Douglas A Lawrence

Deterrents and Reinforcement: The Psychology of Insufficient Reward

Linear State-Space Control Systems

Law on the Screen (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought)

The proliferation of images of law, legal processes, and officials on television and in film is a phenomenon of enormous significance. Mass-mediated images are as powerful, pervasive, and important as are other early twenty-first-century social forces—e.g. globalization, neo-colonialism, and human r...

Law and Catastrophe (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought)

The study of catastrophe is a growth industry. Today, cosmologists scan the heavens for asteroids of the kind that smashed into earth some ninety million years ago, leading to the swift extinction of the dinosaurs. Climatologists create elaborate models of the chaotic weather and vast flooding that ...

The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust

This powerful book offers the first detailed examination of the law's response to the crimes of the Holocaust. In vivid prose it offers a fascinating study of five exemplary proceedings-the Nuremberg trial of the major Nazi war criminals, the Israeli trials of Adolf Eichmann and John Demjanjuk, the ...

Imagining New Legalities: Privacy and Its Possibilities in the 21st Century (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought)

Imagining New Legalities reminds us that examining the right to privacy and the public/private distinction is an important way of mapping the forms and limits of power that can legitimately be exercised by collective bodies over individuals and by governments over their citizens. This book does not ...

Sense and Nonsensibility: Lampoons of Learning and Literature

Two widely published humor columnists and "bad boys" of academia take their wit and wisdom to dazzling new lows in this irreverent send-up of highbrow literary culture. At last, the thinking person's take on the life of the mind in today's increasingly mindless age. Sense and Nonsensibility pokes f...

The Vices

Oliver Vice, forty-one, prominent philosopher, scholar, and art collector, is missing and presumed dead, over the side of Queen Mary 2.Troubled by his friend’s possible suicide, the unnamed narrator of Lawrence Douglas’ new novel launches an all-consuming investigation into Vice’s life history. Doug...

Linear State-Space Control Systems

The book blends readability and accessibility common to undergraduate control systems texts with the mathematical rigor necessary to form a solid theoretical foundation. Appendices cover linear algebra and provide a Matlab overivew and files. The reviewers pointed out that this is an ambitious proje...

Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, an Informal History

Of Historic value, although the narrative is very much in the everyday talk: a genuine work