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Princeton University Press
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English
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In this book, historian of science Lorraine Daston adopts a long term perspective for studying rules from diverse sources, including monastic orders, cookbooks, and mathematical algorithms. She argues that in the Western tradition most rules can be characterized as one of the following: tools of measurement and calculation, models or paradigms, or laws. Moreover, they exist on spectra from specific to general, flexible to rigid and the specific-to-general,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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A history of the American Constitution's formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar
When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. But ratification hardly ended the conversation. For the next half century, ordinary Americans and statesmen alike continued to wrestle with weighty questions in the halls of government and in the pages...
When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. But ratification hardly ended the conversation. For the next half century, ordinary Americans and statesmen alike continued to wrestle with weighty questions in the halls of government and in the pages...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
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Extraordinary author team: Fritjof Capra is the bestselling author of The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life, and Ugo Mattei is a distinguished professor holding chairs at Hastings College of the Law and the University of Turin. Pioneering work: This is the first book to explore the historical connections between natural science and jurisprudence, to illuminate how law's failure to keep pace with science is behind a host of modern problems, and to...
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IT Governance Pub
Pub. Date
2008
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1 online resource (182 pages)
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English
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In today's business environment, virtually all of a company's daily transactions and all of its key records are created, used, communicated, and stored in electronic form using networked computer technology. Most business entities are, quite literally, fully dependent upon information technology and an interconnected information infrastructure. While this reliance on technology provides tremendous economic benefits, it also creates significant potential...
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MIT
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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English
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Companies have increasingly recognized that legal capabilities are crucial for ongoing corporate success, and they understand the importance of working with legal counsel. All too often, though, senior executives still view the law as a constraint on managerial decisions, primarily perceiving it as an issue of cost and compliance. But this limited perspective of the law does not explain how some leading companies, such as Qualcomm and the Walt Disney...
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Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
13th edition.
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466 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"A business name, the names of key products, logos, packaging, and slogans all can function as trademarks that distinguish a business and its services and products. This book has information on how to select and protect a great trademark and how to register and maintain a trademark with the federal government. The reader will learn how to choose a trademark that distinguishes their business from competitors, search for marks that might conflict with...
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TidBITS Publishing Inc (O'Reilly)
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 online resource (127 pages)
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English
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Preserve your data for posterity! How do you want to be remembered by future generations? You can make a will to handle your physical possessions, but what about your digital life--photos, videos, email, documents, and the like? This ebook, written by tech expert Joe Kissell, covers many aspects of preserving such electronic ephemera as part of your digital legacy. If you're not at the stage of life where you can think about this for yourself, consider...
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English
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"A warm and witty multigenerational story about the deeply complicated relationships between mothers- and daughters-in-law, told through three women who marry into the same family. It's 2018 in New York City, and three women all known as Mrs. Tobias--Veronika, the matriarch, her daughter-in-law Mel, and Mel's daughter-in-law Birdie--are trying to navigate personal difficulties, some of which are with one another. Veronika and Mel, despite having little...
50) BGB für Dummies
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Publisher
Wiley-VCH
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1. Aufl.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
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Deutsch
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Ganz gleich ob Sie Betriebswirtschaftlehre, Jura oder Verwaltungswissenschaften studieren, um das BGB werden Sie kaum herumkommen. Mit diesem Buch hilft Ihnen André Niedostadek, sich das Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch systematisch zu erarbeiten. Er erklärt Ihnen so leicht verständlich wie möglich, wie das BGB aufgebaut ist, wie Sie bei einer Fallbearbeitung vorgehen sollten und natürlich auch, was es zu den einzelnen Gesetzen zu wissen gibt. Mit...
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English
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For more than a century, Black's Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for the language of law. This edition contains more than 50,000 terms, including more than 7,500 terms new to this edition. It also features expanded bibliographic coverage, definitions of more than 1,000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms, and reviewed and edited Latin maxims.
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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English
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Overview: From Erin Brockovich to Enron, whistleblowers who "challenge abuses of power that betray the public trust" have proven to be an unfortunate necessity in modern business culture. Their efforts to report crimes, fraud, and dangers to public health and safety have saved millions of lives and billions of dollars of shareholder value-and had we heeded the warnings of whistleblowers, perhaps disasters such as the Bernie Madoff scandal and the...
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Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
11th edition.
Physical Desc
492 pages : forms ; 28 cm
Language
English
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"As a small business owner, you can't afford to farm paperwork and contracts out to a lawyer--you have to deal with them yourself. With Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business, you can act with confidence. Here you'll find the forms you need to start and grow your business. Each document comes with thorough, plain-English, line-by-line instructions to help you: write contracts, prepare corporate bylaws, prepare an LLC operating agreement,...
56) Financial regulation and compliance: how to manage competing and overlapping regulatory oversight
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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"Devise an organized, proactive approach to financial compliance Financial Regulation and Compliance provides detailed, step-by-step guidance for the compliance professional seeking to manage overlapping and new regulatory responsibilities. Written by David Kotz, former Inspector General of the SEC with additional guidance provided by leading experts, this book is a one-stop resource for navigating the numerous regulations that have been enacted in...
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Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
9th edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages : forms ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"It happens to any business that's owned by more than one person: Sooner or later, one or more owners will want or need to leave the business. What happens to the company if one co-owner wants to retire, files for bankruptcy, or goes through a divorce? Unless one plans in advance, it could threaten the survival of the business. It's essential that business co-owners create a simple but effective buyout agreement (buy-sell agreement). This document...
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Guardians of justice volume 2
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English
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Social worker Alison Taylor has a passion for protecting children and seeing that justice is served on their behalf, but when she starts getting harassing phone calls and bizarre "gifts, " it seems she may be the one in need of protection.
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Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
15th edition.
Physical Desc
476 pages : charts, forms ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Whether you have an IRA, Roth IRA, 401(k), Keogh or other retirement plan, this book will help you make sense of the rules for taking your money out. Even more important, it will show you how to avoid the stiff taxes and penalties that lurk in the fine print.
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