Why First-Borns Rule the World and Last-Borns Want to Change it by Michael Grose

Why First-Borns Rule the World and Last-Borns Want to Change it by Michael Grose

There are many factors affecting a child s personality and their transition into adulthood, including biological and social influences. The least understood but most emphatic influence on personality is birth order. The implications of the impact of birth order for parents, teachers, and adults involved with children are many. This insightful guide provides answers to a broad range of questions about the personality and behavior of colleagues, life partner, friends, and siblings. Addressing multiple births, special needs children, genetic engineering, blended families, gender balance, single children, and birth-order balance in the workplace, this resource challenges parents to raise each child differently according to his or her birth order.

Michael Grose obtained a law degree in the UK before completing his legal training in 1993 with an international law firm in the City of London. He relocated to Dubai in 1998 where he is the head of the regional construction and projects practice of a global law firm. As a veteran of the Gulf, Michael has extensive knowledge not only of the region's laws but also the application of these laws to construction contracts and disputes. Michael frequently reviews, advises on and prepares construction contracts for major projects, bringing him into frequent contact with the FIDIC suite of contract conditions. He has drafted amendments to these conditions to adapt them for use in the Gulf and to address the most commonly arising issues. Michael has also been involved in many of the region's largest and most high profile construction and engineering disputes. As a result, he has considerable experience of conducting arbitration in the Gulf, including as an arbitrator appointed by the Dubai International Arbitration Centre. Working with licensed local advocates he has acted on numerous occasions for clients in the Gulf's domestic courts. This has included taking cases through all stages of the court proceedings, from obtaining freezing orders against bank guarantees, attending court appointed experts' meetings through to the execution of final judgments. He is also familiar with proceedings the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts having, amongst other things, acted for a main contractor in the first construction case to come to trial in the DIFC Courts. Michael has also presented at numerous conferences, including the Commercial Law Conference in Bahrain (organised by the United States Department of Commerce) for members of the region's judiciary, the inaugural international conference of the Society of Construction Law held in Singapore and the inaugural conference of the Gulf branch of the Society of Construction Law. He is recommended in the top tier of all the leading independent legal directories including Who's Who Legal, Chambers Global and Legal 500.

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ISBN 13	9781740511988
ISBN 10	1740511980
Title	Why First-Borns Rule the World and Last-Borns Want to Change it
Author	Michael Grose
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House Australia
Year published	2003-06-02
Number of pages	208
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