pretty helpful book, as a basic study aid, worth the price. i liked it.

I used P&K to supplement my casebook and class notes, and it guided me to an A- in torts. It's a great tool and a great read. However, it does have certain limitations: the final edition was published in the late 80s, so it does not provide much guidance on product liability, infliction of emotional distress and other emerging areas of tort law.

P&K gives you something that year 1 of law school sorely lacks: a context for the fragments in your case book. Its treatment of Palsgraf is particularly beautiful.

And since Prosser so strongly influenced tort law, you can be confident that you are getting good information. Some of my classmates used commercial outlines and they often worried about whether they could trust the material. No such problems with P&K; it was on the money all the time. And when there was a contradiction between P&K and my textbook, I was able to go to my professor and ask her about it. Try doing that with a commercial outline.

P&K is not merely fine reference tool; it is a genuine work of literature. I love it, and I highly recommend it.

. . . and one you should probably acquire for your law library at some point; its explanations are clear and lucid, and it's probably the single most-cited work on torts apart from the Restatement (Second). However, if you're a One-L looking for a study aid, there are a couple of things you should be aware of.

First of all, the most recent edition of this text dates from 1984. That means quite a bit of it is at least slightly out of date, and some of it is massively so (particularly in the field of products liability). For a more up-to-date hornbook, consider Dobbs. (I bought and used both.)

Second, when your torts professor talks about "black-letter law," s/he's not talking about this hornbook or any other; s/he's usually talking about the Restatement (Second) of Torts (or, in products liability, the Restatement (Third)). As much as I like hornbooks (and I am emphatically not a fan of the "casebook" approach), I have to say that if you want to get _one_ text to supplement your casebook, you should pick up _A Concise Restatement of Torts_ from the American Law Institute. And, ideally, you should memorize large portions of it.

Of course, you can do what I did: buy all three. It's a great investment, and it will pay off in your studies; Prosser and Keeton provide much helpful discussion of points that Dobbs treats more briefly, and the Concise Restatement is much easier to understand once you've digested the hornbook(s).

At any rate, this _is_ a classic text and you shouldn't go without it for any longer than necessary. Just be aware of what you're buying and set your priorities accordingly.

My husband and I were given this book by our pastor to use in our premarital counseling. We found it to be utterly superficial and disappointing. The examples the book gives are very trite and not very enlightening. A lot of the chapters brought up issues that we had already discussed many times (and we hadn't be dating for more than a year and a half). The only purpose of them for us was to tell the pastor what we had already talked about. In fact, we thought that if couples had not already talked about most of the things in the book, they must have some serious communication problems. The book takes a very traditional view on the woman's place in the marriage. It isn't super-conservative, but it was a bit conservative for us and we don't consider ourselves liberal. Also the authors used Bible passages out of context. While the verses made good points where they were in the book, its not what they mean in the Biblical context. I know it is very hard to find good books on this subject. Most of them stay in the realm of superficiality and cheeze, and this is another one of those books.

I am familiar with Family Life. They are on a par with Dr. James Dobson's outfit, Focus On The Family. They are a part of the umbrella organization Campus Crusade For Christ. Dennis Rainey and Bob Lepine have a daily radio show called Family Life Today. I've read this book and I have other books by Dennis Rainey and Barbara Rainey about marriage and teenagers.
A lot of this information is also in their conferences and Family Life really tries super hard to connect not only with your mind by providing you some insight into marriage troubles and how to overcome them...but Family Life goes beyond this and motivates and urges action. This book is a book to use as a workbook to put you through the action part of working out the ultimate question... "is this The Person."
I read this book AFTER i was married and was seeking answers to questions. This book has an accompanying Leaders Guide that is intended to be used by a mentor right alongside the real book used by the couple. I have the leaders guide and if the book is used with the leaders guide with an older wiser mature couple guiding the younger couple this book can be a wealth of valuable information. I recommend the book from a conservative southern baptist perspective and I know absolutely that even liberal christians will get a lot out of this book.

Wow! My husband and I used this book in our premarital counseling class and we learned more about what a true Godly marriage is all about. From your roles and responsibilities, to handling your finances, to unrealistic expectations, even to dealing with each others pasts. I don't know what we would have done if it wasn't for this book, it helped so much in determining our strengths and our growth areas. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is engaged or contemplating marriage! We still go through parts of it even though we're now married!

I am a big California rivers environmental history buff, and I found this book to be too similar to his publication "Gold v. Grain" which debuted over 40 years ago. This book is essentially an extension of "Gold v. Grain" that covers the 1960s-1980s. Much of the earlier chapters are virtually cut and pasted verbatim from his previous book. Despite these criticisms, it remains (to my knowledge) the most comprehensive book written about the Sacramento River to date. Until a better book on the Sac comes along, this is probably the one to read for factual information, and for more conceptual/abstract stimulation, I recommend "Organic Machine" by Richard White.

If you've ever taken a guided factory tour, you know the difference between someone reciting memorized facts and someone who can call upon a deep reservoir of knowledge, accumulated over a lifetime, for information that will illuminate a particular subject. Mr. Kelley clearly belongs in the latter class. Reading his book, it is apparent that we are only scratching the surface of what this remarkable historian knows about the complex interplay of history, politics, personality and nature that conspired to produce the water system northern California has today.

The story of California water is fascinating, although perhaps only of real interest to Californians. Nevertheless, even if only for that audience, Mr. Kelley has written an entirely readable, yet simultaneously scholarly volume. Anyone interested in an introduction to the state of northern California's water situation should begin with this book.

In a general sense, however, this book is also about changing political and sociological trends in America beginning around 1850. The focus is on flooding in the Sacramento Valley, and its battles between gold miners and valley farmers, or between Republican engineers and Democratic populists, but parallels are probably found elsewhere in our country during the same period of history. I enjoyed this book tremendously.

For a native of the flood-prone Sacramento Valley, Battling The Inland Sea is the bible. Nowhere else is the history of a fitful battle against the annual floodwaters unleashed on the Sacramento Valley by the powerful Sierra Nevada watersheds captured so comprehensively. Kelley, however, informs us in a style that is relevant and entertaining. The valley resident treasures it for its history of the Big Fight. Political scientists enjoy it for its history and the lively way Kelley uses the fight over flooding in Northern California as a study in California and national politics.

It did take me a couple tries to get through this book, but it was worth it. This commentary has everything I looked for. It explained the book in its historical context as well as its spiritual and contemporary importance. Some of the writing is a bit bombastic and difficult to wade through, but I learned a lot from it.

Hubbard's commentary is in-depth and accurate. He quotes the New King James Version but corrects mistakes such as Proverbs 30.1 where he correctly states that "Ithiel and Ucal" should be tranlated as phrases rather than names. Amazon's catalog lists the release date as January 1991 but the copyright in the book is 1989 (it came out initially as paperback which is now out of print). Biblical archaelogy and scholarship has made significant progress in the last 10 years. For a more up-to-date in-depth commentary on Proverbs read THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE BOOK OF PROVERBS by Cody Jones. It features numerous drawings and photos which give the reader a sense of the culture of the time. Six translations in parallel aid understanding of more difficult passages. Jones reveals for the first time in any commentary the secret identity of the overall editor of King Solomon's wise and witty sayings.

It gives a good grasp on the old testament period between the first deportation and the second deportation of Isreal to Babylon. It gives a good understanding of the people and culture at that time.

I read the book for my East European literature class. It is very interesting, written in a simple language. David is indeed a cool dude. And his girlfriend too.

This is a special book, a nostalgic look backward on a postwar Poland and the mysteries encountered there by schoolboys. Huelle writes brilliantly--his subtle observations on Polish culture are tenderly conveyed through the naive explorations of children. These boys, while coming to an awareness of themselves sexually and intellectually, develop as well a sense of their community, of its religion, politics, and its tragic wartime history. Huelle's style borrows heaviliy from Gunter Grass; he deftly employs magical ambiguities which create a tone of supernatural intrigue.

Just started readin the book today and it's quite intriguing, I must say. I spent 2 hours looking for a good book to pick out at the library, and I have a feeling this is one. David Weiser is one cool dude!

Reviewed by Vladimir Matveyev in International Relations, Volume XIII, No 5, August 1997 -

Towards the end of this book the authors remark that '... the essential core of international organisation is not the various administrative buildings in New York, Brussels, Geneva and elsewhere which represent the relevant institution in the public mind, but the rules, regulations and agreed procedures for which the institutions have assumed responsibility. In this sense the main thrust of the international organisation is the development of "international regimes": sets of rules which aim to regulate some specific activity of international interest'. This is, perhaps, the principal feature of the authors' approach to the problem of the unprecedented growth of international organizations throughout the twentieth century. In other words, they are more interested in analysing their place and role in the international system than in describing the administrative and legal aspects of international diplomacy. Yet, they do not completely ignore the latter. Their brief but accurate accounts of the activities of all the Secretary-Generals in the history of the United Nations are clever and authoritative. Above all, they foresaw that Boutros Boutros-Ghali would not be re-elected and they give their reasoning for this. Mentioning, in particular, that Boutros-Ghali was especially active and proficient in developing and implementing machinery for resolving conflicts (e.g. setting up 'interim offices' in a number of former Soviet republics), the authors point out that he was also trying to extend his authority beyond the limits provided for by the UN Charter. Consequently, he came into conflict with the Security Council.
While the number of international organizations has grown markedly, so too have the differences between them. They come in all shapes and forms: governmental and non-governmental, global and regional, military and economic, large and small, long-lived and brief. The authors' focus of attention, however, is on intergovernmental organizations and they concentrate on the most significant of those. The major part of the book deals with only two organizations - the United Nations (with the League of Nations also considered as the UN's predecessor) as a global organization and the European Community (later the European Union) as the most unique and advanced regional organization. Besides these, the authors briefly consider the history and functions of three of the most important regional organizations outside Europe - the Organization of American States, the Organization of African Unity and ASEAN. The last chapter considers several international regimes: those concerned with international economic order, the Law of the Sea, nuclear non-proliferation and human rights protection.
In their selection of subjects, as well as in portraying the long and complicated history of both the United Nations and the European Union, the authors strike a proper balance between breadth in some spheres and detail in others. In accordance with their interpretation of international organizations as nothing other than instruments of states' diplomacy, the authors trace the development of the League of Nations and of the United Nations strictly within the framework of international relations. This allows them to devote special chapters to the formative period of the UN, the Cold War and the American-led UN (1945-1960), the Third World UN (1960-1980) and lastly, the UN in Crisis and its Rejuvenation (1980-1994). With hindsight, it might have been better if the final UN chapter had been divided into two separate sections.
The United Nations, with all its former and current weaknesses, and, not least, with its almost endemic budget deficit, nevertheless enjoys an almost magnetic appeal for dozens of new countries. Most of these emerged from the break-up of the Soviet Empire. Between 1990 and 1995, 27 additional states joined the UN, bringing the total membership to 185. At the same time an unparalleled number of humanitarian disorders occurred which virtually cried out for UN intervention and the number of peacekeepers rose from 10,000 in 1992 to 78,000 in 1994. It was, however, becoming increasingly difficult to find enough militarily efficient troops who were acceptable to the parties involved in the conflict. There are other problems confronting the United Nations at the end of the century which are no less troublesome and controversial and yet, the authors conclude, countries value and need the United Nations. 'Through it they can pursue their interests, conduct diplomacy, debate and cooperate - in achieving the purposes set out in Article 1 of the Charter. As such, it is likely to survive for a long time'.
The authors' account of the European Community is equally balanced and competent. Their emphasis on recent events, namely the Maastricht Treaty and the European Union, is justified by the very significance of these momentous developments in the process of European integration. The authors point particularly to two internal forces which were driving the Community towards further integration in the late 1980s - the Single European Act, 'with its inbuilt dynamic which encouraged further development, and the Single Market Programme, which highlighted the absence of (and therefore the need for) accompanying monetary and social measures'. External factors, that is the events in Eastern Europe since 1988, contributed substantially to the further development of the Community. A climate was created in which even the quite ambitious development of the EC did not seem extraordinary. The creation of the European Union is the result of that momentum.
Commenting on the further enlargement of the European Union, which the authors regard as 'almost certain', they suggest a number of possible drawbacks to the inclusion of countries whose political and economic structure is not, to put it mildly, compatible with the level of present EU members. 'Some of the new members may not share the supranational aspirations of the EU's founding fathers but may have a preference for intergovernmental cooperation or be driven by economic ambitions'.
In conclusion, the authors stress the uniqueness of the EU which, being a curious mix of the supernational and intergovernmental, is largely and will continue to remain outside the behavioural norms of other international organizations. 'Perhaps it is not an organization at all', sum up the authors, 'but really is a superstate in the making'.
The book, supplied with a detailed bibliography and a list of the major international organizations, serves a two-fold purpose: it belongs equally on the desk of students of international relations and diplomacy as well as on the bookshelves of researchers and practitioners of multinational diplomacy.
The authors are from Birmingham and Keele Universities. They certainly know the needs of their students. Moreover, in the Preface to the book they take the opportunity to thank their students for many helpful comments. I would venture to suggest that the book might also be useful for students of institutions of higher learning outside Britain, including my own.
VLADIMIR MATVEYEV END

As a pastor, I found this book to be a wonderful aid in counseling engaged couples.

The range of topics covered, suggested questions, and couples' projects are terrific!

Hubbard's commentary is in-depth and accurate. He quotes the New King James Version but corrects mistakes such as Proverbs 30.1 where he correctly states that "Ithiel and Ucal" should be tranlated as phrases rather than names. Biblical archaelogy and scholarship has made significant progress in the last 10 years since this book was written (1989). For a more up-to-date in-depth commentary on Proverbs read THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE BOOK OF PROVERBS by Cody Jones. It features numerous drawings and photos which give the reader a sense of the culture of the time. Six translations in parallel aid understanding of more difficult passages. Jones reveals for the first time in any commentary the secret identity of the overall editor of King Solomon's wise and witty sayings.

it's a good thing this book is out of print. It was absolutely garbage.

This book was ok - it covered a decent amount of FAQs but I think it should have also focused on C++ tooo. I like the C++ FAQ book a little better

I disagree with the previous reviewer. I actually thought it was pretty good, and answered a lot of my questions.

I ordered this book because as an emerging graphic desginer, I wanted to know how to set my documents up for print in programs like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and of course Quark. Although this book is very detailed about the history of printing and how printing works, as well as job estimates for printing, it seems really outdated as far as using your computer for prepress and helping a designer work with a local printer. And the clencher is, it is basically a school textbook. That is what it looks and reads like, unfortunately. However, if you are an artist in any way and are studying art and printing processes and all the different kinds, you might find it somewhat helpful. For those of you creating a brochure in Quark and need information on color processing, stacking, and how to approach your printer to get the job done? This is not the book. Try "Pocketguide to Digital Printing".

This book takes the reader through the right steps to acheive satisfactory results on a press. The knowledge contained in this book will separate the reader from the growing population of half-baked desktop publishers who cause grief to printers, service bureaus, advertising agencies and the like. It can also save the self-publisher hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars caused by bad design and or process.

"Do me and the printing industry a favor, read it!"