I bought this book believing it discussed US construction contract law and management. It is very good and explicit, BUT it discusses UK and not US laws.

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The proliferation of employment discrimination law since 1964 -- such as Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act -- has resulted in a steady increase in the "market share" of litigation devoted to such issues. While the nature of the legal disputes in employment cases is not on an intellectual par with, say constitutional disputes, it is nevertheless complex and at times fascinating. The nation's continuing grapples with affirmative action, for example, demonstrate that there are serious issues that underlie what may seem to be the simple situation of a fired employee.

This book is a compilation of excerpts from law review articles or books authored by prominent scholars in the area. The main focus is on race-based and sex-based discrimination, and a variety of viewpoints (i.e., "liberal" and "conservative") is presented.

Note that this book will NOT teach you how to present (or defend) your own employment discrimination lawsuit. It is not intended to be a practical guide to litigation. Rather, it is an introduction to the theoretical aspects of employment law. If that is what you are interested in, this is a good place to start.

If anyone has ever tried to make clear the the foundations of employment discrimination law, Donohue cuts them to dust. His brilliant piece is more than just a clever name. Although it is unfortunate that his affable sense of humor takes a back seat, he still manages to grip the reader with his exceptional analyses and pertinant data. I would recommend this book to anyone who has even the slightest interest in the field of employment discrimination law. In fact, it should be standard reading in every law school across the country. No library or bookstore worth its salt is complete without this book.

The author obviously has an amazing command of the complete range of his subject, physics. This book is both a an excellent history and an excellent narrative of the unfolding of man's search for the fundamental nature of the micro and macro nature of matter and the universe.
My only fault with this book is a paradox: the author assumes that the readers "don't know much about math" so for most of the book he painfully avoids writing equations, and substitutes wordy explanations. In doing so some of the beauty of his narrative is lost. The paradox is that anyone whe is going to plow into this book and get anything out of it, had better have a good handle on math at least algebra.

Hidden Unity in Nature's Laws written by John C. Taylor is a book about how physics and nature come together and how physics explains nature. Now, before you get all huffy and discount reading this book, let me say this, the author has taken great pains in explaining the mathematics in this book, making a very understandable and highly readable book.

This book has two major themes associated with its writing. First, there is a pattern of unification, the major example explained by the author is between magnetism and electricity, Research has showed that electricity and magnetism are interconnected... not that they are the same thing, but they are two aspects of a unified whole.

The other major theme the author brings out in the book is that quite often, different branches of physics have seemed to contradict each other when taken together. As the contradiction is resolved in a new, consistent, wider theory which include the two branches. This is called the resolution of contradictions.

What is so nice about this book is this, you'll need some knowledge of mathematics and physics, but the explaination is very understandable. There is a fascinating insight into the development of our fundamental understanding of the world, and the apparent simplicity underlying it.

The author takes us on an interesting path that leads right to the heart of physics, but never forgettting that his readers are not as skilled at physics as he is. Therefore, he uses pictures in explaining the mathematical priciples associated with explaining the problem, translating the equations into words or pictures.

I found this book to be highly readable and very understandable, explaining physics in terms that a layperson can gain the concepts and have a workable knowledge of what physics is all about. This book will get you on the ground floor.

Watkins took me by surprise. His grasp of the material, the thoroughness of his documentation, and his compact, fluid writing put this book near the front of my mini-library on the history of the juvenile justice system. If you're a student of the field, you should definitely have this book.

I was shocked and saddened by the straight forward detail of the subject and yet found it to be well presented. Certainly a book I would highly recommend to anyone in the juvenile "helpling profession," Lawyers, Counselors, Social Workers and etc..

This book covers a lot of legal ground in relatively easy to understand language. It gives a lot of real case studies which puts the material in realistic contexts that any new agent can relate to in the "real world".

It proved to be a valuable resource in not only the "Legal Aspects of Real Estate" course I took requiring this textbook, it was useful for all the other real estate courses as well.

Is there a study guide available for the "Reviewing Your Understanding" at the end of each chpater?

Fighting against the whole regiment on one of the Hawaiian islands with automatic weapons for mass destruction became so bored and a highly unlikely scenario. Mr. Clarkson should go back to his first Devlin book, letting the hero use his body and mind to do the fights

Clarkson has a talent for writing 'action' novels. Sure the story may be overdone a bit in some places but who cares ? You read for excitement, for a rush. I couldn' put this one down either, just like his other two books. You'll enjoy this one,it's a lot of fun. michael

This book offers practical, time-tested advice for performing well on law school exams. I've tutored students on test-taking for years, and this book covers 90% of what it takes to excel on law school exams--clarity of expression, issue spotting, analysis, and organization. But in my experience, those will get you a B or a B+ at best. What you need is that added something, that brilliant insight, that "extra" that gets the professor to say "Wow. This is an A exam."

What is that? To me, it's understanding what the professor is looking for--knowing the professor's approach or angle or idiosyncratic preferences--then using that knowledge to reinforce those preferences or challenge them thoughtfully. You must make your answer not only legally right but intellectually satisfying to the professor.

How do you do that? Some people just have the knack. For the rest, spend time talking to the professor in and out of class. Read what the professor has written. Immerse yourself in the professor's world (as it relates to the course). Probably a book can't teach that, and this one doesn't try.

I have purchased several books on law school exams, and this one is the best. It is organized logically and sequentially and is therefore easy to understand and put to practical use. The information it contains is also very clear and is written in plain, easy to understand english.

This book starts out a little slow but holds the interest and gives a background of the reporter. Once it gets into the actual court cases it really is hard to put down without finishing the chapter and sometimes even then I did not want to put it down. Anyone who has an interest as to what goes on in a court case from the stenogrophers view point will be facinated with this book.

Compared to other books out there of this nature, this is the best book of it's kind for the value. I am getting several more for freinds of mine that hold meetings on how to conduct themselves in court.

This is a delightful book that explains just what goes on in the courtroom. If you are a working court reporter, I'm sure you will nod in agreement at all the behind-the-scenes info. If you are a court reporting student, this book will show you one facet of the industry you are entering into. I teach at a local court reporting college, and I read from this book at our new student orientations to let the students hear what the "real world" of reporting is really like! Fast reading, funny, and a must for those of us in the court reporting field.

Lost in the many legendary treatments of the Scopes trial are the details of the local context. Every event of mythic proportions about ideas also involves ordinary people in real surroundings. This brief photographic history provides that background, while correcting many of the popular misconceptions about the trial. This book contains many worthwhile details of how the case came to occur in Dayton, Tennessee and the lasting effects on Tennessee. The legislature continued to toy with evolution as a subject, even in the 1990s.

The case itself was pretty much a put-up job. Dayton had been on the economic skids for years. The ACLU wanted a test case of the new Tennessee criminal statute barring the teaching of evolution. Whoever prosecuted someone under the law could make a few extra dollars for the local community with the expected publicity. The local leaders in Dayton asked the new teacher, John Scopes, if he would be willing to go along. He was, and the rest is history.

The photographs capture a sense of the town at the time, and the festival atmosphere. They are not particularly outstanding photographs, but do add a note of reality to something that is otherwise very abstract to many of us. The captions that go with them are quite extensive.

I enjoyed the introduction by Edward Caudill that filled in many gaps in my understanding of the trial's background.

I graded the book down one star for the considerable repetition among the introduction, the captions, and the afterword. With more editing, this could have been a more compact and vital volume.

Like many important events where ideas clash, the physical reality is less important than the judicial precedent of contesting the right of ideas to be expressed in a few society. If you had a photographic history of the Magna Carta, the document itself and its application would still be the main story. The same is true of the photographs around the Scopes trial. The publicity around the case had more significance than the trial itself. It served to rally both scientific thinkers and fundamental religionists to their respective causes.

How can public debate advance understanding and cooperation rather than division? That question seems to be the heritage of this famous trial. In today's world, abortion seems to be playing a similar dividing role. What is missing to create progress on such a powerfully troubling issue?

May you always find the words to frame better questions, that reveal new understanding for all!

When I was in high school I read L. Sprague de Camp's account of "The Great Monkey Trial," became enamored of H. L. Mencken, and was fascinated with Dudley Field Malone's speech in Dayton. My interest in the Scopes Trial was such that eventually I used it as my dissertation topic. Since that time I have continued to collect materials about the trial and have followed contemporary versions of the 1925 battle between science and religion with quite some interest. It is certainly nice to have such an extension collection of photographs from the trial, especially since I have not seen most of the 38 shots. For me the best of the "new" photographs is of Rabbi Herman Rosennasser delivering a mock class in biblical translation. Having heard of the rabbi's fascinating translation of Genesis from Hebrew into German and then into English to make its meaning compatible with the theory of evolution. Except for shots of the monkeys that were brought to Dayton, all of the photographs are full page shots covering all of the major players and the fun both inside and outside of the Rhea County Courthouse. There seems to have been a concerted effort not to include a lot of the traditional shots (e.g., Judge Raulston and the jury posing outside the courthouse).

The introduction by Edward Caudill, author of "Darwinian Myths: The Legends and Misues of a Theory" provides a 20-page of the drama in Dayton that covers the passage of the Butler Act, the ACLU's decision to intervene, the defense putting Bryan on trial and the legacy of the case. It is a concise coverage of the multi-faceted trial, certainly superior to the mostly erroneous treatments found in so many reference books that confuse the play/film "Inherit the Wind" with the actual trial. Jesse Fox Mayshark, a senior editor of a Knoxville weekly newspaper, provides an afterword "Seventy-five Years of Scopes" that provides some nice insights into what the trial has meant to the State of Tennessee. Since the volume is published by the University of Tennessee Press this is not particularly suprising, but it is a topic that has been pretty much dismissed in the past and I found it quite interesting.

What I really liked were the photo captions provided by Edward J. Larson, who won the 1998 Pulitizer prize for history for his book on the Scopes Trial, "Summer for the Gods." Whereas Caudill provides the groundwork for the photographs, Larson provides the detail work. Certainly it would be worth your while to have read Larson's book before you go through these photographs. The more you know about the Scopes Trial the more you will appreciate what you are seeing and reading in this photographic history.

Personally I would have liked to have seen portraits of my hero Malone and A. T. Stewart, the true head of the prosecution in Dayton, because the importance of those two men in the trial is always underplayed in the literature. The most glaring photographic ommissions of course would be the celebrated cross-examination of William Jennings Bryan by Clarence Darrow that took place on a platform on the courthouse lawn. I have seen a half-dozen photographs of this infamous confrontation and am surprised one is not included. But since the photos came from the collections of W.C. Robinson (he ran the drug store in Dayton where the plan for the trial was hatched) and Sue K. Hall, I have to temper my disappointment. Overall this is certainly a first class presentation of a collection of photographs.

This is a bit dry, if this is not your area of interests, but anyone who is curious about what's been going on in Europe should read this. The EU is a like nothing this world has ever seen before. This unique institution willl heavily influence global politics in the next century. It behoovs anyone interested in government to learn the basics of what the EU is all about.

As an undergraduate political science major, this book was immensely helpful to me. I read it before studying the EU during my junior year abroad. It's clear, uses easy language, and provides the necessary basics for understanding the institution. I highly recommend it.