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Concise introduction to property law.

Callies (law, U. of Hawaii) et al. present a casebook for law students in one-semester first-year property courses. They outline an analytical framework for understanding property law and its key concepts, then cover land and property rights, estates and future interests, concurrent forms of ownership, marital property, landlord-tenant law, housing discrimination, servitudes and constitutional limitations, and real estate transactions. The book has a comparative law perspective by giving special attention to cases from the state of Hawaii, and this edition expands the comparative focus with notes that examine the ways other legal systems address key questions of property ownership and rights. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Federal tax accounting, 2d ed.

As part of the Lexis Graduate Tax Series, this text on federal tax accounting in the United States moves away from textual explanation of code and regulations and instead focuses on having students actively apply the law from the primary sources of law through practice-based problems. The authors (professors of law from Chapman U., U. of Miami, and U. of Arizona) offer eight chapters on the annual accounting system; cash receipts and disbursements method of accounting; inventory and accounting for long-term contracts; capitalization, amortization, and depreciation; interest, original issue discount, and other time value of money issues; deferred payment sales, including private annuity transactions and self-cancelling installment notes; exceptions to the annual accounting system, including carryovers, claim of right doctrine, tax benefit rules, and the Arrowsmith principle; and changes in accounting methods and annual accounting periods. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Gilson on trademarks; United States Patent and Trademark Office; trademark manual of examining procedure (TMEP), 6th ed., rev.2, May 2010.

The title page states that the "official site" of this manual is http://tess2.uspto.gov/tmdb/tmep, which is a Government Printing Office site, where the law can be read online or a print version ordered. This volume is part of a multivolume reference explaining the law. Anne Gilson Lalonde has been the author since 2006, taking over for her father, Jerome Gilson. Cited price is for individual volumes which are also sold as a multi-volume set. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Gilson on trademarks; United States patent and trademark office acceptable indentification of goods and services manual, current through January 1, 2009.

This print version of the U.S. acceptable identification of goods and services manual (available and searchable on the United States Patent and Trademark Office website) consists of a lengthy alphabetical list of goods, an alphabetical list of services, and both lists reorganized by class. The date column indicates when the record was added, modified, or deleted. The purpose of the identifiers is to describe a good or service when registering a trademark in the US. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Labor relations law; cases and materials, 12th ed.

St. Antoine (U. of Michigan) et al. use cases and materials to examine the union-management relationship through its major phases. They outline its historical background and discuss the right of employees to join together for organizational purposes; regulation of the organizing process; development of bargaining relationships; the negotiation of collective agreements, including resort to economic weapons; and the enforcement of those agreements. For this edition, they have added new sections on what unions must do to remain relevant in the post-industrial economy and criticisms of existing National Labor Relations Act provisions and possible reforms. They have condensed material on the regulation of internal union affairs. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)