The book gives a great reference for starting an independent paralegal business with examples of what should and should not be done in the business world.
There is much focus on California, but much of the information can be used in other eaaster and mid-western states for setting up a business.
I highly reccomend this book as a guide to help one build a success paralegal business.

what i would like to know is who is r. worner. i know the book as he was my great grand father. curious as to why he is being studied now. chase

I read this book as a required text for my Middle East Politics class which was taught by one of the authors, Prof. Seibert. I think it gives an accurate walkthrough to the history of Middle East Politics. It stays clear of any bias while trying to examine and integrate economic, social and political factors together. I enjoyed reading and discussing this work immensely. I would strongly recommend it.

Basil Ede has a painterly eye and a craftsman's approach to painting birds. His water colors are remarkable for their fidelity to nature. Every feather is delineated, every pose natural, every background authentic.

Mr. Ede's water colors are now collector's items, as he has been unable to paint in that medium since his stroke about ten years ago. Amazingly, this right-handed artist taught himself to paint left-handed and now produces oils that are, if it is possible, better than the water colors of his youth.

If you like birds, you must own this book.

This book, while not one of Roberts's finest, is still a well-researched mini-masterpiece. It's depiction of real people in seemingly unreal conditions instead of themes on several levels works well for what it sets out to do.

This is a must read book for those of you who like historical novels. It is about a ship that has wrecked on an island off the coast of Maine and how the crew survives. This book is written with the historical preciseness that Arundel and Northwest Passage are written with. This is one of the greatest historical novels

This second edition is updated and improved from the out-of-print first edition. It has much of interest for telescope buffs and collectors of optical instruments. (It should be noted that the book is still available from the publisher as of January 2003 at the original price.)

Warner and Ariail have done an outstanding job of presenting a history of Alvan Clark & Sons, America's premier 19th century telescope maker. They trace the lineage of nearly all extant Clark telescopes, illustrate the characteristics of each model of Clark refractor, describe the history of the firm (including manufacturing), and include an appendix on all known portraits painted by Alvan Clark (he was a portrait painter prior to making telescopes). It does lack some warmth and might have benefited from personal accounts of owners describing their scopes and the views through them or experiences using different Clark telescopes. However, it is still an inspirational work and made me want to own an antique refractor.

I have been a fan of Mr Howard for nearly 12 years now, which in my opinion, makes me a bit of a connoisseur, and frankly this book was a bit of a disappointment. Undoubtedly the contributing writers are well-respected and immensely able but their writing lacked the Howardian flavour I have come to love. Ghor's sudden personality shifts are hard to follow and the various ideas in the story lack sufficient depth. This book is not the way Mr Howard would have written it. Nevertheless, this should be read because the original idea belonged to the great REH.

Ghor is a nice blend of Conan and the Cthulhu Mythos together. Abandoned as a child because of a deformity, Ghor is adopted by a pack of wolves. Raised by them, he adopts the ways of the wolf, yet when he meets up with humanity joins them. Constantly struggling with his wolf upbringing and his human surroundings, Ghor becomes a mighty war hero wherever he goes.

This is an excellent adventure book that takes a Conan like hero and plots him against all sorts of evil (and good), including some Cthulhu creations as well.

Originally Ghor was an unfinished story by Conan creator Robert Howard. Upon finding this unfinished story, a magazine decided to finish it. What they did was have a different chapter every month written by a different top fantasy writer. It made the reading interesting.

While most of the chapters were great. Some were excellent. Unfortunately there were a couple chapters that I just wanted to get through to reach the next writers' chapter. Overall a really good read.

I WAS VERY SUPRISED ABOUT HOW WELL THIS STORY CAME OFF. THE VARIUOS WRITERS DID AN EXCELLENT JOB IN WRITING AN EXCITING BOOK THAT FLOWED SMOOTHLY. IT DID NOT COME OFF AS A SERIES OF SHORT STORIES. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT BOOK FOR ROBERT E. HOWARD FANS, AND FANS OF FANTASY IN GENERAL.

I think it's wonderful that someone took the time and effort to write a book about the mysterious green, glassy mineral known as moldavite. Claimed by many to be the result of a meteorite impact that occurred 15 million years ago, moldavite is intriguing by itself. Add to this the fact that the stone is said to possess powerful metaphysical properties boasting thousands of advocates world-wide, and you've got the makings of a best-seller (at least in the "New Age" catagory).

This book could have been a killer with the potential to break out of the tiny "New Age" market and challenge the typical American reader to rethink their entire existance and purpose. Hey, it's happened before - remember "Dyanetics"? One of the reasons I feel so strongly about this is I personally own a piece of the gemstone known as moldavite and take it from me - it is NOT your typical rock...

The book's major failure is in it's presentation. It's so saturated with "bliss" and new age sci-fi fantasy that it only has credibility with the existing holistic crowd. The book should have been more objective. The only opinions we get are from people that are already deeply immersed in some form of metaphysical practice. No credible scientists, physicists, geologists. Nope, it's all light and love and spaceships...

Do I recommend this book? Absolutely. As far as I know it is the only book of it's kind on this bizzare subject. So if ancient, green, glassy rocks from outer space that possess the power to "change your life" makes you curious, go for it.

NOTE: Word is out that the same authors are doing a follow up book. Maybe in this one they'll present their story in a manner that the rest of us can relate to and take seriously. Hope so.

This book only talks of the Tektite form of moldavite. It does not mention the African Moldavite (a green translucent stone mined near Kilamanjaro) at all.

Much of the information here about moldavite is correct, and matches my experience with Tektite moldavite. Many people are under the impression that tektite Moldavite is the most powerful stone on Earth. From my experience with 60+ different kinds of rocks in my collection; Moldavite is the second most powerful stone on earth. In April; I saw two Rainbow Boji stones that were far more powerful than any of the peices of moldavite in my collection.

I did not care for the chapter of Channeling readings about moldavite. I DID find chapter 10 "The Moldavite Letters" very interesting because I too have noticed changes in myself in the last two months of carrying a peice of moldavite in my pocket; Two Bears.

Wah doh Ogedoda (We give thanks Great Spirit)

One has to celebrate the publication of a book like this, becuse of the scarcity of the information available on this subject. The book is relatively big (709 p.), more expensive than big ($150) and of course has quite an amount of interesting information.

But it is probably as important to highlight its shortcomings, which show how much remains to be done. I do not pretend to do a general review, for which I am not qualified and that is quite impossible in a work of encyclopedic pretense like this one. I will restrain my commentary mainly to the treatment of the field of electricity and magnetism, which I suppose has its importance in scientific instrumentation and does not lack in amount and variety of instruments by itself. Its reflection in this book is very unfair and inadequate, in my opinion. All the entries that begin with "Electricity-Electrostatic" span a mere 20 pages, 7 of which are dedicated to medical applications (electrocardiograph, electroencephalograph, electromyograph and electroretinograph, to be precise). One will search in vain, on the contrary, for any mention to the electron tube, or valve, or thermionic device. The totality of what the editors and the authors have to say about radio waves and related topics is included under the clumsy entry of "Radio Wave Detector". Here the whole history of electromagnetism and of radio is dispatched in little more than one page, including all its apparatuses and "science". In this egregious page one finds the only mention I have been able to locate to the "thermionic diode" and the "triode", but not one reference to galena or silicon or germanium. Coils, resistors, resonance, oscillators or quartz crystals are not even mentioned per se. The arbitrariness of the selection of voices and of the espace allocated to individual items is reflected in the fact that "oscilloscope" , for a contrary instance, has an entry for itself of a full page an a half. Under the entry "Current meter" it is only spoken about devices to measure water flows.

Another example of what I consider a total lack of perspective could be the fact that almost 10 pages are devoted to several types of compass, whereas the whole subject of clocks is dispatched in 5 pages. The editors try to explain in the Introduction how they have managed to handle the question of What is a Scientific Instrument? The explanation is not very clear and the results reflect this. Whereas it is probably fashionable among historians of science and museum curators to consider "Escherichia coli" as a "scientific instrument", this kind of boutades and trade jokes should not justify the lack of rigour in the treatment of what are, and have always been, undeniable instruments of science. The book is a conglomerate of fair individual cards, but nobody seems to have taken care of the equilibrium of the whole file. For having so many illustrious authors, the work is quite poor, superficial and deceiving.

Cross-references are practically nonexistent and the main index is of no much help unfortunately for bridging the lacunae, being for the most part a mere reproduction of the entries of a work that is by itself alphabetically ordered. The typography, printing and other production aspects of the book are of good quality.