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NEW 2024 EDITION of the best-selling notary prep guide to the challenging Louisiana exam. The Louisiana Notary Exam averages a 20% pass rate. The Notary Exam has an official Study Guide you use during the exam. But the Study Guide has no index, no big picture, no study strategies, no exam-day tips, not enough cross-references . . . and few of the forms notaries use that they test. It's notoriously hard to follow. It doesn't explain most-tested subjects, past exams, or recent changes. It's got the law and notary rules, but it's missing essentials for any such textbook.The Sidepiece has all that-and much more that anyone contemplating the exam should read. It even includes crucial information about notary practice for the newbie notary, and is useful to experienced notaries for its expanded cross-references, complete index, and summary lists. Basically it's the rest of the official Study Guide they somehow omitted. Why would they leave out the index, of all things? Reminder: a 20% pass rate.Previous editions of this resource earned 200 5-star ratings and comments that it's "essential" and "invaluable" to passing the exam, whether or not you take a prep class too. Read the reviews to get the scope, coverage, and necessity of adding this book into your study program. "The author's tips on what to expect on test day were worth the cost of the book alone. Get. This. Book." As a senior law teacher and member of two state bars, Prof. Childress still needed to pass the Louisiana Notary Exam to practice as one. It's a challenging exam for everyone, yet he found in the 'Study Guide' lots of trees but little forest-and even less real guidance. Determined that current test-takers can do better with more real help, he wrote this book and geared the page numbers-including an index, cross-references, lists, and illustrated explanation of successions, community property, and authentic acts-to the latest edition of the state's official text, Fundamentals of Louisiana Notarial Law and Practice.

"... It's the most entertaining book I've read this year." - Steve Chapman, Columnist and Editorial Writer, The Chicago Tribune There are no pretentious pronouncements about public policy or dry conclusions from social science in these pages ... because it is a report from what Frank Zimring calls "my second career, and everybody else's second career, the hard work of becoming an adult in the modern world." Why is a piranha swimming in your pool a better illustration of how people get over-committed than a giant man eating shark? (Consult chapter 3.) What should you say when your eight-year-old asks whether you would save him or his sister if the lifeboat only had room for one? (See chapter 5.) Why are professors who hate to teach at their home campus positively lustful when invited to lecture somewhere else? (Chapter 11 explains.) When you finally succeed in giving up cigarettes, how should you feel about those who still smoke? (See chapter 2.) Why do so many of the people lined up to visit world famous landmarks look so unhappy to be there? (Chapter 20 reveals the secret.) "Frank Zimring has gained renown as a penetrating thinker and a tireless scholar, but Memos from Midlife reveals what his friends have always known: He is also a charming and thought-provoking companion with a devilish sense of humor. Addressing a range of unconventional topics, from 'the arrogance of nostalgia' to Portnoy's real complaint, he provides both illumination and fun, as well as guidance on living wisely and well. It's the most entertaining book I've read this year." - Steve Chapman Columnist and Editorial Writer The Chicago Tribune A new collection of compelling and humorous essays, in the Journeys & Memoirs Series from Quid Pro Books.

The name Alabama comes from the Choctaw word meaning "clearers of the thickets," inspiring the title of this fascinating new book. The volume's purpose is to examine Alabama's early history beginning with the era of European colonization and culminating with the state's controversial secession from the Union-after just 41 years as a state (recognizing, of course, that the actual history began long before this emigration, with Native American civilizations). In so doing, the author traces how Alabama emerged from a raw frontier of European settlement into a fully functioning state that provided much-needed order to its new citizens. The book begins by exploring the colonial period during which three European powers-Spain, France, and Great Britain-continually vied for control of what was to become part of Alabama. Each culture, along with the Native American communities that lived throughout most of the region, contributed to the development of the emerging territory and left its enduring stamp. Later chapters examine Alabama's territorial period, the Creek War of 1813-1814, the Constitutional Convention of 1819 and statehood, the first years of state government in Cahaba, removal of the capital to Tuscaloosa, King Cotton and the ignominy of slavery, further relocation of the capital to Montgomery as secession loomed, and social and economic advances during the antebellum period that were interrupted and stunted by the tragedy of secession and war. "Clearing the Thickets is narrative history in the grand old style-a spirited effort to make sense of the ideas, human beings, and events that came together to shape Alabama's first tumultuous decades. ... Anyone interested in antebellum Alabama will be grateful for what Lewis has accomplished." - Paul Pruitt, Jr., B.A., M.L.S., Ph.D. Special Collection Librarian, Bounds Law Library, University of Alabama Author of Taming Alabama: Lawyers and Reformers, 1804-1929 (2010) "Lewis has carefully crafted a thoughtful, deliberate, and well-balanced history of antebellum Alabama. Perhaps not coincidentally, we are now in the decade of Alabama's bicentennial. In days such as these, his book should be on the shelf of anyone interested in Alabama's early history." - James L. Noles, Jr., B.S., J.D.Chairman, Alabama Humanities Foundation

Jews are a people of law, and law defines who the Jewish people are and what they believe. This anthology engages with the growing complexity of what it is to be Jewish - and, more problematically, what it means to be at once Jewish and participate in secular legal systems as lawyers, judges, legal thinkers, civil rights advocates, and teachers. The essays in this book trace the history and chart the sociology of the Jewish legal profession over time, revealing new stories and dimensions of this significant aspect of the American Jewish experience and at the same time exploring the impact of Jewish lawyers and law firms on American legal practice. "This superb collection reveals what an older focus on assimilation obscured. Jewish lawyers wanted to 'make it, ' but they also wanted to make law and the legal profession different and better. These fascinating essays show how, despite considerable obstacles, they succeeded." - Daniel R. ErnstProfessor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center Author of Tocqueville's Nightmare: The Administrative State Emerges in America, 1900-1940 "This fascinating collection of essays by distinguished scholars illuminates the distinctive and intricate relationship between Jews and law. Exploring the various roles of Jewish lawyers in the United States, Germany, and Israel, they reveal how the practice of law has variously expressed, reinforced, or muted Jewish identity as lawyers demonstrated their commitments to the public interest, social justice, Jewish tradition, or personal ambition. Any student of law, lawyers, or Jewish values will be engaged by the questions asked and answered." - Jerold S. AuerbachProfessor Emeritus of History, Wellesley College Author of Unequal Justice and Rabbis and Lawyers Additional chapter contributions are by internationally recognized scholars in their fields, including Morton Horwitz, David Berger, Kenneth Ledford, Samuel Levine, Russell Pearce and Adam Winer, Dalia Tsuk Mitchell, Eli Wald, Ann Southworth, Lawrence Mitchell, Jay Michaelson, and Assaf Likhovski.

"This book is very brave and very well done." - "...this book is lyrical in itself" - "...both personal and universal" - "Best read with the heart." Lee Scheingold's rich, painful personal journey-following the death of her husband, famed political scientist Stuart Scheingold-is described from the points of view which have informed her life: psychoanalysis, clinical social work, Buddhist meditation, and family medicine. Poetry is the connecting thread, beginning with the Russian poems she studied long ago in college, and then to a variety of contemporary American and English verse. This is an emotional and intellectual account of profound grief from a professional psychotherapist who has approached her recent life with continual introspection and self-reflection. She explores the experiences which enabled her to tolerate and even welcome the feelings of grief. She examines, with the issue of meaning at center stage, her psychoanalyses and a ten-year practice of Buddhism. In this journey, her reading of poetry links emotions to ideas. The deeply evocative style of the book resembles poetry itself. "A wonderful balance of psychoanalytic awareness and poetic sensitivity, an open and revealing memoir of the experience of loss and grief. It took me to another level in reading poetry-looking for and cherishing ambiguity and space. This is the story of how poetry (and Buddhism and psychoanalysis) helps one to come to grips with, or perhaps adapt to or even conquer loss. Best read with the heart." - Fred Heidrich, MD, MPH, Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, University of Washington "In One Silken Thread, Scheingold weaves together threads from Buddhism, Psychoanalysis, and Lyric Poetry through the process of her own grief to illuminate the possibility of what she calls 'the heart of the world'-that which runs deep and connects us all at the level of our feelings. She tells us that she doesn't write poetry. But this book is lyrical in itself. It is a courageous self-reflection-simultaneously heart rending and affirming of the meaning and beauty possible from a life of caring deeply." - Ritch Addison, PhD, Clinical Professor, UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine; Behavioral Medicine Director, Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Coeditor, Entering the Circle: Hermeneutic Investigations in Psychology "When the worst happens, what holds us together? Scheingold probes the depths of loss and finds in it a space for art, love, reflection, and the fiercely energetic life of the mind. Following the 'silken thread' of lyric poetry that weaves throughout her personal, professional, and intellectual life, the author's contemplation of death and the healing powers of art is, like poetry itself, both personal and universal." - Barbara Henry, PhD, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, and Affiliate, Jewish Studies Program, University of WashingtonAuthor, Rewriting Russia: Jacob Gordin's Yiddish Drama "Lee Scheingold has done something extraordinary, linking the truly academic with the truly personal in a way that is neither forced and pedantic nor nostalgic and cloying... It is, in short, real. It's what an academic does when searching for the light... Somehow, these writings are often too dry, dead, literary, searching for light and staying away from it and its warmth, because both are suspect. The other side is the very personal, about loss, emptiness, hurt, and pain told in a very personal way, but without the distance, separation and understanding that literature and intellect bring to the quest. Scheingold has merged and fully integrated both. This book is very brave and very well done." - Mark Greenside, Professor of English, History, and Political Science, Merritt College (Cal.)Author, I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do) and I Saw a Man H

For the Poor and Disenfranchised is an historical and institutional analysis of the public interest bar in the United States. It traces how the legal profession delivered on the legal system's promise of equal justice for all by making the legal system available to all and a vehicle for substantive justice, exploring political mobilization, entrepreneurial lawyering, and pro bono publico representation. "In this dramatic and detailed account, Robert Sauté documents the establishment and evolution of the public interest bar, particularly its struggles to provide zealous advocacy for its clients. Through meticulous historical research in case studies of the New York Legal Aid Society, NAACP, ACLU, and Legal Services Corporation, Sauté's book analyzes how access to the legal system has been affected by cultural and structural changes in society and in American politics. His chapter on pro bono in large firms reveals how a new generation of elite lawyers defines its commitment to professionalism and the poor." - Cynthia Fuchs Epstein Distinguished Professor Graduate Center, CUNY Author, Women in Law "Rob Sauté's For the Poor and Disenfranchised is a subtle and fascinating history of the development of public interest and poverty law in the United States, analyzing how the legal profession has responded to the needs of the poor and disenfranchised over time. Although there have been many advances in the ways those needs are met, Sauté closely examines the influence of the market, social movements and other factors and suggests that those responses have been inadequate, particularly in light of a legal system moving increasingly to the right." - Mark Potok Senior Fellow Southern Poverty Law Center

With obscure terms like 'emphyteusis' and 'jactitation, ' the language of Louisiana's civil law can sometimes be confusing for students and even for seasoned practitioners. But the 'Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary' can help. It defines every word and phrase contained in the index to the Louisiana Civil Code, plus many more - in clear and concise language - and provides current citations to the relevant statutes, code articles, and cases. Whether you are a student, researcher, lawyer, or judge, if you deal with Louisiana and its laws, this volume will prove indispensable. It is also a valuable resource for notaries and paralegals. No doubt common law practitioners in other states, too, will find ready uses for a dictionary that translates civil law terminology into familiar concepts; they will know how 'naked ownership' differs from 'usufruct.' And since the civil law dominates the world's legal systems, this book will find a home with libraries and scholars in many countries, anywhere there is a need to compare civil law terms with those of the common law. "Rome and Kinsella have done a huge service to legal scholarship by assembling the 'Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary' - a splendid resource for those seeking to understand the rich vocabulary of Louisiana law." - Bryan A. Garner, President, LawProse, Inc.; and Editor in Chief, 'Black's Law Dictionary' "For ready reference on the desk or in a personal or law firm library, in the office of a civilian of any walk of practice or intellectual endeavor, this enormously helpful dictionary is a must. This scholarly reference is essential to the study of the civil law tradition; the 'Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary' serves as a gateway to understanding the civil law system embraced by the majority of legal systems in the world." - J. Lanier Yeates, Member, Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, LLC

Page 1 opens with this turn: "Filipina domestic worker, employed in Riyadh: 'Really they are good to me. If I say I need rest, they give me rest.' [And if they were not so good to you, if you would have some problem with your employer, where would you go?] 'Madam, I cannot go anywhere, I am not allowed to go outside. I cannot go to the embassy. I will just cry in my room and pray.'" This book explores the conflicts faced by the worker far from home, having signed a contract written in a foreign language, her passport held by her employer, and with limited power to be a witness in court.Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia and the Emirates is a new socio-legal study of pressing questions of human rights, contractual consent, transnational markets, and social policy: - Which factors influence the emergence and character of conflicts in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates between domestic workers and their employers, the social and legal norms to which both parties refer, and the related imbalance of power?- In what way and to what extent do domestic workers and their employers refer to Islamic, customary, contractual, and formal legal norms?- Do conflicts concern disagreement over norms, or disputes regarding behavior contrary to the norms upon which both parties agree?- Which factors influence the norms to which both parties in conflicts refer?- Which party is able to enforce its own norms or to act contrary to norms on which both parties agree, and which factors influence the balance of power?Vlieger explores such questions by using a grounded-theory methodology of extensive field research and revealing interviews with workers, employers, employment agencies, human rights organizations, and governmental officials. This is an insightful look into another world-supported with scholarly research, but accessible and interesting to the general reader, as well as to academics and human rights activists.Part of the new Human Rights and Culture Series from Quid Pro Books.

PREVIOUS EDITION FOR 2023, keyed to the previous Study Guide's page numbers. This is superseded by a newer edition, found at this site. Please look for and use the newer edition if you are prepping with the newer state text.Questions and answers in four separate tests-plus detailed explanations for each right and wrong answer, referencing the latest official state Study Guide-help coach students for the difficult exam. This independent resource at last takes notary prep to the next level by revealing the tricks of questions and formats, tactics for the test, and the law behind it. More generally, it serves as a master class in answering multiple choice questions and tackling tricky exams.Louisiana civil law notaries have unmatched functions, responsibilities, and opportunities-but the exam averages a 20% pass rate. Candidates need all the help they can get. The best prep classes and study groups recommend multiple practice questions to understand the format, content, and coverage of the actual exams the Secretary of State administers each year. Yet even the best workbooks and study aids are costly but barebones in the answers they provide. Their questions help, but students are left matching answers to page numbers. There's no guidance on why they're right-and even less about why other good options aren't "best."This book fills that void with 130 questions and detailed clarifications, plus tactics illustrated by specific formats and options. Explanations are keyed in detail to the 2023 Fundamentals (state study guide). Dr. Childress, author of a best-selling supplemental book decoding the state study guide and teacher of Tulane's undergraduate course in notary law, explains every twist he can think of that the examiners may try. Whether as a recommended supplement to a prep class, as spelled-out lagniappe to other available workbooks, or as a new tool for self-study, this workbook should become standard fare for anyone contemplating becoming a commissioned notary.An affordable addition to the Self-Study Sherpa Series from Quid Pro Books.

NEW EDITION FOR 2023 -Updates and expands the previous edition, and is keyed to the current state study guide. The Louisiana Notary Public exam is based on a 722-page study guide, Fundamentals of Louisiana Notarial Law and Practice. But the official book is famously difficult and organized in a complex way. Readers often need help - including classes and Facebook groups - just to unwind it. This book is, at last, directly aimed at simplifying and outlining the study guide itself. Such a resource offers a better chance of passing the notoriously challenging notary exam.Law school classes and bar exam prep have long given law students the advantage of complete outlines, nutshells, and bar review materials authored by experts in their subjects. It's time for this concept to be used for notary prep as well. Applying the tried-and-true outlining format successfully employed for bar review, experienced lawyer/notary Michele Childress offers this resource for aspiring Louisiana notaries - whether they're prepping by self-study or as part of organized coursework. A new addition to the best-selling Self-Study Sherpa Series from Quid Pro Books - NOW IN A NEW, SECOND trade paperback edition. This Outline joins the Sidepiece and Sample Questions books as affordable guidance in the journey to becoming a commissioned notary in our state.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Michele Childress graduated from Loyola Law School-New Orleans after earning her undergraduate degree from Loyola as well. She joined the Louisiana bar in 2002 and received her notarial commission that same year. Along with her husband Alan, she has owned a notary/shipping service in Jefferson Parish, and they have performed thousands of notarial acts of various kinds. They also teach notary prep seminars via Zoom. Michele previously edited new editions of classic books on constitutional law, law study, and U.S. civics.

Warning: Other publishers' versions purport to be the full report but omit the footnotes or appendix, or use poor print to squeeze into one volume; if theirs is less than 845 pages, it's not complete. We solve that by breaking it into two volumes. Properly sized in manageable book form, but retaining the pagination of the original -- its readability as a true book (and not just a governmental memo) is enhanced by breaking the total report into two parts. This edition is for those taking the report seriously as current events and as history ... as an accumulation of evidence and conclusions worth reading in its own right. Yet its accurate pagination, rather than reformatting into a smaller footprint or using illegible print, retains its ability to be cited and referenced, and without razor-thin pages.The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol was formed July 1, 2021. It reviewed over a million documents and interviewed over a thousand witnesses. Its composition was bipartisan, albeit not in the way GOP leadership had proposed (as discussed in Prof. Childress's Foreword in Part 1), and many of its hearings were public. The product of its investigation is this historic and detailed report. This edition by Quid Pro Books divides the report roughly in half, for ease of presentation. Part 1 includes the new Foreword, detailed introductory material by the Select Committee including its "executive summary," and pages 1-372 (including chapters 1-3) of the committee's final report. This Part 2 excerpts pages 373-815, beginning with chapter 4, ending with chapter 8, recommendations, and all four appendices. The reader is advised to obtain both volumes. This is the trade paperback edition from Quid Pro.Quid Pro Books is an academic publisher of classic and contemporary nonfiction books on law, history, political science, and sociology, and is the ebook publisher of leading law journals from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and the University of Chicago. The Foreword in Part 1 is authored by Steven Alan Childress, a senior professor of law at Tulane University.

Warning: Other publishers' versions purport to be the full report but omit the footnotes or appendix, or use poor print to squeeze into one volume; if theirs is less than 845 pages, it's not complete. We solve that by breaking it into two volumes. Properly sized in manageable book form, but retaining the pagination of the original -- its readability as a true book (and not just a governmental memo) is enhanced by breaking the total report into two parts. This edition is for those taking the report seriously as current events and as history . . . as an accumulation of evidence and conclusions worth reading in its own right. Yet the Quid Pro edition's accurate pagination, rather than reformatting into a smaller footprint or illegible print, retains its ability to be cited and referenced, and no razor-thin pages.The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol was formed July 1, 2021. It reviewed over a million documents and interviewed over a thousand witnesses. Its composition was bipartisan, albeit not in the way GOP leadership had proposed (as discussed in Prof. Childress's Foreword), and many of its hearings were public. The product of its investigation is this historic and detailed report. This edition by Quid Pro Books divides the report roughly in half, for ease of presentation. This Part 1 includes the new Foreword, detailed introductory material by the Select Committee including its "executive summary," and pages 1-372 (including chapters 1-3) of the committee's final report. Part 2 excerpts pages 373-815, beginning with chapter 4, ending with recommendations and four appendices. The reader is advised to obtain both volumes.Quid Pro Books is an academic publisher of classic and contemporary nonfiction books on law, history, political science, and sociology, and is the ebook publisher of leading law journals from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and the University of Chicago. The Foreword is authored by Steven Alan Childress, a senior professor of law at Tulane University. He earned a PhD in Jurisprudence & Social Policy from Berkeley and his JD from Harvard Law School; he is the coauthor of the three-volume treatise Federal Standards of Review (Lexis-Nexis, 4th ed. 2010), and the editor of an annotated edition of Holmes's The Common Law (Quid Pro, 2010).

The only published edition of this important report printed in normal-size pages rather than letter-size memo format, to be readable as a manageable paperback; yet it retains the original pagination. This is the top-line findings and principal supporting evidence found in the House Select Committee's official "Introductory Material" report. It was issued on December 19, 2022, in anticipation of the Final Report's release December 22. The committee's summary recounts details of the shocking and deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol building and its occupants on January 6, 2021. The author (set out more fully) is the "House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol," of the United States House of Representatives.The Select Committee released this introductory report on December 19. It is entitled in the media (and by the committee itself in its URL of the released PDF) as an "Executive Summary" of the final report, though it is far more complete and supported in citations than are most such summaries (at 154 pages even with large pages). This report is presented here in book form, using a smaller but normal page-size, to ease its use in reading and shelving compared to the letter-paged original. The pagination is maintained and the font is legible. Other than resizing and binding as a book, and the addition of the new foreword, this is an exact printing of the released introductory report -- meant to add value by publishing it in a manageable paperback format, rather than an ungainly memo. The "House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol" was formed July 1, 2021. It reviewed over a million documents and interviewed over a thousand witnesses. Its multiple hearings produced witnesses and videos revealing behind-the-scenes evidence not publicly known as the world watched in horror the day of the attack.The Quid Pro edition adds a contemporaneous Foreword by Steven Alan Childress, a senior law professor at Tulane University Law School and coauthor of the three-volume legal treatise Federal Standards of Review. In it, he analyzes the historic import of the report and its criminal referrals, the issue of "bipartisanship," and the evidence-law concept of "hearsay" used incorrectly by many previous critics of the committee's work. Quid Pro Books is an independent academic publisher of classic and contemporary nonfiction books on law, history, political science, and the social sciences.

SUPERSEDED by new edition. Look for the latest version of this book elsewhere on this site.Louisiana civil law notaries enjoy functions, responsibilities, and earning potential unmatched in any other state - and reserved there to attorneys. Louisiana notaries wield the power not just to verify signatures but also to create the legal papers they notarize, including affidavits, donations, powers of attorney, and even wills and trusts. And so much more, with no educational requirement beyond high school ... but a state exam that is famously challenging. The entire process to become a notary is difficult, and wrapped in some mystery. This book is helpful if you're in the beginning stages of becoming a notary public. Or just thinking about joining the profession. It's about the process of registering to be a notary, and why you'd want to. It's about the classes, resources, and options available to prep for the exam. It's not a study guide to the test's content itself. Other books do that, including the best-selling Sidepiece guide also by Prof. Childress of Tulane. But it does explain the format of the exam and the structure of questions so that a candidate knows how to start studying. Previously, no one had offered a guide to the preliminary but confusing steps you take to be eligible for the exam - or rules and tips you'd want to know right away about the exam process and its "open book." Website information can be unclear and incomplete, without disclosing the realities. This book is about "what I wish someone told me from Day One when I was considering becoming a notary in Louisiana." An affordable addition to the Self-Study Sherpa Series from Quid Pro Books, now in a widely available trade paperback edition.