as we know it today. The system is based, ultimately, on the common law of England, but it has grown, developed, and changed over the years. American law has been a critical factor in American life since colonial times. It has played a role in shaping society, but society-the structure,... Read more
View audiobookFundamental Cases
By: Alan M. Dershowitz
Narrated by: Alan M. Dershowitz
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The courtroom trial has fascinated human beings from the beginning of recorded history. Trials are theater, trials are history, and the great trials of the twentieth century and beyond provide a unique window into American history and the sense of America's enduring commitment to law. It was Alexis de Tocqueville who, when he visited the new... Read more
View audiobookThe Challenge
By: Jonathan Mahler
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In November 2001, a thirty-one-year-old Yemeni man named Salim Ahmed Hamdan was captured near the Pakistan border and turned over to US forces in Afghanistan. After confessing to being Osama bin Laden’s driver, Hamdan was transferred to Guantánamo Bay and designated for trial before a special military tribunal.The Pentagon assigned a young... Read more
View audiobookWirtschaftsstrafrecht - Abridged
By: Klaus Volk
Narrated by: Klaus Volk
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: Yes
Skandale ohne Ende: Korruption, verbotene Absprachen, dubiose Bankgeschäfte, Betrug und Untreue, Lug und Trug überall? Wirtschaftskriminalität: Was kennzeichnet sie und was macht sie so gefährlich? Der Staat bekämpft sie energisch und wartet nicht mehr, bis ein Schaden eingetreten ist. Neue Gesetze: Sie haben die Strafbarkeit weit in das... Read more
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