Carolina Academic Press
The African American studies reader, 2d ed.
The 2001 anthology of published African American Studies articles is here expanded and revised with new selections to represent the full array of exponents and critics that have shaped the discipline from 1968 to 2006. The emphasis is on the history, purpose, content, and function of the field. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Alive and kicking.
The core advice is simple: plan for the natural shocks all flesh is heir to, but do not bother defending against outrageous fortune unless slings and arrows start flying. For example a living will is a good thing to think about now, but there is no reason to know about age discrimination unless it happens to you. Law scholars Hegland (U. of Arizona) and Fleming, a 30-year specialist in elder law, begin with the easy stuff: just being prepared for the regular course of aging and planning for retirement. The harder bits are further back: getting in and out of trouble, restrictions on your choices, and disability and death in the family. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Basic mortgage law; cases and materials, 2d ed.
Hill (law, U. of Colorado-Boulder) and Brown (law, U. of Alabama) present a revised collection of traditional mortgage law materials drawn from state and federal cases, statutes, and secondary sources. Designed for use in a three-hour course in basic mortgage law, the text contains a number of "older" cases which remain relevant today, and a selection of recent cases updating the text to 2006. Accompanying notes and questions are included to pique the interest of students and encourage them to consult resources outside the textbook to expand their knowledge. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Current issues in victimology research, 2d ed.
The 18 chapters in this collection summarize existing literature on crime victims and address unique topics that don't receive much attention, such as truancy, internet victims, child fatality, and the intimidated witness. Topics include a history of victim services, hate crime statute enforcement, the female stalker, evolving approached to dealing with college crime, and the California victim assistance academy model. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Harmonizing law in an era of globalization convergence, divergence, and resistance.
Backer compiles 13 chapters that highlight the ways in which legal systems interact with others and the importance of those interactions in an increasingly global social order. The introductory essays discuss theoretical issues in legal harmonization, and the nature and character of communication between legal systems and their effects, and the subsequent essays describe the ways in which communication between legal systems has produced effects worldwide. Each essay focuses on an aspect of harmonization, its limitations and the nature of opposition to harmonization projects. These include discussions of human rights, antitrust law, dispute settlement, governance systems, and divergence and resistance to globalization. All essays address communication and how it can affect harmonization and serve as an organizing principle of resistance, as well as showing that globalization can create incentives to harmonize law. The essays are aimed at law students, undergraduate political science students, and specialists. Contributors are mostly lawyers from the US and Europe. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Immigration law for paralegals, 2d ed. (CD-ROM included)
This guide for students, practicing paralegals, and legal assistants covers US immigration, citizenship, and visa procedures. Step-by-step instructions are provided for each major visa category, with sample forms and correspondence. Tips are given for interviewing techniques and caseload management, temporary visas for investing, studying, or employment, family based residency, employment based permanent residency, political asylum, citizenship, the appeal process, and post-9/11 issues. The CD-ROM contains fillable forms. There is no bibliography. Both attorneys, Casablanca specializes in immigration and nationality law, and Bodin practices in the areas of immigration, citizenship, asylum, and the removal process. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Literary spaces; introduction to comparative Black literature.
Temple (Africana studies, U. of Maryland, Baltimore County) addresses how we can understand post-enslavement, post-colonialism and diaspora in the literature of the African world, taking the approach that the global literature of that world is a single unit in which African heritage is coupled with those experiences. This anthology reflects Temple's understanding of African literature in her commentary on the history of comparative Black literature and treatment of comparative analysis and writing, which serve as a foundation for her selections on topics ranging from nationalism and pan-Africanism as they relate to identity to gender, history and justice and their relation to politics, black cultural mythology, autobiography and personal narrative, community and folk culture, socioeconomic realism, speculation, spirituality and the supernatural, and the roles of influence, adaptation and structure. Sample questions for comparative literary analysis are included. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Opening up European law; the Common Core Project towards Eastern and South Eastern Europe.
This volume is a collection of 17 papers given at sessions of the General Meetings of the Common Core of European Private Law Project, launched in 1993, which consists of a comparative analysis of European legal systems. Papers were given at sessions held between 2001 and 2005 in Trento, Italy. They aim to present a deeper and broader knowledge of the private laws of the 25 countries of the European Union. They cover the impact of the integration of EU law in the countries' legal systems and the challenges of the "Common Core" method of legal analysis. Countries such as Lithuania, Russia, Latvia, Cyprus, Poland, and Estonia are discussed. No index is provided. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Own it; the law & business guide to launching a new business through innovation, exclusivity, and relevance.
Garon (law, Hamline University) demystifies the legal 'secrets' of starting a business in this guide for entrepreneurs. He explains the relationship between intellectual property and innovation in simple business language, and provides advice on the financing, planning, legal structures, and corporate strategies used by successful start-up companies. The central axiom of the book is exclusivity and relevance, with discussion of different sources of exclusivity such as patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. The author focuses on how the law protects new ideas, how to build unique ideas into the business plan and legal structure of the company, and how to maximize the potential return from the idea. He also explores financing options and how to align the interests of investors and employees with those of entrepreneurs. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Race, sport, and the American dream.
Smith (American ethnic studies and sociology, Wake Forest U.) considers aspects of race in relation to sports in America in this volume, which reports the findings of a five-year research project that investigated how sports have changed the nature of African American civil society and its influence on economic opportunities, schooling, and African American family life. Beginning after World War II, the study looks at amateur sports, including Olympic and intercollegiate, using Immanuel Wallerstein's "World-Systems Paradigm," which examines the colonizing and exploitative nature of intercollegiate sports and the special arrangements universities have. He also examines professional sports, including the NBA, NFL, and Major League Baseball, and topics such as youth violence, genetics, the big business of sports, criminal behavior by athletes, and the lack of leadership opportunities for those who retire. All this is discussed in the context of the history of racial oppression in the US. He does not include the story of the Negro Baseball League. The book is aimed at social scientists. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Refugee law and policy; a comparative and international approach, 3d ed.
Those who call upon US refugee legal mechanisms and systems rely not only on domestic and international law also upon long tradition. Musalo (law, U. of California, Hastings College of the Law) and her co-authors keep this in mind as they cover the historical origins of refugee law, international norms and state practice, including the impact of the 1980 Refugee Act and international policies of asylum, standards of proof in claims for protection, definitions of persecution, including discrimination, the Nexus requirement, types of persecution (including that on the basis of political opinion, religion, race, nationality and social group), gender-related claims to refugee status, qualifications upon protection, the rights of asylum seekers, and the process of proving the claim. They conclude with possible future issues such as a retreat from asylum and an advance toward protection, response to the internally displaced, and new definitions of what constitutes exile. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Southern culture; an introduction.
It goes far beyond food, cars, and a certain genteel attention to class distinctions. Although commentators of several stripes have long predicted the demise of southern regional culture, instead it seems to have taken on a new resilience and has gone almost mainstream, albeit with necessary elements of difference. Further, understanding the literature, art, and architecture of the south requires understanding the culture behind it. In a series of essays that work together to provide interlinked references on underlying themes, the authors describe the traditions of the agrarian south, including its myths and decline in the modern era, the workings of social class from poor Whites to middle class Blacks, race and changes in perceptions of race, religion, including African-American Christianity, politics, patrician and otherwise, traditional crafts, and the creative forces behind dialect, music, literature, myths, icons and symbols. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Space, time, and crime, 2d ed.
Lersch (criminology, U. of South Florida) explores issues related to the spatial and temporal clustering of crimes in the U.S. including why some neighborhoods experience much more crime than others, what can be done when an area is identified as having high crime, and how criminology specialists determine where crime is located. The author concludes with a Marxist-based critical examination of the various theories, policies, and strategies presented in the text. For the second edition all chapters have been updated and more real-world examples from practitioners in the field incorporated throughout. Lersch has also added extensively to the discussion of temporal aspects of crime, particularly regarding analysis of hot spots and spatio-temporal considerations. For students and working professionals. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Stress management in law enforcement, 2d ed.
Territo (criminal justice, Saint Leo U.) and Sewell, a retired assistant commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, bring together 38 articles on stress factors and their effects on police personnel. Articles examine stress in terms of understanding it and its psychological, physiological, and social effects; symptoms and causes; analyzing and quantifying it; alcohol abuse and police suicide; impacts on police families; stressors unique to law enforcement; coping; psychological services; and management issues. Most of the articles have been previously published in books and journals from 1967 to 2006, including The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. A few were specifically written for the book. It is aimed at academics, police administrators and officers, and students of law enforcement. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Through the eye of Katrina; social justice in the United States.
Thirty-six American academics, researchers, and social activists contribute 22 chapters examining the causes of, consequences of, and responses to social injustice as represented through the case study of Hurricane Katrina. The authors offer perspectives from an array of fields: communication, criminology, critical studies, education, ethnic studies, geography, history, justice studies, law, political science, sociology, and urban planning. Coverage includes the structural inequality and cultural divisions in the U.S. that make a just response to disaster difficult; the continuing struggle for social justice in the days, weeks, and months directly following the hurricane; the local, state, and federal government responses to Hurricane Katrina; and suggestions for increasing social justice through changes in public policy and increased efforts in social activism. For students, scholars, activists, and general readers concerned with social justice issues. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Trademark and unfair competition law and policy in Japan.
Port (law, William Mitchell College of Law) explains the nature and process of protecting appellations of source in Japan. He describes what occurs in Japanese courtrooms and how these courts apply trademark and unfair competition law. The two key statutes in Japan — the Trademark Law and the Unfair Competition Prevention Act — are examined, in terms of the Japanese judge's expression of the trademark and unfair competition rights as viewed from the judiciary. The most emphasis is on judicial opinions and Japanese analysis of them. His discussion is intended to be objective and does not posit that the system is flawed nor defend it. The book is not meant to be an introduction to the process, procedures, or structures of Japanese law; this knowledge is assumed. Some of the information previously appeared in the author's Japanese Trademark Jurisprudence. Chapters on the Unfair Competition Prevention Act are new and the book updates major portions of the previous volume. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
