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Be prepared to sit with the tutor, because the book is so boring. The examples are not in a real situation. Not helpful.. So boring that by the time you do the problems you are ready for bed. If this is the required text buy a chemistry help book bc this books bottom line is awful, poorly written.

The shipping was great. The only thing that I did not like was the book was being labeled as new, but clearly this book was used with stickers stuck on the front cover. Overall, the book is in good condition, and the price I paid for it was very reasonable. In the future if I need to, I will purchase from this seller again.

I am taking General Chemistry and this book covers the material very well. Get this book if you are studying G Chem.

I recieved it in good time, and it was what i wanted, in good condition, the only thing was the packaging was falling apart when i got it

Learning Chem is like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. When I studied, my main source of knowledge was from the text books. Unfortunately, I didn't have this book when I took General Chem.
After reading this book, I realized that many authors(at least 3 of my other general chem books I own) don't emphasize on Atoms and Light(as in Ch6) much less know how to explain the topic. More over, they don't know how to arrange the material in an organized order. Comparing to this book, I'm surprised how those other Chem books could miss entirely on The Properties of Electrons (Ch6.5) which I think is the most important topic in Chem since Chem deals mainly with the Coulomb Force.
So I guess writing a Chem text book requires a lot of skill. The author need to know what to emphasize(and what not to) and know how to cleverly link the material in order that readers can easily understand. The authors of this book did just that.

Great for any English Major will use again and again and its easier than carrying seven books.

This book is an excellent resource for anyone who wishes to become a better writer. It covers everything from short stories to drama scripts to revising & editing. Very helpful and well written.

The authors, writers, poets, and playwrights include the following;
Maya Angelou; Leonard Adame; W.H. Auden; Margaret Atwood;
Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Rupert Brooke; Charles Bukowski; Suzanne Berger; Matsuo Basho;
Kate Chopin; Raymond Carver; e.e. cummings; Judith Ortiz Cofer; Lucille Clifton; Thomas Campion;
Emily Dickinson; Ariel Dorfman;
William Faulkner; Robert Frost; Jane Flanders;
Susan Glaspell; Nadine GOrdimer; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Nikki Giovanni;
Louise Gluck; Barbara Greenberg;
Ernest Hemingway; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Robert Hayden; Seamus Heaney; Ted Hughes; Langston Hughes; Thomas Hardy; Robert Herrick; A.E. Housman;
James Joyce; Shirley Jackson;
David Michael Kaplan; Jamaica Kincaid; Yusef Komunyakaa; Carolyn Kizer;
D.H. Lawrence; Robert Lowell; Denise LEvertov;
Katherine Mansfield; Archibald Macleish; Marianne Moore; Christopher Marlowe; Janice Mirikitani;
Tillie Olsen; Flannery O'Connor; Joyce Carol Oates; Wilfred Owen;
Ann Petry; Edgar Allan Poe; Dorothy Parker; Sylvia Plath; Ezra Pound;
Alberto Alvaro Rios; Adrienne Rich; Theodore Roethke; Sir Walter Raleigh;
Dudley Randall;
William Shakespeare; Leslie Marmon SIlko; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Anne Sexton; Sipho Sepamla; William Stafford; Jim Sagel; Edmund Spenser; Gary Snyder;
Amy Tan; Dylan Thomas;
John Updike;
Richard Wright; Alice Walker; Eudora Welty; William Wordsworth; Walt Whitman; James Wright; Richard Wilbur; William Carlos Williams;
William BUtler Yeats;
Louis ZUkofsky;

I had to buy this book for a literature class, and it is chock full of everything from poetry to plays to fiction, long and short stories. Nice book. Have been reading more than the required because it has such a nice selection.

This book is a good small edition to the full-sized book. While it is off in page numbers, and thusly creates the need to admit to not having the full text, the book itself had everything I needed for my class.

The book was in excellent condition. I bought it brand new. It was packaged in a way so as to keep it looking new. This book was prescribed and part of the course I took in MBA program. Love the book, its very interesting.

I used this book for the first and last time in Autumn term 2006 with 28 foreign students in my Global Finance MBA course. When one wishes to make money by consistently reissuing new editions he has an obligation to update it at least minimally, (The Paul Samuelson Rule). In this case Greed is not good.

Hence, my exasperation when I open the 2006 edition of the book and on the first page learn that the currency of Belgium is the Belgian franc, the currency of Ireland is the pound,(Ireland's curency was never the pound; it was the punt) or that Germany still has the DM. Many of students lost points on a midterm because they thought the currency of Finland is is the markka. Shapiro in 2006 says so. On the next page he fails to mention Monaco; there are a lot of capital flows internationally through Monoco. And on that page Spain still has a peseta.Portugal has escudos.

The book also suffers from wordiness. I did like the key phrases section in each chapter; I thought at least that all key phrases would be included in the glossary but I could find all there. There is a certain obtuseness which I did find perplexed my students sometimes, who did not quite enjoy this book as I had hoped. We would not use it again.

I tried to contact the author by email with several queries but did not experience the courtesy of a reply.

It is use full, but if I didn't have it for a class I would not purchase it.

This is one of the better books for a course in international finance. It has cases in the text, which allows the student to get the real world intuition of the topics that are being covered. This is not a text that only extends capital budgeting to an international setting, it also includes some concepts borrowed from international economics (e.g. purchasing power parity, interest rate parity, covered interest arbitrage, etc.). It also looks into some risk management practices that are relevant for multinational corporations. However, I feel that some topics could have been cut short and the author just wanted to add a few (hundred) more pages to the text.

The book "Multinational Financial Management" is a good introduction to this rather complex subject. It is written well and contains a lot of examples and historical references. Some of the chapters in the second part are kept a tad too short though.

The book covers the main topics of international financial management, the environment of international financial management, foreign exchange and derivatives market and risk management, financing of multinational corporations, foreign investment analysis and multinational working capital management in 5 main sections.

I found most parts of the text to be very well readable and easy to understand. All concepts are backed up by examples and separate illustrations discussing a real event in more or less detail. This works especially well in the first chapters of the text covering the simpler concepts. Subjects like international monetary systems or country risk analysis (to just mention a few) are covered in great detail, and the required math, e.g. the formulas used for the parity conditions and the Fisher Effect, are illustrated with enough examples even for someone with little or no mathematical background.

The parts of the book covering derivatives is too short and the theory provided does not go deep enough in order to comprehend the more complex examples easily. Trying to figure out the mechanics of Kodak's Zero Coupon Australian Dollar Interest Rate/Currency Swap involving 11 parties, multiple swaps and currencies was no easy task after a mere 2 1/2 page theoretical introduction to currency swaps. There are better books for understanding currency swaps.

Other parts not covered deep enough were the chapters on international project and firm evaluation (covering subject like WACC and CAPM). With just this book, it is impossible to get an idea of the real meaning of these models and techniques. Too many details are omitted that should have been covered. Granted, these are more complex subjects, but maybe the author should have either keep the book focused on the main topics or split the content over two books.

Overall, the first part of the book is very useful, but the more complex subjects are not covered with the depth they require.

This book is a must-have for any DO student. It is essential for boards and great for rotations.

A must for the few pages (google it or see SDN). Great for the rest of the book. Should be used for first 2 years and reviewed before the boards. If not used all 2 years then just memorize the tables of innervations and the bullet points, if you have time read the rest, skimming though.
GREAT BOOK, a MUST have for DO's.

This book is great, and all the 3d year medical students say it is a must have for the boards!

This book was hyped up as the best, but I thought it was too elementary and too wordy with mistakes!

This book has useful information for learning material that you will need to know in the classroom on on your boards.

That said, this book is riddled with errors. You have to be careful what you read, because there are typos on nearly every page.

The questions at the end of each chapter are moderately useful in asking about what you just read. However, the question blocks at the end of the book are atrociously bad. Many of the questions test your knowledge of concepts not presented in the book, so I suppose you can approach them as another learning opportunity, but as a question format they're not very helpful.

One example:
Supraventricular tachyarrhythmias that have been associated with hypersympathetic activity are most likely to arise from:
A. Right sided sympathetic fibers originating from T1-T4
B. Left sided sympathetic fibers originating from T2-T5
C. Left vagus nerve
(D and E are obviously wrong)

If you committed to memory the chart on page 104 (as you are supposed to for boards, see below) you will remember that the spinal cord level associated with the heart is T1-T5. There are 2 answer choices that fit that answer, and choice C is wrong because the vagus does parasympathetics. So you may be inclined to put B since the heart is, after all, on the left side. Well, you would be wrong, according to Savarese, as he explains in the answer explanation:

"Fibers originating on the right innervate the right heart and sinoatrial (SA) node...Left sided sympathetic fibers innervate the AV node." So the answer is A.

Very cute, but why didn't he include that information in the original text? He doesn't. Many of the questions end up this way, making for a frustrating exercise.

The one most important thing in this book, as regards to the board exams, is the chart on page 104 showing segmental sympathetic innervations. Since this chart is easily obtained from somewhere else, the value of buying this book is questionable at best. I suppose, looking back, that it might be worth it to get the book, if only just.

One thing going for this book is that it is a quick read; you can go through the whole thing at an easy pace in less than a week. Just heed my warnings about typos, errors, and the question blocks at the end are of dubious relevance.

I strongly recommend this book to you.
When I was a PhD candidate, the persecution towards Falun Gong started. Because I practiced Falun Gong, I was arrested and detained since 1999. I was still brave, strong, healthy and thoughtful when I was locked at a small cell alone for a few months. The director of police department was surprised to see that I was still so brave during the interrogation. The reason was, everyday, I recited this book, Hong Yin, again and again. I also know many of my fellow practitioners who suffered too much in forced labor camps tried to overcome all these torture because of remembering these poems and read in their hearts again and again. The evil could kill them but could not derive their faith. Never.
I know how to be friendly while I am mistreated when I am reciting this book. In a few days when I was detained at another detention center with some prisoners, I even got a piece of paper and some ball pens. I wrote those poems down. I was happy to see so many prisoners changed dramatically when they heard of Falun Gong. They regretted that if they heard of Falun Gong earlier, if they did according to "truthfulness-compassion-forbearance", they would not be there and how happy life they would have with their family members:). They decided to do as a Falun Gong practitioner from then on. One even put my paper (with poems) into her blanket and decided to practice Falun Gong when she was released. One tried to remember some of sentences from Falun Gong books.

I first read this book after I had already practiced Falun Gong for a while. I found some of the poems quite funny, others where really touching, because they point out exactly what it is like when you try to improve your heart and mind in this most materialistic society. Hongyin was really a revelation to me. A lot of the poems probably wouldn't make much sense to someone who hasn't read other Falun Gong books but if you like poetry and know a bit about Buddhism I would definetly recommend you buy it. You can always read the poems on www.falundafa.org first to make your mind up.

This collection of poems is very beautiful and most profound. Mr. Li's poetry has inspired me greatly in many tough situations. Falun Dafa is definitely not a cult, it teaches truth, compassion, and forbearance. The true cult is the Chinese Communist Party who have made Falun Dafa illegal in China and torture and murder people for practicing such a great cultivation way.

This is one of the most wonderful and touching books of poetry I have read. A truly touching piece of literature, that comes highly recommended. Please ignore the false reviews at the bottom of this page as this person has in no way written an honest an unbiased review. Please take writing reviews seriously as honest consumers have the right to know what they are really buying ... not the one sided opinion of someone who obviously hasn't read the books (at least from an objective view).

I was very glad when I got this book after a long time's waiting. By reading the poems in this book, I understood the truth well, and I saw which is right and which is wrong; which is great and which is evil. And, I like to remember and recite these poems because that was proved to be really valuable and helpful for me! And, just like what 'feburary' said, the book is printed well with a lot of beautiful illustrations.

By the way, I really cannot understand those people who will say this book useless and even evil. How can and dare you say this?! Is this the use of your 'higher degree'? What the school taught you were to scold and insult good things? Then I can only draw one conclusion - you are really from a BIG CULT! (let me omit the name of the cult, because it is not worth of mentioning).

The projects in this book are definitely cool. However, I encountered two substantial problems.

First, it was difficult to find some of the supplies. I live in a metropolitan area (2 million people) and could only find one place that sold liming wax. I spent an hour on the phone calling places looking for it. I finally found a supplier 40 miles away.

Second, the colors in the book are quite different than in person. I added the specified amount of artist's paint to create the terracota fresco. The color was suppose to be orangish. It turned out to be pink. Let me tell you, my husband did not appreciate that at all.

My recommendation, take her ideas, but don't use her colors.

I do decorative finishes quite often, and while I have not actually followed any of the paint recipes to the letter, they have provided a jumping-off point for many projects. A nice sourcebook w/ photos of different kinds of tools, pigments, etc. The use of UK measurements and paint terms could be confusing for some people. Overall a very good reference for the serious or semi-serious decorative painter...

I have been enchanted with this book since I first saw and acquired it a few years ago. I have followed only a few recipes, partly because it has been difficult to find some of the ingredients in my area. My most pressing complaint, however, echoes comments by an earlier reviewer regarding the accuracy of the recipes. I am in the middle of a faux stone block wall that calls for a base coat and three glaze coats, followed by veining and shadows--a lot of work. It was clear after the first glaze coat that my wall would never be remotely close to the lovely terra cotta color identified (p. 94) as "the basic recipe". Help, Liz, where are you?

This is a wonderful book for anyone wanting to decorate or redecorate their home with style. It is great value because it is literally packed with techniques and ideas to suit anyone's taste. Most effects are surprisingly easy to create.

The book starts out with a through explanation of materials. This includes color photos of all the tools, as well as charts with great information on mixing and thinning paint types, primers, undercoats, solvents, glazes, varnishes, sealants, and metallic finishes. Information about toxicity, uses and whether it should be used indoors or out is included as well. There are even several excellent charts on preparing almost any surface for painting.

Numerous techniques for painting walls including colorwashing, sponging, dragging, rag rolling, stippling, limewashing, dry brushing, fade-away washing, loose-glaze, mock and rubbed back plaster are included. Effects such as Fresco, Mediterranean and Egyptian are also covered as well as creating borders, stone blocking and making distressed plaster patterns.

Then wood effects such as aging, spattering, graining, crackling, combing, and staining are covered. The Scandinavian and Shaker color pallets and styles are demonstrated here too. Stone finishes such as marbling, lapis lazuli, sandstone, porphyry, granite and terracotta follow. Then there are metal finishes including patina, verdigris, rust, lead, iron and bronzing. Finally, lacquer, tortoiseshell, shagreen, leather, stenciling, and gilding techniques are shown.

Most of the projects use latex or acrylic paint, only a few use oils. Step-by-step directions are given for each of these techniques or effects. Close-up photos show the each style in a few different colors and recipes are given for each one. Some styles have pictures of finished rooms or objects done with them.

Since printing accurate colors is tricky and there are so many variables in materials and surfaces, I know that results can vary. I would recommend experimenting on a small scale and tweaking the recipe to get things the color you want. All in all this is fabulous and inspirational book at an excellent price for anyone who wants to do more than brush on off-the-shelf paint.

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I have both of her books and they are both great, helpful etc..the life-lesson i learned is...if it doesn't work out..paint over it and start again. ...

Professor Sunstein recovers FDR's 1944 State of the Union address from the dust bin of history. The speech makes a compelling case for the proposition that each of us has inherent economic rights; not just civil and political rights. Among these rights are a right to a useful and remunerative job, and the right to earn enough to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, health care, and recreation.

In part two of the book Sunstein however argues that these rights are not recognized in the Constitution. Rather they are "constitutive commitments," fundamental aspects of how we understand what America is about. In part three of the book he explains why it is that these now universally recognized human economic rights should not be considered Constitutional rights.

Professor Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School, a Fellow at the Hoover Institute, and a scholar of the Cato Institute argues in his book How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution, almost as a counter-point, that the Supreme Court wrongly embraced FDR's social-economic revolution.

Reading these two together permits one to reflect on the role of the Supreme Court in effecting social change, the meaning and limits of the Constitution, and just what kind of a government the founders envisioned; and better understand the real stake in the debates about appointments to the Supreme Court.

For good measure one might also read Sotorios Barber's Welfare and the Constitution, a compelling case that the Constitution authorizes, even requires positive government. In other words, the government is, in fairness to President Reagan, part of the problem; but at the same time it is also a necessary part of the solution.

The idea of the Second Bill of Rights appeared in the classic State of the Union address by Franklin Roosevelt in 1944, and is an underground current of American culture. It was also in part the inspiration for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That this speech, and the real FDR, is so little known tells us something of the times, but the birth of an idea foretells perhaps its future return. The powers that be don't wish that we realize the incomplete nature of our democracy, and the history of this speech mostly explains the apoplexy of the resurgent right wing. This book explores the history and legal background, and the way this second bill almost became a part of the American system in the 1960's. Everything was in place, and then the election of Nixon stopped the momentum as four new conservative judges were placed on the Supreme Court. The conservative tide after that is the story of our generation and the incoherence, reactionary destruction, and inequality it has spawned. An idea whose time has long since come, and whose second coming we can certainly hope and work for.

This was my fist Sunstein book but it won't be my last. Three chapters (2, 6 and 11) alone are worth the book's price. Sunstein's obvious constitutional experience and social acumen offers depth and insight into many social issues of the day. He caused me to critically understand the definition of "government" and "rights" better than ever. His analysis of Laissez-Faire economic philosophy is the most practical I've ever read.

Although I was interested in the conditions for and results of the "New Deal", I was unaware of FDR's 2nd BOR probably I think, because few ever really gave it its proper emphasis and analysis. Sunstein filled in the missing pieces. His writing is well constructed, logical without becoming oppressive, and flowed nicely. It is a quick read.

The book is more than a historical analysis. It challenged my understandings of the role today of government and the constitution. I've been studying these issues for several years now, so Sunstein accomplished what few others could. It was truly a fresh approach that makes me feel like I understand social issues and their complications better than ever.

His treatment of FDR's Second Bill of Rights was fair and reasoned illustrating both sides of the argument. He thankfully made the discussion relevant to the issues of today and provided tools for me to use in discussions with others.

I've added more of his titles to my wish list. You should too.

Of all the stupefyingly idiotic ideas that, thankfully, never got passed into law, Franklin Roosevelt's "Second Bill of Rights" was one of the all-time worst. Cass R. Sunstein's billowy praise of "St. Franklin" borders on deification and is all at once laughable and nauseating. But underlying it all is the notion that this odious, detestable idea--that it's the government's job to provide people with work, housing, food, etc.--is actually something worth revisiting! That is utterly repugnant to me as it should be to every American. We are a nation of sturdy, self-reliant individuals. We are resourceful, resilient, and industrious. We look only to Almighty God for our daily bread--not almighty government! But unfortunately, history has provided us with enough Karl Marx's, Franklin Roosevelt's and Cass Sunstein's to keep these questions in continued doubt, and urge America Leftward into a European-style socialist gulag. Mercifully, FDR failed to get his attack on American freedom ratified. I can only hope CRS and his ridiculous book will meet with similar failure!

I won't bore you with all the things that are good about this book (as usual, Sunstein's scholarship is first-rate, his prose is easy on the eyes even as the ideas are challenging to the mind). I'll get straight to my two problems with the substance of his advocacy of Roosevelt's "Second Bill of Rights", which encompass social-welfare rights not included in our actual Bill:

1) While Sunstein is careful to thoroughly review just about all possible objections - political, economic, legal, and moral - that one could throw at the idea of an expanded array of social-economic rights, the one he spends most of his time on is an attack on the "laissez-faire" idea that classic first-bill rights, such as freedom of speech, religion, property rights, and freedom of contract, are cost-free and don't require an active "government".

Sunstein shows that they do. But, the problem here is that he is demolishing a straw-man. I don't know of *any* modern "conservative" thinker who would disagree with the idea that a free market requires a significant amount of government - an elaborate legal system to enforce contracts, remedy fraud, document transactions; police and military forces to protect property, etc. Sunstein even quotes key free-market philosophers, such as Friedrich Hayek, to that effect. The only ones who truly believe in a literal absence of government are anarchists, and most conservative thinkers despise anarchists as much as they do leftists. No, the issue isn't whether we should have government or not have it, the issue is how *much* government we should have. By attacking an opponent who does not (or at least no longer) exists, Sunstein dodges that issue.

2) After addressing several objections to a Second Bill, Sunstein addresses the one of most concern to me: That Roosevelt's plan to "take from those who have large amounts of resources to ensure decent amounts for those who would otherwise be in desperate need" amounts to an immoral theft of property. In my view, the only people that i or any other citizen should be required, at point of bayonet, to support are members of my immediate family. If i am starving and my neighbor has plenty, it may be the right thing for him to give me food, and he may be worthy of condemnation by the community if he refuses to help me, but in my opinion he should not be required, by governmental force, to do so. To make my neighbor responsible for my well being would be morally wrong, a brutal violation of their right to dispose of what they earned as they see fit, with the caveat that they should be taxed to pay for essential government services that benefit everyone, such as police, fire, military, legal- the apparatus needed to protect "first bill" rights.

This is the real rub, because as Sunstein notes, many provisions in the "Second Bill", such as Social Security and a right to public education, have pretty much become law anyway. What hasn't become law, and what Sunstein really wants, is a welfare state that provides expanded housing, food, shelter and medical care for the poor, and not just at a bare minimum, but including enough spending money so that they can participate in the broader culture via purchase of consumer goods, too. Sunstein rejects the notion that people require only the "bare minimum for survival", saying that poverty is "relative", and in our affluent society people will not feel like "whole citizens" unless they have a lot of what they see others enjoying on television.

On pages 205-206, Sunstein addresses "my" point about the morality of "taking from the rich to give to the poor" by arguing that if one is to say that taking from the 'haves' to give to the 'have-nots' violates the rights of the 'haves', one would have to agree that "people have a right to their current holdings, and any dimunition amounts to a rights violation". Sunstein says that this position is implausible, because it is only the existence of laws and public institutions that make those holdings possible. He says "without public support, wealthy people could not possibly have what they own.... those who denounce government largesse as a violation of rights disregard the extent to which their own rights are a product of government".

That's it! That's his reply. In my opinion, it is totally inadequate, because if we take Sunstein's argument seriously, government can diminish any of our rights at any time for any reason, simply because it is government that protects them. If GW Bush wants to enact a law that allows the FBI to wire-tap anyone without a warrant at any time they please, or shut down newspapers that criticize the war in Iraq, one couldn't cry foul about one's rights being violated by an intrusive government, because by gosh it's only by the grace of government that we have any rights at all!

Since to me this was the key issue that Sunstein had to address and in my opinion he failed to do so, i was unconvinced by the thesis of the book.

"Who's Pushing Your Buttons" is one of the best books I've ever read on conflict resolution. This is a really useful book that helps you to take charge in very difficult situations. It is encouraging to know that your relationship with someone difficult is not completely hopeless.

Dr. John Townsend begins this book by presenting the reasons someone in your life is a button-pusher. The first chapter analyzes the problems you may be encountering or at least it explains the reasons people are button-pushers.

In a way, this book is as much about working on yourself as it is about getting another person to change. Most of the book deals with issues you can handle yourself, like getting a life vs. being obsessive about a troublesome relationship. As you work on yourself the situation can start to change. Simply by spending more time away from the problem it can get better. That is just the start of how to deal with problems. Dr. John Townsend has quite a few good solutions that involve setting boundaries and at times withdrawing from difficult people. This seemed to work well with relatives that were out of control.

Most of the advice in this book seems to work well within a marriage relationship. My husband and I take turns being each other's button pushers. He thinks I talk too much about certain subjects (I analyze a lot) and I think he talks too little about subjects important to me. So there are some topics we just have to avoid. That was something that wasn't addressed in the book - avoidance of dangerous topics that cause anger.

This book is much more in favor of taking the bull by the horns. For lasting change and a peaceful relationship sometimes you have to make difficult decisions that could cause a temporary loss of comfort. While this book doesn't advocate a total separation I think that might be useful in some relationships. The author believes there is hope for everyone but does believe you should get help if your relationship has turned violent.

So if you are in a relationship where someone is driving you crazy you might just have a button-pusher on your hands. According to this book, there is hope and you have more control over the situation than you realize. I can highly recommend this book to anyone struggling in an abusive relationship. The ideas in this book will help you with relatives, friends, work associates and marriage partners. It is great to know that you can turn any relationship around with God's help and a bit of wisdom and persistence.

I've found that reading relationship books and trying to practice unconditional love has been what keeps my marriage together. Each book I read gives me new ideas and I try to put them into practice as soon as possible. I have noticed that as I change myself and try to be a better person, my relationship with my husband and family is better. So I really agree with the author's ideas of working on yourself first so you can be a good example of how to live out the Christian life. I'm not perfect but thirteen years of marriage has made me a better person. So it is worth sticking it out during troubled times. Here are a few more items I've found to be very helpful:

Cracking the Communication Code: The Secret to Speaking Your Mate's Language
How to Get Your Husband to Talk to You
The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate
Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs
For Women Only: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men
The New Physics of Love: The Power of Mind & Spirit in Relationships (Six Cassettes and Study Guide Box Set)
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex

~The Rebecca Review

I purchased this book on the basis of a radio interview with the author which I heard. The book was interesting but not as useful as I had hoped. It has an element of inflexibility that weakens it.

This is a great practical advice book! Easy to read. I highlighted a number of parts and have already passed it on to a family member.

I bought this book because I needed some support in dealing with a couple button pushers in my life and was not disappointed in this books teaching. In this book Dr. John Townsend explains that dealing with a button pusher takes a plan and that leaving is not an option in a love relationship, in fact he states boldly that leaving is for wimps.

This book has opened my eyes to may things here are a few
1- We must not be dependant on the person, we can live with and love a difficult person and still change and grow ourselves
2- That we must set boundaries and consequences and those consequences must be appropriate.
3- Even though I focus on the other persons attitudes towards me, what is it about me that draw's out those attitudes in others, how do I push buttons as well.
4- God is ultimately in charge and although it may look like the other person is not learning anything or having to deal with the nasty behavior, all people pay for their actions one way or the other and you cant run from God and he will in fact make things more difficult on the person in order for them to repent and return to him.

Although this book is no landmark on the subject it does offer solid ideas and help on a difficult subject and I would recommend it to anyone trying to get a grasp on living in a difficult relationship.

While I find this a pretty good book, and appreciate the approach the author takes, I really was a bit unnerved by the constant quoting of scripture and references to Jesus. If you do not belive in Jesus, or sin or heaven/hell and...I was really put off by suggesting that one reason your button pusher does what he does may be due, in part, to demonic forces.

I wish that I had known the strong Christian slant of this book before I purchased it. I am not Christian, and I am not comfortable with the constant bible thumping. But there are some sound ideas and suggestions.

I had to...as the saying goes, "Take what I want and leave the rest." Some might not be a great match for this book base on what I found.

Book seems to be what I was looking for to send to my son who is teaching in South Korea.The lesson plans were easy to adjust to the kids and the adult programs.

This book works fine for ideas, but it doesn't have a great deal of resources for reteaching.

I teach 5th grade and have used many of the lessons in the book. I like how they have a sheet I can use if I need it. Many times I put it on the overhead and use that way. I have seen a definate improvement in my students writing. I shared it in a writing class I am taking and many teachers ordered it, they were so impressed.

This book is fantastic! Our son (age 9) is extremely bright and a good reader and has always been an excellent student. Now in 3rd grade, there is an emphasis on writing in his classroom and for some reason he developed what the teacher described as a "mental block" about writing, because he didn't know how to get started. He would get anxious and upset and end up in tears, saying "I don't know what to write."

I bought a few different books to help with the challenge, and this book was by far the most valuable. It got him past his mental block. He and I do one mini-lesson each week at home, on the weekends when we are relaxed. The mini-lessons are short, focused and fun. In just a few short weeks, our son has made progress both at home and in the classroom. I even consulted with a professional tutor in our area, who said that we were on the right track by using this book - she was very impressed with it.

Thank you Adele Fiderer!

The 4th grade at our school decided to try this book out after a writing inservice where the presenter used over half of the book for her material. I have to admit, we're only half way through the book, but the results so far have been awesome. The kids are really showing huge jumps in their writing ability. The lessons are short and sequential. Each one has blacklines to repo or make overheads. The students are really starting to see what good writing looks like, and they're doing it. My favorite part is that this isn't a textbook with pages of theories but a real usable book that an overburdened elementary teacher can pick up and start using effectively immediately.

this is one of the most original and groundbreaking pieces of legal literature in history...Posner, one of the founders of the "chicago school" of law & economics applies the principles of ecomonics to analyze the entrire legal system from basic rules to underlying principles

Although the economic theories used by Posner are for the most part sound, nevertheless, he lacks a more realistic approach to the problems presented in this book. For example, in the real world we CANNOT ignore transaction costs in all cases. Also, not all laypeople know the law as well as Mr. Posner. Overall, I do recommend reading this book, it will undoubtly stimulate your mind!

First of all, the law and economics movement did not originate with Richard Posner. To his credit, he does reference the men who collectively formulated the modern utilitarian theory called "law and economics." Pay attention to the enormous amount of spelling errors and poor syntax in the first edition. The book seems like it was rushed to the presses in order to capitalize on something.

Posner makes several invalid claims, the chief of which states that judge made law followed the logic of the law and economic movement. That is, judges allegedly were concerned with maximizing in utilitarian fashion the distribution of wealth to its most productive use. When he thinks the courts should honor efficient breaches, he contradicts this former thesis since it only proves judges don't act "entirely" in a utilitarian fashion.

I think there is some merit to this law and economic position with regard to contracts, which is why I predicate the above sentence with "entirely." With regard to contracts, the courts definitely have an economic incentive in addressing damages. However, with regard to torts or criminal law or other areas of law, the economic incentive wanes in significance. It waxes in significance only with contracts because contracts is a business as usual enterprise.

Overall, the law as developed by common law judges is deontological, not utilitarian. The word "deon" is Greek and means "duty." In theories of ethics, we refer to a theory as deontological when the theory mandates that we judge decisions according to how they conform with a prescribed duty. In contrast, consequentialism mandates that we judge actions according to their consequences (in other words, the ends justify the means). Situation ethics mandates that moral principles should change in order to accomodate the change in circumstances. Deontological ethics mandates that a change in circumstances does not permit a modification of moral principle. Modern ethicists like John Rawls state in utilitarian fashion that our decisions should maximize the good. Who defines the good? Aretaic theories stress not consequences or duty or the good but rather the individuals appropriation of good "character." "Arete" in Greek means "virtue" or "excellence in character." Aristotle was aretaic. Decisions should be made to cultivate and create good character. If they do this, they are good decisions. Deontology says that decisions can be wrong even if the consequences are good, even if good character results and even if there is a change of circumstances that makes the duty seem incorrect in application.

The logic of the common law has always been deontological. The modern utilitarian theory of law and economics does shed light on how common law judges formed their opinions in contract law, but in all other branches of law it is grossly incorrect and is a gross anachronism to posit that common law judges were Pareto Superior in their other decision making.

Most false theories are based on exchanging "both/and" for "either/or." It would be incorrect to say that contracts was either deontological or utilitarian (law and economics type of utilitarian). Therefore, Posner says a half truth when he says contracts is law and economics type of thinking. It is both deontological and law and economics, since both logics have played a role in judicial decisions. However, it is primarily deontological as shown by the fact that even modern judges refuse to honor efficient breaches of contract. Law and economic type of thinking operated as a lemma in indented proof when judges made their deontological decisions. After evaluating the relationship between the rights and duties of a particular case, they wouldn't go overboard and give the winning party in a contract action a windfall. To prevent windfalls and other ways of going overboard, judges would try to be economically efficient. Jurisprudence is making prudent judgments on legal matters. It is pathetic that a 7th Circuit judge like Posner has such poor judgment with regard to saying what the law is. The public can think that neo-conservative moron George Bush for appointing this moron to the 7th Circuit court.

Anyone interested in Economic Analysis of Law should have this book of "legendary" Posner

Prior to 1960, legal scholars invoked economics only in a handful of specialized contexts -- mostly antitrust and taxation. But it was not generally thought that economic science had much of anything useful to say about the law generally.

Then, in the early 1960s, Guido Calabresi and Ronald Coase published a couple of papers that a lot of people found pretty darned interesting.

Richard Posner was one of those people. Within about a decade thereafter, he had written a massive treatise-textbook that attempted to apply (Chicago-school) economic insights to almost the entirety of the law, in part relying on Calabresi's insights on risk allocation and Coase's famous theorem about what happens in a world with no transaction costs.

That treatise-textbook is now in its fifth edition, and you're looking at the Amazon page for it. It would be hard to name a more influential work in the field of law and economics -- and even today, as Posner himself will gladly tell you, although there are a few other _textbooks_ on the topic, there are still no other _treatises_.

Posner's scope is breathtaking. Not content to limit himself to the usual array of legal topics (property, torts, contracts, criminal law, legal procedure, and so forth), he also manages to devote portions of his text to, e.g., sex and marriage, surrogate motherhood, prostitution, homosexuality, and a host of other controversial and/or marginal topics you don't typically encounter in an economics text.

The typical reader will probably not find him altogether persuasive on these topics. In fact, if you're anything like me, you'll probably wind up shaking your head in sheer wonderment: how is it possible for someone to be so brilliantly incisive on one page and so infuriatingly obtuse on the next?

But don't assume Posner is the one who's wrong. Don't misunderstand me; I think he _is_ sometimes the one who's wrong. But even then, his arguments are something to be reckoned with, not to be easily dismissed. (Nor is he _ever_ simply "obtuse.")

For the most part I think the book is a success in its more modest aim. In the fifth edition, Posner ends his opening chapter with a short reply to critics of the law and economics movement; with much of what he has to say here I can wholeheartedly agree. His work should, as he notes, be of _some_ interest to anyone who thinks Kaldor-Hicks efficiency/potential Pareto improvement plays any role whatsoever in setting policies. (I don't personally think it plays or should play much role at all, but I can agree with the point as Posner has stated it.) And Posner notes, quite unobjectionably, that the entire field should not be rejected merely because one does not accept the views of its most aggressive exponents.

But make no mistake, Posner _is_ one of its most aggressive exponents, and the apparent modesty of his aims is somewhat disingenuous: he is not merely trying to find out what economics can say about the law but to tell us that it can say quite a lot indeed. And it is here that I find him ultimately unconvincing on a number of points.

(To take one well-known example, I don't think Posner's discussion of the famous "Hand formula" captures what Judge Billings Learned Hand meant by it, and at any rate the formula is not as useful as Posner seems to think it is. There is some good discussion of the Hand formula by Richard Wright in _Philosophical Foundations of Tort Law_, and in general Posner has been roundly and in some respects successfully criticized by a wide range of scholars from Ronald Dworkin to Gary Schwartz.)

But there is no getting around this massive work, and it absolutely cannot be lightly dismissed. On the contrary, the thing bristles with fine insights and obviously massive legal and economic erudition; most of it will repay close reading even for the reader who ends up disagreeing. If you have any interest in the field of law and economics, you really ought to read this book _sometime_.