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This riveting biography from the American Bar Association visits the spectacular life of Edwin Land, breakthrough inventor. At the time of his death, he stood third on the list of our most prolific inventors, behind only Thomas Edison and one of Edison's colleagues. Land's most famous achievement was the creation of a revolutionary film-and-camera system that could produce a photographic print moments after the picture was taken.

Secure your legacy and protect your assets with "Smart Estate Planning for Modern Families," the definitive guide for Generation X navigating the complexities of estate planning. Whether you're worried about taxes, digital legacies, or family dynamics, this book offers tailored advice to ensure peace of mind.

Get a deeper understanding of police shootings through interviews with officers involved in real-life cases. Today’s media is filled with discussions about officer-involved shootings. Too often missing from that discussion are the police officers’ voices and the reality of what happens in actual shooting incidents. Through actual interviews with involved officers, this book addresses common myths and misunderstandings about these shootings. Shots Fired is a journey “behind the shield” and the experiences of the real human beings behind the badge.

Through compelling case studies, including those of Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Sony, Amazon, and Google Books, Vaidhyanathan shows that the modern intellectual property systems reflect three centuries of changes in politics, economics, technologies, and social values. Although it emerged from a desire to foster creativity while simultaneously protecting it, intellectual property today has fundamentally shifted to a political dimension.

Americans are losing the freedom to make sense of daily choices - teachers can't maintain order in the classroom, managers are trained to avoid candor, schools ban tag, and companies plaster inane warnings on everything: "Remove Baby Before Folding Stroller". Philip K. Howard’s urgent argument is full of examples, often darkly humorous. What’s at stake, Howard explains in this seminal book, is the vitality of American culture.

This guide offers candid and detailed descriptions of the challenges confronting the law student and provides concrete, workable suggestions on how to cope with them. The guide begins with a candid discussion of whether law school is a good choice for you. We explain why law school is probably not worthwhile to spend three expensive years while you figure out what you want to do with your life. After that, we provide guidance on choosing a law school that suits your particular goals and needs.

Learn everything you need to know to get into law school. This re-written and completely updated version of the bestselling law school admission guide, first published in 2009, provides detailed information on how to present yourself in the law school application process.

In 1802, President Thomas Jefferson distilled a leading idea in the early American republic and wrote of a wall of separation between church and state. That metaphor has come down from Jefferson to 21st-century Americans through a long history of jurisprudence, political contestation, and cultural influence. This book traces the development of the concept of separation of church and state and the Supreme Court's application of it in the law.

As renowned national security law scholar Laura K. Donohue explains in The Future of Foreign Intelligence, global communications systems and digital technologies have changed our lives in countless ways. But they have also contributed to a worrying transformation. New and emerging technologies have radically expanded the amount and type of information that the government collects about US citizens.

The national security and civil liberties tensions of the World War II mass incarceration link 9/11 and the 2015 Paris-San Bernardino attacks to the Trump era in America - an era darkened by accelerating discrimination against and intimidation of those asserting rights of freedom of religion, association and speech, and an era marked by increasingly volatile protests. This book discusses the broad civil liberties challenges posed by these past-into-the-future linkages.

Racial Emotion at Work is an invitation to understand our own emotions and associated behaviors around race—and much more. With this surprising and timely book, Tristin K. Green takes us beyond diversity trainings and other individualized solutions to discrimination and inequality in employment, calling for sweeping changes in how the law and work organizations treat and shape racial emotions.

The transition from university to career - from "ivory tower" to "real world" - has never been more challenging. 4L (or fourth year of law school) is the result of J.K. Franko’s many years of experience practicing law and is full of practical advice. This includes information on client development, baby lawyer syndrome, ethical dilemmas, and so much more - all of which can be put to immediate use.

Real estate, divorce, wills, adoptions...modern life can be so confusing. You probably know you could hire an attorney to help you with these things, but is it even possible to do all this with an attorney—without breaking the bank, that is? Luckily, this audiobook is designed to inform parents of when and why they should see an attorney. It provides legal information on many different topics parents are likely to experience, so they have the background knowledge needed in making these important decisions.

How to Prepare Your Fiancé (K-1) Visa without High Lawyer Fees is authored by Immigration Attorney Thomas Yang with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and actual client's sample forms that was filed and approved by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

The purpose of this audiobook is to summarize the essential elements of an average home purchase or sale in order to avoid major pitfalls often encountered. In this audiobook are issues that you should be looking for in your contract. Also explained are alternative home-buying options such as buying a home on contract or agreement for deed. We will explore what you can expect during the closing and review the various ways you can hold title to a property.

Don’t panic: it’s only divorce. The relationship you thought would last forever will soon end. The future is filled with so many frightening unknowns. What will your legal fees cost? How long will the process take? What happens next? Let Diana Romanovska, a family law attorney who is herself a divorcee as well as a child of divorce, answer the questions that keep you up at night when your marriage is over.

If you are currently in a long-distance relationship with your fiancé who is a foreign national living in another country, you can get a K-1 fiancé visa to bring them to the US so you two can be together. This audiobook walks you through the fiancé visa process in plain English.

A comparison of utopian fiction presented in Atlas Shrugged and the actual experience of living in a private community beyond the reach of government. It examines theory and practical real-world aspects of liberty, property, constitutional law, and national security in the context of a fully free society. It presents a novel proposal to fund national security by private enterprise that does not rely upon (and has no legal right to impose) taxes. Extensive discussion of property as a moral office of responsibility to advance the general welfare by offering employment.

Do not allow bad credit to ruin your life! Your credit score is one of the most important numbers that will ever be attached to your name. Credit is the deciding factor in whether you will be approved for a mortgage, car loan, credit card, or employment opportunities! Remove negative items from your credit report and take control of your financial future today!

Do you want to build generational wealth, bequeath your loved ones financial freedom and ultimately widen their freedom of choice in their lives, but you are uncertain on how to go about it without making another financial mistake? Are you looking for a step-by-step guide that will take the uncertainty away and show you how to build a financial legacy that will inspire and financially secure your generations long after you are gone? If you’ve answered YES, Let this book guide you on how to build an enduring financial legacy!