Tomorrows Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future (2nd Edition)
Author: Richard Susskind File Type: pdf *Tomorrows Lawyers * predicts that we are at the beginning of a period of fundamental transformation in law a time in which we will see greater change than we have seen in the past two centuries. Where the future of the legal service will be a world of internet-based global businesses, online document production, commoditized service, legal process outsourcing, and web based simulation practice. Legal markets will be liberalized, with new jobs for lawyers and new employers too. This book is a definitive guide to this future - for young and aspiring lawyers, and for all who want to modernize our legal and justice systems. It introduces the new legal landscape and offers practical guidance for those who intend to build careers and businesses in law. ul lTomorrows Lawyers * is divided into three parts. The first is an updated restatement of Richard Susskinds views on the future of legal services, as laid out in his previous bestselling works, * The Future of Law , * Transforming the Law, and * The End of Lawyers? *. He identifies key drivers of change, such as the economic downturn, and considers how these will impact on the legal marketplace. In the second part, Susskind sketches out the new legal landscape as he predicts it, including the changing role of law firms, and in-house lawyers, with virtual hearings and online dispute resolution. The third part focuses on the prospects for aspiring lawyers, predicting what new jobs and new employers there will be, and equipping prospective lawyers with penetrating questions to put to their current and future employers. l ul This new edition has been fully updated to include an introduction to online dispute resolution, Susskinds views on the debates surrounding artificial intelligence and its role in the legal world, a new analysis of new jobs available for lawyers, and a retrospective evaluation of *The Future of Law * , Susskinds prediction published in 1996 about the future of legal services. This is the essential introduction to the future of law for those who want to succeed in the rapidly changing legal landscape. **
Author: Myles Burnyeat
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M.F. Burnyeat taught for 14 years in the Philosophy Department of University College London, then for 18 years in the Classics Faculty at Cambridge, 12 of them as the Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, before migrating to Oxford in 1996 to become a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at All Souls College. The studies, articles and reviews collected in these two volumes of Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy were all written, and all but two published, before that decisive change. Whether designed for a scholarly audience or for a wider public, they range from the Presocratics to Augustine, from Descartes and Bishop Berkeley to Wittgenstein and G.E. Moore. Their subject-matter falls under four main headings Part I on Logic and Dialectic, Part II on Scepticism Ancient and Modern, Part III on Knowledge, Part IV on Philosophy and the Good Life. The title Explorations well expresses Burnyeats ability to discover new aspects of familiar texts, new ways of solving old problems. In his hands the history of philosophy becomes itself a philosophical activity.**
Author: Lynn Beighley
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ReviewOutrageous! SQL is a computer language, right? Head First SQL is obviously written for human beings! Whats up with that?! -- Dan Tow, Author of SQL Tuning There are books you buy and books you keep on your desk... Head First SQL is at the top of my stack. -- Bill Sawyer, ATG Curriculum Manager, Oracle This is not SQL made easy this is SQL made challenging, SQL made interesting, SQL made fun. -- Andrew Cumming, Author of SQL Hacks, Zoo Keeper at sqlzoo.netIs your data dragging you down? Are your tables all tangled up? Well weve got the tools to teach you just how to wrangle your databases into submission. Using the latest research in neurobiology, cognitive science, and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory SQL learning experience, Head First SQL has a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works, not a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep. Maybe youve written some simple SQL queries to interact with databases. But now you want more, you want to really dig into those databases and work with your data. Head First SQL will show you the fundamentals of SQL and how to really take advantage of it. Well take you on a journey through the language, from basic INSERT statements and SELECT queries to hardcore database manipulation with indices, joins, and transactions. We all know Data is Power - but well show you how to have Power over your Data. Expect to have fun, expect to learn, and expect to be querying, normalizing, and joining your data like a pro by the time youre finished reading!
Author: Michael Munro
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h2The Communism of Thoughth2 h5 ul list-unstyled list-inline a href=http82.221.106.113maker5537e8ec334fe04c93af2d4bMichael Munro a ul h5 p leadThe Communism of Thought by Michael Munro English 90 pages ISBN 978-0615986968 The Communism of Thought takes as its point of departure a passage in a letter from Dionys Mascolo to Gilles Deleuze I have called this communism of thought in the past. And I placed it under the auspices of Holderlin, who may have only fled thought because he was unable to live it The life of the spirit between friends, the thoughts that form in the exchange of words, by writing or in person, are necessary to those who seek. Without that, we are by our own hands outside thought.What, in light of that imperative, is a correspondence? What is given to be understood by the word, let alone the phenomenon? What constitutes a correspondence? What occasions it? On what terms and according to what conditions may one enter into that exchange necessary, in Holderlins words, to those who seek? Pursuant to what vicissitudes may it be conducted? And what end(s) might a correspondence come to have beyond the ostensible end that, to all appearances, it (inevitably) will be said to have had?And what is the proximity, here, between correspondence and commentary? To what extent might commentary approximate a kind of correspondence? (And with whom? The author of the source text? The source text itself? A future reader of that text? Or then again a third, or fourth, or nth party? And by way of what channels?)The two texts - the two commentaries - that form the heart of The Communism of Thought are both short, late texts of Gilles Deleuzes, and theyre both reprinted in Two Regimes of Madness Texts and Interviews, 1975-1995. The first text is Deleuzes last published article, widely considered to be something of a testament, Immanence A Life .... The commentary is staged in the manner of a dictionary definition of the word immanence. The various subentries under the first (and only) sense of the word for Deleuze - a life ... - develop in tandem with the article to progressively elaborate the centrality of the problematics of definition to Deleuzes conception of immanence. The second text is that of a brief, beautiful correspondence The five letters that comprise the correspondence between Gilles Deleuze and Dionys Mascolo were written between 23 April and 6 October 1988, and were first published a decade later, in 1998, a year after Mascolos death and nearly three years after Deleuzes. The commentary, a kind of marginalia to that correspondence, comes gradually and progressively into focus around a single question To what affinity might a correspondence attest? What strikes me especially, an interviewer once noted to Deleuze, is the friendship you have for the authors you write about. If you dont admire something, Deleuze replied, if you dont love it, you have no reason to write a word about it.
Author: Kate Atkinson
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Amazon.com ReviewHuman Croquet is a game in which some people act as hoops while others propel a blindfolded ball around the course. Though the game is never actually played in Kate Atkinsons remarkable novel, Human Croquet, the parallels between plot and pastime are undeniable. Atkinson, winner of the 1995 Whitbread Award in Britain, tells the story of Isobel Fairfax and her older brother, Charles. The childrens parents vanished when they were young, leaving them to the care of their grandmother, now dead, and their Aunt Vinny. Recently their father has returned with the Debbie-wife in tow, and they all live in Arden, the familys ancestral home built on the foundations of the original manor house that burned to the ground in 1605. According to family legend, the first Fairfax took a wife who mysteriously disappeared one day, leaving in her wake a curse on the Fairfax name. More than 300 years later, Fairfax descendants are still struggling with this painful legacy. Atkinsons novel is obviously not rooted in dull reality. Narrator Isobel has an uncanny knowledge of past and future events Charles is obsessed with the concept of parallel universes and time travel and a faery curse hangs over everybody. Fortunately, Kate Atkinson is a masterful writer who manages to keep her world of wonders in check. Human Croquet is no ordinary novel, and readers who venture into the Fairfax universe are in for a magical ride. From Library JournalThis ambitious and unusual novel concerns the nature of time, memory, and, most poignantly, identity. Young Isobel and her brother, Charles, are abandoned by their parents to the loveless care of a sour aunt, stern grandmother, and evil schoolmaster. They spend seven years yearning for the truth about their parents disappearance and for their mothers return. It is their father, however, who returns?with a new young wife. The home of the protagonists is built on a site where, in the late 16th century, parallel events took place, and the novel warps and wends from past to present to future. British author Atkinson (Behind the Scenes at the Museum, St. Martins, 1995) here focuses on Isobels 16th year in 1960. Dopplegangers abound people long-dead manifest themselves to the living. As the fantastic and the mundane combine almost seamlessly, incest, puppy love, and dysfunctional families mix to darkly comic effect. For most fiction collections get Atkinsons first book, too.?Judith Kicinski, Sarah Lawrence Coll. Lib., Bronxville, N.Y. 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Author: John W. Burbidge
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Do concepts exist independently of the mind? Where does objective reality diverge from subjective experience? John Burbidge calls upon the work of some of the foremost thinkers in philosophy to address these questions, developing a nuanced account of the relationship between the mind and the external world. In Ideas, Concepts, and Reality John Burbidge adopts, as a starting point, Gottlob Freges distinction between ideas, which are subjective recollections of past sensations, and concepts, which are shared by many and make communication possible. Engaging with Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and many others, the book argues that concepts are not eternal and unchanging, as Frege suggested, but open to revision. We can move from ideas to thoughts, Burbidge suggests, that can be refined to the point where they acquire independent and objective status as concepts. At the same time, they are radically connected to other concepts which either complement or are differentiated from them. Ideas, Concepts, and Reality offers a fresh perspective on the ways in which rigorous thought differs from other operations of the mind. Daringly inventive and accessibly written, the book will appeal to philosophers at all levels of interest. **
Author: Brian Smith
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Follow business maverick Brian Smith as he tells his story of founding the world-renowned UGG Australia brand and reveals the secrets to his personal success ... see him stamble and fall but watch him put his heart and soul into every sole he sells to overcome all odds and find ultimate success ... Witness the birth of a brand, the sale of a lifetime and the making of a legend. Then kick-start your own entrepreneurial revolution - this book is written for anyone curious not just about the how-to but also for those seeking the deeper truths they dont teach you about in business school--Publishers description.
Author: Jill Fields
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Erudite, exhaustive, and engaging, Fields wonderfully original study deftly navigates several current literatures womens and gender history, the history of sexuality, cultural studies, and the burgeoning scholarship on consumer culture. Using fashion to gauge changing conceptualizations of femininity and the female body, Fields traces discursive production and the policing of boundaries without ever neglecting the material contexts of social and economic relations.--Regina Morantz-Sanchez, author of Conduct Unbecoming a Woman Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century BrooklynTheoretically sophisticated, methodologically innovative and just provocative, An Intimate Affair joins together the histories of production, consumption, representation, and fashion to claim the body as an arena upon which questions of pleasure and danger, power and authority, gender identities, racial purity and class access, became contested during the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. After reading Fields, putting on or taking off lingerie will never again feel the same.--Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Womens Studies, University of California, Santa BarbaraThis is a delightful book on a surprisingly important--and one can legitimately say--revealing topic. The archival work is impressive, the analysis solid we gain greater knowledge of women in consumer society and of ongoing controversies about sexuality from the results.--Peter N. Stearns, Provost, George Mason UniversityAn Intimate Affair is a major contribution to the histories of fashion and of women. Wide-ranging in scope, this book demonstrates conclusively the importance of clothing in historical analysis and pushes the boundaries of cultural studies theory about the body to encompass the most intimate body covering. Fields illustrates how cultural studies and womens studies theory, the investigation of material objects, and the history of laboring people and women can be brought together to produce a compelling narrative. Both academics and general readers will find this book fascinating, for it has major implications for how all of us regard our bodies.--Lois W. Banner, Professor of History and Gender Studies, University of Southern California, and author of American BeautyJill Fields has produced a remarkable book that reveals the ways in which intimate apparel has shaped modern conceptions of glamour, femininity, beauty, and sexuality. She brilliantly traces the creation of lingerie from the workers who made it to the advertisers who glamorized it to the women who bought it.--Steven J. Ross, Professor of History, University of Southern California
Author: Jack Challem
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Early Acclaim for The Inflammation SyndromeChallems new book hits a home runwith the latest research on what to eat and take to defeat our real number-one cause of health problemsinflammation. Its a message of the utmost importance.Jean Carper, New York Times bestselling author of Stop Aging Now! and Your Miracle Brain, and columnist, USA Weekend magazineTreating and preventing inflammation has become a major priority and a breakthrough in todays medicine. Many of our most debilitating diseases can be traced to an inflammatory cause. The program Jack Challem outlines in The Inflammation Syndrome is a great first step in ridding your body of this deadly problem.Fred Pescatore, M.D., author of Thin For Good, The Allergy and Asthma Cure, and Feed Your Kids WellThe Inflammation Syndrome compellingly shows how the typical Western diet promotes inflammation and disease. In a scientifically accurate and easy-to-understand manner, Jack Challem lays out the basic nutrition plan for good health and weight lossa plan that mimics many features of the ancestral and native human diet.Loren Cordain, Ph.D., author of The Paleo DietJack Challem has hit the bulls-eye when it comes to identifying the root cause of chronic inflammationour pro-inflammatory Western diet. Following Challems recommendations will not only relieve inflammation, it will lay the groundwork for optimal health.Jo Robinson, coauthor of The Omega Diet and principal investigator of eatwild.comIn this book, Jack Challem focuses on inflammation, the most important underlying factor in health and disease. Anti-inflammatory strategies can slow the chronic and degenerative diseases of agingeven aging itself. Jack Challem shows us how the antioxidant vitamins E and C, modifying lifestyle factors, food and nutritional supplements, and nutraceuticals can be useful in reducing the risks of inflammatory disorders.Lester Packer, Ph.D., the worlds foremost antioxidant research scientist and lead author of The Antioxidant Miracle