M Friedman: 60 books
by Lawrence M. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Frank May's law practice is mostly estate planning. Nothing is further from his mind than murder ... but mysterious deaths somehow seem to pursue him anyway. This time, it's the body of a woman, murdered and hidden on the grounds of the home in Los Altos Hills, California, owned by a new, young client,...
Digesting History: The U.S. Naval War College, The Lessons of World War Two, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945-1947
The U.S. Naval War College, The Lessons of World War Two, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945-1947
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Product Description: Digesting History: The U.S. Naval War College, the Lessons of World War II, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945–1947, by Professor Hal M. Friedman, studies the contribution of the Naval War College, especially in the presidency of Admiral Raymond Spruance, to strategic thought during...
by Lawrence M. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
Contract law as applied in the real world and not just in the books. A classic study of the social and economic realities of commercial and trade law, told through cases and rich historical analysis. Comparing law over three distinct historical eras, Friedman shows that contracts law is more contingent...
Inside the Castle
Law and the Family in 20th Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Inside the Castle is a comprehensive social history of twentieth-century family law in the United States. Joanna Grossman and Lawrence Friedman show how vast, oceanic changes in society have reshaped and reconstituted the American family. Women and children have gained rights and powers, and novel...
Dead Hands
A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
The law of succession rests on a single brute fact: you can't take it with you. The stock of wealth that turns over as people die is staggeringly large. In the United States alone, some $41 trillion will pass from the dead to the living in the first half of the 21st century. But the social impact...
by Lawrence M. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Frank May hates trouble, as a lawyer and as a guy. But it likes him just fine. For someone who practices wills and trusts law because it lies far from the scene of murder and mayhem, he has a knack for being caught up in it anyway.
Which is why he thought he was fortune's friend the night his...
by Lawrence M. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Frank May practices law but only the bland kind--writing wills, pushing papers. Not a seedy life in criminal law. But a dead body wakes you up to places you don't want to be. A call from frantic client Barney near the corpse of his wannabe-actress wife drags Frank in it. Only he really thinks Barney...
Primary and Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease
Results of New Trials
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years, major social forces such as: ageing populations, social trends, migration patterns, and the globalization of economies, have reshaped social welfare policies and practices across the globe. Multinational corporations, NGOs, and other international organizations have begun to influence...
American Law
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book provides an introduction to the American legal system for a broad readership. Its focus is on law in practice, on the role of the law in American society; and how the social context affects the living law of the United States. It covers the institutions of law creation and application, law...
by Selika M. Ducksworth-Lawton, Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas, Robert F. Jefferson Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Fusing riveting testimony from African American veterans with the most incisive research of current military scholars, Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in 20th-Century America: Closing Ranks explores the intersecting characteristics of civil rights struggle and political activism that was...
The Immortalists
Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
His historic career as an aviator made Charles Lindbergh one of the most famous men of the twentieth century, the subject of best-selling biographies and a hit movie, as well as the inspiration for a dance step—the Lindy Hop—that he himself was too shy to try. But for all the attention lavished...
by Benjamin M. Friedman, Michael Woodford
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
What tools are available for setting and analyzing monetary policy?
World-renowned contributors examine recent evidence on subjects as varied as price-setting, inflation persistence, the private sector's formation of inflation expectations, and the monetary policy transmission mechanism. Stopping...
by Jagdish Bhagwati, Alan S. Blinder, Benjamin M. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Two leading economists discuss a range of issues relating to the "offshoring" of American jobs, from free trade to unemployment levels.
by Lawrence M. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Frank May practices law, but not the glamorous kind. His bread and butter is the sedate sort—writing wills and handling estates. Or more to the point, handling heirs.
Even so, where there’s a will there’s a death. Try as he might, Frank just can’t avoid some of the seedier sides of...