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Physics for Entertainment: A classic Russian book that delivers on the fun-with-physics promise of its title
Soviet popular-science writer Yakov I. Perelman makes physics fun in his classic English-language book Physics for Entertainment: Book One, offering real-world applications, demonstrations, and fascinating phenomena that remain relevant—and educational—to modern readers. This book explains many of the most entertaining aspects of the physical world and its principles, including optical illusions, light tricks and mirages, watermelon “bombs” of force, gravity and flight, travel to the moon as Jules Verne predicted, brain teasers, heat, boomerangs, “perpetual motion machines,” echoes, and feats of strength. The Polish-born Perelman was famous all over the world for his witty texts on math, physics, and the natural sciences, before his untimely death from starvation during World…
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Stanford Law Review for May 2012 explores securities class actions, municipal “home rule,” and judicial pay
Contents for the May 2012 issue include: • The City and the Private Right of Action, by Paul A. Diller • Securities Class Actions Against Foreign Issuers, by Merritt B. Fox • How Much Should Judges Be Paid? An Empirical Study on the Effect of Judicial Pay on the State Bench, by James M. Anderson & Eric Helland • Note: How Congress Could Reduce Job Discrimination by Promoting Anonymous Hiring, by David Hausman
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The Nature and the Sources of the Law: John Chipman Gray’s Anatomy of Jurisprudence, Comparative Law, and the Concept of Rights
The Nature and Sources of the Law (Second Edition, 1921) is Gray’s legal and jurisprudential classic, finally available in a high-quality eBook edition and new paperback. It is the 11th contribution in the Legal Legends Series and, unlike most such classics typically reproduced by crude scanning, offers full assurances of careful proofreading, proper formatting, and modern presentation. The eBooks also offer active Contents and linked footnotes. John Chipman Gray (1839-1915) was a noted lawyer and legal scholar of the progressive era and a founder of the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray. His important book analyzed the uses of precedent and custom, the meaning of law and legal rights, the…
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Oesterreich’s classic study Occultism and Modern Science is republished with digital corrections and professional presentation
OCCULTISM AND MODERN SCIENCE: Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich (1880-1949) was a German professor of philosophy and an expert on the philosophy and psychology of religion. He taught as a professor at Tübingen University. He is considered to be one of the first modern German scientists to declare his belief in psychic phenomena. Although his views on parapsychology evolved over the years, ranging from an outspoken skepticism to an acceptance of the paranormal, he continued to conduct scientific research and publish in academic journals. His 1921 book on psychic possession and obsession later influenced the author of The Exorcist. And in Occultism and Modern Science, also first published in German in 1921 (then…
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Harvard Law Review‘s new issue 7 (May 2012) features symposium on “the new private law”
Featured articles and essays in this issue are from recognized scholars in law and legal theory, including a Symposium on private law. The issue also includes the article “Regulation for the Sake of Appearance,” by Adam Samaha. The Symposium contents are: THE NEW PRIVATE LAW • “Introduction: Pragmatism and Private Law,” by John C.P. Goldberg • “The Obligatory Structure of Copyright Law: Unbundling the Wrong of Copying,” by Shyamkrishna Balganesh • “Property as the Law of Things,” by Henry E. Smith • “Duties, Liabilities, and Damages,” by Stephen A. Smith • “Palsgraf, Punitive Damages, and Preemption,” by Benjamin C. Zipursky The issue includes two student Notes: • “The Perils of…
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Hot Topics in the Legal Profession • 2012 Analyzes Recent Events in Ethics and the Profession
Current important events in the U.S. legal profession and legal ethics, with useful research and analysis of the rules and the profession's current status, are explored by Tulane law students from an advanced ethics seminar. Purchase of this book benefits Tulane's Public Interest Law Foundation, a nonprofit student group that funds public interest placements and indigent client representations throughout the country. In paperback and multiple eBook formats.
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Cynthia Fuchs Epstein’s foundational Women in Law adds Deborah Rhode’s new Foreword: available in paperback and eBooks
Simply one of the most important and influential works in the canon of the sociology of law, Epstein's WOMEN IN LAW is now republished (including new paperback) and available worldwide for departments of sociology, law, and gender studies — but is accessible and fascinating to a general audience, unloaded with legal or sociological jargon. It won the SCRIBES Book Award and the ABA's Merit Award.
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Yale Law Journal issue 7 (May 2012) examines voting, redistricting, and due process
This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 7th issue of Volume 121, academic year 2011-2012) features articles and essays by several notable scholars. Principal contributors include Richard Re and Christopher Re, Nathan Chapman and Michael McConnell, Bruce Cain, Christopher Elmendorf and David Schleicher, and Joseph Fishkin. The May issue’s complete Contents are: “Voting and Vice: Criminal Disenfranchisement and the Reconstruction Amendments,” by Richard M. Re and Christopher M. Re “Due Process as Separation of Powers,” by Nathan S. Chapman and Michael W. McConnell “Redistricting Commissions: A Better Political Buffer?,” by Bruce E. Cain “Districting for a Low-Information Electorate,” by Christopher S. Elmendorf and David Schleicher “Weightless Votes,” by Joseph…
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Edna Lee Booker’s classic Flight from China: Inside account of Japanese occupation of China and World War II
Edna Lee Booker was an internationally recognized foreign correspondent who lived in China for two decades, along with her businessman husband John Potter. Raising a family in Shanghai, they were there when the Japanese invaded and occupied China. Looked upon with the suspicion of Americans in wartime, they realized the increasing danger. Edna and her children fled to the United States just days before they were to be relocated to a Japanese internment camp. John was not so fortunate, and was interned in unholy conditions for years. This is their tale: a journey of living in an exotic land during harrowing times of change and domination, a journey from the…
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University of Chicago Law Review‘s 2012 Issue 1: A Symposium on Understanding Education and Law, and Articles on Municipal Bankruptcy and Copyright
A leading law review now offers a quality eBook edition. This first issue of 2012 of the University of Chicago Law Review features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and education scholars, including an extensive Symposium on understanding education and law in the United States. Topics include economic structures in education, teaching patriotism, charter and Catholic schools, Amish one-room schools, minority students, empirical work on religious schools, federalism, equal opportunity, and higher-education accreditation. In addition, the issue includes articles by Clayton Gillette on municipal bankruptcy and federalism, and Steven Horowitz on copyright law’s asymmetry, as well as a student comment on wartime waivers and a book review. The issue…
