The Book Hub

29/11/2019

The Concerned Lawyers for Civil Liberties (CLCL) has called on the legal counsels to unite, protect the independence and safety of the members of their profession and resist brazen impunity and looming tyranny.

08/01/2017

When Edgardo Perea was a kid, his grandfather used to entertain a jueteng bookie in their humble home in Cavite. This was the 1960s, way before electricity and television reached their town. The man would tell them stories about Manila, a faraway place where water sprouts from the ground. It piqued…

25/11/2016

The Whistler by John Grisham, is his latest novel, tackling the issue of judicial corruption by a judge who sold her soul to the devil.

25/11/2016

From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch—

10/11/2016

"Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst."

The Godfather by Mario Puzo, a masterpiece novel about the life of an American criminal underworld family who strives to maintain their supremacy.

09/11/2016

"Law, like taxes in the words of the great judge Olover Wendell Holmes, is the great price of civilisation."- The Tools of Argument by Joel P. Trachtman.

Joel Trachtman's book presents in plain and lucid terms the powerful tools of argument that have been honed through the ages in the discipline of law. If you are a law student or new lawyer, a business professional or a government official, this book will boost your analytical thinking, your foun...

05/11/2016

"Don't you want to finish school? Don't you want to be a lawyer? Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks"

Don Vito Corleone, addressing his son, Sonny, who wants to join the family business, in The Godfather.

When Mario Puzo's blockbuster saga, The Godfather, was first published in 1969, critics hailed it as one of the greatest novels of our time, and

05/11/2016

Highlights from 12 months of interviews with writers about their craft and the authors they love

04/11/2016

The Everything Store by Brad Stone, a look at the founder of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, and how he transformed the site to become the everything store.

03/11/2016

The Judgment, an instalment of the Charley Sloan series, about a lawyer who chose to practice law in the suburb after losing it all in the big city.

02/11/2016

As part of its expansion and making its presence known in Asia, American retail giant Amazon is allegedly planning to launch in Singapore early next year. Sources close to the company told TechCrunch that Amazon has already started to make a move by acquiring assets and hiring people in time for its...

02/11/2016

Here’s one passage that describes exactly what it’s like to be a teenager.