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Profit From Your Idea: How to Make Smart Licensing Deals

Richard Stim Attorney · NOLO; Eighth Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Youve invented a great product and its time for the next step. However, if you present an invention to a prospective buyer or licensee, its no secret that your idea can be stolen. How can you draft an agreement that protects your interests? Turn to Profit From Your Idea to help you create,...
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Love & Money: Protecting Yourself from Angry Exes, Wacky Relatives, Con Artists, and Inner Demons

Ann-Margaret Carrozza · Allworth Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

It is no secret that we are living in an increasingly litigious society. What may come as a surprise, though, is that we are far more likely to be involved in a costly legal dispute with a former loved one than we are with a stranger. In Love and Money, Ann-Margaret Carrozza will help you to easily...
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"So What Are You Going to Do with That?": Finding Careers Outside Academia, Third Edition

Maggie Debelius · University Of Chicago Press; Third Edition edition
Format: Book

Graduate schools churn out tens of thousands of PhDs and MAs every year. Yet more than half of all college courses are taught by adjunct faculty, which means that the chances of an academic landing a tenure-track job seem only to shrink as student loan and credit card debts grow. What’s...
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Popular Mechanics Gadget Planet: 150 Gizmos & Inventions that Changed the World

Popular Mechanics · Hearst
Format: Hardcover

These gadgets changed the world! In 2011, Popular Mechanics gathered a panel of experts—esteemed inventors, designers, tech gurus, even a moonwalking astronaut—to create a definitive list of 101 gadgets that changed the course of history. The feature was so popular that it became...
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Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education

Charles J Sykes · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The cost of a college degree has increased by 1,125% since 1978 - four times the rate of inflation. Total student debt is $1.3 trillion. Many private universities charge tuitions ranging from $60-70,000 per year. Nearly 2/3 of all college students must borrow to study, and the average...
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The Home Distilling and Infusing Handbook, Second Edition: Make Your Own Whiskey & Bourbon Blends, Infused Spirits, Cordials & Liqueurs

Matthew Teacher · Cider Mill Press; 2 edition
Format: Print book

Create your own signature blends at home with the fully updated and newly expanded edition of The Home Distilling and Infusing Handbook, featuring dozens of creative infusion recipes!Like to dabble, invent, experiment, and concoct? Like to drink? Move beyond bartending and learn how to combine...
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The Art of Product Design: Changing How Things Get Made

Hardi Meybaum · Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited, John
Pages: 226
Format: Print book

Embrace Open Engineering and accelerate the design and manufacturing processes Product development is a team sport, but most companies don't practice it that way. Organizations should be drawing on the creativity of engaged customers and outsiders, but instead they rely on the same...
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The Addicted Lawyer: Tales of the Bar, Booze, Blow, and Redemption

BRIAN CUBAN · Post Hill Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Brian Cuban was a successful lawyer - and an addict. Brian Cuban was living a lie. With a famous last name and a successful career as a lawyer, Brian was able to hide his clinical depression and alcohol and cocaine addictions - for a while. Today, as an inspirational speaker in long-term...
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When Deadly Force is Involved: A Look at the Legal Side of Stand Your Ground, Duty to Retreat, and Other Questions of Self-Defense

Bruce M. Lawlor · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover

Self-defense, as a legal concept, is easy to describe but difficult to apply. Generally, a person who is without fault may use reasonable force or defensive force for the purpose of defending one's own life or the lives of others, including, in certain circumstances, the use of deadly...
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Nolo's Deposition Handbook

Paul Bergman JD · NOLO; Sixth Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Getting deposed? Conducting a deposition? Heres the book you need to take the mystery out of the deposition process and answer questions with confidence. Youll even learn the three golden rules for answering questions and the trick questions lawyers often use to influence testimony. A perfect...
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