In every age, writers and editors need guidance through the thickets of English usage. Although some language issues are perennial (infer vs. imply), many others spring anew from the well of English:* Is it all right to say alums instead of alumni or alumnae And should it be spelled alums or alumns..
Garner's Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage gives authoritative guidance on all the vexing questions that legal writers face, from correcting grammatical errors to framing legal issues to distinguishing between similar but distinct legal terms. With great detail and care, Garner explains whatlegalese ..
The need for clarity and precision in legal writing has become increasingly apparent in recent years. Until this award-winning book appeared, the unwieldy body of legal language had not been collected or scrutinized in any systematic way.Far more than a typical law dictionary, A Dictionary of Modern..
Considered the most valuable reference tool available to the legal community, Black's Pocket Dictionary provides more than 13,000 clear, concise, and precise definitions. The essential companion dictionary to the Standard edition and as a stand-alone tool, Black's Pocket Dictionary also includes a d..
Features more than ten thousand legal terms and includes a dictionary guide and the complete United States Constitution. Author: Bryan A. Garner Publisher: Thomson West Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0314151990 ISBN-13: 9780314151995..
Features more than ten thousand legal terms and includes a dictionary guide and the complete United States Constitution. Author: Garner, Bryan A. Publisher: West Group Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0314152342 ISBN-13: 9780314152343..
This book provides a comprehensive presentation of the power and promise of collaboration and system coordination -- connecting students, professionals, parents, schools and community agencies in new ways. Placing students with special needs and families in the center, collaboration and system coord..
Hardcover, third edition, with unclipped dust jacket. Signed by author and dedicated to the late Tony Honore on FEP in pen. Jacket is lightly edgeworn and lightly sunned at edges. A few minor bumps to board edges and page block faintly marked, no other notable flaws, very good condition throughout. ..
Bryan Liang's primary goal for HEALTH LAW AND POLICY is to provide physicians with the relevant intellectual tools necessary to be able to understand and survive in the rapidly changing world of medical practice. This goal is implemented through a supplemented case approach where each theme or rule ..
Admirably clear, concise, down-to-earth, and powerful-unfortunately, these adjectives rarely describe legal writing, whether in the form of briefs, opinions, contracts, or statutes. In Legal Writing in Plain English, Bryan A. Garner provides lawyers, judges, paralegals, law students, and legal schol..
Now More Than Ever: Social Studies in the 21st Century examines the state of social studies and history education in America while laying out an ambitious program of reform and rejuvenation. In this work Dr. Bryant presents three strategies for reinvigorating the study and teaching of history: 1. Au..
Designed as a follow up text to the successful "Primer of Biostatistics", this text supports beginning courses in biostatistics and serves as an introductory text and reference source; this book will serve to introduce more advanced statistical concepts and techniques. Like "Primer of Biostatistics"..
Refrigeration Equipment is a clear, practical guide to the installation, testing and servicing of industrial and domestic refrigeration equipment.Refrigeration technicians, who are poorly provided with good reference material, will welcome the author's hands-on approach. Other readers will include t..
The Redbook provides a comprehensive guide to the essential rules of legal writing. Unlike most style or grammar guides, it focuses on the special needs of legal writers, answering a wide spectrum of questions about grammar and style - both rules as well as exceptions. The Redbook also gives detaile..
"The cry for the simplification of the Rules of Golf is a stock-in-trade of the journalist during the winter months. Countless words on the subject have been poured out to an ever-tolerant public, but still the long-sought simplification does not come."-Henry Longhurst, 1937The hopes of renowned wri..
Good legal writing wins court cases. It its first edition, The Winning Brief proved that the key to writing well is understanding the judicial readership. Now, in a revised and updated version of this modern classic, Bryan A. Garner explains the art of effective writing in 100 concise,practical, and..