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The definitive guide to analysis techniques for examining the geography of crimeUnderstanding Crime: Analyzing the Geography of Crime delves into both theory and technique to explain the geographic analysis of crime. Intended as a comprehensive resource and textbook, this book breaks down old, new, and complex approaches to make crime analysis more accessible for readers wanting to improve their own understanding of crime.Through detailed descriptions, explanations, and illustrations of geographic analysis techniques, Understanding Crime examines spatial and temporal patterns of crime, the use of spatial data in the analysis of crime, and methods for evaluating the impact of geographically targeted interventions. Topics include:Hot spot analysis, using cluster analysis techniquesTemporal analysis, including techniques for examining the stability of crime patternsAnalysis of repeat and near repeat victimizationAnalysis of persistent and emerging patterns of crimeSpatial regression analysis, including geographically weighted regressionDetermining crime risk, and where crime is likely to happenPerforming robust evaluation and applying techniques that determine whether an intervention workedEvery chapter begins with key learning points and ends with a summary and references. "e;Thought boxes"e; with useful information for understanding a theoretical principle or a technical matter are included throughout the book.Written by world-renowned crime science expert Dr. Spencer Chainey and designed for both students and practitioners of all levels,Understanding Crimeis a vital reference that will support you in your spatial analysis of crime and ultimately in making better recommendations for improving your community.

Drafting Contracts - A Practical Guide to Transactional Practice, authored by Ben L. Fernandez is a brief but comprehensive guide to everything you need to know about drafting contracts from scratch and revising complex form agreements. Ben L. Fernandez currently teaches Legal Drafting to students at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Before he went into teaching, he gained extensive experience practicing in this area. He has densely packed this concise text with valuable practice information, insights and tips.This latest book on contract drafting contracts covers more topics and has much more practical information than other texts on this subject. Issues discussed include: Getting up to Speed (familiarizing yourself with the client's business and interviewing the client to flush out all the terms of the deal) Drafting Covenants, Rights, Prohibitions and Descriptions (using "will" or "shall" and "may") Avoiding Potentially Ambiguous Words and Phrases (time periods, numbers, misplaced modifiers, indefinite pronoun references) Organizing a Contract's Beginning Sections (title, exordium, background, definitions, reps and warranties) Organizing Core Covenants and Other Deal Provisions (core covenant, duration, additional provisions) Organizing a Contract's Ending Sections (termination, cancellation, boilerplate, testimonium, signature blocks) Brainstorming (additional provisions to better protect the client, indemnity, insurance, waivers, liability limits) Drafting with Precedent Language and Documents (putting a document together from sample provisions) Tailoring Form Documents (revising a complex form document) Revising the Other Side's Completed Documents (qualifying language, limiting scope, inserting conditions) Negotiating Contract Provisions (preparation, advancing the client's interests without killing the deal) Closing the Deal (closing agendas, verifying signature authority) Dealing with Ethical Issues in Contract Drafting (revisions to signed documents, unenforceable provisions, notarization after the fact) Drafting a Contract Amendment (sample form for amendments) Using Computers to Draft Contracts (document assembly programs, on line execution, artificial intelligence)Drafting Contracts also contains numerous sample contract provisions, as well as helpful charts and checklists, and exercises and sample answers on drafting a contract from scratch and tailoring and revising a complex form agreement.Drafting Contracts - An Introduction to Transactional Practice by Ben L. Fernandez is an essential guide for any law student or novice attorney interested in contract drafting and transactional practice.

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Discover How You Can Talk To Anyone With Ease, Develop Critical Social Skills, Build Effective Communication, Master Key Conversation Tactics, And Remove Social Anxiety From Your Life Once And For All Are you having problems communicating and connecting with people around you including your friends and family? Are you socially awkward in interactions with others and just wish that your social anxiety would leave you alone forever? Or are you feeling depressed because of the lack of social skills in your arsenal that is causing these unnecessary stresses in your life? What if I told you that there was a way you could overcome that barrier that has been holding you back for way too long and lead a life that you truly deserve? A life that is free of social awkwardness. A life that lets you to connect with other human beings on a personal level as you were always meant to. A life were interactions are not fearful obstacles but treasured moments for building relationships. How To Talk To AnyoneIn 'From Painfully Awkward To Socially Successful' you will find the exact skills you need to break out of your shell and speak to others with confidence and a level of command that you never thought you had in you. Not only will you build quick rapport with the desired effect, you will also be able to leave a lasting impression on a person without having to try very hard at all. Imagine yourself being a master conversationalist. All you need is the right strategies. Heres What You Will Learn In 'From Painfully Awkward To Socially Successful'How To Become An Excellent ConversationalistBe Able To Build Successful And Meaningful Relationships With Others How To Overcome Social Anxiety And AwkwardnessHow To Approach People At Any Time and Strike A Conversation In Any EnvironmentSimple Strategies To Help You Communicate With Someone On A Personal LevelNetwork Effectively With PeersLeave A Lasting First Impression On OthersUnderstand How The Effects Of The Digital Age Has Set Us Up To Be Less Socailly Affluent Understand Why It Is Not Your Fault At All And Much Much More.... Hurry up and get your copy of "From Painfully Awkward To Socially Successful" Pick up your copy right now by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of this page!To Your Success! - John. Lawson

Predict and Surveil offers an unprecedented, inside look at how police use big data and new surveillance technologies. Sarah Brayne conducted years of fieldwork with the LAPD-one of the largest and most technically advanced law enforcement agencies in the world-to reveal the unmet promises and very real perils of police use of data-driven surveillance and analytics.

The Secret Barrister returns to debunk the biggest legal lies of our time. Taking you from your own home to the halls of Westminster, this is the truth about justice in an age of fake law.

The miniscule motion of a butterfly's wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Catharine A. MacKinnon's collected work on gender inequality including new pieces argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural transformations.

The Charter of the United Nations was signed in 1945 by 51 countries representing all continents, paving the way for the creation of the United Nations on 24 October 1945. The Statute of the International Court of Justice forms part of the Charter. The Charter is the foundation of international peace and security.

The tools you need to maximize success in any negotiation, at any levelWith Negotiate Without Fear: Strategies and Tools to Maximize Your Outcomes, master negotiator, Kellogg professor, and accomplished CEO Victoria Medvec delivers an authoritative and practical resource for eliminating the fear that impedes success in negotiation. In this book, readers will discover unique and proprietary negotiation strategies honed over decades advising Fortune 500 clients on high-stakes, complex negotiations.Negotiate Without Fear provides readers at all levels of negotiation skill the ability to increase their negotiating confidence and maximize their negotiation success. You'll learn how to:* Put the right issues on the table by defining your objectives for the negotiation* Analyze the issues being negotiated with an Issue Matrix to ensure you have the right issues to secure what you want* Establish ambitious goals using a proprietary tool to identify the weaknesses in the other side's best outside alternative (BATNA)* Leverage a unique architecture for creating and delivering Multiple Equivalent Simultaneous Offers (MESOs)Negotiate Without Fear belongs on the bookshelves of executives and all the dealmakers who work for them. Additionally, specific advice is provided in every chapter for individuals who are negotiating for themselves and in the everyday world. This book is an invaluable guide for anyone who hopes to sharpen their negotiating skills and achieve success in any arena.

Authored by world renowned activist and environmental leader Vandana Shiva, Reclaiming the Commons presents the history of the struggle to defend biodiversity and traditional practices against corporate biopiracy and details efforts to realize legal rights for Mother Earth and achieve the vision of the universal commons and Earth as Family.

The incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the bestselling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl.

This new edition of Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey has been thoroughly updated with significant changes designed to reflect the newest scholarship in every chapter. Global issues have been threaded fully throughout the book. As the leading text on women and gender in Europe, this remains essential reading for all students.

Noesner, who designed the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Course and in his 23-year career managed hundreds of cases of kidnapping, hijacking, and other kinds of hostage crises, chronicles his remarkable career though a series of incredibly tense and gripping minute by-minute accounts of the most challenging cases.

"Examining an important, rising trend in today's global system, Citizenship 2.0 does us a fine service in exploring the origins and consequences of the dual citizenship phenomenon."--Alejandro Portes, Princeton University.sity.

An hilarious and terrifying expose of the brave new world of work, explaining why it has all gone wrong and how we can regain our dignity

By most people's standards I would say I've had a pretty good career. Now I want to share what I've learned through my own experiences, and am still learning, to change the way you work so that female energy and power will be seen as the most valuable currency in today's new world of work.

Based on a unique database, this book combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to shed light on the evolution of EU competition law. It will appeal to academics and postgraduate researchers working on competition, EU and administrative law, as well as law firm practitioners, Commission officials and EU Court judges and clerks.

Brenna Bhandar examines how the emergence of modern property law contributed to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies, showing how the colonial appropriation of indigenous lands depends upon ideologies of European racial superiority as well as legal narratives that equated civilized life with English concepts of property.