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The Testament: A Novel (Pearson English Graded Readers Ser.)
by John Grisham#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions—a message that will touch off a vicious legal battle and transform dozens of lives.Because Troy Phelan&’s new will names a sole surprise heir to his eleven-billion-dollar fortune: a mysterious woman named Rachel Lane, a missionary living deep in the jungles of Brazil.Enter the lawyers. Nate O&’Riley is fresh out of rehab, a disgraced corporate attorney handpicked for his last job: to find Rachel Lane at any cost. As Phelan&’s family circles like vultures in D.C., Nate goes crashing through the Brazilian jungle, entering a world where money means nothing, where death is just one misstep away, and where a woman—pursued by enemies and friends alike—holds a stunning surprise of her own.Don&’t miss John Grisham&’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
Tested: One American School Struggles To Make The Grade
by Linda PerlsteinThe pressure is on at schools across America. In recent years, reforms such as No Child Left Behind have created a new vision of education that emphasizes provable results, uniformity, and greater attention for floundering students. Schools are expected to behave more like businesses and are judged almost solely on the bottom line: test scores. To see if this world is producing better students, Linda Perlstein immersed herself in a suburban Maryland elementary school, once deemed a failure, that is now held up as an example of reform done right. Perlstein explores the rewards and costs of that transformation, and the resulting portrait,detailed, human, and truly thought-provoking, provides the first detailed view of how new education policies are modified by human realities.
Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone (The Griot Project Book Series)
by Shanee StepakoffSierra Leone’s devastating civil war barely caught the attention of Western media, but it raged on for over a decade, bringing misery to millions of people in West Africa from 1991 to 2002. The atrocities committed in this war and the accounts of its survivors were duly recorded by international organizations, but they run the risk of being consigned to dusty historical archives. Derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Freetown, this remarkable poetry collection aims to breathe new life into the records of Sierra Leone’s civil war, delicately extracting heartbreaking human stories from the morass of legal jargon. By rendering selected trial transcripts in poetic form, Shanee Stepakoff finds a novel way to communicate not only the suffering of Sierra Leone’s people, but also their courage, dignity, and resilience. Her use of innovative literary techniques helps to ensure that the voices of survivors are not forgotten, but rather heard across the world. This volume also includes an introduction that explores how the genre of “found poetry” can serve as a uniquely powerful means through which writers may bear witness to atrocity. This book’s unforgettable excavation and shaping of survivor testimonies opens new possibilities for speaking about the unspeakable.
Testimony
by Scott Turow<P>Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the major writers in America" (NPR), returns with a page-turning legal thriller about an American prosecutor's investigation of a refugee camp's mystifying disappearance. <P>At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his law career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped by the International Criminal Court--an organization charged with prosecuting crimes against humanity--he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. <P>Over ten years ago, in the apocalyptic chaos following the Bosnian war, an entire Roma refugee camp vanished. Now for the first time, a witness has stepped forward: Ferko Rincic claims that armed men marched the camp's Gypsy residents to a cave in the middle of the night--and then with a hand grenade set off an avalanche, burying 400 people alive. Only Ferko survived. <P>Boom's task is to examine Ferko's claims and determinine who might have massacred the Roma. <P>His investigation takes him from the International Criminal Court's base in Holland to the cities and villages of Bosnia and secret meetings in Washington, DC, as Boom sorts through a host of suspects, ranging from Serb paramilitaries, to organized crime gangs, to the US government itself, while also maneuvering among the alliances and treacheries of those connected to the case: Layton Merriwell, a disgraced US major general desperate to salvage his reputation; Sergeant Major Atilla Doby,a vital cog in American military operations near the camp at the time of the Roma's disappearance; Laza Kajevic, the brutal former leader of the Bosnian Serbs; Esma Czarni, Ferko's alluring barrister; and of course, Ferko himself, on whose testimony the entire case rests-and who may know more than he's telling. <P>A master of the legal thriller, Scott Turow has returned with his most irresistibly confounding and satisfying novel yet. <P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
Testing for Athlete Citizenship
by Kathryn E. HenneIncidents of doping in sports are common in news headlines, despite regulatory efforts. How did doping become a crisis? What does a doping violation actually entail? Who gets punished for breaking the rules of fair play? In Testing for Athlete Citizenship, Kathryn E. Henne, a former competitive athlete and an expert in the law and science of anti-doping regulations, examines the development of rules aimed at controlling performance enhancement in international sports. As international and celebrated figures, athletes are powerful symbols, yet few spectators realize that a global regulatory network is in place in an attempt to ensure ideals of fair play. The athletes caught and punished for doping are not always the ones using performance-enhancing drugs to cheat. In the case of female athletes, violations of fair play can stem from their inherent biological traits. Combining historical and ethnographic approaches, Testing for Athlete Citizenship offers a compelling account of the origins and expansion of anti-doping regulation and gender-verification rules. Drawing on research conducted in Australasia, Europe, and North America, Henne provides a detailed account of how race, gender, class, and postcolonial formations of power shape these ideas and regulatory practices. Testing for Athlete Citizenship makes a convincing case to rethink the power of regulation in sports and how it separates athletes as a distinct class of citizens subject to a unique set of rules because of their physical attributes and abilities.
Tetsugaku Companion to Japanese Ethics and Technology (Tetsugaku Companions to Japanese Philosophy #1)
by Thomas Taro Lennerfors Kiyoshi MurataThis book explores the relevance of Japanese ethics for the field of ethics of technology. It covers the theories of Japanese ethicists such as Nishida Kitarō, Watsuji Tetsurō, Imamichi Tomonobu, Yuasa Yasuo, as well as more contemporary ethicists, and explores their relevance for the analysis of energy technologies, ICT, robots, and geoengineering. It features contributions from Japanese scholars, and international scholars who have applied Japanese ethics to problems in the global condition. Technological development is considered to cause new ethical issues, such as genetically modified organisms fostering monocultures, nanotechnologies causing issues of privacy, as well as health and environmental issues, robotics raising issues about the meaning of humanity, and the risks of nuclear power, as witnessed in the Fukushima disaster. At the same time, technology embodies a hope for mankind, such as ICT improving relationships between human beings and nature, and smart systems assisting humans in leading a more ethical and environmentally friendly life. This book explores these ethical issues and their impact from a Japanese perspective.
Texas Criminal And Traffic Procedural Manual: 2019-20 Edition
by Larry Holtz Warren SpencerAuthors Holtz and Spencer take an innovative approach to the study and practical application of modern criminal procedure. The book dissects and analyzes critical court cases involving the laws of arrest, search and seizure, investigative detentions (including stop and frisk, and motor vehicle stops), interviews, confessions and Miranda, the right to counsel, identification procedures, evidence, and law enforcement liability. The Texas Law Enforcement Handbook: Contemporary Criminal Procedure is a critical resource for law enforcement agencies and criminal justice professionals.
Texas Criminal Forms
by Mark Daniel Bob GillTexas Criminal Forms No better timesaver exists than a well drafted, on-point form. Here are over 580 in print and on CD, plus a law-and-procedure outline ... all for $119. Judge Robert K. Gill and Mark Daniel's Texas Criminal Forms covers each key procedural step with: * The relevant code sections. * Summaries of the interpretive cases. * Judicial and practitioner advice for avoiding common pitfalls. * A complete collection of practice-proven forms. These Texas-specific forms take you start-to-finish, from client retention through evidence suppression to punishment. The book also includes law-and-procedure outline with hundreds of case citations. Deal with the ever-increasing pressures to do more in less time by ordering your copy of Texas Criminal Forms today.
Texas Criminal Jury Charges
by Elizabeth Berry George GallagherTexas Criminal Jury Charges provides the most comprehensive and authoritative set of criminal jury charges available in Texas. This affordable resource offers more than 650 pre-drafted instructions, detailed legal discussions with 1,100 supporting citations, and dozens of strategies. Use it to: * Plan winning pretrial strategies * Spot and set-up issues * Identify evidence requirements * Negotiate favorable plea bargains * Win important instructional battles * Deliver better results for your clients The book's jury charges cover the full range of crimes, from manslaughter to capital murder, from assault to aggravated sexual assault, from handling waste without permits to unauthorized discharge of pollutant, and hundreds more. Before each set of charges you will find an analysis of the underlying law, complete with exceptions, caveats, and practice tips.
Texas Criminal Law: Principles And Practices
by Jerry L. DowlingFor undergraduate courses in Texas Criminal Law Criminal Law in the Lone Star State Texas Criminal Law: Principles and Practices provides an in-depth review of Texas criminal law while highlighting how Texas legal sanctions differ from other states. Its state-specific focus on terminology and laws makes this an ideal text for readers planning to serve in the Texas criminal justice system. The Second Edition uses historical references and inter-state comparisons to examine the Texas criminal law system in varied contexts. The book uses real world examples of the day-to-day application of laws by law enforcement to connect major concepts to their practical application in the field. A scholarly presentation is balanced by an informal tone, making Texas Criminal Law interesting and easily digestible for readers.
Texas Criminal Lawyer’s Handbook
by Mark Daniel Robert GillMark Daniel and Judge Robert K. Gill, two of the most respected criminal law authorities in the state, have rejuvenated and expanded Paul McClung's beloved criminal casebook. Here is ready access to key Texas criminal law precedent. Find winning arguments, evaluate key issues, anticipate the opposition's moves, and locate case support with Texas Criminal Lawyer's Handbook. This authoritative work provides practical and detailed coverage of today's tough issues: * Admissibility of DNA Evidence * Batson Challenges * Challenges for Cause * Child Abuse Evidence * Child Witnesses * Confessions * Discovery Issues * Hate Crimes * Illegal Searches * Ineffective Counsel * Prior Sexual Conduct * Probable Cause * Probation Revocation Issues * Sentencing Issues Now Texas Criminal Lawyer's Handbook contains three types of helpful information skillfully woven together in a quick-reading, easy-to-follow reference guide: 1. Authoritative legal analysis. 2. Timesaving forms and checklists. 3. Practice tips. Search and seizure Strategies for cross-examination Discovery Jury selection Trial objections The most comprehensive and respected criminal practice guide in Texas, providing everything you need to help you prepare for, and win, criminal trials. Covers more than 250 topics. The Handbook also gives you in-depth practice advice on constitutional rights, documentary evidence, scientific evidence, impeachment techniques, punishment, and more.
Texas Driver Handbook
by Texas Department of Public Safety Driver License DivisionWith a view to to help you qualify for a Texas driver license, and become a safer driver, this handbook provides you with accurate information on traffic laws, clear images of road signs, examples of common driving situations, and general safety tips.
Texas DTPA Forms and Practice Guide
by David G. TekellRevisions to the Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act continue to give consumers more hurdles to overcome. The courts are strict in determining which DTPA cases fit within the "laundry list" pleading provisions. A "knowing" violation is required for all mental anguish damages. And in some cases, damage caps may eliminate DTPA protection altogether. Overcome DTPA defenses and win tough Insurance Code cases with Tekell's Texas DTPA Forms and Practice Guide. This useful guide includes over 290 forms, from custom Insurance Code interrogatories and pattern deposition questions through jury charges to laundry list questions and trial objection checklists. You will also find detailed legal discussions and step-by-step procedures in every major consumer law category, including: * Purchase of goods and services * Investments and business opportunities * Home and land purchases * Assisted living facilities * Commercial property leases * Construction defects * Lender liability
Texas DWI Manual
by Deandra M. GrantIncludes hundreds of trial-tested questions and accompanying explanations that can be used to create compelling cross-examinations of the State's witnesses.
Texas Employment Law
by James Tanner Rogge Dunn Kristi Taylor Jane Matheson Rani Garcia John Browning John Hagan Steven Clark Wade Forsman Joel Gomez Steven Ladik Laura Franze Bryan Neal Justin SmithTexas-Specific Answers to Employment Law Questions The first and best place to look for employment advice is Laura Franze's Texas Employment Law. It provides well-supported answers to both common and difficult questions, annotating its suggestions with 3,800 cases and 156 forms. The book includes over 60 substantive discovery and pleading forms, omission-preventing checklists and outlines, time-saving letters, authoritative jury instructions, dispute-avoiding employment agreements, and artfully-drafted motions. There are nine well-supported chapters covering all types of employment discrimination - disability, sexual harassment, FMLA, race, sex, and age. It also includes substantive and procedural analysis of the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act and its remedies, over 150 pages on workplace torts, with comprehensive coverage of interference with business interests, violations of business covenants, trade secret and privacy issues, defamation, negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, fraud and more. Authoritative coverage of the traditional issues of wages, hours, and overtime, along with safety and health, employee benefits, unemployment compensation, employer record-keeping and internal policies. Additionally, Texas Employment Law includes the law of employment agreements - written, oral, and implied. Constructive discharge and the Sabine Pilot doctrine. Proper and improper methods of employee selection. Employment-oriented immigration laws and much more. The first and best place to look for employment answers is Laura Franze's Texas Employment Law Authoritative guidance is provided in this detailed analysis of local and federal cases and statutes covering: Employment contracts, Wages, hours & overtime, Employee safety & health, Immigration issues, Pension, Health & welfare benefits, Privacy issues, FMLA Wrongful discharge, Constructive discharge, Sexual harassment, Disability discrimination, Race, sex, and age discrimination, Arbitration of employment claims, and a thorough discussion of whistleblower protection under Sarbanes-Oxley, as well as practical advice on the impact of the law for employers and employees.
Texas Estate Planning
by Dianne ReisSpeed is important when you charge fixed fees for creating wills and trusts, but imprecise drafting can lead to costly errors. When novel situations demand quick answers and custom clauses, turn to Dianne Reis' Texas Estate Planning. Her big book contains over 40 Texas-specific pattern wills and trusts annotated with alternate clauses, pitfalls to avoid, practice tips, recent cases, tax considerations, and more. For example, you receive: * Pattern clauses. Drafting recommendations include sample clauses that you can copy and paste. * Direct answers. Issue-oriented text is to-the-point, delivered without hedging, and is well-supported with recent cases. * Flow charts. Use the handouts to help your clients understand how particular types of assets affect the estate plan. * Tax considerations. Consequences and opportunities are clearly presented and supported with examples. Every estate planning attorney needs a base of ready answers, clauses, and documents. This affordable guide will add many reliable answers and over 80 forms to your collection.
Texas Law For The Social Worker: A 2016 Sourcebook
by Vicki Hansen J. Ray HaysTEXAS LAW FOR THE SOCIAL WORKER: A 2016 SOURCEBOOK provides licensed social workers, social work students, and professors with the key legal and policy issues specific to the state of Texas today. Issues directly affecting practitioners and their students have been carefully selected from statutes, case laws, official archives of the Attorney General Opinions and Open Records Opinions, the Social Work Practice Act, and the NASW Code of Ethics. No other compilation of such critical, up-to-date material exists for the state of Texas. New up-to-date material from 83rd Legislative Session!
Texas Law for the Social Worker: A Sourcebook
by Jay Ray Hays Robert McPhersonTexas Law for the Social Worker provides licensed social workers, social work students, and professors with the key legal and policy issues specific to the state of Texas today. <p><p>Issues directly affecting practitioners and their students have been carefully selected from statutes, case laws, official archives of the Attorney General Opinions and Open Records Opinions. <p><p>No other compilation of such critical, up-to-date material exists for the state of Texas. Produced in collaboration with the Texas Psychological Association.
Texas Pretrial Practice
by Dan Boyd Scott BristerA step-by-step outline format and proven practice tips help you avoid pitfalls. Procedure and law outlines in the publication are supported by 2,700 case citations summarized in plain English. Texas Pretrial: Step by Step When civil procedure challenges arise, sage advice can make a big difference in your hours, stress, and results. Texas Pretrial Practice probes every step of civil procedure before trial. This problem-solving manual covers each portion of pretrial procedure and focuses on the issues that arise in pleading, motions, and discovery. Chief Justice Scott Brister of the 14th Court of Appeals and veteran Dallas trial lawyer Dan Boyd have set a new standard of excellence for Texas legal resources with thorough coverage of: Jurisdiction & venue Pleadings Citation & service of process Special exceptions Defaults TROs & injunctions Privileges Motion practice Discovery disputes Depositions Requests for admission Inspection of documents Interrogatories Physical & mental exams Settlement & ADR Summary judgment Outline format and tight writing. The frequent headings, short paragraphs, plain English, and clear writing speed your access and understanding. Chapter tabs and a detailed index make searching quick and easy. Proven practice tips. Advantages and disadvantages, cautions, caveats, examples, tactics, tips, and more keep you clear of pitfalls and help you plot strategy. Recent cases. Legal principles are supported with current, summarized cases rather than lengthy string citations with no differentiation. Direct answers to tough discovery questions. Texas Pretrial Practice provides authoritative and direct responses to every discovery issues. And much more--nine detailed chapters are devoted to discovery issues. Procedure and law outlines are supported by 3,200 cases and over 220 forms. Principles of law are illustrated with recent case examples, not strings of undifferentiated case citations. And the book is packed with tips on how to: * Avoid and fix mistakes * Resolve peripheral disputes * Craft better documents * Answer ethical questions * Process cases efficiently * Improve your advocacy Texas Pretrial Practice delivers quick and reliable answers with its fast-access outline format, tight writing, superb scholarship, and extensive citations. Its practice-tested forms speed drafting.
Texas Probate Forms and Procedures
by Keith BranyonNo better timesaver exists than a well-drafted, on-point form. Here are over 170, plus a law-and-procedure outline. Keith Branyon's formbook will help you deal with the ever-increasing pressure to do more in less time, covering each procedural step with: * The relevant code sections. * Summaries of the interpretive cases. * Advice for avoiding common pitfalls. * A complete collection of practice-proven forms. All forms are custom-drafted in plain English specifically for use in Texas by one of the state's top probate practitioners. Here are some of the topics covered by the book's many forms: * Initial representation * Independent administration * Dependent administration * Other options * Creditors * Foreign wills * Contested matters
Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, And Legacy
by Bob Alexander Donaly E. BriceAuthors Bob Alexander and Donaly E. Brice grappled with several issues when deciding how to relate a general history of the Texas Rangers. Should emphasis be placed on their frontier defense against Indians, or focus more on their role as guardians of the peace and statewide law enforcers? What about the tumultuous Mexican Revolution period, 1910-1920? And how to deal with myths and legends such as One Riot, One Ranger? <p><p> Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy is the authors’ answer to these questions, a one-volume history of the Texas Rangers. The authors begin with the earliest Rangers in the pre-Republic years in 1823 and take the story up through the Republic, Mexican War, and Civil War. Then, with the advent of the Frontier Battalion, the authors focus in detail on each company A through F, relating what was happening within each company concurrently. Thereafter, Alexander and Brice tell the famous episodes of the Rangers that forged their legend, and bring the story up through the twentieth century to the present day in the final chapters.
Texas Rangers, The: From The Red River To The Rio Grande (Images of America)
by Chuck ParsonsThe Texas Rangers. The words evoke exciting images of daring, courage, high adventure. The Rangers began as a handful of men protecting their homes from savage raiding parties; now in their third century of existence, they are a highly sophisticated crime-fighting organization. Yet at times even today the Texas Ranger mounts his horse to track fugitives through dense chaparral, depending on his wits more than technology. The iconic image of the Texas Ranger is of a man who is tall, unflinching, and dedicated to doing a difficult job no matter what the odds. The Rangers of the 21st century are different sizes, colors, and genders, but remain as vital and real today as when they were created in the horseback days of 1823, when what is today Texas was part of Mexico, a wild and untamed land.
Texas Real Estate Agency
by Loretta DeHayYour duties as an agent are important! Make sure you know what's expected. Learn what you need to know to obtain a real estate license and understand relationships created in real estate transactions. The Real Estate License Act (TRELA) requires agency as a course of study for everyone seeking a real estate license. This edition focuses on all statutory topics and ethical standards required by TRELA for a prelicensing core course in agency law. Test your knowledge with exam questions after every unit.
Texas Rules of Form: The Greenbook
by University of Texas School of LawThe 14th edition of The Greenbook includes significant updates, including: The addition of cross-references to the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure to the petition history tables A new petition history designation: "petition pending" Increased cross-referencing both internally and to The Bluebook Clarification of administrative citations in the Texas Register Updated information about the ongoing codification and revision of Texas statutes A new quick-reference table for rule abbreviations Updated citation examples throughout
Texas Small-Firm Practice Tools
by Cindy StormerThe latest edition of Texas Small-Firm Practice Tools includes updated citations and substantive coverage to reflect the implementation of the Estates Code, as well as new and revised text on a broad range of topics, including: * Business records affidavits * Collateral consequences of a DWI * Criminal discovery under the Michael Morton Act * Management trusts for disabled persons You also receive 31 new and revised forms to help you work more efficiently. Texas Small-Firm Practice Tools is the one resource you need to stay current on Texas law and practice. Order your copy today . . . Texas Legal Checklists Pilots and accountants have long relied on checklists to avoid omissions. Your legal work deserves the same care, especially if you handle a variety of practice areas. Bring order and method to your practice, tackle new areas with confidence, and avoid omissions and wasted effort with the task checklists in Cindy Stormer's Small-Firm Practice Tools. These checklists break big jobs like probating a will, filing a divorce, forming a corporation, preparing for trial, and dozens more into manageable tasks. You receive: Civil litigation checklists Car accident checklists Business checklists Divorce checklists Estate checklists Criminal checklists Over 560 Texas FormsEach of the 16 practice areas in Cindy Stormer's Small-Firm Practice Tools is supported with a: (1) summary of the essential law and procedures, and (2) collection of custom-drafted, time-tested forms in both print and on Jamesforms.com.