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This basic reference work provides practicing attorneys with an understanding of microeconomics and illustrates its legal applications. Diagrams, graphs, and charts are used liberally to support and clarify the text, but no special mathematical knowledge beyond algebra and, to a lesser degree, plane geometry is required. Cases and problems at the end of each chapter illustrate specific legal applications of the principles and concepts under di...

In 1909, Edward Payson Weston walked from New York to San Francisco, covering around 40 miles a day and greeted by wildly cheering audiences in every city. The New York Times called it the "first bona-fide walk . . . across the American continent, " and eagerly chronicled a journey in which Weston was beset by fatigue, mosquitos, vicious headwinds, and brutal heat. He was 70 years old.In The Last Great Walk, journalist Wayne Curtis uses the fr...

This book is for anyone who has a desire to draw but has been told that they lack the talent. If that sounds like you, then this book is for you! I believe that everyone is born with creative talent. It is like a well deep inside that is begging to be tapped. That is your desire and, in this book, I will show you some basic skills to reach that creative well. Art is not an elite club. Anyone who want to draw...can learn how! All you have to ha...

And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of ten cocktails, Wayne Curtis reveals that the homely spirit once distilled from the industrial waste of the exploding sugar trade has managed to infiltrate every stratum of New World society.

Wild Apples marks Wayne Curtis's return to the embrace of home and the colourful lives of the people who inspire him. Simple pleasures like fishing on the Miramichi River and chores like cutting wood, planting beans, and picking crabapples call forth homespun recollections. The birth of his sister at Christmastime, the story of his mother in her own words, and a memorable trip to the circus embody unexpected moments of family love. His meditat...

Set on the Miramichi, a timeless story about a young man's decision to forsake the family farm.