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Best SellingCustomer RatingLowest PriceNewestA to Z Page 1 of 2 NextHeaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law from$13.50Some fourteen hundred years after the Prophet Muhammad first articulated God’s law—the shari‘a—its earthly interpreters are still arguing about what it means. Hard-liners reduce it to amputations, veiling, holy war, and stonings. Others say that it is humanity’s only guarantee of a just society.
The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J. Simpson$37.99In an extraordinary history of the criminal trial, Sadakat Kadri shows with wit, legal insight and a travel writer's eye for detail, how the irrationality of the past lives on in the legal systems of the present. A bold and brilliant debut from a prize-winning new writer. 'The Trial' spans a vast distance in time, opening in the dread silence of the Egyptian Hall of the Dead and ending with the melodramas and hubbub of the 21st-century trial circus.
Vienna Prague Budapest (Country & Regional Guides $39.52Forget the usual city breaks to Paris, Rome, and Barcelona and explore these European gems with the help of Cadogan's unique three-city guide. .
Cadogan Guides Vienna, Prague and Budapest$13.64This indispensable guidebook explores three fairytale capitals, peppered with domes, and spiked with spires. Vienna, Prague, and Budapest have lived through tumultuous histories but thrive today at the heart of modern Europe. It examines Art Nouveau art and architecture in Vienna, soaring Gothic churches in Prague, and Budapest s stately boulevards and vistas.
Heaven on Earth: A History of Sharia Law. by SadakatSOLD OUTAlmost 1400 years after the Prophet Muhammad first articulated God's law - the sharia - its earthly interpreters are still arguing over what it means. Hardliners reduce it to amputations, veiling, holy war and stonings. Others say that it is humanity's only guarantee of a just society. In "Heaven on Earth", Sadakat Kadri, a London-based criminal barrister and prize-winning writer, sets out to see who is right.
Vienna Prague Budapest, 2nd (Country & Regional$66.77Now fully redesigned, this new edition of Cadogan’s unique three-city guide contains the most up-to-the-minute practical information and listings, along with color photographs and maps. Vienna, Prague and Budapest are growing in popularity as city break destinations thanks to their beautiful city centers and increasing number of trendy restaurants and hotels.
The Trial: Four Thousand Years of Courtroom Drama$26.70For as long as accuser and accused have faced each other in public, criminal trials have been establishing far more than who did what to whom–and in this fascinating book, Sadakat Kadri surveys four thousand years of courtroom drama. A brilliantly engaging writer, Kadri journeys from the silence of ancient Egypt’s Hall of the Dead to the clamor of twenty-first-century Hollywood to show how emotion and fear have inspired Western notions of justice–and the extent to which they still riddle its trials today.
Heaven on Earth$17.77
Prague, 2nd (City Guides Cadogan)$35.90Strolls from the Charles Bridge to the cafes of Wenceslas Square; explores castles, dungeons and churches; stops off for dumplings, beer and Becherovka; takes in a spot of Kafka and Vaclav Havel; includes day trips to spas, castles and breweries 'Floating in the architectural flotsam of a thousand years, Prague's domes, dungeons, rickety rooftops and spires are about as close as life gets to fairyland.
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