[This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.][Read by Robert Morris]  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is considered one of the greatest justices of the United States Supreme Court and profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, especially in the areas of civil liberties and judicial restraint. At the same time, his abilities as a prose stylist earned him a position among the literary elite.  In The Common Law, derived from a series of lectures given at the Lowell Institute in Boston, he systematized his early legal doctrines, creating an enduring classic of legal philosophy that continues to be read and consulted today. Beginning with historical forms of liability, it goes on to discuss criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, and many other aspects of civil and criminal law. Holmes brought law to modernity by establishing it as a function of history and policy, not just logic and precedent. Avoiding specialized language of his own or any other era, Holmes explains concepts with scintillating clarity. This is a lucid, accessible, and continually relevant sourcebook for students and laymen alike.

The Common Law (Library Edition)

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Legal Theory & Systems

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[This is the Audiobook Cassette Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Frederick Davidson] This is Book 3 of Stephen R. Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle series. They called him unfit to rule--a lowborn, callow boy, Uther's bastard. But his coming had been foretold in the songs of the bard Taliesin. He had learned powerful secrets at the knee of the mystical sage Merlin. He was Arthur Pendragon of the Island of the Mighty, who would rise to legendary greatness in a Britain torn by violence, greed, and war, ushering in a glorious reign of peace and prosperity--and who would fall at the treacherous hands of the one he loved more than life.

Arthur (The Pendragon Cycle, Book 3)

Religion & Spirituality

Stephen R. Lawhead

Christian Books & Bibles

[This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.][Read by Harold Cropp] Mortimer J. Adler's classic How to Read a Book was an instant bestseller upon publication, and its worldwide sales today total over seven million copies. Audiences will find this companion book just as provocative as its predecessor. Drawing on decades of experience as an educator and philosopher, Mortimer J. Adler offers a short course in effective communication, filled with his wisdom and wit. Both instructive and practical, How to Speak, How to Listen will be invaluable to everyone: salespeople and executives involved in conferences and negotiations, politicians, lecturers, and teachers, as well as families seeking to improve communication among themselves.

How to Speak, How to Listen (Library Edition)

MORTIMER J. ADLER

Self-Help

The Call of the Canyon: A Romance of the Arizona Canyons (Library)

Literature & Fiction

ZANE

GREY

Genre Fiction

The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers

The Art of Nonfiction

RAND, AYN

Gavin, Marguerite

Essays & Correspondence

The Lodger: A Tale of the London Fog (Library edition)

MARIE BELLOC LOWNDES

This book, one of the sources for Mel Gibson’s motion picture, The Passion of the Christ, is taken from the eighteenth-century journals of the Catholic nun who had visions of scenes from the life of Christ.

Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Politics & Social Sciences

Emmerich, Anne Catherine

Philosophy

Master and Commander

O’Brian, Patrick

Contemporary

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the story of this atrocity-one of the worst in world history-continues to be denied by the Japanese government. The Rape of Nanking tells the story from three perspectives: that of the Japanese soldiers who performed it; of the Chinese civilians who endured it; and finally of a group of Europeans and Americans who refused to abandon the city and were able to create a safety zone that saved almost 300,000 Chinese. It was Iris Chang who discovered the diaries of the German leader of this rescue effort, John Rabe, whom she calls the "Oskar Schindler of China." A loyal supporter of Adolf Hitler, but far from the terror planned in his Nazi-controlled homeland, he worked tirelessly to save the innocent from slaughter.

The Rape of Nanking

History

Chang, Iris

Fields, Anna

Asia

Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes (Library

Biographies & Memoirs

Strathern

PAUL

Arts & Literature

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