I own the 2d edition of this book, and it's the best book I've ever seen on the subject. It is sensitively written to guide and inspire an ordinary person in pursuit of a story, and the sories used as examples are excellent - much better than most, yet written by students. Had this book been in print when I started teaching writing, I would not have begun my own (soon to be published) book, "Writing the Stories of Your Life."
Elsa McKeithan

If you've every thought you had it in you to write your life's story, this is the book for you. Clearly written, "Writing from Within" outlines a powerful technique for anyone to "get at" important feeling, thoughts, and memories that are in the past."Write in the present tense. Write in first person. Put feelings into the story." These are some of the suggestions Bernard Selling proposes to make your writing come alive. This is a valuable book.It is highly recommended.

There are hundreds of books on Jewish ritual law. This worthy volume, however, is focussed on the criminal and civil laws governing Jewish communities in the diaspora and in Israel. For the lay reader (that is, the non-lawyer) the "textbook" format may be difficult. Each section ends with questions meant to foster discussion and reflection in a law-school classroom environment. The questions group into two patterns: further analytical inquiry or comparative analysis with United States law. In true law school tradition, the questions are designed to stimulate thinking; no answers are suggested and no teachers manual is available. The kind of discourse that only a lawyer could love... Putting aside the chapter-ending questions, the material itself is excellent. Organized coherently, with abundant citations to the Talmudic and halakic sources, this book will carry the reader (layperson or lawyer) into the fascinating labrinths of rulings in such areas as voting rights, family law, artificial insemination, extradition, commercial disputes, criminal responsibility and punishment.