Professions Books

This book is full of good information that is state specific. This is a must read for any new Landlord in Texas

Was easy to read, thorough and useful. Had good suggestions for screening tenants and what to include in a lease and excellent sample forms.

I bought several landlord's rights books and found that this book was really helpful and easy to understand. I highly recommend this book if you're a landlord in need of legal advice to protect your property.

This is a major component of my landlord/property manager library. I was not surprised to find, when I purchased this recent updated edition, that it is even better! (I noticed more excerpts of code.) Nolo Press has a deserved reputation for offering excellent legal guides for the lay person

Small time and first time landlords should absolutely all have this book! It has given me confidence and saved me many times. It's written in clear terms so you don't have to be a lawyer, real estate professional or other expert. The book explains plainly, in detail, each step, from finding the best tenant for your property to terminating those tenants that disappoint.

Landlords' Rights & Duties in California was an excellent beginners guide to being a landlord. It includes samples of easy to use forms that cover all the basics as well as recommendations of when and when not to get a lawyer involved. I found the reference section that included applicable California Civil Code helpful as well. A quick read but loaded with useful tools, Landlord's Rights & Duties in California is what every beginning landlord needs in their library.

My husband and I own a two-family house near Boston. This book has been very helpful in knowing what we are legally responsible for. We also used the forms included. Since purchasing this book, we've realized we are much more detail-oriented than most landlords. Tenants have many rights that landlords simply ignore that could really hurt them in the end. Courts don't accept "ignorance" as an excuse from landlords. This book is well worth it and easy to understand for a landlord interested in the legalities of smaller residential and commercial properties.

I have several apartments and condos. Though I am well versed with the real estate laws in Mass., this book is a great reference for me. Any landlord in Mass. should have this book, it is easy to read and understand. Dealing with the court system can be a nightmare if you are not prepared, believe me. If you don't have everything in proper order, you lose. This book will assist you in what are your responsiblities are, you can bet your tenant does. Beware of the professional tenant! Plus, the book gives helpful hints to make your life a little easier.

This book is out of print and the new edition is called The Landlord's Legal Guide in New York. I'm the author and thought I would post this so customers could easily find it, since the publisher slightly changed the title.

Reading this showed me what my rights are with my renters. Now I can do my own evictions. It was good that it told me what I am supposed to be doing under the law for my renters.

Last Rights is a comprehensive and insightful examination of the right to die movement in the United States and around the world. Filled with personal details not found in other books. Not concerned with merely repeating "politically correct" versions of events. It is a valuable new addition to "end-of-life" literature.

This detailed look at the right-to-die movement is as impressive for its compassion as it is for its scope. As medical advances offer the possibility of longer life even in the shadow of grave illness, questions about patients' choices and quality of life become more and more relevant to all of us. Woodman has done her homework and summarizes the principle viewpoints concisely -- and always with deep sympathy both for the dying and their care-givers.

This book is an excellent guide for families trying to figure out what to do when a loved one dies. It has step-by-step instructions from the moment of passing all the way through the closing of the estate. It is also extremely valuable as a detailed work book so each person can put down personal details those left behind will need to know such as where the burial should be or the location of their will.

This book is an excellent aid for final planning for funeral, estate planing, wills, trusts, etc. Easily organized with 'work pages' to assist one to put together the plans to ease the burden on those left behind! Highly recommended for anyone interested in organizing what should happen after their death!

Like the reviewer below, I was one of Presser's student at Northwestern University. This book was the most important, most influential book I purchased at NU. It begins with the confrontation between Sir Edward Coke and James I about whether the common law controlled the King's prerogative. Presser exploits the drama inherent in this piece of history to set up one of the main themes in the text: if one is going to have any conception of human rights at all, the restraint of arbitrary power is fundamental; the rule of law is vital.

This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the English common law, the U.S. Constitution, or the rights of a people to throw off a government (or a politician) guilty of an abuse of power. I was a better citizen for having read it.

In the classroom, Presser's love of the law, of legal history and reasoned debate was awe-inspiring. His book re-establishes an important cultural meme that appears to have gone underground in the 21st century:

the idea that liberty can not exist unless there is law, and law can not exist without morality.

I was fortunate to take Professor Presser's American Legal History class while I was on exchange at Northwestern University and this was our textbook.

As an Australian studying law in the US I was very interested in finding out about how the American Legal System developed. I felt the only way I could understand the present would be to look to the past and Presser's book was perfect for this purpose.

This book struck me as being exceptionally well put together; with insightful commentary on the selected readings and questions to enhance your understanding of the issues.

Perhaps the most refreshing characteristic of this book is its balance - it puts both sides of the controversial issues it considers so that we can make up our own mind.

It has given me a much deeper understanding of the American Legal System and American Society in general.

Andy traded me his book for my novel, "Forever Retro Blues" at the New England Book Festival last September. Over and over, Andy is asked, "aren't you afraid?" in reference to the people Andy is telling on. But he isn't afraid to tell the truth. And he's been there--on the inside where deals are done and our lives are changed--many times for the benefit of the deal maker and not the population at large. Andy would have fit in well with our founding fathers campaigning for justice.

I heartily recommend Thibault's book. It is hard-hitting, clearly written, and commonsensical and cogent in its conclusions. Thibault is truly his own man. His views conform to no particular orthodoxy, and they shine forth in the book with an intensity borne of the deep conviction with which the author believes them. In addition, Thibault is a marvelous sleuth and detective with a keen instinct for running down a story and ascertaining the truth about it.

I read the book and found it very interesting and useful. It is indeed a difficult task to cover many aspects of relationship between Law and Philosophy in one single volume. In this post-modern age Law is somehow became too technical and practical to be maintained traditional organic relationship with philosophy. Is it then true that law is only distantly related to Philosophy! Does Philosophy has anything substantial to offer to genuine legal theories and thoughts! All legal systems are primarily rooted in some legal philosophy. But in our highly technological age rarely law professors and students find a closer relationship between philosophy and law-related subjects. It is a failure of our generation around the world. As a result these days hardly any serious scholar try to present some comprehensive thoughts relating philosophical theories to the legal postulates.

Law losing its closer touch with political and social theories simply become immoral instrument of state-authority to suppress the majority by a tiny minority. Professor Simon takes this issue seriously in his book and successfully establishes that morality is a corner stone in legal philosophy and thoughts. Kantian Idealism and Hobbesian Realisn received a good deal of treatement in the book. Analysis of the Universal principles of Law and Morality may attract many rightly-guided legal minds.

Ethics in Law cannot be over emphasised in our present day of lawlessness and endamic rise of crimes around the world. Regarding the issues of "programmatic rights" Professor Simon's words: "After all, a mere commitment to social assistance from cradle to grave can lead to relaxed vigilance concerning who is eligible for the cradle and who is ready for the grave." (p.310)

In most cases books on philosophy cannot provide realistic and provocative legal thoughts because authors do not maintain a proper balance between the two. The efforts of making a balance between legal thoughts and appropriate philosophical grounding of those ideas are very remarkable in the book. Prof. Simon has been trying to do something ground-breaking in this area. I am looking forward to his next contribution and strongly suggest to students and teachers to examine the book and author for their own clarity in concerned areas (Law, Political Sciences, and Philosophy) of study and interest.

This book really works!! There seem to be countless introductory texts that try and explian the intricate relationship between law and philosophy. Thomas Simon's book is the first that I have read that readily helps its readers to wrap their minds around the fundamental aspects of law and its philosophical underpinnings. The carefully edited selections of readings helps to bring to life critical as well as controversial issues. Although obviously designed as a introductory text, the book gives thorough attention to the most basic philosophies as well as complex contemporary legal theories. The author's questions that follow each chapter are primed to encourage lively discussion. This book gets at the heart of the matter without being overly dense, boring or unreadable, a quality seldom seen in texts of this kind.