Most Popular Books by Michael Diamond

What, exactly, is private property? Or, to ask the question another way, what rights to intrude does the public have in what is generally accepted as private property? The answer, perhaps surprisingly to some, is that the public has not only a significant interest in regulating the use of private property but also in defining it, and establishing its contour and texture. In The Public Nature of Private Property, therefore, scholars from the United States and the United Kingdom challenge traditional conceptions of private property while presenting a range of views on both the meaning of private property, and on the ability, some might say the requirement, of the state to regulate it.

''Victorian Sensation'' sheds light on the Victorians'' fascination with celebrity culture and their obsession with gruesome and explicit reportage of murders and sex scandals. With a vivid cast of characters, ranging from the serial poisoner William Palmer, to Charles Dickens, Jumbo the Elephant, distinguished politicians and even the Queen herself, this passionate analysis of the period reveals how the reporting methods of our own popular media have their origins in the Victorian press, and shows that sensation was as integral a part of society in the nineteenth century as it is today.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself—by band members ADROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Wes Anderson, Luc Sante, and more. The inspiration for the Emmy-nominated Apple TV+ “live documentary” Beastie Boys Story, directed by Spike Jonze NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Rolling Stone • The Guardian • Paste Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of the band. Adam “ADROCK” Horovitz and Michael “Mike D” Diamond offer revealing and very funny accounts of their transition from teenage punks to budding rappers; their early collaboration with Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin; the debut album that became the first hip hop record ever to hit #1, Licensed to Ill—and the album’s messy fallout as the band broke with Def Jam; their move to Los Angeles and rebirth with the genre-defying masterpiece Paul’s Boutique; their evolution as musicians and social activists over the course of the classic albums Check Your Head, Ill Communication, and Hello Nasty and the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits conceived by the late Adam “MCA” Yauch; and more. For more than thirty years, this band has had an inescapable and indelible influence on popular culture. With a style as distinctive and eclectic as a Beastie Boys album, Beastie Boys Book upends the typical music memoir. Alongside the band narrative you will find rare photos, original illustrations, a cookbook by chef Roy Choi, a graphic novel, a map of Beastie Boys’ New York, mixtape playlists, pieces by guest contributors, and many more surprises. Praise for Beastie Boys Book “A fascinating, generous book with portraits and detail that float by in bursts of color . . . As with [the band’s] records, the book’s structure is a lyrical three-man weave. . . . Diamond’s voice is lapidary, droll. Horovitz comes on like a borscht belt comedian, but beneath that he is urgent, incredulous, kind of vulnerable. . . . Friendship is the book’s subject as much as music, fame and New York.”—The New York Times Book Review “Wild, moving . . . resembles a Beastie Boys LP in its wild variety of styles.”—Rolling Stone

Community, home, and identity are concepts that have concerned scholars in a variety of fields for some time. Legal scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and economists, among others, have studied the impacts of home and community on one''s identity and how one''s identity is manifested in one''s home and in one''s community. This volume brings together some of the leading thinkers about the connections between community, home and identity. Several chapters address how the law and lawyers contribute (or detract) from the creation and maintenance of community and, in some cases, the conscious destruction of communities. Others examine the protection of individual and group identities through rules related to property title and use of such things as Home and ''identity property''.

Integrating economics, sociology, philosophy, and psychology, the book investigates contemporary corporate issues through cases and materials that situate the corporation in its social and political setting. The notes and questions are designed to provoke thought not only on legal issues and the relationship between cases and theories, but also on the effect corporations have on their constituents, communities, and society. Additionally, the chapter devoted to the corporation''s place in modern society covers both traditional issues, such as proxy regulation and shareholder inspection rights, as well as more novel ones such as the political position of large corporations and the problem of plant closings. The sixth edition has been updated with new cases and new material on derivative suits, hostile takeovers, and the concentration of control.

''Lesser Breeds'' focuses on racism as manifested in the popular culture of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, exemplified by attitudes to the Chinese, Arabs, Blacks and Jews. This compelling book investigates the manifold expressions of prejudice in the popular arts of the period.

An artifact hidden for centuries... A power man was not meant to wield... A horror unlike anything ever unleashed... Postgraduate student and Renaissance man Julius Godom uncovers the legend of a mysterious artifact rumored to hold the key to human understanding. He sets off on a journey that will take him around the world to India during the Roaring Twenties, chasing the only thing that will quench his thirst for knowledge. From the monsoon-swollen banks of the Ganges to heights of the Himalayan mountains, the search for the Idol threatens to possess Julius'' mind with fiery desire. The knowledge contained within is unlike anything he has ever experienced, and now he cannot be without it... But a shadowy coterie of assassins has other plans. Julius must navigate steamy markets, lush jungles, and perilous mountains to track down the Idol before it''s used to unleash an ancient horror that will rip apart the world with its own carnal desires.

El libro definitivo sobre Beastie Boys. Todo lo que querías saber sobre la icónica banda neoyorkina. Fundada en Nueva York en 1981, Beastie Boys se abrió paso hasta llegar a lo más alto del hip hop. Este monumental libro revela por primera vez su historia, en palabras de la banda. Horovitz y Diamond nos ofrecen una multitud de relatos hilarantes sobre los cambios de estilo del grupo, sus colaboraciones o la creación de su álbum debut, que se convirtió en el primer disco de hip hop en alcanzar el número uno. Durante más de treinta años, Beastie Boys ha tenido una influencia irrefutable en la cultura popular, un influjo que persiste todavía hoy. Tan peculiar y ecléctico como la banda, este libro, planteado también como un homenaje a Adam Yauch (MCA), el tercer miembro de la banda, fallecido en 2012, supone una vuelta de tuerca a las clásicas memorias musicales: aquí el lector encontrará desde insólitas fotos hasta ilustraciones originales o cartas manuscritas. Este volumen recoge, además, impresiones de personalidades como Amy Poehler, Wes Anderson o Colson Whitehead. La crítica ha dicho... « Beastie Boys resulta un cajón de sastre felizmente imprevisible, pergeñado con generosidad en más de quinientas páginas donde cabe todo: ilustración, cómic, listas de reproducción, una mayúscula colección de fotografías a todo color# Una oda al eclecticismo musical, a Nueva York y a la amistad.» Raül Jiménez, Indienauta «Un lujopara quien quiera adentrarse en la vida de la banda o bien porque la conozca o porque quiera descubrirla.» La Razón «Este libro consiste en el último gran regalo de los Beastie Boys al mundo.» Javier Blánquez, El Mundo «Más de 500 páginas salvajemente humorísticas.» David Morán, ABC «Un espectacular, completo y delicioso mamotreto." David García, Yorokobu «Esta entretenida mirada a la historia de los Beastie Boys es tan innovadora y escandalosa como la música de la banda.» Publishers Weekly (reseña destacada) «Un libro fascinante, generoso, con retratos y detalles que flotan en ráfagas de color... Como en los álbumes [de la banda], la estructura del libro es trama lírica de tres hombres... La amistad es el tema principal, junto con la música, la fama y la ciudad de Nueva York.» The New York Times Book Review «Salvaje, conmovedor... se parece a un LP de Beatie Boys en cuanto a la variedad de estilos.» Rolling Stone «Tan chiflado, irreverente y divertido como crees que será.» Vogue «Tan despreocupados y divertidos como sus álbumes... un talismán bellamente caótico (y grande) que contiene en su interior muchas de las grandes alegrías y sorpresas que vienen al escuchar a los Beastie Boys.» The AV Club «Horovitz y Diamond comparten momentos sinceros de reflexión sobre su música, su amistad y el chico que les enseñó a reparar radiadores, a preocuparse por los derechos humanos, a reconocer sus errores y crecer.» NPR «Repleto de anécdotas de giras, cartas personales, listas de reproducción, cómics y fotografías, [el libro de los Beastie Boys] complementa los treinta años de historia de la bandaen la industria de la música y es apropiadamente descomunal.» Los Angeles Times

Michael Diamond''s book Impasse is a daring expose of the real world order. Through the fictional tale of a man whose wartime actions torment him, Diamond illustrates how a false reality has taken over the world. The book opens to an act of terror in Palestine. A suicide bomber has detonated a bomb, destroying a busload of people. Anne Whalen, a history professor near retirement, sees the news unfold and immediately realizes her tragic involvement. Meanwhile, an ex-soldier who took part in a war crime is also jarred by the news. As his past comes back to haunt him, he is compelled to take responsibility and be tried by a court of law as the guilty party. Impasse is the story of this man, Hershel Selden, and how he tosses convention aside, breaks away from his familial connections, and, despite risk to himself, pursues what is right. The book exposes the shadowy cartel that runs this world, making puppets of us all. Most significantly, it sets forth a roadmap for defeating the global puppet masters.

The world pushed to the brink...A shadowy leader revealed...As the fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of three souls...It has been two years since the events in a French manor ripped Julius Godom''s mind apart, sending him into a catatonic state. As he recovers under the watchful eye of Rhona Masterson in London, Julius must come to grips with his lost path and reforge a shattered mind. As healer and counselor to Julius, Rhona comes to understand the power of her own faith, and what part she has yet to play. Lyra Dubois sits in the seat of power, but as shadowy forces swirl around the Poisoned Heart, the young master assassin realizes her own shadow is no longer safe.When the mastermind of the Idol search is revealed, the three disparate paths must come together. Spirited across the Atlantic by the R.M.S. Olympic, the three make their way back to America, all in hopes of fighting off the terror which rises from the watery depths.

After two years of intense negotiations President John F. Brander has succeeded in bringing together Israel and the Palestinians to sign a peace accord-the mission that has eluded even the most determined statesmen for more than 60 years. Resolving this bitter conflict-at the epicenter of Islamic hostility towards the West-will mark the beginning of the end of the world''s clash of civilizations. As the parties iron out final details in preparation for a ceremony on the White House lawns, David Dekel, a handsome young researcher in geological remote sensing at Israel''s Ben-Gurion University makes a remarkable discovery that throws the entire process into a spin. Fifty meters below the surface of the soon-to-be-surrendered West Bank town of Jenin, Dekel discovers an oil trap large enough to meet Israel''s energy needs for the next 100 years.

A delve into the crazes, scandals and passions that gripped the popular imagination in Victorian England. Michael Diamond examines what it was that caught the public interest, and how that interest grew and died.

Lawyers who represent group clients from disenfranchised communities face a number of recurring political and ethical issues that are often as central to their practice as the underlying legal questions. These include whether the group''s leadership is legitimate, whether the group''s decision-making process is or ought to be democratic, and whether, and the extent to which, the attorney should intervene in the group''s decision-making process. These issues are not addressed in any depth in the community lawyering literature. This body of work largely takes as a given the legitimacy of group leadership and decision-making or adheres strictly to Model Rule 1.13, which requires, with limited exception, that lawyers who represent groups follow the dictates of the group''s "duly authorized constituents." In this paper we argue that a proper analysis of how a lawyer should act in representing non-democratic groups must be based on the nature of the group, its goals and its leadership. The paper begins by setting out the problems confronted by community lawyers representing groups. It then examines sociological literature about organizational theory and about the definition and nature of groups and social psychological literature about leadership and followership. We go on to discuss these theories in the context of the existing literature and the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Our analysis reveals that the Model Rules do not provide guidance for lawyers in a community practice. We conclude by proposing a set of factors lawyers should consider when evaluating their representation of non-democratic community groups and call for the development of a set of ethical rules that address this important area of practice.

Lawyering for poor and subordinated clients has been the subject of significant re-examination over the past decade. Many commentators have provided a critique of traditional lawyering models and some of them have developed new patterns of "community lawyering." Too often, however, these new models incorporate many of the shortcomings of the traditional model. In particular, they often see the law as a significant part of the answer to the problems of poverty and subordination. While they speak in terms of client empowerment, they focus primarily on the relationship between a lawyer and a client (who is typically an individual). Even when they focus on the products of the lawyer-client relationship, the product tends to be the creation or enforcement of legal rights. This paper argues that a relational or rights based analysis of the lawyer''s role is insufficient to address the real problems of poverty. It begins by reiterating a position that is widely held among progressive lawyers; that the struggle against subordination requires community organizing and collective action. It goes on to discuss the definition and nature of community and the role of a lawyer who seeks to represent "community" interests. Communities are not monolithic and incorporate many different, often competing, views. How should a lawyer distinguish between these views and choose clients so as to maintain a coherence in his or her practice? How should a lawyer relate to a group once a client is chosen? And most importantly, what role should a lawyer play in assisting a client to plan and implement strategies? The paper argues that these strategies often need to be political, not merely legal, and that community lawyers or, as the author has dubbed them, activist lawyers, must participate in building an integrated strategic plan and in its implementation.

In this Article, Professor Diamond explores the nature of community. He specifically examines the potential for economic development as a means for achieving the growth of political power and institutions in economically depressed neighborhood communities and the proper role of the neighborhood attorney in facilitating this expansion.

This paper argues that waste-to-energy''s stagnation in the U.S. illustrates the failure of state-based renewable energy portfolio standards to efficiently incentivize the growth of renewable energy. The absence of a federal renewable energy standard and resultant patchwork of state-based regimes has left the country with no consistent definition of “renewable energy.” Consequently, developers of certain energy technologies are uncertain as to whether their product will qualify as “renewable,” and thus are unable to confidently invest the millions of dollars needed to deploy these technologies. Using waste-to-energy as a case study, this paper argues that a national renewable portfolio standard, defining “renewable energy” consistently and inclusively, would help to create a maximally efficient renewable energy market.

This article starts from the premise that poverty is a growing problem in the United States. Intergenerational poverty, the entrenchment of a class of very poor people, is a major sub set of that problem and is tied very closely to the issue of race. The author claims that missing in the fight by the poor and their allies against stratified poverty is the creation and utilization of power. This paper examines the disparate ways in which commentators have defined power. It suggests that those seeking to obtain power must understand the concept''s varying meanings and direct their activities to meet their own understanding of the concept. Community Economic Development (CED) may be nothing more than a re-affirmation of existing power relationships or it may be the cause and the result of a change in those relationships. This paper attempts to make sense of this apparent paradox.