Quinn "Q" Boothroyd is a young British lawyer married to an American and living in New York City. She's checked off most of the boxes on her "Modern Woman's List of Things to Do Before Hitting 30," and her busy working life has been relatively painless. But when her doctor tells her she must spend the last three months of her pregnancy lying in bed, Q is thrown into a tailspin. Initially bored and frustrated, Q soon fills her days by trying to reconnect with her workaholic husband, provide legal advice for her sweet Greek neighbor, forge new emotional bonds with her mother and sisters, and figure out who will keep her stocked up in cookies and sandwiches.
When and why did mankind begin to write? What did he write with? How did writing become a vital tool of learning, for everyday use and for storing information? When did it become an important factor in human cultural progress, being used on a bigger scale for literary, scientific, legal and administrative purposes? And finally, when did it become an efficient and powerful system of communication?
Marcus Glenwood's stunning legal victory over New Horizons Corporation came with a severe personal price. Now Glenwood is slowly getting back on his feet, back into his legal practice, and back into a deeper relationship with Kirsten Stansted. But the CEO of New Horizons comes to Marcus seeking representation in a heart-wrenching personal matter. Dale Stedman's one-year-old daughter has been abducted, he claims, by the world-renowned opera diva Erin Brandt.
Parchment, Paper, Pixels: Law and the Technologies of Communication
Technological revolutions have had an unquestionable, if still debatable, impact on culture and society—perhaps none more so than the written word. In the legal realm, the rise of literacy and print culture made possible the governing of large empires, the memorializing of private legal transactions, and the broad distribution of judicial precedents and legislation. Yet each of these technologies has its shadow side: written or printed texts easily become static and the textual practices of the legal profession can frustrate ordinary citizens, who may be bound by documents whose implications they scarcely understand.
The book "Founding a Company - Handbook of Legal Forms in Europe" provides an easily accessible overview of the most important information any entrepreneur or manager needs when deciding for a legal form of the business. This makes it especially interesting for companies that decide to enter new markets within Europe and need to understand which requirements and advantages the different legal forms have. With the structured presentation of this information for ten different countries the book allows for quick comprehension and comparison of the aspects discussed.
