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The second edition of Charles Fox s bestselling paperback guide, Working with Contracts: What Law School Doesn t Teach You, updates the original edition published in 2002. The perfect resource for new associates, law school students, business people, or anyone who frequently deals with complex contracts, the Second Edition expands existing material on contract covenants and remedies for breach of a covenant; due diligence conditions; organization of the agreement; credit-related provisions; acquisition-related provisions; the integration clause; and indemnification. Other miscellaneous revisions are found in every chapter of the Second Edition. In addition, the glossary and the index have been thoroughly revised. In its updated form, Working with Contracts remains the most useful and practical guide for anyone dealing with sophisticated agreements..
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) has a well-elaborated theoretical background However, new specific theoretical formulations and techniques continually appear, and these new developments are covered in this book. Topics include: Management of major depression, suicidal behaviour and Bipolar Disorder; Treatment of anxiety disorders; Application of CBT to eating disorders and personality disorders; Implementation of CBT with specific populations, ie: couples and families or children and adolescents.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: A Guide for the Practicing Clinician will be invaluable to clinicians, researchers and mental health practitioners..
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Offering a comprehensive review of one the most dynamic sectors of the financial marketplace, Hedge Fund Regulation provides you with up-to-date insights into the ever changing world of hedge funds. Hedge Fund Regulation provides you with a thorough understanding of industry basics-from the unique business terms that characterize hedge funds and their investment managers, to the multiplicity of strategies they pursue in the financial markets. It then overlays the legal and regulatory framework that has evolved along with the hedge fund industry to examine the key issues that confront funds and their managers, including marketing and capital raising, both domestically and offshore, the choice of fund structures, the availability of various exemptions and exclusions from federal and state registration, the interplay between hedge funds and other participants in the financial markets and salient rules that govern a hedge fund's trading and investing activities. This up-to-date resource also tracks the latest developments in the field, including the recent federal court reversal of the SEC's efforts to require registration of most hedge fund managers, the latest developments on soft-dollar arrangements and ERISA's plan asset rule and innovative methods by which investors can access hedge funds..
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Written by a noted corporate legal skills trainer, this invaluable, affordable tool offers the financial, business, accounting, drafting and legal information that must be understood for corporate finance documentation, especially debt documentation. Covering all the components of effective contract drafting, Drafting for Corporate Finance offers a practical grasp of basic structural issues, including the parties, instruments, markets, and terminology - conditions precedent, representations, warranties, defaults, and other provisions, and their interplay - full spectrum of subsidiaries, starting with wholly-owned vs. non-wholly owned - Contract structure, drafting, and negotiation, including potential problems - housekeeping, insurance, information, general business, and financial covenants - debt and negative pledges, including restrictions on sale-leasebacks, on debt, and on debt of subsidiaries - enforceability, security interest, true sale, and 10b-5 opinions - amendment, control, and refinancing provisions - risk-based review of contracts to eliminate compromising contract errors. Also included is a best practices chapter featuring a technical drafting checklist, guidance on drafting disclosure of contract terms and on leveraging technology, and cautionary lessons of Enron..
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Chock-full of exercises, examples, and writing do's and don'ts, Thinking Like a Writer gives you step-by-step instruction on the specialized techniques you need to draft clear and persuasive legal documents Learn how to organize material logically, grab a reader's attention, and keep it with clear, crisp content-packed sentences..
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A cross-disciplinary collection of 20 essays describing the journey to public scholarship, exploring the pleasures and perils associated with breaching the town-gown divide.

• Includes contributions from departments of geography, comparative literature, sociology, communications, history, English, public health, and biology
  
• Discusses their efforts to reach beyond the academy and to make their ideas and research broadly accessible to a wider audience
  
• Opens the way for a new kind of democratic politics—one based on grounded concepts and meaningful social participation
  
• Includes deeply personal accounts about the journey to becoming a public scholar and to intervening politically in the world, while remaining within a university system
  
• Provides a broad prescription for social change, both within and outside the university

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Long considered the gold standard in legal and tax guidance for visual art professionals and their attorneys, ART LAW is now even more valuable to anyone involved in this complex, interconnected industry. Teeming with new information and analysis and many new sample documents, the three-volume Third Edition of ART LAW is the one resource you must consult to help ensure you formalize rock-solid agreements, maximize tax savings, and minimize legal liabilities..
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Landis on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting gives you the very latest word on patent claim drafting, including a new sample exercise for drafting business method claims. Youll learn new ways to deal with claims that involve numerical ranges -- how to understand the different treatments of preamble language, including the CAFCs Catalina Marketing guidelines -- how the CAFC treated the unusual Markush grouping in the Abbott Laboratories case -- how the CAFC interprets substantially, essentially, similar and other words of approximation..
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The first book exclusively on sonar and sonar technology Written by an engineer (with over 40 years of experience in the field) for engineers Taking an engineering approach rather than a physics/math one it provides an understanding of the basic principles of sonar and develops the formulae and "rules of thumb" for sonar design and performance analysis..
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