PROFESSOR BIRDSONG ZANY BUT ALL TRUE CRIMINAL LAW STORIES, VOL. 4: STORIES FROM ROUND THE STATES AND ABROAD.This time the professor uses his expertise and experience in criminal law to bring forth 350 more of the funniest criminal law stories from around the United States and abroad. This book covers just about every silly kind of unlawful conduct one could imagine. Full of his witty “Birdsong” commentary the book is sure to deliver some great laughs. There's a story about the small New Mexico town with two police officers where neither of them can carry a gun because of their own legal problems; a story of the teen who could not turn in his homework because he left his hard drive in the backyard of the home he had burglarized; there is a story of the Texas man arrested for riding his unicycle naked; there's a “drunken dummy” or two; also there's the story about a Florida man released from jail who gets arrested within 16 minutes of his release and a wide variety of just plain, stupid criminals that make this anthology worth reading.

Professor Leonard Birdsong, who specializes in criminal law, is back again with his third volume of humorous and zany but all true criminal law stories. This time, the professor uses his expertise and experience in criminal law to bring forth 300 more of the funniest criminal law stories from Florida and beyond. This book covers just about every silly kind of unlawful conduct one could imagine. Full of his witty "Birdsong" commentary, the book is sure to deliver some great laughs. A naked man caught on camera stealing sausages at a housing complex, shoplifters who swing at police with a baby's car seat with the baby still strapped in, a police raid to deter barbering without a license, a "drunken dummy" or two, a Michigan man who commits assault with a frozen chicken and a wide variety of just plain, stupid criminals make this anthology worth reading.

Here is the tragic, harrowing, and mysterious story of William Douglas, suburban husband, father of three, and noted professor at Tufts University's School of Medicine, who fell in love with a beautiful young prostitute and, a year later, brutally murdered her. Accompanying this haunting tale are eight of Wolfe's shorter true crime stories.

"A devoted father. One of the most accomplished criminal law scholars in the country. Someone wanted him dead. But why? On the morning of July 18, 2014, 41-year-old Florida State law professor Dan Markel dropped his boys off at preschool, hit the gym, and headed home to his quiet, tree-canopied neighborhood. Within seconds of pulling into his garage, two .38-caliber bullets fired from point-blank range were lodged in his brain. His brutal slaying defied explanation. The case went stone cold for nearly two years before a dogged pursuit by the Tallahassee Police and the FBI resulted in the arrest of two life-long criminals who had driven 10 hours from Miami with one singular purpose: to murder the esteemed professor. Were his ex-wife Wendi Adelson and her South Florida family the masterminds behind this horrific crime? Extreme punishment is the riveting story of a divorce between two law professors that spiraled out of control, wealthy in-laws hell-bent on revenge, an unlikely love triangle, and the relentless quest to bring Dan's killers-all of them-to justice"--

“Nicole Galland is exceptionally well versed in the fine nuances of storytelling.” —St. Petersburg Times “Galland has an exceptional gift.” —Neal Stephenson The critically acclaimed author of The Fool's Tale, Nicole Galland now approaches William Shakespeare's classic drama of jealousy, betrayal, and murder from the opposite side. I, Iago is an ingenious, brilliantly crafted novel that allows one of literature's greatest villains--the deceitful schemer Iago, from the Bard's immortal tragedy, Othello--to take center stage in order to reveal his "true" motivations. This is Iago as you've never known him, his past and influences breathtakingly illuminated, in a fictional reexamination that explores the eternal question: is true evil the result of nature versus nurture...or something even more complicated?

"A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.