Product Description: What drug provides Americans with the greatest pleasure and the greatest pain? The answer, hands down, is alcohol. The pain comes not only from drunk driving and lost lives but also addiction, family strife, crime, violence, poor health, and squandered human potential...read more

This updated classic features a comprehensive presentation of business law topics. End-of-chapter cases give edited facts and decisions to preserve the language of the court. Topics covered reflect AACSB guidelines. New chapter on Environmental Law. Cases and text have been updated throughout.

Product Description: What drug provides Americans with the greatest pleasure and the greatest pain? The answer, hands down, is alcohol. The pain comes not only from drunk driving and lost lives but also addiction, family strife, crime, violence, poor health, and squandered human potential...read more

Product Description: Compared with other developed nations, the United States is unique in its high rates of both gun ownership and murder. Although widespread gun ownership does not have much effect on the overall crime rate, gun use does make criminal violence more lethal and has a unique capacity to terrorize the public...read more

Product Description: 100 billion dollars. That is the annual cost of gun violence in America according to the authors of this landmark study, a book destined to change the way Americans view the problem of gun-related violence. Until now researchers have assessed the burden imposed by gunshot injuries and deaths in terms of medical costs and lost productivity...read more

Argues that disproportionate rewards are distorting society (view table of contents)

Two distinguished economists show how Americans in a variety of professions are competing for fewer and bigger rewards, resulting in wasted productivity, growing divisions between rich and poor, and declining morality. National ad/promo. Tour. (view table of contents)

Looks at the history of state lotteries, discusses whether lotteries are ethical and assesses their effectiveness as a source of government funding