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• Factory Girls (Library Edition): From Village to City in a Changing China

  Leslie T Chang

  
  An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.
  
   

• The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (P.S.)

  Lucette Lagnado

  

  Lucette Lagnado's father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman and boulevardier who, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit, makes deals and trades at Shepherd's Hotel and at the dark bar of the Nile Hilton. After the fall of King Farouk and the rise of the Nasser dictatorship, Leon loses everything and his family is forced to flee, abandoning a life once marked by beauty and luxury to plunge into hardship and poverty, as they take flight for any country that would have them.

  A vivid, heartbreaking, and powerful inversion of the American dream, Lucette Lagnado's unforgettable memoir is a sweeping story of family, faith, tradition, tragedy, and triumph set against the stunning backdrop of Cairo, Paris, and New York.

  Winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and hailed by the New York Times Book Review as a "brilliant, crushing book" and the New Yorker as a memoir of ruin "told without melodrama by its youngest survivor," The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit recounts the exile of the author's Jewish Egyptian family from Cairo in 1963 and her father's heroic and tragic struggle to survive his "riches to rags" trajectory.

  
   

• The Law Of Torts: Examples And Explanations (Examples & Explanations)

  Joseph W. Glannon

  
  A favorite among law students and professors alike, the Examples & Explanations series is ideal for studying, reviewing and testing your understanding through application of hypothetical examples. Authored by leading professors with extensive classroom experience, Examples & Explanations titles offer hypothetical questions in the subject area, complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topic, and compare your own analysis.
  
   

• CrunchTime: Contracts

  Steven L. Emanuel

  
  The most trusted name in law school outlines, Emanuel Law Outlines support your class preparation, provide reference for your outline creation, and supply a comprehensive breakdown of topic matter for your entire study process. Created by Steven Emanuel, these course outlines have been relied on by generations of law students. Each title includes both capsule and detailed versions of the critical issues and key topics you must know to master the course. Also included are exam questions with model answers, an alpha-list of cases, and a cross reference table of cases for all of the leading casebooks.
  
   

• The Constitution of the United States of America, with the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; and the Articles of Confederation

  Thomas Jefferson, Second Continental Congress, Constitutional Convention

  
  Collected here in one affordable volume are the most important documents of the United States of America: The Constitution of the United States of America, with the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; and the Articles of Confederation. These three documents are the basis for our entire way of life. Every citizen should have a copy.
  
   

• Contracts Examples & Explanations

  Brian A. Blum

  
  
   

• If I Were President

  Catherine Stier

  
  A simple description of the duties, responsibilities, and traditions of the office of president.
  
   

• Property Examples & Explanations, 3e (Examples & Explanations)

  D. Barlow Burke, Joseph Snoe

  
  The focused coverage of Property Examples and Explanations, Third Edition, along with the proven Examples and Explanations format, which combines textual material with well-written examples, explanations, and questions that test the reader's understanding of the material covered, makes this text an invaluable means for helping students master the intricacies of property law. Among the features that have made this study aid a success:
  Eminently clear and readable text;
  Six-part topical organization that matches the coverage of most first-year property courses and follows the organization of the best selling property casebook by Dukeminier, Krier, Alexander & Schill;
  Rich pedagogy includes boldfaced legal terms and visual aids, such as charts and diagrams, especially for common-law estates, a topic that lends itself to diagrammatic presentation;
  The authors address principal cases used in most leading casebooks;
  Skilled and experienced authorship by long-time teachers and scholars of property law.

  New to the Third Edition:
  Updated coverage of takings to include recent Supreme Court cases, Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Kelo v. New London, and Lingle v. Chevron U.S.A.;
  Expanded introduction to trusts with clear and detailed descriptions of a trust, a grantor, a trustee, a life beneficiary, and a remainderman;
  New substantive material added to coverage of:
  The recording acts;
  The Third Restatement of Property concerning Servitudes (covenants and equitable servitudes);
  Private Nuisance, Chapter 27, adjacent and subjacent support;
  Updated coverage of the Rule Against Perpetuities;
  Many examples and explanations have been revised for greater clarity and effectiveness;
  Language in the text has been simplified where needed for even greater accessibility.

  With its focused coverage, concise format, and problem-based format, Property Examples and Explanations, Third Edition, continues to provide Property students with the help and confidence they need to master this difficult first-year course.

  
   

• Civil Procedure: Examples and Explanations (The Examples & Explanations Series)

  Joseph W. Glannon

  
  Students know they can count on expert study guide author Joseph W. Glannon to clarify even the most complicated topics. Unquestionable effectiveness earned his civil procedure guides their bestselling status. Extensively revised and updated for its Fifth Edition, "Civil Procedure: Examples & Explanations" continues to introduce the principles of civil procedure and illustrate how they apply in typical cases.
  
   

• Patent It Yourself

  David Pressman

  
  
   

• The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization

  James Bamford

  
  In 1947, the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand signed a secret treaty in which they agreed to cooperate in matters of signals intelligence. In effect, the governments agreed to pool their geographic and technological assets in order to listen in on the electronic communications of China, the Soviet Union, and other Cold War bad guys--all in the interest of truth, justice, and the American Way, naturally. The thing is, the system apparently catches everything. Government security services, led by the U.S. National Security Agency, screen a large part (and perhaps all) of the voice and data traffic that flows over the global communications network. Fifty years later, the European Union is investigating possible violations of its citizens' privacy rights by the NSA, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a public advocacy group, has filed suit against the NSA, alleging that the organization has illegally spied on U.S. citizens.

  Being a super-secret spy agency and all, it's tough to get a handle on what's really going on at the NSA. However, James Bamford has done great work in documenting the agency's origins and Cold War exploits in The Puzzle Palace. Beginning with the earliest days of cryptography (code-making and code-breaking are large parts of the NSA's mission), Bamford explains how the agency's predecessors helped win World War II by breaking the German Enigma machine and defeating the Japanese Purple cipher. He also documents signals intelligence technology, ranging from the usual collection of spy satellites to a great big antenna in the West Virginia woods that listened to radio signals as they bounced back from the surface of the moon.

  Bamford backs his serious historical and technical material (this is a carefully researched work of nonfiction) with warnings about how easily the NSA's technology could work against the democracies of the world. Bamford quotes U.S. Senator Frank Church: "If this government ever became a tyranny ... the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government ... is within the reach of the government to know." This is scary stuff. --David Wall

  
   

• The Executor's Guide: Settling a Loved One's Estate or Trust

  Mary Randolph

  
  If you're faced with wrapping up the affairs of a loved one who has died, you may feel overwhelmed by all the work ahead -- especially when you're grieving. But with the right legal and practical information, you can do it.

  The Executor's Guide will show you how to get organized, get the help you need and make progress one step at a time. Let it help you navigate an unfamiliar land of legal procedures and terminology. It explains:

  *preparing for the job of executor or trustee
  *the first steps to take
  *claiming life insurance, Social Security and other benefits
  *making sense of a will
  *what to do if there is no will
  *how to determine whether or not probate is necessary
  *caring for children and their property
  *taxes
  *an overview of probate court proceedings
  *dealing with family members
  *handling trusts
  *looking up your state's laws
  *working with lawyers, appraisers, accountants and other experts

  
   

• Small Business Start-Up Kit

  Peri H. Pakroo

  
  The best step-by-step guide to starting a business available!

  Many people dream of running a business of their own -- but often don't know how to start. Sound familiar? This book can help.

  User-friendly and loaded with tips, The Small Business Start-Up Kit shows you how to launch a business quickly, easily and with confidence. It explains in plain English how to:

• choose the best business structure
• write an effective business plan
• file the right forms in the right place
• price, bid and bill your projects
• draft and use contracts, online and off
• manage your finances
• be prepared for, and file, required taxes
• reach customers online

  The Small Business Start-Up Kit also includes all the forms and instructions you need both as tear-outs and on CD-ROM.

  The 5th edition is completely updated to reflect the latest legal and tax changes. It includes a new chapter on e-business and expanded information on financing your business. It also features new business-planning spreadsheets on the CD-ROM.

  List of Forms
  Partnership Agreement
  Sample Buy-Sell Agreement Provisions
  Application for Employer Identification Number (Form SS-4)
  Income Tax Withholding (Form SS-8)
  Election To Have a Tax Year Other Than a Required Tax Year (Form 8716)
  Entity Classification Election (Form 8832)
  Billable Rate Worksheet
  Cash Flow Projection Worksheet Break-Even Analysis Worksheet
  Profit/Loss Forecast Worksheet
  Warranty Track Worksheet