Argues that despite increasing levels of government action, illicit drugs are more readily available than ever, and analyzes the failure of U.S. drug policy

Product Description:   Citizen Coors is the riveting saga of an American dynasty. From the moment the destitute Prussian Adolph Coors stows away on a Baltimore-bound ship in 1868 to the worldwide expansion of the billion-dollar Coors Brewing Company, Citizen Coors is a headlong American tale of triumph over bare-knuckle competition...read more

A compelling chronicle of the politically conservative Coors family traces the rise of a beer empire, from a single brewery opened in 1873 to multi-billion-dollar profits a century later and infamy over the family's business practices and public comments. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: Except in certain broad areas, law has a limited role to play in shaping the behavior of that most important kind of business-financial institutions. Law can set certain standards for fair dealing in relation to investors and those who are served by financial institutions...read more

Product Description: Government welfare benefits touch millions-from individuals to corporations, large and small. Here, Dr. Baum explores one aspect of government welfare, both Federal and state, aid to families with dependent children. The history of that program is set out...read more

Product Description: We are a nation of law. We have decided as an essential part of our society that we will be governed by law. What this means is the subject of this book. It is not written to make lawyers out of lay people. Rather, it is written to help make us all better, more informed citizens...read more

Product Description: The law places a high value on marriage and the family. That value is carried forward in defining marriage; setting conditions for the state to interfere with marriage; fixing the responsibilities of marriage and family; and detailing when a family may break up and setting ongoing responsibilities when that happens...read more

Product Description: What remedy, if any should the law provide to a person who has suffered "wrongful" harm at the hands of another? Should the lay do nothing and leave things as they are? Should the burden of helping injured persons bear their financial losses be placed on their families? Should we place the responsibility for helping on the government?As an alternative to these possibilities, we might say that in some cases people who cause harm should be required to compensate for the losses by paying money to the persons they have harmed...read more

Product Description: To understand criminal law three balls must be juggles at the same time. This book will help you accomplish that feat: (1) You will learn something about criminal law itself, such as the elements of crime, the purposes of the criminal law, and the reasons for punishment...read more

Product Description: Nines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettable characters and bracketed by two epic storms: Hurricane Betsy, which transformed New Orleans in the 1960s, and Hurricane Katrina, which nearly destroyed it...read more

Product Description: Dan Baum is a gun fanatic. He is also Jewish Democrat who grew up in suburban New Jersey. In Gun Guys, he takes us on a guided tour of gun stores and gun shows, shooting ranges and festivals, contests and auctions, trying to figure out what draws so many of us to guns in the first place...read more