Rules Books

As a political economist geographer, I was wary of reading about post-modern governmentality. However, this book analyzed governmentality studies in a systematic, thorough and chronological order that actually made the topic enjoyable. Other than Nikolas Rose's "The Powers of Freedom" book, no book is as approachable as this one. In fact, this one is the best book I have read on the topic. Very useful for anyone studying political and power processes. I highly recommend it.

This is a great book which instructs basic manners in any easy to use style. In this day and age, this a book that MANY PEOPLE NEED for their kids. Children SHOULD have manners...and this books helps to teach them...

John Marshall [1755-1835] was Chief Justice of the United States for the last 34 years of his life. During his long tenure, he turned the Supreme Court from an afterthought into a primary tool for the centralization of federal power; he defined America, though we can still debate whether he got the definition right. This book details how Marshall went about his task.....

This is NOT a biography of John Marshall [see my other reviews]; it is a series of case studies which trace the expanding power of the Federal Judiciary...Marbury v. Madison established the principle of Judicial review of legislative decisions...Virginia v. Cohens asserted federal authority in state affairs...the National Bank...land titles...Indian treaties......there is still disagreement over some of Marshall's decisions, and there was hell to pay over some of them at the time. "John Marshall has made his decision; now let's see him enforce it"...the various ramifications of that statement {which Andrew Jackson MAY not have ever made} are mind boggling....

Charles Hobson is editor of The John Marshall Papers, one of the 2 or 3 greatest living Marshall scholars, and a nice guy [as was Marshall]; he has written a five star book. Do I actually recommend it? Maybe. If you are an attorney or historian with an interest in the topic, it is an absolutely essential volume. Well written, well organized; for me, it was a page turner. For the casual reader, don't waste your money, or insult Mr. Hobson. You will need a good background in either Law [not me], or history [me] to understand it.

This is by far the best book on ICSID I've read....it covers in detail everything you need to know about ICSID arbitration. It contains a summary of UNCTAD' course on Dispute Settlement.

However, for a 220 + page book at $90 USD (actually 110 pages comprise the book and the remaining 110 + are composed by the ICSID convention and by a Model Bilateral Investment Treaty) it is EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE. But very good nonetheless.

So many times advertising has been a guessing game but after reading the Guru's rules, I have some excellent guidelines to use. If you do advertising on a local scale, you should definitely get this book. A good read with lots of humor.

Gives Industry rules of thumb for various businesses. It also discusses valuation factors to consider in many businesses. My only complaint is that the last version I have found is 1993.

If you're interested in making portable sundials or astrolabes, and if you're afraid of trigonometry, but good at geometry, this is the book for you. It's a translation of a classic old treatise that tells how to lay out the hour lines using geometry.

The book seems to be out of print, but if you post a review here and let me know you'd like it, I can call the translator and ask him if he has more copies. I've met him, and I think he still lives in the same town.

Besides his Olympic medals and his movie roles, surfing and swimming legend Duke Kahanamoku also figures as the losing defendant in the key Supreme Court decision on military tribunals.
Since President Bush announced his executive order on tribunals (later much revised), there has been a flood of commentary, almost all of it misinformed, and some of it hysterical, like Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz's piece about how there were "mass roundups" for the military tribunals in Hawaii.
That's nonsense. But there were military tribunals in Hawaii, more than in all the rest of the country combined.
They were comical, frightening, unconstitutional, dangerous and embarrassing. But, despite what you have been told, they were not secret.
J. Garner Anthony, briefly attorney general of the Territory of Hawaii, led the civil government's ultimately successful -- after it no longer counted -- resistance to the tribunals. "Hawaii under Army Rule" was published in 1955 and has been largely forgotten.
The Army panicked after Pearl Harbor, and it flimflammed Gov. Joseph Poindexter into allowing it to declare martial law. Lt. Gen. Walter Short, the lamentably incompetent commander of the Hawaiian Department, closed the bars and the courts.
In a few months, his clownish successor, Lt. Gen. Delos Emmons, reopened the saloons but not the courts.
Probably because of a well-founded belief that his despotic behavior was illegal, he and his legal officer, Col. Thomas Green, took the precaution of making it a military crime to present or receive a writ of habeas corpus. Thus, prisoners of the MPs had no place to appeal.
Eventually, when the civilians caught their breath and counterattacked against the Army, Emmons found himself sneaking out of Iolani Palace to avoid a writ, while MPs threw the U.S. Marshal over the porch railings.
If anybody in the Executive Office of the President knows now about these buffoonish proceedings, you would not know it from what they are saying. But their opponents, both left and right, seem equally clueless.
The 1946 decision in Duncan v. Kahanamoku, if anyone had paid attention to it, would have saved a lot of pointless discussion over the past four years.
Not that Duke was an enemy of civil liberties. But he was sheriff of Honolulu and had custody of one Duncan, a Pearl Harbor shipfitter who beefed with two Marine sentries in February 1944. This was long after the Japanese presented any threat to the operation of the civil courts of the Territory. But the Army enjoyed its conquest of Hawaii, including bully power and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines that stuck to its fingers.
It took a while, but eventually the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the declaration of martial law, the tribunals and a host of lesser issues created by the Army's coup against the Territorial government.
Legally speaking, the decision was whether the military had the right to impose martial law under the Hawaii Organic Act, which made Hawaii part of the United States. The justices said the military did not.
And although it is a cliche that the court tries not to go beyond the narrowest conception of each issue brought before it, the justices let fly on this one.
Associate Justice Hugo Black, a strong defender of the Bill of Rights, wrote for the court, but three other justices also wanted to have their say.
The court said, among other things, "The right to jury trial and the other constitutional rights of an accused individual are too fundamental to be sacrificed merely through a reasonable fear of military assault."
And the justices made it pretty damn clear that when they talked about a "military assault," they didn't mean some vague threat in the indefinite future. They meant the civil courts should be left alone, even in a military emergency, unless the enemy had landed or the troop transports were standing offshore.
And, in a remark that goes right to the point of the current discussion, the court said, "From time immemorial despots have used real or imagined threats to the public welfare as an excuse for needlessly abrogating human rights."
And for those who have suggested that only citizens have constitutional rights through the civil courts or that the Territorial precedent somehow doesn't apply to States, Black wrote, "Civilians in Hawaii are entitled to the constitutional guarantees of a fair trial to the same extent as those who live in any other part of our country."
The court also referred back to a 1932 case (Sterling v. Constantin), which had ruled that "the allowable limits of military discretion, and whether or not they have been overstepped in a particular case, are judicial questions."

This unprepossessing volume includes a few glossy color plates, but it's contructed primarily around 1,200+ black-and-white renderings of arms, accompanied by cogent descriptive and explanatory text. The chapters walk the reader through the major elements of a blazon: The shield itself and its divisions and partitions, the charges, the helm and mantling, the crest and supporters, the various systems of differencing and cadency, and the marshalling of arms. But the author, a German-born artist of American citizenship living in Antwerp, has published a number of heraldic works in German, Dutch, and Danish, as well as English, and his interest in Continental armory continues here, with discussions of burgher-arms, both the titled and untitled nobility of numerous European countries, and the religious orders of chivalry in Malta, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Since most works on the subject in English show little interest in heraldry outside the British Isles, that inclusion alone makes this an important reference tool. But the author also points out the family relationships displayed in the similar arms of families with a joint history, the similarities between many municipal and regional arms based on historical parallels, and even the peculiarities of practice in the way helms are traditionally rendered in different countries. Much incidental information on both British and Continental families also appears. For instance, the arms of the noble Pacchioni family of Bologna includes a modified version of the chief in the Angevin arms because the armiger was a supporter of the King of Nables and Sicily, and the arms of Edward Irving of Kirkintilloch include a brisure of a second son of a third son of a second son. An excellent tool for both the genealogist and the heraldic artist.

It is deep, entertaining in a special kind of way, innocent but frank. It let's you see inside other person's life, heart, thoughts, feelings + hopes, and makes you feel like you know them (or want to meet them in real life) especially when you look at the included collection of photographs that are a treasure of memories, you can realy identify youself with all settings + people involved, no matter what age or origin you are or if you have been through a war yourself. It shows you the whole picture, lots of history facts that aren't neccessarily thought in school, all in a very enjoyable-to-read story. I wish Helga L.L.Rule would write + publish a second part. After reading to he point where the book ends, you would like to find out how it went on...(can't really say that about a lot of books).
If you or your ancestors came from Europe, you might really relate to it even more or have more understanding of what your family / friends went through at the least.
SUMMERY: This autor should write more books! it is educational (in all kinds of ways) , entertaining , heart breaking , and somehow it gives you hope...
read it, you'll know what I mean.
PS: I will always love you, Kaethe Oma