Author: Scott Turow
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Keywords: proof, burden
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0446677124
ISBN-13: 9780446677127
In Burden of Proof, Sandy Stern, the brilliant defense attorney from Presumed Innocent, faces an event so emotionally shattering that no part of his life is left untouched. It reveals a family caught in a maelstrom of hidden crimes, shocking secrets and warring passions.
Author: Scott Turow
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Keywords: proof, burden
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2011-04-05
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0446584177
ISBN-13: 9780446584173
Turow’s acclaimed second novel, which topped international bestseller lists, is now available in trade paperback. Sandy Stern, the brilliant defense attorney from Presumed Innocent, faces an event so emotionally shattering that no part of his life is left untouched. It reveals a family caught in a maelstrom of hidden crimes, shocking secrets, and warring passions.
Author: C. Vann Woodward
Publisher: Louisiana State University Pre
Keywords: history, southern, burden
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1993-10-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0807118915
ISBN-13: 9780807118917
C. Vann Woodward’s The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern distinctiveness, and the strains of irony that characterize much of the South’s historical experience. First published in 1960, the book quickly became a touchstone for generations of students. This updated third edition contains a chapter, "Look Away, Look Away," in which Woodward finds a plethora of additional ironies in the South’s experience. It also includes previously uncolle
Author: Chas Newkey-Burden
Publisher: John Blake
Keywords: biography, adele
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2012-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1843586770
ISBN-13: 9781843586777
The compelling life story of the Grammy-winning soul singerAdele’s soulful voice, catchy hits, and vulnerable personality have won her critical acclaim and huge popularity. She has topped the charts in 18 countriesbut who is she? What is the truth of the tempestuous life that has so influenced her heartbreaking tracks? How did she overcome the challenges that threatened to derail her career? This compelling book traces her story from her childhood in London, where she began singing at the age of four. During her teenage years she wrote her own music and attended the BRIT school, alongs
Author: Bruce Bartlett
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: need, reform, tax, burden, benefit
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2012-01-24
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1451646194
ISBN-13: 9781451646191
A spirited and insightful examination of the need for American tax reformarguably the most overdue political debate facing the nationfrom one of the most legendary political thinkers, advisers, and writers of our time.The U.S. Tax Code has not been fully reformed since 1986. It is an overgrown mess.Today, there is a serious divergence, on both the right and the left, between the size of the government we want, and what we are willing to pay for. Adding to the confusion, people have little sense of who pays what, how much, and when.Tax reform will be a major issue in the 2012 presidential ca
Authors:Richard L. Burden, J. Douglas Faire,
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Keywords: analysis, numerical
Number of Pages: 850
Published: 2004-12-10
List price: $210.95
ISBN-10: 0534392008
ISBN-13: 9780534392000
This well-respected text gives an introduction to the modern approximation techniques and explains how, why, and when the techniques can be expected to work. The authors focus on building students’ intuition to help them understand why the techniques presented work in general, and why, in some situations, they fail. With a wealth of examples and exercises, the text demonstrates the relevance of numerical analysis to a variety of disciplines and provides ample practice for students. The applications chosen demonstrate concisely how numerical methods can be, and often must be, applied in r
Author: David A. Kirsch
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: history, burden, vehicle, electric
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2000-07-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813528097
ISBN-13: 9780813528090
The electric vehicle of historian David Kirsch’s title is an old technology that seems ever on the verge of making a comeback. In the late 1890s, the electric engine competed with steam- and gasoline-driven engines to become the standard for automobile manufacturers, and it remained competitive for nearly a decade until, in the early 1900s, the internal-combustion engine captured the market. It did so for complex reasons, few of them, in Kirsch’s account, having to do with purely technological issues. Enter the "burden of history," a fruitful notion that reminds us that determinist
