In Chambers

Written by former law clerks, legal scholars, biographers, historians, and political scientists, the essays inIn Chambers tell the fascinating story of clerking at the Supreme Court. In addition to re

The Supreme Court operates as nine separate law firms, with each justice hiring his or her own staff, including clerks, who are usually recent law school graduates. This collection of memoir essays by

Sheppard (law, Mercer U.) provides advice to prospective judicial clerks (and unpaid externs performing essentially the same tasks) on the basics of what they will be expected to know and do while wor

In Eisner-nominated Fumi Yoshinaga’s alternative history of Edo-era Japan, the men of Japan are dying out, and the women have taken up the reigns of power—including the shogun’s seat!In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the shogun's Inner Chamber...Young Iemochi’s new consort harbors a secret so scandalous that the shogunate must become involved in the deception or risk a further erosion of power. And with the dual threats of foreign incursion and imperial obstruction, Iemochi and her closest advisers have no choice but to play the dangerous new game set before them.

To have her fiance cleared of the murder charge hanging over his head, Lady Evelyn Darlington, whose first love is the law, makes a devil's bargain with Jack Harding, London's top barrister and the ma

Step into the world of Oswald Chambers with this pictorial keepsake highlighting photographs of the people and things in his life, along with personal correspondence and extracts from his books. A cen

In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five perc

French scientists Besnier (Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications, Rennes) and Demoulin (emeritus, U. of Lille) describe chambers designed to echo electromagnetic radiation in order to measur

Chambers County, created in 1832, embraces the southernmost hills and streams of the Piedmont Plateau and sections of the Chattahoochee River to the east and the Tallapoosa River to the west. Cotton c

Chambers Slang Dictionary is a brand-new edition of Jonathon Green's magisterial slang dictionary, first published in 1998. Covering the full range of slang over five centuries and from all parts of t

Legislative second chambers are very much the junior partner to their first chambers, with less power and influence within the political systems they exist in, and many observers over the past century

From New York Times bestseller Kate Mosse comes an epic story of love, loss, and war. The Burning Chambers is the first in a gripping new series and a #1 Sunday Times bestseller."For fans of juicy his

The deeply flawed but intrepid Laura Chambers, from the “dark and vivid rabbit hole” (David Bell) of a thriller Last Girl Gone, finds herself lost in the deadly webs of small town secrets as she hunts

In Eisner-nominated Fumi Yoshinaga’s alternative history of Edo-era Japan, the men of Japan are dying out, and the women have taken up the reigns of power—including the shogun’s seat

This book examines the creation and operation of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), which is a hybrid domestic/international tribunal tasked with putting senior leaders of th

An all-new kaleidoscopic zombie horror from the creator of Dance in the Vampire Bund!A girl with prosthetic limbs and a tragic past wanders a zombie-ridden 23rd century earth now known as Death’s Amus

This Companion is a one-stop reference resource on the Phnom Penh based ‘Khmer Rouge tribunal'. It serves as an introduction to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, while also explori

The sixth book in the James Runcie's much-loved series, adapted for ITV's Grantchester which stars James Norton as Sidney Chambers. Perfect for fans of M. C. Beaton. Life is never straightforward when

An all-new kaleidoscopic zombie horror from the creator of Dance in the Vampire Bund!A girl with prosthetic limbs and a tragic past wanders a zombie-ridden 23rd century earth now known as Death’s Amus

The sixth book in the James Runcie's much-loved series, which has been adapted for Masterpiece's Grantchester starring James Norton, sees full-time priest, part-time detective Sidney Chambers plunged

The sixth book in the James Runcie's much-loved series, which has been adapted for Masterpiece's Grantchester starring James Norton, sees full-time priest, part-time detective Sidney Chambers plunged

The bed, and the chamber which contained it, was something of a cultural and social phenomenon in late-medieval England. Their introduction into some aristocratic and bourgeois households captured the