Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=6639&N=3+5082&No=50 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668202 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674952 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711410 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1589494 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622981 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1533223 In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after the victims body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Elmore had been on death row for eleven years when a young attorney named Diana Holt first learned of his case. It required little scrutiny for Holt to discern that Elmores case reeked of injustice, and Holt would spend more than a decade fighting on Elmores behalf. With the exemplary moral commitment and tenacious investigation that have distinguished his reporting career, Raymond Bonner follows Holts battle to save Elmores life and shows us how his case is a textbook example of what can go wrong in the American justice system. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622901 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668087 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1602387 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668072 Profiles 168 top law schools and offers information on the LSAT scores and GPA of admitted students, job placement rates for graduates, and student/faculty ratio. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1589495 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647522 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693895 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687298 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668947 Everything you and your partners need to go into business together!Form a Partnership thoroughly explains the legal and practical issues involved in forming a business partnership, creating a partnership agreement and protecting each persons interests. In plain English, the book covers:. partnerships compared to other business structures. the financial and tax liability of partners. contributions of cash, property and services. what happens if a partner wants out. how to value partnership assets. admitting new partners. buying out a partners interest. limited partnerships. and much moreThis edition of Form a Partnership is totally revised and updated to reflect the law and realities of todays business world. Plus, all the forms you need to create a partnership agreement are provided.- Download forms for book on nolo.com-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668199 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1602384 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1589492 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647490 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667853 The path from green card to U.S. citizenship can be a long and winding one. This book will help you determine your eligibility, fill out application forms, study for the exam, and more!. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624184 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1589498 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695776 The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Perfectly Legal and Free Lunch presents a sobering analysis of the ways everyday people are systematically victimized by corporate interests, revealing small-print tactics in commonplace consumer agreements while sharing recommendations for how to combat consumer-targeting abuses. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1627806 In this groundbreaking book, Scalia and Garner systematically explain all the most important principles of constitutional, statutory, and contractual interpretation in an engaging and informative style - with hundreds of illustrations from actual cases. Is a burrito a sandwich? Is a corporation entitled to personal privacy? If you trade a gun for drugs, are you using a gun in a drug transaction? The authors grapple with these and dozens of equally curious questions while explaining the most principled, lucid, and reliable techniques for deriving meaning from authoritative texts. Meanwhile, the book takes up some of the most controversial issues in modern jurisprudence. The authors write with a well-argued point of view that is definitive yet nuanced, straightforward yet sophisticated. - Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667994 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1649022 An insiders account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration. From the moment John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the United States, flubbed the Oath of Office at Barack Obamas inauguration, the relationship between the Supreme Court and the White House has been confrontational. Both men are young, brilliant, charismatic, charming, determined to change the course of the nation--and completely at odds on almost every major constitutional issue. One is radical; one essentially conservative. The surprise is that Obama is the conservative--a believer in incremental change, compromise, and pragmatism over ideology. Roberts--and his allies on the Court--seek to overturn decades of precedent: in short, to undo the victory FDR achieved in the New Deal. And now they are linked in history by Robertss stunning vote to uphold Obamacare. As the nation prepares to vote for President in 2012, the future of the Supreme Court is also on the ballot--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667835 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679160 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732946 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629418 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667983 Timothy Masters was a lonely, troubled teenager with a penchant for gory artwork when he first saw Peggy Lee Hettrick, her dead, mutilated body nearly frozen in the early morning of Fort Collins, Colorado. Not believing it could really be a dead body, thinking he was the victim of yet another prank by his abusive classmates, the fifteen-year-old didnt go to the police, but they came to him. So began a decade-long investigation led by a relentless detective who was sure that Masters was the killer, even without a shred of physical evidence. Against all reason, a conspiracy of silence and circumstantial evidence eventually put Masters behind bars. Only the determination of a lone investigator who believed the young man was innocent would reveal the shocking truth, and free Masters after ten years in prison. This is the compelling true story of one life ended in blood and murder, one life ruined by coincidence and prejudice, and justice long denied but finally found.--Publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671600 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668166 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1522528 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667797 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668180 For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Waldron rejects this view, and makes the case that hate speech should be regulated as part of a commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684566 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675024 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1657327 Conventional wisdom holds that intellectual property rights are essential for innovation. But are copyright and patents really necessary to spark creativity? In The Knockoff Economy, Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman provocatively argue that creativity can not only survive in the face of copying, but can thrive. The Knockoff Economy approaches the question of incentives and innovation in a wholly new way--by exploring creative fields that do not rely on legal monopolies, such as fashion, cuisine, and even professional football. By uncovering these important but rarely studied creative worlds, Raustiala and Sprigman reveal a nuanced and fascinating relationship between imitation and innovation. In some creative fields copying is kept in check through informal industry norms enforced by private sanctions. In other cases, the freedom to copy actually promotes creativity. High fashion gave rise to the very term knockoff, yet imitation only makes the fashion cycle run faster--and forces the fashion industry to be ever more creative. Raustiala and Sprigman carry their analysis from food to font design to football plays to finance, examining how and why each of these vibrant fields remains innovative, even in the face of sometimes-extensive imitation. There is an important thread that ties all these instances together--successful creative industries can evolve to be resistant to, and even to profit from, piracy. And there are important lessons here for copyright-focused industries, like music and film, that have struggled with piracy. Raustiala and Sprigmans arguments have been making headlines in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, Le Monde, and elsewhere. By looking where few had looked before--at industries that fall outside normal IP law--The Knockoff Economy opens up fascinating creative worlds. And it demonstrates that not only is a great deal of innovation possible without IP, but that IPs absence is sometimes better for innovation-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646865 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1589493 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669121 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1658247 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668217 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681558 Go behind the scenes with forensic anthropologists and learn about techniques used by criminal investigators: how they locate a body, how they carefully uncover and record evidence, and how the unique characteristics of each body bear silent witnees to age, sex, and the time and manner of death. Includes true crime case studies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668635 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679161 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687138 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674747 From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obamas inauguration, the relationship between the Supreme Court and the White House has been confrontational. Both men are young, brilliant, charismatic, charming, determined to change the course of the nation, and completely at odds on almost every major constitutional issue. One is radical; one essentially conservative. The surprise is that Obama is the conservative: a believer in incremental change, compromise, and pragmatism over ideology. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1476085 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1602090 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667827 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667998 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667449 Curto declares that modern justice takes too long. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1657186 Law is a specific form of social regulation distinct from religion, ethics, and even politics, and endowed with a strong and autonomous rationality. Its invention, a crucial aspect of Western history, took place in ancient Rome. Aldo Schiavone, a world-renowned classicist, reconstructs this development with clear-eyed passion, following its course over the centuries, setting out from the earliest origins and moving up to the threshold of Late Antiquity. The invention of Western law occurred against the backdrop of the Roman Empires gradual consolidation--an age of unprecedented accumulation of power which transformed an archaic predisposition to ritual into an unrivaled technology for the control of human dealings. Schiavone offers us a closely reasoned interpretation that returns us to the primal origins of Western legal machinery and the discourse that was constructed around it--formalism, the pretense of neutrality, the relationship with political power. This is a landmark work of scholarship whose influence will be felt by classicists, historians, and legal scholars for decades.--Publishers website. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669162 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1623883 By one of the nations foremost legal historians, a groundbreaking history of the pioneering American role in establishing the modern laws of war.In the fateful closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, Abraham Lincolns top military advisors commissioned a code of rules to govern the armies of the United States in a newly intensified war effort. The code Lincoln issued the next spring helped shape the remaining two years of Civil War. Its rules on torture, prisoners of war, assassination, and more quickly became foundations of the modern laws of war and todays Geneva Conventions. Yet the hidden story of Lincolns code, and of the decades of controversy that lay behind it, has never been told. In this masterful and strikingly original history, John Witt charts the alternately troubled and triumphant course of the laws of war in America from the Founding Founders to the dawn of the modern era, revealing the history of a code that reshaped the laws of war the world over. Ranging from the Revolution to the War of 1812, from war with Mexico to the Civil War, from Indian wars to the brutal counterinsurgency campaign in the Philippines, Witt tells a story that features presidents as well as men in the throes of battle, one that spans war-makers and pacifists, Indians and slaves. In a time of heated controversy about the nations conduct in the war on terror, Lincolns Code is a compelling story of ideals under pressure and a landmark contribution to our understanding of the American experience. -- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667823 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1382286 Because the U.S. began as an idea, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood believes that the American Revolution is the most important event in our history, bar none. American identity is not based on any universally shared heritage, so we have had to return to our nations founding to understand who we are. Wood explores the ideological origins of the revolutions attempts to forge an American democracy, and traces the origins of American exceptionalism. What may simply seem like audacity now was considered radical in the 18th century. Today there exists what Wood calls a terrifying gap between the founders and us, such that it requires almost an act of imagination to fully recapture their era. Because we now take our democracy for granted, it is nearly impossible for us to appreciate how deeply the founders feared their grand experiment in liberty could evolve into monarchy or dissolve into mob rule. Gracefully written and filled with insight, The Idea of America helps us to recapture the fears and hopes of the revolutionary generation and its attempts to translate those ideals into a working democracy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303984 Shows homeowners how to deal with neighbor disputes while explaining whose side the law is on. The 7th edition contains new sample letters for engaging with a neighbor over a dispute, plus new material on how to build community and prevent disputes--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693058 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1336224 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1237381 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1547568 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1312605 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306277 Write a simple will without a lot of time and trouble. The CD provides customizable forms and step-by-step instructions for creating a will for a single or married person, with or without children. The 6th edition includes the latest changes in estate tax law--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306285 Gives the reader answers, information and strategies they need to figure out whether bankruptcy is the right solution for their debt problems. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1297627 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1263473 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1278092 Offers ten strategies for successfully selling a home for the maximum amount in a tight economy. The 2nd edition includes expanded information on short sales, financing for buyers, and updated figures--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306278 A how-to guide for cleaning up credit reports, maintaining/improving credit scores, paying debt and building credit for the future, with forms to handle existing debts, avoid overspending, and deal with collection agencies. The 10th edition is reorganized with information on bankruptcy, foreclosure and mortgage debt, and the Credit CARD Act--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1656202 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1335531 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393171 Comprehensive resource for preventing workplace problems, managing problems that do arise, and firing employees who cant improve. The 6th edition includes the latest Supreme Court decisions on retaliation and discrimination and new regulations on the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1215723 Presents an analysis of Barack Obamas views on war and the military in the first two years of his presidency, discussing his evolution from being a peace candidate to being a president conducting two wars and how this change affects national security and the nations future. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1198437 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1211831 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1478180 Provides background information and step-by-step instructions that nonprofits need to apply for federal 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status and qualify as a public charity with the IRS. The 10th edition covers recent changes in the law--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1582203 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306283 Helps business owners, managers and HR professionals put employee policies in place for any size company, in any state. Sample policies are included on CD. The 5th edition covers emerging workplace issues, such as social networking and product reviews, plus changes necessitated by health care reform--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1299195 Provides a clear and concise overview of laws that affect personal relationships and families and answers everyday legal questions that nearly every family encounters at some point. This book includes a quick-reference glossary of legal terms and an appendix of detailed information for all 50 states--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1299085 A comprehensive, easy to understand guide to the past, present and future of same-sex relationships in America. The new edition reflects changes in state law across the country and projects future changes--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1166723 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1589496 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1473394 An A-Z reference encyclopedia, with more than 200 entries defining and explaining employment and labor law topics. The entries combine a summary of the law with real life case references, pop culture references, and statistics and trends--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1243858 Helps navigate government benefits systems and maximize retirement and pension income and medical coverage by explaining step-by-step instructions on how to qualify and apply. The 16th edition includes a discussion of Medicare rules reflecting federal healthcare reform, plus updated benefit numbers for Social Security, Medicare and SSI--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1272936 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1263759 Answers legal questions in plain English related to starting and running a small business. The 12th edition is thoroughly updated, including information on new tax reporting requirements and tax credits for small businesses under the Patient Protection Act--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392476 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1478120 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1272965 A comprehensive guide for those on the brink of financial crisis to manage finances and get debt under control. The 13th edition includes information on the Credit CARD Act and dealing with foreclosure--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1311780 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1375689 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1252168 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306280 Explains the advantages, disadvantages and tax consequences of incorporation plus provides step-by-step guidance for incorporating in all 50 states. 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