Black's Law Dictionary, Eighth Edition (Black's Law Dictionary (Standard Edition))

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Edited by Bryan A. Garner, the world's leading legal lexicographer, Black's Law Dictionary, 8th Edition is now better than ever! The new 8th Edition has more than 43,000 definitions, plus almost 3,000 quotations. Alternative spellings or equivalent terms and expressions are provided for more than 5,300 terms and senses, serving a thesaurus-like function. The extensive appendix on legal abbreviations is a major addition. It's the first time such a comprehensive guide has been included in a modern law dictionary, and is an invaluable aid to the legal researcher.
-17,000 more definitions than the 7th Edition
-Newly enhanced with West Key Numbers for research reference
-Includes changes made since the creation of the department of Homeland Security
-Almost 3,000 quotations from authorities drawn from sources over at least five centuries
-More than 1,000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms are defined
-Extensive appendix on legal abbreviations
-Faculty recommended

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exellent for legal research .......2007-09-28

this book has proven to be very useful at college, i use it mostly to do my legal research.

Penn State Dickinson 1L.......2007-09-17

This dictionary/edition is very helpful for giving accurate and concise definitions. I don't take it to class, but I have it next to meet at all times when doing homework and usually write the definitions next to words that I didn't know. Every law student should have a dictionary, pocket size or otherwise, and this one was recommended to me so I recommend it to you.

Great Gift!.......2007-05-20

My daughter just graduated from college with a paralegal degree and wanted the Black's Law Dictionary. I got it as a gift for her and she was thrilled with the quality of this book. I was also impressed with what I got for the price!

Comprehensive and heavy!.......2007-02-22

If you're in a law class or pre-law, this is a great book. However, if your aspirations aren't in law, just go and reference it at your local library. VERY heavy book

It's great but save your money........2007-01-14

This is the most prominent legal dictionary. However, I must recommend against buying. This is especially for first year law students who hear it quoted a lot their first few weeks and think it is a necessity for law school. It's not. You don't need it. You can access it for free on LexisNexis save your money for study guides which you DO need.

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Black's Law Dictionary. Eighth Edition.
Bryan A. (ed). Garner
Manufacturer: see notes for publisher info
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000M4T9LA

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Useful but Dry.......2007-05-04

I think this is a useful book of case studies, most applicable to a public sector labor relations or public administration class. The cases are structured so that students can easily compare key concepts in public sector labor relations from state to state. For example, having read the applicable chapters, students should find it relatively easy to discuss the scope of bargaining in New Jersey and compare it to the scope of bargaining in Pennsylvania. However, when I have assigned this book, students have given me negative feedback on it, complaining that it is tedious. Despite this, I would consider using it again.

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An updated edition of the best-selling guide to London's flourishing restaurant scene. There are restaurants in London today that will satisfy everyone from gourmets to gluttons, every palate from Arkansas to Afghanistan, every mood from canteen to cantina. This book illuminates the various ways in which we are eating out now by focusing on a key factor in the success or failure or any restaurant - its design. Grouping the 66 restaurants and bars covered thematically, the guide analyses the way design contributes to the experience of eating and drinking with an informed and skeptical eye. Among the new restaurants covered in this edition are the Coq d'Argent, Terence Conran's latest outlet on the top of James Stirling's posthumous po-mo masterpiece in the City; PukkaBar, a curry hall in the form of a tea-planter's hut in a former bleak 1960s suburban post office; and the Great Eastern Dining Room, an eating experience for readers of wallpaper* - fleeces obligatory.

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A saucy burlesque of the postmodern world, a cosmopolitan compendium of racy rants, fond reminiscence, and irreverent monologues: a sharp satire of human foibles, a lost art in this fretful age of sensitive sensibilities. Gay and lesbian humor.

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A host of folk classics like: All My Trails * I Dig Rock and Roll Music * If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song) * The Times They Are A-Changin' and more.

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Better choices---.......2003-04-09

I was disappointed in this book. SuperTab isn't really tab - it's just chord diagrams, with no help in actually playing the music. If you are just looking for chords for strumming, or are just starting out, this is an OK choice. Just OK.

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Television Careers: A Guide to Breaking and Entering.......2000-01-23

This is an outstanding guide for would-be journalists in search of that big break. The candid advice and step-by step strategy offered in this book helped me land my first television job; and prepared me for the realities of a career in television. I would liked to have seen more resume and audition tape advice; along with alternative styles (however the book does provide leads to a number of resources that assist with these issues.) "Television Careers" is easy reading with expert advice that will benefit anyone embarking on a career in television news.

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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows Server 2003 in 24 Hours is a straightforward, step-by-step introduction to Microsoft's newest network operating system. This book not only highlights the functions and capabilities of the software, but also provides a practical hands-on look at important server features and tools. After reading this book you will have all of the information you need to get a Windows domain up and running quickly and easily.

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Quick and concise coverage of the most important features of .NET Server. Hands-on, easy-to-follow content that allow the reader to install and configure .NET Server. Coverage of advanced networking features such as Virtual Private Networking and Routing and Remote Access. Provides an overview of the .NET initiative and what that means for IT Professionals. Windows .NET Server fixes problems such as security and scalability found in Windows 2000 and adds a number of new services and application deployment tools. This book will appeal to many IT professionals who wish to configure a .NET test Server and read about its deployment. Network administrators and IT professionals often want a quick fix when it comes to learning about new IT solutions such as the .NET Server software. This book provides a hands-on approach to quickly learning and running the features of .NET Server. The book will also provide information on advanced features such as routing and remote access and Virtual Private Networking, which is often skipped in books of this size and intent. Joe Habraken is a computer technology professional and best-selling author with more than fifteen years of experience in the information technology field. He has written more than twenty computer and information technology publications including Microsoft Office XP 8 in 1, Practical Cisco Routers, and the Absolute Beginner's Guide to Networking, Third Edition. Joe, a Microsoft Certified Professional and Cisco Certified Network Associate, currently serves as an assistant professor in the business management program at the University of New England where he teaches a wide variety of LAN, WAN, OS, and other information technology courses.

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Based on reporting that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Thunder Run chronicles one of the boldest gambles in modern military history. Three battalions and fewer than a thousand men launched a violent thrust of tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles into the heart of a city of 5 million people and in three days of bloody combat ended the Iraqi war. Thunder Run is the story of the surprise assault on Baghdad—one of the most decisive battles in American combat history—by the Spartan Brigade, the Second Brigade of the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized). More than just a rendering of a single battle, Thunder Run candidly recounts how soldiers respond under fire and stress and how human frailties are magnified in a war zone. The product of over a hundred interviews with commanders and men from the Second Brigade, Thunder Run is a riveting firsthand account of how a single armored brigade was able to capture an Arab capital defended by one of the world's largest armies.

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Must Read for Cadets and Young Officers .......2007-05-15

Outstanding account of the two Thunder Runs into Baghdad by TF 1-64 Armor (5 Apr 03) and 2nd Bde, 3rd ID(M). From individual tank/Bradley commanders and Soldiers to the brigade and battalion commanders, this riveting account of the battles gives a good view of the planning and execution involved. This shows the gritty side of war at the lower tactical level, bringing home timeless lessons on the battlefield. A great addition to any military professional's library!

Excellent book on Thudner Run for either the casual reader or someone who wishes to study the invasion.......2006-10-29

Zucchino's book Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad seems to be one of teh best accounts of the 3rd IDs "Thunder Run" into Baghdad. I've recelently read a lot of literature on the invasion of Iraq, including excellent books such as One Bullet Away by Nathaniel Fick and Generation Kill by Evan Wright which highlight the Marine advance and feign that helped contribute to the fall of Saddam, as well as other books about the Army's advance, to include Rick Atkinson's excellent account on the 101st Airborne. However, there have been relatively few books out there that have been able to concentrate on a specific battle. That's not to say that its such a bad thing. Many of the books listed above provide incredible insight into the commander's thoughts and the experiences of the troops through the 23 day advance and even the pre-invasion deployments of the 3rd ID to camp Doha, then Yankee, etc.
Nonetheless, Zuccino's book is an excellent overview of the troubles and successes of the Spartan Brigades experiences in Baghdad, the ferocity of the battle, the trepidation and elation of the soldiers, and the brutality that goes with war and the loss of comrades. Immediatley the author is shot en-media-rez into the action during the night that the brigade receives the WARNO and then the hasty OPORD to go to battle. Zuccino then takes the reader on a harrowing adventure of the first Thunder Run which killed or wounded an estimated 1,200 enemy and then the brave decision to move the brigade to the center of the city and hold it.
But the adventure isn't as easy as it seems and the reader begins to understand the complexities of keeping this force alive, supplied, and preventing it from being isolated. Zuccino takes you to the brutal intersections of Larry, Moe, and Curly, Saddam's palace, and the staging point of BIAP, then Saddam International Airport. Zuccino's task, like Mark Bowden with the Battle of Mogadishu, was immense: to study and disseminate the pivitol battle of the war, and he succeeds magnificiently.

Tense, Gripping, and Accurate.......2006-09-07

As an embedded reporter, David Zucchino has managed to tease apart the relationships between men, machines, combat, the politics of platoon life, and its position in the larger picture of a military campaign. Zucchino is at once microscopic and telescopic, zooming in on the thoughts and actions of one soldier, and then zooming back out to place the consequences of those actions amidst the confusion of capturing Baghdad.

Zucchino's book is simply impossible to put down and reads as fluidly as the work it is most often compared to, "Black Hawk Down." Mark Bowden wrote the introduction, and he and Zucchino have previously worked together; the upshot, read the book and wait for the film, it seems inevitable.

Excellent.......2006-08-17

This is an interesting book. The author, Zucchino, was embedded with the 101st Airborne Division. Late in the fighting, the truck he was riding in wound up in a canal, and he lost his laptop and all of the notes he'd made while reporting. Presumably, if he hadn't been dunked in an Iraqi canal, we might have wound up with a book from him about the 101st (Rick Atkinson provided a very good one, so we don't really need a second). Instead, he was fished out of the canal by soldiers, and wound up with the 3rd Infantry Division's 2nd (Spartan) Brigade at Baghdad airport, swapping stories. Eventually, he heard enough from them to decide that *here* was a real story, and he first wrote an article about them (for the LA Times) then this book.

Zucchino gets right to it. On the first page of the book, the troops are firing up the engines on their Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles, and they roar into combat almost immediately. The second run--the one that resulted in the capture of downtown Baghdad--is recounted after a discussion of the command and strategy brainstorming that led to the attack in the first place.

Zucchino wasn't there, and he isn't a character in the book (pretty unique among the books by embedded reporters) but he has a keen eye for detail and he gets everything that happened in the columns on each day--who was wounded, killed, frightened, panicked, confused, disoriented, brave, etc. The chaos of the situation is very well done, so well that at times you'd like a better set of maps (maybe a diagram of how the columns were arranged each day would have been appropriate) but overall things are understandable.

Two things struck me about this book. One is the way the command structure of the American military has changed in recent years. The second Thunder Run basically ended the regular phase of operations in Iraq, and the whole thing was conceived by a brigade commander. He got approval from his superiors, but he basically ran the whole thing himself, and the resulting situation was something the higher command then had to accomodate and fit their plans to. So the war was essentially concluded by a rather junior soldier.

The second thing is the level of casualties. The Spartan Brigade (less than a thousand men) suffered a handful of fatalities (so few that each one can be recounted separately in the book), but the perspective of the book, or at least of the soldiers portrayed in it, is that they suffered horrifically. The author recounts that during the first run, they suffered one dead and several wounded, and some of the soldiers felt "defeated" afterwards. This is very amazing. A battle of this intensity, with this few casualties on our side, is clearly a decisive victory for our forces. In World War II, a U.S. Marine Divisions suffered *thousands of casualties* in individual battles that lasted a few days. Almost 900 men died on the day of the invasion of Tarawa. I'm not saying that the deaths of the individuals in either of these "thunder runs" or elsewhere in Iraq aren't tragic--all deaths are--but I am saying that our perspective on these things has changed, and I'm not sure for the better.

I enjoyed this book a great deal, and would recommend it to anyone interested in reading something very well-done about the war.

Black Hawk Down in Baghdhad.......2006-08-16

It's fitting that the author of Black Hawk Down wrote the foreward to this book, as it reads with the pulse-pounding excitement of Bowden's classic book of urban warfare. Think of this book as Black Hawk Down with tanks. Excellent examination of the flexibility of armor in an urban environment, and although it won't give you the broad view of a more comprehensive work like "COBRA II" it is an excellent detailed examination of the strikes that led to the fall of Baghdad.

THUNDER RUN : The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad

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THUNDER RUN : The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
David Zucchino
Manufacturer: Easton Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound

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ASIN: B000ML0GPQ

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Ranging from medieval times to the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1992, this volume concentrates on the internal development of the Muslim community in Bosnia-Herzegovina and its relations with various suzerains. This updated edition features new bibliographic material, including a new section on resources covering Eastern Europe and the former Yugoslavia available through the Internet.

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Generally useful.......2000-05-27

This is a collection of articles that cover the entire span of the history of the Bosnian Muslims, although the quality of the individual contributions varies greatly. The first three articles, which go from the Middle Ages to 1878, are unfortunately uninformative and even tedious for anyone who has already done some reading on general Balkan history, and probably confusing and perhaps overwhelming for those who have no previous knowledge in this field. By far the best piece is the article by this volume's editor, Mark Pinson, which covers the period of Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1878-1918) and its effects on the Muslim community. This was in fact a very crucial period for the Bosnian Muslims, because as Pinson points out, it was when they first became a politically aware as a community, and began to seek new ways to articulate their needs. The final article by Ivo Banac, which covers the twentieth century, is a good survey of Bosnian Muslim political history, but it lacks depth, which is disappointing given the importance of this period for understanding events in Bosnia today. There is also a useful, if somewhat dated, appendix for finding further resources on Bosnia, both in print and on the Web. This book is, thus, a generally useful reference source, but it could and should have been something much more.

The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia.(Brief Article): An article from: Journal of Church and State

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The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia.(Brief Article): An article from: Journal of Church and State
Dennison Rusinow
Manufacturer: J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Church and State, published by J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State on March 22, 1997. The length of the article is 490 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia.(Brief Article)
Author: Dennison Rusinow
Publication: Journal of Church and State (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1997
Publisher: J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State
Volume: 39 Issue: n2 Page: 345-346

Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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You can't put this one down!.......2004-01-07

The greatest book ever! Robert J. Zimmer captures the greatest math ever in this book! I read a book resently called To Kill A Mockingbird and it doesnt compare in any way to this perfect book. This book is a must read by all. You cant put this one down! Read it! Its great!

Two Thumbs Up.......2001-06-09

In all my years of studying mathematics, I have never encountered a more comprehensive text on semisimple groups and ergodic theory. I highly recomend this book to everyone from the amateur math lover to the greatest mathematician. Two thumbs up.

GREAT READING FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY.......2000-09-01

This book is one of the best I've ever read on semisimple groups. It even rivals G. A. Margulis's "Discrete Subgroups of Semisimple Lie Groups" as the best book I have ever read on semisimple groups. Furthermore, Zimmer's insight into Ergodic Theory is truely revolutionary. The entire book is great for all purposes, especially bedtime reading. Also, make sure to read it to to the kids; they'll love it. So, if you want the ver-i-tas about semisimple lie groups, ingeneous insights into ergodic theory, and great reading for the whole family - especially the kids, then make sure to read one of the great classics of the twentieth century: "Ergodic Theory and Semisimple Groups" by Robert J. Zimmer!

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ERGODIC THEORY AND SEMISIMPLE GROUPS
ROBERT J. ZIMMER
Manufacturer: BIRKHAUSER VERLAG AG
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5A0J8

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Ergodic Theory and Semisimple Groups
Robert J. Zimmer
Manufacturer: Springer Verlag 1/1/1985
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MH74I2

Ergodic Theory and Semisimple Groups (Monographs in Mathematics)

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Ergodic Theory and Semisimple Groups (Monographs in Mathematics)
ZIMMER
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MU2X3U

Volume preserving actions of lattices in semisimple groups on compact manifolds (Publications matheÌÂmatiques)

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Volume preserving actions of lattices in semisimple groups on compact manifolds (Publications matheÌÂmatiques)
Robert J Zimmer
Manufacturer: Institut des hautes eÌÂtudes scientifiques
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007BXDY2

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