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Copyright laws of 22 Middle East and Arabic Countries ... Read more

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This book describes the rules under which information moves from one nation to another, and examines the rules under which individual nations regulate the movement of information within their borders. Contains current, practical information to make hard-headed business decisions in light of today's global regulatory realities. ... Read more

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A must read for all telecommunications lawyers.
I was truly impressed with the quality and depth of the matters covered. Being a telecommunications lawyer in Mexico, I had never seen such a comprehensive but concise book on international telecommunications. I fully recommend this book and congratulate the authors. ... Read more

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Contracts can be your first line of defense against delays. But they have to be drafted very carefully. Construction Delay Claims gives you an in-depth analysis of all the pertinent clauses and details what they can and can’t do to minimize delays and avoid litigation. Construction Delay Claims, Third Edition, by Barry B. Bramble and Michael T. Callahan is written for everyone involved with delay and impact construction claims—the most common form of disputes in the construction industry. You’ll find that this resource presents the most thorough, detailed review of delay claims liability available, including a complete description of the entire process for filing and pursuing claims along with more than 1,950 cases and analyses.

Construction Delay Claims gives you the information you need to determine your best course of action. The book presents detailed knowledge drawn from the authors’ thirty-five years of experience in the industry. You’ll learn how to anticipate delays and mitigate damages through the use of advanced planning and immediate responses by the parties involved. You’ll also receive helpful instructions about the best use of construction schedules to avert delays, or to prove their impact if they do occur.

Construction Delay Claims keeps you completely up-to-date with the changes in the construction industry, and the construction litigation process. Coverage includes:

• Effective ways to challenge a claimant’s use of the Total Cost Method of Calculation
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• The meaning and implication of concurrent delays
• Cumulative impact effect of multiple change orders
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• Latest research into the effect and measurement of lost productivity
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This book is about the competing images of man offered us by the disciplines of law and psychiatry. Michael Moore describes the legal view of persons as rational and autonomous and defends it from the challenges presented by three psychiatric ideas: that badness is illness, that the unconscious rules our mental life, and that a person is a community of selves more than a unified single self. Using the tools of modern philosophy, he attempts to show that the moral metaphysical foundations of our law are not eroded by these challenges of psychiatry. The book thus seeks, through philosophy, to go beneath the centuries-old debates between lawyers and psychiatrists, and to reveal their hidden agreement about the nature of man. Some attention is paid to practical legal and psychiatric issues of contemporary concern, such as the proper definition of mental illness for psychiatric purposes, and the proper definition of legal insanity for legal purposes. This book was first announced, for publication in hard covers, in the Press's January to July seasonal list. ... Read more

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The New York Public Library
AMAZING U.S. Geography

Follow a chinook over the Rocky Mountains. Trace the course of the Mississippi River from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Discover where gold is mined and fish are farmed in the United States. Explore our fascinating nation from Alabama to Wyoming, and find answers to all your questions about U.S. geography...

Where is the highest waterfall in the United States?See page 33.
What is a sand sea?See page 40.
Why does California have so many earthquakes?See page 41.
Why are people from new England called Yankees?See page 69.
How many U.S. presidents were born in Ohio? See page 89.
Where did the Santa Fe Trail begin?See page 96.
How large is mammoth Cave in Kentucky?See page 108.
How hot are the Hot Springs in Arkansas?See page 116.

Also in The New York Public Library Answer Books series:

Incredible Earth
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Amazing Women in American History
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Great resource on the geography of the USA.
Found this book very useful for information on the geography of the USA. It's a great factbook, and perfect for studying about the United States. If you are looking for a colorful map book on the 50 states, you may want to try other books like: National Geographic United States Atlas for Young Explorers, Third Edition ... Read more

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Investment treaties, which grant special international protection to foreign investors and give them a means to enforce those rights against States in which they have invested, have become increasingly important in planning, executing and managing international investments. The Law of Investment Treaties explains the nature, history, and significance of investment treaties and their impact on international investors and investments, as well as on governments that are parties to them.

The international law governing trans-national investments has undergone a remarkable transformation in a relatively short time. The fundamental tool for effecting that transformation has been the investment treaty, in which contracting countries set down rules to govern investments by their respective nationals in each other's territories.They include the North American Free Trade Agreement, theEnergy Charter Treaty, and some 2500 bilateral investment treaties. This trend is bound to grow in the future. While differing in particular provisions, investment treaties all do two things: 1) they grant special protective rights to foreign investors, and 2) they provide for mechanisms that allow investors to enforce those rights, usually by international arbitration.

The Law of Investment Treaties examines the nature, history, and significance of investment treaties and their impact particularly on protected investors and investments, as well as on governments. Although the precise provisions of investment treaties are not uniform and some treaties restrict host country governmental action more than others, virtually all investment treaties address the same issues. Drawing on the growing body of arbitration decisions applying and interpreting investment treaties, this book examines in detail these common issues,including the scope of application, conditions for the entry of foreign investment and general standards of treatment of foreign investments (including increasingly common concepts such as "fair and equitable treatment" "national treatment", "most-favored-nation treatment" etc.). Monetary transfers, operational conditions, protection against expropriation and dispossession and compensation for losses are also explored. Salacuse also discusses dispute settlement, including negotiation, arbitration, conciliation, and judicial proceedings. ... Read more

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As the EU's fundamental rights regime reaches maturity, this book offers the first full-length overview of the historical development and current role of fundamental rights in the law and policy of the European Union. It analyses both the institutional aspects (the place of fundamental rights in the EU legal order and their role in decision-making procedures) and substantive dimensions (the range and scope of rights recognized as part of EU law).

Part I traces the emergence of fundamental rights as a feature of the EU legal order, from the initial silence of the original Treaties to the development of fundamental rights as general principles of law safeguarded by the European Court of Justice, and the adoption of a number of legislative instruments linking the protection of certain fundamental rights to the establishment of the internal market.

Part II moves on to examine fundamental rights in the current landscape of EU law and policy. It analyses the constitutionalization of fundamental rights through Treaty amendments and the development of an area of freedom, security and justice among the Member States.It examines the role of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and of the Fundamental Rights Agency; and the relationship between the EU and the Council of Europe in the protection of human rights on the European continent.

Finally, Part III offers a critical analysis of the role of fundamental rights in the external relations of the EU.

As a whole, the book offers an ideal introduction to understanding the European Union as a human rights organization, suitable for use by graduate students, and an invaluable reference point for academics and legal practitioners needing an overview of EU fundamental rights law and policy. ... Read more

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This book offers a group of essays published in memory of David Thomasma, one of the leading humanists in the field of bioethics during the twentieth century. The authors represent many different countries and disciplines throughout the globe. The volume deals with the pressing issue of how to ground a universal bioethics in the context of the conflicted world of combative cultures and perspectives.

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The European Court of Justice has profoundly influenced the development of the legal order of the European Union through the elaboration of unwritten general principles of law derived from the fundamental values underlying the national legal systems. This fully revised and updated second edition provides a detailed and systematic analysis of the general principles as applied by the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance. It assesses the impact of the EU Constitution on the relationship between the EU and the Member States and the protection of Community rights in national courts. ... Read more

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International ordering
I was doing research on the legal regime for the Caribbean's integration programme, the Caricom Single Market and Economy. I was happy to have the evolution of the jurisprudence of the ECJ laid out in such a thorough manner which enabled me to draw linkages with the CSME. The cost of expedited shipping to Guyana, South America was worth every penny and arrived faster than promised. ... Read more

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This work presents, interprets, and largely defends the legalphilosophy of H.L.A. Hart, except for his account of causation. Hartis considered by many persons to be the most important English writeron jurisprudence in the 20th century. The book considers his generaltheory of law, his theory of rights and of the enforcement ofmorality, and his analysis of the conditions of legal resposibilityand the justification of punishment.
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The Civil Procedure Rules place great emphasis on the written presentation of trial materials and increase the propensity for cases to be decided on the papers. Yet the Civil Procedure Rules themselves offer little guidance on the drafting of statements of case. The new edition of Bullen & Leake & Jacob fills this gap, offering a stock of authoritative, structured precedents, complete with guiding commentary. Radically restructured and rewritten to ensure it fully reflects the changes in practice, it is an easily accessible, user-friendly resource. A new edition of the standard work completely updated in the light of the Civil Procedure Rules; Coverage of both mainstream and specialist precedents; A practical working tool for all advocates - with new easily-searched layout; Expanded two-volume work - featuring new subjects such as Human Rights, Harassment, Computers and Information Technology, Environmental Claims, Entertainment and Sports Law; Expert best practice advice from practitioners at leading Chambers. ... Read more

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The book analyzes attitudes to people with various disabilities based on Muslim jurists’ works in the Middle Ages and the modern era. Very little has been written so far on people with disabilities in a general Islamic context, much less in reference to Islamic law. The main contribution of the book is that it focuses on people with disabilities and depicts the place and status that Islamic law has assigned to them.

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The WTO is one of the most important intergovernmental organizations in the world, yet the way in which it functions as an organization and the scope of its authority and power are still poorly understood. This comprehensively updated new edition of the acclaimed book by an outstanding team of WTO law specialists, provides a complete overview of the law and practice of the WTO. The authors explain the origins and development, via the GATT, of all of the substantive legal areas covered by the WTO, as well as the sources of law and remedies of the Dispute Settlement system. ... Read more

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Good International Trade Textbook
This book is a useful text for those who are interested in learning about the law of the World Trade Organisation. I would have given it a 3.5 rating rather than 3 if that were possible. This edition also reflects the more recent developments in WTO case law etc and is therefore useful as a textbook for those teaching international trade law. However, I found the policy analysis a little lacking or at least that it did not accurately reflect the diversity of views on some of the critical issue/challenges facing the WTO and its agenda. ... Read more

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The game-theoretic analysis of rights forms a rapidly growingfield of study to which this book makes an important contribution. VanHees combines the game-theoretic approach with the results and toolsfrom logic, in particular from the logic of norms. The resultingsynthesis between logic and game theory provides a firm foundation forthe game-theoretic approach. The analysis shows how different types ofright are related to the strategic opportunities of individuals and ofgroups of individuals. Furthermore, the book makes an importantcontribution to the theory of liberalism, in particular to the studyof the so-called `liberal paradoxes'. It demonstrates how theparadoxes resurface in the new decision-theoretic framework. In fact,they not only do so at the level of `ordinary' decision making, butalso at the level of constitutional decision making. ... Read more

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This series brings together published journal articles in international law as determined by the editors of each volume in the series. The proliferation of law, specialist journals, the increase in international materials and the use of the internet has maeant that it is increasingly difficult for students and legal scholars to have access to the relevant articles. In addition each volume contains an informative introduction which provides an overview of the subject matter and justification of why the articles were collected. This series contains collections of articles in a manner that is of use for both teaching and research. ... Read more

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During the 1990s, the international system underwent major changes with the end of the ideological divide that was the Cold War. At this time, the international system experienced a major movement with the widespread adoption of democratic systems leading academics to speak of an international victory for democracy, a third wave of democratisation and an emerging right to democratic governance. Within a short period of time, international law went from a position of supposed ideological neutrality to actively supporting the idea and practice of democracy. Concerns for democracy have been expressed in relation to membership to international organisations, international human rights law, trade conditionality, the process of recognition, multiple levels of governance, election monitoring and as a justification for the use of force. The essays in this collection will provide the reader with the key works in the debate about democracy in international law, demonstrating the wide influence democracy has had, the controversies that surround it and its importance for international law and relations. ... Read more

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Ethics and Law in Modern Medicine is a unique book thatexplores the field of medical ethics and health care decision-makingthrough hypothetical case studies. The truly unique feature of thisvolume is that each chapter sets forth a hypothetical fact patternwhich includes role assignments to encourage participants to activelytake part in group discussions and debate the controversial andcutting-edge topics that are presented. Each chapter includes in-depthdiscussion questions which thoroughly explore issues raised by thehypothetical fact patterns, and suggested readings provide backgroundfor participants. Additionally, the volume contains excerpts from keystatutes and case law which govern the decision-making processpresented in each chapter. The volume covers a wide variety of issuesincluding HIV, the health care rights of minors, consent andconfidentiality, assisted reproductive technology, property rights inbodily organs, research ethics, religious freedom and the right torefuse care, rationing of scarce resources, surrogate decision-making,and several other traditional as well as unique ethical, legal, andsocial issues. ... Read more