Shadow's Law


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The True Story of a Swedish Detective Inspector Fighting Prostitution Detective inspector Simon Häggström is head of the Stockholm Police Prositution Unit. Everyday, he meets those who inhabit the shadowy underbelly of Stockholm; the prostituted women, and men, who try to keep their business hidden and the punters who at all cost want to avoid being caught. Even though Sweden has a strict anti-prostitution law, business is thriving. Shadow's Law tells the true stories of the people Simon Häggström and his co-workers encounter every day; young girls facing dangers they did not foresee, seven foreign women working and living together in a one bedroom apartement, Lovisa, born into a life of drugs and prostitution, and of course, the men who buy sex. These are their stories as they have never been told before.




Shadow's Law


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The story follows Shawn as he makes his final journey to stop an ancient abomination. It is his life's mission. He has followed the creature to the mining and gambling city of Little Las Vegas. Shawn's only advantage is his innate ability to store luck for later. He believes that he alone has these powers. As he uses these powers more and more, people start to take notice... On the night his lifelong plan is to come to fruition, he is set upon by an organization that has followed the same path of destruction that he has. The karma police. They have been watching him. They know what he can do. They have also been following the trail of dead bodies to Little Las Vegas straight to Shawn. In a moment of insanity, the city falls into chaos. The abomination escapes. Shawn must race against time as the abomination systematically purges the city of evidence. Shawn is beset by enemies on all sides as the police, FBI, monstrosities and the karma police duke it out in the city. Each group in the desert city feels that Shawn is the most likely culprit. Shawn must make alliances and cheat his way to victory against all parties to survive. As his life's work falls apart, he must decide how much he is willing to gamble to go through with his goal.




Until Time Runs Out


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Cappa is born a cripple raised a cripple and dies a cripple many Galaxies away in the Sirrom solar system. In his death he dreams about another being far greater than himself. 5 million years later he finds himself awoken on an alien vessel with the memories of his crippled life but the abilities of the one he has dreamed about for so long. His arrival in the universe does not go unnoticed and he is recognised as Lord Capprona of Grasmere God of time. While his dreams confirm this could he really be a God or is he just a vessel for powers which were never meant for him? He soon finds himself pursued by beings even greater than himself. With only his dreams connecting him to his new abilities he finds himself on the ultimate quest of discovery and survival.




Shadowlaw


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Rictor Caesaro, a soldier in the New Earth Alliance elite corps, kills his commanding officer during a botched riot control mission. He is sentenced to life in the Sanctuary District - a special prison camp located deep in the swamplands of the South. In this dark domain, Rictor uncovers a secret that not only threatens his life, but the fate of the Earth.




The Daily Review


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The Dialectic of Change


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Against the Law


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A fundamental critique of American law and legal thought, Against the Law consists of a series of essays written from three different perspectives that coalesce into a deep criticism of contemporary legal culture. Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, and Steven D. Smith challenge the conventional representations of the legal system that are articulated and defended by American legal scholars. Unorthodox, irreverent, and provocative, Against the Law demonstrates that for many in the legal community, law has become a kind of substitute religion--an essentially idolatrous practice composed of systematic self-misrepresentation and self-deception. Linked by a persistent inquiry into the nature and identity of "the law," these essays are informed by the conviction that the conventional representations of law, both in law schools and the courts, cannot be taken at face value--that the law, as commonly conceived, makes no sense. The authors argue that the relentlessly normative prescriptions of American legal thinkers are frequently futile and, indeed, often pernicious. They also argue that the failure to recognize the role that authorship must play in the production of legal thought plagues both the teaching and the practice of American law. Ranging from the institutional to the psychological and metaphysical deficiencies of the American legal system, the depth of criticism offered by Against the Law is unprecedented. In a departure from the nearly universal legitimating and reformist tendencies of American legal thought, this book will be of interest not only to the legal academics under attack in the book, but also to sociologists, historians, and social theorists. More particularly, it will engage all the American lawyers who suspect that there is something very wrong with the nature and direction of their profession, law students who anticipate becoming part of that profession, and those readers concerned with the status of the American legal system.




Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks


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This volume seeks to explain post-Soviet patchworks, focusing on pathways from the past to the global. It presents the basic results of the research project "Transformation and Globalization", implemented in 1998-2000. Contributors include Gerald Easter, Georgii Kleiner and Nina Oding.




Symposium


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Buffalo Criminal Law Review


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The Buffalo Criminal Law Review is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Buffalo Criminal Law Center at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law. The Review pursues two interrelated objectives: to integrate the study of criminal law by serving as an interdisciplinary and international forum for innovative scholarship on crime and punishment, and to bridge the gap between criminal law scholarship and criminal justice policy by providing legislators, judges, and other criminal justice professionals with in-depth analyses of topical issues in criminal law.