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The Far Side of the Moon

Trials of My Father

By: Clive Stafford Smith

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The Far Side of the Moon

Trials of My Father

By: Clive Stafford Smith

[A] vivid, inquiring memoir... A properly soul-searching book' - Tim Adams, Observer As one of our leading campaigners for justice, human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has spent a lifetime getting to know his clients - from detainees in Guantánamo Bay to prisoners facing execution on Death Row - and finding out, in his own words, 'what makes them tick'. But for much of his life, closer to home, there was a man whose mind remained off limits: his own father. It was only years after Dick's death, when Clive inherited more than 3,000 of his letters, that he could finally take a breath and start to piece together the obsessive personality behind them. In The Far Side of the Moon, Stafford Smith seeks the broad conversation about mental illness that was not accessible in his earlier years, reflecting on his father's fragmented life together with that of Larry Lonchar, a client who also struggled with severe depression, and whose fate continues to preoccupy him. Following the critically acclaimed Injustice, this courageous new book is an indictment of the failures in our social and justice systems, a meditation on privilege and its consequences, and an intimate exploration of how the mind's hinterlands can impact a family and shape a life.

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Random House

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1473573459

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9781473573451

Injustice

Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America

By: Clive Stafford Smith

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Injustice

Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America

By: Clive Stafford Smith

Shortlisted for the 2013 Orwell Prize. THE STORY CONTINUES: TWO NEW CHAPTERS FOR THE PAPERBACK EDITION In 1986, Kris Maharaj, a British businessman living in Miami, was arrested for the brutal murder of two ex-business associates. His lawyer did not present a strong alibi; Kris was found guilty and sentenced to death in the electric chair. It wasn't until a young lawyer working for nothing, Clive Stafford Smith, took on his case that strong evidence began to emerge that the state of Florida had got the wrong man on Death Row. So far, so good - except that, as Stafford Smith argues here so compellingly, the American justice system is actually designed to ignore innocence. Twenty-six years later, Maharaj is still in jail. Step by step, Stafford Smith untangles the Maharaj case and the system that makes disasters like this inevitable. His conclusions will act as a wake-up call for those who condone legislation which threatens basic human rights and, at the same time, the personal story he tells demonstrates that determination can challenge the institutions that surreptitiously threaten our freedom.

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323

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Random House

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1448113105

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9781448113101

Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side

Seeking Justice In Guantanamo Bay

By: Clive Stafford Smith

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Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side

Seeking Justice In Guantanamo Bay

By: Clive Stafford Smith

Every time human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith lands in Cuba, he takes the eight o'clock ferry to the windward side; his journey ends at Guantámo Bay. One of the few people in the world who has ongoing independent access to the prison, Smith reveals the grotesque injustices that are perpetrated there in the name of national security -- including the justifications created to legitimate the use of torture and the bureaucratic structures that have been put in place to shield prison authorities from legal accountability. By bearing witness to the stories of the forty prisoners that he represents, Smith asks us to consider what is done to American democracy when the rule of law is jettisoned in the name of combating terrorism.

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Bold Type Books

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0786727489

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9780786727483

The Injustice System

A Murder in Miami and a Trial Gone Wrong

By: Clive Stafford Smith

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The Injustice System

A Murder in Miami and a Trial Gone Wrong

By: Clive Stafford Smith

An Atlantic Book of the Year and finalist for the Orwell Prize: a riveting true crime tale from the defense attorney who inspired John Grisham’s The Chamber Legendary criminal defense attorney Clive Stafford Smith has devoted his career to helping save penniless defendants from a justice system whose goal is not so much to find the right man as to get a conviction. Miami, 1986. Kris Maharaj is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for the brutal murder of his ex–business partner, Derrick Moo Young, and Derrick’s son, Duane. Suspecting Kris may be innocent, as he claims, Stafford Smith begins his own investigation, which takes him from Miami to Nassau in the Bahamas to Colombia in search of the real killer. Interweaving the author’s inspiring personal story with a spellbinding page-turner, The Injustice System exposes our broken legal process—and drops a bombshell that should reopen a long-closed case.

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Penguin

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0143124161

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9780143124160

The Injustice System

A Murder in Miami and a Trial Gone Wrong

By: Clive Stafford Smith

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A Murder in Miami and a Trial Gone Wrong

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Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side

Seeking Justice In Guantanamo Bay

By: Clive Stafford Smith

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Seeking Justice In Guantanamo Bay

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Analytical Estimates of Structural Behavior

By: Clive L. Dym,Harry E. Williams

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Analytical Estimates of Structural Behavior

By: Clive L. Dym,Harry E. Williams

Explicitly reintroducing the idea of modeling to the analysis of structures, Analytical Estimates of Structural Behavior presents an integrated approach to modeling and estimating the behavior of structures. With the increasing reliance on computer-based approaches in structural analysis, it is becoming even more important for structural engineers to recognize that they are dealing with models of structures, not with the actual structures. As tempting as it is to run innumerable simulations, closed-form estimates can be effectively used to guide and check numerical results, and to confirm physical insights and intuitions. Spend Less Time Generating Numbers, and More Time Understanding What They Mean This book encourages readers to think about structures and their models in a way that is rooted in classic elementary elasticity—depending less on advanced mathematical techniques and more on the dimensions and magnitudes of the underlying physics. The authors stretch the mold, emphasizing and more explicitly describing the modeling process. The focus is on learning which calculations to perform and how to validate and interpret the results—skills that will be increasingly useful for professional engineers. Chapters cover: Key principles and techniques of mathematical modeling, including dimensional analysis, scaling, linearity, and balance and conservation laws Basic structural models How to develop and express physical intuition How to track the behavior of arches under lateral load Two methods of analyzing coupled discrete systems—Castigliano’s theorems and Rayleigh’s quotient—to lay a foundation for their application to continuous systems How to derive simple, accurate estimates of the transverse displacements of structures modeled in terms of coupled Timoshenko beams How to analyze the dimensional behavior and calculate numerical values of fundamental frequencies of structures modeled in terms of Euler-Bernoulli, Timoshenko, and coupled-beam systems Taking a unique approach, Analytical Estimates of Structural Behavior is suitable for advanced undergraduates, as well as graduate students and practitioners, who want to spend less time and effort generating numbers, and more time understanding what those numbers mean.

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CRC Press

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1439870896

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9781439870891

Requiem for a Species

By: Clive Hamilton

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Requiem for a Species

By: Clive Hamilton

This book does not set out once more to raise the alarm to encourage us to take radical measures to head off climate chaos. There have been any number of books and reports in recent years explaining just how dire the future looks and how little time we have left to act. This book is about why we have ignored those warnings, and why it is now too late. It is a book about the frailties of the human species as expressed in both the institutions we built and the psychological dispositions that have led us on the path of self-destruction. It is about our strange obsessions, our hubris, and our penchant for avoiding the facts. It is the story of a battle within us between the forces that should have caused us to protect the Earth - our capacity to reason and our connection to Nature - and those that, in the end, have won out - our greed, materialism and alienation from Nature. And it is about the 21st century consequences of these failures. Clive Hamilton is author of the bestselling Affluenza and Growth Fetish, of Scorcher, and most recently Freedom Paradox.

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301

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Routledge

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1849774986

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9781849774987

English File 4E Intermediate Plus Student Book

By: Christina Latham-Koenig,Clive Oxenden,Kate Chomacki,Jerry Lambert

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English File 4E Intermediate Plus Student Book

By: Christina Latham-Koenig,Clive Oxenden,Kate Chomacki,Jerry Lambert

English File's unique, lively and enjoyable lessons are renowned for getting students talking. In fact, 90% of English File teachers we surveyed in our impact study found that the course improves students' speaking skills.

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Oxford University Press

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0194836533

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9780194836531

Book's by Clive Stafford Smith

The Far Side of the Moon

The Far Side of the Moon

Injustice

Injustice

Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side

Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side

The Injustice System

The Injustice System

The Injustice System

The Injustice System

Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side

Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side

Analytical Estimates of Structural Behavior

Analytical Estimates of Structural Behavior

Requiem for a Species

Requiem for a Species

English File 4E Intermediate Plus Student Book

English File 4E Intermediate Plus Student Book

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