Saturday, December 6, 2008

Andersons Business Law and the Legal Environment Comprehensive Edition and Career Counseling

Anderson's Business Law and the Legal Environment, Comprehensive Edition

Author: David P Twomey

Not only helping you to ace your business law course, ANDERSON'S BUSINESS LAW AND THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT, COMPREHENSIVE VOLUME, 20th Edition, also provides the information and resources to assist you in studying for the CPA exam. The #1 business law text with summarized cases on the market today, this top-selling book helps you grasp key legal concepts and principles, reinforcing your understanding with applications and examples of real-world dilemmas, issues, and problems. Current, comprehensive, easy-to-understand and fascinating to read, ANDERSON'S BUSINESS LAW will help you prepare you for every class lecture and give you all the resources you need to do your best on exams.



Table of Contents:

PART 1. THE LEGAL AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS. 1. The Nature and Sources of Law. 2. The Court System and Dispute Resolution. 3. Business Ethics, Social Forces, and the Law. 4. The Constitution as the Foundation of the Legal Environment. 5. Government Regulation of Competition and Prices. 6. Administrative Agencies. 7. The Legal Environment of International Trade. 8. Crimes. 9. Torts. 10. Intellectual Property Rights and the Internet. 11. Cyberlaw. PART 2. CONTRACTS. 12. Nature and Classes of Contracts: Contracting on the Internet. 13. Formation of Contracts: Offer and Acceptance. 14. Capacity and Genuine Assent. 15. Consideration. 16. Legality and Public Policy. 17. Writing, Electronic Forms, and Interpretation of Contracts. 18. Third Persons and Contracts. 19. Discharge of Contracts. 20. Breach of Contract and Remedies. PART 3. SALES AND LEASES OF GOODS. 21. Personal Property and Bailments. 22. Legal Aspects of Supply Chain Manage ment. 23. Nature and Form of Sales. 24. Title and Risk of Loss. 25. Product Liability: Warranties and Torts. 26. Obligations and Performance. 27. Remedies for Breach of Sales Contracts. PART 4. NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS. 28. Kinds of instruments, parties, and negotiability. 29. Transfers of negotiable instruments and warranties of parties. 30. Liability of the parties under negotiable instruments. 31. Checks and funds transfers. PART 5. DEBTOR-CREDITOR RELATIONSHIPS. 32. Nature of the Debtor/Creditor Relationship. 33. Consumer protection . 34. Secured transactions in Personal Property. 35. Bankruptcy. 36. Insurance. PART 6. AGENCY AND EMPLOYMENT. 37. Agency. 38. Third persons in agency. 39. Regulation of employment. 40. Equal employmentopportunity law. PART 7: BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS. 41. Types of business organizations. 42. Partnerships. 43. LPs, LLCs, and LLPs. 44. Corporation Formation. 45. Shareholder rights in corporations. 46. Securities regulation. 47. Accountants ' liability and malpractice. 48. Management of corporations. PART 8. REAL PROPERTY AND ESTATES. 49. Real property. 50. Environmental law and land use controls. 51. Leases. 52. Decedents' estates and trusts.

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Career Counseling: A Holistic Approach

Author: Vernon G Zunker

This highly successful book has been called the most comprehensive text on the market, providing students with needed career theory as well as practical techniques and examples. Through the author's clear writing style, case examples, tables, and exercises, students develop a solid understanding of the theoretical models of career counseling and are thoroughly exposed to the practical information on how to effectively counsel clients about career issues. As demonstrated by the text's new subtitle, 'A Holistic Approach,' this substantially revised Seventh Edition reflects the growing emphasis on looking at the "whole person"--values, temperament, talents, and passions--to determine his or her best career fit.



Table of Contents:

Part I: FOUNDATIONS AND RESOURCES.
1. Historical Development and Some Basic Issues.
2. Theories of Career Development.
3. Career Counseling Models.
4. Managing Sets of Needs.
5. Career Counseling Intake Interview.
6. Using Standard Assessment in Career Counseling.
7. Self-Assessment and a Model for Using Assessment.
8. Technology in the New Millennium.
9. On Becoming an Ethical Career Counselor.
Part II: CAREER COUNSELING FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS.
10. Career Counseling for Multicultural Groups.
11. Gender Issues in Career Counseling.
12. Special Issues in Family Systems Featuring Issues for Dual Careers.
13. Career Counseling for Individuals with Disabilities.
14. Career Counseling for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Clients.
Part III: CAREER COUNSELING IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS.
15. Career-Related Programs and Counseling in Elementary Schools.
16. Career-Related Programs and Counseling in Secondary Schools.
17. Career Services and Counseling in Institutions of Higher Learning.
Part IV: CAREER COUNSELING IN WORK SETTINGS AND CAREER TRANSITIONS THROUGHOUT LIFE.
18. Work in Our Lives.
19. Career Counseling for Adults in Career Transition.

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