Stated First Edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Slight spine lean. Rubs to the jacket's spine tips. The author's first novel.

Blood Secrets

Jones, Craig

Harper&Row

Over the last 20 years the world's most advanced militaries have invited a small number of military legal professionals into the heart of their targeting operations, spaces which had previously been exclusively for generals and commanders. These professionals, trained and hired to give legal advice on an array of military operations, have become known as war lawyers. The War Lawyers examines the laws of war as applied by military lawyers to aerial targeting operations carried out by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Israel military in Gaza. Drawing on interviews with military lawyers and others, this book explains why some lawyers became integrated in the chain of command whereby military targets are identified and attacked, whether by manned aircraft, drones, and/or ground forces, and with what results. This book shows just how important law and military lawyers have become in the conduct of contemporary warfare, and how it is understood. Jones argues that circulations of law and policy between the US and Israel have bolstered targeting practices considered legally questionable, contending that the involvement of war lawyers in targeting operations enables, legitimises, and sometimes even extends military violence.

The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel, and Juridical Warfare

Foreign & International Law

Oxford University Press

1st Hamish Hamilton 1979 hardcover 1st print edition fine book in fine price clipped dw condition in stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

London: Hamish Hamilton

The sassy and witty narrator has committed murder, but her victim's identity and her motives are revealed only after a layer-by-layer exposure of family secrets and unspeakable sins

Literature & Fiction

Ballantine Books

A family ravaged by suspicion... A suburban town paralyzed by fear... A father desperate for his daughter's love... A son bent on destroying his mother's chances for happiness... A devoted young man helping his fiancee cope... A masked rapist lashing at the very soul of his victims... Each mesmerized by a Fatal Attraction.

Fatal Attraction

By day, Fay Colby is a successful advertising executive, whose alternate persona, Ann Decker, recklessly satisfies an insatiable lust each night--but her separate worlds collide as her many lovers are systematically murdered

Too Late to Be Good

Horror grips Matt Sessions as he begins to suspect that Bud Hanes, his daughter's likable fiance, may be the rapist-killer who is terrorizing the town

**Note that reviews prior to Oct 17, 2013 are for a different edition of Outbreak not published by Pants On Fire Press.**  It begins with a flight into Heathrow Airport. It ends up at Matt Hawkins’ front gate, in a crowd of savage, lumbering bodies. An epidemic is sweeping Great Britain, transforming countless victims into mindless predators and forcing Matt and his little brother, Danny, out of the safety of their late parents’ privileged legacy and into a rapidly changing world. Every day is vital. Every action counts. As the brothers make alliances and learn to defend themselves and their home against an unthinkable enemy, choices are made, some with devastating consequences. In the midst of this nightmarish fight to survive, Matt begins to learn what is truly important to him, and exactly what it means to be human. Bursting with Craig Jones’ signature swift pacing and squirm inducing details, this is a story destined for your library.

Outbreak: The Zombie Apocalypse

Teen & Young Adult

Powers, David M. F.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Pants On Fire Press

Chasing the Blues explores the roots of the blues---the music birthed in the Mississippi Delta by African Americans who fashioned a new form of musical expression grounded in their shared experience of brutal oppression. They used the power of music to survive that oppression, creating a simple-in-structure, emotionally complex form that transformed and upended culture and became the bedrock of popular song. Tracing the music back to its geographical and cultural origins in the Delta is key to understanding how the blues were shaped. Over time, the Delta blues have touched virtually every form of popular music (rock and roll, soul, R&B, country-western, gospel), creating the soundscape of our lives. What makes this book unique? Fathoming how the music flowed from living and working conditions in the heart of the Deep South; appreciating how life-changing events like the Flood of 1927 sparked a mass migration away from plantation life, spreading the blues to the cities in the North and becoming the soundtrack to the civil rights movement; how blues musicians interacted, "cross-fertilizing" their music by learning, influencing, and imitating each other. The habits of travel are shifting, and there is more interest and a larger market for diving deep into destinations closer to home. Interest in Black history and culture and the role Black Americans played in shaping America is at an all-time high. By appreciating the roots of this most American style of music, readers will have a richer experience listening to songs and visiting blues' holy and sacred sites.

Chasing the Blues: A Traveler's Guide to America's Music

Arts & Photography

Matyas, Josephine

Music

Backbeat

For thirty years, lawyers, pundits, professors, and politicians had said that section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada--the criminal prohibition of polygamy--was unconstitutional, a Victorian anachronism that, in a modern rights-based democracy, deserved to be swept aside in the name of individual liberty and religious freedom. Polygamy per se, it was argued, was harmless. Beginning in 2009 in Vancouver, a small team of lawyers from the federal and provincial governments, along with a handful of allied public-interest groups, set out to prove the experts wrong and to show that there were devastating harms that inevitably flowed from polygamy's "cruel arithmetic" harms to women and children, to society at large, and even to the very foundation of democracy itself. The case against polygamy would proceed for almost two years, and was laid out through forty-four days of trial and more than 100 witnesses. The evidence ranged from the testimony of pre-eminent academics to stark and disturbing confessions of polygamists testifying under the shield of anonymity. The eventual 357-page decision of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, based on (in his words) "the most comprehensive judicial record on the subject ever produced," defied all expectations and set the world of constitutional law back on its heels. This is a remarkable insider's story of a unique piece of litigation: the first trial-court "constitutional reference" in Canadian history. Craig Jones, lead counsel for the Attorney General of British Columbia, describes the argument he and his colleagues developed against polygamy, drawing from fields as diverse as anthropology, history, economics, and evolutionary psychology. Yet it was ultimately the testimony of real people that showed how the theoretical harms of polygamy's "cruel arithmetic" played out upon its victims. A Cruel Arithmetic describes how the author's own views evolved from scepticism to a committed belief in the campaign against polygamy. This book is also an invitation to Canadians across political, philosophical, and religious spectrums to exercise their curiousity, approach the issue with an open mind, and follow along as the evidence converges to its powerful and surprising conclusion.

A Cruel Arithmetic: Inside the Case Against Polygamy

Legal Theory & Systems

Irwin Law

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Blood Secrets

The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel, and Juridical Warfare

Blood Secrets

Blood Secrets

Fatal Attraction

Too Late to Be Good

Fatal Attraction

Outbreak: The Zombie Apocalypse

Chasing the Blues: A Traveler's Guide to America's Music

A Cruel Arithmetic: Inside the Case Against Polygamy