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E. M. Forster The Personal Voice

E. M. Forster The Personal Voice

Originally published in 1975 E. M. Forster: The Personal Voice draws on information about the life and works of E. M. Forster that came to light following his death in 1970. Exploring in particular the publication of Maurice in 1971 The Life to Come in 1972 and the Forster papers in King's College Library Cambridge this volume is an extensive study of E. M. Forster. It provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of Forster's work his intellectual and literary background his personality and the reception of his work. E. M. Forster: The Personal Voice places Forster's works in their social and cultural context and provides an excellent insight into his development as a writer. | E. M. Forster The Personal Voice

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Accounting for M&A Uses and Abuses of Accounting in Monitoring and Promoting Merger

Accounting for M&A Uses and Abuses of Accounting in Monitoring and Promoting Merger

Spending on M&A has in aggregate grown so fast that it has even overtaken capital expenditure on increasing and maintaining physical assets. Yet McKinsey the leading management consultancy reports that Anyone who has researched merger success rates knows that roughly 70% fail. The idea that businesses might be using huge and increasing sums of shareholders’ money for an activity that more often than not leads to failure calls into question the information on which M&A decisions are based. This book presents statistical studies case material and standard-setters’ opinions on company accounting before during and after M&A. It documents the manipulation of annual accounts by acquirers ahead of share for share bids biased forecasts of post-merger earnings by bidders and devices to flatter earnings when recording the deal. It explores the challenges for standard-setters in regulating information flows during and after M&A and for account-users wishing to learn from financial statements how a deal has affected performance. Drawing on a wide range of international examples this readable book is targeted not just at accounting specialists but at anyone who is comfortable reading the serious financial press is intrigued by what is going on in the massive M&A market and is concerned with achieving better-informed M&A. As such it might be of particular interest to business executives lawyers bankers and investors involved in M&A as well as graduate students interested in researching or learning about the role of accounting in M&A. | Accounting for M&A Uses and Abuses of Accounting in Monitoring and Promoting Merger

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E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism Queer Matters

E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism Queer Matters

Through attending to the nonhuman E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters places Forster’s fiction in conversation with contemporary debates concerned with the intersection of neomaterialism environmental humanities and queer ecology. The book revisits Forster’s liberal humanism from a materialist perspective by focusing on humans’ embodied activities in artificial and natural environments. By examining the everyday embodied experiences of characters the book thus brings to the fore insignificant and sometimes overlooked aspects in Forster’s fiction. It also places importance on the texts’ treatment of queer intimacy as an embodied experience that can transcend sexual desire. The book acknowledges nonhuman agency as central to our understanding of queerness in Forster’s texts and studies the representation of formless matters such as dust as a way through which Forster’s ecological concerns arise by linking the fate of oppressed humans with oppressed nonhuman others. | E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism Queer Matters

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Pro Tools LE and M-Powered The complete guide

Pro Tools LE and M-Powered The complete guide

Pro Tools LE and M-Powered is an authoritative guide to Digidesign's entry-level hardware and software systems. Illustrated throughout with color screen grabs the book starts by giving you useful overviews and advice about the hardware options available. Subsequent chapters are packed with easy-to-follow instructions valuable hints and time-saving tips on how to use the software. Includes:* Full coverage of all new features in version 7* Information on tempos clicks and grooves* Two chapters on MIDI* Useful tutorials on using Reason Live and SampleTank* Recommendations on backups and transfers* Guidance on the DV Toolkit for post productionFor troubleshooting technical problems advice on purchasing decisions or inspiration for new ideas keep this book by your side as a vital reference point. | Pro Tools LE and M-Powered The complete guide

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Deconstructing the Talmud The Absolute Book

Deconstructing the Talmud The Absolute Book

This monograph uses deconstruction—a philosophical movement originated by Jacques Derrida—to read the most authoritative book in Judaism: the Talmud. Examining deconstruction in comparison with Kant’s and Hegel’s philosophies the volume argues that the movement opens an innovative debate on Jewish Law. First the monograph interprets deconstruction within the major streams of continental philosophy; then it criticizes many aspects of Foucault’s and Agamben’s philosophy rejecting their notion of law. On these premises the research delivers a close examination of many fundamental aspects of the Talmud. Consequently it provides a short history of Rabbinic literature a history of the dissemination of the Talmud from Babylon to Northern France and an analysis of Talmudic vocabulary from a deconstructive perspective. Each key concept of the Talmud is analysed according to the deconstructive dialectics between orality and writing. Closing with a comparison between the Talmud and Derrida’s most enigmatic text Glas the study argues that deconstruction dismantles the traditional notion of the Talmud to outline a new approach to Jewish Law. Reading the Talmud through deconstruction this new angle makes the volume an essential resource for students and scholars interested in Jewish studies continental philosophy and the Middle East. | Deconstructing the Talmud The Absolute Book

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Thinking the Greeks A Volume in Honor of James M. Redfield

Thinking the Greeks A Volume in Honor of James M. Redfield

This volume from an international and interdisciplinary cohort of scholars offers independent-minded essays about central Greek texts and about the relation of social theory and comparative method to the study of archaic and classical Greek literature. It is in honour of James M. Redfield whose innovative and theoretically-informed work has been a touchstone for the contributors; it includes an Introduction that discusses Redfield’s work as well as a complete Bibliography of Redfield’s scholarship. The volume is divided into three parts: on Homer; Plato in conversation with epic tragedy and comedy; and finally reception and transmission. An exploration of the dialectical relationship between literary genre and social form animates many of the essays. Drawing on work in anthropology linguistics sociology art history and philosophy this volume offers ground-breaking perspectives on the study of Greek literature. It will be an invaluable resource to students and researchers alike. | Thinking the Greeks A Volume in Honor of James M. Redfield

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Re-imagining Democracy Legacy Impact and Lessons of Spain's 15-M Movement

Re-imagining Democracy Legacy Impact and Lessons of Spain's 15-M Movement

This interdisciplinary book draws on leading scholarship on one of the most influential and consequential social movements of the past decades: Spain’s 15-M movement. The volume explores the legacy impact and outcomes of the movement and the lessons it offers for understanding mobilization in times of crisis. The book opens with a theoretical reconsideration of the positive ways social movements can impact democracy moving the field forward significantly. It also offers rich case studies to explore a range of areas of interest to social movement scholars. Chapters explore the biographical consequences of participation in social movements; how memories of the movement inspired new mobilizations; the reciprocal influence between the 15-M movement and feminist economics; how urban democracy was transformed by municipalism arising from the movement; how the movement generated a “Caring democracy” in the face of the Covid pandemic; and how it gave rise to a new radical democratic media ecosystem. The book explores the movement’s political economy as well as reflects on one of its unintended consequences: the rise of the penalization of counter-hegemonic protest in contemporary Spain. Although focused on a single emblematic movement it offers significant insights and lessons for scholarship on contemporary politics and movements. Re-imagining Democracy provides a valuable resource for scholars and students interested in the challenges faced by contemporary democracies the dynamics of social movements in times of crisis and the profound impact of social movements on contemporary democracy. The chapters in this book were originally published as a peer-reviewed special issue of Social Movement Studies. | Re-imagining Democracy Legacy Impact and Lessons of Spain's 15-M Movement

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Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Sergei M. Eisenstein's Work Cinema and Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Sergei M. Eisenstein's Work Cinema and Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia

In this insightful book Alberto Angelini shows the influence of psychoanalysis and psychology on Sergei M. Eisenstein one of the most celebrated Russian directors and his cinematic output. Angelini situates Eisenstein’s life and oeuvre in the history and culture of twentieth-century Russia drawing clear parallels between his networking with key figures such as Lev Vygotsky and Aleksandr Luria. He utilises the tools of psychology with the insight of psychoanalysis to illuminate the ways in which Eisenstein understood art as an anthropological enterprise while maintaining the same dialectical philosophy as the director in highlighting the many disciplines and figures that he drew inspiration from. Angelini also looks in depth at the influence psychoanalytic theories of regression had on Eisenstein’s approach to art while examining the impact Stalinism had directly on both Eisenstein and psychoanalysis at large from the 1930s onwards. This book is an essential resource for psychoanalysts students and scholars of film studies as well as those interested in the intersection between psychoanalytic theory cinema and the arts. | Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Sergei M. Eisenstein's Work Cinema and Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia

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Pocket Guide to Mycological Diagnosis

Pocket Guide to Mycological Diagnosis

The Pocket Guide to Mycological Diagnosis provides useful and concise information for microbiologists and professionals diagnosing the most medically relevant fungal species. Cellular and molecular techniques immunological methods and more accurate microscopy equipment available in most mycology laboratories now make diagnosis more routine. Furthermore information regarding medical mycology including identification of specific fungal pathogens is widely available. This book helps mycologists address the emerging challenges of diagnosis. Key Features Succinct summary of fungal disease diagnosis Includes opportunistic fungal infections that can afflict immunocompromised patients Permits the identification of common fungal pathogens Reviews antifungal drugs Related Titles Ghannoum M. A. & John R. Perfect eds. Antifungal Therapy 2nd ed. (ISBN 978-1-4987-6814-6)Miyaji M. ed. Animal Models in Medical Mycology (ISBN 978-1-3158-9059-3)Razzaghi-Abyaneh M. M. Shams-Ghahfarokhi and M. Rai eds. Medical Mycology: Current Trends and Future Prospects (ISBN 978-1-4987-1421-1)

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Performance Analysis of Queuing and Computer Networks

Performance Analysis of Queuing and Computer Networks

Performance Analysis of Queuing and Computer Networks develops simple models and analytical methods from first principles to evaluate performance metrics of various configurations of computer systems and networks. It presents many concepts and results of probability theory and stochastic processes. After an introduction to queues in computer networks this self-contained book covers important random variables such as Pareto and Poisson that constitute models for arrival and service disciplines. It then deals with the equilibrium M/M/1/∞queue which is the simplest queue that is amenable for analysis. Subsequent chapters explore applications of continuous time state-dependent single Markovian queues the M/G/1 system and discrete time queues in computer networks. The author then proceeds to study networks of queues with exponential servers and Poisson external arrivals as well as the G/M/1 queue and Pareto interarrival times in a G/M/1 queue. The last two chapters analyze bursty self-similar traffic and fluid flow models and their effects on queues.

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The Essentials of M&A Due Diligence

The Essentials of M&A Due Diligence

How can you be sure you are buying the company you think you are? Are you sure it is as good as the seller says? How can you be certain unexpected costs and obligations will not suddenly appear once you are the owner and responsible for them? How best can you arm yourself for the negotiations? Have you worked out precisely what you are going to do with it once it is yours? How do you set the priorities for change to recoup the premium you have paid for it? The answer to all these questions and many more lies within a series of three comprehensive yet concise volumes by Peter Howson. The Essentials of M&A Due Diligence the first in the series is a must for anyone who needs to master the essentials of due diligence with the minimum effort and in the minimum amount of time. Straightforward and unbiased it sets out the fundamentals of pre-acquisition investigations showing which are appropriate and why.

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The American Revolution 1775–1783 An Encyclopedia Volume 2: M–Z

The American Revolution 1775–1783 An Encyclopedia Volume 2: M–Z

This definitive encyclopedia originally published in 1983 and now available as an ebook for the first time covers the American Revolution comes in two volumes and contains 865 entries on the war for American independence. Included are essays (ranging from 250 to 25 000 words) on major and minor battles and biographies of military men partisan leaders loyalist figures and war heroes as well as strong coverage of political and diplomatic themes. The contributors present their summaries within the context of late 20th Century historiography about the American Revolution. Every entry has been written by a subject specialist and is accompanied by a bibliography to aid further research. Extensively illustrated with maps the volumes also contain a chronology of events glossary and substantial index. | The American Revolution 1775–1783 An Encyclopedia Volume 2: M–Z

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Modeling and Simulation-Based Systems Engineering Handbook

Modeling and Simulation-Based Systems Engineering Handbook

The capability modeling and simulation (M&S) supplies for managing systems complexity and investigating systems behaviors has made it a central activity in the development of new and existing systems. However a handbook that provides established M&S practices has not been available. Until now. Modeling and Simulation-Based Systems Engineering Handbook details the M&S practices for supporting systems engineering in diverse domains. It discusses how you can identify systems engineering needs and adapt these practices to suit specific application domains thus avoiding redefining practices from scratch. Although M&S practices are used and embedded within individual disciplines they are often developed in isolation. However they address recurring problems common to all disciplines. The editors of this book tackled the challenge by recruiting key representatives from several communities harmonizing the different perspectives derived from individual backgrounds and lining them up with the book’s vision. The result is a collection of M&S systems engineering examples that offer an initial means for cross-domain capitalization of the knowledge methodologies and technologies developed in several communities. These examples provide the pros and cons of the methods and techniques available lessons learned and pitfalls to avoid. As our society moves further in the information era knowledge and M&S capabilities become key enablers for the engineering of complex systems and systems of systems. Therefore knowledge and M&S methodologies and technologies become valuable output in an engineering activity and their cross-domain capitalization is key to further advance the future practices in systems engineering. This book collates information across disciplines to provide you with the tools to more efficiently design and manage complex systems that achieve their goals.

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Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems

Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems

Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence: Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems offers a chapter-by-chapter introductory survey of all aspects of emotional development from infancy to adolescence from delight surprise and love to anger distress and fear. Taking a chronological approach each chapter focuses on a specific emotion and covers the theories and research relating to its development from infants’ emotional capabilities to the changes in self-understanding and self-conscious emotions of adolescence. Hay integrates the approaches of classic developmental differentiation and differential emotions theory to create a comprehensive textbook with a unique approach to the subject matter showcasing a range of research linking emotions to biological underpinnings and early experiences. This wide-ranging book also includes coverage of differences in temperament developmental psychopathology emotion regulation and development of emotional understanding and attachment. It is core reading for students of developmental psychology health psychology child welfare and social work as well as anyone taking a course on social and emotional development courses. It will also be of interest to practitioners working in educational and clinical psychology and child psychiatry. | Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems

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Theorizing and Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics Developments by Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

Theorizing and Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics Developments by Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

This collection reflects on developments in the field of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as embodied in the work of Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen highlighting his diverse contributions to the field from theoretical and applied perspectives. The book surveys Matthiessen’s academic career and illustrates the myriad ways in which his work has reverberated through to current innovations in SFL research. The book also exhibits his theoretical contributions to major linguistic topics and his influence on the development of SFL. Written by some of the world’s foremost scholars in the field chapters cover such topics as theories of SFL and its applications in different domains as well as the developmental trajectories of SFL in major geographic areas. Addressing the key issues in SFL through the lens of Matthiessen’s career this book is an accessible resource for students and scholars in systemic functional linguistics as well as those interested in the systemic functional approach in related areas within linguistics. | Theorizing and Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics Developments by Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen

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(M)Other Perspectives Staging Motherhood in 21st Century North American Theatre & Performance

(M)Other Perspectives Staging Motherhood in 21st Century North American Theatre & Performance

This anthology examines maternity in contemporary performance at the intersection of a wide range of topics from nationhood to mental health queer parenting embodied dramaturgy cultural practice and immigration. Across the breadth of these themes we interrogate the cultural implications and politics of how we script perform receive and define mothers challenging many of the normalizing and patriarchal tropes associated with the mother-as-character. This book includes critical essays examining twenty-first century dramatic literature first-hand ethnographic accounts of motherhood in practice interviews feminist manifestos and artist reflections. In its deliberately curated variety this collection seeks to resist homogeneity and offer instead a range of approaches to key questions: what versions of motherhood get staged and why? And what do dramatic representations tell us about the role of mothers in our own fraught contemporary moment? This collection will be of great interest to those in academia who are teaching researching or studying in the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies American Studies and Feminist and Gender Studies. | (M)Other Perspectives Staging Motherhood in 21st Century North American Theatre & Performance

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The Routledge Companion to Mergers and Acquisitions

The Routledge Companion to Mergers and Acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are events that attract considerable interest from academics and practitioners and much research has been conducted into their impact on individuals organizations and societies. Yet despite all the existing research and the varied theoretical and methodological approaches employed there remains more to learn about M&As. The Routledge Companion to Mergers and Acquisitions takes a detailed look at this multifacted subject using a novel framework of four domains – substantive issues contextual issues methodological issues and conceptual issues. Drawing on the expertise of its international team of contributors the volume surveys the state of the field including emerging and cutting-edge areas such as social network analysis and corporate branding. This Companion will be a rich resource for students researchers and practitioners involved in the study of M&As and organizational and strategic studies more widely.

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Mergers and Acquisitions in Practice

Mergers and Acquisitions in Practice

The growth in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity around the world masks a high rate of failure. M&A can provide companies with many benefits but in the optimism and excitement of the deal many of the challenges are often overlooked. This comprehensive collection bringing together an international team of contributors moves beyond the theory to focus on the practical elements of mergers and acquisitions. This hands-on step-by-step volume provides strategies frameworks guidelines and ample examples for managing and optimizing M&A performance including: ways to analyze different types of synergy; understanding and analyzing cultural difference along corporate and national cultural dimensions using measurement tools; using negotiation due diligence and planning to analyze the above factors; making use of this data during negotiation screening planning agreement and when deciding on post-merger integration approaches. Students researchers and managers will find this text a vital resource when it comes to understanding this key facet of the international business world. | Mergers and Acquisitions in Practice

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The Cult of St. Anne in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

The Cult of St. Anne in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Dr Jennifer Welsh received her M. A. in Medieval Studies from Cornell University in 2000 and her M. A. and PhD in History from Duke University in 2004 and 2009. Her dissertation dealt with the cult of St. Anne in late medieval and early modern Europe. After four years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Charleston in Charleston SC she started working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Lindenwood-University Belleville in Belleville IL in August of 2014. This is her first book. | The Cult of St. Anne in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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Evolution Equations

Evolution Equations

Celebrating the work of renowned mathematician Jerome A. Goldstein this reference compiles original research on the theory and application of evolution equations to stochastics physics engineering biology and finance. The text explores a wide range of topics in linear and nonlinear semigroup theory operator theory functional analysis and linear and nonlinear partial differential equations and studies the latest theoretical developments and uses of evolution equations in a variety of disciplines. Providing nearly 500 references the book contains discussions by renowned mathematicians such as H. Brezis G. Da Prato N. E. Gretskij I. Lasiecka Peter Lax M. M. Rao and R. Triggiani.

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The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion Mobile Money Gendered Walls

The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion Mobile Money Gendered Walls

Focusing on Kenya’s path-breaking mobile money project M-Pesa this book examines and critiques the narratives and institutions of digital financial inclusion as a development strategy for gender equality arguing for a politics of redistribution to guide future digital financial inclusion projects. One of the most-discussed digital financial inclusion projects M-Pesa facilitates the transfer of money and access to formal financial services via the mobile phone infrastructure and has grown at a phenomenal rate since its launch in 2007 to reach about 80 per cent of the Kenyan population. Through a socio-legal enquiry drawing on feminist political economy law and development scholarship and postcolonial feminist debate this book unravels the narratives and institutional arrangements that frame M-Pesa’s success while interrogating the relationship between digital financial inclusion and gender equality in development discourse. Natile argues that M-Pesa is premised on and regulated according to a logic of opportunity rather than a politics of redistribution favouring the expansion of the mobile money market in preference to contributing to substantive gender equality via a redistribution of the revenue and funding deriving from its development. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students in Global Political Economy Socio-Legal Studies Gender Studies Law & Development Finance and International Relations. | The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion Mobile Money Gendered Walls

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Sociology and Medicine Selected Essays by P.M. Strong

Sociology and Medicine Selected Essays by P.M. Strong

Doctors and patients inter-professional rivalries how sociologists might tackle the study of vital topics in health - all these are enduring themes in sociology and medicine. These are also the long-running intellectual preoccupations of Philip M. Strong's twenty-year contribution to the field - one which he did much to shape. Posthumously gathered together for the first time in this volume are twelve of his major essays many of which are difficult to find or have been out of print for some years. Grouped by theme this important reference allows the reader to trace the development of Strong's thought over his career as well as the more general development of medical sociology as a whole. | Sociology and Medicine Selected Essays by P. M. Strong

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The Peach Potato Aphid (Myzus persicae) Ecology and Management

The Peach Potato Aphid (Myzus persicae) Ecology and Management

Considered as economically significant pests with worldwide distribution aphids feed on hundreds of cultivated and ornamental plants and cause considerable economic loss on a global scale. The peach-potato aphid Myzus persicae is one of the most severe model aphid pests and successfully colonizes hundreds of plant species from 40 different families. It is a complex aphid pest known for its high reproductive rate biotype formation suppression of plant defenses and wide range of host plants. This book covers ecological aspects - including life cycle damage and host range - which make aphids an economically important pest. A wide range of topics are covered including ecological aspects of M. persicae; challenges with management approaches; damage; suppression of plant defenses; evolution; the mechanism of resistance against major classes of insecticides; the potential of biological control and natural plant-derived compounds (plant defense elicitors) as an alternative to the use of synthetic chemical insecticides to control M. persicae; and integrated pest management for M. persicae. As the peach-potato aphid is a model aphid pest studying it helps to develop control strategies against the entire group of aphids. Written for professionals as well as students teachers and researchers in the fields of entomology ecology and bioscience this book is an enriching new addition to its field. | The Peach Potato Aphid (Myzus persicae) Ecology and Management

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The Law of the United States An Introduction

The Law of the United States An Introduction

The Law of the United States offers an introduction and overview of the American legal system. With an emphasis throughout on up-to-date case law and current literature it is an ideal first point of entry for students and practitioners alike and a starting point for further independent research. Professor Hay provides a concise and straightforward explanation of the law and legal vocabulary as well as an introduction to the different types of law and legal techniques. He explains the role of Congress the Executive and the Courts and clarifies the mechanisms behind the branches of public and private law in the United States. He introduces the reader to the complexities of federal and state law emphasizing that the many areas of public law and virtually all areas of private law are the separate law of the 50 States the District of Columbia and the (U. S. dependent) Territories in which common language legal tradition and culture have served to bring about a basic legal unity. Several private law areas (contract law torts family law succession) receive detailed treatment as do criminal law and procedure. The book provides detailed references to legislation case law and the literature up-to-date through early 2016. Four appendices present a detailed case study with commentary to aid the civil law reader in understanding of the case law system; the text of the U. S. Constitution (referred to in several contexts throughout the book); a geographic map of the U. S. federal court system; and information on the Legal Profession in the United States. | The Law of the United States An Introduction

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