This tome (*large* volume) contains much interesting and useful material but, unfortunately, a very few of its authors have an ideological axe to grind. A publication of this sort should be aimed at objectivity, and not be a forum for certain "contributors" to propagate their personal sociological/political agendas.

Otherwise, I find this to be a generally worthwhile publication, but do be on your guard. =)

I came by this book while actually looking for something else, and found it to be very informative and useful. Similar to other Oxford companions it is cross-referenced and attempts to be usable to both the legal community as well as ordinary people.

The bookk is centered upon themes in law (common law, constitutional law, environmental law, etc. rather than specific cases, which makes it a bit cumbersome until the reader learns what the book is really meant to provide. If one is looking for specific Supreme Court cases then the companion to the Supreme Court should be consulted. But the point is that other books are out there for specific case histories. This book attempts to pull legal issues together into a single point of reference. True legal scholars will likely feel this book is too brief on specifics, but the lay reader will find it useful in putting perspective on common legal questions of the present.

I wish the publisher had made the working papers separate and not part of the bound book. Once you tear out the papers, you have two choices. Tear off the back cover and run the risk of losing your text pages, or have a huge gap in the book where the working papers were.

Very imaginative like Muppet Babies should be!

This book outlines, in excruciating detail, how to manage basic point and figure charts. The only part of the book that can't be found on the internet contains subjects on optimizing the charts and recent (ca. 1994-97) analyses of profitability of the charts.

Read Dorsey first (Point and Figure Charting), and if you want to really get deep, read the last couple chapters of this book.

I ordered this practice set to test and exercise ERP software. I wanted to enter and manipulate master inventory items, bills of material, work orders, mrp, purchase orders, sales orders, vouchers, invoices, general journals, ending up in financial statements with schedules especially for perpetual inventory. Instead, this book gives one month's worth of periodic inventory and non-inventory transactions with expected trial balance and retained earnings figures given. I'm not finding what I need out there, so I think I will just supplement this book with inventory transaction detail.

This book is woefully inadequate even for someone who already has a good idea what a living trust is about. The author presents forms with filled-in lines as examples that leave no options and there is almost no text to explain the essense of the forms so that one can tailor the entries. Even with another book at hand explaining the purpose of a trust and what it has to say, the forms in this book leave one without guidance for personalizing the trust. There may be some who feel these forms meet their needs but then one is left to wonder if they really know what they're doing. The author gives his phone no. and encourages users of his book to call him with questions but when I did, one response was something like, "Well, that's a lawyerly question". When I asked how to phrase something other than the 3 options given for the declaration of trust he offers, he said that all he offers is what is in the book.

In all, I find this book limited, narrow and lacking sufficient backup for writing one's own living trust.

I ordered two books, this one I would have to scan the pages into my computer which is a wasted of time. This book was to general is information and I need the information at the next level not the beginers level, I already know much of thier information.I am returning this book. My other choice had all the same information plus the pull out sheets and a CD with all forms so I may use my computer to fill out the forms. It was "How to form a Nonprofit Corporation in all 50 states" by Attorney Anthony Mancuso from NOLO. I will be ordering thier "The CA Nonprofit Corp Kit" For my use it was to general and was telling me infromation that I had alread found.