Supreme Ambitions: A Novel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Lat, David

Thrillers & Suspense

Ankerwycke

On Level Terms gives readers an inside look at 10 legal battles in the United States and Europe that have had a lasting influence on the game as we know it today. From the demise of the North American Soccer League and the rise of Major League Soccer in the United States to the prosecution of England captain John Terry for alleged racist conduct and Belgian journeyman Jean Marc Bosman's quest to gain free agency for players in Europe, On Level Terms is the first book of its kind.

On Level Terms: 10 Legal Battles that Tested and Shaped Soccer in the Modern Era

Sports & Outdoors

Philipakos, Ted

Soccer

The Anxious Lawyer: An 8-Week Guide to a Joyful and Satisfying Law Practice Through Mindfulness and Meditation

"This book offers an easy to follow program for beginning a meditation practice, written by lawyers and for lawyers. I highly recommend this book for anyone in the legal world who has wondered about meditation but hesitated to get started." -- Congressman Tim Ryan, author of A Mindful Nation and The Real Food Revolution Interest in meditation and mindfulness has skyrocketed in recent years, thanks largely to neuroimaging and the body of scientific research that has validated the many benefits of these practices. Sadly, the legal community has for the most part been left out, even though lawyers would clearly benefit from mindfulness. Many lawyers feel hesitant to try meditation, which can seem alien and inaccessible from the vantage point of a professional culture that places great value on logic and reason. Jeena Cho and Karen Gifford set out to help address this gap in The Anxious Lawyer. Both Cho and Gifford began meditating as practicing attorneys, and have firsthand knowledge of the difficulties and rewards of legal practice. They experienced how meditation and mindfulness practices support a more effective and enjoyable legal practice. Both also found unexpected rewards of meditation that go deeper: better self understanding, more rewarding relationships and a deeper feeling of connection with the world. The Anxious Lawyer provides a straightforward 8-week introductory program on meditation and mindfulness, created by lawyers for lawyers. The program draws on examples from Cho and Gifford's professional and personal lives to create an accessible and enjoyable entry into practices that can reduce anxiety, improve focus and clarity, and enrich the quality of life. The program includes: · Instruction on a number of simple meditation techniques · Concrete guidance for establishing a daily meditation and mindfulness practice · Exercises designed to give the reader practical experience in bringing the insights of meditation and mindfulness to meeting the challenges of daily life - and particularly of legal practice · Practical examples of how mindfulness and meditation can help to cultivate a more joyful and satisfying law practice · Discussion of scientific research on the effects of meditation and what the evidence shows about its benefits · Practical tools, including access to guided meditations and worksheets that allow the reader to track his or her progress

Cho, Jeena

Gifford, Karen

Law Practice

Apple founder Steve Jobs once hailed Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid and the father of instant photography, as "a national treasure" and once confessed to a reporter that meeting Land was "like visiting a shrine." By his own admission, Jobs modeled much of his own career after Land’s. Both Jobs and Land stand out today as unique and towering figures in the history of technology. Neither had a college degree, but both built highly successful and innovative organizations. Jobs and Land were both perfectionists with an almost fanatic attentiveness to detail, in addition to being consummate showmen and instinctive marketers. In many ways, Edwin Land was the original Steve Jobs. This riveting new biography visits the spectacular life of Edwin Land, perhaps the most important, yet least known inventor and technology entrepreneur in American history. Land’s most famous achievement was the creation of a revolutionary film and camera system that could produce a photographic print moments after the picture was taken. A Triumph of Genius takes you behind the scenes of this reclusive genius’s discoveries, triumphs, and defeats. You'll learn details of Land’s involvement over four decades with top-secret U.S. military intelligence efforts during World War II and through the Cold War in the service of seven American presidents. Additionally, you'll thrill to the compelling first-hand look at one of our nation’s most important legal battles over intellectual property—Polaroid versus Kodak. This corporate and legal struggle is a story of almost operatic dimension. What began as a cooperative and collegial relationship ended in Kodak’s betrayal. The conflict led to an epic legal battle, a dramatic event for Land who, from the witness stand, personally starred in a compelling courtroom drama. More than a simple business biography, A Triumph of Genius chronicles the man and the icon whose technological brilliance paved the way for another of the 20th century’s greatest innovators, Steve Jobs.

A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War

Arts & Photography

Fierstein, Ronald K.

Photography & Video

Courtship is a sweeping epic love story set over 60 years and 3 continents about a successful Jewish trial lawyer and his Southern aristocratic wife. It's a love story that's steeped in the law, as lawyer Micah Lehman builds a successful legal career while dealing with the challenges his career brings to his long-suffering wife Anne and their three children. It's a riveting novel of love, family, and second chances.

Courtship: A Novel of Life, Love, and the Law

Literature & Fiction

Sommer, R L

United States

Operation Greylord was the longest and most successful undercover investigation in FBI history, and the largest corruption bust ever in the U.S. It resulted in bribery and tax charges against 103 judges, lawyers, and other court personnel, and, eventually, more than seventy indictments. And it was led by Terrence Hake, a young assistant prosecutor in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago, who worked undercover for nearly four years, accepting bribes, making payoffs, wearing a wire in bars and to racetracks, bugging a judge's chambers, and befriending people he knew he would betray. Operation Greylord has never before been detailed by an insider in the investigation.

Operation Greylord: The True Story of an Untrained Undercover Agent and America’s Biggest Corruption Bust

Biographies & Memoirs

Hake, Terrence

Historical

Criminal lawyer and bestselling mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote nearly 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Now, the American Bar Association is bringing back his most famous and enduring novels—featuring criminal defense lawyer and sleuth Perry Mason—in striking trade paperback editions. Married Eva Griffin has been caught with a prominent congressman, and is ready to pay the editor of a sleazy tabloid hush money to protect the politician. But first Perry Mason tracks down the publisher of the blackmailing tabloid and discovers a shocking secret, which eventually leads to Mason being accused of murder. This is the first Perry Mason mystery and our introduction to secretary Della Street, detective Paul Drake, and the great lawyer himself.

The Case of the Velvet Claws: A Perry Mason Mystery #1 (Volume 1) (Perry Mason Mysteries, 1)

GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY

Criminal lawyer and bestselling mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote nearly 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Now, the American Bar Association is bringing back his most famous and enduring novels―featuring criminal defense lawyer and sleuth Perry Mason―in striking trade paperback editions. Bratty heiress Frances Celane visits Perry Mason to inquire about an odd codicil in her father's will, stating she would be disinherited if she married young. Her uncle is the trustee, and stands to inherit everything if Frances marries―which she has. And when her uncle is found murdered, her groom is accused. The Case of the Sulky Girl combines hard-boiled detective work with the first trial in the novels.

The Case of the Sulky Girl: A Perry Mason Mystery #2 (Volume 2) (Perry Mason Mysteries, 2)

Criminal lawyer and bestselling mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote nearly 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Now, the American Bar Association is bringing back his most famous and enduring novels―featuring criminal defense lawyer and sleuth Perry Mason―in striking trade paperback editions. Unfortunately, Marjorie Clune's legs are not as lucky as they first appear―when movie promoter Frank Patton's hype clears, it's obvious his "lucky legs" contest and the movies that were supposed to follow was a fraud. When Patton is found with Marjorie's lover's knife in his chest, Perry Mason must exonerate the young woman and find the real killer.

The Case of the Lucky Legs: A Perry Mason Mystery #3 (Perry Mason Mysteries)

Criminal lawyer and bestselling mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote nearly 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Now, the American Bar Association is bringing back his most famous and enduring novels―featuring criminal defense lawyer and sleuth Perry Mason―in striking trade paperback editions. Rhoda Lorton doesn't always marry the right men. Her first husband, Greg Moxley, took off with her savings, only to have his plane crash. Lorton has gone on to marry millionaire scion Carl Montaine when Moxley turns up alive and well and demands money to stay silent about Lorton's first, extant marriage. When Moxley is found dead, two eyewitness claim to have seen Lorton kill him, and she says she killed him, too. But did she?

The Case of the Curious Bride: A Perry Mason Mystery #5 (Perry Mason Mysteries)

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