"Clear, correct, and deep, this is a welcome addition to discussions of law and computing for anyone -- even lawyers!" -- Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society If you work in information technology, intellectual property is central to your job -- but dealing with the complexities of the legal system can be mind-boggling. This book is for anyone who wants to understand how the legal system deals with intellectual property rights for code and other content. You'll get a clear look at intellectual property issues from a developer's point of view, including practical advice about situations you're likely to encounter. Written by an intellectual property attorney who is also a programmer, Intellectual Property and Open Source helps you understand patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and licenses, with special focus on the issues surrounding open source development and the GPL.

"Business Correspondence, Second Edition" introduces adult ESL students to the proper formats and approaches to use in basic office communication. It offers students extensive contextualized practice, while extra grammar and punctuation exercises boost students' basic English skills. Because each chapter centers around an office situation, students are exposed to "real" language in "real" situations. Key features:Extensive guided practice in understanding and preparing business correspondence. Numerous models of appropriate business correspondence, all based on authentic documents. "That's Good Business!" boxes provide practical tips about business practice and etiquette. Provides practice with correspondence in employee relations, customer relations, and personal business letters. Activities on business style, grammar and usage, and mechanics. Enhanced "reference section," with practical tips about business practices, can be removed and carried as a minibook. A complete answer key for self-study.

Empire and Identity is a novel approach to the critical last decades of the Habsburg Empire. The book is organized as three dual political biographies, each focusing a certain problem in the development of the Imperial Austrian state in the early twentieth century. The biographical approach also throws new light on the six examined individuals, whose scholarly, artistic, and bureaucratic careers are placed in a political context.