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Until you are dead: Steven Truscott's long ride into history
Par Julian Sher. 2001
In 1959, 14-year-old Steven Truscott was arrested for the murder of 12-year-old Lynne Harper near Clinton, Ontario. Though sentenced to…
death, Truscott's sentence was eventually commuted and he was released ten years later, all the while maintaining his innocence. This account details the case, trial, and Truscott's new appeal to have the case reopened. 2001.Twilight: losing sight, gaining insight
Par Henry A Grunwald. 1999
The author chronicles his experience of macular degeneration, and the daily struggle to overcome its physical and psychological implications, and…
the discovery of what medicine can and cannot do. This is a story not merely about seeing but about living; not merely about losing sight but about gaining insight. 1999.The sun climbs slow: the International Criminal Court and the search for justice
Par Erna Paris. 2009
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first permanent tribunal of its kind, mandated to challenge criminal impunity on the…
part of national leaders and to promote accountability in world affairs. Independent and transnational, its indictments cannot be vetoed in the Security Council. Paris explores the history of global justice, the politics behind America's opposition to the creation of a permanent international criminal court, and the implications for the world at large. Some strong language and explicit descriptions of violence. c2009.The silent game
Par David Stafford. 1988
Stafford compares spy novels to the real world of espionage. With the idea for the CIA's proposed assassination of Fidel…
Castro coming from a novel by William Le Queux, he shows that life imitates art; and, with authors like Graham Greene and John le Carre using their first-hand experiences to write about gentleman spies, shows that art imitates life. 1988.The rights of nature: a legal revolution that could save the world
Par David R Boyd. 2017
Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand's Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings…
of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense import has been building in courtrooms, legislatures, and communities across the globe. Cultures and laws are transforming to provide a powerful new approach to protecting the planet and the species with whom we share it. Lawyers from California to New York are fighting to gain legal rights for chimpanzees and killer whales, and lawmakers are ending the era of keeping these intelligent animals in captivity. In Hawaii and India, judges have recognized that endangered species--from birds to lions--have the legal right to exist. Around the world, more and more laws are being passed recognizing that ecosystems--rivers, forests, mountains, and more--have legally enforceable rights. And if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities. 2017.Herbert Yardley had established America's first codebreaking agency in 1917. His unit was closed in 1929 by Henry Stimson, who…
intoned, "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail." Yardley then wrote a best-selling memoir, "The American Black Chamber", which detailed the exploits of the State Department's Cipher Bureau, and disclosed codemaking and breaking to the public. Some descriptions of sex. 2004.The mystery of Olga Chekhova
Par Antony Beevor. 2004
Russian Olga Chekhova was the niece of playwright Anton Chekhov and a famous Nazi-era film actress who was closely associated…
with Hitler. After fleeing Bolshevik Moscow for Berlin in 1920, she was allegedly recruited by her composer brother Lev to become a Soviet spy - a career she spent her entire postwar life denying. Nevertheless, she ingeniously played powerful figures off against each other to survive the revolution, the war, and Stalin's purges. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2004.The mind's eye
Par Oliver W Sacks. 2010
Neurologist uses case studies to illustrate the brain’s ability to adapt to lost senses. Discusses a concert pianist who can…
no longer read music, a writer who is unable to read print after suffering a stroke, and Sacks’s own macular melanoma and its effects on his visual perception. 2010.The Meinertzhagen mystery: the life and legend of a colossal fraud
Par Brian Garfield. 2007
Tall, handsome, charming Col. Richard Meinertzhagen was an acclaimed British war hero, a secret agent, and a dean of international…
ornithology. He was trusted by Winston Churchill, David Ben Gurion, T. E. Lawrence, and Elspeth Huxley, but he bamboozled them all - Meinertzhagen was a fraud. Many of the adventures recorded in his celebrated diaries were imaginary, he committed a half-century of major and costly scientific fraud, and - oddly - may have been innocent of many killings to which he confessed. Some descriptions of violence. c2007.The master spirit of the age: Canadian engineers and the politics of professionalism, 1887-1922
Par J. Rodney Millard. 1988
Explores the issues that shaped engineers' perception of their work and its place in society. Determined to raise their status,…
schools and societies were organized and, eventually, engineers obtained licensing and regulatory powers. c1988.The man from Odessa
Par Greville Wynne. 1981
Master spy Greville Wynne tells the story of his career as a British secret agent up to the time of…
his trial and imprisonment in the Lubyanka over the Penkovsky affair, and following his exchange for top Russian spy Gordon Lonsdale. 1981.The making of a country lawyer: An Autobiography
Par Gerry Spence. 1996
Chronicles Spence's first forty years, before he gained fame for winning a multimillion-dollar verdict on behalf of the dead plutonium…
worker Karen Silkwood. Tells of his mother's suicide when Spence was ten, his own alcoholism, and his affair with the woman who became his second wife. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1996.The lost spy: an American in Stalin's secret service
Par Andrew Meier. 2008
A brilliant Columbia University graduate, Isaiah Oggins went to Berlin to establish a safe house and spy for his country…
- but he turned coat. Working for the Soviets, he was nevertheless poisoned in 1947 on Stalin's orders. 2008.Describes the exploration of the Libyan desert in the 1920s and 1930s, which is also the story behind the novel…
"The English Patient" (DC11460). In 1939 the group known as the Zerzura Club split allegiances: Englishman Ralph Bagnold formed the Long Range Desert Group of patrols that gathered intelligence and generally bedeviled Italian and German troops, while Hungarian Count Ladislaus Almasy led the German equivalent of the LRDG. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.The law of the land: a history of the Supreme Court (The modern scholar)
Par Kermit Hall. 2003
Utah State University professor, Kermit L. Hall delivers a course that explores the Supreme Court as a living, breathing institution.…
Listeners will come to know the court through a thorough study of its most significant decisions. 2003.The implosion conspiracy
Par Louis Nizer. 1973
You can't do that in Canada!: crazy laws from coast to coast
Par Beverley Spencer. 2000
You may not think twice about giving someone a hug in Wawa in public on a Sunday afternoon - until…
an officer of the law gets involved! And we know you usually enjoy wearing your snake outdoors in New Brunswick, but it's illegal, as is carrying your pet lizard around on your shoulder. This book contains over 200 crazy Canadian laws from coast to coast. Grades 3-6. 2000.Lamia, l'anti-barbouze
Par Philippe-L. Thyraud De Vosjoli. 1972
Le 18 octobre '63, Lamia, agent secret, envoie sa démission au General de Gaulle. Convaincu de l'infiltration soviétique au sein…
du cabinet français, désavoue par son propre gouvernement, il n'a pas d'autre choix que d'agir en solitaire. 1972.Carve her name with pride
Par R. J. Rubeigh James Minney. 1956
Violette Bushell was the daughter of an English father and a French mother. An ordinary London shop assistant before the…
Second World War, she undertook the exacting training for a war-time secret agent. Married in 1940 to Etienne Szabo, she was twice sent to Occupied France: the second time she did not return. A fellow agent tells the story of her Resistance work, her capture by the Gestapo and the award of her George Cross to her daughter, Tania. 1956.Manhunt
Par Peter Maas. 1986
True story of Edwin Wilson, a CIA agent run amok, who used his knowledge of espionage to gain a fortune.…
Responsible for suppyling the Libyan terrorist machine with weapons, he became the focus of a federal investigation. Strong language. Bestseller. 1986.