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Professors Newell and Peterkin deal thoroughly with fundamental grammar skills often overlooked in legal writing textbooks. The chapters in this text cover everything that students should learn in legal writing from spotting issues, to finding and interpreting the law, to writing either an objective or persuasive document for their client or the court.

A tragicomic account of a desperate woman's attempts to uncover the secret at the centre of her husband's life. Her quest for the truth will take her to London, New York, and Paris, where she finally discovers what everyone else has suspected all along.

A complete and thorough presentation of the principles of economics. Integrating various schools of thought (classical, neoclassical, Austrian, Georgist), this full-spectrum treatise on economics delivers a comprehensive yet concise education in economics. Readers will learn how to analyze issues and formulate remedies for our social problems.

The scientific study of personal relationships has largely centered on understanding heterosexual romantic relationships. Personal Relationships draws together a collection of articles that focus on some of the other significant personal relationships that influence people's lives, including family, school, community, and work relationships.

A complete, ready-to-use package of lessons, examples, problem sets, homework, and tests needed for a full term course in prealgebra. This book is suited for online and hybrid courses, computer-assisted courses and math labs, self-paced courses, and traditional classrooms, and is ready for immediate use and can be tailored to help meet their course goals and students' needs.

Offers a humble response to the clarion call by Mwalimu Carter G. Woodson, Mwalimu Frantz Fanon, and Mwalimu Malcolm X, among others, to address our African language question. As all of these great Africans and others have shown throughout history, it behooves us to counter the assumption of the ill-informed that Ebonics is bad by demonstrating that it is a GOOD language and worthy of respect.

Provides a quick refresher on mathematics and statistics as the foundation of a rigorous MBA programme. This book fills the gap left by many textbooks that are often dedicated to either mathematics or statistics, but not both. It also serves as both a textbook that describes basic concepts and a workbook that shows plenty of examples and exercise problems.

Combines traditional and modern experiments to teach undergraduate student laboratories in material science, materials engineering and engineering mechanics. Complete with illustrations, figures and equations, this book delivers timely, rich, and engaging reading experience to students.

Examines how Islamic societies have fared under and dealt with the major political-economic systems that have operated throughout history. Each chapter explores one of several political-economic systems by defining major concepts and their synthesis, providing a thematic review of available literature, and reviewing three Islamic societies that operated under the system.

Offers a pragmatic analysis of the African National Anthem, "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika", within a linguistic framework. By delineating the pragmatic features of the anthem, its philosophical symbolic meanings are teased out. This is important because symbols are critical in promoting social integration, fostering legitimacy, inducing loyalty, gaining compliance, and providing security and hope.

Provides a clear overview of various methodologies of quantitative research. Each chapter defines and describes a specific methodology and introduces readers to those who pioneered it. Applications of each methodology are discussed, its strengths and weaknesses are explored, and references for further study are provided.

A unique anthology, co-authored by a "gym rat" with a Ph.D. in Sociology and a former competitive bodybuilder, fitness expert, and entrepreneur. The book offers a sociological perspective on the fitness industry, discussing how it is driven both by market forces and the culture of individual consumerism.

An accessible, comprehensive guide to the fundamental principles, concepts, and methods of engineering economics. Utilizing detailed case studies and exercises reflecting current trends and issues in economics, this book introduces students to a variety of key concepts, including estimation of the time value of money, evaluation of a single project, decision analysis, depreciation and taxes.

Drawing on major sociological and organisational theories, The Business of Diversity delves into the experiences of executives and senior-level managers in American's top Fortune 500 corporations. In eye-opening interviews, these men and women recount their professional and personal experiences associated with their corporation's adoption and implementation of diversity strategies.

This introduction to sociology examines the complex relationship between humans and the environment and how this relationship changes over time, with technology as the catalyst. Adopting a thematic approach, this volume focuses on the evolution of societies to illustrate how societies evolve from one evolutionary stage to the next.

Focuses on fundamental principles of law, adding information on practical and theoretical perspectives and policy to the subject. The material in Developments in Business Law and Policy brings real world examples to the classroom. It is written primarily for undergraduate business law courses and MBA courses on the subject.

A complete, ready-to-use package of lessons, examples, problem sets, homework, and tests needed for a full term course in prealgebra. This book is suited for online and hybrid courses, computer-assisted courses and math labs, self-paced courses, and traditional classrooms, and is ready for immediate use and can be tailored to help meet their course goals and students' needs.

A complete, ready-to-use package of lessons, examples, problem sets, homework, and tests needed for a full term course in prealgebra. This book is suited for online and hybrid courses, computer-assisted courses and math labs, self-paced courses, and traditional classrooms, and is ready for immediate use and can be tailored to help meet their course goals and students' needs.

Provides the first comprehensive translation of Olzhas Suleimenov's poetry in English. The book provides a concise overview of the poet's rich literary heritage and serves as an introduction to the contemporary literature of Kazakhstan and Eurasia. Suleimenov has emerged as one of Kazakhstan's and Central Asia's most influential intellectuals, authors, and poets of the last half century.

Addresses the information gaps found in typical forensic textbooks. The articles selected for this text provide a deeper understanding of both the theory and the practical applications of forensic-investigation skills. Divided into five topical areas, these readings include some of the most up-to-date research studies and suggested practices in the field.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the major works and theories of Alfred Adler, Viennese psychiatrist and founder of the school of individual psychology. This text presents an integrated analysis of Adler's outstanding findings and illustrations, which have been found to be both useful and practical by practitioners in psychotherapy.

Set in a British prison in Sagar, India in 1832, and inspired by actual events, Confessions of a Thug (1839) is the picaresque tale of north Indian Thug Ameer Ali, who strangled over seven hundred people in his lifetime. Ameer Ali recounts how he rose to prominence as a Thug leader, how he fell from power, and how he took vengeance on his enemies.

Outlines the process of starting a business by applying the advantages of the WEB 2.0 environment. Using up-to-date case studies and examples, this book advocates a clear-eyed, directive approach to starting and running a business. In doing so, it incorporates social networking and viral marketing approaches.

Provides an entertaining and academic look at free speech and association issues on the college campus. The presentation of the legal material mixed in with humorous fact patterns makes analysis of the cutting edge campus speech issues enjoyable. Each section includes in-depth discussion questions to encourage a deeper engagement and understanding of the text.

Provides analyses of fractal complexities in the works of major African/Black thinkers from the continent and the Diaspora. The major challenge was to transform the linguistic pragmatic or deep-level meanings in the literary texts studied for mathematical modelling. This called for the utilization of a pluridisciplinary approach that helped to mix linguistics and mathematical approaches.

The readings in this anthology are written by communication researchers who share true stories of how they use particular research methods within their own research programs. The book helps students understand how researchers face the numerous challenges of conducting communication research, and how they produce knowledge that adds to our theoretical understanding of communication.

While there are many approaches to teaching diversity, Creative Americanization explores how we consciously transform cultural products to suit more mainstream American tastes. With cultures mixing and mingling, different products are constantly modified and transformed, creating varieties that can be a genuine source of individual, communal, and national strength.

Provides a comprehensive exploration of Feature Theory Grammar, which breaks down the components of traditional "parts-of-speech" words, allowing for fine-grained analysis. The book correlates Feature Theory Grammar to the Periodic Table, tinkering with sub-particles of words to show how isolated features project one phrase over another, and contribute to particular phrasings.