Sending a teenager to a flagship state university for four years of on-campus living costs more than $100,000 in many parts of the United States. Many private colleges cost triple that. Lieber helps families navigate this journey, which has been compounded by a global pandemic and the resulting chaos in higher education. He asks the questions most parents don't know (or are afraid) to ask, and summarizes the research about what matters and what doesn't....

Do I need permission to use something on the Internet? Can I reproduce a newspaper obituary without permission? How do I know what's in the public domain? Who owns the copyright to the client report? Can I publish my ancestor's diary without permission? Is my lecture or lesson protected by copyright? If I write something for my genealogical society as a volunteer, who owns the copyright? Now there is an easy-to-understand guide for genealogists that...

Contracts play a fundamental role in modern society, particularly in a commercial setting, as they protect the interests of the parties to an agreement. Who is the Course Designed for? Agreements feature in many areas of life, especially following the rise of the internet and e-commerce. Many people are doing business online for a living and shall prepare and enter agreements with online consumers, partners and suppliers. Other people work in...

From ancient ages, the commercial transactions were taking place under the customs regulating the subject and the obligations of parties etc.. These customs culminated into the Law of contracts, when the same was codified. The Law of Contracts in India defines Contract as an agreement enforceable by law, which offers personal rights, and imposes personal obligations, which the law protects and enforces against the parties to the agreement. The general...

No cabe duda de que el derecho de las obligaciones constituye un área medular dentro del derecho civil y el derecho en general. Esta obra representa un esfuerzo por sintetizar las ideas esenciales de la materia, en relación a la normativa que brinda al respecto el Código Civil de 1984. El lector podrá conocer a través de estas páginas los aspectos más importantes contemplados en el referido cuerpo normativo. Se trata de un primer acercamiento...

La globalización del comercio es una realidad cotidiana por la que se luchó durante décadas por parte de varios países hasta que finalmente se impuso. No obstante, la actual crisis económica mundial, la situación de sectores como la agricultura, los textiles y el vestido, la existencia de cerca de 300 acuerdos comerciales, problemas de seguridad de los países y la lucha contra el terrorismo, entre otras causas, han puesto sobre la palestra...

Esta obra analiza la figura del contratante débil en las relaciones jurídicas contemporáneas. Para ello se estudiaron tres relaciones jurídicas que las autoras han elegido arbitrariamente en el marco de la contratación y desarrollo tecnológico, a saber: el contrato de consumo-de manera especial, en las denominadas operaciones de autofinanciamiento comercial, el contrato laboral y el impacto de la Revolución 4.0, y, por último, la figura del...

"Hollis Henry worked for global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend once before. She never meant to repeat the experience, but she's broke. Milgrim is thoroughly owned by Bigend. He's worth it for his gift of seeming to disappear in almost any setting. Garreth has a passion for extreme sports. He isn't owned by Bigend, but he has friends from whom he can call in the kinds of favors that Bigend sometimes needs. Like now, when a Department of Defense...