Perry Books

This book is a winner. It could be used as required
reading for middle school students although some might
object because of a few words used in the text. Have
recommended and/or bought this book for many of my
friends who all have enjoyed. Makes you wonder if you
have always chosen the right side!!

Can you send me a free copy

Within these pages you'll find a terror far worse than any you've experienced before, because it lies exactly where you'd least expect it: in an underground parking garage...a hot new nightclub...a downtown video arcade...a huanted strip joint...a luxury hotel with an unlisted 13th floor.

Here are ten chilling tells of modern malevolence, each rooted in the everyday experiences of contemporary city life. Behind the most ordeinary urban landscape lis a place where reality stops and nightmare begins.

Welcome to the City...the scariest place on earth!

I picked this book and the sequel 'More City Jitters' up at a garage sale. I took one of the books to read at the Dr's office, couldn't put it down until I read both books. Great thrillers.

My first experience with this book was in the Fourth edition (by Lucius J. Barker and Twiley W. Barker, Jr.). The fact that this text is now in the Eighth edition, expanded both in content and in number of contributing authors, speaks to its usefulness and its enduring quality as a good text in the area of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties.

The book is organised into five primary sections. The first section is 'A Framework for Analysis', in two parts: the political-social context of the judiciary system, and the context of federalism for civil rights and liberties. Barker et al. highlights two particular cases as examples, those of Palko v. Connecticut and Duncan v. Louisiana as important.

The second section looks at religious liberty, derived from the first amendment guarantee of freedom of religion and the establishment clause. Particular issues here include pariochiaid (the continuing debate over private religious v. public schools regarding funding and resource issues), prayer and religious symbolism in public places, Sunday closing laws, conscientious objector status, and medical treatment issues.

The third section examines freedom of expression (speech, among other things), assembly and association, also deriving from the first amendment. Key issues here include freedom of the press v. interests of national security, public speech and demonstrations, commercial speech and honesty, obscenity, and other important areas of concern.

The fourth section looks a criminal procedure and due process, derived from the fifth and fourteenth amendments primarily, as well as other amendments in the Bill of Rights specifically tailored to protect citizens. These include the issues of Miranda warnings (named for the case in which the rights of the accused had not been spelled out), issues of right to counsel, the exclusionary rule (illegally obtained evidence must be excluded), rights against self-incrimination (I'll plead the fifth!), and rights of prisoners and death-penalty controversies.

The fifth section looks at issues of bias and discrimination. This includes racial discrimination and segregation issues, Affirmative Action, voting rights legislation, and other issues such as age and disability discrimination. Racial discrimination cases include not only African American issues (although that is the primary area of engagement in many cases), but also Native American issues, which has a long and tragic history in American experience.

The sixth section looks specifically at gender bias and discriminiation, the issue of the right to privacy and its attendant topics, and the issue of poverty and judicial process and access.

Barker et al. include two appendices highlighting particular events - the first discusses the failed confirmation of Robert Bork and what this says about the process of selecting Supreme Court justices, both good and bad. The second dissects in more detail the case Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case during the Warren Court that ruled separate-but-equal is inherently unequal, and thus not constitutionally permissible.

The text is well written, accessible and interesting. It includes a good balance of case presentation and general discussion essays. It is well indexed and useful. The eighth edition covers issues and cases up through the late Clinton years; being published in 1999. One looks forward to the next edition - perhaps there will be an appendix on Bush v. Gore.

As an adult student, I feared having to take History 101. It was an online class, and the professor I had was not very good, but this book taught me a lot. The authors emphasize the relationship of ethics and morality with the development of western religions and governments from early Mesopotamia until 1789. For example, it helped me to understand the different viewpoints of the contemporary issues happening in the Middle East (why and how religion serves as a basis for many governments.)

If you are considering taking a History course that uses this textbook, or just want to learn more about how our world's societies have developed, I highly recommend this book. I didn't continue with History 102, but I did buy Volume II of this book series from Perry, et al., to continue my understanding world issues. Please join me!

Jack Perry's book of memoirs, "Clarion Chronicles", is a treasure. It's a warm-hearted, often poignant, and funny look at a vanished, crucial age in America, when the Depression made for a powerful, bittersweet backdrop to childhood and coming of age in the heartland. Perry, an Iowa-born playwright who turned to writing essays and short stories during his later years, has a natural ear for dialogue, and a wonderful gift for language and the art of storytelling. I read these pieces when they were first published in the author's local newpaper, the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Mass., and someone finally had the good sense to compile and collect these gem-like stories in one place. Terrific photos of the artist as a young man, and of small-town life in the '20's and '30's, as well. Highly recommended reading.

I have a "2003 David Austin Roses Calendar" Photo's by Clay Perry. The photographs he has taken are breath taking, each week brings you an upclose veiw of a splendid soft rose. Definately a collectors or a "Romantics" (& I love vintage) choice for a personal calendar.

This book deserves far more attention than it has gotten. I am sorry to be the first reviewer after so many years. Tudge is very well-read and more open-minded than most. He puts together a thought-provoking re-assessment of agriculture that manages to criticize such counterintuitive targets as the local & organic food movements, vegetarians, and even democracy as it now stands. Amazingly, he even has good things to say about the mafia at one point. Of course, his real energy focuses on the ills of monocultures and factory-farmed livestock. But it's the underlying factors which Tudge best elucidates: hyper-capitalism, corporate domination, misdirected governments. While it's not an easy book to digest, I highly recommend it.

Anyone in the medical profession will find this book helpful.
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If you collect metalware and one buy one book, let this be it - although I also wholeheartedly recommend Mary Gaston's "Antique Brass & Copper Identification and Value Guide". They are both excellent in their own ways.

Perry's book is very strong on the quality of its graphics and is just as strong on its explantions and anecdotal background material. The photos are a combination of both color and b/w. If you are considering a reference book for the field, look no further and wait no longer - this is it. But as I said earlier also get Gaston's book which has all photos in color and many more of them, but leaves one wanting in explanations as to when the articles were made. You really need both books if you're serious about collecting. The price of a refence book in any field of collecting will seem cheap if it saves you from buying even one fraud, let alone the added knowledge it will give you.