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Asked to travel back to the South in order to help out a small-town Junior League with the compilation of their cookbook, author Jackson Tippett McCrae finds that he's bitten off more than he can chew in this tale of odd recipes, social climbing, Southern customs, blackmail, murder, and mayhem. This tasty morsel, from the author of The Bark of the Dogwood--A Tour of Southern Homes and Gardens, will keep you flipping the pages in order to find out what each of the ladies of the Junior League are really up to when it comes to the cookbook they're planning. And the way the town's sheriff and his outcast lady-friend figure into the equation only serves to enhance this feast, as they become more than the side dishes they appear to be, spicing up the plot with more than the expected amount of gusto. With the usual twists and turns found in McCrae's books, Barring Some Unforeseen Accident is sure to please even those with the most discriminating taste..
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Strategies for Law Firm Mergers and Acquisitions is an authoritative, insider's perspective on best practices for successfully executing a law firm M&A. Featuring managing partners and chairs from some of the nation's leading law firms, these experts guide the reader through understanding the primary motivators of a law firm M&A, formulating a negotiation strategy, and minimizing risks. From analyzing deal structures to understanding the relationships of the various parties involved, these leaders offer expertise on maintaining company culture, evaluating potential liabilities, and assessing corporate governance. These top experts offer a clear understanding of the drivers of a law firm merger and acquisition, including acquiring new practice areas, introducing a firm to new geographic markets, and maximizing staff expense savings. Additionally, these top lawyers give tips on integrating the firm, establishing management structures, and analyzing compensation. Finally, these experts evaluate the role of the managing partner, forecast unforeseen complications, and identify the important laws involved. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great legal minds of today, as these experienced lawyers offer up their thoughts around the keys to navigating an increasingly-enforced and ever-changing area of law.

Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the world's most respected companies nationwide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession, or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter for this book.

Chapters Include:

1. Paul H. Irving, Co-Chairman, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP "The Right Merger-Considerations for Law Firm Leaders"

2. Peter J. Kalis, Chairman and Global Managing Partner, K&L Gates "Overcoming Challenges in Law Firm M&As"

3. J. Stephen Poor, Chair and Managing Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP "Drivers in Law Firm M&A Deals"

4. Clifford Roe Jr., Co-Managing Partner, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP "Planning Strategically for a Successful Law Firm M&A"

5. Mark S. Foster, Managing Partner, Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP "New Trends and Major Issues in Law Firm Combinations"

6. David A. Fenley, Chair, Blackwell Sanders LLP "Embarking on the M&A Process"

7. Frank Burch, Joint CEO, DLA Piper "Merging for the Right Reasons"

8. Charles P. Adams Jr., Managing Partner, Adams and Reese LLP "Successful Law Firm Mergers: Integration is Key"

Appendices Include:
Appendix A: Confidentiality and Non-Disturbance Agreement
Appendix B: Sample Due Diligence Information
Appendix C: Agreement of Merger
Appendix D: Affiliation Agreement
Appendix E: Merger Preliminary Discussion Outline
Appendix F: Merger Preliminary Financial Information Checklist.
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CONEY ISLAND UNFORESEEN TIMES tells the story of what it was like to grow up during the 1960s and 1970s decades in a deteriorating neighborhood adjoined to the legendary amusement grounds; a place said to have begun suffering its own deterioration when the City of New York's urban renewal project resulted in development of numerous hi-rise buildings (referred to as the projects), and relocation of the city's poor and disadvantaged minority residents having settled within it's walls. Among them, the author of this work. This book is devoted far more to life in the residential community of Coney Island, as opposed to the much-written-about beachside amusement parks and attractions, taking place during an era that followed Coney Island's glorified past. This mostly comical memoir encompasses a two-decade timeline of funny--often hilarious--accounts. The true-life tales are also intertwined with moments of sadness, joy, horror, romance, and a range of other emotions...lots of stories of teenage adventures and dilemmas that nearly anyone can relate to, taking place in a world full of spinning and twirling lights attached to many incredible machines..
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Racism in America has been called the elephant in the room that no one wants to recognize Even though some have recently called for a national conversation on race, as if it were a subject never discussed or even acknowledged, in 2003 alone 776 books and almost 8,000 newspaper articles were printed on the subject.
During the civil rights era, racial discrimination was easy to spot in laws that made it difficult for minorities to vote or get decent jobs, enforced segregated schools, and denied minority students admission to many universities. Today, however, the racial climate is much different. Now we talk about "subtle" or "subconscious" racism, the sort of which the racist is unaware, that cannot be detected by the unassisted eye.
In this context, law professor Patrick Garry believes today's racial problem is not silence, but rather confusion. Accusations of racism are vague but pervasive that they have become an indictment against the very legitimacy of society as a whole. With this has come a suffocating social guilt, and that sense of guilt has resulted in a steady retreat from moral and value judgments on all cultural matters, not just those of race. The fear of being branded as a racist has become so intense among whites that—even in the wake of the 9/11 attacks—the nation is immobilized from doing anything to slow the tide of illegal aliens flooding through its borders for fear of being excoriated as racist. The situation is not helped by those groups and ideologies that employ charges of racism as a weapon in a larger political crusade that transcends race.
Garry addresses racism in America from the perspective of the cultural majority, unlike most books on the subject that focus on issues that are important to the victims of racism. Garry instead examines how whites have allowed themselves to be marginalized in the conversation on race, how the fear of being labeled as racist has resulted in whites withdrawing from any dialogue or moral judgment involving almost all cultural matters, and how racial fear and guilt are influencing the moral health of America..
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Dr. Nicholas Steiner is a Park Avenue internist in his mid-forties He has a successful medical practice, a stable marriage with a home in the suburbs and enjoys good health. But when he develops melanoma, a potentially fatal type of cancer, everything changes. With a worsening prognosis his marriage dissolves and he is unable to work. As time runs out, the combined efforts of two unlikely individuals ~ an expert in Chinese herbs and a highly unusual younger woman ~ play critical roles in his survival. Many of the narrative's turbulent and surprising developments are unforeseen consequences of decisions and events from earlier in life. The author concludes that the cancer that almost killed him "was the best thing that could have happened to me.".
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All his life, author Doug Hickerson repeated “Thy Kingdom come” in the Lord’s Prayer. Yet, God’s kingdom seemed irrelevant to him, even as a seminary student and a church layman.

Hickerson was a liberal Protestant, active in a mainline denominational church and in community causes. He became curious about spiritual paths to God beyond the Church. While in his midfifties and still active in his church, he started a spiritual journey that included exploring other religions and spirituality.

Steeped in the popular “New Age” spirituality of the 1990s, he wrote about the coming new millennium. He felt that humankind was evolving spiritually and was headed for an enlightened utopia, the “Age of Aquarius.” His humanistic visions ended abruptly when he met families who belonged to “the yellow barn church” in his village. In their fellowship, it became clear that God—not man—is in control and lovingly rules our destiny. He awakened to the Kingdom of God present now on earth with its fulfillment yet to come.

At age sixty-eight, Hickerson’s life-changing experience in the evangelical Church and in God’s kingdom is deeply personal and grounded in the Bible and solid theology. The warm and at times humorous narrative in The Kingdom of God and the Yellow Barn Church details God’s providence and promptings over Hickerson’s lifetime.

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Written with his typical witty and delicate touch, Christian Oster's new novel pokes fun at the postmodern male's overrated sensitivity.

Oster's stories are simple—at least if we mean stories that can be summarized in a few words. In the case of The Unforeseen, such a summary would begin like this: the narrator, who has a perpetual cold, lives with a woman who never catches a cold and so has the immediate intuition that the cold she has now, as the two of them drive together toward the sea at the opening of the novel, is a very bad omen indeed.

From the author of A Cleaning Woman, made into a film by Claude Berri, comes Oster's new novel of perfect, erudite, and sometimes laughable sadness. Oster's perceptive gaze, and the changing rhythm of his sentences, guide his reader through the psychological realism of obsession and desire. The honesty of emotion in The Unforeseen is matched only by its subversive intent..
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