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Learning Law
2020
1 099 kr
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Learning Law is an accessible and engaging introduction to Australian law for students considering a career in the legal profession. This text teaches students how to deal with legislation and cases, focusing on core topics and contextualisation. This second edition has been thoroughly updated and revised, with significant changes including: six new chapters - First Peoples and the law, research, the ethical lawyer, statutory interpretation, lawyers and clients, becoming a lawyer - more coverage of parliaments and courts, new Living Law boxes that showcase the diverse career paths available to law graduates and new Critical Perspective boxes to engage students with critical analysis. Written in a conversational style, Learning Law will leave students feeling more knowledgeable about, and confident in, their interactions with Australian legal institutions and legal professionals. This text is an essential resource that law students will refer to throughout their studies and in the early stages of their career.
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#1 New York Times bestsellingauthor of Iceberg,Jennifer A. Nielsen inspires readers with a brand-new thrillerbased on the remarkable true story of a young Polish girl who bravelyfought, participating in the Warsaw city uprising and took astand in the name of freedom. Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather's house whenplanes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi cross on each wing. Beforethe bombs hit the ground, Lidia realizes her life is about to changeforever. Poland has fallen under German occupation, and her fathermakes the brave decision to join the Polish army to fight againstthe Nazis. Lidia wants to follow him into war, but she's fartoo young, and she's needed by her mother and brother.After her family returns to Warsaw, where life has changed irrevocably,Lidia continues to play the piano, finding comfort in Chopin,Bach, and Beethoven. But she also wants to aid the Jewishpeople held captive in the Warsaw Ghetto. With the help of a friend,Lidia begins to smuggle wheat and food into the ghetto. Still,she feels like she could be doing so much more. She wants to fight.After her brother joins the resistance, Lidia wants only tofollow in his footsteps. Soon, she begins to work as a courier, smugglingweapons and messages for the resistance throughout the city.When the Warsaw city uprising begins – one year after themore well-known Warsaw Ghetto uprising by Polish Jews – withgunfire and bombs echoing throughout the streets, Lidia joinsthe Polish nationalists’ fight, too, and she and her peersfight with everything they’ve got. Life will continue to surpriseLidia, as she and the resistance fighters do their best todefeat the German soldiers. No matter the consequences, they’rewilling to defend their freedom and their homes from the Naziinvaders – even with their lives. Drawing on the extraordinary real-life story of Polish teenagerLidia ZakrzewskiAn inspiring and dramatic account of the Polish resistance fighterswho struggled to force out their Nazi occupiers and reclaimtheir nation's freedom from tyrannyA fast-paced historical thriller