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Principles of Real Estate Practice in Alabama: 3rd Edition

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Principles of Real Estate Practice in Alabama contains the essentials of the national and Alabama real estate law, principles, and practices necessary for basic competence as a real estate professional and as mandated by Alabama license law. It is based on our highly successful and popular national publication, Principles of Real Estate Practice, which is in use in real estate schools nationwide. The text is tailored to the needs of the pre-license student. It is designed to - make it easy for students to learn the material and pass their real estate exam - prepare students for numerous career applications - stress practical, rather than theoretical, skills and knowledge. Principles of Real Estate Practice in Alabama is streamlined, direct and to-the-point. It includes multiple learning reinforcements. It has a student-oriented organization, both within each chapter and from chapter to chapter. Its examples and exercises are grounded in the authors' many years in real estate education. For Alabama students looking for an exam prep book to complement Principles of Real Estate Practice in Alabama, we have Alabama Real Estate License Exam Prep

David Cusic, Jane Somers, Ryan Mettling, Stephen Mettling (Author), Digital Voice Marcus G (Narrator)

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Principles of Real Estate Practice: 7th Edition

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Principles of Real Estate Practice is a modern learning tool for the student preparing to enter the real estate business as a licensed professional. The textbook contains the essentials of real estate principles, law, and practices taught in real estate schools and colleges across the country, including all those fundamentals that real estate educators, practicing professionals, national testing services, and state licensing officials agree are necessary for basic competence. Principles of Real Estate Practice covers the national requirements for the initial 30-90+ hours of classroom study, or its equivalent, mandated by state license laws across the country. Principles of Real Estate Practice is tailored to the needs of the pre-license student. Its examples and exercises are grounded in the authors’ fifty combined years in real estate education. The textbook is designed to - make it easy for students to learn the material and pass their real estate exam - prepare students for numerous career applications - stress practical, rather than theoretical, skills and knowledge.

David Cusic, Ryan Mettling, Stephen Mettling (Author), Digital Voice Marcus G (Narrator)

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DEPUTY KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: A COP'S TRUE STORY

Do you feel intimidated or confused when you encounter a law enforcement officer? Do you know how to protect your constitutional rights in any situation? Do you want to learn from the real-life experiences of a retired deputy who has seen it all? In today’s world, where the relationship between law enforcement and the public is often strained and misunderstood, it is vital to know your rights and responsibilities as a citizen. You also need to understand the perspective and challenges of the officers who are sworn to protect and serve you. That’s why Deputy Anderson wrote this book. He wanted to share his stories and insights from his career as a law enforcement officer. He wanted to educate and inform you about the laws and procedures that govern police interactions with the public. He wanted to help you avoid unnecessary conflicts and misunderstandings with the authorities

Alfred Anderson (Author), Alfred Anderson (Narrator)

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The Power of Our Supreme Court: How Supreme Court Cases Shape Democracy

Mr. Beat Connects the Supreme Court History Right to You! Mr. Beat’s The Power of Our Supreme Court is the Supreme Court book of decisions that affect the everyday lives of Americans everywhere. The real democracy of America unveiled. What does the supreme court do? Sure, people care when the court makes a big ruling, but most don’t pay attention to the court’s day-to-day decisions. In this law book, Mr. Beat takes you on a journey through our Supreme Court system, what it is, who is in it and how they got to be there while foreshadowing how it shapes our very future. A tour of the most influential cases in history. Inspired by Mr. Beat’s court series, The Power of Our Supreme Court walks through many Supreme Court history cases from landmark cases to the more obscure. Matt Beat explains how each case affects us to this day in a way that is engaging, applicable, and easy to understand, even for beginners. Inside, you’ll find: Detailed explanations of the Supreme Court, how it works, and how it affects you A Supreme Court cases book perfect for anyone interested in social science, political science, activism, or law Interesting visuals, charts, and graphs to help contextualize and breakdown the historical significance of big and small cases If you like courtroom books, legal books for lawyers, or books on politics for beginners like How Civil Wars Start, The Color of Law, or The Flip Side of History, you’ll love Mr. Beat’s The Power of Our Supreme Court.

Matt Beat (Author), Philip Church (Narrator)

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Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times

The first major study of how the pandemic affected gig workers-a sociological exploration that reads like a novel. This is the story of what the most vulnerable wage earners-gig workers, restaurant staff, early-career creatives, and minimum-wage laborers-do when the economy suddenly collapses. In Side Hustle Safety Net, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle builds on interviews with nearly two hundred gig-based and precarious workers, conducted during the height of the pandemic, to uncover the unique challenges they faced in unprecedented times. This book looks at both the officially unemployed and the 'forgotten jobless'-a digital-era demographic that turned to side hustles-and reveals how they fared. CARES Act assistance allowed some to change careers, start businesses, perhaps transform their lives. However, gig workers and those involved in 'polyemployment' found themselves at the mercy of outdated unemployment systems, vulnerable to scams, and attempting dubious survival strategies. Ultimately, Side Hustle Safety Net argues that the rise of the gig economy, partnered with underemployment and economic instability, has increased worker precarity with disastrous consequences.

Alexandrea J. Ravenelle (Author), Rachel Perry (Narrator)

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A Nation of Immigrants

“In this timeless book, President Kennedy shows how the United States has always been enriched by the steady flow of men, women, and families to our shores. It is a reminder that America’s best leaders have embraced, not feared, the diversity which makes America great.” —Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright Throughout his presidency, John F. Kennedy was passionate about the issue of immigration reform. He believed that America is a nation of people who value both tradition and the exploration of new frontiers, deserving the freedom to build better lives for themselves in their adopted homeland. This 60th anniversary edition of his posthumously published, timeless work—with a foreword by Jonathan Greenblatt, the National Director and CEO of the ADL, formerly known as the Anti-Defamation League, and an introduction from Congressman Joe Kennedy III—offers President Kennedy’s inspiring words and observations on the diversity of America’s origins and the influence of immigrants on the foundation of the United States. The debate on immigration persists. Complete with updated resources on current policy, this new edition of A Nation of Immigrants emphasizes the importance of the collective thought and contributions to the prominence and success of the country.

John F. Kennedy (Author), Charles Constant (Narrator)

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Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History

For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abolitionists to twentieth-century filmmakers and artists, Americans have debated whether slave owners deliberately and coercively manipulated the sexual practices and marital status of enslaved African Americans to reproduce new generations of slaves for profit. In this bold and provocative book, historian Gregory Smithers investigates how African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented slave-breeding practices. He argues that while social and economic historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding, African Americans have refused to forget the violence and sexual coercion associated with the plantation South. By placing African American histories and memories of slave breeding within the larger context of America's history of racial and gender discrimination, Smithers sheds much-needed light on African American collective memory, racialized perceptions of fragile black families, and the long history of racially motivated violence against men, women, and children of color.

Gregory D. Smithers (Author), Terrence Kidd (Narrator)

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An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy

For many years, Britain tried to impose its own laws on the peoples it conquered, and English common law usually followed the Union Jack. But the common law became less common after Britain emerged from the Seven Years' War as the world's most powerful empire. At that point, imperial policymakers adopted a strategy of legal pluralism: some colonies remained under English law, while others retained much of their previous legal regimes. As legal historian Christian R. Burset argues, determining how much English law a colony received depended on what kind of colony Britain wanted to create. Policymakers thought English law could turn any territory into an anglicized, commercial colony; legal pluralism, in contrast, would ensure a colony's economic and political subordination. Britain's turn to legal pluralism thus reflected the victory of a new vision of empire-authoritarian, extractive, and tolerant-over more assimilationist and egalitarian alternatives. Among other implications, this helps explain American colonists' reverence for the common law: it expressed and preserved their equal status in the empire. This book, the first empire-wide overview of law as an instrument of policy in the eighteenth-century British Empire, offers an imaginative rethinking of the relationship between tolerance and empire.

Christian R. Burset (Author), Perry Daniels (Narrator)

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Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020

Appointments to the United States Supreme Court are now central events in American political life. However, this has not always been the case. As late as the middle of the twentieth century, presidents invested little time and effort in finding and vetting nominees. Media coverage was desultory, public opinion was largely non-existent, and the justices often voted independently and erratically. In Making the Supreme Court, Charles M. Cameron and Jonathan P. Kastellec show how the growth of federal judicial power from the 1930s onward inspired a multitude of groups struggling to shape judicial policy. Over time, some groups moved beyond lobbying the Court to changing who sits on it. Other groups formed expressly to influence appointments. These activists and organized groups penetrated the national party system so that after about 1980, presidential candidates increasingly pledged to select and confirm nominees who conformed to specific policy and ideological litmus tests. Once in office, these presidents reshaped the executive selection system to deliver on their promises. As Cameron and Kastellec argue, the result is a new politics aimed squarely at selecting and placing judicial ideologues on the Court. They make the case that this new model gradually transformed how the Court itself operates, turning it into an ideologically driven and polarized branch.

Charles M. Cameron, Jonathan P. Kastellec (Author), Lee Goettl (Narrator)

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Racial Emotion at Work: Dismantling Discrimination and Building Racial Justice in the Workplace

This timely book unravels race and emotion in the workplace-exploring why racial emotion is often left out of equity conversations and why we must confront it. Racial Emotion at Work is an invitation to understand our own emotions and associated behaviors around race-and much more. With this surprising and timely book, Tristin K. Green takes us beyond diversity trainings and other individualized solutions to discrimination and inequality in employment, calling for sweeping changes in how the law and work organizations treat and shape racial emotions. Green provides listeners with the latest research on racial emotions in interracial interactions and ties this research to thinking about discrimination and disadvantage at work. We see how our racial emotions can result in discrimination, and how our institutions-the law and work organizations-value and skew our racial emotions in ways that place the brunt of negative consequences on people of color. It turns out we need to reset our institutional and not just our personal radars on racial emotion to advance racial justice. Racial Emotion at Work shows how we can rise to the task.

Tristin K. Green (Author), Linda Jones (Narrator)

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Eyes Wide Open

Robyn Weatherley has spent years and hundreds of meetings in all types of Boardrooms, working with some of the best (and less fine) Board Directors in Australia. Her extensive career in corporate governance has included working with and advising numerous Boards of substantial operating entities (listed and unlisted, private and government), on how to operate on the right side of good governance and the law. Living and breathing the world of Directors means Robyn can provide both aspirational and new Board Directors with detailed, humanistic insights as to what a newbie to this field might encounter upon their first appointment - details very seldomly shared in structured education courses. Much like an informal fireside chat with a friend, 'Eyes Wide Open - A First Timer's Guide to the Real World of Boards and Company Directorship' takes the interested and keen, but uninitiated Director, on a high level journey through the very important step of how to conduct a thorough and effective due diligence; then on to the experience, expectations and risks of the appointment; a review of the people you'll be likely be working with, and then rounding out with insights concerning ongoing education and what the ongoing responsibilities of a Director look like. Straight forward, easy to grasp, conversational - this is what you'll find in 'Eyes Wide Open'. It's a great ready reckoner for anyone considering a Board role in their future. Whilst the hardcover was published in 2015, the principles remain and hold as firm today, as they did when first written.

Robyn Weatherley (Author), Robyn Weatherley (Narrator)

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The Book on Masks: Your Comprehensive Guide to the Manipulative Psychology, Malformed Philosophy, an

If you have ever worn a mask against your better judgement, this book is for you. Delve into the science, psychology, and philosophy involved in the worldwide mania for face coverings. Accessible yet profoundly detailed, packed with meticulously gathered information from a diverse range of disciplines, this book earns its place as an invaluable reference in your library. Its wealth of knowledge equips you to challenge prevailing narratives and verify claims independently. Its digestible deep-dive summary of more than 330 studies and 100 years of science is only the tip of the iceberg: - Tired of hearsay and third-party opinion on mask effectiveness? Get the bottom-line up front in straightforward, easily verifiable direct quotes from definitive scientific studies. - A scholarly, detailed dissection of the CDC’s flagship Science Brief case for masks. - Confused by contradictory or hyperbolic claims about mask side effects or lack thereof? Get consistent, hard data with results going back decades. - Explore the powerful and manipulative behavioral psychology exploited to push masks. - Recognize, expose, and refute the flawed underlying beliefs that support compulsory masking. - A careful review of legal precedents which support your freedoms and individual rights where masks are concerned. - Why some lawsuits challenging compulsory masking succeeded and others failed. - Detailed, robust religious and conscientious objections to masking. - More than 50 helpful charts, tables, and illustrations. - Convenient source hyperlinks — follow up and decide for yourself whether or not the author got it right. Concerned that mask mandates might make a comeback someday? Buy The Book on Masks today! Audiobook edition includes a complete copy of the book as an accompanying pdf.

Philip Buckler (Author), Philip Buckler (Narrator)

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