Law Books

Today I've found in my mail the Study Guide for Benett & Hess's Criminal Investigation. It was a shock! It is the first time in my life I see an empty book. It seems a copybook. The text too, is very poor of information. Is completely useless. It was un error to buy it. I was convinced to buy a textbook. This was an error of mine, probability because the reviews of the workbook are mixed with those of the textbook and the average is calculated using all of them (I hope this happened by error). Pay attention. By the way, I've found an use for the mine: I've put it under the short leg of the shelf in my attic. Who said that it is an useless book.

more of a high school book but works for me, buy it used!

What a useless study guide. All this does is reprint the chapter summary and removes a few words and asks you to fill in the blanks. Do not, repeat, NOT, waste your money on this.
What a cheap ripoff by the publisher.

I used this textbook in a Bachelor Degree level course called Criminal Investigation. It is easy to read and understand...you practically teach the material to yourself. I highly recommend it for college level courses. Very comprehensible and up to date text!

I bought this book, and it was the textbook, not a study guide, the last reviewer was fooled!

I love amazon and their quick shipping! The book itself it not good, but I was required to get it for a college course. Its hard to understand, over priced, no free online help besides flashcards.

...that was the most surprising thing to come out of buying and reading the book. It's a great read - clearly written and actually entertaining. It gives a very solid foundation of knowledge.

I'm not being law-snobby, I promise.

I bought the book because I was struggling to get my head around remedies, and although it helped, I ended up buying Lexis' "Understanding Contracts," too.

I should disclaim that what follows is based on the remedies section (that's all I used it for). That's a big piece of contracts, but maybe the rest of the book, which I didn't explore, is better.

Okay, here goes:

I found the E&E book to be imprecise with some concepts and vocabulary. It could be my own quirkiness, but to me that imprecision was maddening. In one paragraph, a plaintiff had "moved," "pled" and also "applied" for summary judgement. Applied??? SJ isn't a credit card! And it's not a pleading for that matter, either.

If you find these types of imprecision trivial, the book might be for you. They left me wondering if there were any important issues being confused, as well. We all know that law exams ask us to identify doctrinal issues, weight them, and (if the opportunity presents itself) apply the particular policy analysis that our respective professors find endearing. The extent to which a secondary source like E&E leads us astray on the doctrine is the same extent to which we will be led astray on our exams.

If you are like me, you should buy "Understanding Contracts" from the corporate mongers at Lexis. I felt like the concepts and vocabulary were applied in a more precise, crisp way. It will save you from trying to infer what the author is trying to say from what the author did say, and it will save you from writing snooty remarks and question marks in the margin -- time you could be spending learning Contracts.

I enjoyed "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," John Berendt's 1999 blockbuster about the underside of Savannah's genteel lifestyle. But though I enjoyed the story and the characters, I'm not entirely sure why it took off as it did to top the NYT Bestseller list for 200 weeks.

The story is lots of fun and kept me engaged till the end. The story is narrated by a New York journalist hoping to write a story about Savannah. In the first third of the book, he manages to stumble across just about every Southern type, from dueling renovators of old buildings to drag queens, to good ol' boys, to voodoo priestesses and everyone else in between. The collection of roustabouts and ragamuffins is endearing and mostly harmless. They inhabit a dreamy world of quaint customs, elaborate parties, petty rivalries and jealousies, and grand old Southern houses. Then suddenly, a character is found dead in the elegant study of another. The rest of the book traces the intricacies of the trials related to the death.

I was less impressed than some by Berendt's handling of the trials. He breezed through these, leaving out details in one in order to use them for shock value in another. His use of Chablis, the memorable drag queen, seemed added more as comic effect than anything else. Take her out of the book and the plot would not have suffered an iota -- I am *serious*, child!. One wonders whether the fascination for readers is the novelty that the book purportedly features real Savannah houses and landmarks.

"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" is a fun read that probably won't hold up as a classic. Enjoy it anyway.

Just read the book - you can't help but enjoy the characters and the irony.

This is a good, fast, enjoyable read, filled with a good mix of history, humor and good old-fashioned storytelling.

having visited my son in savannah, i felt as if i was walking the streets of savannah, seeing the book unfold into the streets i walked...the book was well written, putting the reader in the middle of the story...

While I enjoyed reading "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," I had a hard time trying to keep track of all of the characters. While the number of characters add to the story, I found myself continually flipping back to pages to try and remember who is who. A great read, but you might want to have a pen and paper handy.

The book Law For Business arrived last night without any problems! I look forward to the class and giving you a review of the 10th edition of the book upon completion of the class.

i took this class, the cases used and presneted and done so in an informative manner, i learned a lot just by reading the text

In my opinion, this is the finest business law textbook on the market. It contains well-edited cases for discussion, cogent analysis of policy and legal history, and easy-to-read flowcharts that help students go through the legal reasoning steps.

It is extremely user friendly to both the lay student and instructor. In addition to the core contract law chapters, it contains chapters summarizing all the main substantive areas of law (and even contains a chapter on the new field of Cyberlaw).

The supporting instructor materials and test bank are excellent. I highly recommend this text. It is well worth the price.

The authors are professors from the Indiana University School of Business, one of the top 5 business schools in the world.

I realize that many of you buying this book won't have a choice about it--it's probably required for a class you are taking and don't much care how good or bad the book it because you need it regardless. However, for those of you who do have a choice:

This textbook has 9 Parts (Intro to law, Contracts, Sales, Agency and Employment, Business Organizations, Property, Commerial Paper, Credit Transactions, Government Regulation) with a total of 48 chapters.

The format of the book, along with the firgures and tables, makes the book easy to read. When applicable, there is a case relating the law described to a real-world situation or a box with ethical considerations and questions. Additionally, the problems at the end of each chapter explore the issues and make students think of both sides of the arguement.

However, in certain areas when describing the law, the text can be vague. The authors could do better making it clear when and how a law is applicable. There are many times when doing the problems where I would look up the case or the issues involved online to get a complete picture.

Overall, a good textbook, especially with supplemental material to be given during lecture.

Every American who is concerned with the direction that our country is headed should read this book!

A great compilation of property rights related horror stories, broken down by category: endangered species, eminent domain, DEC/EPA, etc.

I bought this book because a local city council is overstepping its bounds and telling private property owners what can and cannot be done on their property, but there are so many other things that intrusive government is attempting that exceeds the limits our Framers put in place in the Constitution. You ought to read this book to see what some of them are and how we can all fight back against the "power that be" and reclaim "power to the people."

After spending billions to defeat the dictators of Nazism and Communism we have home grown our own fascists...BOTH parties are guilty of allowing this undermining of freedom to go on....
In direct violation of the the Fourth Amaendment...Nameless, faceless judges and bureaucrats are literally stealing the life work of thousands of private citizens...
Buy this book and publicize it....We need thousands of Paul Reveres...

Using real life examples, Don Corace reveals how ordinary Americans are being terrorized, robbed, and in some cases even forced into bankruptcy by government officials and judges who have lost all respect for the ideals of freedom envisioned by America's Founding Fathers.

Corace provides an easy-to-read overview of the legal cases and political influences which have fostered the dramatic erosion of property rights in America - which continues today at a rapid pace.

Government Pirates should be required reading for every citizen and elected official in America.

I strongly encourage anyone who believes in the American ideal of freedom and the American Dream of property ownership to purchase and read the shocking property rights abuse cases profiled in Don Corace's new book.

Anyone who reads Government Pirates will be jolted into a new level of awareness of the dramatic increase in regulatory power held by local, state and federal government agencies.

The type of abuse of power profiled in Government Pirates isn't supposed to happen in America, but it is happening every day to land owners across the country.

As Don Corace points out, if Americans do not wake up and begin taking action to reverse these disturbing regulatory trends, we will find ourselves waking up at a point in American history where land owners no longer possess the legal standing or economic ability to fight back when government elites decide that seizing or restricting the use of privately-owned property will benefit "the common good" or win the favor of a special interest group.

As the leader of one of the nation's largest state-level property rights organizations, it is my hope that after reading Government Pirates, freedom-loving citizens across the nation will be inspired to seize this opportunity in time to unite in a collective effort to restore sanity to American government regulation.

This book is the best law book that I have ever read. The cases are interesting and well abbreviated. The best part though - the notes before and after the cases. Chemerinsky does a great job of explaining what is going on. Instead of giving you ambiguous answers and rhetorical questions, this book actually explains the law.

I will buy the next edition when it comes out, even though I will be out of law school. That's how good it is. This book should be standard at all schools, and should be the model for legal education text.

Mr. Chemrinsky is surely one of the leaders in the education of constitutional law, and his casebook is well tailored for the beginning law school student. Instead of trying to impress other lawyers, or simply reprinting case text as-is with no synthesis (a criminally unpunished activity by many casebook creators), Chemrinsky states early on that this book is structured for the student. There is certainly plenty of supplemental information here, with Chemerinsky doing a fine job of synthesizing and categorizing the myriad dimensions of constitutional law, and usefully facilitating the student's learning experience through more than just reprinted cases. The only real problem with this book is its sheer size, which cannot be blamed only on the nature of the subject matter. In my three-credit, one-semester course we only got through about a quarter of the book. When creating a casebook that truly presents constitutional law for the student, which is Chemerinsky's goal, the editor should figure out a way to emphasize the bare fundamentals that should be mastered by the average student who has a limited amount of time available for doing so. [~doomsdayer520~]

Maybe it is because the Chemerinsky is hyped so much in legal circles regarding Constitutional Law, but I was expecting a lot more out of this book than it seemingly offers...the cases are HEAVILY edited, so much so that either my professor will supplement the reading or I will just end up turning to Westlaw or Lexis to read (or at least skim) vast portions of the opinion that have been edited out...

This is the first book the author wrote about feelings, which caused me to purchase her follow up book on "Healing Feelings from the Heart". I really like both these books. Feelings Buried Alive gives you a list of feelings and where they are found in the body. For those of us in the natural health and inner healing community, this kind of information is invaluable. It is a book that you need to glean from because you may not agree with all aspects of what the Author is saying, but its worth having in your library for reference.

The title is appropiate for the information inside. The book not only informs a person who, what,why,where a person with buried feelings struggle in life, but shows you a solution to resolving the inner conflict, enabling you to return or possibly gain for the first time the peace inside we all desire.

I loved this book very much, but can someone help me? Throughout the book, Karol refers to "the script" in passing. In several places, she provides a sentence or two. Nowhere is there a page that has "The Script" and it's laid out for you. Did I miss it? Please let me know. I'd love to use this valuable tool properly. My book does not appear to be missing any pages.

Thanks!
Luke
luke91205@hotmail.com

I wish I had this book 25 years ago when my kids were young. It would have helped me read their emotional/physical health as well as us as parents. I thought the way it read was a bit funny. At first it read like a pamphlet that was trying to convince me of something but after I got into the book it no longer bothered me. I didn't read the book from first to last page, I ended up looking up illness and their meanings and then began to read the book. This book was given to me by a relative and was part of my inspiration to study yoga in more depth. The entire family now looks at the book and tries to resolve any issues before we actually get very sick. Even if you don't believe the authors take on what your illness may be trying to tell you, it has been good to stop and reflect on whether or not there may be some truth as to why you aren't feeling well. Pretty soon this area of knowledge will be more acknowledged and more in depth.

I got this book at the behest of my chiropractor, and while there is some good and useful information within, it's obscured by the impossible text, which is repetitive, condescending and difficult to read. Why any book should gift the reader with purple text, lots of ALL CAPS and !!!! so that it looks like a post on a forum by a 11-year old girl I will never know.

The awful "script" is nearly impossible to parse. I have no idea what use it would be to anyone. I substituted a healing prayer that at least makes some sense.

The author makes some excellent points about how emotions affect us physically and how we can improve our physical health by improving our emotional health. It's too bad she, like so many self-published authors, thought an editor was optional. This book could have been quite readable and accessible, and therefore very useful to so many more people.

I only wish I had come across something in this vein that was readable that I could recommend as an alternative. If I do, I'll certainly return to mention it.

This book is an excellent introduction to the field of international relations. It describes all the main theoretical approaches used in international relations/politics (realist, complex interdependence, etc.). It provides good historical examples.

I recommend this to anyone interested in reading an excellent overview in the field of international relations (and international conflict).

A book with useful info for beginners but with biased judgments too. Could be a trap for rookies and an example of the fall of neo-liberal literature for experienced readers.

Written and published recently in 2003, Understanding International Conflicts' takes a contemporary focus on international relations, which is particularly critical to a field dealing with security. Joseph Nye's book easily and readily forms a fundamental source for students of international relations as it ties both critical events in history and the evolution of international relations together. Much of the book alternates between explaining complex concepts such as sovereignty or interdependence on a theory level and then historic sections where Nye guides the reader through history while analyzing critical events with the dominant ideology of the time. By putting a theory in context, it is much easier for the reader to comprehend the justifications behind the ideology and also witness potential flaws, which Nye strongly points out, with that theory. Despite Joseph Nye oddly blending theory and history accuracy, his book provides an invaluable introduction to international conflict in historical context.

The most striking difference with this book and other international relations textbooks is how Nye stays chronologically true in the order he analyzes the various major theories of international relations. By leading the reader through the evolution of political thought along with the evolution of mankind you are able to see, if just to a degree, how and why people of that time period did things the way they did. This also includes crossing civilizations and putting perceived cultural norms to rest as when Syria supported Iran rather than Iraq, which doesn't make much sense unless viewed through the balance of power lens. Many of the classical international relations theories are historically tied to certain eras such as realism in the Peloponnesian War, the balance of power in World War I, and essentially need such historic placements to help understand why decisions were made during certain times. Additionally, many of the classical authors such as Kenneth Waltz are called to attention as dominant theorists of the time and so provide potential fortifying readings on top of the already listed additional readings at the end of each chapter. This provides an excellent start for a student who might have to focus on a specific time period or theory without aimlessly searching a library. As with any other evolving entity, Nye is able to significantly draw on earlier examples in the book later on in the book to fortify concepts as leaders and theorists did in the real world. By thus looking at the whole picture, the reader gains a far deeper understanding of international relations as a whole, its various goals, and the empathetic ability to have a meaningful intellectual conversation by knowing exactly where each ideology is originating.

Alternating between an analysis of history and a discussion of theory keeps the pace of the book compellingly quick. It might be that any other theory books are usually incredibly boring or that Joseph Nye engineered his book to sell but when reading this book I rarely got disinterested or witnessed fatigue commonly associated with academia. It is almost that with this book the reader is simultaneously switching between two different classes, history of international relations and theory of international relations. I think this combination greatly increases the length at which the reader can endure sessions of the book without becoming over loaded with historical facts or inundated with deep philosophy. Another benefit of reading this book is a general understanding of the major historical events in world history. While probably over simplifying and not getting particularly deep on a subject, Nye is able to adequately explain events in such a way that you are able to draw from your understanding of them in the future. While maybe a characteristic unique to myself, knowing the general story of world events is paramount to enriching your individual knowledge and aggressive persuasive skills. Explaining the complex alliances, among others, of WWI and the opposing opinions of Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs provides an informative source for students not familiar with such issues.

Having such a lively blend of theory and history brings as many problems as benefits to the reader. When reading a history book, an individual will general accept being lead by the author who has obviously done much more research than the reader could ever hope of doing and the pure non partisan analysis most people practice with reflecting on history. If reading a philosophy book however, a reader expects a much greater degree of opinion and wanted participation on the part of the readers to explore the theory for themselves. This brings about a blurring of the lines separating these two categories and so initially, at least for me, challenge preconceived ideas of how books get across their information. Either as being an introductory book and having to fully explain the development of ideas or the merge of theory and history but the majority of Nye's interpretation of historical events seemed noticeably forceful in guiding the reader in a certain direction. While not being blatantly biased, as I occasionally only felt a modest neo-liberal bias, Joseph Nye certainly adds his own element to how he interprets history. In no instance does he ever out rightly dismiss ideologies and actually takes significant space to explain why he disagrees with certain theories. Nye spends a few pages critiquing Hitler's Third Reich into a much more potent regime and spends nearly half of the third chapter dissecting the balance of power and why WWI had such a high risk of happening anyway.

Overall, Understanding International Conflicts is a very important read to any international relations or security studies student. By chronologically matching the evolution of mankind and the study of international relations together, a reader is more able to comprehend the entire idea of international relations much more, which significantly helps on a fundamental level only.

Understanding..., sixth edition, is an excelent introductory manual to international conflicts, but is a book of yesterday (2007), and it must to be updated. The importance of energy supply is underestimated in the text.

A good introduction to political theory in relation to conflict and war, especially if you are not political science student. We used it for a class on US intelligence and social trends at our university (National Defense Intelligence College)

Lynn makes the connection between just visualizing a "want" and getting into the feeling place of actually having it - powerful information once you really get it.

I read the book first,but I wanted to listin to the author also.Boy was I surprised at what I heard,this lady is very down to earth and tells her stories to where you can understand and apply them to your life very easly. She comes across very human and reachable, where her solutions and answers are not out there,they are easly applied. It's a shame she is no longer with us.

I loved this book for many reasons One being it deals with ones well being. Yes many people I have recommended this to and even given as gifts, have found it difficult to put these good feelings into practice. I feel it is or was difficult as it proves the authors point that we have been taught backwards. No one person is to blame as it has been handed down for eons. We are what we attract as we are all magnetic energy fields encased in a body called human. I agree there are no victims in this life, victimization , like death , is an illusion. What we think about, we bring about regardless if you understand it or not. If you look around you will see how people do indeed create their own reality positive or negative and you are not "doomed" unless you believe/feel that you are and even those feelings can be changed. The reason why so many people get themselves into such tough or disasterous situations is the fact that they do not pay attention to what they are attracting, therefore focusing on. I feel and now know, Miss Grabhorn was into the law of attraction, an invisable powerfully magnetic force that we command regardless if we are aware of it or not. Just think of the law of gravity. You cannot see it but it is in full force 24/7 as is the law of attraction. For those skeptical regarding this work I wish to close with: Just because you don't believe in something does not cancel its existance. As you are focusing on your skepticism you are bringing about more skepticism.

Lynn Grabhorn believes that the direction our lives are headed (for the better, or for the worse) is due to our emotional feelings, not our thoughts. I believe that's a very powerful, useful message that we all need to remember, especially when we're experiencing those dreaded "downward spirals" in life.
The fact is that many of us wait for something good to happen to us in order for us to feel good. But that's getting things backwards, and if you take this approach, you may be waiting for a long time. Actually, if you make yourself feel good first and just be happy,you'll increase the chance of good things happening in your life. Ok, easier said than done; but that's the main message of the book.
The problem is that the author doesn't provide a good, effective plan for changing the way you feel in an instant, or even over a longer period of time. In fact, to say that your "thoughts" are insignificant and it's "all about feelings" is misleading, because your thoughts determine your emotional feelings. The fact is, what you focus on determines how you feel emotionally. So you can change the way you feel in an instant, simply by changing your focus. You can also change the feeling of others around you by using the same strategy. For example, if you tell a joke to someone who is in a serious state and they laugh as a result, what has happened is that their emotional state has changed, because their focus has changed. Of course, even though this concept is simple, that doesn't mean it's always easy to use that strategy. But I've found that the more your use it(once you've become aware of it), the easier it becomes to use it effectively. Just change your focus to something that makes you feel good, and you WILL feel good.
So in sum, I gave this book only three stars, not only because the author downplays the importance of thoughts in determing our feelings, but also because I believe the book lacks a powerful, organized plan for changing one's emotional state, either in an instant, or over the long term. Fortunately, Anthony Robbins has a good plan for that in his book "Awaken the Giant Within".

This is a total waste of time and money. She takes a couple of simple, incorrect and unsupportable assumptions and just writes repetitive gibberish about them for an entire book. It goes nowhere. It does't work. It's a rip-off for anyone looking for meaningful answers. Don't buy.

R McCook