The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: New Perspectives on the Economic and Social History of Seventeenth-Century Spain (Past and Present Publications)

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This is a collection of recent revisionist essays by Spanish historians on the economic and social history of seventeenth-century Castile. The major areas of current historiographical interest and debate are covered: demography, agriculture, pastoralism, the Indies trade, industrial decline, de-urbanization, taxation and the fiscal system, re-segneurialization, and the politics of redistribution. Developments in Castile are also related to the issue of the general crisis of the European economy in the seventeenth century.

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If You're Thinking About Becoming A Lawyer, Buy This Book

Everything you need to know about being & becoming a lawyer!

So You Want to Be a Lawyer
Law School Admission Council
Manufacturer: Law School Admission Council
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Binding: Paperback
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Law School Confidential (Revised Edition): A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students

ASIN: 0942639723

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This updated book can save you time and money by showing you how to identify what you should be looking for in a law school, and which ones may be looking for someone like you. Admission office insiders reveal what admission committees look for and how to make your application stand out amid the competition.

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pre-law book.......2005-10-06

this book is good for those who want to know about the legal field and the process of the LSATS, and financial Aid

If You're Thinking About Becoming A Lawyer, Buy This Book.......2000-12-08

This book has just about everything you need to know about what to expect in law school, what the job market is like, what you need to do to get accepted to the school of your choice, etc. The approach of this book is very straightforward, and it helps dispel some of the myths surrounding the legal profession. Many lawyers, looking back, wish they had never chosen law as a career. If you're thinking about law but aren't sure yet, don't jump into something that you might not be able to get out of. Read this book. It will give you a realistic understanding of law school and the legal profession.

Everything you need to know about being & becoming a lawyer!.......2000-06-24

Great book. Very concise and answers any questions you could possibly have about the road to, through and away from law school. Highly recommend to anyone thinking about the law. Covers every step of the way, thoguht getting a job and passing the bar. Also includes a great guide to US and Canadian law schools.

So You Want to Be a Big Time Lawyer: Insider's Guide--Getting Into and Surviving at a Major Law Firm

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Crisp like a fine potato chip
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So You Want to Be a Big Time Lawyer: Insider's Guide--Getting Into and Surviving at a Major Law Firm
Solan Schwab
Manufacturer: Lynx Media Inc.
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This guide is intended for college students thinking of going to law school, law students deciding whether to pursue a career at a major law firm (which is defined as a law firm with more than five hundred attorneys), and those who want to gain greater insight into what the practice of law is really like at a major law firm.

This guide provides an "insider's view," that of an attorney who spent more than a decade at one of the world's largest and most prestigious law firms — as a legal assistant, summer associate, and attorney. The ultimate purpose of this guide is to provide a realistic view of what the practice of law is like at a major law firm and to dispel many of the misconceptions people hold about large law firm practice.

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Crisp like a fine potato chip.......2004-01-11

Finally a guide that explains succinctly the life of a top-notch lawyer from a top-tier firm, year by year, and how to get to the top of a tier 1 law firm, and what one can expect every step of the way.

Superb.......2004-01-11

I work as a legal assistant in NYC and awaited eagerly for Mr. Schwab's book to be published because I had heard that he gave fantastic lectures year after year while he was at Skadden to legal assistants contemplating going to law school. His guide is invaluable. It is exceptionally well written and filled with a treasure trove of information and guidance. Most of my anxiety about going to law school -- I have finished my law school appications -- are gone and I am actually excited about going. I know from Mr. Schwab's guide which books to read before I go to law school and how to take law school examines. I also learned what things to do during and fater law school to jump start my legal career. I recommend this guide whole-heartedly to anyone contemplating going to law school.

Superb.......2004-01-11

I heard about the author before I read his book. The author is fantastic at giving clear and very informative advice to legal assistants and college students thinking of attending law school. As a legal assistant I found book this book invaluable. I know exactly what to do before and while in law school to get great geats and hopefully a job at a great firm. A lot of my anxiety was put to rest. Solan's reputation as a fantastic lecturer is well deserved.

So, You Want to Be a Lawyer, Eh?: A Comprehensive Guidebook for Prospective and Current Canadian Law Students

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A must for any lawyer to be in Canada
A must read for potential law students!
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So, You Want to Be a Lawyer, Eh?: A Comprehensive Guidebook for Prospective and Current Canadian Law Students
Adam Letourneau
Manufacturer: Writing on Stone Press Inc.
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ASIN: 0973809205

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Canadian law school guidebook. Every year, an estimated 15,000-20,000 people apply to 16 law schools in Canada, vying for just over 2000 coveted spots. The competition is even fiercer when applying for a job as an articling student.

Adam Letourneau, B.Sc., B.A., LL.B., a graduate of the University of Alberta Law School, and former Editor-in-Chief of the Alberta Law Review, reveals many insider tips on how to gain admittance to Canadian law school, how to cope and succeed in Canadian law school, and most importantly, how to land a coveted job post-graduation.

Drawing upon personal experience and the experiences of numerous other Canadian law students, Letourneau shares general insights on the LSAT, applying for law school in Canada, study strategies, summer jobs, the articling application process and much more, along with plenty of Canadian law school context-specific information.

Because the Canadian law school experience is unique, this book is the only full source of relevant information available to prospective and current Canadian law students. Letourneau will save you hours of research, hours of study and tons of stress.

Recommended to all students interested in law school in Canada, all students applying to law school in Canada and to students in all three years of law school in Canada.

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Thinking of becoming a lawyer? Attending law school in Canada? Finally-it's here-the guidebook you've been waiting for. Every year, an estimated 10,000-15,000 people apply to 16 Canadian law schools, vying for just over 2000 coveted spots. The competition is even fiercer when applying for a job as an articling student. Adam Letourneau, B.Sc., B.A., LL.B., a graduate of the University of Alberta Faculty of Law, and former Editor-in-Chief of the Alberta Law Review, reveals many insider tips on how to gain admittance to law school, how to cope and succeed in law school, and most importantly, how to land a coveted job post-graduation. Drawing upon personal experience and the experiences of numerous other Canadian law students, Letourneau shares general insights on the LSAT, applying for law school, study strategies, summer jobs, the articling application process and much more, along with plenty of context-specific information for the Canadian law student. Because the Canadian law school experience is unique, this book is the only full source of relevant information available to prospective and current Canadian law students. Letourneau will save you hours of research, hours of study and tons of stress. Recommended to all students interested in law school, all students applying to law school and to students in all three years of law school. For more information on this book, and for a variety of Canadian law school resources, go to www.canadalawstudent.ca.

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A must for any lawyer to be in Canada.......2007-02-09

This book is a comprehensive survey of all topics related to becoming a lawyer in Canada. It provides information that will assist you from your first thoughts of wanting to attend law school up to the day you are finally called to the bar, as well as web links and names of other books that may be of assistance. It is honest and thorough and I would recommend it for anyone who is considering law school, on the path to law school or already in law school. This book is a fresh account of everything law school related that does not deceive, patronize or beat around the bush. The author uses his own experiences and that of his colleagues to provide helpful examples and problem solving techniques. It is evident to me, in reading this book, that the author is selflessly committed to providing the most accurate, up-to-date and constructive advise to Canada's future law community. Mr. Letourneau's out-of-the-box thinking and open personality wonderfully complement this books unique style. [...]

A must read for potential law students!.......2006-05-21

Applying to and attending law school in Canada can be a challenging process. Unlike the many books that focus on the experience in the US, this book specifically looks at the Canadian system. 'So, You Want to Be a Lawyer, Eh?' outlines the process and offers tips to improve your results in the application process, at law school and in finding an articling position. I will be attending law school next year and I am confident that this book will help me succeed.

I highly recommend anyone considering a career in law in Canada to read this book!

Fantastic Book.......2006-05-17

As a future Canadian law student, I was frustrated with the lack of guide material available to Canadian law students. All of the material I was able to find was aimed toward American students. Since there are some differences between the way the two countries educate their lawyers, it was important to find a book like this that addresses the particular elements of Canadian Law School.

I highly recommend this to anyone contemplating law school in Canada.

Superb!.......2005-12-20

The book is an absolute must-read for those considering pursuing a career in the law. A number of books address the topic in the U.S. context; however, this is the first book I have encountered that thoroughly addresses: (1) Canadian law school life, (2) tips that will help one land the articling position of their choice; and (3) work as an articling student and junior lawyer in Canada.

The book is very comprehensive, well-written, and well-researched.

Excellent Tool for Potential Law Students.......2005-10-20

This book proved to be a good reference material that is written in laymen terms and formatted in an easy to follow chronological order taking you from the application process to the law school experience to seeking out law firms for articling.

The author, an articling law student, has taken the time to explain what potential law students should consider when seeking a career in this field.

This book also provides reference to several websites that will be useful in preparing one for the LSAT to selecting a law school to financing your education.

I definitely recommend this book as a planning tool for highschool/university students and mature adults considering a career in this field.

So you want to be a lawyer!: A vocational guidance manual

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So you want to be a lawyer!: A vocational guidance manual
Kenneth R Redden
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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So you want to be a lawyer,
William B Nourse
Manufacturer: Harper
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So You Want To Be A Lawyer: A Survival Guide

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So You Want To Be A Lawyer: A Survival Guide
Phillip Estes
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After I began to practice, I realized that the attorneys that I practiced with were more often than not in a fowl mood. Some were never cheerful or pleasant. I enjoyed most of the work involved in my practice, but many of my associates did not. After about nine months, I decided that the main problem with the profession was that there were too many attorneys. The pressure of having to compete for clients and advertise just to survive made it unbearable for nearly every one I met. For example, I had a friend who had quit a lucrative position with an insurance agency to attend law school and, then, to practice law. We would go to lunch together on many occasions. He had a wife, who worked full time and they had several children. The conversion at lunch always turned into his complaining about the lack of business or fees for his practice. He complained so much that I got to the point I didn't enjoy going to lunch with him anymore. At times I have tried to call other lawyers about a particular case only to get a recording saying that the phone had been temporarily disconnected. This has happened with lawyers who had been practicing for twenty years! Well, I decided that I could do my part to correct this situation. I knew it wouldn't be easy, but this book is my attempt to help potential attorneys see if they really want to be lawyers and, more importantly, to see if the law profession wants them.

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So You Want to Be a Lawyer?
Victoria Hogg
Manufacturer: Kogan Page Ltd
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So You Want to Be a Lawyer?: A Guide to Success in the Legal Profession (Fell's Official Know-It-All Guides)

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Editors Anywhere?
Not as helpful as it could have been...
Absolutely the worst book ever
Absolutely the worst book ever.

So You Want to Be a Lawyer?: A Guide to Success in the Legal Profession (Fell's Official Know-It-All Guides)
Marianne Pilgrim Calabrese , and Susanne Mary Calabrese
Manufacturer: Frederick Fell Publishers
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Editors Anywhere?.......2006-12-12

Unfortunately, I must agree with all of the aforementioned comments. As a recent college graduate, I was actually suggested to read this book by one of my co-workers. I pray it was meant to be a joke.

As previously stated, repitition runs rampant in the book. Sentences are the same, paragraphs are the same, and even chapters are the same. It seems as if there were not any editors to revise the book, and was thus published.

Overgeneralization is another problem. Though I understand that you cannot make the legal profession too specific, I also understand that you cannot categorize them into seven small titles.

It may seem that I am being rather harsh, but this book is not at all a good read. I couldn't even find myself reading past chapter two before I realized this. Hopefully, you won't make the same mistake I did.

Not as helpful as it could have been..........2006-11-10

This book was not as helpful as it could have been. It doesn't do much more than generalize lawyers into groups. Also, the book is full of mispellings, and grammatical errors.

Absolutely the worst book ever.......2006-10-14

I just want to second that notion. An absolute waste of time, this book is. It is impossible to read. I am astounded that this was published, that the author has ANY degrees, let alone a master's (albeit, in "reading"), and that this actually made it to a library. Unbelievable. DO NOT even think about getting this book; although, laughing at it is pretty funny.

Absolutely the worst book ever........2006-07-14

I don't even know what to say. This should never have been published. The content is not outstanding, but the writing and particularly editing, or lack thereof, is appalling. One example: chapters 3 and 4 are the same. I don't mean they cover the same content, I mean they are exactly the same--verbatim. The sentences that begin and end chapter 3 also begin and end chapter 4. And EVERY sentence in between is the same, as well. Also, the Calabreses seem to be afraid of commas and other punctuation. When things like quotation marks are (infrequently) used, they are usually used incorrectly or inconsistently. In short, the only readers who WON'T be offended or even physically sickened by the writing in this book are those who probably couldn't pass high school english class, much less be accepted into law school.

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So You Want to Be a Lawyer
Alan Nourse
Manufacturer: Harpercollins Juvenile Books
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Binding: Library Binding
ASIN: 0060052813

So You Want to Be a Lawyer : A Practical Guide

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So You Want to Be a Lawyer : A Practical Guide
Law School Admissions Services Staff
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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ASIN: B000HMCEKK

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Jack D. Dunitz X-Ray Analysis and the Structure of Organic Molecules From the Reviews of the First Edition `The book may be recommended most heartily to anyone who would like to know how molecular structures are determined and what can be deduced from them apart from their topology. The author is evidently a great admirer of the method and its results. The reviewer would agree that `cooking' is not the only way to bring chemically relevant knowledge to light.' Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. `All the information in this text is of considerable value especially to those engaged in, or about to embark upon, X-ray crystal structure analysis but even more so, perhaps, to the non-specialist who may now proceed profitably and discriminately to read the explosively growing crystallographic literature. The author has certainly succeeded in taking us not only on a guided tour, but at the same time has provided rather more of the kind of detail one expects in the best guidebooks.' Int. Rev. Phys. Chem. `All crystallographers, whatever their special structural interests, should get a copy and keep it by them, and many research supervisors will be very happy to entrust their research students to such a sound and stimulating guide.' Chem. in Britain

Organic Crystals and Molecules: Theory of X-Ray Structure Analysis with Applications to Organic Chemistry

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Organic Crystals and Molecules: Theory of X-Ray Structure Analysis with Applications to Organic Chemistry
J. Monteath Robertson
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X-Ray Analysis and the Structure of Organic Molecules

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X-Ray Analysis and the Structure of Organic Molecules
Jack D. Dunitz
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The universe comes down to earth in K. C. Cole's Mind Over Matter, a fresh and witty exploration of physics, cosmology, mathematics, astronomy, and more. Like no other science writer, Cole demystifies scientific concepts and humanizes the people who study them. Beginning with a discussion of how "the mind creates reality as well as muddles it," she then peeks into the stories behind science's great minds and into their playful side, and concludes by illuminating the relationship between science and society. Cole's remarkable work brings science to the reader's doorstep, revealing the universe to be elegant, intriguing, and relevant to politics, art, and every dimension of human life.

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Science dumbed down.......2006-10-10

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." When she wrote these pieces, Cole clearly wasn't following Einstein's adage.

Science made readable, relevant and enjoyable.......2003-10-30

In this collection of mostly columns that she wrote for the Los Angeles Times, science writer K.C. Cole relies on her wide reading in science, and on her interviews and friendships with scientists as a basis for appreciations, observations, interpretations, reports, and just plain musings on science and how science is transforming the planet. Employing a style that ranges from gossip column cute to poetic, Cole (who teaches at my alma mater UCLA) works hard to make science as relevant to the general public as the personalities in, say, People magazine, and just as accessible.

The task in writing about science is making it intelligible without dumbing it down or making simplistic statements that are not accurate. Cole recognizes this problem; indeed in reading these small essays (almost all are under a thousand words) I can feel her struggling mightily to get it just right: to make her expression as accurate as possible and as readable. She muses on these problems in the final essay, entitled, "Oops!" in which she confesses to some slips including confabulating Caltech physicist Robert Millikan with junk bond king Michael Milken. Ah, yes, I know well that sort of error, having stumbled thereabouts myself a time or two!

But it is not her ability to popularize science (by the way, she is now doing pieces for National Public Radio) that impresses me about Cole. It's her ability to understand science and its place in society that sets her apart from other writers. She is especially good are relating science to the social, political and personal worlds in which we live. Indeed, Part IV of this book is entitled "Political" Science with just the "Political" in quotes emphasizing that Cole is talking about both the internal political affairs of science and how the political world in general affects science and how science affects the political world. Some of the best essays in the book are from this section.

In "Dreamers," beginning on page 269, for example, Cole laments the loss of funding for some science projects (e.g., particle physics, the mission to Europa) as money is being redirected toward the wars on terror, drugs, and cancer--"missiles and medicine." She understands the pragmatic view of politicians who want tangible results from grants and under writings, but makes the powerful point that it is the "dreamers in the hinterlands who often come up with the most practical inventions." She directs our attention to PET scans, magnetic imaging, and laser surgery, all products of dreamers. But most saliently she recalls the physicists behind the development of the atom bomb, "dreamers" like Einstein and Oppenheimer. She notes that Germany might have won that war had Hitler been able to keep most of the German and Austrian scientists from fleeing to the United States. It is one of the great and most delicious ironies of history that so-called "Jewish" science helped to defeat the Nazis.

In "Unnatural" (p. 291) she addresses the controversy about genetically modified foods, noting first that seemingly unnatural plastic is mostly made from petroleum products, natural "plant matter that brewed for millions of years in the bowels of the earth"; and second that we have been modifying foods since the pre-history. ("You could even say that falling in love is nature's way of genetically modifying the species.") In conclusion she makes one of my favorite arguments: "We evolve...There's nothing special about this particular point in the history of any species--corn, humans or dogs. We're all on our way from someplace, going somewhere."

I've read this argument elsewhere and indeed have presented it myself, but nowhere have I read it put so succinctly well. We are NOT an unchanging construction (as from a creator God); instead we are a perpetually evolving entity, immersed in, and part of, an ever changing cosmos.

Some things learned: why Brazil nuts rise to the top in cans of mixed nuts (p. 117); there is a human wave of wake-up calls constantly going around the earth as we travel in our mind's eye with the sunlight though the time zones (p. 204); a comet or meteorite impact on the scale of the one that hit Siberia in 1908 happens about once every hundred years (p. 295); you can't get a suntan indoors because glass is opaque to ultraviolet light.

And much more.

I have read three of Cole's previous books and reviewed two of them (First You Build a Cloud: And Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life 1999 and The Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything 2001) and I read every essay in this book and can say this is her best work. I found almost all of her arguments agreeable and informed, very well and gently expressed. I was fascinated at how her distinctive style--sometimes cute (sometimes too cute!) but often understated--partially obscures her nimble and trenchant intellect. Cole knows science and she knows why science matters, why it matters more than we can know, and she works hard at getting that message across to a sometimes reluctant public.

Science writers are as necessary to the modern world as electricity is to our homes. In some places in the world there is neither. We are lucky to be able to turn on the lights and to read someone as lucid and pertinent as K.C. Cole.

The world of physics made clear at last.......2003-06-24

K.C. Cole has the rare ability to make the physical world both comprehensible and entertaining. I never thought I'd curl up with a good physics book but I found her brief commentaries obliterate the usual arbitrary separation between science and the humanities. In fact, it is by making physics so humanistic that she makes it clear to those of us who have difficulties understanding numerical concepts or apparently obscure ideas like space-time, quarks, and black holes. "Physics is simple," she writes, ". . . .consider the harmonics of a bottle of beer. Blow over the top, and you can make a series of different sounds, depending on how hard you blow and how much beer is left in the bottle. And lo and behold, it is by analyzing a very similar set of harmonics set up by the sloshing of gas and light in the early universe that astronomers have been able to put their ears to the cosmos, listening in on its babblings from the first moment of time. And here's what Cole, the mistress of metaphor, has to say about how Einstein's theory of relativity explains gravity as a curvature of space-time: "It's like an elephant sitting on a waterbed. Heavy objects bend space-time into "gravity wells" that pull other object in." If Einstein had put it that way in the first place, I wouldn't have had to wait this long to get it. Thanks, K. C. Cole.

Enjoyable and Accurate.......2003-05-30

Back during the brief period when the Los Angeles Times pretended to care about science it ran a weekly column by K. C. Cole. The Times, unfortunately, has reverted to viewing science as something to egregiously misrepresent in its daily reporting. But Cole's columns live on, and are now available to a larger audience. A physicist by training, I am often disappointed by science books because they achieve understandability by subtly misrepresenting the essence of difficult concepts. Cole, on the other hand, has a knack for explaining difficult concepts in simple terms without sacrificing veracity. This book is both a pleasurable and accurate read on topics of current interest in science. I highly recommend it to people wanting to better understand modern science.

Mind over Matter: Conversations With the Cosmos

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Mind over Matter: Conversations With the Cosmos
K. C. Cole
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJPXJK

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