Peter Goodchild

A contemporary, practice-focused foundation that integrates English legal system with the core academic, professional, and employability skills students need to progress confidently from study into legal practice. Legal Systems & Skills is the essential toolkit for law students: a comprehensive introduction that unites system, skills, and employability, with annotated documents, insights from legal practitioners, and hints on selling your skills, plus updated coverage on artificial intelligence in legal study and practice. - Structured three-part design with accessible and engaging pedagogy that helps students to apply their knowledge, - Annotated documents, real-life examples, flowcharts, and diagrams support learning by visualising concepts and processes. - 'Essential debate' boxes and practical exercises throughout encourage students to think critically about the law. - Practical focus throughout, enhanced by features such as 'What the professionals say', 'Practice tip', and 'Selling your skills'. - Provides comprehensive content on employability and commercial awareness, including CV preparation, transferable skills, and interview strategy. New to this edition - New opening chapter provides a guide through the transition into legal education, showing how the skills developed will support degree success and future careers. - New practitioner-recorded podcasts encourage students to link theory with practice. - Enhanced, integrated coverage of the use of AI in university and workplace contexts, with cross-linking between relevant skills and system topics

The most practical foundation for law students, combining content on the English legal system, academic and professional skills, and commercial awareness and employability. Legal Systems & Skills is the essential contemporary toolkit for law students, equipping them with the tools they need to thrive in their academic studies and onto employment. · Accessible and engaging, with a wide range of pedagogical features to help students to apply their knowledge and think critically about the law · Learning supported by annotated documents, real-life examples, flowcharts, and diagrams, providing visual representations of concepts and processes · Comprehensive content on employability, including CV preparation and transferable skills, alongside features like 'Practice tip', 'What the professionals say' and 'Selling your skills' · Expanded coverage on sentencing, the judiciary, new routes into the legal professions, and legal technology · New content on retained EU law, following post-Brexit changes · New chapter on revision and assessment including topics on SBAQs, online assessment, and physical and mental wellbeing Digital formats and resources The fifth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources. · The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks · The online resources include self-test questions and links to useful websites for each chapter, interactive diagrams, guidance on the practical exercises, and sample interview questions.

A value pack compiled for Oxford Brookes University Foundation Law Students in their first year of study.

A unique play anthology featuring five gripping docudramas originally commissioned by L. A. Theatre Works that each explore pivotal moments in 20th century U. S history. With ensemble casts and innovative staging potential these plays are perfect for theatre companies, schools and educational groups looking to stage familiar historical stories in new and original ways. Each play is accompanied by dramaturgical notes that help contextualize and analyze both the events themselves and the dramatic form in which they are presented. The scripts included are:The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial by Peter GoodchildThe Real Dr. Strangelove by Peter Goodchild RFK: The Journey to Justice by Murray Horwitz and Jonathan EstrinThe Chicago Conspiracy Trial by Peter GoodchildTop Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons (Winner of theCorporation for Public Broadcasting Best Live Entertainment Award, 1992)As well as five scripts this anthology includes a foreword by Professor Michael Hackett, professor of directing and theatre history at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

A unique play anthology featuring five gripping docudramas originally commissioned by L. A. Theatre Works that each explore pivotal moments in 20th century U. S history. With ensemble casts and innovative staging potential these plays are perfect for theatre companies, schools and educational groups looking to stage familiar historical stories in new and original ways. Each play is accompanied by dramaturgical notes that help contextualize and analyze both the events themselves and the dramatic form in which they are presented. The scripts included are: The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial by Peter Goodchild The Real Dr. Strangelove by Peter Goodchild RFK: The Journey to Justice by Murray Horwitz and Jonathan Estrin The Chicago Conspiracy Trial by Peter Goodchild Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons (Winner of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Best Live Entertainment Award, 1992) As well as five scripts this anthology includes a foreword by Professor Michael Hackett, professor of directing and theatre history at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

In this biography of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Edward Teller, interviews with fifty of Teller's colleagues and friends, as well a dialogue with Teller himself, provide a clearer view the contradictions and controversies surrounding his life.

This comprehensive review of Native American life skills covers collecting and preparing plant foods and medicines; hunting animals; creating and transporting fire; and crafting tools, shelter, clothing, utensils, and other devices. Step-by-step instructions and 145 detailed diagrams enable the reader to duplicate native methods using materials available in local habitats. A new foreword, introduction, and index complement the practical information offered.