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  • The Doraleh Disputes

    Infrastructure Politics in The Global South

    by Benjamin Barton ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on underexploited data drawn from various legal disputes over the Doraleh Container Terminal in order to paint a portrait of SSC when it comes to infrastructure financing and construction in Africa as provided both by the UAE and China. By producing a detailed account of the drivers behind these disputes as well as the broader political outcomes they have generated, this study ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • China and the European Union in Africa

    Partners or Competitors?

    by Benjamin Barton ...
    China's rise on the international scene over the past few years has correlated with its exponential economic growth. The European Union (EU), the world's largest development aid provider, has been feeling the heat of Beijing's closer ties with Africa. As a result, the EU's overall policy-making towards Africa has suffered from a loss of credibility and this has been further exposed both by the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Political Trust and the Politics of Security Engagement

    China and the European Union in Africa

    by Benjamin Barton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations
    The EU and China are often characterised as parties whose bilateral political differences still remain too large to bridge, so that they have failed to convert rhetorical promises into tangible results of cooperation, particularly with regards to the field of international security. Yet in terms of their bilateral interaction on security risk management in Africa; EU and Chinese naval officers ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Credentialed Court

    Inside the Cloistered, Elite Supreme Court

    by Benjamin H. Barton ...
    The Credentialed Court starts by establishing just how different today’s Justices are from their predecessors. The book combines two massive empirical studies of every Justice’s background from John Jay to Amy Coney Barrett with short, readable bios of past greats to demonstrate that today’s Justices arrive on the Court with much narrower experiences than they once did. Today’s Justices have spent ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Rebooting Justice

    More Technology, Fewer Lawyers, and the Future of Law

    by Benjamin H. Barton, Stephanos Bibas ...
    America is a nation founded on justice and the rule of law. But our laws are too complex, and legal advice too expensive, for poor and even middle-class Americans to get help and vindicate their rights. Criminal defendants facing jail time may receive an appointed lawyer who is juggling hundreds of cases and immediately urges them to plead guilty. Civil litigants are even worse off; usually, they ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief

    A Novel

    by Benjamin Stevenson ...
    Narrated by Barton Welch ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - The Ernest Cunningham Mysteries

    Unabridged

    9 hours 51 min

    With the same razor-sharp wit and self-aware charm that captivated readers in Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone and Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect, Ernest Cunningham returns as your delightfully unreliable narrator in Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief. Bringing this story to life, Barton Welch once again delivers a masterful performance, earning the same acclaim that made his narration ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Glass Half Full

    The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession

    by Benjamin H. Barton ...
    The hits keep coming for the American legal profession. Law schools are churning out too many graduates, depressing wages, and constricting the hiring market. Big Law firms are crumbling, as the relentless pursuit of profits corrodes their core business model. Modern technology can now handle routine legal tasks like drafting incorporation papers and wills, reducing the need to hire lawyers; tort ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Fixing Law Schools

    From Collapse to the Trump Bump and Beyond

    by Benjamin H. Barton ...
    An urgent plea for much needed reforms to legal educationThe period from 2008 to 2018 was a lost decade for American law schools. Employment results were terrible. Applications and enrollment cratered. Revenue dropped precipitously and several law schools closed. Almost all law schools shrank in terms of students, faculty, and staff. A handful of schools even closed. Despite these dismal results, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Legal System

    by Benjamin H. Barton ...
    Virtually all American judges are former lawyers. This book argues that these lawyer-judges instinctively favor the legal profession in their decisions and that this bias has far-reaching and deleterious effects on American law. There are many reasons for this bias, some obvious and some subtle. Fundamentally, it occurs because - regardless of political affiliation, race, or gender - every ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

    A Novel

    by Benjamin Stevenson ...
    Narrated by Barton Welch ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Ernest Cunningham Mysteries

    Unabridged

    9 hours 30 min

    Knives Out and Clue meet Agatha Christie and The Thursday Murder Club in this “utterly original” (Jane Harper), “not to be missed” (Karin Slaughter), fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murder mystery.“A witty twist on classic whodunits… Stevenson not only 'plays fair,' he plays the mystery game very, very well.” -- Maureen Corrigan, Washington PostEveryone in my family has killed ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret

    A Festive Mystery

    by Benjamin Stevenson ...
    Narrated by Barton Welch ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - The Ernest Cunningham Mysteries

    Unabridged

    5 hours 2 min

    Benjamin Stevenson returns with a Christmas addition to his bestselling, “deviously good fun” (Nita Prose), Ernest Cunningham mysteries. Unwrap all the Christmas staples: presents, family, an impossible murder or two, and a deadly advent calendar of clues. If Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe.My name’s Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

    A Novel

    by Benjamin Stevenson ...
    Narrated by Barton Welch, Megan Smart ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Ernest Cunningham Mysteries

    Unabridged

    8 hours 27 min

    From the bestselling author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, a fiendishly fun locked room (train) murder mystery in the spirit of Murder on the Orient Express. With Ernest Cunningham, “Stevenson has brought a modern-day Poirot to the mystery scene”(Michelle Carpenter).When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook