Legal Systems & Skills provides students with a practical guide to all the essential knowledge and skills they will need for their law degree and beyond. Divided into three core areas, it forms a foundation for legal studies and for graduate employment.Essential Legal Systems: Part I delivers a focused and practical guide to the purpose and application of law. Contemporary and holistic in approach, it covers all the essential topics in legal systems, considering social, moral, ethical, and jurisprudential perspectives. Taking learning further, it helps students to critically evaluate legal systems and their implications for individuals, businesses, and commerce.Essential Legal Skills: Part II demonstrates step-by-step approaches to acquiring and honing the skills needed for the academic study of law and professional practice. Numerous visual aids and learning features help students to become adept researchers, nimble problem-solvers, dexterous writers, and competent communicators. They will acquire the tools they need to analyse, evaluate, and apply the law, and to thrive in their future careers.Essential Employability and Commercial Awareness: Part III helps students to see how their knowledge and skills can be practically applied, in the legal world or outside of it. Students are encouraged to reflect on and actively improve their commercial awareness through case studies, practice interview questions, and activities, giving them the skills to thrive in the world of work. Targeted coverage of employability, CV development, and transferrable skills helps students to approach their future careers with confidence and communicate their own competencies effectively.This book is the essential contemporary toolkit for savvy law students, enabling them to:Learn how law works;Develop the essential skills; andApply them to succeed.Online Resource CentreThis text is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre offering a range of stimulating resources, including: Self-test questionsThe authors' guidance on the thought-provoking questions in the bookA library of web links for students Regular updates in the law

Legal Systems & Skills

Goodchild, Peter

Embley, Judith

Slorach, Scott

Shephard, Catherine

Legal Education

Oxford University Press

Legal Systems &amp; Skills provides students with a practical guide to all the essential knowledge and skills they will need for their law degree and beyond. Divided into three core areas, it forms a foundation for legal studies and for graduate employment. Essential Legal Systems: Part I delivers a focused and practical guide to the purpose and application of law. Contemporary and holistic in approach, it covers all the essential topics in legal systems, considering social, moral, ethical, and jurisprudential perspectives. Taking learning further, it helps students to critically evaluate legal systems and their implications for individuals, businesses, and commerce. Essential Legal Skills: Part II demonstrates step-by-step approaches to acquiring and honing the skills needed for the academic study of law and professional practice. Numerous visual aids and learning features help students to become adept researchers, nimble problem-solvers, dexterous writers, and competent communicators. They will acquire the tools they need to analyse, evaluate, and apply the law, and to thrive in their future careers. Essential Employability and Commercial Awareness: Part III helps students to see how their knowledge and skills can be practically applied, in the legal world or outside of it. Students are encouraged to reflect on and actively improve their commercial awareness through case studies, and activities, aimed at helping them to develop the skills they will need to thrive in the world of work. Targeted coverage of employability, CV development, and transferrable skills helps students to approach their future careers with confidence and communicate their own competencies effectively. This book is the essential contemporary toolkit for savvy law students, enabling them to: Learn how law works; Develop the essential skills; and Apply them to succeed. This text is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre offering students the following stimulating resources: - Self-test questions - A library of web links that direct students to useful websites and relevant media - The authors' guidance to answering the thought-provoking questions in the book - Additional content providing guidance on effective teamwork, meetings and presentations - Regular updates in the law - Sample interview questions to help students identify which areas of commercial awareness they need to focus on

The only text that fully combines coverage of legal systems with academic and professional legal skills. Coupled with the focus on employability and commercial awareness, Legal Systems and Skills is the essential contemporary toolkit for savvy law students.Legal Systems and Skills speaks directly to students - encouraging, engaging, and enthusing at all times. It is accessible, with a clear writing style and a wide range of pedagogical features to help students to apply their knowledge practically.Learn how law works- Students get to grips with all the essential topics of English legal system, think about different perspectives, and understand their implications.- Clear, no-nonsense explanations, supported by annotated documents, flowcharts and diagrams that provide a visual representation of concepts and processes, build students' confidence.Develop the essential skills- Students are equipped with the tools they need to thrive in their academic studies and in subsequent employment. Students are encouraged to become adept researchers, nimble problem-solvers, dexterous writers, and competent communicators.- Topics such as negotiation and mediation, presentations, and client meetings introduce students to the professional skills essential for progression into both legal practice and other professional careers.- Commentary helping students engage with assessment criteria and develop their critical thinking skills.Apply them to succeed- Students are encouraged to reflect on and actively improve their commercial awareness through case studies and activities. Targeted coverage of employability, practise interview questions, CV development, and transferrable skills help students to approach their future careers with confidence andcommunicate their own competencies effectively.- "Practical exercises" throughout provide opportunities to take a hands-on approach to tackling a wide range of legal skills.- "What the professionals say" boxes bring in voices from across the world of legal services and other professions, including comments from barristers, solicitors, CEOs, solicitors' paralegals, and librarians.Online resourcesThis text is accompanied by online resources offering:- Self-test multiple choice questions- The authors' guidance to answering the practical exercises in each chapter- Sample interview questions to help students identify which areas of commercial awareness they need to focus on- A library of web links that direct students to useful websites and relevant media

Legal Systems & Skills: Learn, Develop, Apply

Legal Theory & Systems

Legal Systems and Skills provides students with the essential knowledge and skills they require to underpin their legal studies, providing a foundation for graduate employability both within and outside the legal service profession. It develops students' understanding in 3 core areas: *Essential legal systems: delivering a holistic and contemporary understanding of the purpose and practical application of law, with consideration of social, moral, and jurisprudential perspectives. Contemporary application is a key theme and students are encouraged to consider the current function of legal systems and their effect on individuals, businesses and commerce. *Essential legal skills: demonstrating step-by-step approaches to enhancing the skills law students require academically and in subsequent employment. Students are assisted in developing their own strategies to research, read and understand law more effectively, to analyse and apply the law to solve legal problems, and to communicate legal concepts and solutions in writing and orally. *Essential professional development and commercial awareness: encouraging students to develop professional skills early in their studies. A dedicated chapter on employability skills introduces students to the skills and competencies which all employers, but particularly those in the legal services sector, value. Four unique chapters on commercial awareness challenge students to reflect on and actively improve their own commercial awareness through a number of business case studies, practice interview questions and activities, making this section of the book perfect for self-directed study. Delivering a wealth of illustrative examples, diagrams, jargon-busters, and thought-provoking questions to enhance critical skills, Legal Systems and Skills is the essential contemporary toolkit for savvy law students. Online Resources This text is accompanied by an innovative online resource centre offering a range of stimulating resources, including: * Podcasts providing a variety of perspectives on the legal system * Self-test questions * The authors' guidance on the thought-provoking questions in the book * A library of weblinks for students

Legal Systems and Skills

Many of the scientists involved in the earliest days of the nuclear arms race are either dead or no longer working. At 92, the Hungarian émigré Edward Teller is not only working but still at the forefront in shaping national and world defence strategies. Few men have had such a profound influence on the shape of the post-war worlds. He was involved at every stage of the building of the atomic bomb. In the years following the Second World War he was dubbed ‘the father of the H-bomb’ and was assailed as the mastermind of a ruinous arms race, the original Dr Strangelove, his effigy burned by students who branded him a war criminal. In the view of the Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, he was a ‘great man’ of vast imagination and one of the ‘most thoughtful statesmen of science’. In the view of another, Isadore Rabi, he has been ‘a danger to all that's important’ and ‘it would have been a better world without Teller’. Throughout his life he was at the centre of controversy, pursuing causes that drew the whole world deeper into the Cold War. In the process he alienated many of his scientific colleagues while providing the intellectual lead for politicians, the military and Presidents as they shaped Western policy towards the Soviets. Yet Sakharov, the Russian dissident and father of the Soviet H-bomb, declared that Teller had been quite right in his vigorous pursuit of American military power. In The Real Dr Strangelove, Peter Goodchild unravels the complex web of harsh early experiences, character flaws and personal and professional frustrations that lies behind the man Ronald Reagan described as ‘one of the bulwarks of American Freedom, a sterling example of what scientific knowledge, enlightened by moral sense, and a dedication to the principles of freedom and justice, can do to help all mankind.’

Edward Teller : The Real Dr. Strangelove

Harvard University Press

J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds

J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds [May 21, 1981] Goodchild, Peter

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atom Bomb (Ariel Books)

Ariel Books

One Nobel Prize-winning physicist called Edward Teller, "A great man of vast imagination...[one of the] most thoughtful statesmen of science." Another called him, "A danger to all that is important...It would have been a better world without [him]." That both opinions about Teller were commonly held and equally true is one of the enduring mysteries about the man dubbed "the father of the H-bomb." In the story of Teller's life and career, told here in greater depth and detail than ever before, Peter Goodchild unravels the complex web of harsh early experiences, character flaws, and personal and professional frustrations that lay behind the paradox of "the real Dr. Strangelove." 
 Goodchild's biography draws on interviews with more than fifty of Teller's colleagues and friends. Their voices echo through the book, expressing admiration and contempt, affection and hatred, as we observe Teller's involvement in every stage of building the atomic bomb, and his subsequent pursuit of causes that drew the world deeper into the Cold War--alienating many of his scientific colleagues even as he provided the intellectual lead for politicians, the military, and presidents as they shaped Western policy. Goodchild interviewed Teller himself at the end of his life, and what emerges from this interview, as well as from Teller's Memoirs and recently unearthed correspondence, is a clearer view of the contradictions and controversies that riddled the man's life. Most of all, though, this absorbing biography rescues Edward Teller from the caricatures that have served to describe him until now. In their place, Goodchild shows us one of the most powerful scientists of the twentieth century in all his enigmatic humanity.

Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove

Interviews and newly released FBI material help to answer questions about the life, personality, and work of the man who headed the Los Alamos atom-bomb project and was later dismissed as a security risk

Science & Math

Fromm Intl

Identifies wild, Indian food plants and provides detailed information on Indian tools, weapons, traps, fishing techniques, homes, clothing, medicine, transportation, tanning procedures, basket making, and pottery

Survival Skills of the North American Indians

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Chicago Review Pr

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Legal Systems & Skills

Legal Systems & Skills

Legal Systems & Skills: Learn, Develop, Apply

Legal Systems and Skills

Edward Teller : The Real Dr. Strangelove

J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds

Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atom Bomb (Ariel Books)

Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove

J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds

Survival Skills of the North American Indians