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COPYRIGHT COMPANION FOR WRITERS is an extensive look at the things writers should know about copyright, plagiarism, public domain and, international copyright issues, all of which can help make or break a career. Many misconceptions will be resolved and information will be shared to save authors and publishers from literary heartache and financial losts.

The thirteen chapters are short but potent as Ms. Evans tells everything you need to know about copyrighting, but never asked. The thoroughness of the information is a testament to the seriousness of learning the ever changing laws of copyrighting. Whether you are a new writer or an experienced, published author COPYRIGHT COMPANION FOR WRITERS will give helpful information about copyrighting: how it is created, protected and licensed. Copyrighting today requires a legal reference guide because of new court rulings and legislative amendments that are continually emerging due to the many technology changes.

COPYRIGHT COMPANION FOR WRITERS is an essential guide for anyone seriously interested in avoiding the legal pitfalls surrounding writing and publishing. Understanding the laws relating to the publishing industry is a must for survival in today's literary and musical arenas.

Reviewed by aNN
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

This book, along with the attached CD-ROM is one of the best guides for an author when it comes to explaining in layman's terms about copyright issues. The author goes into great and useful detail about every aspect of the copyright process. Copyright forms in pdf form are included on the CD-ROM to help the author along. All of the possible traps and the danger of assuming your work is protected are covered. In all, it is a worthy companion of Literary Law Guide for Authors. Those of us who are serious writers should not miss getting both of these books.

Copyrights are a matter of international law. That means that not only are they complex (as all laws are) but that there are several US laws, and even more foreign laws that might apply. This book is a concentrated description of copyright laws as they apply to writers. As such it leaves out a lot of points like those that might apply to individual or to a publisher.

For the writer, this is clearly written and covers the information that he needs to protect himself before he starts sending out his masterpiece. The book also includes the forms to be used for copyright registration and more. The forms are also repeated on a CD-ROM included with the book.

To illustrate the complexity, however, of copyright law, a question. These forms are US Government forms, therefore they are in the public domain. But these forms are also on a disk at the back of the book. The disk is marked Copyright 2007 by Legal Write Publications. How can you copyright public domain Government documents. And it is obvious that the intent of the CD is for you to extract the forms, print them out and use them to register for copyrights. But nowhere do I see a statement that says you can do that. As I said, copyright law is a mess.

I thought I knew everything about copyright but I didn't know what I didn't know! I have been a professional writer since 1989. I have published three books and written over 400 columns for a major daily in Texas. I've even served as an editor for two magazines. Yet, I learned more by reading this one book than I did in all the books I've read on publishing. The information is current, practical, and priceless. Kudos to Ms. Evans-Walls for making legalese interesting and affordable. [...]

The book arrived very promptly, and although it was used it was in almost perfect condition. Very pleased.

I received my books within days NOT weeks as thought, had a chance to review the book before my classes started.

This will be the first place I look for new & used books.

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I'm using this textbook in my community college course on corrections -- and I can't image how any book could be better. The book is built around a theme of professionalism in corrections and makes me want to work as a corrections officer -- and makes me want to improve the field. If you are interested in a career in corrections this book is for you -- whether or not you are currently in school.

I'm using this textbook in my community college course on corrections -- and I can't image how any book could be better. The book is built around a theme of professionalism in corrections and makes me want to work as a corrections officer -- and makes me want to improve the field. If you are interested in a career in corrections this book is for you -- whether or not you are currently in school.

I had to get this book for class, but it is a great book in that it covers the history of corrections as well as the problems that are facing the Corrections communities today.

Professor Welch's book has allowed me to recognize that it is not being human that is the problem so much as being human amongst humans. This book offers broad perspective on criminal justice system that is both realistic and very direct. Professor Welch's presentation of our criminal justice system 'the way it really is' challenged my range of beliefs that came to exist from channels of expectations that did not belong to me at all, but belonged to the continent of what the field of being human has decided we must all feel, think, and share. The book is straightforwardly read and intriguing, and I recommend it to any individual who is ready to be challenged. I just wish I'd known sooner what our criminal justice system does not tell. Despite CORRECTIONS: A CRITICAL APPROACH, I also recommend Michael Welch's PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA.

Professor Welch's book has allowed me to recognize that it is not being human that is the problem so much as being human amongst humans. This book offers broad perspective on criminal justice system that is both realistic and very direct. Professor Welch's presentation of our criminal justice system 'the way it really is' challenged my range of beliefs that came to exist from channels of expectations that did not belong to me at all, but belonged to the continent of what the field of being human has decided we must all feel, think and share. The book is straightforwardly read and intriguing, and I recommend it to any individual who is ready to be challenged. I just wish I'd known sooner what our criminal justice system does not tell. Despite CORRECTIONS: A CRITICAL APPROACH, I also recommend Michael Welch's PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA.

Since criminal justice only makes sense within the wider context of social justice, why do we insist on yoking law enforcement and the penal system with the fatal impasse of socioeconomic inequality and exploitation? As Professor Welch powerfully demonstrates, a large criminal justice system is a social failure -- much like dentistry, the criminal justice system's primary goal should be to put itself out of business, to defy the conservative propaganda-artists who evangelize $$$ for the prison-industrial complex. As a sociologist (and former prison psychologist), Welch was displeased with the descriptive or "objective" nature of most corrections textbooks; he required a text that would do justice to the byzantine entanglement of ironies which foreordain the social construction of the prisoner. A critical approach to corrections will schematize the wider precincts and differential vectors of social control, the penal system presented as a stirring palimpsest of our society as a whole. For example, if white-collar crime is infinitely more destructive to (read: expensive for) the socius, why don't we have a Uniform Crime Report tuned to the interstices of corporate criminality? If a stable capitalist economy relies upon a Surplus Labor Pool of bored, frustrated, disillusioned citizenry, how can we expect the underclass to universally reject the temptations of narcotics trafficking and other esteem-granting shortcuts? If we truly live in the richest and most enlightened nation on earth, why do we also have the largest statistical ratio of citizens festering away in lock-down? Prisoners, of course, are more valuable as penal *commodities* than they would be on the welfare take. By raking in every new generation of the underclass in to the prison system, conservative administrations justify their perverse spending via election-motivated tough-on-crime propaganda, reinforcing the very injustices which overdetermine criminality and social deviance.... It goes without saying that most criminal justice departments are staffed by former attornies and retired law enforcement personnel, enticing the student with a reactionary Us Against Them mentality which tends to downplay the crucial problems of our persecutory and unredemptive prison system. Michael Welch is a rare exception in this morass of dreary cop rhetoric, shaking us awake to the schizophrenia of that rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem, that most daemonic of American juggernauts, the hamstrung broken-backed criminal justice system. Of course, to get the full effect of this text, one would have to take Prof. Welch's course at Rutgers, but for those professors and adjuncts who want to shock their students awake with the *real* issues of contemporary corrections, this book should be back-ordered for their courses ASAP.

Reynolds did a fine job with this biography of Liebowitz, noted criminal defense attorney of the "gangster era" and later Kings County, New York, trial judge. "Courtroom" should be required reading for prospective trial lawyers.

Expertly written, the book probes deeply into many of Liebowitz's courtroom experiences, analyzing his instincts, his attention to detail and his techniques, without ever becoming bogged-down or dull. We learn how the master selected jurors and then reached out to them with his courtroom manner and compelling arguments. We watch as his determined cross examination turns up the slightest flaw in a prosecution witness's testimony and as he uses that flaw to shred the witness's credibility.

Reynolds spends considerable time on the historic Scottsboro Boys case and deals with Liebowitz's defense of Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, Al Capone, Bruno Richard Hauptmann (Lindbergh baby case), and others. Chicago Outfit boss Al Capone, Murder Inc. leader Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, Owen Madden and Dutch Schultz make brief appearances in the narrative.

The author also uses his work to deal with some of the major criminology and law enforcement issues of Liebowitz's era. These include anthropological criminology (Liebowitz opposed the theory that violent criminals were evolutionary throwbacks) and police brutality.

Shortcomings in the work include the lack of an index and the absence of photographs. Those interested in American Mafia history could be let down by the short attention given to Liebowitz's prominent mob boss clients.

On the issue of April 1958 "Selection from the Reader's Digest" published a very important article (condensed from "THIS WEEK") by the well-known JUDGE SAMUEL LEIBOWITZ of the Brooklyn's Court of Assizes, whose title was (on the Italian edition) « Why has Italy the lowest rate of juvenile criminology ». I am trying to trace the original article in English, either that from "Selection from the Reader's Digest" or the original one from "THIS WEEK". Can you help me in some way? Said article concerns the American youth, the American family, and the American way of living, as compared to other nations'. You'll be very interested yourself for sure!

This book was written more than fifty years ago, and the events has at least seventy years, but even at this time almost everybody think and act like seventy years ago, so if this book were written by other writer and say that is happening now you would believe it. The big problem of the book is that all those cases were for real, the people don't think if they are wrong, they want to judge the people just for their color , race or religion, is that OK with you?
The book is a little bit heavy in some parts, but is always in the story and never goes out just to fill pages, Excellent book.

By the way, in the packages of Camel cigarettes is indeed a man, the feet of the man are in the hind ones of the camel, the man is in an obscene position.

I read this as a schoolkid in India 30 years back and was entranced by his passionate defense of his clients. Even now the thrill of reading about Justice Leibowitz and the famous trials he participated in makes the Dershowitzs of the world like lilliputians. Like the Beatles it will remain timeless.

My intro CJ class was assigned this textbook and about half of our test came out of assigned readings, so I spent a good deal of time with this book. I found the book to be professionally written yet easy to digest, even for a college freshman. It gets updated every year, but I compared my 1yr old text with the newer version a classmate had and almost nothing had changed besides these little real-world story blurbs that are spread throughout the book, so you could save some money that way.

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I found this book, while currently enrolled at a local 2 year college in Criminal Justice,to be very helpful in explaining how the Criminal Justice system works, from early initiaion of law enforcement practices to modern day. There are many fascinating aspects to explore, and learn from within this text. It also helps to have an instructor that is knowledgeable with the text, so the teaching can be understood.

This book is very educational for those who are majoring or minoring in Criminal Justice. The book itself explains how the Criminal Justice works. In addition to this, the book helps you understand the laws. It also allows you to understand each and every law that the government of the United States has set. The author of this book seems to be very detailed and specific about every law and details of these. Another thing that makes this such a great book to any college student who has great interest in learning Criminal Justice is that it has great illustrations to explain the rights and wrongs of the law.

Excellent book. It was very thorough and well written.

If you're in a California non-ABA approved law school and after about nine months you are completely burnt out with your text books then start studying these criminal law flash cards. In the first 100 cards it clarifies legal terms that extend to torts as well such as vicarious liabilty and these flash cards go on to explain the exact difference between proximate cause and cause in fact for both criminal law and torts as well. These flash cards are not as hard to study as text books but they are not a substitute for them either. If you are 1ls in an ABA approved law school then disregard this review and study whatever your law professor recommends.

Excellent book. It was very thorough and well written.

These cards were a great way for me to study for my exam. I found the colorful examples and the great black letter law and theory definition cards to be very effective. In addition the way these cards are organized is great.

Phillips and Benner have edited nine narratives written on "redesigning the structures and processes of our public caregiving institutions in order to better facilitate practices of caring," (vii) an excellent resource for those in the helping professions and for those who care. The narratives are actual circumstances with real people who practice within the caring professions. The authors invite the reader to examine the narratives in terms of the practices of care illustrated by them (vii). Because the narratives are written by practitioners and theorists who are experts in their field (10), each has spoken out against the objectification and commodification of persons and practices that mask contemporary helping professions (11).
These are examples of the experts. Robert Bellah, a sociologist, argues for a rich, interpersonal world as he pleads for Americans to listen and see, by adopting an ethic of responsibility, of moral discourse, instead of control and commodification (13).
Patricia Benner, a professor of physiological nursing, advocates that, "effective caregiving requires more than intent or sentiment. It requires skill and knowledge and being in relation with others in ways that foster mutuality, empowerment, and growth" (45).
As a pastor and theology professor, Eugene H. Peterson describes the difference between genuine caring and control veiled as caring. Dr. Peterson believes that we are meant to open out toward our neighbors and open upward towards God, and that we can be whole and healthy humans only to the degree that we do this (69).
Pediatrician E. Dawn Swaby-Ellis states that "whatever the competing factions my challenge is the same: to be effective, efficient, and empathic" (84). Furthermore, she believes that caring for patients must come out of true concern and love for them (90). Her personal caring relationship with her patients was deeply validated by her exposure to the biopsychosocial model proposes by George Engel and expanded by Paul Tournie to include the spiritual dimension. Although, Dr. Swaby-Ellis praises many of her teachers, she declares the Holy Spirit to be her greatest teacher. "It is one thing to be a Christian who wishes to live a life of obedience to God by showing love to mankind. It is another thing to integrate our faith into the fabric of our being so that our actions mirror our spiritual belief" (93).
To Anna Richert, an educator, all teaching practice must help kids to grow through caring. Although there are increasing challenges and dangers educators deal with daily as they attempt to care by teaching in urban chaos, still "children need care and they also need to learn to care for one another. Ultimately they need to learn to care for themselves" (109). I agree with Richert that fundamental to teaching children to care is the fact that children "need to feel and be safe" which includes "needing to trust others, and having a sense that others believe in them" (109).

Insightful, humane, challenging, reflective, and practical are words that describe, The Crisis of Care: Affirming and Restoring Caring Practices in the Helping Professions, edited by Susan Phillips and Patricia Benner. The nine chapters followed the format of a story narrative followed by a pertinent and complimentary discourse. Phillips wrote: "Teaching, nursing, medicine, psychotherapy, and pastoral ministry are written of from the inside in terms of excellent practice" (vii). Inevitably, "care is relational, creating more than we expect and at other times showing us the limits of `helping'" (10).
Phillips' book is a positive example of how ritual and relationship can fuse to embrace the unique personhood of students, patients, clients, and parishioners; thereby, humanizing what has been viewed as merely objective clinical processes and procedures. The distinguished practitioners and scholars who contributed stories and essays are to be commended for their efforts in providing authentic care themselves and in sharing their insights.
The stories are powerful. A Holocaust descendant's anxiety is relieved because the psychotherapist heard with an inner ear, the patient's real and heretofore unexpressed need. Attention to the not said and the unseen on the part of the caregiver is of terrific value when providing care. An abortion case is reviewed with some of the multiplicity of implications that are involved. "Sammy," a six years old Amish boy, kicked by a mule, is restored to health. The preparation of a simple meal and the opportunity to learn the history of an African-American woman's family (Ambrosia Jones) helped pave a road to recovery. Death by choice in a chapter of the same name is provocative. Blake's story is about the unattractive child. It presents the compassionate value of a mother's love, and reveals a doctor's openness to in-seeing and in-hearing, and thereby some profound learning occurs. Mrs. Clark's paralysis and the visiting male nurse's ritual and relationship pastoral care story are inspiring.
The insights are powerful. Benner wrote: "If we were able to replace our disease care system with caring practices that foster illness prevention and health promotion so that clinical wisdom could be fostered from caregivers and receivers alike, we would alter dramatically how we are spending our health care dollar" (59). Eugene Peterson described the pastor's task: "Pastors identify God in the action, God in the language" (74). Peterson's challenge was to learn when to care, and not to care. The Atlanta, Georgia pediatrician, Dr. E. Dawn Swaby-Ellis learned: "My greatest teacher in learning how to care has been the Holy Spirit" (93). Clinical Psychologist Mima Baird echoed the sentiment by contributing: "To care is to listen; to hear is to care" (96). Teacher Anna Richert noted that it lies within the ability to make authentic connections that the capacity for care is enhanced, and by implication, the significant educable moment can be realized. Professor Joel Green draws attention in his summary statement: "Just as we know the character of God only in the concreteness of our lives, especially within the community of God's people, so we recognize the threads and hues of human reflection of God's character only in the fabric of social life in the everyday world" (165).
Quickly paced, tightly written, and imaginative stories, and longer, but nevertheless interesting reflections and observations, make The Crisis of Care an excellent addition to every caregivers memory storehouse and personal library.

The Crisis of Care is an insightful examination of the state of care in the helping professions. The editors argue: "... that examining our exemplary caring relationships can prompt us to redesign the structures and processes of our public caregiving institutions in order to better facilitate practices of caring" (1994:vii). Utilizing essays from practioners and scholars, the editors have collected narratives and scholarly discourses that address the practice of care in various helping fields and from the perspective of various academic disciplines. While the reader may not fully agree with positions taken by various writers concerning such issues as euthanasia, abortion, and the philosophic basis of ethics, the writing on the whole is good. The narratives frequently touch a sentimental chord. One good example is W. Thomas Boyce's "Beyond the Clinical Gaze" (1994:144-148). Eugene H. Peterson's essay "Teach us to Care and not to Care" is brilliant (1994:66-79). Peterson challenges the reader to not defile the holy. Joel B. Green's essay "Caring as Gift and Goal: Biblical and Theological Reflections" was also outstanding (1994:149-167). Green covered much biblical and theological ground clearly and with keen insight. Robert N. Bellah's "Understanding Caring in Contemporary America" was awesomely insightful (1994:21-35). He explores the themes of placing caring over exploitation and placing attention over distraction.
While, to me, some of the narratives and essays were not as excellent as those I mentioned, on the whole the book is worth reading. I recommend it.

A review by Eric Newell
April 10, 2002
The Crisis of Care is moving away from the technological, managerial aspect of caring. The need is to restore the concern and compassion for the need of the care receiver. Persons care for the wrong reasons. If it is not the aspect of filling the prescribed attention to a patient, very often there is the one who is interested to help or assist because they feel a sense of moral commitment or the sense that it will make them feel good. The editors quote Wuthnow's survey report that 42% of Americans were interested giving themselves for the benefit of others. The percentage dropped to 15% when asked if they were willing to sacrifice to help another person." (1994, p.23)
"From the time we were children, we were told by our parents and our grammar school teachers to "Pay Attention!" Even though we have grown inured to this injunction and shrug it off, there are few things in life more important." (1994, p. 28) Restoring those concerns for the individual, the context of their situation and what it is that needs to be protected for the care receiver is important.
Steven Covey in his writing cautioned against responding to the "Tyranny of the Urgent". In "The Crisis of Care," the chapter, "Teach Us to Care and Not to Care," says the caregiver who offers standardized responses to the needs or responds to that which gives only immediate relief, is not giving the full extent of care. There needs to be the caregiver who is will not only to pray for the receiver only, as an immediate answer to the problem, but who is willing to take the time to teach the receiver how to pray. This awareness of how to pray helps the person begin to understand that value can be found even in the experience of their suffering.
Creating a context of care, listening and reducing isolation are all important in care giving. It is not enough to know the facts about a person or even the facts about their situation. The concern is that one knows the issues and reasons, which surround those facts. This is important whether it involves the student in the school or the patient wrestling with the quality of life. "From a theological standpoint, any notions of caring we might have grow out of our divine vocation, to reflect in our lives together in the world the character of God, manifest in his covenant love, (the compassionate behavior of God)."
Phillips and Benner blend the use of narrative, dialogue and instruction to emphasize the strengths and weaknesses in present day care giving. The reoccurring issues of finding the context, the willingness to listen and the autonomy of the care receiver emphasize the point of the writing that care giving needs to move beyond the mechanical and technological response.

I am pleased to have purchased this book which according to the publisher is the first in a series of books detailing the case histories of all convicted inmates executed in the 21st century by the people of the United States. I note that each case history juxtaposes details of the capital crime with the capital punishment and always includes hard to find information regarding the disposition of co-defendants. I know of no other source that provides such a wealth of information.

Finding the book to be well written and easy to read I commend the authors for including case citations to both published and unpublished court opinions something that is not easily accessible to the lay person and very often difficult or unduly costly to those of us fortunate enough to have access to legal search engines like Lexis and Westlaw. In my opinion this book is one of very few criminology books that will appeal to both the scholar and the lay person. I especially enjoy the fact that the authors have been careful not to interpose their opinions in a subject that is certain to generate a strong emotional response in the reader. Obviously I look forward to the next addition in this series.

I'm a really big fan of Court TV and this book is exactly what Nancy Grace would love to be able to report about. I'm probably one of the first to get this book and I've only just begun reading it but if you're like me you and fascinated by really gruesome killings then this is a must read book. My favorite killer so far is this Jimmie Ray Slaughter. He's one really sick dude!

about capital punishment in which the two authors have done an outstanding job of recreating the capital crimes and the legal proceedings that ultimately resulted in the execution of 59 men and one woman in 2005 and 53 men in 2006 by the most advanced country on the planet. The writing is appropriately dry and the facts are kept at unemotional level which help to make the book appeal to people like myself who want to evaluate the totality of each murder on a case by case basis without having to get caught up in a debate about capital punishment. While at times the amount of information is simply overwhelming I must say that I am pretty impressed with this book which I think provides an interesting social commentary of America that makes you wonder just how advanced we really are.

As a Baptist Minister I am happy to say that I have purchased this book for my personal library as this is a book that has most certainly affected my view of capital punishment. While there is no doubt in my mind that most if not all of the executed people discussed in this book are sinners and indeed guilty of the horrible crimes with which they have been charged and seemingly deserving of being locked up forever, I am now unsure how Americans, the most advanced society in the world, benefit from having our government execute people who are either clearly insane or so sick and tired of being incarcerated that they volunteer to be executed. What then is the point of another killing?

The authors of this book don't give any simple answers to this moral dilemma but they sure do a fine a job, perhaps almost too good a job, of making you think and ponder this question and cause you to reflect on another very difficult question: should the death penalty be abolished altogether?

This book was done by Diane Garey, whose creative roots are in film not as an author. I think she has compiled an excellent book as a companion to the PBS film and agree with another reviewer that this book is also excellent on its own.

As a card carrying member of the ACLU I sometimes cannot praise the ACLU enough, while other times, I cannot wrap my mind around why they take some positions that seen in diametrical opposition to what I want them to. This book gives a great explanation of how and why the ACLU has been viewed as a savior and a villian, and why we are all better off for their existence.

While written as a companion book to the PBS broadcast of the same name it stands alone as an adequate, spritely written review of the ACLU's history. Like a skipping stone, it moves over their troubled waters, briefly touching upon both the high and low points of their past eforts. Not meaning to represent itself as a complete analysis of the ACLU, Garey, none the less, has written an entertaining and thoughtful book. It will serve as an excellent introduction to the complex entity the ACLU has become.

Garey's history shows the ACLU's most magnificnent victories as well as the organization's most inglorious warts. This book makes history of civil liberties in America come alive. The stories are gripping. The writing sparkles.

You can only admire a group of people who defend the bill of rights. It isfashionable to defend the ten commandments, but if you defend the billof rights, you are called every namein the book. I salute the ACLU andanybody else who defends the rights ofAmerica.

Yes, some chapters get pretty boring...but in all of the "Greatest Closing Argument" series, there's atleast two that truly shine. In this book, I personally enjoyed Gerry Spence's defense.

If you are a quick reader, or someone who is not bothered about spending a couple hours on reading about how someone supposedly killed someone and this and that supports what, this book is for you. If you cannot stand reading for more than ten minutes, you should save that money for movies.

Truly amazing and inspiring, beautifully read, a must for any litigator.

This is a great book. Not all the arguments in the book are closing arguments, some are arguments made before the Supreme Court such as in Ch. 2, but all the cases in the book are very good and fascinating. What I really love about the book is that the authors give plenty of background information on the case and the events that led up to the case. This is a must read.

I simply cannot heap enough praise. Oh...how I wished I had this audiobook - of nineteen disks - when I studied criminal justice and trial practice in law school.

What makes this book extraordinary? The audiobook provides dramatic recreations of the great speeches before juries or stirring appellate arguments before the Supreme Court coupled with comprehensive and intelligent contextualization. The cases and arguments are explained within the framework of American history and jurisprudence. For example,in discussing the landmark case of Mapp v. Ohio which created the
exclusionary rule for evidence obtained in violation of the Bill of Rights, the authors delve into the history of the Warren Court, the biographies of the justices, the social changes in the 1960's and the entire legal history of search and seizure from the days before the American Revolution to the time of the argument and beyond. Yes, it is the marvelous background and explanation that makes this a five star book. Thinking of a gift for that young adult who just took her LSAT or gained admission to an Ivy League law school? This is IT.