Warren Books

1. O. MILLER & SCHWARTZ, RECOMMENDED PUBLICATIONS FOR LEGAL RESEARCH (1998) (gives "Marine Pollution and the Law of the Sea" an "A" rating).

2. Excerpts from the book review in 21 VAND. L. TRANSNAT'L L. 843 (1998). "The encyclopedia search for answers...furnishes the intellectual foundation for John Warren Kindt's treatise, "Marine Pollution and the Law of the Sea." The findings discovered at the end of this quest likewise boldly highlight the real significance of this major contribution to the law of the sea literature." Id. at 847 (emphasis added).

"Professor Kindt's study is actually designed not simply to furnish assessments and appraisals of law and policy, but also to serve as an authoritative research source on issues pertaining to marine pollution and the law of the sea. Professor Kindt, to his great credit, succeed laudably in achieving these ambitions in this monumental work." Id. at 848 (emphasis added).

There is much to recommend in "Marine Pollution and the Law of the Sea." This study merits great commendation for compiling, synthesizing, and analyzing diverse facets of contemporary marine pollution and for identifying the multiple realms where new and better international law is needed. The treatment represents a meticulously documented account. Its four volumes are replete with authoritative citations which undoubtedly will serve as valuable source clues for serious scholars on the law of the sea. A helpful bibliography of works cited is appended to each chapter, as are tables of relevant treaties, statutes, and cases. In addition, when appropriate to the contextual analysis in a chapter, specific provisions of the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention are also reprinted for the reader's to reference convenience.
No less important are the substantive policy alternatives and thoughtful recommendations for new law furnished in the final section of the study. These will be of genuine interest to scholars of ocean law. More particularly, they should also hold significant value for governmental officials, policy-makers, and diplomats who are seriously concerned about improving international standards for marine conservation and preservation, as well as regulating practices of global marine pollution.

Id. at 852 (emphasis added).

3. Excerpts from the book review in 24 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 689 (1987).

Professor Kindt began work on the book in earnest in 1975 and the depth of his commitment to the issue is reflected therein. It certainly mirrors and synthesizes into one source the current state of knowledge on pollution in the marine environment and its effect on multilateral decision-making. Professor Kindt's book will prove an extremely useful work and indeed become the locus classicus, standard reference work, in the field.

Id. at 699. "In its entirety, "Marine Pollution" constitutes a thorough analysis of marine pollution issues and related issues in the law of the sea." Id. at 689. "Certainly, this is the first work to elevate pollution concerns to top priority in examining the numerous issues surrounding the law of the sea. Professor Kindt approaches his subject systematically, using the Lasswell/McDougal format." Id. at 690. "As noted, this is the first book to deal comprehensively with this subject. By comparison, "Marine Pollution' is of far grater scope and is easier to use than Professor Timagenis' two-volume work, and "Marine Pollution" will prove of much use to those interested in the international environment area." Id. "The tables included...are a cornucopia of data...systematically collated for the first time..." Id. at 691. "The tables involving maritime claims...are particularly noteworthy."

..."Marine Pollution" is part of the "record" and will impact on international policy and on determinations involving customary international la accordingly. This is particularly true since the book is scheduled to be updated regularly. This book will help delimit the parameters of future debate, because it must necessarily be cited with regard to environmental law, marine pollution issues, and the law of the sea. Accordingly, the book performs a service to international law and policy and to the "maintenance of a favorable legal order."

Id. at 698 (emphasis added).

4. Excerpts from the book review in 27 VA. J. INT'L L. 945 (1987) (review by Ambassador Iguchi & Prof. David Bederman). "[T]his monumental four-volume work...is a formidable piece of scholarship." Id. at 94.

All pollution eventually becomes marine pollution. Recognizing the biogeophysical unity of the environment means that there can never be too many interdisciplinary studies on the subject. However, there are few publications as comprehensive in their coverage and as elaborate in their documentation as John Warren Kindt's "Marine Pollution and the Law of the Sea". This multi-volume set combines extensive research and analysis of how marine pollution challenges international law, particularly the law of the sea, with a careful evaluation of the perceived scientific and technological parameters of the problem. The measure of success for scholarship in this area is the degree to which this new frontier of law, policy, science, and technology is assessed with adequate data. The reviewers believe, on the whole, that John Warren Kindt has met this test with his most recent contribution.

Id. at 945-46. "While the Lasswell-McDougal methodology has been applied before to issues of global environmental protection, nowhere has it been used as extensively of as consistently to illuminate this subject." Id. at 948.

Thematic qualms aside, Professor Kindt's treatise should become the standard sourcebook on the subject. The advantage of using both the Lasswell-McDougal methodology and having a format that accommodates new developments is that the scope of the work is inherently prospective...The time has come for international law scholars to begin organizing the essential premises, options, and sources for this new round of environmental protection. John Warren Kindt's recent work answers this call.

Id. at 949-50 (emphasis added).

This book was the guide for one of the courses of the Master of Estrategic Marketing Managament. I recomended this book.

Great storyline. I couldn't put the book down. It keeps you on the edge of your seat. I took the book to the beach and was completely entertained.

This is the book to read if you want the real story about Mata Hari. Author Russell Warren Howe, an accomplished journalist, was the first writer to have access to the French Ministry of Defense's dossier on Mata Hari, which had been sealed for 68 years.

The documents in that dossier revealed that Mata Hari was nothing more than an ageing courtesan (and former exotic dancer) who became a very amateurish spy for the French in order to support the younger man she hoped to marry. She was set up by German intelligence in retaliation for her swindling them out of some money. French intelligence fell for this, then covered up by falsifying information and allowed her to become a sacrifice to the "spy fever" that then gripped World War I France.

Most other books about Mata Hari (such as Major Thomas Coulson's "Mata Hari: Courtesan and Spy") are outright fabrications that perpetuate the false image of her as a treacherous femme fatale who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Allied soldiers. This book reveals what she actually was -- certainly a promiscuous, self-indulgent, foolish woman, but not the master spy of legend.

This book has a wonderful collection of trial skill problems for teachers's of trial advocacy and mock trials. What I like best about the book is that the authors have done a wonderful job of limiting the facts a student needs to understand in order to work on a particular trial technique. For example, in voir dire, the authors provide one page of facts about an automobile negligence case. From that set of facts, students are then asked to practice jury selection based on those facts. By boiling the facts down to just one page instead of a typical case file which could be 70 pages, the authors give the students the opportunity to focus on the technique of jury selection instead of wasting time sifting through a case file.

This book is a classic among trial advocacy teachers that provides problems for students regarding every trial skill. Be aware that the book is not intended to teach trial techniques or provide answers to the problems it gives. It is more like a workbook that supplements a trial advocacy textbook.

This may be the best book presenting the Context approach to the origins and original meaning of the New Testament. Its wording is more straightforward, to-the-point, and sophisticated than the more average Context books such as Horsley and Silberman's The Message and the Kingdom, and Crossan's In Search of Paul.

The first few chapters get to the point by defining Imperial Theology, Pax Romana, and Ruler Cult. Subsequent chapters then readily demonstrate how the New Testament draws upon Old Testament political themes to principally stand as a rebuttal to the Roman Empire system, and only secondarily as an intertwined expression of religious, mystical, and religious-morality content. Thus this book provides the ideal framework, on the canonical side, to identify the difference between New Testament Christianity and Gnostic-mystical Christianity, a comparison project which is today's main challenge as both the cultural context is being reconstructed and as Gnostic mysticism is being reconstructed.

Books presenting the Context-oriented approach are generally a must-have in any library of Christian origins, but to get started the fastest in understanding the original intended audience of New Testament Christianity, start by reading the first few chapters of this book.

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First off, let me say that this book is not just a dry, dusty, tome of facts and figures. This is a funny, common sense filled book about the future of food, starting with a two hundred plus history of how mankind saw food. What would we eat? Would we have enough? Should we give up meat? After this foundation the author, Warren Belasco, slips us into the places and people who have shaped our ideas of future food. World fairs, Walt Disney, futurists, science fiction writers, businesses, car companies, and so on. This is really an enjoyable book. Yet it also asks us some serious questions about the future and where food is place in it. Do we want meat? Do we want food pills? Do we want to have any say in what it tastes like? Anybody who enjoys history or science fiction or future history needs this book!

I'm always amazed when I see or hear young people being flippantly dismissive of their elders--it doesn't matter what culture, colour, or creed. How the former think they've got all the answers under the sun. How they think that they're unique and one-of-a-kind and that no one came before them or after them, and that they're trailblazing the overdeveloped terrain, which is all concrete and built up, preventing the runoff of water back to groundwater sources causing all manner of ecological devastation...sorry, I went on a mini-enviro rant there.

It's rather disgusting, in fact, to see blatant disrespect in the making. And believe me when I tell you, kids...having that kind of sass with your elders is going to eventually boomerang right back your way and wallop you smack and hard in that snide little cakehole of yours, right enough. And while you're at it, brush your teeth, you silly youngsters. You've got bad breath, bad teeth and gums, and you think that if you look good on the outside, that it doesn't matter what's cooking on the inside. You make me barf! You think you're going to last forever? You think that you can abuse your bodies and consume boundless quantities of alcohol, drugs, and all sorts of other illicit (or non-illicit if you live in The Netherlands or Canada) substances and not suffer the consquences? Feh! Bubbeh mayses. You need to go back to primary/elementary school then.

You're gonna love what Mrs. Dickstein does here, folks. I don't blame her in the least. People don't know how to choose their battles. Some sphincter-holes, especially people who live in megalopolises like NYC, choose to have chips on their shoulders, no matter what the beef. And I'm talking about the whole potato here, not just chips, toots. If I acted like that with the old lady--even having the chutzpah to call an elderly lady minding her own business reading her book, a wondrous piece of literature, especially being nice with me and then *politely* asking me if I could take my yammering cellphone conversation elsewhere, an "old bag"--I fully expect to have been given the dressing down that Madame D. subjects this poor wench to towards the end thar'. Check it out, if you think I'm pulling your charley. Read, read, read.

You know, it's a little hard to believe, but Adler really does take the mickey out of me here. I'm all riled up and totally locked into the emotionality of this piece, and all I want to do is spank Miss Hawkins on the behind for being as classless as a crow. I want to take out a garden hose and douse her with thirty degree water. Maybe that'll wake her up. If anything, it'll be fun to see to do the two-step in those stilettos of hers. Feh!

Alright, I'm going to have a coffee now. Maybe that'll relax me a bit...that silly Miss Hawkins! The nerve. Chutzpah!

--ADM in Prague

Melting the Darkness is a book intended for professionals, but it speaks to patients, too. It was recommended to me by my own analyst after my ongoing questions about how the "dyad" works. The "dyad," for other non professionals considering this book, is the relationship between the analyst and patient. The dyad is now seen as a key (perhaps THE key) instrument of healing a psyche. I was astonished to see my own feelings spelled out in this book, feelings understood by analysts in general. Those of us in analysis tend to feel as though we are alone, but we're not. It is difficult to remember that our analysts themselves have been through analysis. They DO know what it means to feel vulnerable.

Here are a couple of lines that struck me:

"The very experience of being viewed by the analyst may feel disintegrating for a patient with a weak sense of self." Oh. Now I see why feel so self conscious in session.

"Analysis not only exposes, it intensifies." Oh. Now I see why I feel bad on the way to feeling better.

"The analyst's silence, too, is a form of statement, often a powerful one." Oh. Now I see why, at least partially, I feel panicky when he's silent. Now I know why it feels like he's shouting when he's silent. For me, a silence often puts me floating in an abyss with nothing to grasp onto. I hadn't told my analyst that before I read the book.

"Analysis demands profound regression." Oh. Now I see why I have to cry, even though I don't want to. Now I see why I want to stay home, under my comforter, and not face the day.

"There are levels or degrees of insight. Perhaps the deepest level is that in which understanding is most thoroughly integrated, so integrated that one's character and mental functioning utilize the understanding without having to resort to conscious thought." Oh. Now I see where I'm going.

Dr. Poland humanizes the analyst in a way the analyst cannot do. Dr. Poland can generalize. With one's own analyst the relationship is too singular, too specific. One never knows if a reaction is part of a transference. One never knows if a behavior of an analyst is a personality quirk or a technique.

The book is also reassuring on the genuineness front. For a long time with my own analysis I wasn't sure what was genuine and what was technique. There is too much information to go into detail here, but by the end of the book, I had a deep sense of the caring and genuineness that emanates from at least some (and hopefully most) of the people who do this work.

Not a quick and easy read, but definitely an enlightening one.

Enjoy.