Business Law Today and In Search of Respect

Business Law Today: The Essentials

Author: Rodger LeRoy Miller

Interesting, clear, and applied, BUSINESS LAW TODAY: THE ESSENTIALS is your concise guide to the law and what it means in the business world—from contracts and secured transactions to warranties and government regulations. Easy to understand with an engaging writing style that is matched by vibrant visuals, BUSINESS LAW TODAY includes coverage of contemporary topics that impact not only the business world, but your life—from the USA Patriot Act's effect on constitutional rights to the national "Do Not Call" registry. Fascinating features and intriguing cases highlight the material's practicality. The text's companion website includes resources to help you study, such as sample answers to the end-of-chapter case problem features; videos clips for use with in-text video questions; Internet exercises; and interactive quizzes for every chapter.

Table of Contents:

1. The Historical and Constitutional Foundations. 2. Ethics and Business Decision Making. 3. Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution. 4. Torts and Cyber Torts. 5. Intellectual Property and Internet Law. 6. Criminal Law and Cyber Crimes. 7. Contracts: Nature, Classification, Agreement, and Consideration. 8. Contracts: Capacity, Legality, Assent, and Form. 9. Contracts: Third Party Rights, Discharge, Breach, and Remedies. 10. E-Contracts and E-signatures. 11. Sales and Leases: Formation, Title, and Risk. 12. Sales and Leases: Performance and Breach. 13. Warranties, Product Liability, and Consumer Law. 14. Negotiable Instruments. 15. Checks and Banking in the Digital Age. 16. Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy. 17. Agency. 18. Employment Law. 19. The Entrepreneur's Options. 20. Corporations. 21. Investor Protection, Insider Trading, and Corporate Governance. 22. Promoting Competition in a Global Context. 23. Personal Property, Ba ilments, and Insurance. 24. Real Property and Environmental Law. 25. International Law in a Global Economy. Appendices. A. How to Brief and Analyze Case Problems. B. The Constitution of the United States. C. The Uniform Commercial Code (Excerpts). D. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Excerpts and Explanatory Comments). E. Answers to Even-Numbered For Review Questions. F. Answers for End-of-Chapter Hypothetical Questions with Answers.

See also: Introduction to Health Care Delivery and Financial Accounting in an Economic Context Study Guide

In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in el Barrio

Author: Philippe Bourgois

Philippe Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim when it was first published in
1995. For the first time, an anthropologist had managed to gain the trust and long-term friendship of street-level drug dealers in one of the roughest ghetto neighborhoods--East Harlem. This new edition adds a prologue describing the major dynamics that have altered life on the streets of East Harlem in the seven years since the first edition. In a new epilogue Bourgois brings up to date the stories of the people--Primo, Caesat, Luis, Tony, Candy--who readers come to know in this remarkable window onto the world of the inner city drug trade. Philippe Bourgois is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He has conducted fieldwork in Central America on ethnicity and social unrest and is the author of Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989). He is writing a book on homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco. 1/e hb ISBN (1996) 0-521-43518-8 1/e pb ISBN (1996) 0-521-57460-9

Publishers Weekly

Anthropologist Bourgois chose "addicts, thieves, and [drug] dealers to be [his] best friends and acquaintances" during his three-and-one-half-year research residency in New York City's Spanish Harlem. This experience-packed account of social interactions and relations is the result of great amounts of time spent on the street, in crackhouses, and in the homes of East Harlem's residents, who are caught up in a constant struggle against personal powerlessness. A "wealth" of available drugs fosters major substance abuse that overlays and exacerbates the failure of individuals to overcome poverty and unsupportive if not outwardly antagonistic and racist power structures. Bourgois is not sanguine about the implementation of possible solutions to the not atypical plight of El Barrio's poverty-stricken (nonestablishment) people, who are too often self- or other-destructive in their often futile search for integrity. This look at a major inner-city pr oblem is highly recommended for academic and larger public library social science collections.-Susanne W. Wood, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Alfred

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Preface to the 2003 Second Edition
	Introduction	1
1	Violating Apartheid in the United States	19
2	A Street History of El Barrio	48
3	Crackhouse Management: Addiction, Discipline, and Dignity	77
4	"Goin' Legit": Disrespect and Resistance at Work	114
5	School Days: Learning to be a Better Criminal	174
6	Redrawing the Gender Line on the Street	213
7	Families and Children in Pain	259
8	Vulnerable Fathers	287
9	Conclusion	318
	Epilogue	328
	Epilogue 2003	339
	Notes	352
	Bibliography	378
	Index	393