Author: Philippe SandsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780713997927
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lawless World
Author: Philippe SandsPublisher: Penguin Press
ISBN: 9780141985053
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 'Lawless World' Sands argues that current US foreign policy is undermining the global legal order and promoting its economic interests at the expense of human rights and the environment.
The Wettest County in the World
Author: Matt BondurantPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416561404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Bondurant weaves a compelling tale of violence, desperation, and greed, as three brothers run moonshine in Virginia during prohibition, in this story that is based on a true story about the author's grandfather and two uncles.
Author: Philippe SandsLawless World
Author: Philippe SandsPublisher: Viking Adult
ISBN: 9780670034529
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"Leading international lawyer Philippe Sands has been involved in high-profile cases including Guantanamo and Pinochet. In Lawless World he draws on disturbing material to show how America has reneged on agreements governing war, torture and the environment - with Britain often turning a blind eye or colluding in some of the worst violations. In recent years America has abandoned the Kyoto Protocol and the Statute of the International Criminal Court, ignored human rights standards at Abu Ghraib and disregarded the UN's prohibition on pre-emptive force. Are we on the verge of a new world order where the most powerful nations can put aside the rules that no longer suit them?"--BOOK JACKET.
Lawless
Author: Matt BondurantPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451699700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
With a Foreword by Director John Hillcoat Based on the true story of Matt Bondurant’s grandfather and two granduncles, Lawless is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County, Virginia, during Prohibition and in the years after. When Sherwood Anderson, the journalist and author of Winesburg, Ohio, was covering a story there, he christened it the “wettest county in the world.” Anderson finds himself driving along dusty red roads, piecing together the clues linking the brothers to “The Great Franklin County Moonshine Conspiracy,” and breaking open the silence that shrouds Franklin County. In vivid, muscular prose, Matt Bondurant brings these men—their dark deeds, their long silences, their deep desires—to life. His understanding of the passion, violence, and desperation at the center of this world is both heartbreaking and magnificent.
Lawless (The Lawless Trilogy, Book 1)
Author: Jeffrey SalanePublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545520681
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The Lawless School provides the right education for kids on the wrong side of the law. An action-packed, globe-spanning adventure begins here!Welcome to Lawless, where the head of the class is a dangerous place to be.M Freeman is the newest student at the prestigious (and mysterious) Lawless School. All she really wants is to fit in, but from the moment she arrives, her unusual skills have the whole academy buzzing. M excels at escape tactics. She's a whiz at spotting a forgery. But can she tell right from wrong? She'll have to figure it out fast, because some of her teachers are planning the crime of the century . . . and M and her classmates might be the only people who can stop them.Jeffrey Salane's debut novel is full of twists and turns, and the Ebook includes additional content from the author, unavailable anywhere else!
Author: Gary LawlessThe Love Machine
Author: Jacqueline SusannPublisher: Tiger LLC
ISBN: 0996317813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
The spectacular bestseller from the author of VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. In a time when steak, vodka, and Benzedrine were the three main staples of a healthy diet, when high-powered executives called each other “baby” and movie stars wore wigs to bed, network tycoons had a name for the TV set: they called it “the love machine.” But to supermodel Amanda, socialite Judith and journalist Maggie, “the love machine” meant something else: Robin Stone, “a TV-network titan around whom women flutter like so many moths…The novel deals with his rise and fall as he makes the international sex scene (orgying in London, transvestiting in Hamburg), drinks unlimited quantities and checks out the latest Nielsens.”—Newsweek “I READ IT IN ONE GREEDY GULP, ENJOYING EVERY MINUTE.”—Liz Smith “[Susann’s] pulp poetry resonates to this day. WITH HER FORMULA OF SEX, DRUGS, AND SHOW BUSINESS, Susann didn’t so much capture the tenor of her times as she did predict the Zeitgeist of ours.”—Detour
Author: Nicolas P. Suzor