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  • Real Estate Law

    Fundamentals for The Development Process

    Unlike existing textbooks written for law students on specific subjects impacting real estate transactions, Real Estate Law: Fundamentals for The Development Process uses "The Development Process" as a framework for understanding how the U.S. legal system regulates, facilitates, and generally impacts real estate transactions and their outcomes.This book not only addresses the nature of specific ... Read more

    $240.99 USD

  • The King of Oil

    The Secret Lives of Marc Rich

    by Daniel Ammann ...
    Billionaire oil trader Marc Rich for the first time talks at length about his private life (including his expensive divorce from wife Denise); his invention of the spot oil market, which made his fortune and changed the world economy; his lucrative and unpublicized dealings with Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran, Fidel Castro's Cuba, war-ravaged Angola, and apartheid South Africa; his quiet cooperation ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Florida Construction Defect Litigation 2019

    by Gary Brown ...
    Construction defect claims cover a wide spectrum of issues and can involve multiple parties responsible for both construction and design errors.Florida Construction Defect Litigation covers a variety of topics and issues, including the legal frame-work within which construction defect claims are addressed, typical claims and defenses, contractual considerations, standards of care for contractors ... Read more

    $151.99 USD

  • Slick Water

    Fracking and One Insider's Stand against the World's Most Powerful Industry

    The fossil fuel industry and many environmental groups tout hydraulic fracturing - fracking” - as a panacea, with slick promises of energy independence, greenhouse gas reductions, and benefits to local economies. Yet the controversial technology, which blasts massive volumes of fluids, sand, and chemicals into rock and coal formations, has sparked huge public protests. Slick Water tells the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Discovering Indigenous Lands

    The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies

    This book presents new material and shines fresh light on the under-explored historical and legal evidence about the use of the doctrine of discovery in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. North America, New Zealand and Australia were colonised by England under an international legal principle that is known today as the doctrine of discovery. When Europeans set out to explore and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • An Unsettled History

    Treaty Claims in New Zealand Today

    by Alan Ward ...
    An Unsettled History squarely confronts the issues arising from the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand today. Alan Ward writes lucidly about the Treaty claims process, about settlements made, and those to come.New Zealand’s short history unquestionably reveals a treaty made and then repeatedly breached. This is a compelling case for fair and reasonable settlement, and for the rigorous continuation ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Cities in the Wilderness

    A New Vision of Land Use in America

    by Bruce Babbitt ...
    In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important new book, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh thought--and fresh air--to questions of how we can build a future we want to live in.We've all experienced America's changing natural landscape as the integrity of our forests, seacoasts, and river valleys succumbs to strip malls, new roads, and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Legal Guide on Land Consolidation: Based on Regulatory Practices in Europe

    Land consolidation is a highly effective land management instrument that allows for the improvement of the structure of agricultural holdings and farms in a country, which increases their economic and social efficiency and brings benefits both to right holders as well as to society in general. Since land consolidation gives mobility to land ownership and other land rights, it may also facilitate ... Read more

    Free

  • The National Wildlife Refuges

    Coordinating A Conservation System Through Law

    The National Wildlife Refuges provides a comprehensive examination of the laws and policies governing management of the national wildlife refuges, offering for the first time a practical description and analysis of the management regime outlined in the 1997 National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act. The 1997 act is the first new statute governing a system of federal public lands enacted ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Agricultural and Agribusiness Law

    An Introduction for Non-Lawyers

    This introductory textbook provides an overview of the concepts necessary for an understanding of agricultural and agribusiness law. The text will help students of land-based industries with little or no legal background to appreciate and identify issues that may require referral or consultation with legal counsel. This new edition is fully revised and updated, particularly addressing developments ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Safeguarding Land Tenure Rights in the Context of Agricultural Investment

    This guide has been developed in response to concerns regarding large-scale land acquisitions and the need to increase investment in agriculture. The guide supports application of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure for Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security at the national level by providing technical guidance on how to safeguard tenure ... Read more

    Free

  • Georgia Construction Law Handbook 2021

    Georgia Construction Law Handbook follows and unpacks new movement in this area of law as it develops.It is a guide to common construction law issues, such as regulatory matters and the collection of money using the mechanic’s lien law or the public works bond laws. A ready reference for attorneys and construction and design professionals, the Handbook analyzes construction law in Georgia, as set ... Read more

    $136.99 USD

  • A Guide to Landlord and Tenant Law

    by Emily Walsh ...
    A Guide to Landlord and Tenant Law provides a strong foundation in commercial landlord and tenant, and housing law. The book is designed to provide a complete course text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students from surveying and real estate management backgrounds. This clear and accessible textbook aims to introduce the reader to the fundamentals of both residential and commercial ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Kip Brothers

    by Jules Verne ...
    Translated by Stanford L. Luce ...
    Series series Early Classics of Science Fiction
    Castaways on a barren island in the South Seas, Karl and Pieter Kip are rescued by the brig James Cook. After helping to quell an onboard mutiny, however, they suddenly find themselves accused and convicted of the captain's murder. In this story, one of his last Voyages Extraordinaires, Verne interweaves an exciting exploration of the South Pacific with a tale of judicial error reminiscent of the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • La protección del consumidor en la vivienda colaborativa

    Te explicamos cómo el cambio en los patrones de consumo, unido a los avances tecnológicos, está propiciando a su vez un cambio de paradigma en el mercado inmobiliario que se sustenta en la economía colaborativa y se caracteriza por una casi absoluta desregulación. ... Read more

    $58.16 USD

  • Goethes Faust: Oekonom – Landesplaner – Unternehmer

    Series Book 21 - Heidelberger Beitraege zur deutschen Literatur
    In dieser Studie stellt der Autor Fausts Werdegang vom Gelehrten zum Ökonomen, Landesplaner und Unternehmer dar und zeigt durch die innovative «geographische Deutung» des fünften Akts, inwiefern durch Fausts Neulandgewinnung eine blühende Kulturlandschaft hat entstehen können. Bislang bestand in der Faust-Forschung weitgehend Konsens darüber, dass Faust am Ende des Dramas ein Egomane und ein ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Legal Education in the Global Context

    Opportunities and Challenges

    This book discusses the opportunities and challenges facing legal education in the era of globalization. It identifies the knowledge and skills that law students will require in order to prepare for the practice of tomorrow, and explores pedagogical shifts legal education needs to make inside and outside of the classroom. With contributions from leading experts on legal education from various ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • La pénurie en eau est-elle inéluctable ?

    Une approche institutionnaliste de l’évolution du mode d’usage de l’eau en Espagne et au Maroc

    Series Book 25 - EcoPolis
    Sécheresse, aridité, pénurie en eau, sont des termes parfois présentés comme synonymes. Questionnant cette apparente évidence, l’auteur focalise son analyse sur la notion de pénurie en eau et oppose aux travaux centrés sur la rareté physique des ressources en eau une approche qui place les usages de l’eau au cœur de l’explication. Tiré d’une thèse de doctorat, cet ouvrage propose un examen des ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Medicine and Justice

    Medico-Legal Practice in England and Wales, 1700–1914

    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    This monograph makes a major new contribution to the historiography of criminal justice in England and Wales by focusing on the intersection of the history of law and crime with medical history. It does this through the lens provided by one group of historical actors, medical professionals who gave evidence in criminal proceedings. They are the means of illuminating the developing methods and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • My Land Obsession

    A Memoir

    Winner of the Sunday Times Literary Awards 2023 Non-Fiction PrizeBulelwa Mabasa was born into a ‘matchbox’ family home in Meadowlands, Soweto, at the height of apartheid. In My Land Obsession, she shares her colourful Christian upbringing, framed by the lived experiences of her grandparents, who endured land dispossession in the form of the Group Areas Act and the migrant labour system.Bulelwa’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Property Diversity and its Implications

    by John Page ...
    Property is more diverse than is usually assumed. Developing the concept of property diversity, this book explores the varied role of property in placed human landscapes. In acknowledging the propertied diversity about us, the book highlights the paucity of our settled contemporary assumptions of property as defined by private ownership. Challenging this universalizing model, the book analyses how ... Read more

    $62.99 USD $42.99 USD

  • Commoning the City

    Empirical Perspectives on Urban Ecology, Economics and Ethics

    This collection seeks to expand the limits of current debates about urban commoning practices that imply a radical will to establish collaborative and solidarity networks based on anti-capitalist principles of economics, ecology and ethics.The chapters in this volume draw on case studies in a diversity of urban contexts, ranging from Detroit, USA to Kyrenia, Cyprus – on urban gardening and land ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Justicia o eficiencia en la asignación de los derechos de propiedad y las relaciones de intercambio:

    implicaciones negociales

    En este libro se analizan los enfrentamientos que pueden surgir entre la justicia y la eficiencia en relación con la asignación de recursos y su impacto en el medio ambiente, debido a la deficiente asignación de derechos de propiedad. También se busca revisar nuevas modalidades de transacción con origen en adelantos tecnológicos que, por su novedad, puedan generar incertidumbre en los procesos y, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mabo Turn in Australian Fiction

    Series Book 1 - Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    Winner of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature‘s Alvie Egan Award 2019!Winner of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) Dissertation Award 2018This is the first in-depth, broad-based study of the impact of the Australian High Court’s landmark Mabo decision of 1992 on Australian fiction. More than any other event in Australia’s legal, political and cultural ... Read more

    $89.99 USD