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Introduction to Paralegalism: Perspectives, Problems, and Skills : Study Guide and Workbook
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Introduction to Paralegalism: Perspectives, Problems, and Skills : Study Guide and Workbook
William P. Statsky
Manufacturer: Delmar Thomson Learning
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Introduction to Paralegalism: Perspectives, Problems, and Skills, 6E, provides students with a comprehensive in-depth introduction to the field. As the market leader, this text boasts a wealth of information on updated legislation and the impacting use of paralegals. New to this edition is the inclusion of pertinent web site information related to chapter content, assignments that require students to do additional research on the web, updated exhibits that illustrate key concepts, and extensive information on paralegal career development and job opportunities. Also new to this edition is the coverage of changes in paralegal regulation, statistics and updates to case law. Packed with real life insights and information on trends in the profession, the text contains the following features: Chapter Outlines, Assignments, Examples, Checklists, Chapter Summaries, Key Terms, and “On the Net” - an end of chapter feature that provides students with innumerable web site addresses to conduct additional research on the internet. This text is an invaluable resource for any student seeking a practical approach to the study of the paralegal profession.

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Truly Excellent Source Book for Paralegals.......2007-05-30

I don't understand the negative reviews of this book. I think the reviewers confused it with another book. This is a big solid book full of information for paralegals and paralegal students. We used this book in three different classes at WOLI (Washington Online Learning Institute) where I attended paralegal school. We used it in the intro class, where we learned all about the paralegal profession, the legal research class, which we used in conjunction with learning how to do legal research via the computer on Westlaw, and also in the ethics course. I know WOLI uses this book also for some other courses that I did not take, but other students do. I think this book is very well written and is chock full of interesting and useful information. I recommend it highly. I really enjoyed studying from this book, and now as a working paralegal (litigation and trial prep work at a Manhattan law firm; I also worked in the corporate dept. for a few months) this book has a prominent place on my library shelf and I still pick it up and read it quite frequently. A very good book.

A students perspective..........2007-02-11

The book is a wonderful source of information and is organized in such a way that it's easy to read right through and not feel lost by lack of verbal explanations. But, the font size is very small which makes it difficult to study or read for extended periods withough resting your eyes. It's also thick and very heavy. We use this book in our Paralegal class at George Mason University.

Useful text and reference.......2006-08-17

I use this book as the textbook in an Intro to Law for Paralegals class that I teach. The books is incredibly well-organized and useful. There are very few typos, and additionally it contains great references at the end of each chapter. While I think the book is designed for the classroom setting, it can also be used for self-teaching as well. Even after the class is over students can use the book as a reference guide.

Excellent Resource Guide.......2000-01-17

This book is an excellent text for indivdiuals wishing to study the paralegal profession or the legal system in general. I would highly recommend it to any of my peers in the legal community.

Introduction to Paralegalism: Perspectives, Problems, and Skills: Study Guide and Workbook

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Introduction to Paralegalism: Perspectives, Problems, and Skills: Study Guide and Workbook
William P. Statsky
Manufacturer: Delmar Thomson Learning
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTS6DK

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This book begins with the modeling of evolutionary constraints on morphological diversity in ecology and then extends to development and evolution. The authors have used tractable, traditional models and mathematics, and carefully linked traditional ecological equations with production and consumption. This book contains new, more powerful models and has applied them, for example, in chemical ecology of coral reef. The production space serves as an appropriate background space from which the environmentally induced curvature in the allometric relations of superorganisms such as siphonophores, polymorphic bryozoans and ants can be measured. Projective differential geometry is used to formula dynamical models of evolution by heterochrony and by symbiosis and a theory of stable and weakly chaotic production, important in ecology and in modeling the evolution of individuality is developed.

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Radically reoriented presentation of Einstein's Special Theory and one of most valuable popular accounts available derives relativity from Newtonian ideas, rather than in opposition to them. 60 illustrations.

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An illustration of Special Theory of Relativity.......2004-05-12

This is one of the first books which use common sense approach to the understanding of special theory of relativity using illustrations, drawings and diagrams. At one time this theory was considered mysterious, which is in fact obvious and clear-cut extension of ordinary ideas to the realm of high velocities. The author first presents Newtonian ideas followed by the concept and characteristic effects of special relativity in a non mathematical language. Then he introduces Lorentz Transformation (LT) in chapter 10, which involves systems of coordinates moving relative to each other and then uses LT to establish the basics of the theory. Readers with very limited mathematical background should have no trouble in understanding the elementary aspects of the relativity. This is a cute little book (177 pages, size 7.92'' x 5.36"), which is classified into three parts. The first part introduces the classical mechanics; concepts of force, momentum, angular momentum, velocity of light and uniqueness of light. The second part deals with the peculiarities of high speeds, relationship of inertial (uniformly moving, constant velocity) and moving observers and the need for theory of relativity to understand high speed situation and a brief introduction to Lorentz Transformation. The final part discusses the consequences of traveling faster than light, acceleration (non-inertial motion) and high velocities on mass. Chapters 8 and 9 are crucial to the common sense approach to the understanding of relativity. The reader may need time and patience to read these two chapters to understand relativity. Chapter 11 discusses some interesting consequences of special relativity; for travels faster than light there is no link between cause and effect, in other words that effect could precede cause. This book is very affordable and useful; I encourage the reader to consider adding this book to his/her personal library.

Something of a con job, but interesting, even informative.......2004-05-08

The basic theme of this book about relativity and common sense is so far stretched that one could call this a con job. Like the editor must have warned Bondi to stay away from equations so as not to turn off the average potential reader thumbing the pages, but we have pages and pages of mental figuring with three characters with individual names to boot.

Where he is really caught is in a diagram that is supposed to indicate the obviousness of a 30 degree rotation around the origin. Here 1/2 and the square root of 3 divided by 2 manage to show up, with absolutely no explanation at all. Apparaently he was afraid to say sin(30) = 1/2. Thus somebody who really did not know that would have absolutely no clue about how this self-evident diagram really worked!

Thus, as I say, it is con job. A preposterous attempt to link relativity and common sense, like everybody should think in microseconds of light, not feet. (Just try to explain to some youngster how a 8.5 x 11 inch paper is in fractions of a microsecond.) Anything else to Bondi being "degenerate" thinking. I guess he manged to fool even himself.

Yet, he does have his own way of looking at it, so if the subject of relativity usually results in drawing a blank sooner or later, well, this approach has a certain merit as a novel way of approaching the subject. It is possible to learn something from him.

Time Lost Forever.......2003-03-06

There's no doubting Bondi's credentials or the potentiality of his thesis on the common-sense derivation of special relativity from Newtonian physics, but Bondi fails on two basic fronts:

1) The bulk of his presentation relies on a cumbersome supposition (graphical and otherwise) involving several characters moving through space and time to prove that time is a route-dependent quantity. If the reader wants to truly understand Bondi's theory, he or she should plan to sit down with a chalk board or a paper and pen in order to keep the character's names and their travels straight.

2) The basis for the presentation is so tedious that eventually one reaches the point of sensory overload and, as a result, ends up accepting the conceptual foundation of Bondi's theory as is -- which is no different than taking Einstein's special theory of relativity at face value. In other words, for this reader, Bondi fails to convincingly derive special relativity from Newtonian physics.

Time Dilation at Comparatively Pedestrian Speeds.......2002-03-25

Bondi has a very novel and easy to follow approach to deriving time dilation. He uses a handful of travellers / observers moving relative to each other at subluminal speeds sending light pulses to each other. Unfortunately his derivation would just as well work and 'prove' time dilation if subsonic travelers were sending sound signals to each other.

Time dilation at one milionth of the speed of light? That would regarded ludicrous even by the most fervent believer in Einsteins 2nd postulate for Special Relativity (SR).

The author just takes the 2nd postulate for granted without even saying so, much less any justification for that counterintuitive assumption.

The book, like unfortunately many others about SR or GR, requires this leap of faith on the part of the reader, although very well hidden in this case. Not that he intends to deceive, the author apparently never questioned his own leap of faith. In other words, he does not apply the 'common sense' that the title promises.

a favorite of mine.......2000-06-16

For an introduction to special relativity from the K-calculus standpoint, this book has no peer. The K-calculus approach is, arguably, the soundest approach for conceptual clarity all the way to the composition of velocities and twin paradoxes. You won't feel you are being snowed by math tricks. In paperback, this book is high value for the money. Don't look for recent stuff like superluminal physics or details on relativity experiments.

Relativity and Common Sense: A New Approach to Einstein

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Relativity and Common Sense: A New Approach to Einstein

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The Einstein Hoax: The Disastrous Intellectual War on Common Sense

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The Einstein Hoax: The Disastrous Intellectual War on Common Sense
H.E. Retic
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Relativity and common sense,: By F.M. Denton

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Relativity and common sense,: By F.M. Denton
Francis Medforth Denton
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Hermann Bondi
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Skip: From Common Sense to Cosmology
Norbert Duerichen
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Release Date: 2006-07-06

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Skip: Common Sense to Cosmology is both a story and a treatise on common sense. It hypothesizes that literacy may have contributed to our estrangement from the real world and the intelligence with which we have learned to survive in it. Through a series of snapshots that follow the life of an illiterate person this book explores preliterary thought and the hypothesis that an oral culture is more soundly founded in common sense than is a literary culture, speech being a more direct method of communicating thoughts than is the written word.

Most of the episodes or snapshots are taken from real life. They offer a 'feel' of what pioneer life was like during the 50s in the Central Interior of British Columbia. Interwoven with the descriptions and story a critique of this way of life is developed, with a continual reference to the common sense theme.

The novel culminates with a critique of the Theory of Relativity, this theory being the inception of science's violation of common sense, sanctioned by the claim that common sense is a human limitation that must be transcended in order to comprehend the cosmos. The author offers some alternative interpretations of those historic discoveries that led us down the road of Relativity Theory.

Common Sense and Humour in Physics
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Leonard Parish
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The common sense of the theory of relativity,
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The common sense of the theory of relativity,
Paul R Heyl
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Those who enjoyed the novel Captain Kilburnie will welcome this stand-alone sequel about the swashbuckling Scotsman Fergus Kilburnie as he returns to Nelson's Navy to do battle with England's enemies. The days of sail and cannon are vividly brought to life by a writer whose sea-literature credentials were long ago established. Adm. William P. Mack has sailed the seven seas in the defense of his nation during three wars. He writes with an authenticity that leaves readers with the taste of salt on their lips and the smell of gunpowder in their nostrils. Walking slippery wooden decks and climbing swaying ratlines, the reader goes on vicarious voyages to sea in some of His Majesty's frontline ships as they seek battle against Napoleon and his allies.

A colorful cast of fictional characters intermingles with the likes of Collingwood, St. Vincent, and Nelson as history is masterfully blended with good, old-fashioned story telling in the tradition of Forester and O'Brian. In his unique style, Mack vividly portrays life at the turn of an earlier century in terms comfortable to modern readers. From the lochs of Scotland to the seas off Cape Trafalgar, Commodore Kilburnie's adventures are edifying, entertaining, and exciting.

Followers of Admiral Mack's sea adventures since the debut of his now-classic South to Java will want to add this newest novel to their collection. Those new to the Mack tradition will acquire an enjoyable habit as they get underway with Commodore Kilburnie.

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