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by: ANTHONY LEWIS List Price: $12.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.36 You Save: $2.59 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Gideon's Trumpet is an eloquent and informative look at a very important story in the history of the United States legal system. Not only will it teach you about the evolution of the right to counsel from the case of Gideon v. Wainwright, but it teaches you much about the practices, intricacies and eccentricities of the Supreme Court and its members. This book should be considered essential and required reading for all law students. I loved it and learned much from it.  Read Reviews and Description
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| 22. Plain English for Lawyers | |
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by: Richard C. Wydick Amazon.com's Price: $15.00 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This book provides great advice and practical, well-designed exercises. Once considered radical by most lawyers, the book has helped reform legal writing, teaching a generation of lawyers that their writing "should not differ, without good reason, from ordinary well-written English." The book is also a model of effective prose. It's clear and understandable even to a first-year law student. Yet it's also valuable to seasoned lawyers, especially to those die-hard lawyers who insist that legal writing ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 23. Ten Minutes from Normal | |
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by: Karen Hughes List Price: $25.95 Amazon.com's Price: $17.65 You Save: $8.30 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is an easy, light read and doesn't really tell the reader anything new about GWB or even Karen Hughes if you have read articles about her while she was at GWB's side before and after she got to D.C. and after she left D.C. to return to Texas. What was and is disappointing is Ms. Hughes blatant 'hear see speak no evil' attitude when it comes the Bush Jr. We all have flaws and it would have been enlightening and more honest had Ms. Hughes shared some of the Presidents 'flaws' in a constructive manner rather ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 24. Starting Off Right in Law School | |
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by: Carolyn J. Nygren Amazon.com's Price: $14.00 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is a book, along with _Bramble Bush_, by Karl Llewellyn, and _Introduction to Legal Reasoning_, by Edward Levi, that all prospective law students ought to read. Ms Nygren's method is to introduce the prospective law student to the concept and strategy of legal thinking and legal study. In her introduction, she cites two reasons for having written the book: (1) to provide information about the legal system, and (2) to provide information about the study skills necessary for success. These two themes ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 25. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda | |
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by: Philip Gourevitch List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.50 You Save: $4.50 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description "Odette nodded at my notebook, where I was writing as she spoke. 'Do the people in America really want to read this? People tell me to write these things down, but it's written inside of me. I almost hope for the day when I can forget.'" Gourevitch, p. 238. Philip Gourevitch's "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families" is more an important book - it is a testament to humanity. Gourevitch tells the story surrounding the 1994 genocide in Rwanda through historical facts and personal accounts, ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 26. Out of Bounds : Inside the NBA's Culture of Rape, Violence, and Crime | |
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by: Jeff Benedict List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.97 You Save: $7.98 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is a good, solid, accurate book. It doesn't cast many blanket statements or make the mistake of making wild proclamations (unlike the three reviewers below me). The points it makes are valid, and it told me much more than what I already suspected. The celebrity status of players in the NBA has given many of them the feeling that they are above the rules that apply to normal men. More than the rules and regulations must alter for crime among NBA players to fall. American society must change. The hero-worshipping must stop. Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 27. Patent It Yourself (PATENT IT YOURSELF) | |
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by: David Pressman List Price: $49.99 Amazon.com's Price: $33.99 You Save: $16.00 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description If you're thinking of filing a patent, David Pressman's Patent It Yourself is an absolute must! The patenting process is fraught with legal pitfalls that can trap even the savvyest, most experienced inventor. This book translates all of the complex, circuitous legalese that lawyers use to make law inaccessible into plain english. Chock-full with diagrams, step-by-step instructions, and tear-out forms, Patent It Yourself is a one-stop guide to patent success. I have no legal backround and have successfully filed four patents with this book, ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 28. The Buffalo Creek Disaster : How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history broughtsuit against the coal company--and won | |
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by: GERALD M. STERN Amazon.com's Price: $10.20 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description My Civil Proceedure Prof. assigned this to us over Christmas Break so we could become familiar with "piercing the corporate veil", which merely refers to the rare legal opportunity to cut through a corporation's legal armour and attack some of the meat and money, i.e. personal assets of the officers. This only happens when there is extreme wrong doing by those suits running the business, and if you want to know what extreme worngdoing is, this is the book that will lay it out for you, pretty as a penny. I have to admit, I was dreading reading this book, ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 29. What is Sarbanes-Oxley? | |
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by: Guy Lander, Guy Lander List Price: $12.00 Amazon.com's Price: $9.60 You Save: $2.40 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This book has allowed me to answer questions regarding Sarbanes-Oxley quickly and accurately. We plan on ordering the book for every lawyer in the firm. Read Reviews and Description
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| 30. Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About the American Legal System | |
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by: Jay M. Feinman List Price: $27.50 Amazon.com's Price: $19.25 You Save: $8.25 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I heard about this book on a web page about good books to read prior to law school. I just finished reading it yesterday, and I am very impressed. The author writes in such a way that any reader can acquire a basic understanding of our legal system. He explores the foundational areas of our body of laws, and he describes both sides of hotly debated issues such as abortion and the death penalty. Most of all, the author emphasizes that the law is not something that ordinary people cannot understand. It is not just for lawyers, judges, and politicians. Rather, the ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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