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The Ultimate Sci Fi Collection

by Edward Bellamy, Mary Shelley, Margaret Cavendish, Edwin A. Abbott, H.G. Wells, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Philip K. Dick, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Andre Norton, Murray Leinster, Garrett P. Serviss, H. Beam Piper, E.E. Smith, Edgar Allan Poe ...

The Ultimate Sci Fi Collection brings together over 50 of the greatest science fiction masterpieces ever written!Featuring:JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, by Jules VerneTWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, by Jules VerneTHE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, by Jules VerneFROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, by Jules VerneAROUND THE MOON, by Jules VerneOFF ON A COMET, by Jules VerneDOCTOR OX’S EXPERIMENT, by Jules ... Read more

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The Ultimate Sci Fi Collection brings together over 50 of the greatest science fiction masterpieces ever written!Featuring:JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, by Jules VerneTWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, by Jules VerneTHE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, by Jules VerneFROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, by Jules VerneAROUND THE MOON, by Jules VerneOFF ON A COMET, by Jules VerneDOCTOR OX’S EXPERIMENT, by Jules
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Balancing Privacy and Free Speech

Unwanted Attention in the Age of Social Media

by Mark Tunick ...

Series series Routledge Research in Information Technology and E-Commerce Law
In an age of smartphones, Facebook and YouTube, privacy may seem to be a norm of the past. This book addresses ethical and legal questions that arise when media technologies are used to give individuals unwanted attention. Drawing from a broad range of cases within the US, UK, Australia, Europe, and elsewhere, Mark Tunick asks whether privacy interests can ever be weightier than society’s interest ... Read more

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In an age of smartphones, Facebook and YouTube, privacy may seem to be a norm of the past. This book addresses ethical and legal questions that arise when media technologies are used to give individuals unwanted attention. Drawing from a broad range of cases within the US, UK, Australia, Europe, and elsewhere, Mark Tunick asks whether privacy interests can ever be weightier than society’s interest
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The Common Law

by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ...

The Common Law is a book about common law in the United states, including torts, property, contracts and crime, written by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. This classic is a must read for anyone wishing to understand American Common Law from an historical perspective. Simply one of the most important books ever written on American Law. ... Read more

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The Common Law is a book about common law in the United states, including torts, property, contracts and crime, written by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. This classic is a must read for anyone wishing to understand American Common Law from an historical perspective. Simply one of the most important books ever written on American Law.
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An Introduction to the Study of Tort

by Nayab Naseer ...

This book covers the basics of the law of torts, such as what is tort, different between tort, contract and crime, essential conditions of a liability in tort, defenses available when someone accuses you of harming them, the doctrines of strict and absolute liability, liability of occupiers, how to discharge from a tort case, and much more. All points are explained with case studies. This book is ... Read more

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This book covers the basics of the law of torts, such as what is tort, different between tort, contract and crime, essential conditions of a liability in tort, defenses available when someone accuses you of harming them, the doctrines of strict and absolute liability, liability of occupiers, how to discharge from a tort case, and much more. All points are explained with case studies. This book is
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North Carolina Injury Law: A Reference for Accident Victims

by David Daggett, Griff Shuler ...

We know how complicated and difficult personal injury, workers compensation, and disability claims can be. Think of this book as a guidebook or a roadmap, if you will, through the often confusing and overwhelming world of personal injury law. We wanted to provide you with a resource that is easy to understand, without a law degree.Each chapter will lead you through one aspect in clear, ... Read more

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We know how complicated and difficult personal injury, workers compensation, and disability claims can be. Think of this book as a guidebook or a roadmap, if you will, through the often confusing and overwhelming world of personal injury law. We wanted to provide you with a resource that is easy to understand, without a law degree.Each chapter will lead you through one aspect in clear,
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The Measure of Injury

Race, Gender, and Tort Law

by Martha Chamallas, Jennifer B. Wriggins ...

Tort law is the body of law governing negligence, intentional misconduct, and other wrongful acts for which civil actions can be brought. The conventional wisdom is that the rules, concepts, and structures of tort law are neutral and unbiased, free of considerations of gender and race.In The Measure of Injury, Martha Chamallas and Jennifer Wriggins prove that tort law is anything but gender and ... Read more

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Tort law is the body of law governing negligence, intentional misconduct, and other wrongful acts for which civil actions can be brought. The conventional wisdom is that the rules, concepts, and structures of tort law are neutral and unbiased, free of considerations of gender and race.In The Measure of Injury, Martha Chamallas and Jennifer Wriggins prove that tort law is anything but gender and
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The Widow Wave: A True Courtroom Drama of Tragedy at Sea

by Jay W. Jacobs ...

"A compelling story of a modern day maritime tragedy that beautifully discusses the vital importance of advances in observational technologies, forecasts and communications in avoiding future loss of life at sea. Jay Jacobs skillfully weaves together the legal, scientific and maritime narratives to enthrall and educate the reader." Julie Thomas, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Manager of the ... Read more

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"A compelling story of a modern day maritime tragedy that beautifully discusses the vital importance of advances in observational technologies, forecasts and communications in avoiding future loss of life at sea. Jay Jacobs skillfully weaves together the legal, scientific and maritime narratives to enthrall and educate the reader." Julie Thomas, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Manager of the
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Women’s Birthing Bodies and the Law

Unauthorised Intimate Examinations, Power and Vulnerability

Edited by Dr Camilla Pickles, Professor Jonathan Herring ...

This is the first book to unpack the legal and ethical issues surrounding unauthorised intimate examinations during labour. The book uses feminist, socio-legal and philosophical tools to explore the issues of power, vulnerability and autonomy. The collection challenges the perception that the law adequately addresses different manifestations of unauthorised medical touch through the lens of women ... Read more

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This is the first book to unpack the legal and ethical issues surrounding unauthorised intimate examinations during labour. The book uses feminist, socio-legal and philosophical tools to explore the issues of power, vulnerability and autonomy. The collection challenges the perception that the law adequately addresses different manifestations of unauthorised medical touch through the lens of women
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Intentional Torts

by H. Beau Baez ...

This book provides the essential rules needed to understand the intentional torts generally covered in the first few weeks of law school. Specifically, it covers battery, assault, false imprisonment, trespass to land, trespass to chattels, and conversion. Also, this book presents the affirmative defenses that a defendant can raise to these intentional torts. ... Read more

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This book provides the essential rules needed to understand the intentional torts generally covered in the first few weeks of law school. Specifically, it covers battery, assault, false imprisonment, trespass to land, trespass to chattels, and conversion. Also, this book presents the affirmative defenses that a defendant can raise to these intentional torts.
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The Psychology of Tort Law

by Jennifer K Robbennolt, Valerie P Hans ...

Series Book 2 - Psychology and the Law
"This innovative volume offers an inviting guide to the psychology of tort law and the decision making of plaintiffs, defendants, judges, and juries." —Shari Seidman Diamond, Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law and Professor of PsychologyThe Psychology of Tort Law explores tort law through the lens of psychological science. Drawing on a wealth of psychological research and their own experiences ... Read more

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"This innovative volume offers an inviting guide to the psychology of tort law and the decision making of plaintiffs, defendants, judges, and juries." —Shari Seidman Diamond, Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law and Professor of PsychologyThe Psychology of Tort Law explores tort law through the lens of psychological science. Drawing on a wealth of psychological research and their own experiences
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Corrective Justice

by Ernest J. Weinrib ...

Series series Oxford Legal Philosophy
Private law governs our most pervasive relationships with other people: the wrongs we do to one another, the property we own and exclude from others' use, the contracts we make and break, and the benefits realized at another's expense that we cannot justly retain. The major rules of private law are well known, but how they are organized, explained, and justified is a matter of fierce debate by ... Read more

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Private law governs our most pervasive relationships with other people: the wrongs we do to one another, the property we own and exclude from others' use, the contracts we make and break, and the benefits realized at another's expense that we cannot justly retain. The major rules of private law are well known, but how they are organized, explained, and justified is a matter of fierce debate by
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Tort Law

by Timon Hughes-Davies, Nathan Tamblyn ...

Series series Spotlights
What happens if a driver carelessly crashes into another car? Or a newspaper publishes a story which makes derogatory comments about someone? Or if a resident plays loud music every night so that their neighbour cannot get any sleep? Tort law is a collection of such misbehaviours or misadventures where the law deems it appropriate to intervene with civil remedies.This new textbook addresses a ... Read more

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What happens if a driver carelessly crashes into another car? Or a newspaper publishes a story which makes derogatory comments about someone? Or if a resident plays loud music every night so that their neighbour cannot get any sleep? Tort law is a collection of such misbehaviours or misadventures where the law deems it appropriate to intervene with civil remedies.This new textbook addresses a
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Tort Lawcards 2012-2013

by Routledge ...

Series series Lawcards
Routledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format make them an ideal revision aid. Helping you to identify, understand and commit to memory the salient points of each area of the law, shouldn’t you make Routledge Lawcards your essential revision ... Read more

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Routledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format make them an ideal revision aid. Helping you to identify, understand and commit to memory the salient points of each area of the law, shouldn’t you make Routledge Lawcards your essential revision
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Tort Law

by James O’Mahony ...

Series series Blackhall’s Essential Law Revision Series
The study of law can be an arduous and burdensome endeavour. Students can be overwhelmed by the unrelenting volume and complexity of legal texts. This can result in students failing to adequately understand the basic principles of their relevant study areas.Blackhall’s Essential Law Revision Series strives to take the drudgery and difficulty out of legal studies. The objective of the series is to ... Read more

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The study of law can be an arduous and burdensome endeavour. Students can be overwhelmed by the unrelenting volume and complexity of legal texts. This can result in students failing to adequately understand the basic principles of their relevant study areas.Blackhall’s Essential Law Revision Series strives to take the drudgery and difficulty out of legal studies. The objective of the series is to
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Tort Law

by Chris Turner ...

Series series Key Facts Key Cases
Key Facts Key Cases: Tort Lawwill ensure you grasp the main concepts of your Tort Law module with ease. This book explains the facts and associated case law for:The torts of negligence, occupiers’ liability and nuisanceStrict liability tortsThe torts of trespass to land and trespass to the personTorts involving goodsTorts affecting reputationEmployment relate... ... Read more

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Key Facts Key Cases: Tort Lawwill ensure you grasp the main concepts of your Tort Law module with ease. This book explains the facts and associated case law for:The torts of negligence, occupiers’ liability and nuisanceStrict liability tortsThe torts of trespass to land and trespass to the personTorts involving goodsTorts affecting reputationEmployment relate...
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Unjust Enrichment

by Peter Birks ...

Series series Clarendon Law Series
This new edition of Unjust Enrichment by the editor of the Clarendon Law Series, is a fully updated, clear and concise account of the law of unjust enrichment. It attempts to move away from the use of obscure terminology inherited from the past. This text is the first book to insist on the switch from restitution to unjust enrichment, from response to event. It organises modern law around five ... Read more

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This new edition of Unjust Enrichment by the editor of the Clarendon Law Series, is a fully updated, clear and concise account of the law of unjust enrichment. It attempts to move away from the use of obscure terminology inherited from the past. This text is the first book to insist on the switch from restitution to unjust enrichment, from response to event. It organises modern law around five
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The Idea of Private Law

by Ernest J Weinrib ...

Nearly twenty years after its original publication, The Idea of Private Law is widely recognized as a seminal contribution to legal philosophy, and one of the leading attempts to explain and justify the moral foundations of private law. Rejecting the functionalism popular among legal scholars, Ernest Weinrib advances the provocative idea that private law is an autonomous and non-instrumental moral ... Read more

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Nearly twenty years after its original publication, The Idea of Private Law is widely recognized as a seminal contribution to legal philosophy, and one of the leading attempts to explain and justify the moral foundations of private law. Rejecting the functionalism popular among legal scholars, Ernest Weinrib advances the provocative idea that private law is an autonomous and non-instrumental moral
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Cases, Materials and Text on European Law and Private Law

Edited by Professor Arthur Hartkamp, Professor Carla Sieburgh, Professor Wouter Devroe ...

Series series Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe
This Casebook deals with the horizontal effects of EU law, which is to say its effects on relationships between individuals. To a large extent, these effects have been created by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on the basis of the European Treaties. The main focus of the Casebook is on the developments relating to primary EU law and their influence on national private law. It ... Read more

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This Casebook deals with the horizontal effects of EU law, which is to say its effects on relationships between individuals. To a large extent, these effects have been created by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on the basis of the European Treaties. The main focus of the Casebook is on the developments relating to primary EU law and their influence on national private law. It
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Torts (Speedy Study Guides)

by Speedy Publishing ...

Tort law is one of the more confusing aspects of law. In short, tort cases are civil cases dealing with one person unfairly causing harm or injury to another through either negligence or misconduct. Because torts are such complicated matters, a reference guide on the subject can be of great benefit. A guide can aid an individual with understanding terms in tort cases. It can also help clarify ... Read more

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Tort law is one of the more confusing aspects of law. In short, tort cases are civil cases dealing with one person unfairly causing harm or injury to another through either negligence or misconduct. Because torts are such complicated matters, a reference guide on the subject can be of great benefit. A guide can aid an individual with understanding terms in tort cases. It can also help clarify
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The Trial Lawyer’s Guide to the Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Doctrine

Edited by Reagan William Simpson, Robert P. Redemann ...

Table of Contents:The Attorney-Client PrivilegeThe Ethics Rule on Confidentiality and How it Differs from the Attorney-Client PrivilegeThe Work-Product PrivilegeThe Common-Interest or Joint-Defense PrivilegeExceptions to PrivilegesWaiver of PrivilegesProcedural Tools for Litigating PrivilegesThe Attorney-Client Privilege in OrganizationsInvestigationsPatent Matters... ... Read more

$187.19 CAD

Table of Contents:The Attorney-Client PrivilegeThe Ethics Rule on Confidentiality and How it Differs from the Attorney-Client PrivilegeThe Work-Product PrivilegeThe Common-Interest or Joint-Defense PrivilegeExceptions to PrivilegesWaiver of PrivilegesProcedural Tools for Litigating PrivilegesThe Attorney-Client Privilege in OrganizationsInvestigationsPatent Matters...
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Private Law and Practical Reason

Essays on John Gardner's Private Law Theory

Edited by Haris Psarras, Sandy Steel ...

Series series Oxford Private Law Theory
The contributions to this edited volume engage with John Gardner's philosophical work on private law. The content is divided into three parts. The first part gathers contributions on general theoretical issues that bear upon private law. The second part is concerned with Gardner's well-known views on responding to wrongs and the justification of reparative duties - an issue that spans all of ... Read more

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The contributions to this edited volume engage with John Gardner's philosophical work on private law. The content is divided into three parts. The first part gathers contributions on general theoretical issues that bear upon private law. The second part is concerned with Gardner's well-known views on responding to wrongs and the justification of reparative duties - an issue that spans all of
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Professional Negligence in Construction

by Ben Patten, Hugh Saunders ...

Series series Construction Practice Series
What is professional negligence? What are the obligations of construction professionals in contract and in tort? In what circumstances might the difference between the obligations be important?These questions are of crucial importance not only to construction lawyers but also to contractors, architects, quantity surveyors, engineers, project managers, and multi-disciplinary practitioners. With an ... Read more

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What is professional negligence? What are the obligations of construction professionals in contract and in tort? In what circumstances might the difference between the obligations be important?These questions are of crucial importance not only to construction lawyers but also to contractors, architects, quantity surveyors, engineers, project managers, and multi-disciplinary practitioners. With an
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Principles of the English Law of Obligations

Edited by Andrew Burrows ...

Principles of the English Law of Obligations provides students with a high-quality overview of this key area of English law. Drawing together updated chapters from the third edition of English Private Law, the subjects covered include contract, tort and equitable wrongs, unjust enrichment, and remedies. Written by a team of acknowledged experts, the chapters give a clear, simple, and accurate ... Read more

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Principles of the English Law of Obligations provides students with a high-quality overview of this key area of English law. Drawing together updated chapters from the third edition of English Private Law, the subjects covered include contract, tort and equitable wrongs, unjust enrichment, and remedies. Written by a team of acknowledged experts, the chapters give a clear, simple, and accurate
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Employee Competition

Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave

Edited by Paul Goulding QC ...

Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave is a leading authority for employment law practitioners and human resource professionals alike. It provides detailed and comprehensive analysis of the issues encountered in contentious and non-contentious work concerning all forms of competition by employees, directors, partners, LLP members, and others. Cited in numerous judgments ... Read more

$173.99 CAD

Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave is a leading authority for employment law practitioners and human resource professionals alike. It provides detailed and comprehensive analysis of the issues encountered in contentious and non-contentious work concerning all forms of competition by employees, directors, partners, LLP members, and others. Cited in numerous judgments
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