How to Make Up to $100 an Hour Every Hour You Work

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Gompers and Sahlman are two of the leading researchers and authorities in this field.

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Deconstructing zealous advocacy.......2001-09-03

This is a book that it is easy to underestimate. I came to it through following a citation in a law review article. At first I thought it was little more than a run-of-the-mill account of how criminal defense lawyers set about their job. I was a little uncomfortable about the Damascene conversion that Wishman claims followed a confrontation with "Mrs Lewis", a rape victim that he had bruisingly cross-examined. In my experience lawyers, and I include myself among them, are not given to navel gazing, self-doubts and bouts of introspection.

However, by the end of the book Wishman had won me over. The book operates very much on two levels. One is aimed at a broad lay readership and deals with the FAQs that lay persons put to criminal defense lawyers. Wishman deals with these confidently and entertainingly - usually using war stories to illustrate his points. He does a good line in self-deprecation. I particularly liked the tale about the police officer with acute hearing that he uses to illustrate the old advice that you should never ask a question to which you do not know the answer.

The second level is one that is really aimed at a professional readership. The subtext of the book is concerned with the ethical dimensions of zealous advocacy. Wishman is all too aware that Donald Schon's "Reflective Practitioner" is more of an aspiration than a reality. He uses the device of his confrontation with Mrs Lewis as a starting point for examining what lawyers, whether for the defense or prosecution, should be doing and how much responsibility they should accept for their behavior in the courtroom. Practitioners who have spent any significant amount of time in the courtroom will recognize many of the dilemmas Wishman discusses - and perhaps will be encouraged to reflect on their role and performance in the way that Schon proposed.

All in all, an easy and enlightening read for both laymen and lawyers.

Revealing and somewhat self-effacing.......1999-09-10

This is the sort of book that surprises you as you read it. It is tightly edited but at first seems rather pedestrian. There is the pall of gloom and depression that one would expect from a criminal lawyer's tales of prosecuting and defending clients in Newark, New Jersey. Yet as the pages go by the book gains in power and effect. It's a dirty business, unfair, but one that has to be done and in the end one that we are doing as best we can, perhaps.

Seymour is a card-carrying, bleeding-heart liberal who visited the Soviet Union as a college student in a friendship program in the sixties, a Jew whose father walked halfway across Eastern Europe to immigrate to the US, a man who gets a lot of personal satisfaction from defending the underdogs of society. One of the surprises in the book is how much he reveals about himself that is not positive. Yet he does manage to bottom line it that he is a good guy.

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Confessions of a criminal lawyer
Allen Lumpkin Henson
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Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer

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A realistic look at the practice of a criminal attorney.

The confessions of Artemas Quibble: Being the ingenuous and unvarnished history of Artemas Quibble, esquire, one-time practitioner in the New York criminal ... yclept "shysters" or "shyster lawyers"

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The confessions of Artemas Quibble: Being the ingenuous and unvarnished history of Artemas Quibble, esquire, one-time practitioner in the New York criminal ... yclept "shysters" or "shyster lawyers"
Arthur Cheney Train
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The Confessions of Artemus Quibble

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Being the ingenius and unvarnished history of Artemus Quibble, Esquire, one-time practitioner in the New York criminal courts, together with an account of the Divers Wiles, Tricks, Sophistries, Technicalities and sundry artifices of himself and others of the Fraternity, commonly yclept "shysters" or Shyster Lawyers" as edited

Fallen: Confessions of a Disbarred Lawyer

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Fallen: Confessions of a Disbarred Lawyer
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Did you ever see the Abel Ferrara movie "Bad Lieutenant," with Harvey Keitel? It's about a NY cop on the edge of annihilating himself, whose behavior and character have so deteriorated that it is unclear that redemption is even possible. One might well call this book, an anonymous memoir, "Bad Attorney." Only it's supposed to be a true story, and at the end of the book no gesture of redemption seems forthcoming. But it's a mesmerizing read. The author begins his tale by describing a single lawsuit over a fall from a horse in which he was never able to bring himself to file the papers necessary to go to court. He goes on from there to recount in affecting detail his grossly incompetent law practice, his systematic deceit of clients, the day-trading habit that he embezzled money from clients in order to support, and his eventual disbarment. The legal details are particularly juicy. Woven into this narrative of self-destruction, too, is the author's infidelity to his wife, scenes from two marriages (the second to a woman twenty years his junior), his brushes with various characters who wish him harm, and his attempts to make a living first selling cars and then as an Internet pop-up advertiser and salesman for ?work-at-home? scams. The tone of the narrative is neither apologetic nor boastful; if anything, it tends toward shell-shocked. Read this book as a cautionary tale about procrastination, or as a warning to take extreme care when picking out your next lawyer.

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Bad Lawyer.......2005-08-20

Did you ever see the Abel Ferrara movie "Bad Lieutenant," with Harvey Keitel? It's about a NY cop on the edge of annihilating himself, whose behavior and character have so deteriorated that it is unclear that redemption is even possible.

One might well call this book, which purports to be an anonymous memoir, "Bad Attorney." Only it's not fiction, and at the end of the book no gesture of redemption seems forthcoming.

But it's a mesmerizing read. The author begins his tale by describing a single lawsuit over a fall from a horse in which he was never able to bring himself to file the papers necessary to go to court. He goes on from there to recount in affecting detail his grossly incompetent law
practice, his systematic deceit of clients, the day-trading habit that he embezzled money from clients in order to support, and his eventual disbarment.

Woven into this narrative of self-destruction, too, is the author's infidelity to his wife, the dissolution of two marriages (the second to a woman twenty years his junior), his brushes with various characters who wish him harm, and his attempts to make a living first selling cars and then as a pop-up advertiser and salesman for "work-at-home" scams. The tone of the narrative is neither apologetic nor proud; if anything, it tends toward shell-shocked. Read it as a cautionary tale about procrastination, or as a warning to take extreme care when picking out your next lawyer.

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Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer
Seymour Wishman
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The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals Editors Peter J Ucko & G W Dimbleby Binding paperback Publication Information Aldine Publishing, Chicago, 1969; 581 pgs

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The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals.
London universit Research Seminar in Archaeology and Related Subjects
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Erwin Schrödinger was a brilliant and charming Austrian, and one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century. This abridgement of Walter Moore's magisterial Schrödinger: Life and Thought offers a highly readable account, interweaving Schrödinger's scientific work with his intense personal friendships, his interest in mysticism, and the turbulent background of political events in Europe. Hailed as a "breathtaking accomplishment," Walter Moore's colorful account is destined to become a classic of scientific biography.

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A fascinting biography of a great scientific genius.......2003-10-31

I bought the hardbound edition (1989) of this book in a 2nd hand bookshop in Tokyo. As soon as I started reading it my interest for the life of this great scientist of the 20th century increased dramatically and I couldn't stop my reading. Two points are worth telling you about Schroedinger's life. The first is about the hardships that he had to face during most of his life. He joined the Austrian-Hungarian army during WW1, survived the war and continued his research. The second is about his relationships with women that catalysed his genius. This is not so surprising and is a characteristic often seen in those creative individuals who contribute very greatly to the advance of human knowledge (in this case we are talking about quantum mechanics and the meaning of life - see his book "What is Life"). Moore's book reports also the contents of many letters that Schroedinger exchanged with his great collegues (Einstein, Bohr, Pauli, Born, etc.). From these letters we can grasp some of the feelings that Schroedinger felt during his original scientific work. I did not read yet other biographies about Schroedinger and, hence, I cannot compare this book to others on the same subject. All I can say is that this book conveyed to me the information necessary to better comprehend the life of this famous scientist.

It is unbelievable.......2001-03-08

Yes it is unbelievable, not the book itself but the life of Schrodinger. This book is the abridged version of the original from same publisher at three times of the cost of this book. What you are missing is the theoretical part of his physics. Book basically covers his personal life with touch and go to Physical concepts. You do not get the ideas, how he developed the wave mechanics and other new concepts. What is striking is his life story, his running after fourteen years old teenagers, sleeping with his best friends wife or his wife sleeping with his best friends son, what a life, I could not believe. This was a schoking book for me, I, with my naivete perhaps did not expect such a behavior from a nobel lauriete and all the famous physisict of his time who knew about it and accepted him as he was. If he lived now he would have been in jail for child malestation. book is basically about his personal life from one love story to another which by the way at the conclusion of each love story he discovers something. if you want to read more about his life together with his physics, this is not the book, you need to read the original.

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All aspects of Schrödinger covered
Scientific and sexual fireworks.
....WOW
I tawt I taw a putty tat!

Schrödinger: Life and Thought
Walter J. Moore
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In this book I have tried to tell something of the life of Erwin Schrodinger in such a way that even those who are not scientists may be able to understand the greatness of his work, the range of his ideas, and the kind of person he was.

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All aspects of Schrödinger covered.......2005-12-26

Walter Moore captures the life of Erwin Schrödinger, one of the most important theoretical physicists of the 20th century, covering his career, science, philosophy and personal life.

In this ambitious book Moore tries to shed light on all aspects of Schrödinger's life, and tries to connect them, but no coherent picture evolves. I had the impression, however, that this is not Moore's fault, but that the pieces that made up Erwin Schrödinger did not fit into a coherent whole.

A gifted student from an early age on, he took on physics. After initially dwelling in different sub-fields, he developed wave mechanics at the (for creative work in theoretical physics) late age of 38. His almost unparalelled mathematical skills made this advance possible. Schrödinger never saw mathematics only as a tool, but he greatly appreciated it's beauty. Moore does an excellent job in describing the intellectual journey towards this discovery, as well as the giants on who's shoulders Schrödinger was standing. For this work Schrödinger received the Nobel prize in 1933.

In his later years, he dedicated a substantial part of his efforts to the search for a unified (quantum mechanics - relativity) theory of physics. Just like Einstein, with whom he had an extensive correspondence about the mater, he failed. Schrödinger's scientific work is explained in quite a bit of detail. Despite being quite familiar with differential equations, but without a background in theoretical physics, I must admit that I had a hard time following Schrödinger's insights as presented by Moore.

From his student days on, Erwin Schrödinger was a believer in the Indian teachings of Vedanta, proclaiming a one-ness of all minds, which make up reality. It is hard to see how a rational 20th century scientist could adhere so uncritically to an ancient religion. However, these beliefs seemingly did not influence his science much and neither did they influence his personal life.

His personal life was, nevertheless, unusual. He was a lover of interesting women, and he had many (I am all for that!), but many of his loves were still teenagers, while he was in his 30s and 40s (very weired!). For a man of such high intellectual capacity, this shows very poor moral judgment. He was not solely interested in sex, but sincerely in love with many of them and wrote them love poems.

Schrödinger also showed somewhat poor moral judgment in terms of politics, although the turmoils of the 20th century greatly affected him (he was removed from his professorship in Graz by the Nazis). He was not an opportunist, like so many of his fellow Austrian and German physicists. Although he leaned to the left, he basically was not interested in politics at all. An irresponsible neglect during the rise of fascism in Europe!

Moore brings together all these aspects of Erwin Schrödinger, and he does so with lots of knowledge of the local culture and history of the places Schrödinger visited and lived at (Vienna, Graz, Dublin, Cambridge). This is a well researched book in all aspects and one with lots of sympathy for "Erwin".

Scientific and sexual fireworks........2003-06-20

This is a masterful biography, but one need to have a profound knowledge of higher mathematics and a basic one in physics to fully understand it.

Walter Moore shows that Schrödinger's life and thought was at least controversial.

Life
Schrödinger's personal itinerary is exemplary for the 20th century. He was born in a comfortable upper-middle class, but his parents lost their savings in the German inflation after WW I. The result was famine and diseases. It marked the rest of his life. As a young man he was confronted with unemployment and nearly left physics for financial reasons!
He found a decent job only at the age of 34. Even after winning the Nobel Prize he was still confronted with 'pension' problems.

Science
Walter Moore gives us a magisterial and detailed analysis of the scientific discoveries of ES, from his humble beginnings to the elaboration of the quantum wave function and after.
It shows that ES was above all a mathematical genius and a not so brilliant experimenter.
ES remained all his life opposed to the complemantary (particle/wave) interpretation of quantum mechanics (the 'Kopenhagen oracle' for ES). For him, there were only waves!

Sex
Beside science, sex was the principal occupation of his life, with all combinations imaginable. He lived a ménage à trois and sometimes à quatre, but still fell in love with other women, also with very young ones for he had a Lolita complex. He could without doubt have been accused of paedophilia.
But his intense love affairs stimulated highly his scientific creativity.
One can only wonder if his 'wild' behaviour and negative view of bourgeois marriage were not fundamentally influenced by the fact that he couldn't marry his first true love, because her family found that he was too poor!

Politics
He had a deep contempt for the governing classes (politicians, clergy) who 'enslave men by violence and use the religious desire of many people to promote superstition to rule over the dispossessed'. He also distrusted democracy!

Philosophical world view
This is certainly one of the strangest aspects of his thoughts.
He was convinced that physics provided absolutely no answers to philosophical questions (e. g. free will). All his life he remained, like Einstein, an adept of determinism.
His philosophical views and ethical principles were completely dissociated from his real life!
As an adept of the Vedanta, he believed the Buddhist wisdom that a thing could be both A and non-A (horribile dictu)!
He was also heavily influenced by the philosophy of Schopenhauer.

This work gives excellent explanations of the Vedanta, and the philosophy of Mach and Schopenhauer.
It contains a very painful paragraph on Heidegger.

I see only one minus point: the author doesn't give Bohr's pertinent response to the EPR-article against the Copenhagen interpretation of qm.

This is a brilliant book and certainly the definitive biography of Schrödinger. It is by no means a hagiography and doesn't dodge some 'weird' aspects of Schrödinger's life.
Not to be missed.

....WOW.......2002-03-17

This book, is amazing. I came across it because I was forced to do a project for chemistry on Erwin Schrödinger, and I'm glad I did. It's a 512 page biography of him, and I think that says it all. It covers and extensive amount of ground, and is very useful for anyone doing any researh on the man. It gives a lot of background information about what was going on in his life, and the events in the world around him. Whenever he went to a new college, there was always some information on the college itself. If Schrödinger did research on a topic, there would be a small history on the scientist that came before him and how they affected him. The book is virtually packed with quotes form other people, letters, and speeches. One of the other things I liked was that it contained details of Schrödinger's personal life, such as his extramarital affairs and details on his marriage, and his family history. Want to see some pictures? There's that too. Bet you didn't know that Schrödinger wrote poetry. Well he did, and all of it is here too, in both German and an English translation. Another thing that makes the book stand out it that it is bery readable. Walter Moore did an excellent job writing the book, and it shows. I can say that you only need to read one book about Schrödinger: this one.

I tawt I taw a putty tat!.......2001-02-16

The 20th century has boasted a greater number of top-notch physicists than any prior epoch in history. The 21st century, and any future century beyond it, will be hard-pressed to match the level of scientific genius presented by the 20th. Names such as John Archibald Wheeler, Eugene Wigner, Paul Dirac, Max Planck, Louis deBroglie, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, John von Neumann, Richard Feynman, Roger Penrose, Freeman Dyson and Stephen Hawking have set the standard for scientific and intellectual excellence.

Another name which belongs in this esteemed list is that of Erwin Schroedinger. Schroedinger influenced the field of quantum mechanics perhaps more than any other single scientific contributor of modern times. Here, Walter Moore has compiled his unique story so that all may have access to the life and times of this extraordinary man.

Moore's writing style is easily up to the task of keeping the interest of the reader. He does an excellent job of tracing Schroedinger's academic career as he obtained posts at the university of Jena, university of Zurich, university of Berlin [he was the hand-picked successor of none other than Max Planck], university of Oxford, university of Graz (Austria), the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and the university of Vienna. Schroedinger was also offered professorships at 2 US universities as well (university of Wisconsin, Madison and Princeton university), but declined both. Moore does an exquisite job in his disinterment of all the facts, personal factors and politics behind S' decisions to transfer (or not to transfer) from post to post. Moore's elucidation of S' relationship with the Nazis (who called him "Politically unreliable") is exemplery, as is his coverage of the friendships and correspondence that S shared with his peers.

What makes Moore's biography superb is that he equally concentrates on S' personal life as well as his intellectual endeavors. Moore gives an authentic and upfront treatment of S' rather bizarre love arrangements. Like the composer Richard Wagner, S had many affairs with the wives of his friends (a few of which resulted in children), as well as myriad young woman just reaching adulthood. Moore offers a credible psycho-analysis of the motivations for his sexual conquests, and comparisons to the behavior of the persona in Nabokov's "Lolita" which Moore alludes to are certainly warranted.

Like all good modern biographies, the book is filled with plenty of pictures of the personages and locales which were integrated within S' life [including the immortal assemblage of the 1927 (5th) Solvay conference]. Also, for the mathematically inclined amongst us, the work is filled with a good many of the equations that S developed and worked on during his lifetime. The good news, for those of us not so mathematically inclined, is that an understanding of them is not essential to a generic comprehension of what S accomplished.

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Erwin Schrödinger is one of the greatest figures of theoretical physics, but there is another side to the man: not only did his work revolutionize physics, it also radiacally changed the foundations of our modern worldview, modern biology, philosophy of science, philosophy of the mind, and epistemology.
This book explores the lesser-known aspects of Schrödinger's thought, revealing the physicist as a philosopher and polymath whose highly original ideas anticipated the current merging of the natural and the social sciences and the humanities.
Thirteen renowned scientists and philosophers have contributed to the volume. Part I reveals the philosophical importance of Schrödinger's work as a physicist. Part II examines his theory of life and of the self-organization of matter. Part III shows how Schrödinger's ideas have influenced contemporary philosophy of nature and our modern view of the world, drawing a fascinating picture of the ongoing synthesis of nature and culture: one of the most interesting developments of modern thought.
The volume also contains the most comprehensive bibliography of Schrödinger's scientific work, making it at the same time a book of acute contemporary relevance and a major work of reference.

What is controlling life?: 50 years after Erwin Schrodinger's What is Life? (Veroffentlichungen der Universitat Innsbruck)

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What is life? : the physical aspect of the living cell : based on lectures delivered under the auspices of the Institute at Trinity College, Dublin in February 1943

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What is life? : the physical aspect of the living cell : based on lectures delivered under the auspices of the Institute at Trinity College, Dublin in February 1943
Erwin Schrödinger
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What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell
Erwin Schrödinger
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The Schoolmistress and Other Stories, Volume 9

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The Schoolmistress and Other Stories, Volume 9
Anton Chekhov
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Includes A Nervous Breakdown, Misery, Champagne, After the Theatre, A Lady\'s Story, In Exile, the Cattle-Dealers, Sorrow, On Official Duty, the First-Class Passenger, A Tragic Actor, and others.

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This large print title is set in Tieras 16pt font as reccomended by the RNIB.

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