How Culture Changes. The Natural Environment. The Built Environment. Accessible Environments for Persons With Disabilities.
Family Defined. The Family in Historical Perspective. Theoretical Perspectives for Understanding Families. Diversity in Family Life. Challenges to Family Life. Small Groups in Social Work. Small Group Structure, Composition, and Processes. Theories of Group Processes. Formal Organizations: Definition and Theoretical Perspectives.
Community: Territorial and Relational. Theoretical Approaches to Community. Chapter 9. Patterns of Social Life. Contemporary Trends in Global and U. Social Institutions. Theories of Social Inequality. Social Movements: Definition and Theoretical Perspectives. Part IV. The Changing Life Course. The Life Course Perspective. Theoretical Roots of the Life Course Perspective.
Basic Concepts of the Life Course Perspective. Major Themes of the Life Course Perspective. Life Course Developmental Perspective on Families.
Integration With a Multidimensional, Multitheoretical Approach. Chapter Sociocultural Organization of Childbearing and Child-Rearing. Control Over Conception and Pregnancy. Fetal Development. At-Risk Newborns. Typical Infant Development. The Role of Play. Childcare Arrangements in Infancy. Infants in the Multigenerational Family.
Typical Development in Toddlerhood and Early Childhood. Developmental Delays and Disabilities. Early Childhood Education. Toddlerhood and Early Childhood in the Multigenerational Family. Protective Factors in Toddlerhood and Early Childhood. Historical Perspective on Middle Childhood. Middle Childhood in the Multigenerational Family. Development in Middle Childhood. Middle Childhood and Formal Schooling. Special Challenges in Middle Childhood. The Transition From Childhood to Adulthood.
Publisher: Saylor Foundation. The text is comprehensive, in that there are 53 chapters that cover what one would expect a business law text to cover, including intellectual property, real property, and bankruptcy. There is no index or glossary. A table of cases would be Comprehensiveness rating: 4 see less. A table of cases would be helpful too, or a list of them in the table of contents for easy navigation from the online version of the text.
Renowned for its cutting-edge coverage and strategic approach, this book offers one of the most comprehensive yet easy-to-understand presentations of today's global legal environment of business. In-depth cases help you sharpen your critical thinking skills, and "A Manager's Dilemma" feature challenges you to consider such issues as whether to outsource labor to a country known for poor working conditions and the ethics of structuring a business to avoid domestic taxes.
Whether you have significant management experience or are studying business for the first time, you will learn how to use principles of law to minimize risk and create value, attain core business objectives, identify and resolve legal issues, and effectively handle legal disputes.
Up-to-date coverage includes the regulation of commercial speech, the disclosure of corporate political spending, the application of the Fourth Amendment to cell phone location data, the patentability of human genes, employees' use of social media, regulatory responses to climate change, the fiduciary duties of managers of limited liability companies, the FCC's proposed rules on net neutrality, the constitutionality of Obamacare, the use of race in college admissions, the Defense of Marriage Act, NSA surveillance programs, the right of college football players to unionize, and more.
It provides a firm and thorough foundation in the basics of workplace writing. The new edition offers a new film feature in Lengua with pre- and post-viewing questios and an accompanying image.
This student-friendly text clearly integrates microeconomic theory with calculus and graphics; its approach centers on constructing and analyzing fundamental models. After purchasing your eTextbook or eChapter, you will be emailed instructions on where and how to download your free reader. This book is licensed under a Creative Commons by-nc-sa 3.
You get hour turnaround. While there are case questions after each case, I would like to see more of an introduction and conclusion around the cases. I worry a bit that undergraduate students not accustomed to reading a lot may get lost in the cases. The framework is consistent. There are learning objectives, subsections, key takeaways, and in some chapters after cases there are summaries, exercises, and self-test questions with answers provided.
There are lots of fairly short chapters, with sections and subsections clearly marked. This is easier to divide than a book with 15 or 16 really long chapters. In addition, it would be easy to just cover particular sections and cases, especially with the table of contents navigation in the online version of the text.
Chapter 8 is introduction to contract law, and then there are separate chapters on the agreement, real assent, consideration, remedies e. It's a nice way to decide whether to cover several contract chapters, or boil it down and use one chapter. I'm not sure why the comprehensive contract chapter was put at the very end, but I do like the option of quicker coverage. Navigation worked very well, table of contents in online version was very useful and user friendly. I like the self-test questions as a comprehension check for students.
While I might need to skip the Playboy case at a Christian institution, the text appears thoughtful and inclusive overall. Unions, employment discrimination, and civil rights as applied to the commerce clause are all discussed in the text. In addition, the examples use a variety of names from around the world and not just European sounding names like Mike and Elizabeth.
I know it's open source, so do not mean to be greedy - but a test bank, and power point slides, for the instructor would be incredibly helpful. The chapters covered in this textbook offer a comprehensive overview of Business Law. I love that this textbook includes a chapter on insurance which is such an important risk management concept to understand in the business world.
Other Business Comprehensiveness rating: 5 see less. Other Business Law textbooks I have used have not covered insurance, so I appreciated this addition. Overall, the content was pretty good. It is in the table of contents but not the PDF.
Also, some of the review questions at the end need double checked. I noticed some of the question numbers were missing from the questions. This will help the students correspond the question to the correct answer. There did not appear to be many instructor resources that come with this book such as PowerPoints, instructor manual, and a test bank. Reviewed by Margaret Garcia, Lecturer, J. The text offers a comprehensive introduction to business law and the U.
The discrete elements of each component of our laws are readily assignable to create a course of study focused on any particular aspect of business law chosen The discrete elements of each component of our laws are readily assignable to create a course of study focused on any particular aspect of business law chosen by the instructor. Generally, the letter and spirit of the law are well explained and, through the end-of-chapter exercises, students are encouraged to apply their knowledge to real-life situations.
Unfortunately, the text does not feature a glossary of legal terms. Explanations of the principles of law were accurate. Consequently, it offers a solid foundational education for a survey course. The efficacy of this course could be maintained by an instructor's assignment to investigate a contemporary state statute or by directing students to the Oyez Project at Chicago-Kent; it is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work.
It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October The Project also provides authoritative information on all justices and offers a virtual reality tour of portions of the Supreme Court building, including the chambers of some of the justices.
The cited case law serves the basic purpose of a first-level survey course: it provides an historical context and tracks the consistency of or changes made up to the early 21st Century. But, again, instructors will need to update the law with contemporary cases and statutes. For example, while the content on Alternative Dispute Resolution Chapter 3 clearly delineates the options available there is no reference to the Supreme Court ruling that companies can use arbitration clauses in employment contracts to prohibit workers from banding together to take legal action over workplace issues — an important business law issue!
The text will easily guide a layperson through a survey of the law. However, by the end of the chapter, a student may be overwhelmed by this first introduction to the language of law. The text would be easily and readily divisible to focus on a particular course of study on the discrete aspects of business law that can be reasonably studied in a 16 or fewer week course of study.
Students are first introduced to the organizational structure of the U. They are then well positioned to understand the confines of and freedoms available for the application of the law. I would, however, realign two topics: Agency Chapters should be immediately followed by Employment Law Chapters as the latter is a natural subset of the former.
Also, Chapter 53, Contracts, replicates the comprehensive devotion of 12 earlier chapters to contract law and the UCC Chapters Technically, there were no problems with the links and the charts were clear. However, the learning experience would be significantly enhanced by the addition of more detailed charts summarizing the narrative.
Generally, the presentation of law is inclusive, particularly with the introductory worldwide examples of legal and political systems, and inoffensive. There is, however, some bias in the historical review of civil rights law Chapter The text is comprehensive and covers the broad topic of business law.
Only one area would require supplementation for my course, that is professional responsibility and ethics, and typically the area of "Accountant's legal liability" As the Only one area would require supplementation for my course, that is professional responsibility and ethics, and typically the area of "Accountant's legal liability" As the course targets accounting students with the intent of taking the CPA exam, a section of accountant's legal liability and professional ethics would require supplementation.
As most business law books on the market do not include this, I think it is fair to state the book is comprehensive and comparable to most texts available for our students through the various publishers. Text was accurate and I did not find it to be biased. Any errors were minimal, i. I am reviewing in , the copyright is It did not seem dated or lacking in content, but I do wonder when it might be updated. Many great examples were given, the points were made quickly and succinctly.
Law books necessarily contain a lot of jargon, but it was well explained in laymen's terms.
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