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The Last Mechanical Monster

By: Brian Fies

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From Brian Fies, the acclaimed graphic novelist of Mom’s Cancer, Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?, and A Fire Story, comes a classic comic book adventure for all ages Decades after being imprisoned for threatening his city with an army of giant robots, an elderly scientist reenters society, only to discover he needs help navigating life in the 21st century. Experiencing real kindness and friendship for the first time, his new relationships challenge the inventor’s single-minded devotion for vengeance—just as his plans threaten to spiral out of his control. The Last Mechanical Monster by Brian Fies is a story about ambition, creativity, mortality, friendship, and legacy. But it is also a story about how we want to be remembered, and what we leave behind. This latest graphic novel from Brian Fies (Mom’s Cancer, Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?, and A Fire Story) already has a fan base and a considerable history of accomplishment. Initially published online as a webcomic, it was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic in both 2014 and 2015. It is also a pivot from Fies’s more serious graphic novels, created at a time when he was between large, demanding projects, and needing to remind himself that comics could and should be fun and provide a joyful escape—something we can all use a little more of these days.

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A Fire Story

A Graphic Memoir

By: Brian Fies

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A Fire Story

A Graphic Memoir

By: Brian Fies

The award-winning author and illustrator presents a personal account of the Northern California wildfires of 2017 in this moving graphic memoir. On October 9th, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in forty-four fatalities and the destruction of thousands of homes. In A Fire Story, Brian Fies shares an unflinching account of this tragedy as he and his wife experienced it—including losing their house and every possession that didn’t fit in their car. As the fires continued to burn through the area, Brian pulled together A Fire Story and posted it online. It immediately went viral. He later expanded the webcomic to include environmental insight and the fire stories of his neighbors. A Fire Story is a candid testimony of the wildfires that left homes destroyed, families broken, and a community determined to rebuild. This updated and expanded edition includes thirty-two pages of all-new material, extending the story past the events of the hardcover edition to include updates on the rebuilding, wrestling with insurance, wrangling with contractors, the management of sometimes volatile emotions, and the threats of yet another wildfire.

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1683354516

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Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?

By: Brian Fies

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Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?

By: Brian Fies

Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?, the long-awaited follow-up to Mom's Cancer, is a unique graphic novel that tells the story of a young boy and his relationship with his father. Spanning the period from the 1939 New York World's Fair to the last Apollo space mission in 1975, it is told through the eyes of a boy as he grows up in an era that was optimistic and ambitious, fueled by industry, engines, electricity, rockets, and the atom bomb. An insightful look at relationships and the promise of the future, award-winning author Brian Fies presents his story in a way that only comics and graphic novels can. Interspersed with the comic book adventures of Commander Cap Crater (created by Fies to mirror the styles of the comics and the time periods he is depicting), and mixing art and historical photographs, this groundbreaking graphic novel is a lively trip through a half century of technological evolution. It is also a perceptive look at the changing moods of our nation-and the enduring promise of the future. Praise for Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? “A graphic novel that looks like TV’s “Futurama” bred with The Golden Age of Comic Books, Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? is at times charming, at times sad and foreboding, and always thought provoking.” —Air & Space Smithsonian "A hopelessly optimistic moon-age daydream"—The Village Voice “An exceptional and highly engaging experience.” —The Miami Herald "Whatever Happened To The World Of Tomorrow is a very special book that will speak to you on so many levels. And at the end of it, when you sit there and think on what you’ve just read, it may even make you, like it did me, realise that Fies’ vision of our past and his hope for the future is something we can all share in. Quite brilliant."—Richard Bruton, forbiddenplanet.co.uk F&P level: Y

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1613122691

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Mom's Cancer

By: Brian Fies

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Mom's Cancer

By: Brian Fies

Each year, approximately 1.5 million people in the United States and Canada are diagnosed with cancer. This is one family’s story. Brian Fies is a freelance journalist whose mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. As he and his two sisters struggled with the effects of her illness and her ongoing recovery from treatment, Brian processed the experience in his journal, which took the form of words and pictures. The story that came to be known as “Mom’s Cancer” first gained notice on the internet. It was posted anonymously, with the intention of sharing information and insights gained from his family’s experience. Thanks to the words and illustrations of Brian Fies, readers have already responded that they were surprised and gratified to realize that they weren’t alone. Abrams ComicArts is proud to bring this story to a whole new audience.

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Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21

By: Brian Kelly

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Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21

By: Brian Kelly

In this lucid and supremely readable study, Brian Kelly challenges the prevailing notion that white workers were the main source of resistance to racial equality in the Jim Crow South. Kelly explores the forces that brought the black and white miners of Birmingham, Alabama, together during the hard-fought strikes of 1908 and 1920. He examines the systematic efforts by the region's powerful industrialists to foment racial divisions as a means of splitting the workforce, preventing unionization, and holding wages to the lowest levels in the country. He also details the role played by Birmingham's small but influential black middle class, whose espousal of industrial accommodation outraged black miners and revealed significant tensions within the African-American community.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252069331

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Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?

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Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?

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Mom's Cancer

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Mom's Cancer

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New York Politics

A Tale of Two States

By: Edward V Schneier,Brian Murtaugh

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New York Politics

A Tale of Two States

By: Edward V Schneier,Brian Murtaugh

Most New Yorkers have very little knowledge of how influence is wielded in Albany. This acclaimed book offers a chance to look behind those closed doors. The authors - an Albany-based political scientist and a former State Assembly member, now joined by an expert on political blogging and networking - infuse their discussion of institutions and processes with the drama and significance of real power politics. Completely revised and updated with extensive new material, the book covers recent political developments and electoral contests as well as all the basics: constitutional issues; historical, economic, social, and demographic factors; the functioning of executive, legislative, and judicial institutions; urban, local, and special district governments; parties, interest groups, and bureaucracies; and, finance, budgets, health, education, and welfare programs. Throughout, the authors are attentive to the many paradoxes and dualities that distinguish political, social, and economic life in the Empire State.

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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

By: Brian Greene

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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

By: Brian Greene

The international bestseller that inspired a major Nova special and sparked a new understanding of the universe. Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away layers of mystery to reveal a universe that consists of eleven dimensions, where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter—from the smallest quarks to the most gargantuan supernovas—is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy. The Elegant Universe makes some of the most sophisticated concepts ever contemplated accessible and thoroughly entertaining, bringing us closer than ever to understanding how the universe works.

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0393071340

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A Course of Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists

By: Brian H. Chirgwin,Charles Plumpton

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A Course of Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists

By: Brian H. Chirgwin,Charles Plumpton

A Course of Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists, Volume 4 focuses on mathematical methods required in the more advanced parts of physics and engineering. Organized into five chapters, this book begins by elucidating vector analysis and the differential and integral operations and theorems concerning vectors. Chapter II shows solution of ordinary and some partial differential equations. Chapter III addresses the properties of Bessel, Legendre, Laguerre, and Hermite functions that commonly occur in the solution of boundary and initial value problems. The last two chapters detail the differential equations of field lines and level surfaces, as well as the matrices. This book will be useful to undergraduate students so that they can appreciate and use the mathematical methods required in the more advanced parts of physics and engineering.

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1483149595

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The NEC 3 Engineering and Construction Contract

A Commentary

By: Brian Eggleston

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The NEC 3 Engineering and Construction Contract

A Commentary

By: Brian Eggleston

Now Available in Paperback From its launch in 1991 the New Engineering Contract has rapidly overtaken traditional building and civil engineering contracts to become the UK's leading standard form for major construction projects. Additionally, under the generic title NEC 3, there is now a family of New Engineering Contract standard forms. This book provides a detailed commentary on the latest edition of the main form - NEC 3 Engineering and Construction Contract. It explains how the contract is intended to operate and examines each clause to consider its application and legal interpretation. It draws upon the author's successful book on the second edition of the Engineering and Construction Contract, ECC 2, and it identifies and comments on the changes between ECC 2 and NEC 3. Particular attention is given to the revised compensation event procedures in NEC3, with five chapters of the book devoted to this subject. In-depth analysis is also given to: The role of the project manager The obligations of the parties The liabilities of the parties The revised dispute resolution procedures

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118989368

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Idleness

A Philosophical Essay

By: Brian O'Connor

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Idleness

A Philosophical Essay

By: Brian O'Connor

The first book to challenge modern philosophy’s case against idleness, revealing why the idle state is one of true freedom For millennia, idleness and laziness have been regarded as vices. We're all expected to work to survive and get ahead, and devoting energy to anything but labor and self-improvement can seem like a luxury or a moral failure. Far from questioning this conventional wisdom, modern philosophers have worked hard to develop new reasons to denigrate idleness. In Idleness, the first book to challenge modern philosophy's portrayal of inactivity, Brian O'Connor argues that the case against an indifference to work and effort is flawed--and that idle aimlessness may instead allow for the highest form of freedom. Idleness explores how some of the most influential modern philosophers drew a direct connection between making the most of our humanity and avoiding laziness. Idleness was dismissed as contrary to the need people have to become autonomous and make whole, integrated beings of themselves (Kant); to be useful (Kant and Hegel); to accept communal norms (Hegel); to contribute to the social good by working (Marx); and to avoid boredom (Schopenhauer and de Beauvoir). O'Connor throws doubt on all these arguments, presenting a sympathetic vision of the inactive and unserious that draws on more productive ideas about idleness, from ancient Greece through Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Schiller and Marcuse's thoughts about the importance of play, and recent critiques of the cult of work. A thought-provoking reconsideration of productivity for the twenty-first century, Idleness shows that, from now on, no theory of what it means to have a free mind can exclude idleness from the conversation.

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Princeton University Press

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0691167524

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The Art of Editing in the Age of Convergence

By: Brian S. Brooks,James L. Pinson

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The Art of Editing in the Age of Convergence

By: Brian S. Brooks,James L. Pinson

The Art of Editing continues to be the standard by which editing texts are judged, offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of editing available. Long viewed as the “classic” in the field of editing, The Art of Editing continues to evolve to meet the needs of today's students. In addition to a focus on traditional newspaper editing, the authors pay significant attention to the other areas in which students are increasingly finding jobs: online media, corporate magazines, broadcasting, public relations and advertising. The ninth edition of The Art of Editing details the major changes revolutionizing the media industry and prepares students to work in convergent environments, where skill in print, broadcast and online operations is essential.

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CRC Press

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1317343557

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The Official New Features Guide to Sybase ASE 15

By: Brian Taylor,Naresh Adurty,Steve Bradley,Carrie King Taylor

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The Official New Features Guide to Sybase ASE 15

By: Brian Taylor,Naresh Adurty,Steve Bradley,Carrie King Taylor

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 is a high-performance, mission-critical database management system designed to meet the increasing demands of large databases and high-transaction volumes, while providing a cost-effective database management system. The Official New Features Guide to Sybase ASE 15 focuses on the many enhancements in Sybase ASE 15 including semantic partitions, computed columns, functional indexes, and scrollable cursors. With this book learn about the enhancements to ASE 15, how the new features can increase your efficiency and productivity, and how these features integrate with existing systems; understand how semantic partitions decrease the complexities of data management; find out how scrollable cursors and computed columns can ease the development process; learn how the optimizer toolset and QP Metrics improve monitoring and diagnostic efforts; provide the ability to ensure customer compliance through the use of Sybase Software Asset Management; test your knowledge with the included Sybase certification practice exam.

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Wordware Publishing, Inc.

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1449633722

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Microsoft Windows 7 in Depth

By: Robert Cowart,Brian Knittel

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Microsoft Windows 7 in Depth

By: Robert Cowart,Brian Knittel

Starting with an overview to guide decisions on which version to purchase, Cowart and Knittel cover Windows improved interface, security, Web browsing, performance, multimedia, networking, and system management and stability features. A trial online edition is available.

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Pearson Education

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0789741997

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Mortal Thoughts

Religion, Secularity, & Identity in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture

By: Brian Cummings

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Mortal Thoughts

Religion, Secularity, & Identity in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture

By: Brian Cummings

Mortal Thoughts is a study of the question of human identity in the early modern period. It examines literature alongside emerging forms of life writing and life drawing and self-portraits and considers portrayals of mortality and the moment of death.

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0199677719

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May It Please the Court

Judicial Processes and Politics in America, Second Edition

By: Brian L. Porto

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May It Please the Court

Judicial Processes and Politics in America, Second Edition

By: Brian L. Porto

Despite their clarity and sophistication, most judicial process texts currently available have two significant limitations. First, they understate the effects of legal factors such as stare decisis on judicial decision-making and second, they fail to convey the human emotions involved in litigation. Reflecting the author’s experience as a political scientist, law student, judicial clerk, practicing attorney, and law professor, May It Please the Court: Judicial Processes and Politics in America, Second Edition redresses this imbalance by giving well-deserved attention to legal influences on judicial decisions and to the human drama of litigation. Each chapter reflects the book’s premise that the judicial process operates at the intersection of law and politics, and this theme guides the discussions. The coverage in the book is far-reaching, exploring numerous topics, including the structure of federal and state courts, the selection and removal of judges, and the legal profession’s history and culture. It discusses two hypothetical cases, outlining their trial and appellate proceedings. It also presents an engaging debate about the legitimacy and the utility of judicial policy making. New to this edition: Expanded appendices, including a discussion of computerized legal research New illustrative cases, documents, and web references All chapters updated to reflect changes since the first publication in 2001 The final chapter summarizes the theme of the book, noting that courts not only enforce norms and resolve disputes, but also, as a coequal branch of government, shape the fundamental power relationships that drive American politics. The chapter ends by observing that the judicial process offers a window on the entire American political system. This book clarifies the view from that window.

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1420067699

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Flight Theory and Aerodynamics

A Practical Guide for Operational Safety

By: Joseph R. Badick,Brian A. Johnson

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Flight Theory and Aerodynamics

A Practical Guide for Operational Safety

By: Joseph R. Badick,Brian A. Johnson

FLIGHT THEORY AND AERODYNAMICS GET A PILOT'S PERSPECTIVE ON FLIGHT AERODYNAMICS FROM THE MOST UP-TO-DATE EDITION OF A CLASSIC TEXT The newly revised Fourth Edition of Flight Theory and Aerodynamics delivers a pilot-oriented approach to flight aerodynamics without assuming an engineering background. The book connects the principles of aerodynamics and physics to their practical applications in a flight environment. With content that complies with FAA rules and regulations, readers will learn about atmosphere, altitude, airspeed, lift, drag, applications for jet and propeller aircraft, stability controls, takeoff, landing, and other maneuvers. The latest edition of Flight Theory and Aerodynamics takes the classic textbook first developed by Charles Dole and James Lewis in a more modern direction and includes learning objectives, real world vignettes, and key idea summaries in each chapter to aid in learning and retention. Readers will also benefit from the accompanying online materials, like a test bank, solutions manual, and FAA regulatory references. Updated graphics included throughout the book correlate to current government agency standards. The book also includes: A thorough introduction to basic concepts in physics and mechanics, aerodynamic terms and definitions, and the primary and secondary flight control systems of flown aircraft An exploration of atmosphere, altitude, and airspeed measurement, with an increased focus on practical applications Practical discussions of structures, airfoils, and aerodynamics, including flight control systems and their characteristics In-depth examinations of jet aircraft fundamentals, including material on aircraft weight, atmospheric conditions, and runway environments New step-by-step examples of how to apply math equations to real-world situations Perfect for students and instructors in aviation programs such as pilot programs, aviation management, and air traffic control, Flight Theory and Aerodynamics will also appeal to professional pilots, dispatchers, mechanics, and aviation managers seeking a one-stop resource explaining the aerodynamics of flight from the pilot's perspective.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119772397

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Raising the Stakes

From Improvement to Transformation in the Reform of Schools

By: Brian J. Caldwell,Jim Spinks

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Raising the Stakes

From Improvement to Transformation in the Reform of Schools

By: Brian J. Caldwell,Jim Spinks

Breaking new ground by showing how to deploy all available resources – from finance to staff to culture to other organisations, Raising the Stakes provides an understanding of the breadth of resources that are needed in order to provide a quality education to all students.

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Routledge

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1134069766

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CMMI for Acquisition

Guidelines for Improving the Acquisition of Products and Services

By: Brian Gallagher,Mike Phillips,Karen Richter,Sandra Shrum

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CMMI for Acquisition

Guidelines for Improving the Acquisition of Products and Services

By: Brian Gallagher,Mike Phillips,Karen Richter,Sandra Shrum

CMMI® for Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ) describes best practices for the successful acquisition of products and services. Providing a practical framework for improving acquisition processes, CMMI-ACQ addresses the growing trend in business and government for organizations to purchase or outsource required products and services as an alternative to in-house development or resource allocation. Changes in CMMI-ACQ Version 1.3 include improvements to high maturity process areas, improvements to the model architecture to simplify use of multiple models, and added guidance about using preferred suppliers. CMMI® for Acquisition, Second Edition, is the definitive reference for CMMI-ACQ Version 1.3. In addition to the entire revised CMMI-ACQ model, the book includes updated tips, hints, cross-references, and other author notes to help you understand, apply, and quickly find information about the content of the acquisition process areas. The book now includes more than a dozen contributed essays to help guide the adoption and use of CMMI-ACQ in industry and government. Whether you are new to CMMI models or are already familiar with one or more of them, you will find this book an essential resource for managing your acquisition processes and improving your overall performance. The book is divided into three parts. Part One introduces CMMI-ACQ in the broad context of CMMI models, including essential concepts and useful background. It then describes and shows the relationships among all the components of the CMMI-ACQ process areas, and explains paths to the adoption and use of the model for process improvement and benchmarking. Several original essays share insights and real experiences with CMMI-ACQ in both industry and government environments. Part Two first describes generic goals and generic practices, and then details the twenty-two CMMI-ACQ process areas, including specific goals, specific practices, and examples. These process areas are organized alphabetically and are tabbed by process area acronym to facilitate quick reference. Part Three provides several useful resources, including sources of further information about CMMI and CMMI-ACQ, acronym definitions, a glossary of terms, and an index.

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Addison-Wesley Professional

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0132700522

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UML 2 Toolkit

By: Hans-Erik Eriksson,Magnus Penker,Brian Lyons,David Fado

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UML 2 Toolkit

By: Hans-Erik Eriksson,Magnus Penker,Brian Lyons,David Fado

Gain the skills to effectively plan software applications and systems using the latest version of UML UML 2 represents a significant update to the UML specification, from providing more robust mechanisms for modeling workflow and actions to making the modeling language more executable. Now in its second edition, this bestselling book provides you with all the tools you'll need for effective modeling with UML 2. The authors get you up to speed by presenting an overview of UML and its main features. You'll then learn how to apply UML to produce effective diagrams as you progress through more advanced topics such as use-case diagrams, classes and their relationships, dynamic diagrams, system architecture, and extending UML. The authors take you through the process of modeling with UML so that you can successfully deliver a software product or information management system. With the help of numerous examples and an extensive case study, this book teaches you how to: * Organize, describe, assess, test, and realize use cases * Gain substantial information about a system by using classes * Utilize activity diagrams, state machines, and interaction diagrams to handle common issues * Extend UML features for specific environment or domains * Use UML as part of a Model Driven Architecture initiative * Apply an effective process for using UML The CD-ROM contains all of the UML models and Java?TM code for a complete application, Java?TM 2 Platform, Standard Edition, Version 1.4.1, and links to the Web sites for vendors of UML 2 tools.

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0764555197

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Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae

A Guide and Commentary

By: Brian Davies

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Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae

A Guide and Commentary

By: Brian Davies

Following a scholarly account of Thomas Aquinas's life, Davies explores his purposes in writing the Summa Theologiae and works systematically through each of its three Parts. He also relates their contents and Aquinas's teachings to those of other works and other thinkers both theological and philosophical. The concluding chapter considers the impact Aquinas's best-known work has exerted since its first appearance, and why it is still studied today. Intended for students and general readers interested in medieval philosophy and theology, Davies's study is a solid and reflective introduction both to the Summa Theologiae and to Aquinas in general.

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Oxford University Press

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0199380643

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Ethics Through Literature

Ascetic and Aesthetic Reading in Western Culture

By: Brian Stock

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Ethics Through Literature

Ascetic and Aesthetic Reading in Western Culture

By: Brian Stock

Why do we read? Based on a series of lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel in 2005, Brian Stock presents a model for relating ascetic and aesthetic principles in Western reading practices. He begins by establishing the primacy of the ethical objective in the ascetic approach to literature in Western classical thought from Plato to Augustine. This is understood in contrast to the aesthetic appreciation of literature that finds pleasure in the reading of the text in and of itself. Examples of this long-standing tension as displayed in a literary topos, first outlined in these lectures, which describes “scenes of reading,” are found in the works of Peter Abelard, Dante, and Virginia Woolf, among others. But, as this original and often surprising work shows, the distinction between the ascetic and aesthetic impulse in reading, while necessary, is often misleading. As he writes, “All Western reading, it would appear, has an ethical component, and the value placed on this component does not change much over time.” Tracing the ascetic component of reading from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance and beyond, to Coleridge and Schopenhauer, Stock reveals the ascetic or ethical as a constant with the aesthetic serving as opposition, parallel force, and handmaiden, underscoring the historical consistency of the reading experience through the ages and across various media.

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UPNE

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1584656999

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Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s

By: Brian Diemert

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Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s

By: Brian Diemert

Diemert traces Greene's adaptation of nineteenth-century romance thrillers and classical detective stories into modern political thrillers as a means of presenting serious concerns in an engaging fashion. He argues that Greene's popular thrillers were in part a reaction to the high modernism of writers such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf, whose esoteric experiments with language were disengaged from immediate social concerns and inaccessible to a large segment of the reading public. Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s investigates some of Greene's best-known works, such as A Gun for Sale, Brighton Rock, and The Ministry of Fear, and shows how they reflect the evolution of Greene's sense of the importance of popular culture in the 1930s.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773566171

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The Poetics of Unremembered Acts

Reading, Lyric, Pedagogy

By: Brian McGrath

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The Poetics of Unremembered Acts

Reading, Lyric, Pedagogy

By: Brian McGrath

Poems—specifically romantic poems, such as those by Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth, and John Keats—link what goes unremembered in our reading to ethics. In "Tintern Abbey," for example, Wordsworth finds in "little . . . unremembered . . . acts" the chance to hear the "still, sad music of humanity."In The Poetics of Unremembered Acts, Brian McGrath shows that poetry’s capacity to address its reader stages an ethical dilemma of continued importance. Situating romantic poems in relation to Enlightenment debate over how to teach reading, specifically debate about the role of poetry in the process of learning to read, The Poetics of Unremembered Acts develops an alternative understanding of poetry’s role in education. McGrath also explores the ways poetry makes ethics possible through its capacity to pass along what we do not remember and cannot know about our reading.

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Rewriting Moses

The Narrative Eclipse of the Text

By: Brian Britt

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Rewriting Moses

The Narrative Eclipse of the Text

By: Brian Britt

Exalted for centuries as a hero and author of the Bible, Moses is inseparable from biblical tradition itself. Moses is also an inherently ambiguous figure and a perennial focus of controversy, from ancient disputes of priestly rivalry to modern issues of class, gender and race. In Rewriting Moses, Brian Britt analyses elements of polemic and ideology in the Moses of the Bible, of film, novel, visual art and scholarship. He argues that the biblical Moses lives within writing, while the post-biblical Moses lives more often in biography. Yet later rewritings of Moses refract biblical traditions of writing in surprising ways. Rewriting Moses provides an original account of the Freudian insight that traditions preserve what they repress. This is volume 14 in the Gender, Cutlure, Theory series and is volume 402 in the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplements series.

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Modelling Turbulence in Engineering and the Environment

Second-Moment Routes to Closure

By: Kemal Hanjalić,Brian Launder

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Modelling Turbulence in Engineering and the Environment

Second-Moment Routes to Closure

By: Kemal Hanjalić,Brian Launder

A comprehensive account of advanced RANS turbulence models including numerous applications to complex flows in engineering and the environment.

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Cambridge University Press

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Law and the Modern Mind

By: Jerome Frank,Brian H. Bix

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Law and the Modern Mind

By: Jerome Frank,Brian H. Bix

Law and the Modern Mind first appeared in 1930 when, in the words of Judge Charles E. Clark, it "fell like a bomb on the legal world." In the generations since, its influence has grown-today it is accepted as a classic of general jurisprudence.The work is a bold and persuasive attack on the delusion that the law is a bastion of predictable and logical action. Jerome Frank's controversial thesis is that the decisions made by judge and jury are determined to an enormous extent by powerful, concealed, and highly idiosyncratic psychological prejudices that these decision-makers bring to the courtroom.

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Taylor & Francis

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Stories about Stories

Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth

By: Brian Attebery

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Stories about Stories

Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth

By: Brian Attebery

The first comprehensive study of fantasy's uses of myth, this book offers insights into the genre's popularity and cultural importance. Combining history, folklore, and narrative theory, Attebery's study explores familiar and forgotten fantasies and shows how the genre is also an arena for negotiating new relationships with traditional tales.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199316074

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VCP5-DCV VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization on vSphere 5.5 Study Guide

Exam VCP-550

By: Brian Atkinson

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VCP5-DCV VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization on vSphere 5.5 Study Guide

Exam VCP-550

By: Brian Atkinson

Prepare for the VCP-DCV Exam Prepare yourself for VMware's challenging VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization exam, as well as the typical tasks and responsibilities you can expect as a VMware vSphere 5.5-certified professional. This comprehensive book guides you through all topics and objectives you'll need to know for the exam. These include planning, installing, upgrading, and securing vCenter Server and ESXi; configuring networking and storage; performing basic troubleshooting; and more. You'll also gain access to premium online practice and review tools. Prepares certification candidates for the VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization exam (VCP-DCV) Covers all exam objectives Features real-world scenarios, hands-on exercises, and challenging review questions Explores key topics such as securing vCenter and ESXi, planning and configuring vSphere networking and storage, creating and deploying virtual machines and vApps, establishing services levels, and more Includes access to online practice exams, flashcards, and other study tools If you want the best preparation for the VCP-DCV certification exam, you'll want VCP-DCV VMware Certified Professional Data Center Virtualization on vSphere Study Guide.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118919238

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Clojure Programming

Practical Lisp for the Java World

By: Chas Emerick,Brian Carper,Christophe Grand

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Clojure Programming

Practical Lisp for the Java World

By: Chas Emerick,Brian Carper,Christophe Grand

Clojure is a practical, general-purpose language that offers expressivity rivaling other dynamic languages like Ruby and Python, while seamlessly taking advantage of Java libraries, services, and all of the resources of the JVM ecosystem. This book helps you learn the fundamentals of Clojure with examples relating it to the languages you know already, in the domains and topics you work with every day. See how this JVM language can help eliminate unnecessary complexity from your programming practice and open up new options for solving the most challenging problems. Clojure Programming demonstrates the language’s flexibility by showing how it can be used for common tasks like web programming and working with databases, up through more demanding applications that require safe, effective concurrency and parallelism, data analysis, and more. This in-depth look helps tie together the full Clojure development experience, from how to organize your project and an introduction to Clojure build tooling, to a tutorial on how to make the most of Clojure’s REPL during development, and how to deploy your finished application in a cloud environment. Learn how to use Clojure while leveraging your investment in the Java platform Understand the advantages of Clojure as an efficient Lisp for the JVM See how Clojure is used today in several practical domains Discover how Clojure eliminates the need for many verbose and complicated design patterns Deploy large or small web applications to the cloud with Clojure

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1449335349

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Hunting Tough Turkeys

By: Brian Lovett

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Hunting Tough Turkeys

By: Brian Lovett

12 tough turkey-hunting problems and how to solve them Essential calling, scouting, roosting, and shooting skills Deals with difficult birds--in the rain, henned up, hard hunted Turkeys are just plain tough. They're paranoid, uncooperative, and often uncommunicative, but you can score on even the toughest turkeys. Brian Lovett's Hunting Tough Turkeys examines twelve of the toughest turkey-hunting situations encountered by hunters and provides detailed strategies and game plans for dealing with those difficult birds. Wide open meadows and pastures require keen observation of the turkey's movements; windy days make it tougher for the turkeys to hear your calling; and turkeys on the move force you to act quickly--Lovett explains what to do when you find yourself hunting these kinds of birds. Filled with vivid photos by photographer Tes Randle Jolly and peppered with anecdotes from the author's 20+ years in the turkey woods, Hunting Tough Turkeys is a must-read for any hunter trying to crack the tough-turkey puzzle.

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Stackpole Books

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0811736237

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Complexity and the Economy

By: W. Brian Arthur

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Complexity and the Economy

By: W. Brian Arthur

A collection of previous published papers by the author on the subject of complexity economics, appearing from the 1980s to the present.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199334293

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Campaign Finance and Political Polarization

When Purists Prevail

By: Raymond J. La Raja,Brian F. Schaffner

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Campaign Finance and Political Polarization

When Purists Prevail

By: Raymond J. La Raja,Brian F. Schaffner

An illuminating perspective on the polarizing effects of campaign finance reform

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University of Michigan Press

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0472052993

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ISIS

The Essential Reference Guide

By: Brian L. Steed

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ISIS

The Essential Reference Guide

By: Brian L. Steed

This illuminating work offers readers a comprehensive overview of ISIS, with more than 100 in-depth articles on a variety of topics related to the notorious terrorist group, and more than a dozen key primary source documents. ISIS formed through a combination of a rise in violent extremist ideologies demonstrated on September 11, 2001; the invasion of Iraq; and the Syrian Civil War. ISIS is possibly the most important conflict group and phenomena of the last half century, and understanding its source and success is crucial to functioning in the world today. This book provides insight into ISIS from its beginnings to the present, through coverage of its people, organizations, and operations. The book begins with an overview of ISIS, which provides context for each of the reference entries that follow. The introductory material also includes entries on the causes and consequences of the conflict between ISIS and the West. The book contains more than 100 reference entries on general and specific topics ranging from key leaders to major terrorist attacks and affiliated organizations. It also includes a carefully curated selection of primary sources that come from a variety of sources including national-level strategy documents, presidential addresses, and ISIS itself. The book concludes with a detailed chronology and annotated bibliography.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440864624

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9781440864629

Beginning SQL Server 2000 DBA

From Novice to Professional

By: Baya Pavliashvili,Michael Benkovich,Tony Bain,Brian Freeman,Joseph Sack

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Beginning SQL Server 2000 DBA

From Novice to Professional

By: Baya Pavliashvili,Michael Benkovich,Tony Bain,Brian Freeman,Joseph Sack

* Gives a fresh perspective in a stale market segment: "How to be a good SQL Server DBA", rather than "This is SQL Server, this is feature A, here is an example of feature A". * Only book on the market to provide complete coverage of the core jobs and roles involved in SQL Server DBA. Therefore, has broad, general appeal to novices who are browsing shelves, and looking for a book that makes sense of SQL Server entirely. * Written by an expert DBA who lets the reader know exactly what the essential aspects of a DBAs job are, the sort of issues that novices commonly run into and provides effective solutions and troubleshooting tips for all of the most common problems.

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Apress

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1430207035

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John Flavel

Puritan Life and Thought in Stuart England

By: Brian H. Cosby

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John Flavel

Puritan Life and Thought in Stuart England

By: Brian H. Cosby

A nonconformist, unifier, husband of three deceased wives, victim of religious persecution, and author of what has been collected into six volumes of reprinted Works, John Flavel (c.1630-1691) of Dartmouth, England not only had an immense following during his own lifetime, but deeply influenced those who would set the course as shapers of religion and culture in the generations to follow: Matthew Henry, Increase Mather, John Newton, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, William Wilberforce, Archibald Alexander, and Charles Spurgeon. Flavel’s influence remained strong until the end of the nineteenth century, when—for various reasons presented in this study seek to show—historiographical, philosophical, and Christian literature ceased to recognize his life or thought. It has only been within the last decade that scholarly work has begun to uncover this ‘lost’ Puritan and see him as a significant resource for understanding life and thought in Stuart England as well as the religious life of the early American colonies. The first book of its kind, John Flavel:Puritan Life and Thought in Stuart England aims to reveal Flavel as both a significant and influential English Puritan as well as present the salient elements of his life and thought.

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Lexington Books

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0739179535

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Engaging with Social Rights

By: Brian Ray

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Engaging with Social Rights

By: Brian Ray

With a new and comprehensive account of the South African Constitutional Court's social rights decisions, Brian Ray argues that the Court's procedural enforcement approach has had significant but underappreciated effects on law and policy, and challenges the view that a stronger substantive standard of review is necessary to realize these rights. Drawing connections between the Court's widely acclaimed early decisions and the more recent second-wave cases, Ray explains that the Court has responded to the democratic legitimacy and institutional competence concerns that consistently constrain it by developing doctrines and remedial techniques that enable activists, civil society and local communities to press directly for rights-protective policies through structured, court-managed engagement processes. Engaging with Social Rights shows how those tools could be developed to make state institutions responsive to the needs of poor communities by giving those communities and their advocates consistent access to policy-making and planning processes.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107029457

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9781107029453

Your Total PSAT/NMSQT Solution

By: Brian Higginbotham,Drew D. Johnson,Michael Snow

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Your Total PSAT/NMSQT Solution

By: Brian Higginbotham,Drew D. Johnson,Michael Snow

Study Smarter for the PSAT with REA’s Your Total PSAT Solution Test Prep with TestWare® CD! Your Total PSAT Solution Helps Get You Into College! This second edition of REA’s popular PSAT test prep is the best way for high school Sophomores and Juniors to prepare for the PSAT and raise their test scores! Students at all learning levels will benefit from this comprehensive college entrance test prep. Our in-depth review chapters are completely aligned with the most recent PSAT test content. The review covers all the subjects tested on the official exam: Critical Reading, Writing, and Math. Drills, examples, and practice questions in each chapter help you assess your skills and gauge your test-readiness. The book includes a diagnostic test plus a full-length practice test that replicates the actual exam’s question format and timing. Both of the book’s exams are featured on our TestWare® CD with the most powerful scoring and diagnostic tools available today. Automatic scoring and instant reports help you zero in on the topics and types of questions that give you trouble now, so you’ll succeed when it counts! The timed exam format on CD gives you the closest experience to taking the actual PSAT. Our on-screen detailed explanations of answers help you identify your strengths and weaknesses. We don’t just say which answers are right – we also explain why the other answer choices are incorrect – so you’ll be prepared on test day! The TestWare® CD comes with an extended time function to accommodate students with learning disabilities. As an added bonus, this test prep includes REA’s exclusive vocabulary iPhone app, so you can study anywhere! Additional PSAT study questions are available online at www.rea.com. When it's time to take the PSAT... REA has Your Total PSAT Solution!

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Research & Education Assoc.

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0738609250

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9780738609256

Evidence Law

Policy, Practice, and Problems

By: Laurie L. Levenson,Brian M. Hoffstadt

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Evidence Law

Policy, Practice, and Problems

By: Laurie L. Levenson,Brian M. Hoffstadt

The combined efforts of the impressive authorship team of Professor Laurie L. Levenson and Justice Brian M. Hoffstadt have produced a casebook that is everything an evidence professor, and the professor’s students, would want in a book – clarity in explaining the rules of evidence, examples to test and reinforce their understanding of the rules, carefully edited cases demonstrating the application of the rules, and discussion of complications in application of the rules. Evidence Law: Policy, Practice, and Problems is a straightforward and accessible casebook that is consistent and clear in how it teaches evidence. This book provides a suitable foundation for most students to learn and apply, both in litigation and transactional practices, federal and state evidence laws. This is a masterful, comprehensive, and stimulating teaching tool, with its unique approach of (1) providing the rule; (2) explaining the basis for the rule; (3) demonstrating how it is to be applied; (4) discussing any complications in its application; and (5) providing short, where appropriate, carefully edited cases, regarding the rule. Cases in the book serve to affirm the rule, not provide subtle or exceptional applications of it. Highlights of the First Edition: Sets forth the evidence rules, the rationale for them, examples of their applications, cases demonstrating their use in civil and criminal litigation, and plenty of problems for classroom discussion and review Each chapter contains summary charts and diagrams to help students follow the requirements and apply the rules Carefully edited cases to ensure clarity in the application of the rules is provided without overwhelming the reader Summary chapter where students can see the rules applied to a sample trial Professors and students will benefit from: An assortment of review questions that professors and students can use to reinforce the students’ understanding of the evidence rules Short readings regarding cutting-edge areas of evidence law Examples of contemporary challenges in applying the evidence rules Step-by-step approach for dealing with evidence issues Thorough and clear presentation of hearsay, its exceptions, and its interaction with the right of confrontation Comparisons with the rules for major state jurisdictions

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1543825990

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