Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise re...

In the 1990s the tiny South Pacific nation of the Solomon Islands was gripped by a bloody and violent civil war. At the turn of the century the Australian government brokered two peace agreements; however a small splinter group refused to lay down...

For as long as accuser and accused have faced each other in public, criminal trials have been establishing far more than who did what to whom–and in this fascinating book, Sadakat Kadri surveys four thousand years of courtroom drama. A bri...

Danger Road chronicles the incredible true story of three drug dealers who were brutally murdered in 1983 on Danger Road in the Florida Everglades. Lured into a phony drug deal each victim hoped would be his big retirement score, they allegedly fo...

"You're a dead man, Carnini." John Carnini didn't see who made the threat. Surrounded by a noisy excited crowd, he tried to avoid the cameras as he walked down the steps of the Criminal Court in Lower Manhattan. His police escorts stayed close to...

On June 28, 1972 in a South Bronx subway station, John Skagen, a white off-duty policeman on his way home, suddenly and without apparent provocation, ordered James Richardson, a black man on his way to work, to get against the wall and put his han...

Unlike other trial advocacy books that teach what to say and do in the courtroom, this reference teaches how to say and do it. Based on 25 years of experience from coaching practitioners, this handbook reveals techniques—incorporating c...

Synopsis: In the 1970s, Captain Doug Olsen's airplane crashed before landing at Chicago O'Hare Airport and investigations concluded it was pilot error. In author Hugh Bowen's riveting book, Why?, the crash, the survivors, and the investigations a...