The essays in Justice offer a fascinating, disturbing, and wry look at the casts of a half dozen high-profile trials, including Lyle and Erik Menendez, who murdered their affluent parents; Marvin Pancoast, who beat the $18,000-a-month mistress of Alfred Bloomingdale to death with a baseball bat; the multibillionaire banker Edmund Safra, who suffocated in his own bunker-like bathroom in Monaco; and the gossiping members of Los Angeles society during "All O.J., All the Time."
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The former LAPD detective and star witness in the O.J. Simpson case tackles another unsolved case of money, power, and fame: the 1975 bludgeoning and stabbing death of Martha Moxley — with no less than Kennedy relatives as the prime suspects. Fuhrman analyzes the case from beginning to end — revealing among other things how local police bungled the initial investigation, how crucial evidence was found and "lost," and how certain authorities tried to hinder the investigation.
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Recent polls indicate that an increasing number of black Americans identify themselves as conservatives, favoring smaller government, lower taxes, tougher crime laws, welfare reform and personal initiative. While applauding the moral and legal victories of the Civil Rights Movement, black conservatives in this dynamic new collection reject what they consider to be the self-serving agenda of the present civil rights establishment.
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Title: African Ceremonies; 2 Volumes
Author: Carol Beckwith, Angela Fisher
Publisher: Abrams, Harry N Inc
Date Published: November 1999
Format: Trade Cloth
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After nearly a decade of research, acclaimed photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have created a monumental two-volume exploration of traditional African rites and rituals. Spanning the continent, Beckwith and Fisher open our eyes to scores of exotic and wondrous ceremonies — many will never be performed again. Overflowing with nearly 850 magnificent color photographs, African Ceremonies is one of the most important works on Africa ever published.
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Neuroscientist and humanist Antonio R. Damasio brings a lifetime of research and a literary gift to the last frontier of brain research — the mystery of consciousness. How is it that we know that we know? How is it that our conscious and private minds have a sense of self? He considers these questions in The Feeling of What Happens.
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Groucho Marx proved that comedy could be raucous, sophisticated, and wildly unexpected -- all at once. Groucho raises the curtain on this icon of twentieth-century cynicism and irreverence in an authoritative, affectionate, and unsparingly honest look behind the cigar.
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