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A must read for lawyers and law students!
It is not every day that the Prince of Darkness himself writes a book.
Inside the pages of this remarkable book, you will read Satan's wise and profound counsel on topics as diverse as choosing evil as a path to power, the billable hour, how to steal clients from your law firm, fashion, sex, and more.
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Learn from this proven "how to" guide to gain points on the LSAT-quick! It's simple, concise, and teaches you the fundamentals on how to think before stepping into a test prep course or taking the LSAT. It's the ultimate primer: it's necessary.
This step-by-step guide will teach you how to:
Think logically with easy-to-follow critical-thinking scripts.
Spot argument patterns to predict answers quickly.
Master sufficient and necessary conditions.
Solve...
1343) Droits sans frontières
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Un exceptionnel partage d'expérience et un formidable espoir que représentent l'engagement et le respect absolu des droits humains !
Ce livre n'est ni une autobiographie proprement dite, ni un ouvrage de droit.
Il raconte le cheminement qui a conduit Luc Walleyn à s'engager pour les droits humains, à lutter contre l'impunité de ceux qui les piétinent, à prendre la défense de victimes de génocide, d'esclavage et d'autres crimes contre...
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Découvrez des personnages hauts en couleurs et prêts à tout, dans une intrigue au coeur de la Marina Baie des Anges de Villeneuve-Loubet.
Avec Coup de sang à la Marina, l'auteur met en scène une intrigue policière, un genre dans lequel il ne s'était pas jusque-là aventuré, peu désireux de sacrifier à la veine régionaliste d'un trop grand nombre de polars, considérant aussi que la réussite des grands maîtres français des années 50,...
1345) A Judgment of Whispers
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Mary Crow is running for DA, trying to unseat the incumbent George Turpin. In mid-campaign a stray dog digs up shocking new evidence that breathes life into a decades-old murder of a nine-year-old girl. Pisgah County thinks the most likely suspect is Zack Collier, an autistic man who's also the son of one of Mary Crow's campaign volunteers. When the police start harassing Zack yet again, his mother begs Mary for help. Against the advice of her campaign...
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Une fiche de référence sur De beaux lendemains, un chef-d'oeuvre d'Atom Egoyan.
À Cannes, o il a obtenu en 1997 le grand prix du festival, De beaux lendemains, d'Atom Egoyan, a divisé la critique : certains n'y ont vu que « classicisme postmoderniste », tandis que d'autres étaient sensibles à son architecture rigoureuse.
Les grands films méritent le même traitement que les grands livres. Sur le modèle des fiches de lecture, les fiches...
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Bantam
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[2023]
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"Three grown siblings confront their father's role in their mother's disappearance in this arresting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob. Jane Larkin disappeared without a trace in November 1976. When ten-year-old Miranda arrives home from school that autumn afternoon, finding her mother's pocketbook in its usual spot in the front hall, she assumes her mother will be back any minute. But as the hours tick by, alone...
1348) Last Chance Chicago
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Attorney and recovering cocaine addict Sam DiCiccio didn't think she was ever going to see her ex-wife Amy Igarashi again, much less wind up defending her against felony insider trading charges.
But Amy's been falsely accused, and Sam, who's still in love with her, can't bear to watch her take the fall for a crime she didn't commit. Amy is holding on to resentment from their broken relationship and is hesitant to let Sam back into her life. But...
1349) Lethal Intent
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When Caroline takes a job with a promising medical start-up, she believes she's on the side of angels ... until she's asked to go too far.
When the judge she's clerked for dies, Caroline Bragg starts over as in-house counsel for a pharmaceutical start-up working on innovative adult stem cell research with the potential to save thousands of lives. But when her charismatic new boss ignores her legal advice, Caroline's left unsettled. Then the company...
1350) Truth Be Told
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ARE YOU READY TO START THIS CONVERSATION?
Kamran Hadid feels invincible. He attends Hampton school, an elite all-boys boarding school in London, he comes from a wealthy family, and he has a place at Oxford next year. The world is at his feet. And then a night of revelry leads to a drunken encounter and he must ask himself a horrific question.
With the help of assault counsellor, Zara Kaleel, Kamran reports the incident in the hopes that will be...
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In mid-sixteenth-century England, people were born into authority and responsibility based on their social status. Thus elite children could designate property or serve in Parliament, while children of the poorer sort might be forced to sign labor contracts or be hanged for arson or picking pockets. By the late eighteenth century, however, English and American law began to emphasize contractual relations based on informed consent rather than on birth...
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An accusation of attempted murder rudely interrupted Mary Arnold's dalliances with working men and her extensive shopping sprees. When her husband Benedict fell deathly ill and then asserted she had tried to kill him with poison, the result was a dramatic petition for divorce. The case before the Rhode Island General Assembly and its tumultuous aftermath, during which Benedict died, made Mary a cause célèbre in Newport through the winter of 1738...
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Dr. Anasseril E. Daniel, discusses suicide prevention in jails and prisons and provides tips, techniques, and guidance to save lives. The author examines the role of correctional officers and mental health professionals in identifying at-risk inmates, monitoring, and treating them to mitigate the risk.
The book provides a comprehensive overview of the important issues in suicide-related lawsuits. With increasing legal procedures, this book outlines...
1354) Manual for Beginning Interpreters: A Comprehensive Guide to Interpreting in Immigration Courts
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Manual for Beginning Interpreters answers the question: "How can I become a successful interpreter in U.S. immigration courts?" Using vignettes and an asylum hearing, this manual will teach you how to embark on this career. Plentiful exercises are provided for practicing the different modes of interpretation. The mock trial will expose you to the vocabulary, colloquialisms, and cultural practices often needed in these types of cases. At the time of...
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This popular title from the Fundamental Aspects of Nursing series has been revised and updated to reflect the advances in the field. Vital reading for all student nurses to help them develop an understanding of the myriad of dilemmas in professional practice and ensure they meet professional standards. This book will outline the implications and application of the relevant recent legislation that relates to nursing practice. Professionally, this book...
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Healthcare delivery can present ethical conflicts and dilemmas for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs)-nurses who already have a myriad of responsibilities in caring for patients.
Ethical Case Studies for Advanced Practice Nurses improves APRNs' agility to resolve ethical quandaries encountered in primary care, hospital-based, higher education, and administration beyond community settings. Through case studies examining various types of ethical...
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En 1956, Lilly fait partie d'un groupe d'anarchistes hongrois qui veut faire entendre ses idées au milieu du chaos, jusqu'à ce qu'elle tombe enceinte...
1956, Hongrie. Un groupuscule anarchiste profite du chaos politique pour faire entendre ses idées. Fidèle au mouvement, Lilly se voit pourtant écartée lorsqu'elle tombe enceinte du leader. Un fils naîtra, aussitt caché aux yeux du monde.
De nos jours, en France. Laura peine à comprendre...
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Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia's chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or convicted of capital crimes in a racially hostile legal system, represented movement activists arrested for their civil rights work, and fought to undermine the laws that maintained state-sanctioned racial discrimination. In Saving the Soul of Georgia, Maurice C. Daniels tells the story of this behind-the-scenes...
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Watkin provides a history of the various legal systems by which Wales and its people have been governed over the last two millennia, including the civil law of Rome, the laws of the native Welsh people, the canon law of the Church and the English common law. This book shows how in each age the people of Wales have adapted to and adopted the legal traditions which they have encountered and assesses the importance of this inheritance for the future...
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Lawrence Douglas is the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College. His books include The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust and The Vices. His work has appeared in leading publications such as the New Yorker, the Times Literary Supplement, and Harper's. He lives in Sunderland, Massachusetts.
Now the subject of the Netflix documentary The Devil Next Door
The incredible...
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