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Determining Damages examines whether jurors are able to assess damages in a fair and predictable manner. Jury decisions about damages have been deemed biased, capricious, unreliable, hostile to corporate defendants, excessively generous, and out of control. In this book, the authors provide an empirical analysis of the ways that jurors and juries determine damage awards. A theme that pervades the book is that in many respects, jurors charged with the complex task of compensating the injured and punishing the wrongdoers do a commendable job of it. When jury decisions diverge from what we expect, the difficulty of the decision-making context may be at least as much to blame as any moral or intellectual failings on the individual jurors. The authors discuss the factors that influence damage assessment, such as the identity of the plaintiff, defendant and jurors themselves; the severity and nature of the injury; and the conduct of the litigants. They also examine the different reasoning pr...

Since the early 1990s, tens of thousands of memoirs by celebrities and unknown people have been published, sold, and read by millions of American readers. The memoir boom, as the explosion of memoirs on the market has come to be called, has been welcomed, vilified, and dismissed in the popular press. But is there really a boom in memoir production in the United States? If so, what is causing it? Are memoirs all written by narcissistic hacks for an unthinking public, or do they indicate a growing need to understand world events through personal experiences? This study seeks to answer these questions by examining memoir as an industrial product like other products, something that publishers and booksellers help to create. These popular texts become part of mass culture, where they are connected to public events. The genre of memoir, and even genre itself, ceases to be an empty classification category and becomes part of social action and consumer culture at the same time. From James Frey...

The practical Key Stage 3 Maths Dictionary that helps your students use the right word in the right place. It brings the Key Stage 3 Mathematics Framework vocabulary checklist to life in an accessible, attractive student resource. Improve your pupil's subject-based vocabulary Engage pupils with an attractive resource for learning key terms Improve understanding of the subject with a vocabulary checklist Product details For ages 9-12 Format Paperback | 112 pages ...

Zum Werk Dieses Notarhandbuch verfolgt einen fokussierten Ansatz: Dem Leser wird die bestmögliche Qualität der notariellen Tätigkeit im Bereich des Gesellschafts- und Unternehmensrecht vermittelt. Allgemeine Grundlagen zum materiellen Gesellschaftsrecht werden somit nur insoweit diskutiert, als sie konkrete Auswirkungen auf die Notariatspraxis haben. Im Gegenzug werden auf die gesellschaftsrechtliche Vertragsgestaltung ausstrahlende Themen wie das Familien-, Insolvenz oder Steuerrecht unter notariellen Aspekten behandelt. Insbesondere die Arbeitsweise des Notars und seine Zusammenarbeit mit Rechtsanwälten, Justitiaren, Vorständen und Geschäftsführern, Registerrichtern und Rechtspflegern werden eingehend erläutert. Zahlreiche Arbeitshilfen wie Beispiele, Übersichten, Formulierungsmuster und Checklisten bereichern die Darstellung. InhaltDer Notar im Gesellschaftsrecht, Erwartungshaltung der Mandanten und der weiteren Beteiligten, Rechtsformwahl, Registerrecht, Beurkundungsrecht, Recht de...

This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works. Produc...

Sarah, Hagar, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah are women often condemned to be only the shadow of their male opposite numbers. However, each one of them had a privileged role, often a decisive role, in the formation of the people of God. Their place was not only in the bosom of their family, but also at the heart of Israel's history. God chose them as full-time partners in the work of salvation. In this little book Christianne Meroz proposes to recount these women's lives of passion and rivalry, hopes and deceptions, faithfulness and freedom. Not a biblical commentary, this work is a sensitive and tender narrative that, with the sometimes surprising enlightenment provided by traditions of the Jewish and Islamic communities of faith, furnishes us with highly textured portraits of these women. It is a narrative in which we develop a quick sympathy for these free women whose names begin practically to dance in our hearts. Product de...

If everything was taken from you, what would you do to get it back? Agatha patrols the sea wall with pride, despite those in her clan who question her right to be there, because of the condition she was born with. Jaime is a reluctant Angler, full of self-doubt and afraid of the sea. When disaster strikes, the pair must embark on a terrifying journey to a land where forgotten magic and dark secrets lurk in every shadow... Thrilling and dark, yet rich with humour and compassion, this novel marks the debut of a wonderful new voice in fantasy and a welcome new kind of protagonist - perfect for fans of The Girl of Ink and Stars, Garth Nix and Michelle Paver. NOMINATED FOR THE 2021 CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE As featured on BBC Radio 2 on Jo Whiley's Storytime. "A thrilling, strange and brutally involving debut." Guardian "A story fantasy-loving young readers may not even know they've been waiting for." New York Times "A...