Professions Books

If you're looking for a book that explains in simple terms many forensic issues relevant to a forensic or physician's practice, this is it. Yes, this is comprehensive yet very easy and enjoyable to read. The authors' expertise and savvy are evident in every page. Highly recommended!

This out-of-print book has been replaced by the hot-off-the-presses, completely updated NEW THIRD EDITION from Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.Bristling with managed-care driven risk management advice, and addressing recovered memory, new technology and information security in the eletroinic age, this is still the book to keep you and your practice safe!

Grate book, concised and helpful especially if your are assigned in the emergency room.

This text is excellent for getting information on the material taught in ENPC for nurses. The information is clearly written and highlights those issues encountered in pediatric emergency practice. Nice work.

For anyone who's wondered if they'd ever figure out what they really wanted to be 'when they grow up', the Cavalry has arrived in the form of Ms. Brown-Volkman's book "Coach Yourself to a New Career"!

This book is filled with a soothing, supportive voice (the author) who completely gets what you're going through. She also lays out a step-by-step, couldn't be easier plan to help the utterly confused figure it all out and then move forward to make it happen, a little at a time.

With a number of exercises designed to put you through your paces, at your own appropriate pace, you literally can't miss. And, just in case your idea of moving forward is to take a nap, Ms. Brown-Volkman has the characteristic challenging yet utterly understanding tone of a savvy, professional coach - you WILL make it happen!

Want to discover and design the ideal career? Buy this Book!!

The Title of Deborah's book, Coach Yourself to a New Career, could also have been titled Coach Yourself to a New Career and a Life.

Deborah Brown-Volkman gives some VERY thought-provoking questions in "Coach Yourself to a New Career."

Chapter Three contains a very profound sentence: "If you already cherish silence as a secret weapon, you're very fortunate."

Pages 38-39, Listening to Your Inner Voice, especially hit home with me because we need to listen to our dreams and our heart.

The Testimonials in Chapter Five on pages 57-58 and Putting Your Fears at Bay on page 58 are some of Mrs. Volkman's most powerful parts of her book. She poses the question of what your inactivity due to supposed fear has cost you.

What also is great about Deborah's book is that she adds some personal signs from the Universe that she WAS doing the right thing, such as the poem that she found in a gift shop in New Mexico while on vacation with her husband (page 72). She said that she knew that the poem was meant for her.

Brown-Volkman is also very pragmatic in her techniques to find a career (and a life) that you love.

She gives the reader a sense that our successes are a team effort on page 84 and that it IS okay to ask for help.

After being successful, Mrs. Volkman insists that we should share our gifts with the world on page 88. She is absolutely right on with the sharing concept.

Insistence on sharing our talents is also present among Brown-Volkman's colleague, Cheryl Richardson, who has also stressed the need to share our gifts and unique talents with the world.

Finally, Brown-Volkman includes five of her bonus articles from various publications. As a writer myself, I have seen some of her very well written articles in the Wall Street Journal and on several websites such as 6FigureJobs.com. I was very pleased to see some of her articles in the book.

As a licensed private investigator, college instructor of private investigations courses, and an avid reader of investigative texts, I must commend Ms. Kitty Hailey, CLI, CFE, for writing the only definitive book on ethics for the investigative professional.

Individuals seek out the expertise of the professional investigator when they are in need of help. The role of the investigator is to provide the necessary assistance in a manner that is factual, accountable, and complete. Nothing, however, stops the unethical practitioner who takes advantage of those for whom he or she works. "Code of Professional Conduct" has been prepared to advance the reputation of the private investigation profession, and to ensure that sufficient effort is afforded to each client.

A majority of the professional investigation associations already invoke a code of ethics and/or cannons of professional conduct. Although similar in many respects, they also vary greatly.

Ms. Hailey has compiled, compared, and contrasted the various doctrines of these codes. They have been categorized and restated with emphasis on clarity and simplicity of language.

The private investigation profession demands the most diligent, honest, and professional conduct of its practitioners. "Code of Professional Conduct" will help meet that goal.

This book should be in the hands of every practicing investigator, every person who hires an investigator, and the leaders of every investigative association.

Overall, the content is excellent and the author is one of the nation's foremost authorities on professionalism in the investigative professions. If you are truly interested in this topic, and all professional investigators should be, then this is the title you've been looking for.

I would also like to personally thank Ms. Hailey for taking the time to send me a signed copy of this book and her other book, "The Professional Investigator: A compilation of Articles, Essays and Forms".

As always, check with your local library or bookstore to see if you can read/review this or any title before deciding to make a purchase. This method has effectively allowed me to make the most of my investigative library budget.

If you are interested in information regarding other investigative texts, then please visit my Listmania! Lists entitled "Private Investigation Texts - The Best Currently In Print" and "Private Investigation Texts - The Best For $35 Or Less".
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This book...is, without a doubt, the most important book ever written for our profession. There should never again be a question in the legal profession about the commitment of professional investigators to ethical and responsible behavior. This is a book that every investigator should read, should gift to others, should provide to association leaders, and should be sure to have in his or her briefcase for ready reference to prove to clients, courts, and the media that this work, and responsibility, is taken VERY seriously.

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October 2002 Issue

Federal Indian law is a very complicated subject. This book starts out with a great overview of the history of Indian law and policy. It follows with detailed discussions of every aspect of Indian law. Whether you want to know about Indian gaming (casinos), water rights, civil rights of Indians and non-Indians under tribal law, or anything else, this book has got it all! I practice in the field and this where I always start my research. It's also a great source of background material for news reporters and those interested in policy information. It also gets updated every two years, so you know you have the current information.

This is an amazing resource--every time I have an Indian Law question (and I write and teach in the field) I turn to the 2005 edition and find the answer, or at least the sources to get me on the right track. Everyone dealing within Indian law questions should get it.

Gregg has written an excellent book. This book, in it essence, is a very lucid scholarly, accurate historical-conceptual study of the causal correlations between the commercial society and what Gregg calls its "foundations", meaning the conditions that favor the commercial society. These include moral foundations (e.g., creativity, practical wisdom, trust, civility), economic foundations and legal-political foundations. But to read this book merely as a descriptive study is to miss the more important prescriptive thesis, which is that we ought to encourage and promote the commercial society. Beware, again of missing the important prescriptive thesis if one reads in Gregg merely the suggestion that an appropriate culture supporting these foundations( which intellectuals have a role to shape) needs to be defended and encouraged *in order to* have a commercial society. Rather the equally interesting, if not more interesting proposal, is that one might promote the commercial society *in order to* promote those desirable moral, economic and legal political foundations, which have themselves independent value, and which constitute a culture of civility. So what turned out originally to be means for the sake of the end (i.e., the commercial society) are now proposed as the ends worth seeking via the establishment of the commercial society. Gregg does not harbour pie-in-the-sky illusions: there remains many fine-tuning to be done, and he is alert to these, as seen in his careful qualifications. But this strategy for promoting the culture of civility, if I may, by way of the commercial society needs to be explored, since the causal correlative connections are much in evidence. In inviting us to think this way, Gregg is offering us an example of what Herbert Simon (Nobel Prize in economics, 1978) calls goaless designing (The Sciences of the Artificial, 1983), which he recommends as a fully rational and creative way of designing and engineering society. One seeks a solution (A) for a certain problem (B), but along the way, one discovers that the solution (B) itself is a desirable end, and one can reasonably pursue that (B) instead as the end of the design. Social planning, which aims to improve society, can certainly develop in this way, and the social planner or designer has to be alert, like an entrepreneur, to possibilities, consequences and hence opportunities that result from his solution, and to consider if the solution and the consequences might not itself be worth seeking, and not merely valuable instrumentally. If it is independently valuable, then it might in fact be sought after as the end goal, and what formerly was the end may now be sought instrumentally for the sake of the new end goal, to the extent that there is evidence that they mutually support each other. Gregg's The Commercial Society is just one such kind of design solution for improving the society. Thus it constantly invites us not merely to consider defending the foundations and civil cultures for the sake of the commercial society, but rather that we might consider crafting and engineering the commercial society for the sake of such a civil culture. Gregg pursues here, one might add, a way of thinking found in Michael Novak's works where he invites us to consider the way commercial society requires (and hence promotes) human creativity, which then can be ordered towards imaging God's own creativity. Whether one fully agrees with Gregg or not, one will have to take this work seriously. This is a fine text to challenge policy thinking that many times is senselessly linear and uncreative. Gregg was awarded the very prestigious Culture of Enterprise Award for this book. I am not at all suprised.

Drawing upon ancient and modern sources, "The Commercial Society" is one of those books that remind us that commercial order is about much more than the market economy. Using clear language free of jargon, this prize-winning book (Templeton Enterprise Award 2007) identifies the central moral, legal, and economic foundations of market orders and illustrates why they are indispensable to any society that aspires to the title of free and civilized.

Many have been waiting for such a book for a long time. Not since reading Wilhelm Ropke have I come across a book that articulates such a strong and morally-convincing case for free societies shaped decisively by the dominance of free enterprise and markets, but in a way that escapes the mathematical justifications offered by most contemporary economists.

It is difficult to classify this book as "conservative" or "classical liberal", not least because the author utilizes sources from both traditions, such as Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Friedrich von Hayek, and Alexis de Tocqueville. It is, in short, a book grounded firmly in various strands of the Western tradition, especially that synthesized in the Scottish Enlightenment, but prefigured by a number of late-medieval and early-modern thinkers, such as Thomas Aquinas. It is refreshing to read a text that is so unambiguously committed to authentic human liberty, but which cannot be boxed so easily in any one intellectual paradigm.

Those inclined to planned economies or socialism will find this book very challenging to their core beliefs. "The Commercial Society", however, does not seek to persuade by hectoring. Nor does it suggest that commercial order contains all the answers to humanity's questions and problems. Rather, it expresses its arguments through logic, by carefully marshaling the facts, and judiciously surveying history. The book closes with a sophisticated discussion of the possibility of building commercial orders as opposed to simply letting them evolve. It is one of the most intriguing discussions I have read of a problem that has puzzled thinkers such as Smith, Montesquieu and Tocqueville - this alone makes the book worth reading.

The Third Edition of a classic in the commodities field has been brought completely up to date to reflect the emergence of derivatives as an increasingly popular financial tool, along with the widespread use of derivatives (futures, options, swaps and a wide variety of exotic and hybrid financial products) as hedges against financial risk. Covering the regulatory, reporting and legal issues that affect these unique instruments, COMMODITIES REGULATION clearly explains:

The latest legal rules applicable to derivatives trading
Registration, reporting and disclosure requirements for derivatives professionals
Criteria for publicly traded futures and commodity options
The rules governing unprofessional conduct
Customer protection
The CFTC's reparations program
Arbitration programs
Private rights of action in the courts
A comprehensive, easy-to-use reference in this complex field, Commodities Regulation gives you the answers you need on everything from the contract markets to exemptions and exclusions, from ethical and disclosure requirements to market manipulation and more. It presents practical insights into the current thinking of the CFTC by examining no-action and interpretive letters, and in many cases, it is the only authority available on the topics addressed.

If you are a trader or speculator and want to enhance your awareness and bring yourself up to a better level of understanding, this is a must! For anyone in the related commodities field, add this to your collection!

I first read this book in the 90s. I bought it after attending a one-day trial advocacy seminar given by the author. The week after the seminar, one of my clients was acquitted of aggravated assault in what I had considered an impossible case. Any lawyer who tries cases should (actually must) read this book. Any lawyer who appears in court should actually read this book.

Keith Evans' Common Sense Rules of Advocacy for Lawyers is the updated version of this classic work on advocacy (ISBN 1587330059). See the publishers web site, thecapitol.net, for testimonials and more information.

Signed copies are available directly from the publisher while supply lasts. See thecapitol.net for more info.

By means of using several case studies, Erwin Cherovsky clearly explains to non-lawyer types how to hire, retain and fire a lawyer. This book moves quickly and helps you understand different instances for which you need a lawyer in your own life. Its a must read for people who don't know much about the law, but require a lawyer of their own.

By means of using several case studies, Erwin Cherovsky clearly explains to non-lawyer types how to hire, retain and fire a lawyer. This book moves quickly and helps you understand different instances for which you need a lawyer in your own life. Its a must read for people who don't know much about the law, but require a lawyer of their own.

The contributions to this work are all excellent, well written articles by the most respected experts on the leading edge of antitrust analysis.

With all the various information available concerning the Microsoft monopoly, it was wonderful to find an objective source that followed the events before and during the Microsoft case, analyzed the monopolistic tendencies of the software market in general, and compared this information with previous monopolies. The best characteristic of this book is that it explains the events and legalities of the case in such a way that it is not at all difficult to understand.