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This edition covers recent developments in the courts and SEC rulemaking, including 1933 Act registration and broker-dealer regulation developments such as FINRA. In addition to the leading cases and SEC developments, the casebook includes explanatory material to guide the student through this complex maze of regulation. The Ninth Edition enables instructors to easily omit or rearrange material. The problem and documentary supplement, available as a casebook companion, is designed for teachers using the problem method. It contains sample documents including 1933 Act registration and back-up documents.

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The spirits of the Shakers are still active in their historic homes, meeting houses, and on the land where they once toiled, prayed, and sang. Shaker Spirits, Shaker Ghosts offers ghost hunter investigations, haunted tales from White Water Shaker village in Ohio, walkthrough village reports from psychics, and an interview with a Shaker scholar. Thomas Freese was immersed in their music for ten years when he performed with the Pleasant Hill Singers. At Shakertown in Mercer County, Kentucky, he heard, then recorded, true tales from both visitors and employees of Pleasant Hill. Ghostly singing is heard in the Meeting House, children are scared of moving tombstones in the graveyard, spirit figures walk the village lane, and ghosts enter guest rooms. Are you ready to have an encounter with a Shaker ghost? We thought so.

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This Hornbook is a comprehensive secondary source for the study of Securities Regulation. It also can serve as a lawyer's desk book. Coverage includes definition of "security," registration and disclosure obligations under the Securities Act of 1933, exemptions from registration, reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the proxy rules, tender offer regulation, and civil liabilities. The book treats broker-dealer regulation, market regulation, and the administrative role of the SEC, as well as proxy rules, insider trading, the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act. This new edition reflects recent SEC rulemaking, including important amendments to exemptions from registration, new broker-dealer obligations, as well as recent Supreme Court and many other case law developments.

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New book purchase includes complimentary digital access to the eBook.Selections in the book include the text of basic federal securities laws, related Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules and forms, and other selected related laws and regulations. It is designed as a supplement to securities regulation texts used in law school courses, but it can also serve as a reference for lawyers, securities professionals, and corporate officers. The booklet contains changes made through November 2021.

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From the author of The Epidemic of Empathy in Healthcare and The Good Doctor comes a book that explores how the persistent pandemic has revealed what excellence in healthcare truly means and presents an action plan to achieve it.The goal of healthcare has always been to reduce suffering, but Covid-19 has sharpened and added important nuances to our understanding of what that means. In Healthcare’s Path Forward, Thomas Lee explores how the work of healthcare is being transformed by a deeper knowledge of what suffering means for patients, their families, and healthcare providers themselves. He reveals how to: build patient trust, starting with their initial internet search develop a high-reliability culture that eases patient fears make equity and inclusiveness a cultural norm actively listen to patients across all channels of communication enhance understanding of important issues through AI and other means Lee uses data to demonstrate trends and insights into how health systems should respond, offers examples of organizations making major advancements, and provides specific, practical recommendations for healthcare leaders, clinicians, and other caregivers. This book is a thoughtful, impassioned call to action.

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Take advantage of everything Microsoft’s new PowerShell 7 has to offer PowerShell 7 for IT Pros is your guide to using PowerShell 7, the open source, cross-platform version of Windows PowerShell. Windows IT professionals can begin setting up automation in PowerShell 7, which features many improvements over the early version of PowerShell Core and Windows PowerShell. PowerShell 7 users can enjoy the high level of compatibility with the Windows PowerShell modules they rely on today. This book shows IT professionals—especially Windows administrators and developers—how to use PowerShell7 to engage in their most important tasks, such as managing networking, using AD/DNS/DHCP, leveraging Azure, and more. To make it easy to learn everything PowerShell 7 has to offer, this book includes robust examples, each containing sample code so readers can follow along. Scripts are based on PowerShell 7 running on Windows 10 19H1 or later and Windows Server 2019. • Learn to navigate the PowerShell 7 administrative environment • Use PowerShell 7 to automate networking, Active Directory, Windows storage, shared data, and more • Run Windows Update, IIS, Hyper-V, and WMI and CIM cmdlets within PowerShell 7 • Understand how to handle reporting in the new PowerShell 7 environment PowerShell 7 for IT Pros provides exclusive coverage of using PowerShell with both cloud-based systems and virtualized environments (Hyper V and Azure). Written by PowerShell veteran Thomas Lee, this is the only book you’ll need to get started with PowerShell 7.

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From the top experts on healthcare workforce engagement comes a vital road map to reduce the alarmingly high—and fast-growing—rate of staff burnout and to transform care.More than half of U.S. physicians and 40 percent of nurses experience one or more symptoms of burnout. This crisis poses a serious threat to our health systems, impacting not only the well-being of the caregiving workforce but also that of their patients.Written by a team of thought leaders with deep expertise in healthcare workforce engagement and cultural development, The Engaged Caregiver shows leaders, managers, and front-line providers how to:•Recognize the early signs of burnout and turn it around•Address staff more effectively to keep them engaged•Build strong, reliable teams with a real sense of purpose•Map their organization’s core values and get everyone on board•Create a positive culture that’s cohesive, inclusive, and resilient•Develop highly effective leadership and organizational systems•Hire, engage, and manage talent strategically—and successfully•Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace•Leverage data to drive improvements throughout the organizationIn this wide-ranging guide, healthcare professionals will learn how to identify, diagnose, address, and overcome caregiver burnout on a personal level, as well as measure, develop, and implement strategies that improve the entire workplace culture. The Engaged Caregiver provides an actionable plan for creating a resilient work culture that empowers caregivers and gives them the support they need to fulfill the patient promise with every care experience, every day.

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