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Book Cover: The Quest for Justice
By Ken Crispin

What is justice? How does our legal system work? And how can we trust a system that is so changeable and widely criticised? These are some of the fundamental questions that former Supreme Court judge Ken Crispin sets out to answer in this enlightening and thought-provoking book.

What is justice? How does our legal system work? And how can we trust a system that is so changeable and widely criticised? These are some of the fundamental questions that former Supreme Court judge Ken...

Published: 31/05/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640438
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover: The Arab Awakening: Islam and the New Middle East
By Tariq Ramadan

Across the Arab world millions of women and men have taken to the streets, showing that dictators can be overthrown without weapons. But what happens now?

Across the Arab world millions of women and men have taken to the streets, showing that dictators can be overthrown without weapons. But what happens now?

Published: 04/05/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781846146503
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Business Law
By Cara C Putman

Undergraduate business major students, MBA graduate students, and first-year law students have one thing in common: they need to take courses in business law.   Cumbersome, expensive textbooks, filled with hundreds of pages of case law with little or no explanation of the principles behind even the most basic tenants of this important aspect of the law make these expensive courses difficult...

Undergraduate business major students, MBA graduate students, and first-year law students have one thing in common: they need to take courses in business law.   Cumbersome, expensive textbooks, filled...

Published: 20/04/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781592578528
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Equity and Property:Facts, Fantasy and Morals: McPherson Lecture Series Volume 4
By Sarah Worthington

Equity and Property: Fact Fantasy and Morals
Sarah Worthington

This is the fouth volume in an annual series inaugurated by the University of Queensland's TC Beirne School of Law.  Inspired by the famous Hamlyn Lecture Series in England, each year the McPherson Lecture series hosts a celebrated international scholar of legal expert to deliver three lectures.

Equity and Property: Fact Fantasy and Morals
Sarah Worthington

This is the fouth volume in an annual series inaugurated by the University of Queensland's TC Beirne School of Law.  Inspired by the...

Published: 28/09/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702237263
RRP: $80.00
Book Cover: The Digest of Roman Law: Theft, Rapine, Damage and Insult
By Justinian

Codified by Justinian I and published under his aegis in A.D. 533, this celebrated work of legal history forms a fascinating picture of ordinary life in Rome.

Codified by Justinian I and published under his aegis in A.D. 533, this celebrated work of legal history forms a fascinating picture of ordinary life in Rome.

Published: 01/08/1979
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140443431
RRP: $24.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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