The Millionaire Next Door
The Millionaire Next Door

Author: Thomas J. Stanley

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1998-10

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0671015206

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Reveals that the accumulation of wealth in the United States is most often done through hard work, diligent savings, and living a frugal lifestyle

Arts in Earnest
Arts in Earnest

Author: Daniel W. Patterson

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780822310211

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Arts in Earnest explores the unique folklife of North Carolina from ruddy ducks to pranks in the mill. Traversing from Murphy to Manteo, these fifteen essays demonstrate the importance of North Carolina’s continually changing folklife. From decoy carving along the coast, to the music of tobacco chants and the blues of the Piedmont, to the Jack tales of the mountains, Arts in Earnest reflects the story of a people negotiating their rapidly changing social and economic environment. Personal interviews are an important element in the book. Laura Lee, an elderly black woman from Chatham County, describes the quilts she made from funeral flower ribbons; witnesses and friends each remember varying details of the Duke University football player who single-handedly vanquished a gang of would-be muggers; Clyde Jones leads a safari through his backyard, which is filled with animals made of wood and cement that represent nontraditional folk art; the songs and sermon of a Primitive Baptist service flow together as one—“it tills you up all over”; Durham bluesman Willie Trice, one of a handful of Durham musicians who recorded in the 1930s and early 1940s, remembers when the active tobacco warehouses offered ready audiences—“They’d tip us a heap of change to play some music”; and Goldsboro tobacco auctioneer H. L. “Speed” Riggs chants 460 words per minute, five to six times faster than a normal conversational rate.

Electronic Commerce
Electronic Commerce

Author: Ronald J. Mann

Publisher: Aspen Publishing

Published: 2014-11-12

Total Pages: 924

ISBN-13: 1454824158

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The only casebook dealing with e-commerce, Electronic Commerce, Fourth Edition, utilizes problems to expound a transactional approach to electronic commerce. Written by Ronald J. Mann, a preeminent and prolific Commercial Law scholar, this system-oriented text is structured around the hypothetical representation of a technology company. The new edition has been meticulously updated with the latest cases and problems that reflect those cases and current issues. This concise casebook offers: Distinguished authorship: Ronald Mann is a leading scholar in Commercial Law and recently served as Reporter for revisions to UCC Articles 3, 4, and 4A. Lucid and concise reading assignments that use non-technical language whenever possible. Need-to-know technology is explained clearly and accessibly. Exercises that clearly illustrate current issues in e-commerce practice. Dozens of separate assignments so that professors can easily concentrate on their own areas of interest. Coverage of important commercial law topics, including: Click-through contracts Cybersquatting Web site development Software licensing Electronic payments New to the Fourth Edition: Updated problems based on recent case law and current issues. New cases, including: Rescuecom Corp. v. Google & Second Circuit decision permitting lawsuit against Google for selling ads based on trademarked name Jacobsen v. Katzer & First appellate decision validating licenses for open-source software Jaynes v. Commonwealth of Virginia & Virginia Supreme Court case invalidating Virginia anti-spam law under First Amendment Fair Housing Council v. Roommates.com & Ninth Circuit en banc decision on liability of Web site for discriminatory postings seeking roommates Chicago Lawyers & Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. v. CraigsList, Inc. & Easterbrook decision exonerating CraigsList for behavior similar to Roommates behavior condemned by Ninth Circuit Conwell v. Gray Loon Outdoor Marketing Group, Inc. & Indiana Supreme Court case interpreting contract for design of Web site