Written by professional marriage and family therapists Kenneth and Janice Dimick, Child Custody: Achieving A Parenting Partnership is a practical, helpful and straightforward guide written for the non-specialist general reader who is going through the difficulties of a divorce where there are children involved. The focus is upon the American legal divorce system and how the standard proceedings tend to leave mothers without sufficient funds and fathers without sufficient access to their children. Child Custody explores methods by which parenting partnership can be achieved, allowing a couple to work together to raise children even though they no longer live together. Child Custody is very highly recommended, essential reading for anyone contemplating our caught up in a divorce action with child custody issues and concerns.

This book is a must read for any person who would desire to understand the importance of Law and particularly for the Christian. John begins with a discussion of how God's Law, as recorded in the pages of the Bible in the Old and New Testament and Creation, is the only proper basis for Man's laws. He also discusses how God's Law gives authority to and limits the laws of men and how to apply that law to everyday situations of today.

Further, John discuses how the American Constitution reflected these ideas and how far we have departed from the precepts written therein. Though it may sound simplistic to many, John argues strongly that the majority of our present day problems can be traced directly to that departure.

This book would be helpful for the person who professes no particular religious preference to better understand how the Chrisian "should" think about and act toward the Law. I say how the Christian "should" think because sadly in our day far to many people who claim to be, and many that are, Christians have forgotten how to "think" let alone act as a Christian should.

As modern secular scholars continue to discover the untapped riches preserved in the texts and treatises of medieval canon law, most of them immediately confront the problem of working in Latin, especially juridic Latin. Gilchrist, an historian of immense credentials, chose wisely in translating the "Collection in 74 Titles" which is one of the earliest, most influential, and (from the point of view of readability) one of the most manageable legal texts available. Gilchrist's introduction and indexes along with the generally handsome production values make this the kind of work which one can simply sit down and enjoy, even if one approaches it with only the vaguest familiarity with the topics. In brief, a fascinating look into the life and values of Europe and the Church as both first emerged from several centuries of turmoil following the collapse of Rome.

Books by John & Mariah Bear have literally changed people's lives. This is no less true for this book. Although not quite the behemoth that the larger "Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning (14th ed.), this book instead provides a tight focus on specific programs for those who either need a little more guidance or for whom smaller/less expensive works better. It still provides the same solid advice that readers have come to trust from the Bears.

College Degrees by Mail and Internet provides all of the information necessary to earn a degree (BA, MA, PhD) through distance learning. Now in its eighth edition, this book has stood the test of time.

If you're looking to change your life (more money, better work, etc), you need to check this book out.

With so much disinformation regarding nontraditional schools offering higher degrees, it's comforting to read a book based in both reality and calmness. No high sales pitch here, just good advice regarding a lot of good, nontraditional schools and programs. Highly recommended.

This is a great book for those interested in Commerical law. It is balanced and very useful.

Did the Bolsheviks initiate a new member of the world's family of legal systems, in their spare time after blasting away at the entire Russian royal family in that infamous cottage basement in Yekaterinburg, before or after ordering the assassinations of Kirov and Trostky? What happened to people dragged into courts in the U.S.S.R., if you lived through the extermination of the Kulaks, perhaps by eating the flesh of your dead children?

It's easy to assume that the small communist minorities ruling the U.S.S.R. and its various pathetic wannabe states in places like Mali and other African places, or its shotgun-married "near abroad" areas of the Warsaw Pact, just machine gunned everyone who gave them any crap, and left it at that. Turns out that's not the case.

John Hazard studied "Communists and their Law" for over 50 years, and had access to the brightest communist lawyers througout the world, starting with F.D.R. giving him some assignments in teh U.S.S.R. Hazard ended up cultivating deep relationships with top communist scholars, and even training many of them over the years, in how the civil law and common law countries operated, and then by contrast how communist (or to the chagrin of so many fabian types, "Socialist") legal systems operated.

The communists in Russia pretty much took the French Civil Code and knocked out the private property protections. They pretended to keep the other protections in. A cross current in early Soviet history was the imperative of consulting your own navel-bound sense of "socialist conscience" if you happened to be a judge in this system. Koestler-esque show trials and bogus confessions during the great Stalin purges don't really fit into this analysis. So they are sort of ignored by the legal intelligentsia.

Hazard presents this legal system with sensitivity and perception. He never really answers the question of whether the Soviets and their puppets got beyond disembowling the French civil code, but he hints that he thinks they did. This book will remain as a touchstone to help understand whatever serious efforts were made between 1917 and the disintegration of communism, to set up a new legal system true to the kindest possible interpretation and application of that cantankerous old misanthropic boil-lancer of British Museum scribbling fame, our old goblin, Mr. Misty-Past Karl Marx himself. So the world is clearing its throat and spitting out the 70 year old putrid buildup of communism, but darn it, Professor Hazard was willing to take it seriously. I did, too, when I studied with him in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Warsaw for the Summer of 1982.

This book was well written, and detatiled. The lessions were followed buy examples that illistrated the key points. I am now prepareing to go into narcotic's, and the authur has vast knowledge in the subjct of narcotic's. This was an execllent begining to the use of informants. The authur has clearly set up the paramitors for the selection, preparation, and use of informants. The cases that are talked about in the book are from taken from current and historical cases, both narcotics and other crimes. I found this book very interesting. I have loaned it out to a fellow Officer who has commented that it is an excellent book and he has been in narcotics for 7 years.

John Taylor of Caroline's " Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated" is a brilliant refutation of JohnMarshall's decision in Mc Culloch vs. Maryland. Taylor dissects the decision based on a Jeffersonian view of the delegated powers of the federal government in the U.S. Constitution. Taylor shows how the decision annhilates the taxing powers of the states within their own borders, and elevates the authority of the federal government above the states. Taylor is especially critical of Marshall's dictum that the federal government is " supreme" in it's " sphere". Taylor rejects this view completely.Taylor maintains that the federal government is a government of delegated, limited powers, and that powers not delgated are reserved to the states. It is truly a brilliant states rights interpretation. He also reviews the Missouri Compromise. He shows the unconstitutionality of the Compromise and is prophetic on how it will lead to civil war. Other objects discussed are the ruinous effects of bounties to corporations and the creation of exclusive priviledges for the wealthy. Overall brilliant.

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