Prof. Liebman and Rothstein write a very thorough casebook on employment law, beginning w/ the hiring and application process and continuing through to the retirement process. They have included the newest cases, pictures from certain cases (potentially to allow you to relate to the people, or at least see who you're reading about), and good questions to stimulate thought on the subject.

As my one word description of the casebook makes clear, it is a very thorough book. Each step of the employment process is covered. The book does not bore you, as they have searched for the most up to date and/or interesting cases.

As a casebook for employment law class, I feel that it is excellent. The key is that one could read the book without even having a professor to facilitate and still learn a great deal.

Employment law is a fast changing, hot subject in current American law today, and this book reflects the newest trends and cases.

I teach 4th grade and while the reproducibles are a bit basic for my students, the activities and recommended books are terrific. I use it as a guide for teaching the seven different regions of the U.S. The kids love putting away their text books and doing an activity or listening to a story about the region we are studying.

Gloria Rothstein's book, "Writing Activities Based on Favorite Picture Books", is great for parents who want to help their kids become better writers. Writing activites are based on the texts of picture books and are so kid-friendly. My daughter and I did several of them together and had a great time. This book provides an accessible way for kids to become better writers in a fun and relaxed manner. I think it is important that kids become good readers AND good writers and I think this book helps develop both skills. Plus, it makes writing fun for kids and that's a real accomplishment! I loved this book and highly recommend it for parents everywhere.

This book is a very good resource for the study of 18th century fabric design, especially of English (Spitalfields) silks. The introduction outlines the change of tastes through the century, two chapters give backround information on the formation of the design collection at the V&A and the biographies of the designers, and the rest is just plates, plates, plates. Wonderful plates! Not just pictures of fabrics, mind you, but of the original watercolours - and their artistic quality, on top of the inventiveness they exhibit, make me go green with envy.

T. Lipton Baggs was an ordinary sports fan. He loved to watch football, baseball and boxing on TV. But every time he tuned in he saw Howard Cosell. Howard talked and talked and talked. At first, Lipton could tolerate him, but, like a steady drip of water, Cosell took his toll. Lipton tried every way he knew to cope with Howard -- meditation, voodoo, excorcism. Nothing worked. Finally he quit watching sports cold turkey.
But the worst had only begun. He couldn't sleep. He saw Howard in his dreams. When he awoke, Howard was everywhere--at the bus stop, on his personal computer, at his favorite bar.
Now truly desperate, Lipton suddently realized that there was only one way to survive. He had to stop Howard Cosell.
How will he do it? Does he succeed? All sports fans still want to know.
Heavy handed, yet delicate......

i'm not going to write too much, as this is an out of print book.

i actully bought it on sale at amazon, not knowing why. t the time i bought it, it was an interesting title at a reduced price. so i bought it. and it sat on my shelf for two years.

then, my husband was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and was told he would never get better, that he would have to live this way the rest of his life. then the stress started.

without getting goopy, i'll just say that it was the key that saved us. we were yelling and screaming at each other, talking about divorce, and being as ugly as we could to one another. this book helped me pull it together and gave clear steps as to what to do.

the idea i liked the best was that your marriage is a career and needs the attention and focus that career needs.

i don't want to ramble on, just want to say this book saved our marriage. and thanks to the authors!

This superbly Illustrated book (supported with good scholarly material indicating the process by which these samples were created) demonstrates the beauty and diversity of British Design from the later 17th to mid 18th Century. The richness of the color reproduction of this book does credit to the collection they are drawn from. Of course the historian of material culture would find the plates fascinating, but I think the contemporary artist or Illustrator would be drawn to these Items. I don't know how far use might apply to the scanning of these designs into a computer file but people in the know tell I that these patterns could be scanned in and re-created with present day technology. The Restoration to the early Georgian period is one of my favorites in British History.

Sadly I did not get to the British Museum this summer so that will have to wait until next but I did spend a very long morning in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford looking at about 10,000 Years of historical exhibits, mostly from the last thousand years of Great Britains paintings furniture And tapestries.

I remember commenting to my wife about how badly most of the exhibits were lighted, particularly some very large 18th Century British tapestries. She replied that of course that light was bad for these sorts of objects. Her reply led my to sort of an insight as far as the utility of art books.

My point here is when Natalie Rothstien properly does an art book as like The Victoria & Albert Museum's Textile Collection Woven Textiles Design In Britain To 1750 . One may end up seeing a reproduction in a way that they might never see the original. I am not saying always buy the book and never get up off the couch but I am saying sometimes a well done art book can do things that a five minute glance at the badly lighted original cannot. Hmmmm maybe I should be selling art books, or better yet bridges!

Philip Kaveny, Reviewer

In my capacity as a teacher, I want students to have practice THINKING..and this is what logic puzzles such as the ones here provide. This book includes the organizational charts, the solution to the puzzles, as well as an explanation for the solutions. It would be excellent if they would include the answer in chart form as well. (I translate these for foreign language classes..the language is simple enough for a beginning level class. Very challenging !

I've been into Dell Crosswords and Especially Logic Problems since I was 16; my father's word puzzle love facilitated my addiction.

I use a logic problem to lull me to sleep every evening. Yearly I upgrade my thesaurus for the latest, and more wordly edition to keep up with the curves thrown by the international crosswords. Try to keep my mind a step above the "rust".

Back in my Trig and Calc days, they drilled into me the need to constantly write down known variables, and chart info, to keep track of your formulas and progress in solving a problem. Logic Problems reinforce this practice.

I've got my kid thinking in charts with his schoolwork, especially homework.

I have always loved logic problems better than any other puzzles. This book definitely delivers some hefty problems. Though it contains only 75 of them, each are involved enough to keep you working on each one for a good while. The only drawback is that the answer section in the back does not have charts. I would have like to seen a graph to quickly see if I'm right or not. Though, each problem does have a talk through section and a concise summary of answers.

Overall, each problem is challenging and has a variety of subjects to keep you involved with it. If you like logic problems, I highly recommend this. It's definitely worth it.

100 years of Fashion was an excellent read for the more scholarly-minded costumer in need of an accurate source book for their historical costuming. Although it provided plenty of close up pictures and trim details about the garments profiled in the book, it didn't cover sufficient enough details about the garment's construction for one to reconstruct a replica from this book alone. I highly suggest owning this book as an addition to one's library of period sources for research, but if you need a book on how to actually construct a period garment, I suggest using a Janet Arnold book.

Colored and black & white plates from the historical dress collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. William Collins, 1984. 8 1/2x11 in. softcover. Many plates are full-page and color, and high-quality paper was used. Construction details and historical annotations are provided. Discussion of the fashion background of each piece is provided.

I was very pleased with this book. It is all about the costume (dress) collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The book shows both color and black and white photos of virtually every costume on display with detailed captions (a hole section is nothing but photos and descriptions of the collection). The photos are amazing. The book covers the years in which the garments were made as well as the history surrounding each item. It is one of the most accurate references you can find on historical costume. I highly recommend it.

I used this book to research Depression era clothing for a play and found the photos really intriguing and useful. I only wish there had been about 3 times more of them.

Arthur Rothstein became a photography at Columbia University where he met Roy Stryker, a professor economics. After graduation, Stryker hired Rothstein and others to document what became the Farm Security Administration. It was while working for the FSA that Rothstein became famous for his photographs of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression, including the famous shot of the family running to their half buried home in the dust storm. Ironically, one of his other famous images, of a cow skull in the desert, was controversial because the shot was totally set up. "The Depression Years" includes 120 photographs, with captions of enduring images of the unemployed and ragged children. If you are interested in more of the background of Rothstein and his work, then check out "Mind's Eye, Mind's Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered" by James Curtis, if you can find a copy. Rothstein went on to become a staff photograph for "Look" and eventually the magazine's director of photography until it folded, at which point he taught photography at his alma mater. Rothstein is simply the definitive photographer of the Dust Bowl, as important to our cultural understanding as John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Rath" or the ballads of Woody Guthrie.

This book is very exciting. It covers the depression from all over the country, the pictures are from New Mexico to Maine & Nevada to Florida. You really get a feel for the desperation that must have been felt. I really enjoyed looking through this.