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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Judaism explained from the ground up, with no prior knowledge assumed. This introduction covers the beliefs, texts, laws, holidays, and history that shape Jewish life, in language a first-time reader can follow. Nine chapters build on each other, starting with what the word actually covers and ending with what identity looks like around the world today. Every Hebrew term is defined the first time it appears, so you never have to stop and look something up, and you can also read the chapters out of order and treat the book as a reference when a specific question comes up. The chapters walk through: - Monotheism, the covenant, and the question of who counts as a Jew, plus how Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist communities came to practice so differently from one another - The Tanakh in its three parts, then the Mishnah, the Talmud, Midrash, and the legal codes still consulted today, including the Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch - Free will, suffering, and messianic expectation - Abraham through the Babylonian exile, by way of Sinai, the monarchy under Saul, David, and Solomon, and the split into two kingdoms - The 613 commandments, kashrut, Shabbat, the structure of prayer, and the ceremonies marking birth, coming of age, marriage, and death - Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Passover, Hanukkah, Purim, and why the dates move each year - The Second Temple period, life under Islamic and Christian rule, and the medieval Spanish community that flourished and was then expelled - Kabbalah, Hasidism, the Haskalah, Zionism, the Holocaust, and diaspora life now Four features at the back support review and further study: - Questions after every chapter, with sample answers to check yourself against - A historical timeline placing major events in order - A glossary of Hebrew and Aramaic terms gathered in one place - Works cited and recommended readings for going further Written for students taking a world religions course, adult readers with Jewish friends, coworkers, or in-laws, and anyone who wants to follow a conversation about belief and practice without feeling lost. Jews who grew up around these traditions but were never formally taught them will find plain explanations here too. The book describes rather than argues. It also sorts out what people commonly get wrong, from the assumption that everyone keeps kosher to the idea that the tradition has sat unchanged since antiquity. Where scholars and movements see things differently, it says so instead of offering one tidy answer. Read it straight through, or open it to chapter 7 the week before a Passover meal. Once you reach the end, you will know the difference between the Torah and the Talmud, why one synagogue sounds nothing like another, and how an ancient agreement recorded on hand-copied scrolls became a living tradition that millions of people practice today in very different ways.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Contract law decides which promises a court will enforce and which ones it will ignore. This book explains where that line sits, in plain English, and then walks you through every rule built on top of it. The nine chapters follow the path a real dispute takes, from the first offer through formation, performance, breach, and the money a judge awards at the end. American doctrine is handled together in one place: the common law, the Uniform Commercial Code, and the Restatement (Second) of Contracts, with a note on which one governs a given deal. Each chapter builds on the one before it, so the doctrines connect instead of landing as a pile of separate rules to memorize. Nine chapters, in the order a dispute unfolds: - Offer, acceptance, and the objective theory of assent, including the mailbox rule and the battle of the forms under UCC 2-207 - Consideration, illusory promises, past consideration, and the preexisting duty rule - Promissory estoppel, and when reliance alone makes a promise stick without a bargain behind it - The defenses that undo an agreement that looked valid: minority, duress, undue influence, fraud in the inducement, mutual mistake, and bargains struck down on public policy grounds - The Statute of Frauds, plus how E-SIGN and UETA treat email, text messages, and electronic signatures - Reading the terms: parol evidence, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness, unconscionability in adhesion contracts, and the duty of good faith - Conditions precedent and subsequent, substantial performance, perfect tender, impossibility, impracticability, and frustration of purpose - Material breach, anticipatory repudiation, cover, and buyer and seller remedies under Article 2 - Damages measured by expectation, reliance, or restitution, with Hadley v. Baxendale on foreseeability, plus specific performance, liquidated damages, and the penalty clauses courts refuse to enforce Four sections after the main text make the material stick: a timeline running from the Roman stipulatio through the medieval writ system to modern statutes, worked answers to the discussion question closing each chapter, a glossary defining more than eighty terms in a line each, and a reading list pointing to Farnsworth, Fried, and Gilmore. Written for readers with no legal training: - Law students starting their first contracts course - Paralegals and pre-law readers who want the doctrine in order - Business owners and freelancers who sign agreements they did not draft - Anyone who wants to read an agreement without a lawyer translating it Finish the book and you can look at a signed agreement and see what it actually does. You will know where it might fail, what your options are when the other side stops performing, and which clauses shift risk onto you before any dispute begins. Indemnification, force majeure, choice of law, arbitration, and limitation of liability stop being boilerplate you scroll past. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Business law decides who pays when a deal collapses, a customer gets hurt, or a partner empties the shared account. This book explains those rules in plain English, and you do not need a law degree to follow them. Nine chapters build in a deliberate order, so each idea rests on the one before it. Entity choice comes before liability, contract formation comes before warranties, and by the end the separate areas connect in the life of a single company. Real disputes do most of the explaining, from the McDonald's coffee case that almost everyone gets wrong to the 2024 Supreme Court ruling in Loper Bright that ended forty years of automatic deference to federal agencies. The areas covered: - Where American law actually comes from, how federal and state courts divide the work, what jurisdiction means once a dispute crosses state lines, and why the answer to a legal question so often depends on your state - Sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, and LLCs, compared on liability exposure, taxation, and how much control you give up in exchange for protection - Offer, acceptance, consideration, and what breaks a binding deal - Negligence and the duty of care, strict liability, product liability, and when a company answers for what an employee did on the clock - Agency relationships, the employment-at-will doctrine, and the exceptions behind wrongful termination and retaliation claims - Article 2 of the UCC: sale of goods, express and implied warranties, negotiable instruments, and which creditor gets paid first when the money runs out - Real and personal property, then patents, trademarks, and copyrights, with a clear line between what each one protects - Antitrust limits on monopolies and price fixing, securities disclosure requirements, and the consumer protection statutes that shape how you advertise and sell - Litigation, arbitration, mediation, business ethics, and how a contract holds up when the other party sits in another country Four sections at the back keep the book working after the first read: - A timeline of commercial rules running from the Code of Hammurabi to 2024 - Worked answers to every end-of-chapter discussion question, so you can check your reasoning against a strong one - A glossary of the vocabulary, from adverse possession to apparent authority - Works cited and further reading, each entry with a note on why it is worth your time It's written for the owner who signs contracts without reading them, the manager handling employee issues by instinct, the student who wants the subject to make sense the first time, and the founder who suspects there are legal landmines out there and would rather find them early. You will finish able to recognize a legal issue the moment it appears, ask a lawyer sharper questions, and tell the difference between a problem you can handle yourself and one that needs professional help. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Etymology explains why muscle comes from the Latin word for little mouse, why salary traces back to salt, and why disaster breaks down into bad star. This guide teaches you to read that buried history in the words you already use every day. The book follows English backward through time, starting with the written record and ending at a grassland language nobody ever wrote down. Every claim comes attached to a real example you can look up and check for yourself, and the writing is just as clear about the points where the evidence runs out. Nine chapters trace the sources of English: - What etymology actually is, how it differs from a dictionary definition, and how researchers date a word using old manuscripts and large collections of text - Proto-Indo-European, the unwritten ancestor shared by English, Spanish, Hindi, Russian, Greek, and Persian, rebuilt by comparing the words its descendants still hold in common, plus Grimm's Law and the sound shift that turned Latin pater into father - Latin in law, science, and the church, along with the prefixes and suffixes that let you decode unfamiliar terms on sight, and the Greek layer underneath most of the vocabulary of medicine and philosophy - Greek compounding, the pattern behind photosynthesis - The Germanic core: house, water, eat, sleep, friend, the short plain words a child learns first, and the Norse borrowings that arrived with Viking settlement - 1066 and the arrival of French, which left the language with cow and beef, pig and pork, and a class divide you can still hear in any sentence you write - Borrowings that came through trade and empire from Arabic, Sanskrit, Nahuatl, West African, and East Asian languages - Broadening, narrowing, amelioration, and pejoration, the four patterns behind why awful once meant full of awe, and how new terms get made now by technology, brand names, and internet slang No background in linguistics is required, and no second language either. Everything is explained in plain terms. This one is built for: - Students and self-taught learners growing their vocabulary - Writers, editors, and teachers who work with words daily - Trivia players, crossword regulars, and dictionary readers - Anyone who has stopped mid-sentence to wonder where a word came from Each chapter closes with a discussion question, and worked answers to all nine sit in the back, next to a timeline that starts on the Pontic-Caspian steppe and ends in the present, a glossary of terms, and a reading list of the standard sources. Learn a few hundred roots and affixes and thousands of words you've never met become readable on sight. That's the same method medical students and lawyers rely on, and it's available to anyone willing to learn the pieces. You also come away harder to trick, because many acronym origins aren't genuine and a too-neat story is almost always invented. Read this and ordinary language stops being background noise. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Administrative law decides more of daily American life than almost any bill Congress passes. This guide explains how federal agencies get their power, how they use it, and how courts and Congress push back, written in plain language for readers without a law degree. Congress passes a few hundred laws in a typical year. Federal agencies issue thousands of rules in that same span, covering what goes into your food, how clean your water has to be, and what safety features your car needs. More than 400 federal agencies produce the great majority of the rules Americans actually live under. The nine chapters build in order, defining every legal term in ordinary words the first time it appears and tying each concept to real cases and real agencies. The chapters work through: - Where agency authority comes from: enabling statutes, the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946, executive orders, and the non-delegation doctrine that asks whether Congress can hand its lawmaking power away at all - Executive agencies against independent ones like the Federal Reserve, including who appoints agency heads and when a president can fire them - Notice-and-comment rulemaking start to finish, plus formal rulemaking, interim final rules, emergency shortcuts, and why one regulation can take years to write - Administrative law judges, consent decrees, civil penalties, licensing, and subpoena power - The Chevron doctrine, its 1984 rise, and its end in 2024 - Judicial review: standing, arbitrary and capricious review, hard look review, and exhaustion of remedies - Oversight mechanisms anyone can use, including Freedom of Information Act requests, the Congressional Review Act, inspector general investigations, and whistleblower protections - Environmental rules at the EPA, financial rules at the SEC, labor regulation, and the fights running right now over the major questions doctrine, artificial intelligence in agency decisions, and deregulation Written for law students facing the course for the first time, paralegals and compliance staff who need the framework straight, business owners stuck in a permit process or facing an inspection, agency employees who want to see where their daily work fits, and anyone curious about why so much of government runs through offices no one voted for. By the end you will be able to: - Tell a rule from an order and an executive agency from an independent one - Read a news story about a proposed regulation and know what stage it is in - Judge whether a company suing over a new rule has a real case Every chapter ends with review questions, and worked example answers sit in the back so you can check yourself. A historical timeline puts the major events in order, and a glossary defines the vocabulary in a sentence each. The result is a shelf reference you can read straight through in a weekend and keep coming back to when a specific term or standard comes up. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Judaism explained from the ground up, with no prior knowledge assumed. This introduction covers the beliefs, texts, laws, holidays, and history that shape Jewish life, in language a first-time reader can follow. Nine chapters build on each other, starting with what the word actually covers and ending with what identity looks like around the world today. Every Hebrew term is defined the first time it appears, so you never have to stop and look something up, and you can also read the chapters out of order and treat the book as a reference when a specific question comes up. The chapters walk through: - Monotheism, the covenant, and the question of who counts as a Jew, plus how Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist communities came to practice so differently from one another - The Tanakh in its three parts, then the Mishnah, the Talmud, Midrash, and the legal codes still consulted today, including the Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch - Free will, suffering, and messianic expectation - Abraham through the Babylonian exile, by way of Sinai, the monarchy under Saul, David, and Solomon, and the split into two kingdoms - The 613 commandments, kashrut, Shabbat, the structure of prayer, and the ceremonies marking birth, coming of age, marriage, and death - Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Passover, Hanukkah, Purim, and why the dates move each year - The Second Temple period, life under Islamic and Christian rule, and the medieval Spanish community that flourished and was then expelled - Kabbalah, Hasidism, the Haskalah, Zionism, the Holocaust, and diaspora life now Four features at the back support review and further study: - Questions after every chapter, with sample answers to check yourself against - A historical timeline placing major events in order - A glossary of Hebrew and Aramaic terms gathered in one place - Works cited and recommended readings for going further Written for students taking a world religions course, adult readers with Jewish friends, coworkers, or in-laws, and anyone who wants to follow a conversation about belief and practice without feeling lost. Jews who grew up around these traditions but were never formally taught them will find plain explanations here too. The book describes rather than argues. It also sorts out what people commonly get wrong, from the assumption that everyone keeps kosher to the idea that the tradition has sat unchanged since antiquity. Where scholars and movements see things differently, it says so instead of offering one tidy answer. Read it straight through, or open it to chapter 7 the week before a Passover meal. Once you reach the end, you will know the difference between the Torah and the Talmud, why one synagogue sounds nothing like another, and how an ancient agreement recorded on hand-copied scrolls became a living tradition that millions of people practice today in very different ways. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Debate rewards anyone who understands how an argument is actually built. This book takes arguments apart piece by piece, names every working component, and shows you how to assemble one that holds up under pressure. Nine chapters move from the smallest unit of reasoning to full competitive rounds, and each builds on the one before it. Real cases carry the material: the Morton Thiokol engineers who were right about the Challenger O-rings and still could not make the case, the seven Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, and courtroom cross-examinations that lost the verdict and won the record. Each chapter closes with questions that ask you to apply what you just read. The chapters cover: - Claims, reasons, and warrants, plus the gap between validity and soundness - Categorical syllogisms, conditional reasoning, and why confusing necessary with sufficient conditions collapses so many public arguments - Ethos, pathos, and logos, with practical guidance on reading a room and adjusting to it, because the case that convinces an engineering team will fall flat at a city council meeting - Primary versus secondary sources, credibility tests, and the point where statistics stop telling the truth, including what a margin of error does and does not cover - Six fallacies you will start hearing in meetings within a week - Contention-based case construction, resolution framing, and weighing mechanisms - Cross-examination sequencing, catching a logical gap while someone is still talking, and turning an opponent's own argument in your direction - Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum, and Parliamentary formats, with the speech structure and specific demands of each - Cognitive bias, the line between persuading and manipulating, and intellectual honesty as a working habit Written for: - Competitive debaters preparing for a tournament - Students in argumentation, rhetoric, logic, or composition courses - Teachers and coaches building a semester of instruction - Professionals who present cases to boards, clients, juries, or committees - Readers who want to stop being moved by reasoning they cannot examine The back matter carries the book past a single read. A history section traces persuasive argument across the Athenian assembly, Roman courts, medieval disputation, Enlightenment pamphlets, and televised debate. Worked answers to every end-of-chapter question let you check your reasoning against a modeled response. A glossary defines every technical term in the text, including enthymeme, modus tollens, kritik, and number needed to treat. Roughly ninety percent of the arguments aimed at you were built by someone who wants something from you. Once you can see the machinery, the weak ones stop working. A statistic quoted without a sample size looks different. A politician answering a question nobody asked becomes obvious. Read the book once to learn construction. Keep it for defense. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Etymology explains why muscle comes from the Latin word for little mouse, why salary traces back to salt, and why disaster breaks down into bad star. This guide teaches you to read that buried history in the words you already use every day. The book follows English backward through time, starting with the written record and ending at a grassland language nobody ever wrote down. Every claim comes attached to a real example you can look up and check for yourself, and the writing is just as clear about the points where the evidence runs out. Nine chapters trace the sources of English: - What etymology actually is, how it differs from a dictionary definition, and how researchers date a word using old manuscripts and large collections of text - Proto-Indo-European, the unwritten ancestor shared by English, Spanish, Hindi, Russian, Greek, and Persian, rebuilt by comparing the words its descendants still hold in common, plus Grimm's Law and the sound shift that turned Latin pater into father - Latin in law, science, and the church, along with the prefixes and suffixes that let you decode unfamiliar terms on sight, and the Greek layer underneath most of the vocabulary of medicine and philosophy - Greek compounding, the pattern behind photosynthesis - The Germanic core: house, water, eat, sleep, friend, the short plain words a child learns first, and the Norse borrowings that arrived with Viking settlement - 1066 and the arrival of French, which left the language with cow and beef, pig and pork, and a class divide you can still hear in any sentence you write - Borrowings that came through trade and empire from Arabic, Sanskrit, Nahuatl, West African, and East Asian languages - Broadening, narrowing, amelioration, and pejoration, the four patterns behind why awful once meant full of awe, and how new terms get made now by technology, brand names, and internet slang No background in linguistics is required, and no second language either. Everything is explained in plain terms. This one is built for: - Students and self-taught learners growing their vocabulary - Writers, editors, and teachers who work with words daily - Trivia players, crossword regulars, and dictionary readers - Anyone who has stopped mid-sentence to wonder where a word came from Each chapter closes with a discussion question, and worked answers to all nine sit in the back, next to a timeline that starts on the Pontic-Caspian steppe and ends in the present, a glossary of terms, and a reading list of the standard sources. Learn a few hundred roots and affixes and thousands of words you've never met become readable on sight. That's the same method medical students and lawyers rely on, and it's available to anyone willing to learn the pieces. You also come away harder to trick, because many acronym origins aren't genuine and a too-neat story is almost always invented. Read this and ordinary language stops being background noise.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Business law decides who pays when a deal collapses, a customer gets hurt, or a partner empties the shared account. This book explains those rules in plain English, and you do not need a law degree to follow them. Nine chapters build in a deliberate order, so each idea rests on the one before it. Entity choice comes before liability, contract formation comes before warranties, and by the end the separate areas connect in the life of a single company. Real disputes do most of the explaining, from the McDonald's coffee case that almost everyone gets wrong to the 2024 Supreme Court ruling in Loper Bright that ended forty years of automatic deference to federal agencies. The areas covered: - Where American law actually comes from, how federal and state courts divide the work, what jurisdiction means once a dispute crosses state lines, and why the answer to a legal question so often depends on your state - Sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, and LLCs, compared on liability exposure, taxation, and how much control you give up in exchange for protection - Offer, acceptance, consideration, and what breaks a binding deal - Negligence and the duty of care, strict liability, product liability, and when a company answers for what an employee did on the clock - Agency relationships, the employment-at-will doctrine, and the exceptions behind wrongful termination and retaliation claims - Article 2 of the UCC: sale of goods, express and implied warranties, negotiable instruments, and which creditor gets paid first when the money runs out - Real and personal property, then patents, trademarks, and copyrights, with a clear line between what each one protects - Antitrust limits on monopolies and price fixing, securities disclosure requirements, and the consumer protection statutes that shape how you advertise and sell - Litigation, arbitration, mediation, business ethics, and how a contract holds up when the other party sits in another country Four sections at the back keep the book working after the first read: - A timeline of commercial rules running from the Code of Hammurabi to 2024 - Worked answers to every end-of-chapter discussion question, so you can check your reasoning against a strong one - A glossary of the vocabulary, from adverse possession to apparent authority - Works cited and further reading, each entry with a note on why it is worth your time It's written for the owner who signs contracts without reading them, the manager handling employee issues by instinct, the student who wants the subject to make sense the first time, and the founder who suspects there are legal landmines out there and would rather find them early. You will finish able to recognize a legal issue the moment it appears, ask a lawyer sharper questions, and tell the difference between a problem you can handle yourself and one that needs professional help.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Administrative law decides more of daily American life than almost any bill Congress passes. This guide explains how federal agencies get their power, how they use it, and how courts and Congress push back, written in plain language for readers without a law degree. Congress passes a few hundred laws in a typical year. Federal agencies issue thousands of rules in that same span, covering what goes into your food, how clean your water has to be, and what safety features your car needs. More than 400 federal agencies produce the great majority of the rules Americans actually live under. The nine chapters build in order, defining every legal term in ordinary words the first time it appears and tying each concept to real cases and real agencies. The chapters work through: - Where agency authority comes from: enabling statutes, the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946, executive orders, and the non-delegation doctrine that asks whether Congress can hand its lawmaking power away at all - Executive agencies against independent ones like the Federal Reserve, including who appoints agency heads and when a president can fire them - Notice-and-comment rulemaking start to finish, plus formal rulemaking, interim final rules, emergency shortcuts, and why one regulation can take years to write - Administrative law judges, consent decrees, civil penalties, licensing, and subpoena power - The Chevron doctrine, its 1984 rise, and its end in 2024 - Judicial review: standing, arbitrary and capricious review, hard look review, and exhaustion of remedies - Oversight mechanisms anyone can use, including Freedom of Information Act requests, the Congressional Review Act, inspector general investigations, and whistleblower protections - Environmental rules at the EPA, financial rules at the SEC, labor regulation, and the fights running right now over the major questions doctrine, artificial intelligence in agency decisions, and deregulation Written for law students facing the course for the first time, paralegals and compliance staff who need the framework straight, business owners stuck in a permit process or facing an inspection, agency employees who want to see where their daily work fits, and anyone curious about why so much of government runs through offices no one voted for. By the end you will be able to: - Tell a rule from an order and an executive agency from an independent one - Read a news story about a proposed regulation and know what stage it is in - Judge whether a company suing over a new rule has a real case Every chapter ends with review questions, and worked example answers sit in the back so you can check yourself. A historical timeline puts the major events in order, and a glossary defines the vocabulary in a sentence each. The result is a shelf reference you can read straight through in a weekend and keep coming back to when a specific term or standard comes up. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Administrative law decides more of daily American life than almost any bill Congress passes. This guide explains how federal agencies get their power, how they use it, and how courts and Congress push back, written in plain language for readers without a law degree. Congress passes a few hundred laws in a typical year. Federal agencies issue thousands of rules in that same span, covering what goes into your food, how clean your water has to be, and what safety features your car needs. More than 400 federal agencies produce the great majority of the rules Americans actually live under. The nine chapters build in order, defining every legal term in ordinary words the first time it appears and tying each concept to real cases and real agencies. The chapters work through: - Where agency authority comes from: enabling statutes, the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946, executive orders, and the non-delegation doctrine that asks whether Congress can hand its lawmaking power away at all - Executive agencies against independent ones like the Federal Reserve, including who appoints agency heads and when a president can fire them - Notice-and-comment rulemaking start to finish, plus formal rulemaking, interim final rules, emergency shortcuts, and why one regulation can take years to write - Administrative law judges, consent decrees, civil penalties, licensing, and subpoena power - The Chevron doctrine, its 1984 rise, and its end in 2024 - Judicial review: standing, arbitrary and capricious review, hard look review, and exhaustion of remedies - Oversight mechanisms anyone can use, including Freedom of Information Act requests, the Congressional Review Act, inspector general investigations, and whistleblower protections - Environmental rules at the EPA, financial rules at the SEC, labor regulation, and the fights running right now over the major questions doctrine, artificial intelligence in agency decisions, and deregulation Written for law students facing the course for the first time, paralegals and compliance staff who need the framework straight, business owners stuck in a permit process or facing an inspection, agency employees who want to see where their daily work fits, and anyone curious about why so much of government runs through offices no one voted for. By the end you will be able to: - Tell a rule from an order and an executive agency from an independent one - Read a news story about a proposed regulation and know what stage it is in - Judge whether a company suing over a new rule has a real case Every chapter ends with review questions, and worked example answers sit in the back so you can check yourself. A historical timeline puts the major events in order, and a glossary defines the vocabulary in a sentence each. The result is a shelf reference you can read straight through in a weekend and keep coming back to when a specific term or standard comes up. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Judaism explained from the ground up, with no prior knowledge assumed. This introduction covers the beliefs, texts, laws, holidays, and history that shape Jewish life, in language a first-time reader can follow. Nine chapters build on each other, starting with what the word actually covers and ending with what identity looks like around the world today. Every Hebrew term is defined the first time it appears, so you never have to stop and look something up, and you can also read the chapters out of order and treat the book as a reference when a specific question comes up. The chapters walk through: - Monotheism, the covenant, and the question of who counts as a Jew, plus how Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist communities came to practice so differently from one another - The Tanakh in its three parts, then the Mishnah, the Talmud, Midrash, and the legal codes still consulted today, including the Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch - Free will, suffering, and messianic expectation - Abraham through the Babylonian exile, by way of Sinai, the monarchy under Saul, David, and Solomon, and the split into two kingdoms - The 613 commandments, kashrut, Shabbat, the structure of prayer, and the ceremonies marking birth, coming of age, marriage, and death - Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Passover, Hanukkah, Purim, and why the dates move each year - The Second Temple period, life under Islamic and Christian rule, and the medieval Spanish community that flourished and was then expelled - Kabbalah, Hasidism, the Haskalah, Zionism, the Holocaust, and diaspora life now Four features at the back support review and further study: - Questions after every chapter, with sample answers to check yourself against - A historical timeline placing major events in order - A glossary of Hebrew and Aramaic terms gathered in one place - Works cited and recommended readings for going further Written for students taking a world religions course, adult readers with Jewish friends, coworkers, or in-laws, and anyone who wants to follow a conversation about belief and practice without feeling lost. Jews who grew up around these traditions but were never formally taught them will find plain explanations here too. The book describes rather than argues. It also sorts out what people commonly get wrong, from the assumption that everyone keeps kosher to the idea that the tradition has sat unchanged since antiquity. Where scholars and movements see things differently, it says so instead of offering one tidy answer. Read it straight through, or open it to chapter 7 the week before a Passover meal. Once you reach the end, you will know the difference between the Torah and the Talmud, why one synagogue sounds nothing like another, and how an ancient agreement recorded on hand-copied scrolls became a living tradition that millions of people practice today in very different ways. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…