| A Civil Action
| "The legal thriller of the decade." --Cleveland Plain DealerNow a Major Motion Picture!In this true story of an epic courtroom showdown, two of the nation's largest corporations stand accused of causing the deaths of children. Representing the bereaved parents, the unlikeliest of heroes emerges: a young, flamboyant Porsche-driving lawyer who hopes to win millions of dollars and ends up nearly losing everything, including his sanity. A searing, compelling tale of a legal system gone awry--one in ...More
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| Oil and Gas Law in a Nutshell, 5th Edition (Nutshell Series)
| This authoritative coverage focuses on the legal rules that govern the development of privately owned mineral rights, which often also apply to governmentally owned resources. Text covers topics such as the nature, protection, and conveying of oil and gas rights, leasing, and taxation.
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| Essentials of Business Law and The Legal Environment
| This text offers complete coverage of business law and its environment in a non-technical, straightforward, and student-friendly style. Cases are summarized by the authors and integrated throughout chapters. Legal issues and court decisions are carefully explained with a minimum of legal jargon. Most important, Essentials of Business and The Legal Environment covers all required business law topics for the CPA exam.
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| Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
| A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through the Nature Company, and the disputes between working people a...More
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| West's Business Law, Alternate Edition
| Designed for two-semester business law and legal environment courses found in various business departments at two and four-year schools, this test is known for its comprehensive, authoritative coverage, offering instructors great flexibility in choosing which areas of the law to emphasize. Cases are summarized by the authors to facilitate student comprehension.
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| Environmental Law Handbook
| The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since. The authors provide clear and accessible explanations, expert legal insight into new and evolving regulations, and reliable compliance and management guidance.The Environmental Law Handbook continues to provide individual...More
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| Environmental Law (6th Edition)
| This fundamental introduction to environmental law is designed to introduce those without any legal or special scientific training to the system through which the nation attempts to preserve and protect the different aspects of our environment. Environmental law and policy; air quality control; water quality control; toxic substance control; waste management and hazardous releases; energy; natural resources; and international environmental law. For anyone who is in busi...More
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| Environmental Law in a Nutshell, 8th (Nutshell Series)
| Findley and Farber's Environmental Law in a Nutshell provides a foundation for understanding environmental law. Expert text includes coverage of various areas, from acid rain and atomic energy, to waste disposal and wetlands. Touches upon the many statutory and common-law regulations shaping the world in which we live.
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| Hazardous Waste Management
| This text provides an overview of a complex interdisciplinary field, drawing from a variety of engineering and science disciplines. It is divided into four major parts: fundamentals, current management practices, treatment and disposal methods, and site remediation. Much of the book is devoted to treatment methods which give practical engineering examples of application of technology to hazardous waste management. There is an overview of the regulatory process and treatment of carcinogenesis. Ca...More
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| Environmental Law and Policy, 3d (Concepts and Insights)
| Environmental Law and Policy is a user-friendly, concise, inexpensive treatment of environmental law. Written to be read rather than used as a reference source, the authors provide a broad conceptual overview of environmental law while also explaining the major statutes and cases. The book is intended for four audiences - students (both graduate and undergraduate) seeking a readable study guide for their environmental law and policy courses; professors who do not use casebooks (relying on their ...More
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| The New Environmental Regulation
| Environmental regulation in the United States has succeeded, to a certain extent, in solving the problems it was designed to address; air, water, and land, are indisputably cleaner and in better condition than they would be without the environmental controls put in place since 1970. But Daniel Fiorino argues in The New Environmental Regulation that--given recent environmental, economic, and social changes--it is...More
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| Examples & Explanations: Environmental Law, 5th Ed. (Print + eBook Bonus Pack)
| A longtime favorite series among professors and students alike, Examples & Explanations is now available as a Bonus Pack. It's the best of both worlds — a print copy of Examples & Explanations: Environmental Law, 5th Ed. for your desk reference and an eBook version on your laptop to take with you wherever you go. This special Bonus Pack includes download access to the one-of-a-kind AspenLaw Studydesk software AND this book in digital eBook fo...More
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| Our Common Future (Oxford Paperbacks)
| In 1983, the U.N. General Assembly created the World Commission on Environment and Development, an independent committee of twenty-two members, headed by Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Prime Minister of Norway. Designed to examine global environment and development to the year 2000 and beyond, the commission seeks to reassess critical problems, to formulate realistic proposals for solving them, and to raise the level of understanding and commitment to the issues of environment and development. ...More
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| Employment Law (4th Edition)
| Key Benefit: Moran approaches employment law with a focus on discrimination and employment regulation, presenting principles of law in a step-building approach and illustrating those principles with stimulating employment perspectives.Key Topics: The author examines ethical issues, offers HR advice, and covers employee lessons in the workplace. Market: For courses in Employment Law, Labor Law, and Human Resource Management.
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| The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution
| This much anticipated follow-up to Dr. Robert D. Bullard’s highly acclaimed Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color captures the voices of frontline warriors who are battling environmental injustice and human rights abuses at the grassroots level around the world, and challenging government and industry. policies and globalization trends that place people of color and the poor at special risk.Part I presents an overview of the early environmental justice movem...More
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| Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society
| To give your students a solid foundation in environmental law doctrine as well as experience building their analytical skills, you can depend on this user-friendly casebook, now in its Third Edition. Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society is noted for its comprehensive legal-process approach to the depth and complexity of modern environmental law: Broad topical coverage is augmented by a reference section, including a Statutory Capsule Appendix and an...More
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| Environmental Law & Policy: Nature Law & Society
| This user-friendly book - noted for its comprehensive legal process approach to the depth and complexity of modern environmental law - gives students a solid doctrinal footing in the law and helps build their analytical skills. Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society, Fourth Edition, uses the legal process approach, building on a base of common law and constitutional law and continuing on to statutory and administrative law, to illustrate both the structure of t...More
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| Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services: An Input-Output Approach
| Environmental life cycle assessment is often thought of as cradle to grave and therefore as the most complete accounting of the environmental costs and benefits of a product or service. However, as anyone who has done an environmental life cycle assessment knows, existing tools have many problems: data is difficult to assemble and life cycle studies take months of effort. A truly comprehensive analysis is prohibitive, so analysts are often forced to simply ignore many facets of life cycle impact...More
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| Failure to Learn The BP Texas City Refinery Disaster
| In Failure to Learn: The BP Texas City Refinery Disaster, respected OHS expert Professor Andrew Hopkins discusses the causes of a major explosion at the Texas City Oil Refinery on March 23, 2005, that killed 15 workers and injured more than 170 others. Failure to Learn also analyses the similarities between this event and the Longford Gas Plant explosion in Victoria in 1998, featured in his earlier book Lessons from Longford. Professor Andrew Hopkins is being recognized by the European Process ...More
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| Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy, Sixth Edition
| As the Obama administration and the courts change the course of federal environmental law and policy, this best-selling casebook has been updated comprehensively to include the latest legal and policy developments. Each chapter includes new material exploring contemporary developments including the challenges climate change is posing to nearly every aspect of environmental law. The revised Sixth Edition includes: Ten New Case Excerpts, including new decision...More
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