Finding Books Online or In-Print
am 24.03.2008 von Handakte WebLAWg
One of the best kept secrets of the online world is that books still have relevance in research. Searchers generally believe the information they seek is, or ought to be, available on the Web - easy to find and free. If they think about books at all, they perceive them as more troublesome to access because they have to trek to the library or purchase them.
Yet doing so may actually save you hours of research time. In an age when information overload seriously affects the productivity of many lawyers, the profession needs …
Google Book Search Adds Library Links
Handakte WebLAWg / Google yesterday announced that it has expanded coverage of its Google Book Search product. Now in addition to searching books that you can preview in whole or in part, you may also find books whose contents are not yet available online. For these bo…
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative...
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / Lesson 1: Let me start with book publishing. More than 100,000 books are published each year, with several million books in print, yet fewer than 10,000 of those new books have any significant sales, and only a hundred thousand or so of all the book…
Electronic Law Books: Will You Read Them?
Law & Justice / Its a book, but not as we know it, reader by Richard Susskind: Will we need law books in the future? The question is provoked by the arrival of Sony’s new digital book, Reader. It is lightweight, the size of a DVD box, with a paper-like displa…
Books for translators / Englische Bücher für Übersetzer
Transblawg / Multilingual Matters publish books and journals for translators and interpreters. They have addresses in Britain and the USA, or you can order from their website at a 20% discount. I wasn’t aware of them before, but they have some authors I…
Yahoo! Reference
Handakte WebLAWg / Whether you’re a student, a parent, or just plain curious, Yahoo! Reference offers a handy selection of books and materials to help you find the information you need. Look up a definition in the dictionary, find map and flag images for every co…
Nachdem ich so gerne lese…
staatsrecht.info / Gefunden beim Welteroberungsplan: 1.Bold the books you have read 2.Italicize the books the books you intend to read 3.Underline you had read to you as a child, or read as a child and cannot remember 4.Strike the books you hated so much you couldnR…
English-Chinese legal translation/Rechtsübersetzung Chinesisch-Englisch
Transblawg / Slaw - which describes itself as a co-operative weblog about Canadian legal research and IT, etc. - kindly gave me a mention, and in connection with that I found a reference to a book on legal translation that has not yet appeared in North America bu…
Books on legal English footnote/Bücher über Rechtsenglisch Nachtrag
Transblawg / Of course I remembered more books. I will use this current entry for anything else that occurs to me, so come and check it again in future. First, there are books on legal English by Peter Tiersma. The one I know is called Legal Language. It's a…
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