Arcadia Public Library

The criminal justice system becomes increasingly complex each year with new laws affecting legal processes. This handbook explains every part of a criminal case including arrests, booking, preliminary hearings, charges, bail, arraignment, search and seizure, plea bargains, sentencing, and juveniles. It explains how the system works, why police, lawyers, and judges do what they do and, most important, the options for defendants, witness, and victims....

"Do your loved ones know where to find your insurance policies, passwords, title to your car, real estate deeds, health care directive, or even your will? If you’re like a lot of people, you keep important information—from automated bill-pay details to passwords to the location of important documents—in your head or stashed in the odd desk drawer. Unfortunately, this disorganization will cause hassles for those who someday take care of you or...

"Do you have a great idea for a lucrative new invention? If so, you undoubtedly want to know whether you can protect it with a patent. And if you can, you'll want to know how to get a patent as cost-effectively as possible. This bestselling primer on patents will tell you how" --

The highly praised, step-by-step guide to evicting a problem tenant. Sooner or later, every landlord is faced with handling an eviction. The California Landlord's Law Book: Evictions shows you how to proceed every step of the way.