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Debt, Seduction, and Other Disasters

The Birth of Civil Law in Convict New South Wales

By: Bruce Kercher

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Debt, Seduction, and Other Disasters

The Birth of Civil Law in Convict New South Wales

By: Bruce Kercher

Based on a detailed study of Australia's earliest civil court records - a million handwritten words about daily life and trade - Debt, Seduction and Other Disasters covers the turbulent years in the penal colony. This was a period when starvation was barely averted, emancipated convicts contended with one another to become wealthy through trade, and Aborigines fought for their land. Soldiers and governors struggled for power, culminating in the overthrow of Governor Bligh, the only military coup on Australian soil. In this important and entertaining book, Kercher: shows the remarkable egalitarianism of life in the colony, even for serving convicts and married women discusses the invention and legal consequences of tickets of leave and the central role of law in creating the local version of freedom reveals details of daily social and economic life unavailable elsewhere: the seduction cases and sexual scandals; details of the wheat farm at Woolloomooloo; the problems of the grain growers at the Hawkesbury provides unique information about working conditions of: convicts the seal killers in New Zealand and Macquarie Island sailors the very few Aborigines who worked alongside Europeans details:the first case in Australia in which an Aborigine sued (he lost) the first recorded sale of a wife (at Windsor in 1811; sale void) the case in which Mary Reibey was alleged to have blown up the bakery next door (she won) the sharp practices of Tommy the Banker, Dick the Needle and the petty bankers who deliberately wrote their documents in fading ink describes the lives of the convict women who lived with officers but were abandoned explodes the myth that rum was a major currency and explains the use of alternative currencies, such as wheat, and establishes the crucial role of pigs in town life.

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Federation Press

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1862872007

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9781862872004

An Unruly Child

A history of law in Australia

By: Bruce Kercher

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An Unruly Child

A history of law in Australia

By: Bruce Kercher

This is a provocative re-examination of our legal history appearing at a time when Australians are reconsidering both their past and their future.' - The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG, President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal The imperial view of Australian law was that it was a weak derivative of English law. In An Unruly Child, Bruce Kercher rewrites history. He reveals that since 1788 there has been a contest between the received legal wisdom of Mother England and her sometimes unruly offspring. The resulting law often suited local interests, but was not always more just. Kercher also shows that law has played a major role in Australian social history. From the convict settlements and the Eureka stockade in the early years to the Harvester Judgement, the White Australia Policy and most recently the Mabo case, central themes of Australian history have been framed by the legal system. An Unruly Child is a groundbreaking work which will influence our understanding of Australia's history and its legal system.

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Routledge

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100024847X

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Consumer Debt Recovery Law

By: Bruce Kercher,Richard Brading,Betty Weule

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Consumer Debt Recovery Law

By: Bruce Kercher,Richard Brading,Betty Weule

This book examines the law and practice of debt recovery from consumers in Australia. It is the second edition of Australian Debt Recovery Law which was published in 1990. The new edition is updated to meet changes to the law in the past decade, but more than that it now has three authors from three quite different backgrounds. The academic author of the first edition, Bruce Kercher has been joined by one of Australia's leading financial counsellors, Betty Weule and by the principal solicitor of the Wesley Legal Centre (which concentrates on consumer credit issues), Richard Brading. It is stronger in its focus on the actual practice of debt recovery law, while retaining its statement of the law and its historical analysis and arguments for legal change. An early chapter considers debt recovery outside the courts, including an analysis of the law governing the constant problem of harassment. It then moves through the various stages of obtaining judgments, presenting defences and enforcement of judgments. The book concludes with a new chapter on bankruptcy law. The principal aim is to present the law concisely, accurately and with as little legal jargon as possible, while also showing how the law is used as a tool of bargaining and threats.

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Federation Press

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1862874077

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Colonial Religion

Conflict and Change in Church and State

By: Bruce Kaye

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Colonial Religion

Conflict and Change in Church and State

By: Bruce Kaye

This book contains a series of essays based on previously published articles but all revised and updated. One on the founding of the university of Sydney has been totally re-written. They deal with the cultural and political tsunami that swept over the British empire and especially the colonies in Australia in the middle of the nineteenth century. The effects on those changes continue to this day for both church and state. The recent debates on marriage and religious freedom have about them the marks of these nineteenth century changes. Not all is simple continuity. State aid for independent schools initiated by Robert Menzies but carried to enormous lengths by his successors to this day actually turned the nineteenth century resolution totally on its head. The issues in these essays turn of the collapse of the English Christendom version of church state relations. The implications of that long running change are still central to the stuttering re-thinking by Anglicans of what it means to be a church in Australia in the twenty first century. That struggle has its analogues in the broader culture and nation as it tries to find a way to be Australia.

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ATF Press

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1925612945

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Injustice in Perugia

A Book Detailing the Wrongful Conviction of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito

By: Bruce Fisher

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Injustice in Perugia

A Book Detailing the Wrongful Conviction of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito

By: Bruce Fisher

Meredith Kercher was murdered on November 1, 2007 in Perugia, Italy. Three people have been tried and convicted for her murder; Rudy Guede, Amanda Knox, and Raffaele Sollecito.This book was written with one objective in mind; to provide the honest truth about this case. When you silence the noise of the media spin and focus on the actual facts, you will clearly see that Amanda and Raffaele had nothing to do with this crime. All credible evidence points to one man; Rudy Guede.If you are looking for a suspenseful mystery with a surprise ending, this is not the book for you. I certainly don't view this case as a mystery. I believe the truth is clear for anyone who is willing to see it. Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito have been wrongfully convicted.This was a horrible murder, but not a complicated one. Rudy Guede attacked and murdered Meredith Kercher, and he acted alone. This case became complicated when two innocent people were accused and convicted of murder. Wrongful convictions create additional victims. Amanda and Raffaele are victims. They have been incarcerated for a crime they did not commit. They have gained unwanted fame from this injustice that will have to be dealt with for the rest of their lives.This book is the result of the hard work of many people. Extensive research has been done to fulfill my commitment of providing you with the honest truth about this case. Resources include independent scientist's opinions regarding DNA evidence, hours of crime scene video, hundreds of crime scene photographs, presentations given by both sides in court, the court's motivation document, appeals filed by both defense teams, Amanda's email home, and diary excerpts of the accused. Information detailing the physical evidence is based on expert opinion from contributors to Injustice in Perugia, along with actual expert testimony that was presented in court.Injustice in Perugia is an independent grassroots organization working to correct the injustice committed against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. This group will not rest until Amanda and Raffaele are fully exonerated and back home with their families.

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Bruce Fisher

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1453736697

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TVA and the Tellico Dam

A Bureaucratic Crisis

By: William Bruce Wheeler,Michael J. McDonald

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TVA and the Tellico Dam

A Bureaucratic Crisis

By: William Bruce Wheeler,Michael J. McDonald

This is a study of TVA management of Tellico Dam. Part of the ambitious New Deal project to bring modernity to Appalachia, TVA planning was far-reaching, often far-sighted, but also controversial, involving mass migration of people from their ancestral homes and threats to species, like the snail darter.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572333707

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Empire of Political Thought

Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government

By: Bruce Buchan

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Empire of Political Thought

Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government

By: Bruce Buchan

A book about how European colonists in Australia represented the Indigenous peoples they found there, and the tasks of governing them within the terms of Western political thought. It emphasises how the framework of ideas drawn from the traditions of Western political thought was employed in the imperial government of Indigenous peoples.

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Routledge

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1317314646

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Carceral Afterlives

Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda

By: Katherine Bruce-Lockhart

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Carceral Afterlives

Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda

By: Katherine Bruce-Lockhart

Drawing upon social history, political history, and critical prison studies, this book analyzes how prisons and other instruments of colonial punishment endured after independence and challenges their continued existence. In Carceral Afterlives, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart traces the politics, practices, and lived experiences of incarceration in postcolonial Uganda, focusing on the period between independence in 1962 and the beginning of Yoweri Museveni’s presidency in 1986. During these decades, Ugandans experienced multiple changes of government, widespread state violence, and war, all of which affected the government’s approach to punishment. Bruce-Lockhart analyzes the relationship between the prison system and other sites of confinement—including informal detention spaces known as “safe houses” and wartime camps—and considers other forms of punishment, such as public executions and “disappearance” by state paramilitary organizations. Through archival and personal collections, interviews with Ugandans who lived through these decades, and a range of media sources and memoirs, Bruce-Lockhart examines how carceral systems were imagined and experienced by Ugandans held within, working for, or impacted by them. She shows how Uganda’s postcolonial leaders, especially Milton Obote and Idi Amin, attempted to harness the symbolic, material, and coercive power of prisons in the pursuit of a range of political agendas. She also examines the day-to-day realities of penal spaces and public perceptions of punishment by tracing the experiences of Ugandans who were incarcerated, their family members and friends, prison officers, and other government employees. Furthermore, she shows how the carceral arena was an important site of dissent, examining how those inside and outside of prisons and other spaces of captivity challenged the state’s violent punitive tactics. Using Uganda as a case study, Carceral Afterlives emphasizes how prisons and the wider use of confinement—both as a punishment and as a vehicle for other modes of punishment—remain central to state power in the Global South and North. While scholars have closely analyzed the prison’s expansion through colonial rule and the rise of mass incarceration in the United States, they have largely taken for granted its postcolonial persistence. In contrast, Bruce-Lockhart demonstrates how the prison’s transition from a colonial to a postcolonial institution explains its ubiquity and reveals ways to critique and challenge its ongoing existence. The book thus explores broader questions about the unfinished work of decolonization, the relationship between incarceration and struggles for freedom, and the prison’s enduring yet increasingly contested place in our global institutional landscape.

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Ohio University Press

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0821447742

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9780821447741

Resort Destinations

By: Bruce Prideaux

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Resort Destinations

By: Bruce Prideaux

Destination management and resort development and planning are strong core areas in the final year of most undergraduate degrees and a popular area of study at postgraduate level. Using original case studies based on his own research, Resort Destinations uses examples from Australia's Gold Coast, Britain's Brighton, USA's Las Vegas, as well as Hong Kong, New Zealand and the Caribbean.

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Routledge

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1136436081

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Introduction to Forensic Psychology

Court, Law Enforcement, and Correctional Practices

By: Stacey L. Shipley,Bruce A. Arrigo

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Introduction to Forensic Psychology

Court, Law Enforcement, and Correctional Practices

By: Stacey L. Shipley,Bruce A. Arrigo

This edition of Introduction to Forensic Psychology has been completely restructured to map to how courses on forensic psychology are taught, and features more figures, tables, and text boxes, textbook pedagogy. Uniquely. this book offers equal representation of criminal behavior, the court systems, and law enforcement/prisons. It also has equal representation of criminal and civic forensics and of issues pertaining to adults and children. new coverage of emerging issues in forensic psychology expanded case illustrations and vignettes, practice and ethics updates, and international trends new "key issue" overviews, boldface terms and concepts, and chapter reviews expanded coverage of corrections for juveniles.

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Academic Press

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012382169X

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9780123821690

Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences

By: Bruce M. King,Patrick J. Rosopa,Edward W. Minium

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Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences

By: Bruce M. King,Patrick J. Rosopa,Edward W. Minium

Cited by more than 300 scholars, Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences continues to provide streamlined resources and easy-to-understand information on statistics in the behavioral sciences and related fields, including psychology, education, human resources management, and sociology. Students and professionals in the behavioral sciences will develop an understanding of statistical logic and procedures, the properties of statistical devices, and the importance of the assumptions underlying statistical tools. This revised and updated edition continues to follow the recommendations of the APA Task Force on Statistical Inference and greatly expands the information on testing hypotheses about single means. The Seventh Edition moves from a focus on the use of computers in statistics to a more precise look at statistical software. The “Point of Controversy” feature embedded throughout the text provides current discussions of exciting and hotly debated topics in the field. Readers will appreciate how the comprehensive graphs, tables, cartoons and photographs lend vibrancy to all of the material covered in the text.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119379733

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9781119379737

Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England

A Cultural Poetics

By: Bruce R. Smith

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Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England

A Cultural Poetics

By: Bruce R. Smith

In the most comprehensive study yet of homosexuality in the English Renaissance, Bruce R. Smith examines and rejects the assessments of homosexual acts in moral philosophy, laws, and medical books in favor of a poetics of homosexual desire. Smith isolates six different "myths" from classical literature and discusses each in relation to a particular Renaissance literary genre and to a particular part of the social structure of early modern England. Smith's new Preface places his work in the context of the continuing controversies in gay, lesbian, and bisexual studies. "The best single analysis of the homoerotic element in Renaissance English literature."—Keith Thomas, New York Review of Books "Smith's lucid and subtle book offer[s] a poetics of homosexual desire. . . . Its scholarship, impressively broad and deftly deployed, aims to further a serious social purpose: the redemptive location of homosexual desire in history and the recuperation for our own time, through an understanding of its discursive embodiments, of that desire's changing imperatives and parameters."—Terence Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement "The great strength of Bruce Smith's book is that it does not sidestep the complex challenge of engaging in the sexual politics of the present while attending to the resistant discourses and practices of Renaissance England. Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England demonstrates how a commitment to the present opens up our understanding of the past."—Peter Stallybrass, Shakespeare Quarterly "A major contribution to the understanding of homosexuality in Renaissance England and by far the best and most comprehensive account yet offered of the homoeroticism that suffuses Renaissance literature."—Claude J. Summers, Journal of Homosexuality

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University of Chicago Press

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0226763668

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9780226763668

The Acoustic World of Early Modern England

Attending to the O-Factor

By: Bruce R. Smith

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The Acoustic World of Early Modern England

Attending to the O-Factor

By: Bruce R. Smith

Journeying into the sound-worlds of Shakespeare's contemporaries, this text explores the physical aspects of human speech and the surrounding environment, as well as social and political structures.

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0226763773

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9780226763774

Mechanisms of Transcription

By: Bruce Stillman,Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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Mechanisms of Transcription

By: Bruce Stillman,Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Proceedings of a summer 1998 meeting, presenting results of recent studies in gene transcription. Covers events ranging from activation, through promoter recognition, repression, chromosome structure, chromatin remodeling, initiation and elongation, and regulatory complexes and pathways. Subjects include targeting sir proteins to sites of action, the yeast RNA polymerase III transcription machinery, nuclear matrix attachment regions to confer long-range function on immunoglobulin, ATP-dependent remodeling of chromatin, and the transcriptional basis of steroid physiology. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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CSHL Press

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0879695501

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Outsiders

Tales from the Supreme Court of NSW, 1824-1836

By: Bruce Kercher

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Outsiders

Tales from the Supreme Court of NSW, 1824-1836

By: Bruce Kercher

The best stories of life in the penal colony of New South Wales were told in its Supreme Court. The court was the theatre where dramatic happenings were related - piracy at sea, Aboriginal spears meeting British guns, escaped convicts, gun battles with bushrangers, teenage girls seduced by their neighbours. The most compelling of these stories, between 1824 and 1836, are retold in this book. The author deals in particular with the law's outsiders, including those who had limited legal capacity: wives, convicts and Aborigines.

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Arcadia

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1740971248

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9781740971249

The Dowling Legacy

Foundations of an Australian Legal Culture 1828-1844

By: Timothy David Castle,Bruce Kercher

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The Dowling Legacy

Foundations of an Australian Legal Culture 1828-1844

By: Timothy David Castle,Bruce Kercher

This publication is a revised, edited transcript of the 2004 Forbes Lecture. The subject of the lecture was Sir James Dowling, Second Chief Justice of New South Wales, and the Supreme Court under his stewardship, and was given in two parts. T. D. Castle focuses on Dowling's time in the Supreme Court and his contribution to the development of Australian legal culture, illustrated by case examples. Bruce Kercher examines the challenges Dowling faced in adapting English law to the new colony, in particular regarding a person's legal status as an Aborigine, convict or free subject of the King.

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0975110349

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Debt, Seduction, and Other Disasters

The Birth of Civil Law in Convict New South Wales

By: Bruce Kercher

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Debt, Seduction, and Other Disasters

The Birth of Civil Law in Convict New South Wales

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Federation Press

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1862872007

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Consumer Debt Recovery Law

By: Bruce Kercher,Richard Brading,Betty Weule

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Consumer Debt Recovery Law

By: Bruce Kercher,Richard Brading,Betty Weule

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Federation Press

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1862874077

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Remedies

Commentary and Materials

By: Michael Tilbury,Michael Noone,Bruce Kercher

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Remedies

Commentary and Materials

By: Michael Tilbury,Michael Noone,Bruce Kercher

Second edition of a text which explains the nature and procedural requirements of the many types of relief available under the law. Includes chapters on damages, injunctions and enforcement of remedies. Material in this edition has been reordered and there are two new chapters dealing with remedies available outside the raditional legal forms - alternative dispute resolution and self-help remedies. Includes tables of cases and statutes and an index. Published simultaneously in hardback.

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Lawbook Company

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0455211582

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9780455211589

Injustice in Perugia

A Book Detailing the Wrongful Conviction of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito

By: Bruce Fisher

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A Book Detailing the Wrongful Conviction of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito

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