| Guns, Crime, and Freedom
| A definitive manual for taking part in the political debate, and preserving your right to keep and bear arms. --Tom Clancy A New York Times Best Seller.
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| Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text With Exercises
| Admirably clear, concise, down-to-earth, and powerful-unfortunately, these adjectives rarely describe legal writing, whether in the form of briefs, opinions, contracts, or statutes. In Legal Writing in Plain English, Bryan A. Garner provides lawyers, judges, paralegals, law students, and legal scholars sound advice and practical tools for improving their written work. The book encourages legal writers to challenge conventions and offers valuable insights into the writing process: how to o...More
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| U.S. Constitution (20 Pack)
| In The U.S. Constitution & Fascinating Facts About It you'll see the entire text of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence-and much more! You'll find interesting insights into the men who wrote the Constitution, how it was created, and how the Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution in the two centuries since its creation.
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| A Theory of Justice
| Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book. Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition--justice as fairness--and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes t...More
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| A Civil Action
| NonfictionLarge Print Edition*A New York Times Bestseller*Rated Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly*Soon to be a Disney movieA page-turner. So rich and vivid that it becomes a good deal more than a simple, interesting case study. New York TimesTwo of the nations largest corporations stood accused of the deaths of children in the small town of Woburn, Massachusetts in the sort of case that rings alarms in corporate boardrooms all across America. In an epic nine-year struggle, powerful ...More
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| Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment
| Mallor, Barnes, Bowers and Langvardt's "Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment, 14e" is appropriate for the two-term business law course. The cases in the 14th edition are excerpted and edited by the authors. The syntax is not altered, therefore retaining the language of the courts. As in recent previous editions, the 14th edition includes a mix of actual and hypothetical cases.
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| Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice
| Political factors influence judicial decisions. Arguments and input from lawyers and interest groups, the ebb and flow of public opinion, and especially the ideological and behavioral inclinations of the justices all combine to influence the development of constitutional doctrine. Constitutional Law for a Changing America draws on political science as well as legal studies to analyze and excerpt cases. With meticulous revising and updating throughout, Epstein and Walker streamline material while...More
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| Patent It Yourself: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Filing at the U.S. Patent Office
| Patent your creation with the world's bestselling guide to patents! Have a world-class idea? Ready to protect your invention from copycats? Then turn to the best resource available-- Patent It Yourself. Attorney David Pressman takes you through the entire patent process, providing scrupulously updated information and clear instructions to help you: determine if you can patent your invention understand patent law evaluate the commercial potential of your idea perform your own paten...More
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| Mass Media Law: 1996
| Mass Media Law is the market-leading text. The most relevant mass media legal decisions -- from the Constitution to the most recent Supreme Court sessions -- are discussed in relation to their relevance to modern American law. Known for its clear explanations and its consistent pedagogy, the text includes mid-chapter summaries, a table of cases, and more. From the Internet to political advertising laws, Mass Media Law examines the current issues that are shaping the United States l...More
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| Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
| This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). As Rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents "in one place an account of justice as fairness as I now see it, drawing on all [my previous] works." He offers a broad overview of his main l...More
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| Corrections: An Introduction (2nd Edition)
| This book examines corrections from an academic view and from those who are at the center of the system. It includes correctional history and theory, yet concentrates on what professionals do, why they do it, and the challenges they face every day. Unique integration of the author’s experience sets the tone for this real-world approach and chapter case studies, career features, and personal interviews reinforce the theme. Now available with an accompanying DVD, the book shows readers...More
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| CrunchTime: Contracts
| The most trusted name in law school outlines, Emanuel Law Outlines support your class preparation, provide reference for your outline creation, and supply a comprehensive breakdown of topic matter for your entire study process. Created by Steven Emanuel, these course outlines have been relied on by generations of law students. Each title includes both capsule and detailed versions of the critical issues and key topics you must know to master the course. Also included ...More
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| Hotel, Restaurant, and Travel Law: A Preventive Approach
| For professionals in the Travel and Hospitality industry as well as Legal professionals who specialize in this area, this book addresses legal issues confronted by managers in the hotel, restaurant, travel and casino industries. The emphasis is on prevention of legal violations. By reading the book, managers can appreciate and identify what actions and precautions are necessary to avoid, or at least minimize the number of lawsuits. The book uses the case method, long recognized as a helpful a...More
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| Deviant Behavior (8th Edition)
| This best-selling text offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of deviance and is noted for its blend of style and substance. Deviant Behavior covers a wide spectrum of theories of deviance, and analyzes numerous specific deviant behaviors. The author uses an abundance of research data, including many that debunk our common assumptions about deviant behavior. Students are exposed to the full range of theories and data about deviance, and are challenged to think about and evaluate their own ...More
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| Business Law (Barron's Business Review Series)
| Here are understandable explanations of subjects related to business law and the legal environment. Separate chapters discuss the origin and nature of law, contracts in their many forms, negotiable instruments, banking procedures, types of business organization, legal definitions of crimes and torts, the concept of property, environmental law, labor-management relations law, intellectual property and computer law, and more. Business Review books are designed for classroom use, but are also valua...More
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| Employment Law for Business, 5th Edition
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| The Mediation Process: Practical Strategies for Resolving Conflict
| Since it was first published in 1986, The Mediation Process has become a landmark resource for mediation practitioners, trainers, students, and professionals in corporate, legal, health care, education, and governmental arenas. This thoroughly revised and expanded third edition has been updated to include coverage of the most contemporary issues in mediation practice and to provide updated bibliographical resources.
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| Criminal Procedure: Law and Practice (Criminal Justice)
| Acquaints the reader with the various aspects of criminal procedure. Covers a variety of topics relevant to law enforcement work, from court systems to sentencing. DLC: Criminal procedure U.S.
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| The Concealed Handgun Manual: How to Choose, Carry, and Shoot a Gun in Self Defense
| Timely because more states continue to pass concealed-carry legislation, this comprehensive handbook contains information on current state regulations, beginning and advanced shooting instruction, and updated safety advice. This guide covers everything needed to understand these subjects and offers tips on the importance of self-protection, selecting and buying a handgun, and methods of concealing weapons. In light of the current problem of violence in schools, this edition also offers detailed ...More
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| Patents, Copyrights & Trademarks For Dummies
| Having the great idea, creating the magnificent work of art, or coming up with the next fad is only the first step to cashing in on your creativity and hard work. Next up is protecting your intellectual property.This book is for anyone who is intrigued by those three not-so-little words: patents, copyrights, and trademarks. That means you, ifYou think you might be the next Thomas Edison or maybe another J.K. RowlingYour company has recently developed a bold new corporate logo or eye-catching tra...More
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