Richard Posner
Judge Richard Posner is one of the great legal minds of our age, on par with such generation-defining judges as Holmes, Hand, and Friendly. A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the principal exponent of the enormously i...
Little Richard's Here's Little Richard
From male bisexuality to religion in pop, Little Richard spent the 1950s pioneering ideas that are still too challenging for the mainstream. As a Black multimillionaire rock star, he was the most exciting person on the planet between 1955 and 1957...
How Judges Think
A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Richard A. Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases. When conventional legal materials enable ju...
Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy
A liberal state is a representative democracy constrained by the rule of law. Richard Posner argues for a conception of the liberal state based on pragmatic theories of government. He views the actions of elected officials as guided by interests r...
Federal Judiciary
No sitting federal judge has ever written so trenchant a critique of the federal judiciary as Richard A. Posner does in this, his most confrontational book. Skewering the politicization of the Supreme Court, the mismanagement of judicial staff, th...
Crisis of Capitalist Democracy
Following his timely and well-received A Failure of Capitalism, Richard Posner steps back to take a longer view of the continuing crisis of democratic capitalism as the American and world economies crawl gradually back from the depths to which the...
Uncertain Shield
Ever since the publication in 2004 of the 9/11 Commission Report, the U.S. intelligence community has been in the throes of a convulsive movement for reform. In Preventing Surprise Attacks (2005), Richard A. Posner carried the story of the reform ...
The Last Days of Richard III and the fate of his DNA
The Last Days of Richard III contains a new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richards last 150 days. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight knowledge that he will lose the Battle of Bosworth Field, we discover a new Richard: no passive victim,...
Richard
In February 1995, Richey Edwards checked out of a London hotel instead of flying to the US with the rest of the Manic Street Preachers. There were a few subsequent sightings but then nothing. His body was never found, and he was declared legally d...
Uncommon Sense
On December 5, 2004, the still-developing blogosphere took one of its biggest steps toward mainstream credibility, as Nobel Prize - winning economist Gary S. Becker and renowned jurist and legal scholar Richard A. Posner announced the formation of...
Public Intellectuals
In this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual--that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political or ideological moment--Richard Posner charts the decline of a venerable institution that...
Dust: A Richard Jury Mystery
When an old friend pulls Richard Jury into the investigation of a wealthy bachelors murder, Jury soon finds himself in over his head with the beautiful chief inspecting officer and the false leads surrounding the once-charismatic dead man, last se...
Richard III: A Critical Reader
Charting the ruthless rise and fall of the villainous king, Richard III remains one of Shakespeare's most enduringly discussed and oft-performed plays. Assembled by leading scholars, this guide provides a comprehensive survey of major issues in th...
Richard Hickox: A Celebration Of
Richard Hickox: A Celebration Of [2 CD]
Cole Richard: A Glance Back
Cole Richard: A Glance Back [CD]
Greene Richard: Wolves A' Howlin'
Greene Richard: Wolves A' Howlin' [CD]
Ingram Richard A: Happy Hour
Ingram Richard A: Happy Hour [CD]
A Christmas Festival (Richard Hayman)
A Christmas Festival (Richard Hayman) [CD]
Reflections on Judging
In Reflections on Judging, Richard Posner distills the experience of his thirty-one years as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Surveying how the judiciary has changed since his 1981 appointment, he engages the ...
Smitt Richard: Richard Smitt
Smitt Richard: Richard Smitt [CD Maxi]
Richard Rose: Richard Rose
Richard Rose: Richard Rose [Vinyl LP]
Pryor Richard: Richard Pryor
Pryor Richard: Richard Pryor [2 Vinyl LP]
Richard Twice: Richard Twice
Richard Twice: Richard Twice [Vinyl LP]
Economics of Justice
Richard A. Posner is probably the leading scholar in the rapidly growing field of the economics of law; he is also an extremely lucid writer. In this book, he applies economic theory to four areas of interest to students of social and legal instit...
Conversations about Sculpture
"The rhythm of the body moving through space has been the motivating source of most of my work."-Richard Serra Drawn from talks between celebrated artist Richard Serra and acclaimed art historian Hal Foster held over a fifteen-year perio...
A Kosher Christmas
Christmas is not everybody's favorite holiday. Historically, Jews in America, whether participating in or refraining from recognizing Christmas, have devised a multitude of unique strategies to respond to the holiday season. Their response is...
Hawley Richard: Coles Corner
Hawley Richard: Coles Corner [Vinyl LP]
Hawley Richard: Coles Corner
Hawley Richard: Coles Corner [2 CD]
Antitrust Law, Second Edition
When it was first published a quarter of a century ago, Richard Posner's exposition and defense of an economic approach to antitrust law was a jeremiad against the intellectual disarray that then characterized the field. As other perspectives on a...
Failure of Capitalism
The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime because of the warp-speed at which it is occurring. How could it have happened, especially after all that we've learned from the Great Depression? Why wasn't...
Divergent Paths
Judges and legal scholars talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics couch their criticisms of judicial decisions in theoretical terms, which leads many judges-at the risk of intellectual stagnation-to dismiss most acad...
Frontiers of Legal Theory
The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studies-the application of the social sciences and the humanities to law in the hope of making law less formalistic, more practical, ...
Law and Literature
Hailed in its first edition as an "outstanding work, as stimulating as it is intellectually distinguished" (New York Times), Law and Literature has handily lived up to the Washington Post's prediction that the book would "remain ess...
Star Wars Art: A Poster Collection (Poster Book)
In the same format and at the same price point as Adventure Time: A Totally Math Poster Collection, this sturdy paperback houses 20 removable, frameable prints of the very best artwork from across the entire George Lucas–curated Star Wars Art series. The 15 selections from Visions, Comics, Illustration, Concept, and Posters are joined by 5 newly commissioned artworks created specifically for this book. These high-quality, large-format, crease-free prints will be sure to transport Star Wars fans of all ages to a galaxy far, far away. . . .
Little Richard: Here's Little Richard
Little Richard: Here's Little Richard [CD]