Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Government - Comparative    3. Leadership    4. Management - General    5. Political Science    6. Politics/International Relations    7. Sociology    8. Women & Business    9. Business & Economics / Management    10. Business | Management    11. Gender studies    12. Office management    13. Organizational theory & behaviour    14. Personnel & human resources management    15. USA   

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Engaging Study of Travel in Ancient Times
This is a unique and highly interesting account of the many facets of travel in the ancient world.The author covers types of travel, reasons for travel, accomodations, major historical attractions, the mail delivery system in ancient times, and many other topics.In general, the book is highly informative, readable, and entertaining.Descriptions of holiday travel, inns and restaurants, the Roman road system, the trade routes of ancient times are quite fascinating. In a very few places the book seems to bog down in perhaps too much detail, but overall, the book is quite good.The author's perspective is also primarily on the Western world and the Near East, including Egypt.Thus, other ancient cultures (e.g., China) are mentioned only briefly.The book is a very unique contribution to the study of the ancient world.Highly recommended.

80% Great, 10% Garbage; about the other 10%, I'm not sure
This *is* your one-stop volume on travellers in the ancient world. The author, a professor in classics, wrote it in 1974 then updated it in 1994. Complacently, in the forward he announces that it needed almost no changes. Time to take a trip
Another excellent title by Lionel Casson, professor emeritus of classics at NY University. Originally published in the 1970s it is in a 1994 softbound edition with very few changes. The book has chapters on inns andrestaurants, ancient tourism, travel by sea, travel by land, and ancientpostal systems. Although this may sound like it's pretty dry, it shouldprove to be very interesting to anyone who likes history of any kind, andis quite amusing in spots.Read more

Subjects:  1. Ancient - General    2. Essays & Travelogues    3. History - General History    4. History: World    5. Travel, Ancient    6. Voyages And Travels    7. Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems    8. Social history    9. World history: BCE to c 500 CE   

Subjects:  1. 1945-    2. Elections    3. Government - Comparative    4. Great Britain    5. Political Process - Elections    6. Political Science    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Politics and government    9. Politics/International Relations    10. Voting    11. British Isles    12. Elections & referenda    13. Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems    14. Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000    15. United Kingdom, Great Britain   

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Still Relevant After 100 Years
Francis Wellman first published this book in 1903 and despite the passage of over 100 years, the book is nearly as relevant then as it is today.
Not just for lawyers
Putting aside the overt racism contained in this book first published in 1903, this book, which was reading material my wife picked up at the University of Virginal School of Law, gives us an entertaining and eye-opening vista into the Ciceronian art of winning trials at the courts of law.Written primarily by several prominent New York City attorneys, many of its sections, joyfully reveling in the destructive power of masterfully twisted perceptions fed to lay jurors, are egregious far beyond any dispassionate, plain-spoken Machiavellian ethics.In addition to its lessons on the value of perception, The Art of Cross-Examination serves up a menu of time-tested techniques for extracting truth from liars, ridiculing expert witnesses, the use of anger, sympathy, empathy, humor, taciturnity, loquaciousness, etcetera that trial attorneys steeped in Cicero should find quite useful for years yet to come.
Lots of pages with little to offer
I read this book after reading McElhaney's Trial Notebook.After reading the first book this one read so slowly, with so much wordage that I found it impossible to read.Not worth the money or the time. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Forensic Science    2. Law    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession   

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Useful but has some biased entries.....
This tome (*large* volume) contains much interesting and useful material but, unfortunately, a very few of its authors have an ideological axe to grind. A publication of this sort should be aimed at objectivity, and not be a forum for certain "contributors" to propagate their personal sociological/political agendas. American Law
I came by this book while actually looking for something else, and found it to be very informative and useful.Similar to other Oxford companions it is cross-referenced and attempts to be usable to both the legal community as well as ordinary people.Read more

Subjects:  1. Encyclopedias    2. Law    3. Legal History    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Legal System    6. United States    7. United States - General    8. Law / Legal History    9. Law | Legal History    10. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    11. Reference works    12. USA   

Editorial Review

In 1980, Zimbabwe was the great hope of Africa, a place where blacks were supposed to realize their postcolonial destinies under the enlightened leadership of Robert Mugabe. But now the country formerly known as Rhodesia is an international basket case with a wrecked economy and a dim future. In this disturbing book by Martin Meredith, a British journalist with extensive experience in southern Africa, Mugabe transforms into a villain. "Year by year, he acquired ever greater power, ruling the country through a vast system of patronage, favoring loyal aides and cronies with government positions and contracts and ignoring the spreading blight of corruption," writes Meredith. "Power for Mugabe was not a means to an end, but the end itself." His reign has been so wretched, in fact, that some of the most sympathetic people in Read more

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Zimbabwe:from liberation to kleptocracy.
A nice book about the kleptacracy of present day Zimbabwe.Robert Mugabe took a jewell of a country and turned it into a failed state.He has done this so he can enrich his family, friends, and supporters at the expense of the vast Zimbabwean people.Meredith describes the liberation of Rhodesia and the early promise of Mugabe's presidency.After the honeymoon, Mugabe gave jobs to his supporters and enriched his party, the ZANU-PF.Latest developments in Zimbabwe continue to show the mass exodus of the few remaining whites, and the poverty of the majority population.Mugabe enriches himself and his supporters, but leaves the rest of the population to fend for itself.
A well told tragedy that still continues
This book puts into context better than anything I have read the major tragedy that has been occurring in Zimbabwe for over twenty years. The parallels with the Congo (as covered in the excellent book "In the footsteps of Mr Kurtz" on Mobutu's kleptocracy in Zaire) are matched here by the story of how a wealthy and well developed colony after a crippling war of independence came under Mugabe's control.
Decline and Fall of Zimbabwe
This is a super-readable book about the career of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, whose corruption, brutality, and paranoia have wrecked Zimbabwe's democratic institutions and have brought the country to the brink of economic ruin.The book is refreshingly free of cant, and the author has a sharp eye for political grotesqueries, which have abounded in post-independence Zimbabwe.My only complaint (and hence the rating of 4 stars) is the lack of footnotes or any real analysis of the social or economic currents underlying Zimbabwean politics.Instead, journalist Meredith is content to chronicle events newspaper-style. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1924-    2. 1980-    3. Africa - General    4. Africa - South - South Africa    5. Government - Comparative    6. History    7. History & Theory - General    8. Mugabe, Robert Gabriel,    9. Political History    10. Politics - Current Events    11. Politics / Current Events    12. Politics and government    13. Politics/International Relations    14. Public Policy - General    15. Zimbabwe    16. Zimbabwe - History    17. Mugabe, Robert Gabriel   

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Exceptional Read
This book is a must-read for any student of International Affairs. By providing historical and present-day examples of international and transnational relations among states, Dean Slaughter brilliantly lays the framework and provides justification for a new disaggregated, effective, and just world order. Both synoptic in organization and substantive throughout, this book will prove valuable to all readers regardless of political affiliation or school of thought.

Highly Recommended!
This excellent, thought-provoking analysis covers a widespread but little studied shift in the way the world works. The advance of international communications, technology, economics and finance networks has had an unmistakable effect on business and industry. The ways states function has also changed - shifting the operation of the world order. Author Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, is on expert ground. She asserts that networks of financiers, regulators, judges and even legislators can solve problems that would be intractable if left only to traditional states and familiar international organizations. She provides many examples of such networks, notes the criticism against them and suggests norms to govern their conduct. Her book is not light reading. Readers need some familiarity with international organizations and institutions (sometimes cited by unexplained acronyms), but we highly recommend this book to sophisticated observers of international policy. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Globalization    2. Government - Comparative    3. History & Theory - General    4. International    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Political Science    7. Politics/International Relations    8. International Law    9. International relations    10. Law    11. Political Science / History & Theory    12. Political Science and International Relations    13. Sociology   

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True depth of research
Researched beyond all prior literature, this well written book ads sugnificant knowledge to our understanding.Historians and attornies will find this book fascinating. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Legal History    3. Common law    4. England    5. English Law    6. Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries   

Editorial Review

The Caribbean island of Hispaniola is home to historic, ongoing strife between two countries deeply divided by race, language, and history yet forced constantly into confrontation by their shared geography. In her first book, American journalist Michele Wucker reports from both Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the complex relations between these two cultures and sheds light on the sources of their struggles both in their island home and in the United States.Read more

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Splendid overview of the complex, convoluted histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti
Along the southern coast of the island of Hispaniola, in the Dominican Republic, one can still see the scars of a cataclysmic event in Earth's distant past; a vivid reminder of the large asteroid which collided with planet Earth 65 million years ago, leaving behind a vast impact crater whose outline is now part of Mexico's Yucatan coast. Nearly twenty years ago, Alan Hildebrand, a young Canadian geologist I knew in graduate school, stumbled upon these scars; thick layers of sedimentary rock encasing haphazardly strewn boulders and other rocky debris that were deposited by tidal waves flooding the island soon after the impact; an impact responsible for the extinction of approximately 40 percent of Earth's animals, including nonavian dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops (He would also rediscover the impact crater at Chicxulub, Yucatan, Mexico, relying on geological maps and seismic data obtained from Pemex, Mexico's nationalized oil company.). In "Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola", journalist Michele Wucker tells with ample brevity and poignant prose, the cataclysmic history of the humans living on Hispaniola, an engrossing saga replete with tragic events which are as memorable in their own right as the asteroid impact from 65 million years ago. It is an engrossing saga told well by Michele Wucker, who has written the best account I have come across of Hispaniola's 19th and 20th Century history.
Did Ms Wucker ever visit Haiti?
An authoritative-sounding reviewer above, speaking from deep in the American Midwest, suggests that thisauthor's knowledge of Haiti was based on occasional day trips. Without citing any experience of his own, he calls hers into question.
Share realities
With the political situation in Haiti continuing to make headlines in the US and Europe, Michele Wucker's book provides timely insight into the political and economic realities of both Haiti and its "closest" neighbor -- the Dominican Republic. To understand Haiti's present predicaments, one must also understand its historical ones, most of which are intertwined with those of the Dominican Republic's. While the two countries share an island, they are not neighbors standing face to face. Instead, they have traditionally been neighbors standing back to back, at once attempting to ignore their differences and suffering from their similarities. Wucker has traveled extensively through Haiti and the Dominican Republic and has been able to interact with both the high-level players as well as the general populace, which together create the cast of characters that inhabit this mix of political intrigue, social struggle, geopolitics and basic human nature. Since the book's publishing, much has happened in both countries to indicate that the cocks continue to fight. Perhaps, the shared goal will some day be to no longer make this a fight to the death. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Caribbean & West Indies - General    2. Government - Comparative    3. History - General History    4. Politics/International Relations    5. Social History    6. Social Science / Ethnic Studies   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Economics - General    4. Jurisprudence    5. Law and economics    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Economics    8. Jurisprudence & General Issues    9. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law   

Subjects:  1. Business & Financial    2. Economic aspects    3. General    4. Law    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Law / General    7. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    8. USA   

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David Brock admits he was wrong about Anita Hill
I do not understand why this book is still in print, or at the very least is not published with a huge disclaimer on the front cover.The author himself has admitted in more recent books (_Blinded by the Right_ and others) that he was *lying* when he wrote this book, and that he deliberately spun every piece of information about Anita Hill to discredit her.
This is a smear job trying to pass off as real literature.
This book is clearly partisan without any objectivity whatsoever.All attempts at actual journalistic integrity totally failed.

Anita Hill: Slave Girl for Feminazis
Brock did an excellent job sifting and analyzing how Anita Hill's charges do not add up. This is very well written and Brock approaches the case in a very independent-minded way (his latest self-flagellating recantation notwithstanding). Doubts from both sides are aired. Corroborating (or non-corroborating) testimony is matched. Character witnesses, consistent or inconsistent statements, chronologies are included.
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Subjects:  1. 1948-    2. Courts - Supreme Court    3. Federal Jurisdiction    4. General    5. Government - Federal    6. Government - National    7. Hill, Anita    8. Judges    9. Political Science    10. Politics / Current Events    11. Politics/International Relations    12. Selection and appointment    13. Sexual harassment of women    14. Thomas, Clarence,    15. United States    16. Biography: general    17. History / General    18. Law-Government - Federal    19. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    20. Political Science-Government - National    21. Thomas, Clarence    22. USA   

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A great introduction to Roman law
A read this book as a student, and I found it an easy guide to the world of Roman law. Though today's legal systems share a common heritage from Roman law, the latter is still an alien system for lawyers today. It is thus not an easy task to present this exotic legal system and society as easy as Nicholas does in this book.

Nicholas - Roman Law
When I was a student at Oxford I specialised in Roman law. The tutorial system was very good at providing education in detail but bad at giving the wider picture. I survived on Nicholas to keep my sanity. Other writers deal with the subject in greater depth (von Lubtow, Daube, Jolovicz, Schulz etc)but he does a unique job, so far as Iam aware, in producing acomprehensible overall map. I reccomend it highly to anyone interested inRoman law. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Ancient - Rome    2. Government - Comparative    3. History    4. History: World    5. Law    6. Legal History    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Ancient Rome    9. Classical Studies | Ancient History | Roman    10. History / Ancient / Rome    11. Roman law   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. England    3. Foundations of law    4. General    5. History    6. History of specific subjects    7. Law    8. Legal History    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. English Law    11. Law / Legal History    12. Law | Legal History   

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great read
Some individuals might say this book is too liberal. However, the problem with most government textbooks is that they are too conservative and leave out important analysis of our governmental system. As a political scientist, I have found Edward Greenberg a sober voice in American government. To be liberal is not to be factual. If anything else, liberals use factual material more often than the ideological authors of the right, who are incapable of taking off their blinders.

Lean Left
This book has a very Left leaning liberal bent.If you just want the facts, this is not the book for you.If you don't mind just hearing one side of events (the left side) then by all means get this book.It is a commentary not a history book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Government - Comparative    2. Political Ideologies - Democracy    3. Political Science    4. Politics - Current Events    5. Politics / Current Events    6. Politics/International Relations    7. Political Science / General    8. Political structures: democracy    9. USA   

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Great book on Latin American social movements
This book is an excellent academic work that can be used for research as well as interested lay-readers. I particularly like the variation in topics from unconventional guerilla movements, unorganized grassroots movements tomore conventional movements.The topics include important issues like LasMadres in Argentina andeconomic structural reforms in the region. Thebook covers many countries in the region offering a great overview. Thecontributers are all well known in theirrespective disciplines and offergreat insights into Latin American culture and politics. A similar bookwould be Free Markets and Food Riots by Walton yet this book is broader incontent and easier to read. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Government - Comparative    2. Government, Resistance to    3. History & Theory - Radical Thought    4. Latin America    5. Latin America - General    6. Politics / Current Events    7. Politics and government    8. Politics/International Relations    9. Protest movements    10. Social movements    11. American studies    12. Demonstrations & protest movements    13. Political Science / General    14. Sociology, Social Studies   

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Turbulence in the Legal Academy
Each of Laura Kalman's preceding books to some extent has dealt with Yale Law School: the incisive "Legal Realism at Yale"; her definitive biography of Abe Fortas; and the awesome "Strange Career of Legal Liberalism."This new and very long volume focuses upon the turbulence that descended upon Yale in the late 1960's and early 1970's. For readers whose interest in the topic does not extend to reading a 474 page, highly detailed analysis, Kalman has written an essay with the book's major themes in the volume of essays edited by Dean Kronman, "History of the Yale Law School" (also reviewed by myself on Amazon).
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Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. History    3. Law    4. Legal Education    5. Legal History    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Study & Teaching    8. Study and teaching    9. United States    10. United States - 20th Century    11. Yale Law School    12. Connecticut    13. Higher & further education    14. Law / Legal Education    15. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    16. Yale Law School; legal education; meritocracy; liberalism; the left; the Warren Court; Vietnam War; antiwar movement; affirmative action; Black Panthers; feminism; counterculture; Legal Realism; legal liberalism; Legal Process; Law and Society; Critical Legal Studies; Law and Economics; Alexander Bickel; Robert Bork; Guido Calabresi; Kingman Brewster; Hillary Rodham Clinton; Bill Clinton; Clarence Thomas; Bobby Seale; Harvard Law School; Christopher Columbus Langdell   

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A reality that unsettles fundamentalists and islamophobes alike.
Don't expect any conservatives to welcome any kind of a progressive.
A big disappointment
1. The essays seem like they were written by those from American college who were primarily trained in approaches like deconstructionism and multiculturalism rather than schooled in Islam. Quasi-postmodern tools like deconstructionism and multiculturalism tend to be anti-rational and lead to fruitless discourse, which has been a problem in U.S. collegees in recent years, as good intentions about social injustices get lost when addressed thru half-baked intellectual tools.In fact, the information from this book on contributors shows that most are at U.S. colleges, so given the suspect "postmodern" flavor, the danger here is that Islam is being subjected to such postmodernization.
Your better off tossing your cash onto a lit stove
I think theres pretty much two themes in this book:
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Subjects:  1. Ethnic Studies - General    2. Government - Comparative    3. Islam - General    4. Islamic Government    5. Islamic History    6. Islamic Studies    7. Religion    8. Religion - World Religions    9. Islam    10. Multicultural studies    11. Religion / Islam   

Subjects:  1. Civil Procedure    2. Constitutional    3. Constitutional law    4. Constitutions    5. Law    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Reference    8. Wyoming    9. Wyoming - State Government    10. Law / Constitutional    11. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    12. USA   

Subjects:  1. Government - Comparative    2. Government - General    3. Political Science    4. Politics - Current Events    5. Politics / Current Events    6. Politics/International Relations    7. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    8. Political Science / General    9. Political science & theory