Mendik New Titles

August New Titles

Terry Ballard — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:58:04 +0000

This month’s featured title is The Little Book of Foodie Law. According to the publisher, the term “foodie” commonly refers to one who is unabashedly and unreservedly excited about food, its ingredients, and its preparation. This book examines the legal world of the foodie. It will help you to learn more about the legal tussles that have taken place in the world of food. The author is a member of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP’s litigation section since 1993. Cecil Kuhne has represented clients in federal and state court proceedings involving complex commercial disputes, business torts, and product liability. He has long been an enthusiastic foodie. Chapters include Bad press : litigating restaurant reviews, Cooking schools : using the name “cordon bleu,” Jewish weddings : failure to serve kosher food, Poisonous mushrooms : liability of book publishers, Trademark wars : “miracle whip” vs. “yogowhip,” Competitive recipes : trade secret ramifications, Diet chocolate fudge : a contradiction in terms? and Spice wars : the defense of a tea label. This and the other 57 titles are available for checkout. To see their status, click on the link below.

July New Titles

Terry Ballard — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:09:07 +0000

July’s featured title is Heartbeats in the Muck: A dramatic look at the history, sea life and environment of New York Harbor, by John Waldman. This book seems to be designed more for interest than for scholarship, with chapter titles like “The Medium: Sewers, Sludge, and Other Forms of Water Torture.” You can find out much more about this title, including reviews and a preview by visiting Google Books. The author is Professor of Biology at Queens College, City University of New York. He is recipient of the New York Society Library Award in Natural History and the Norcross Wildlife Conservation Award and is an occasional contributor to the New York Times and other periodicals. According to the publisher, “Heartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor’s environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the harbor has been marked by centuries of rampant industrialization and degradation of its natural environment. Garbage dumping, oil spills, sewage sludge, pesticides, heavy metals, poisonous PCBs, landfills, and dredging greatly diminished life in the harbor, in some places to nil.” To see this and the other 59 new titles, just go to lawlib.nyls.edu/ftlist.

June New Titles

Terry Ballard — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:11:27 +0000

June’s featured book is Acting Skills for Lawyers by Laura Mathis. According to the publisher “For the lawyer, research and written communications are only half the battle. In this innovative book you’ll learn how to develop and use stage presence, use an actors voice and gestures, develop characters for different audiences, deliver effective speeches, adopt the role of talk-show host for depositions, improvise in unprepared situations, be the acting coach for your witness, use monologue skills in your closing arguments, and even take the perfect professional photo!” The author is an instructor in public speaking, an actress, and has over 15 years experience in public speaking workshops. To see this book and the other 86 June titles just to to lawlib.nyls.edu. All of these titles are available for checkout.

May New Titles

Terry Ballard — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:56:33 +0000

The featured title for May is “Careers in Animal Law, byAnimal Law” by Yolanda Eisenstein. According to its publisher, the book will help you: •Forge a successful animal law career with firms of all types and sizes, government agencies, corporations, or nonprofits •Strike out on your own as a solo practitioner •Learn career tips from a series of animal-lawyer profiles •Understand evolving trends in legislation, litigation, and academia •Gain an overview of the field from a practicing animal lawyer and professor of animal law Chapter titles include “Our relationship with animals, Animal law today, Getting started, Becoming an animal lawyer — Nonlegal jobs, animals, and the law & Animal protection and pro bono.” Yolanda Eisenstein is a lawyer with an animal law practice, the Eisenstein Law Office, in Dallas, Texas. She is an adjunct professor in animal law at SMU Dedman School of Law. To check the status of this and the other 69 new titles, just go to lawlib.nyls.edu/ftlist . All of the titles on this list are available for checkout.

April New Titles

Terry Ballard — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:56:03 +0000

April’s featured title is “Managing e-discovery and ESI : from pre-litigation through trial” by the American Bar Association. According to the publisher, “This book identifies the key issues related to ESI–pre-litigation management, preservation, collection, processing, review, production, and use in deposition and at trial–and provides clear, practical guidance to litigators. The book is divided into eight parts that follow the sequence from the pre-litigation stage through trial.” Chapters include “A history of electronic discovery” by John M. Facciola, “ Computer usage policies, records management, and corporate it infrastructure : a guide for attorneys before & during litigation,” by William A. McComas and Michael D. Berman, and “ Designing a “reasonable” e-discovery search : a guide for the perplexed,” by Jason R. Baron and Michael D. Berman. Well over 800 pages long, this is a comprehensive look at a fast-moving aspect of the law. Other notable titles this month include “The cult of the amateur: how blogs, MySpace, YouTube and the rest of today’s user-generated media destroying our economy, our culture, and our values,” by Andrew Keen (The title pretty well tells the whole story), and “Job Quest for lawyers: the essential guide to finding and landing the job you want,” by Sheila Nielsen. To check the availability of these and 66 other new titles, just go to http://lawlib.nyls.edu/ftlist and find out.

March New Titles

Terry Ballard — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:49:55 +0000

The featured title for March is The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith. It seems to be an update of Machiavelli, but the publisher describes this as “explaining the theory of political survival, particularly in cases of dictators and despotic governments, arguing that political leaders seek to stay in power using any means necessary, most commonly by attending to the interests of certain coalitions.” Chapter titles include “Coming to power, Staying in power, Steal from the poor give to the rich, Getting and spending, If corruption empowers then absolute corruption empowers absolutely.” Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute. He specializes in international relations, foreign policy and nation building. He is also the director of New York University’s Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy. Click HERE to see more information about this title, including a substantial preview. To see the other 76 titles go to lawlib.nyls.edu/ftlist . All of these titles are available for checkout.

February New Titles

Terry Ballard — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:52:08 +0000

The February featured titles is “When international law works : realistic idealism after 9/11 and the global recession,” by Tai-Heng Cheng. According to the publisher, the book Ranges topically from the current global economic crisis to the West’s war on Islamist terrorism, these detailed and demonstrative case studies set this book apart from similar works of international legal scholarship. By combining theory with practice, When International Law Works gives lawyers, judges, policymakers, academics, and students ‘real world’ guidance on how to face new global problems. In doing so, this new book challenges readers to rethink the role of law in an increasingly crisis-driven world. Chapter subheadings include Abu Ghraib Prison, Waterboarding and the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Tai-Heng Cheng is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Global Law, Justice, & Policy at New York Law School, and has been a visiting professor at Vanderbilt Law School. An author of over forty books, articles and essays, Professor Cheng’s research has been published in the University of Illinois Law Review, Temple Law Review, and the Michigan Journal of International Law. His scholarship has been cited and relied on as authoritative by U.S. federal circuit and district courts. To see the other 67 titles for this month, go to http://lawlib.nyls.edu/ftlist. All of these titles are available for checkout.

January New Titles

Terry Ballard — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:56:08 +0000

The January featured title is “Communication law in America,” by Paul Siegel, which details the evolution of freedom of speech issues from the founding of the republic to the current age of blogs, tweets and email. Chapter titles include “Protecting news sources; Regulation of advertising; Sexually oriented speech; Broadcast, cable, and satellite TV regulation; and Communication law and the internet.” More information, including reviews and a generous preview are found in Google Books at http://books.google.com/books?id=E6saibxgIN4C&dq=communication+law+in+america&source=gbs_navlinks_s . The author is Professor of Communication at the University of Hartford. Other January titles include Copyright and cultural heritage : preservation and access to works in a digital world, Why the law is so perverse,” by Leo Katz. To see all of the books, go to http://libftp.nyls.edu/Mendiknew%20Archive/January2012.pdf. All of these titles are available for checkout.

December New Titles

Terry Ballard — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:41:52 +0000

December’s featured title is Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunicaitons, by Richard R. John. This story goes all the way back to the late 1700′s when the French were experimenting with optical telegraphy for government communications. The book ends with the breakup of the Bell Corporation, leading to the thriving world of telecommunications that we see today. Library Journal writes: “To understand the history of American telecommunications is to attend to the political economies at the time technological innovation occurred. John (Professor at the School of Journalism, Columbia University) brilliantly articulates this context. Shifting municipal and federal sensibilities always shaped the diffusion of technologies, even in times where strong federal governmental oversight did not yet exist.” You can find much more about this title in Google Books (including a generous preview) at http://books.google.com/books?id=PzQRrlrySPIC&dq=network+nation&source=gbs_navlinks_s . To see the other 91 titles this month, go to libftp.nyls.edu/Mendiknew%20Archive/december2011.pdf.

November New Titles

Terry Ballard — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:27:52 +0000

November’s featured title is Cheaper by the Hour: Temporary Lawyers and the Deprofessionalisation of the Law, by by Robert A. Brooks, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Massachusetts, Worcester.
With chapter titles like “Degraded and insecure : the “new” workforce” and ”Basically interchangeable : the creation of the temporary lawyer” you know that this is not going to be happy reading, although this is an important topic. To see more about this title and check it’s status, go to http://lawlib.nyls.edu:80/record=b1656638~S0. To see the other 115 titles for this month,
go to libftp.nyls.edu/Mendiknew%20Archive/november.pdf. All of them are available for checkout.